Minimally invasive cardiac surgery is performed on the beating heart, through inter-costal ports. The two major limitations of these procedures are: selecting port locations for op...
Face recognition and many medical imaging applications require the computation of dense correspondence vector fields that match one surface with another. In brain imaging, surfac...
Radio-frequency catheter ablation (RFCA) has become an accepted treatment option for atrial fibrillation (Afib). RFCA of Afib involves isolation of the pulmonary veins under X-r...
Alexander Brost, Rui Liao, Joachim Hornegger, Norb...
We present a novel variational and statistical approach for shape registration. Shapes of interest are implicitly embedded in a higher dimensional space of distance transforms. In...
Xiaolei Huang, Nikos Paragios, Dimitris N. Metaxas
This paper proposes an hybrid approach to estimate the 3D pose of an object. The integration of texture information based on image intensities in a more classical non-linear edge-...