Catheter tracking has become an integral part of interventional radiology. Over the last
decades, researchers have significantly contributed to theoretical and technical catheter …

Minimally invasive and less invasive procedure is becoming more and more common in
medical therapy. Image guidance is an indispensable component in minimally invasive …

Two-dimensional (2D) X-ray imaging is the dominant imaging modality for cardiac
interventions. However, the use of X-ray fluoroscopy alone is inadequate for the guidance of …

Accurate real-time catheter segmentation is an important pre-requisite for robot-assisted
endovascular intervention. Most of the existing learning-based methods for catheter …

In endovascular and cardiovascular surgery, real-time guidewire morphological and
positional analysis is an important prerequisite for robot-assisted intervention, which can aid …

Purpose: X‐ray fluoroscopically guided cardiac electrophysiology (EP) procedures are
commonly carried out to treat patients with arrhythmias. X‐ray images have poor soft tissue …

In many cases, radio-frequency catheter ablation of the pulmonary veins attached to the left
atrium still involves fluoroscopic image guidance. Two-dimensional X-ray navigation may …

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 …

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 …

Electrophysiology (EP) studies and catheter ablation have become important treatment
options for several types of cardiac arrhythmias. We present a novel image-based approach …