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Invasive coronary angiography (ICA) is the gold standard in Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) imaging. Detection of the end-diastolic frame (EDF) and, in general, cardiac phase detection on each temporal frame of a coronary angiography…

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has led to a devastating effect on the global public health. Computed Tomography (CT) is an effective tool in the screening of COVID-19. It is of great importance to rapidly and accurately segment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Tongxue Zhou , Stéphane Canu , Su Ruan

In patients with coronary artery stenoses of intermediate severity, the functional significance needs to be determined. Fractional flow reserve (FFR) measurement, performed during invasive coronary angiography (ICA), is most often used in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Majd Zreik , Nikolas Lessmann , Robbert W. van Hamersvelt , Jelmer M. Wolterink , Michiel Voskuil , Max A. Viergever , Tim Leiner , Ivana Išgum

Automatic segmentation of abdominal organs in computed tomography (CT) images can support radiation therapy and image-guided surgery workflows. Developing of such automatic solutions remains challenging mainly owing to complex organ…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-22 Zefan Yang , Di Lin , Dong Ni , Yi Wang

In this paper, we propose a fully automatic MRI cardiac segmentation method based on a novel deep convolutional neural network (CNN) designed for the 2017 ACDC MICCAI challenge. The novelty of our network comes with its embedded shape prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Clement Zotti , Zhiming Luo , Alain Lalande , Olivier Humbert , Pierre-Marc Jodoin

Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is a noninvasive imaging technique that can reveal high-resolution retinal vessels. In this work, we propose an accurate and efficient neural network for retinal vessel segmentation in OCTA…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Haojian Ning , Chengliang Wang , Xinrun Chen , Shiying Li

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is one of the leading causes of cardiovascular disease deaths. CAD condition progresses rapidly, if not diagnosed and treated at an early stage may eventually lead to an irreversible state of the heart muscle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Qi Wang , Jiahui Qiu , Yangming Zhou , Tong Ruan , Daqi Gao , Ju Gao

Segmenting coronary arteries is challenging, as classic unsupervised methods fail to produce satisfactory results and modern supervised learning (deep learning) requires manual annotation which is often time-consuming and can some time be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-29 Fei Yu , Jie Zhao , Yanjun Gong , Zhi Wang , Yuxi Li , Fan Yang , Bin Dong , Quanzheng Li , Li Zhang

X-ray coronary angiography (XCA) is used to assess coronary artery disease and provides valuable information on lesion morphology and severity. However, XCA images are 2D and therefore limit visualisation of the vessel. 3D reconstruction of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-01 Kit Mills Bransby , Vincenzo Tufaro , Murat Cap , Greg Slabaugh , Christos Bourantas , Qianni Zhang

Heart disease is one of the most common diseases in middle-aged citizens. Among the vast number of heart diseases, the coronary artery disease (CAD) is considered as a common cardiovascular disease with a high death rate. The most popular…

Coronary angiography remains the gold standard for diagnosis of coronary artery disease, the most common cause of death worldwide. While this procedure is performed more than 2 million times annually, there remain few methods for fast and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-25 Tom Liu , Hui Lin , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos , Adrienne Kline

Pancreatic duct dilation indicates a high risk of various pancreatic diseases. Segmentation of dilated pancreatic ducts on computed tomography (CT) images shows the potential to assist the early diagnosis, surgical planning and prognosis.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Liwen Zou , Zhenghua Cai , Yudong Qiu , Luying Gui , Liang Mao , Xiaoping Yang

Feature Selection (FS) has become the focus of much research on decision support systems areas for which data sets with tremendous number of variables are analyzed. In this paper we present a new method for the diagnosis of Coronary Artery…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-05-28 Sidahmed Mokeddem , Baghdad Atmani , Mostefa Mokaddem

Deep learning has been shown to produce state of the art results in many tasks in biomedical imaging, especially in segmentation. Moreover, segmentation of the cerebrovascular structure from magnetic resonance angiography is a challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Pedro Sanches , Cyril Meyer , Vincent Vigon , Benoît Naegel

Depth completion is a key task in autonomous driving, aiming to complete sparse LiDAR depth measurements into high-quality dense depth maps through image guidance. However, existing methods usually treat depth maps as an additional channel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Kuang Zhu , Xingli Gan , Min Sun

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the most common cause of death worldwide. Invasive x-ray coronary angiography (ICA) is one of the most important imaging modalities for the diagnosis of CVDs. ICA typically acquires only two 2D…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Yiying Wang , Abhirup Banerjee , Robin P. Choudhury , Vicente Grau

In the era of digital medicine, medical imaging serves as a widespread technique for early disease detection, with a substantial volume of images being generated and stored daily in electronic patient records. X-ray angiography imaging is a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-01 Hadis Keshavarz , Hossein Sadr

Background: Coronary angiography (CAG) is a cornerstone imaging modality for assessing coronary artery disease and guiding interventional treatment decisions. However, in real-world clinical settings, angiographic images are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Jingsong Xia , Siqi Wang

Coronary artery calcium (CAC) is a significant marker of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular events. In this work we present a system for the automatic quantification of calcium score in ECG-triggered non-contrast enhanced cardiac computed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-10 G. Santini , D. Della Latta , N. Martini , G. Valvano , A. Gori , A. Ripoli , C. L. Susini , L. Landini , D. Chiappino

Coronary artery disease is a leading cause of mortality, underscoring the critical importance of precise diagnosis through X-ray angiography. Manual coronary artery segmentation from these images is time-consuming and inefficient, prompting…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Mingfeng Lin