MCP‑Net is a real‑time multi‑task network designed for robotic coronary guidewire navigation. It jointly segments coronary vessels, localizes the guidewire tip, and identifies stenosis from a single fluoroscopic frame, then converts these predictions into a structured vascular graph with centerlines, bifurcations, endpoints, branch directions, and angles. Using simulated fluoroscopy derived from 3D CT angiography, the framework generates a roadmap from the graph root to the target lesion, enabling interpretable downstream robotic navigation.
arXiv:2606. 00109v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Coronary guidewire endpoint localization is a fundamental capability for computer-assisted PCI, and its importance increases as robot-assisted PCI is progressively adopted to reduce operator radiation exposure.
arXiv:2609.15400v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vessel segmentation in X-ray coronary angiography (XCA) is a fundamental step for quantitative coronary analysis and subsequent assessment of coronary...
PPCAR-Net is a neural network that reconstructs 3‑D coronary artery centrelines and radii from a sparse set of X‑ray angiographic views. It predicts a branch‑structured centreline-and‑radius representation directly, avoiding explicit point matching or triangulation. The method refines geometry and radius estimates using projection‑guided refiners and achieves real‑time performance with strong centreline accuracy, especially for the right coronary artery.
arXiv:2610.32730v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coronary artery disease remains a leading cause of mortality, with stenosis detection from invasive X-ray Coronary Angiography (XCA) critical for diagn...
arXiv:2609.15550v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: X-ray coronary angiography is the clinical gold standard for coronary artery disease during real-time cardiac interventions, but provides only 2D pro...
X-ray coronary angiography is the clinical gold standard for coronary artery disease during real-time cardiac interventions, but provides only 2D projections of inherently 3D vessels. Existing learnin...
Accurate coronary Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA) vessel segmentation is essential for computer-aided diagnosis and treatment planning of coronary artery disease (CAD). However, thin low-contrast vessels, background interference, and severe vessel-background class imbalance make reliable segmentation of weak distal branches and vessel boundaries challenging.
arXiv:2608.24783v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate segmentation of coronary arteries in X-ray angiography videos is essential for quantitative coronary analysis and image-guided interventions....
arXiv:2608. 12274v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Background: Accurate segmentation of the Left Anterior Descending (LAD) artery in 3D free-breathing, non-contrast CT is critical for cardiac dose sparing in thoracic radiotherapy.
arXiv:2606. 13188v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Building patient-specific cardiac models sits at the heart of precision cardiology, yet getting those models into clinical use keeps running into the same wall: mesh generation is slow, messy, and frustrating.
The paper introduces a geometry‑guided sampling operator that directs feature sampling rather than altering convolution kernels in 3D encoder‑decoder networks. By predicting local orientations and bounded step sizes, the operator samples symmetrically around each voxel, generating compact geometric and boundary cues that improve fine‑structure segmentation. Replacing stride‑1 and stride‑2 operations in a 3D U‑Net yields consistent gains on BraTS, MSD Hepatic Vessel, and TDSC‑ABUS datasets, with better boundary metrics and fewer parameters, and the operator can be integrated into other backbones without architectural changes.
arXiv:2607. 22139v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate pixel-level classification of coronary angiograms is critical for cardiovascular disease assessment, yet the field lacks standardized evaluation protocols.