Endovascular techniques have been embraced as a minimally-invasive treatment approach
within different disciplines of interventional radiology and cardiology. The current practice of …

In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of Markov Random Fields (MRFs) in
computer vision and image understanding, with respect to the modeling, the inference and …

In order to realize many of the potential benefits associated with robotically assisted
minimally invasive surgery, the robot must be more than a remote controlled device …

This work presents a novel scheme for tracking of motion and deformation of interventional
tools such as guide-wires and catheters in fluoroscopic X-ray sequences. Being able to track …

Robust tracking of interventional tools, such as guidewires and catheters, in X-ray
fluoroscopic video sequences has a wide range of clinical applications for endovascular …

Hospital patients can have catheters and lines inserted during the course of their admission
to give medicines for the treatment of medical issues, especially the central venous catheter …

Echocardiography is a potential alternative to X-ray fluoroscopy in cardiac catheterization
given its richness in soft tissue information and its lack of ionizing radiation. However, its …

Deformable guide-wire tracking in fluoroscopic sequences is a challenging task due to the
low signal to noise ratio of the images and the apparent complex motion of the object of …

Detection of surgical devices, in particular of guide-wire detection, is prerequisite during
image-guided navigation in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Guide-wire detection …

Guidewire tip detection in the percutaneous coronary intervention is important. It assists
physicians in navigating and is a prerequisite for clinic applications such as surgical skill …