Cardiac motion estimation by optimizing transmural homogeneity of the myofiber strain and its validation with multimodal sequences

Zhijun Zhang, David J. Sahn, Xubo Song

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Abstract

Quantitative motion analysis from cardiac imaging is important to study the function of heart. Most of existing image-based motion estimation methods model the myocardium as an isotropically elastic continuum. We propose a novel anisotropic regularization method which enforces the transmural homogeneity of the strain along myofiber. The myofiber orientation in the end-diastolic frame is obtained by registering it with a diffusion tensor atlas. Our method is formulated in a diffeomorphic registration framework, and tested on multimodal cardiac image sequences of two subjects using 3D echocardiography and cine and tagged MRI. Results show that the estimated transformations in our method are more smooth and more accurate than those in isotropic regularization.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationMedical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2013 - 16th International Conference, Proceedings
Pages493-500
Number of pages8
EditionPART 1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event16th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2013 - Nagoya, Japan
Duration: Sep 22 2013Sep 26 2013

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 1
Volume8149 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other16th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2013
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityNagoya
Period9/22/139/26/13

Keywords

  • Cardiac motion estimation
  • cardiac strain
  • diffeomorphic registration
  • myofiber orientation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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