TY - GEN
T1 - Incompressible cardiac motion estimation of the left ventricle using tagged MR images
AU - Liu, Xiaofeng
AU - Abd-Elmoniem, Khaled Z.
AU - Prince, Jerry L.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Interpolation from sparse imaging data is typically required to achieve dense, three-dimensional quantification of left ventricular function. Although the heart muscle is known to be incompressible, this fact is ignored by most previous approaches that address this problem. In this paper, we present a method to reconstruct a dense representation of the three-dimensional, incompressible deformation of the left ventricle from tagged MR images acquired in both short-axis and long axis orientations. The approach applies a smoothing, divergence-free, vector spline to interpolate velocity fields at intermediate discrete times such that the collection of velocity fields integrate over time to match the observed displacement components. Through this process, the method yields a dense estimate of a displacement field that matches our observations and also corresponds to an incompressible motion.
AB - Interpolation from sparse imaging data is typically required to achieve dense, three-dimensional quantification of left ventricular function. Although the heart muscle is known to be incompressible, this fact is ignored by most previous approaches that address this problem. In this paper, we present a method to reconstruct a dense representation of the three-dimensional, incompressible deformation of the left ventricle from tagged MR images acquired in both short-axis and long axis orientations. The approach applies a smoothing, divergence-free, vector spline to interpolate velocity fields at intermediate discrete times such that the collection of velocity fields integrate over time to match the observed displacement components. Through this process, the method yields a dense estimate of a displacement field that matches our observations and also corresponds to an incompressible motion.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-04271-3_41
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-04271-3_41
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 20426129
AN - SCOPUS:84883840648
SN - 3642042708
SN - 9783642042706
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 331
EP - 338
BT - Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - MICCAI2009 - 12th International Conference, Proceedings
T2 - 12th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2009
Y2 - 20 September 2009 through 24 September 2009
ER -