arXiv:2607. 29243v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computed tomography angiography (CTA) is crucial for preprocedural TAVI planning, providing the anatomical information required for prosthesis sizing and vascular access assessment.
arXiv:2608. 20154v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Minimally invasive colorectal surgeries (MIS-CRS) are characterised by significant variability and inconsistent outcomes.
THA-Flow is a conditional flow-matching model that generates 3‑D prosthesis geometry directly from preoperative CT scans for total hip arthroplasty. It uses separate AutoencoderKL models to compress bone anatomy and prosthesis shapes, and a 3‑D UNet to learn a flow from Gaussian noise to the prosthesis latent space conditioned on bone geometry. In a retrospective cohort of 1,355 hips, the model produced accurate acetabular and femoral geometries for 93.4% of cases, preserving component position and alignment while allowing limited local variation.
The study presents a fully automated 4D U‑Net that segments the ascending aorta, arch, and proximal descending aorta in 4D flow MRI using a hybrid 4D convolutional kernel and sparse 4D labels derived from 2D expert contours and centerlines. Trained on 268 scans from eight centers, the model achieved high Dice scores (0.927 internal, 0.911 external) and excellent agreement with expert measurements of peak velocity, net flow, wall shear stress, and diameters (ICC ≥0.954 internal, ≥0.980 external). Compared to frame‑wise 3D networks and semi‑automatic methods, the 4D U‑Net outperformed in diastole and generalised well to independent post‑contrast data.
The paper presents a Physics‑Conditioned Neural Operator (PCNO), a transformer‑based model that predicts mitral and tricuspid valve leaflet displacement, strain, and stress fields conditioned on systolic blood pressure and tissue properties. Trained on FEBio finite‑element simulations, PCNO achieves a displacement error of 4.48 % and maintains mean errors of unsupervised geometric measures within 3.5 % even when pressure and material parameters lie outside the training set, demonstrating a conditioned solution operator rather than simple interpolation. Compared to graph neural network baselines, PCNO shows superior accuracy, particularly in stress predictions.
arXiv:2609.23826v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mitral regurgitation is the most common heart valve disorder worldwide, affecting over 2% of the global population, rising to at least 10% in adults ov...
The study evaluates three automated methods for distinguishing intimal from medial intracranial arterial calcifications (IACs) on non‑contrast head CT scans. Using segmentation masks, the methods—an adapted visual score, a sphericity metric, and shape embeddings from a medical foundation model—achieved comparable performance, with the embedding approach achieving the highest weighted F1 scores (71.5% for single arteries, 59.8% for joint classification). The approach remains robust when using automated versus manual segmentation masks, demonstrating feasibility for fully automated IAC subtype quantification.
The paper introduces Anatomy-Informed Neural Networks (AINN), which embed soft and hard anatomical priors into the loss function and network architecture to prevent anatomically impossible predictions. AINN is applied to a clinical scenario of aortoiliac deformation caused by a guidewire, modeling vessel and wire dynamics in SE(3) and training with a Wasserstein-2 loss from 2D angiograms. The study verifies the kinematics and loss against ground truth but does not yet train a network, outlining future work to apply the model to real CT data.
arXiv:2609.37648v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Preoperative liver-tumor assessment requires segmentation, physical-space measurement, visual evidence, and resection planning from the same three-dime...
arXiv:2608.21441v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated training of surgeons is one of the most crucial factors that significantly minimize surgical training risks and expenses. With recent advan...
arXiv:2609.00909v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable evaluation of automated coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) report generation requires standardized multicentre benchmarks and cli...
A multicenter study developed an AI-enabled electrocardiography (AI-ECG) model that predicts vessel-specific hemodynamically significant stenosis using coronary computed tomographic angiography (CCTA) as the reference. The model demonstrated strong discrimination in internal and external cohorts, including normal ECGs, and produced low-, intermediate-, and high-risk strata that correlated with stenosis severity and major adverse cardiovascular events. Calibration, decision curve analyses, and integration with guideline-based pre-test probability showed clinical utility, while waveform and attribution analyses revealed physiologically meaningful ECG features linked to high-risk predictions.
NV-Reason-CT is a generative vision‑language model designed for chest and abdominal CT analysis that preserves native 3D visual encoding and incorporates radiologist‑guided reasoning. The system couples a 3D vision transformer with a language model, feeding all visual tokens and their 3D coordinates directly into language decoding to maintain volumetric spatial information. Trained on a curated corpus of about 550,000 multimodal instruction examples, the model supports abnormality classification, report generation, and interactive reasoning, achieving strong performance on CT benchmarks and reducing expert interpretation time by 50%.