INTRODUCTION: Pre-pectoral direct to implant (DTI) breast reconstruction has historically been fraught with complications including flap necrosis, implant extrusion, and capsular contracture as well as extremely high rates of operative revisions. This may result from a number of factors, including the lack of an algorithmic approach, failure to predict postoperative migration of the implant, us...

Background: Mechanical occlusion of the Left atrial appendage (LAA) using a purpose-built device has emerged as an effective prophylactic treatment in patients with atrial fibrillation at risk of stroke and a contraindication for anticoagulation. A crucial step in procedural planning is the choice of the device size. This is currently based on the manual analysis of the “Device Landing Zone” fr...

3D bone reconstructions from biplanar radiographs showed an increasing interest in the last decade. Three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction process of the femur as proposed by recent works (Chaibi et al., CMBBE, 2011) relies on the identification by an operator of a few landmarks on the radiographs to initiate the procedure. Among others landmarks, the operator needs to identify the medial and la...

We propose a novel pipeline for 3D reconstruction from image sequences that solely relies on dense methods. At no point sparse features are required. As input we only need a sequence of color images capturing a static scene while following a continuous path. Furthermore, we assume that an intrinsic camera calibration is known. Our pipeline comprises three steps: (1) First, we jointly estimate c...

The study of the 3D architecture of chromosomes has been advancing rapidly in recent years. While a number of methods for 3D reconstruction of genomic models based on Hi-C data were proposed, most of the analyses in the field have been performed on different 3D representation forms (such as graphs). Here, we reproduce most of the previous results on the 3D genomic organization of the eukaryote ...

We propose a convex framework for silhouette and stereo fusion in 3D reconstruction from multiple images. The key idea is to show that the reconstruction problem can be cast as one of minimizing a convex functional where the exact silhouette consistency is imposed as a convex constraint that restricts the domain of admissible functions. As a consequence, we can retain the original stereo-weight...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Although 3D FLAIR imaging visualizes detailed structures of the brain stem, it has not been used to evaluate its normal anatomy. The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether 3D FLAIR images can provide more detailed anatomic information of the brain stem than 2D FLAIR and 2D T2WI. MATERIALS AND METHODS We prospectively evaluated MR images in 10 healthy volunteers. ...

during dental education, dental students learn how to examine patients, make diagnosis, plan treatment and perform dental procedures perfectly and efficiently. however, progresses in computer-based technologies including virtual reality (vr) simulators, augmented reality (ar) and computer aided design/computer aided manufacturing (cad/cam) systems have resulted in new modalities for instruction...

conclusion high-resolution mr images of the wrist using 3d t2space, pd blade and t2 blade were superior to those using conventional sequences quantitatively. high-snr and cnr mr imaging with space and blade would be a promising method to diagnose wrist lesions. results snr of the cartilage, tfcc on 3d t2space and t1 fse was better than other sequences (p < 0.001). snr of the bone on pd blade wa...