Guidewire Tip Tracking using U-Net with Shape and Motion Constraints

In recent years, research has been carried out using a micro-robot catheter instead of classic cardiac surgery performed using a catheter. To accurately control the micro-robot catheter, accurate and decisive tracking of the guidewire tip is required. In this paper, we propose a method based on the deep convolutional neural network (CNN) to track the guidewire tip. To extract a very small tip region from a large image in video sequences, we...