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MICCAI
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Endoscopic Orientation Correction
Abstract. An open problem in endoscopic surgery (especially with flexible endoscopes) is the absence of a stable horizon in endoscopic images. With our "Endorientation" a...
Kurt Höller, Jochen Penne, Armin Schneider, J...
MICCAI
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Patient Specific 4D Coronary Models from ECG-gated CTA Data for Intra-operative Dynamic Alignment of CTA with X-ray Images
We present an approach to derive patient specific coronary models from ECG-gated CTA data and their application for the alignment of CTA with mono-plane X-ray imaging during interv...
Coert Metz, Michiel Schaap, Stefan Klein, Lisan...
MICCAI
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Non-rigid Registration of High Angular Resolution Diffusion Images Represented by Gaussian Mixture Fields
In this paper, we present a novel algorithm for non-rigidly registering two high angular resolution diffusion weighted MRIs (HARDI), each represented by a Gaussian mixture field (G...
Baba C. Vemuri, Guang Cheng 0002, Paul R. Carney, ...
MICCAI
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Diffusion Tensor Field Registration in the Presence of Uncertainty
We propose a novel method for deformable tensor?to?tensor registration of Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) data. Our registration method considers estimated diffusion tensors as norm...
M. Okan Irfanoglu, Cheng Guan Koay, Sinisa Pajev...
MICCAI
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Interventional 4-D Motion Estimation and Reconstruction of Cardiac Vasculature without Motion Periodicity Assumption
Abstract. Anatomical and functional information of cardiac vasculature is a key component of future developments in the field of interventional cardiology. With the technology of C...
Christopher Rohkohl, Günter Lauritsch, Marcus...
MICCAI
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
A Fast Alternative to Computational Fluid Dynamics for High Quality Imaging of Blood Flow
Obtaining detailed, patient-specific blood flow information would be very useful in detecting and monitoring cardio-vascular diseases. Current approaches rely on computational flui...
Robert H. P. McGregor, Dominik Szczerba, Krishnamu...
MICCAI
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Coronary Tree Extraction Using Motion Layer Separation
Abstract. Fluoroscopic images contain useful information that is difficult to comprehend due to the collapse of the 3D information into 2D space. Extracting the informative layers ...
Wei Zhang, Haibin Ling, Simone Prummer, Shaohua...
MICCAI
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Correcting Motion Artifacts in Retinal Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography via Image Registration
Spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) is an important tool for the diagnosis of various retinal diseases. The measurements available from SD-OCT volumes can be used...
Susanna Ricco, Mei Chen, Hiroshi Ishikawa 0002, Ga...
MICCAI
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Toward Video-Based Navigation for Endoscopic Endonasal Skull Base Surgery
Abstract. Endoscopic endonasal skull base surgery (ESBS) requires high accuracy to ensure safe navigation of the critical anatomy at the anterior skull base. Current navigation sys...
Daniel Mirota, Hanzi Wang, Russell H. Taylor, M...
MICCAI
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Prostate Biopsy Assistance System with Gland Deformation Estimation for Enhanced Precision
Computer-assisted prostate biopsies became a very active research area during the last years. Prostate tracking makes it possible to overcome several drawbacks of the current stand...
Michael Baumann, Pierre Mozer, Vincent Daanen, ...