Diffeomorphic cardiac motion estimation with anisotropic regularization along myofiber orientation

Zhijun Zhang, David J. Sahn, Xubo Song

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Abstract

Quantitative motion analysis from cardiac imaging is an important yet challenging problem. Most of the existing cardiac motion estimation methods ignore the fact that the myocardium is a fibrous structure with elastic anisotropy. We propose a novel method in which an anisotropic regularization energy is used to favor the motion consistency with the myofiber orientation. The myofiber direction comes from a diffusion tensor image and it is mapped to the end-diastole frame by using nonrigid registration. We implement the method based on a diffeomorphic motion estimation framework in which a spatiotemporally smooth velocity field is estimated by optimization of a variational energy. We validate the proposed method by using cine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) datasets and echocardiography of an open-chest pig with sonomicrometry. We compare the proposed method with a temporal diffeomorphic free form deformation method without consideration of myofiber orientation. Experiments results show that the proposed motion estimation method has higher accuracy.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationBiomedical Image Registration - 5th International Workshop, WBIR 2012, Proceedings
Pages199-208
Number of pages10
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event5th International Workshop on Biomedical Image Registration, WBIR 2012 - Nashville, TN, United States
Duration: Jul 7 2012Jul 8 2012

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7359 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other5th International Workshop on Biomedical Image Registration, WBIR 2012
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNashville, TN
Period7/7/127/8/12

Keywords

  • Diffeomorphic registration
  • motion estimation
  • myofiber orientation
  • nonrigid registration

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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