The paper introduces VasoMIM, a vascular anatomy‑aware masked image modeling framework for X‑ray angiogram analysis, which uses an anatomy‑guided masking strategy and an anatomical consistency loss to learn robust vascular representations. It also presents XA‑170K, the largest pre‑training dataset for X‑ray angiograms. Experiments on six datasets and four downstream tasks show that VasoMIM outperforms existing methods and achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance.
By De-Xing Huang, Chaohui Yu, Xiao-Hu Zhou, Tian-Yu Xiang, Qin-Yi Zhang, Mei-Jiang Gui, Rui-Ze Ma, Chen-Yu Wang, Nu-Fang Xiao, Fan Wang, Zeng-Guang Hou
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...
By Deyu Meng, Mojtaba Lashgari, Yiying Wang, Abhirup Banerjee
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:2610.35357v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Retinal vessel segmentation is widely used in retinal image analysis, yet model selection based only on aggregate overlap scores can overlook structura...
By Ruoyu Yan, Yuejia Liu, Shixin Xu, Xiaoyan Li, Xi Luo, Yuhui Deng, Huaxiong Huang
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...
By Wanxian Li, Jiaqian Qin, Qingyi Xian, Yazhi Li, Song Chen, Liman Li, Hao He
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....
By Lin Xi, Yingliang Ma
ReG-SAM is a SAM-based framework designed for 2D vessel segmentation in medical images. It introduces reference graph prompt embeddings (GPEs) and vascular prototype embeddings (VPEs) to capture global spatial and fine-grained modality-specific vessel features, respectively. By building a modality-wise vascular database and learning these embeddings from reference masks, ReG-SAM consistently outperforms existing baselines across 19 datasets, especially on thin vessels.
By Donghang Lyu, Zichen Zhang, Oleh Dzyubachyk, Marius Staring
arXiv:2606. 16234v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fundus fluorescein angiography (FFA) is critical for assessing retinal vascular abnormalities, but its acquisition is invasive and not always feasible.
By Tengfei Ma, Ruiqi Wu, Chenran Zhang, Ye Geng, Na Su, Xiangyuan Duanmu, Tao Zhou, Yi Zhou, Wen Fan
arXiv:2606. 05375v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Optical coherence tomographic angiography (OCTA) is a powerful technique for imaging retinal microvasculature.
By Yukun Guo, Min Gao, Tristan T. Hormel, Steven T. Bailey, Thomas S. Hwang, Yali Jia
X‑LMC is a spatiotemporal deep‑learning framework that automatically scores leptomeningeal collateral (LMC) status from time‑resolved biplane digital subtraction angiography (DSA). It uses a DINOv2 backbone to encode spatial frames, a token‑level cross‑view attention module to fuse orthogonal projections, and a recurrent network to model contrast bolus dynamics. On a multicenter dataset of 134 M1‑segment occlusion patients, X‑LMC achieved a Quadratic Weighted Kappa of 0.398 and a macro‑F1 of 0.711, outperforming static and other spatiotemporal baselines and matching clinical inter‑rater agreement.
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.
By Xi Chen, Jianchuan Yang, Hongde Li, Guangxin He, Qiuyu Ye, Qiang Luo, Mao Chen, Wenqi Hu
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.
By Rafi Ibn Sultan, Chengyin Li, Yiannos Demetriou, Ahmed I. Ghanem, Joshua P. Kim, Justine Cunningham, Hassan Bagher-Ebadian, Dongxiao Zhu, Kundan S. Thind