English
Related papers

Related papers: DeepCA: Deep Learning-based 3D Coronary Artery Tre…

200 papers

Cerebrovascular diseases (CVDs) remain a leading cause of global disability and mortality. Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA) sequences, recognized as the gold standard for diagnosing CVDs, can clearly visualize the dynamic flow and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-21 Jiong Zhang , Qihang Xie , Lei Mou , Dan Zhang , Da Chen , Caifeng Shan , Yitian Zhao , Ruisheng Su , Mengguo Guo

Three-dimensional coronary magnetic resonance angiography (CMRA) demands reconstruction algorithms that can significantly suppress the artifacts from a heavily undersampled acquisition. While unrolling-based deep reconstruction methods have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-05 Zhihao Xue , Fan Yang , Juan Gao , Zhuo Chen , Hao Peng , Chao Zou , Hang Jin , Chenxi Hu

CAD remains a major global public health burden, yet scalable screening tools are limited. Although CCTA is a first-line non-invasive diagnostic modality, its use is constrained by resource requirements and radiation exposure. AI-ECG may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yujie Xiao , Qinghao Zhao , Gongzheng Tang , Hao Zhang , Zhuoran Kan , Deyun Zhang , Jun Li , Guangkun Nie , Xiaocheng Fang , Haoyu Wang , Shun Huang , Tong Liu , Jian Liu , Kangyin Chen , Shenda Hong

Accurate three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of guidewire shapes is crucial for precise navigation in robot-assisted endovascular interventions. Conventional 2D Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA) is limited by the absence of depth…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Tianliang Yao , Bingrui Li , Bo Lu , Zhiqiang Pei , Yixuan Yuan , Peng Qi

Nowadays, pulmonary Computed Tomography Angiography (CTA) is the main tool for detecting Pulmonary Embolism (PE). However, manual interpretation of CTA volume requires a radiologist, which is time-consuming and error-prone due to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-05 Seyed Hesamoddin Hosseini , Amir Hossein Taherinia , Mahdi Saadatmand

Accurate segmentation of heart structures imaged by cardiac MR is key for the quantitative analysis of pathology. High-resolution 3D MR sequences enable whole-heart structural imaging but are time-consuming, expensive to acquire and they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Carlo Biffi , Juan J. Cerrolaza , Giacomo Tarroni , Antonio de Marvao , Stuart A. Cook , Declan P. O'Regan , Daniel Rueckert

Existing methods to reconstruct vascular structures from a computed tomography (CT) angiogram rely on injection of intravenous contrast to enhance the radio-density within the vessel lumen. However, pathological changes can be present in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-11 Anirudh Chandrashekar , Ashok Handa , Natesh Shivakumar , Pierfrancesco Lapolla , Vicente Grau , Regent Lee

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a valuable tool for personalised, non-invasive evaluation of hemodynamics in arteries, but its complexity and time-consuming nature prohibit large-scale use in practice. Recently, the use of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Julian Suk , Pim de Haan , Phillip Lippe , Christoph Brune , Jelmer M. Wolterink

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of mortality worldwide, underscoring the need for reliable and efficient predictive tools that support early intervention. Traditional diagnostic approaches rely on handcrafted features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Tejaswani Dash , Gautam Datla , Anudeep Vurity , Tazeem Ahmad , Mohd Adnan , Saima Rafi , Saisha Patro , Saina Patro

Providing closed and well-connected boundaries of coronary artery is essential to assist cardiologists in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease (CAD). Recently, several deep learning-based methods have been proposed for boundary…

Chest computed tomography (CT) imaging adds valuable insight in the diagnosis and management of pulmonary infectious diseases, like tuberculosis (TB). However, due to the cost and resource limitations, only X-ray images may be available for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-16 Elena Sizikova , Xu Cao , Ashia Lewis , Kenny Moise , Megan Coffee

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging is a valuable non-invasive tool for identifying cardiovascular diseases. For instance, Cine MRI is the benchmark modality for assessing the cardiac function and anatomy. On the other hand, multi-contrast…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-11 George Yiasemis , Nikita Moriakov , Jan-Jakob Sonke , Jonas Teuwen

Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is a non-invasive imaging technique widely used to study vascular structures and micro-circulation dynamics in the retina and choroid. OCTA has been widely used in clinics for diagnosing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Kejie Chen , Guanbing Gao , Xiaochun Yang , Wenbo Wang , Jing Na

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-16 James Batten , Michiel Schaap , Matthew Sinclair , Ying Bai , Ben Glocker

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death worldwide. The critical reason for the deaths is delayed diagnosis and poor prognosis. With the accelerated development of deep learning techniques, it has been successfully applied…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Yujiao Wu , Jie Ma , Xiaoshui Huang , Sai Ho Ling , Steven Weidong Su

Background: Voxel-based analysis (VBA) for population level radiotherapy (RT) outcomes modeling requires topology preserving inter-patient deformable image registration (DIR) that preserves tumors on moving images while avoiding unrealistic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-28 Jue Jiang , Chloe Min Seo Choi , Maria Thor , Joseph O. Deasy , Harini Veeraraghavan

The use of International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes in healthcare presents a challenge in selecting relevant codes as features for machine learning models due to this system's large number of codes. In this study, we compared…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Peyman Ghasemi , Joon Lee

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) continues to be the major cause of death globally, calling for predictive models that not only handle diverse and high-dimensional biomedical signals but also maintain interpretability and privacy. We create a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Rohit Kaushik , Eva Kaushik

Three-dimensional Digital Subtraction Angiography (3D-DSA) is a well-established X-ray-based technique for visualizing vascular anatomy. Recently, four-dimensional DSA (4D-DSA) reconstruction algorithms have been developed to enable the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Noah Maul , Annette Birkhold , Fabian Wagner , Mareike Thies , Maximilian Rohleder , Philipp Berg , Markus Kowarschik , Andreas Maier

Background: Conventional cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) in paediatric and congenital heart disease uses 2D, breath-hold, balanced steady state free precession (bSSFP) cine imaging for assessment of function and cardiac-gated,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Mark Wrobel , Michele Pascale , Tina Yao , Ruaraidh Campbell , Elena Milano , Michael Quail , Jennifer Steeden , Vivek Muthurangu