Cardiac motion estimation using multi-scale feature points

A. Becciu, H.C. Assen, van, L.M.J. Florack, B.J. Janssen, B.M. Haar Romenij, ter

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Abstract

Heart illnesses influence the functioning of the cardiac muscle and are the major causes of death inthe world. Optic flow methods are essential tools to assess and quantify the contraction of the cardiacwalls, but are hampered by the aperture problem. Harmonic phase (HARP) techniques measure thephase in magnetic resonance (MR) tagged images. Due to the regular geometry, patterns generated bya combination of HARPs and sine HARPs represent a suitable framework to extract landmark features.In this paper we introduce a new aperture-problem free method to study the cardiac motion by trackingmulti-scale features such as maxima, minima, saddles and corners, on HARP and sine HARP taggedimages.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputational Biomechanics for Medicine III : Proceedings of the MICCAI 2008 Workshop, New York, USA, September 10, 2008
EditorsK. Miller, P.M.F. Nielse
Pages5-14
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2008

Publication series

NameMidas Journal
Volume13(229)

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