Model-to-Image Registration via Deep Learning towards Image-Guided Endovascular Interventions

Cardiologists highlight the need for an intra-operative 3D visualization to assist interventions. The intra-operative 2D X-ray/Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA) images in the standard clinical workflow limit cardiologists’ views significantly. Compared with image-to-image registration, model-to-image registration is an essential approach...

X-eRgo: A support to improve the physical comfort of interventional specialists during image guided interventions

Recently, more research has focused to find occupational hazards in minimally invasive interventions, such as angioplasty, placing stents and the replacing of heart valves. A procedure is a minimally invasive intervention when the operating specialist uses a needle to insert a catheter into the patient’s body. X-ray based imaging techniques are...