Learning Conflicts for C-arm Kinematic Modeling using Artificial Intelligence.

During common surgical tasks related to orthopedic applications, it is necessary to carefully manipulate a mobile C-arm device to achieve the desired position. In this work, we propose the application of learning conflicts analysis to improve the performance of an artificial neural network to compute the inverse kinematics of a C-arm device. Using the forward kinematics equations of a C-arm device (and the respective patient table) a training set for machine learning was generated.

Multiple active contours driven by particle swarm optimization for cardiac medical image segmentation.

This paper presents a novel image segmentation method based on multiple active contours driven by particle swarm optimization (MACPSO). The proposed method uses particle swarm optimization over a polar coordinate system to increase the energy-minimizing capability with respect to the traditional active contour model. In the first stage, to evaluate the robustness of the proposed method, a set of synthetic images containing objects with several concavities and Gaussian noise is presented.