In order to combine preoperative data with intraoperative scans for image-guided neurosurgery visualization, accurate registration is necessary. It has been determined previously that a suitable way to model the non-r...
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An image overlay system is presented to assist needle placement in conventional CT scanners. The device consists of a flat LCD display and a half mirror and is mounted on the gantry. Looking at the patient through the...
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This paper describes the construction of 3D dynamic statistical deformable models for complex topological shapes. It significantly extents the existing framework in that surfaces with higher genus can be effectively m...
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Organ deformation between preoperative image data and the patient in the OR is the main obstacle for using surgical navigation systems in liver surgery. Our approach is to provide accurate navigation via intraoperativ...
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A new generation of Multislice Computed Tomography (MSCT) scanners, which allows a complete heart coverage and offers new perspectives for cardiac kinetic evaluation, is becoming widely available. A new method has bee...
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Phase contrast MRI is a relatively new technique that extends standard MRI by obtaining flow information for tissue in the human body. The output data is a velocity vector field in a three-dimensional (3D) volume. Thi...
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Non-linear image registration can match two images39; local areas exactly. Linear elastic model that obeys the Navier-stokes equilibrium equations is especially fit for image registration with small deformation. Bro...
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We wished to study pre-operative T1-weighted MRI of intractable temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) patients who had undergone selective amygdala- hippocarnpectomy as part of their surgical treatment. We performed a voxel-ba...
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Current minimally invasive techniques for beating heart surgery are associated with three major limitations: the shortage of realistic and safe training methods, the process of selecting port locations for optimal tar...
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Current minimally invasive techniques for beating heart surgery are associated with three major limitations: the shortage of realistic and safe training methods, the process of selecting port locations for optimal target coverage from X-rays and angiograms, and the sole use of the endoscope for instrument navigation in a dynamic and confined 3D environment. To supplement the current surgery training, planning and guidance methods, we continue-to develop our Virtual Cardiac Surgery Planning environment (VCSP) - a virtual reality, patient-specific, thoracic cavity model derived from 3D pre-procedural images. In this work, we create and validate dynamic models of the heart and its components. A static model is first generated by segmenting one of the image frames in a given 4D data set. The dynamics of this model are then extracted from the remaining image frames using a non-linear, intensity-based registration algorithm with a choice of six different similarity metrics. The algorithm is validated on an artificial CT image set created using an excised porcine heart, on CT images of canine subjects, and on MR images of human volunteers. We found that with the appropriate choice of similarity metric, our algorithm extracts the motion of the epicardial surface in CT images, or of the myocardium, right atrium, right ventricle, aorta, left atrium, pulmonary arteries, vena, cava and epicardial surface in MR images, with a root mean square error in the I rum range. These results indicate that our method of modeling the motion of the heart is easily adaptable and sufficiently accurate to meet the requirements for reliable cardiac surgery training, planning, and guidance. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Clusters of microcalcifications are often the earliest signs of breast cancer and their early detection is a primary consideration of screening programmes. We have previously presented a method to detect microcalcific...
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