In clinical procedures of angioplasty (i.e., open clogged coronary arteries), devices such as balloons and stents need to be placed and expanded in arteries under the guidance of X-ray fluoroscopy. Due to the limitation of X-ray dose, the resulting images are often noisy. To check the correct placement of these devices, typically multiple motion-compensated frames are averaged to enhance the view. Therefore, device tracking is a necessary procedure for this purpose. Even though angioplasty devices are designed to have radiopaque markers for the ease of tracking, current methods struggle to deliver satisfactory results due to the small marker size and complex scenes in angioplasty. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end deep learning framework for single stent tracking, which consists of three hierarchical modules: a U-Net for landmark detection, a ResNet for stent proposal and feature extraction, and a graph convolutional neural network for stent tracking that temporally aggregates both spatial information and appearance features. The experiments show that our method performs significantly better in detection compared with the state-of-the-art point-based tracking models. In addition, its fast inference speed satisfies clinical requirements.
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Huang, L., Liu, Y., Chen, L., Chen, E. Z., Chen, X., & Sun, S. (2022). Robust Landmark-Based Stent Tracking in X-ray Fluoroscopy. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 13682 LNCS, pp. 201–216). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20047-2_12
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