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MICCAI
2008
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Exploring the Use of Proper Orthogonal Decomposition for Enhancing Blood Flow Images Via Computational Fluid Dynamics
Abstract. Obtaining high quality patient-specific flow velocity information is not an easy task. Available clinical data are usually poorly resolved and contain a significant amoun...
Dominik Szczerba, Gábor Székely, Kri...
MICCAI
2008
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Fast Marker Based C-Arm Pose Estimation
Abstract. To estimate the pose of a C-Arm during interventions therapy we have developed a small sized X-Ray Target including a special set of beads with known locations in 3D spac...
Bernhard Kainz, Markus Grabner, Matthias Rüth...
MICCAI
2008
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Robust Image-Based IVUS Pullbacks Gating
Intracoronary UltraSound (IVUS) imaging allows to obtain high resolution images of internal part of coronary arteries. This tool is unique in the possibility to explore internal ve...
Carlo Gatta, Oriol Pujol, Oriol Rodriguez-Leor, ...
MICCAI
2008
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
MRI Compatibility of Robot Actuation Techniques - A Comparative Study
Abstract. This paper reports an experimental evaluation of the following three different MRI-compatible actuators: a Shinsei ultrasonic motor, a Nanomotion ultrasonic motor and a p...
Gregory S. Fischer, Axel Krieger, Iulian Iordach...
MICCAI
2008
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Image Thickness Correction for Navigation with 3D Intra-cardiac Ultrasound Catheter
Abstract. In this paper we present an algorithm to correct 3D reconstruction errors of 3D ultrasound catheter caused by ultrasound image thickness. We also provide a easy way to qu...
Hua Zhong, Takeo Kanade, David Schwartzman
MICCAI
2008
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Spectral Clustering as a Diagnostic Tool in Cross-Sectional MR Studies: An Application to Mild Dementia
Abstract. Structural imaging investigations commonly apply a segmentation step followed by the extraction of feature data that can be used to compare or discriminate groups. We pre...
Paul Aljabar, Daniel Rueckert, William R. Crum
MICCAI
2008
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Label Space: A Coupled Multi-shape Representation
Richly labeled images representing several sub-structures of an organ occur quite frequently in medical images. For example, a typical brain image can be labeled into grey matter, ...
James G. Malcolm, Yogesh Rathi, Martha Elizabeth...
MICCAI
2008
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Discovering Modes of an Image Population through Mixture Modeling
Abstract. We present iCluster, a fast and efficient algorithm that clusters a set of images while co-registering them using a parameterized, nonlinear transformation model. The out...
Mert R. Sabuncu, Serdar K. Balci, Polina Golland
MICCAI
2008
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Automatic Guidance of an Ultrasound Probe by Visual Servoing Based on B-Mode Image Moments
We propose a new visual servo approach to automatically control in real-time the full motion of a 2D ultrasound (US) probe held by a medical robot in order to reach a desired image...
Rafik Mebarki, Alexandre Krupa, Christophe Colle...
MICCAI
2008
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Tag Separation in Cardiac Tagged MRI
In this paper we introduce a tag separation method for better cardiac boundary segmentation and tag tracking. Our approach is based on two observations in the cardiac tagged MR ima...
Junzhou Huang, Zhen Qian, Xiaolei Huang, Dimitr...