Abstract. In this paper, we propose a novel and fast method to localize and track needles during image-guided interventions. Our proposed method is comprised of framework of needle...
We present a robust method for extracting 3D centerlines from volumetric datasets. We start from a 2D skeletonization method to locate voxels centered with respect to three orthog...
Level set method based segmentation provides an efficient tool for topological and geometrical shape handling. Conventional level set surfaces are only C0 continuous since the le...
For the planning of surgical interventions of the spine exact knowledge about 3D shape and the local bone quality of vertebrae are of great importance in order to estimate the anch...
The segmentation and analysis of blood vessels has received much attention in the research community. The results aid numerous applications for diagnosis and treatment of vascular...