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The diffusion of minimally invasive, endovascular interventions motivates the development of visualization methods for complex vascular networks. We propose a planar representation of blood vessel trees which preserves the properties that…
We introduce a novel framework for learning vector representations of tree-structured geometric data focusing on 3D vascular networks. Our approach employs two sequentially trained Transformer-based autoencoders. In the first stage, the…
Reconstructing Portal Vein and Hepatic Vein trees from contrast enhanced abdominal CT scans is a prerequisite for preoperative liver surgery simulation. Existing deep learning based methods treat vascular tree reconstruction as a semantic…
Ultrasound scanning is essential in several medical diagnostic and therapeutic applications. It is used to visualize and analyze anatomical features and structures that influence treatment plans. However, it is both labor intensive, and its…
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The morphology and hierarchy of the vascular systems are essential for perfusion in supporting metabolism. In human retina, one of the most energy-demanding organs, retinal circulation nourishes the entire inner retina by an intricate…
We propose a novel deep-learning-based system for vessel segmentation. Existing methods using CNNs have mostly relied on local appearances learned on the regular image grid, without considering the graphical structure of vessel shape. To…
There are many unsolved problems in vascular image segmentation, including vascular structural connectivity, scarce branches and missing small vessels. Obtaining vessels that preserve their correct topological structures is currently a…
The coronary microvascular disease poses a great threat to human health. Computer-aided analysis/diagnosis systems help physicians intervene in the disease at early stages, where 3D vessel segmentation is a fundamental step. However, there…
Delineating 3D blood vessels is essential for clinical diagnosis and treatment, however, is challenging due to complex structure variations and varied imaging conditions. Supervised deep learning has demonstrated its superior capacity in…
Blood vessel segmentation is one of the most studied topics in computer vision, due to its relevance in daily clinical practice. Despite the evolution the field has been facing, especially after the dawn of deep learning, important…
Vessel tracing by modeling vascular structures in 3D medical images with centerlines and radii can provide useful information for vascular health. Existing algorithms have been developed but there are certain persistent problems such as…
Accurate vascular segmentation is essential for coronary visualization and the diagnosis of coronary heart disease. This task involves the extraction of sparse tree-like vascular branches from the volumetric space. However, existing methods…
Vessel segmentation and centerline extraction are two crucial preliminary tasks for many computer-aided diagnosis tools dealing with vascular diseases. Recently, deep-learning based methods have been widely applied to these tasks. However,…
From diagnosing neovascular diseases to detecting white matter lesions, accurate tiny vessel segmentation in fundus images is critical. Promising results for accurate vessel segmentation have been known. However, their effectiveness in…
We introduce a data-driven version of the plus Cartan connection on the homogeneous space $\mathbb{M}_2$ of 2D positions and orientations. We formulate a theorem that describes all shortest and straight curves (parallel velocity and…
Retinal blood vessel segmentation can extract clinically relevant information from fundus images. As manual tracing is cumbersome, algorithms based on Convolution Neural Networks have been developed. Such studies have used small publicly…
Understanding how the spatial structure of blood vessel networks relates to their function in healthy and abnormal biological tissues could improve diagnosis and treatment for diseases such as cancer. New imaging techniques can generate…
Modeling the sequential information of image sequences has been a vital step of various vision tasks and convolutional long short-term memory (ConvLSTM) has demonstrated its superb performance in such spatiotemporal problems. Nevertheless,…