Manipulating small objects such as needles, screws or plates inside the human body during minimally invasive surgery can be very difficult for less experienced surgeons, due to the...
Non-rigid image registration is an ill-posed yet challenging problem due to its supernormal high degree of freedoms and inherent requirement of smoothness. Graph-cuts method is a p...
Abstract. This paper presents a method for registering 3D intracardiac echo (ICE) to pre-operative images. A magnetic tracking sensor is integrated on the ICE catheter tip to provi...
Yiyong Sun, Samuel Kadoury, Yong Li, Matthias John...
This paper describes a new robust and fully automatic method for calibration of three-dimensional (3D) freehand ultrasound. 3D Freehand ultrasound consists in mounting a position s...
Abstract. In this paper, we present a novel continuous mixture of diffusion tensors model for the diffusion-weighted MR signal attenuation. The relationship between the mixing dist...