Abstract Minimally Invasive Procedures (MIPs) emerged as an alternative to more invasive
surgical approaches, offering patient benefits such as smaller incisions, less pain, and …

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

Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is typically performed with image guidance using
X-ray angiograms in which coronary arteries are opacified with X-ray opaque contrast …

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 …

The present standard of care for unresectable liver cancer is transarterial
chemoembolization (TACE), which involves using chemotherapeutic particles to selectively …

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 …

In image-guided interventional procedures, live 2-D X-ray images can be augmented with
preoperative 3-D computed tomography or MRI images to provide planning landmarks and …

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