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.
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...
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...
Multi-view reasoning in coronary X-ray angiography is inherently a cross-projection geometric problem, yet automated report generation in this setting remains largely unexplored. The 3D vascular topology leads to projection-dependent branch overlap and foreshortening, rendering single-view modeling fundamentally incomplete and unstable for lesion localization and stenosis grading.
The paper introduces a physics-informed deep learning framework that reconstructs 3D coronary geometry from dual-view angiography and predicts velocity and pressure fields using a decoupled network with embedded physical priors. Across 32 patients and four flow conditions, the model achieved a trans‑stenotic pressure‑drop error of 2.02% and velocity/pressure relative‑L2 errors of 0.054 and 0.023, respectively, while matching hospital‑measured FFR with 93.8% diagnostic accuracy. The pipeline completes the full angiography‑to‑hemodynamics conversion in about 20 minutes per patient and supports sparse‑data assimilation for revascularization planning.
Local2Mesh is a spatially localized contour‑to‑mesh framework that reconstructs 3‑D left ventricular geometry from sparse 2‑D cardiac MRI contours without requiring 3‑D mesh annotations. It corrects inter‑slice misalignment through geometry‑aware alignment and routes contour features to template vertices via a plane‑aware Local Router, then jointly uses local and global features to deform a template mesh. Experiments on M&Ms‑2 and ACDC datasets show superior geometric reconstruction, functional estimation, and disease classification compared to existing methods, with strong cross‑dataset generalization.
The paper presents an anatomy‑aligned surface learning framework for reconstructing patient‑specific 4D myocardial surfaces from sparsely sampled short‑axis cine MRI. By parameterizing epicardial and endocardial surfaces on a shared circumferential‑longitudinal UV domain, the method transforms irregular 3D reconstruction into structured coordinate‑field completion, enabling explicit correspondence across subjects and cardiac phases. Experiments on three public datasets show the approach outperforms mesh‑based and implicit methods, achieving Chamfer distances around 2.6–2.9 mm and preserving ventricular function with small errors in volume and ejection fraction.
arXiv:2608.30404v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate segmentation of the coronary vessel lumen is a prerequisite for quantitative assessment of atherosclerotic plaque and perivascular adipose t...
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.
arXiv:2608. 19965v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Segmentation of curvilinear anatomical structures in 3D medical images remains challenging due to complex topology, severe class imbalance, weak contrast, and large variations in structure morphology.
VesselSDF introduces a new framework that transforms vessel segmentation into a signed distance field (SDF) regression task, enabling continuous representation of vascular geometry. By employing an adaptive Gaussian regularizer, the method suppresses common SDF artifacts such as floating segments while maintaining precise vessel boundaries. Experimental results show that VesselSDF outperforms existing approaches, preserving vessel geometry and connectivity for more reliable clinical vascular analysis.
Patient-specific 4D myocardial reconstruction from cine MRI supports quantitative functional assessment, regional motion analysis, and simulation-based modeling. However, routinely acquired short-axis...
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....