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3D printing has been widely adopted for clinical decision making and interventional planning of Congenital heart disease (CHD), while whole heart and great vessel segmentation is the most significant but time-consuming step in the model…
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Real-time reconstruction of deformable surgical scenes is vital for advancing robotic surgery, improving surgeon guidance, and enabling automation. Recent methods achieve dense reconstructions from da Vinci robotic surgery videos, with…
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Dynamic Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI) is widely used to assess various cardiac conditions such as cardiac motion and blood flow. To accelerate MR acquisition, techniques such as undersampling and Simultaneous Multi-Slice (SMS) are often…
Deep learning approaches have achieved state-of-the-art performance in cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) image segmentation. However, most approaches have focused on learning image intensity features for segmentation, whereas the…
Free-breathing cardiac MRI schemes are emerging as competitive alternatives to breath-held cine MRI protocols, enabling applicability to pediatric and other population groups that cannot hold their breath. Because the data from the slices…
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MRI and CT are essential clinical cross-sectional imaging techniques for diagnosing complex conditions. However, large 3D datasets with annotations for deep learning are scarce. While methods like DINOv2 are encouraging for 2D image…
Visualizing disease-induced scarring and fibrosis in the heart on cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging with contrast enhancement (LGE) is paramount in characterizing disease progression and quantifying pathophysiological substrates of…
High-resolution three-dimensional (3D) cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is a valuable medical imaging technique, but its widespread application in clinical practice is hampered by long acquisition times. Here we present a novel…
Automatic 3D neuron reconstruction is critical for analysing the morphology and functionality of neurons in brain circuit activities. However, the performance of existing tracing algorithms is hinged by the low image quality. Recently, a…
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