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Cardiac motion estimation using multi-scale feature points

Becciu, Alessandro, van Assen, Hans C., Florack, Luc, Janssen, Bart J., ter Haar Romeny, Bart M.
Eindhoven University of Technology
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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/10380/1371
New: Prefer using the following doi: https://doi.org/10.54294/0q3h1h
Published in The MIDAS Journal - MICCAI 2008 Workshop: Computational Biomechanics for Medicine.
Submitted by Alessandro Becciu on 2008-05-01T00:00:00Z.

Heart illnesses influence the functioning of the cardiac muscle and are the major causes of death in the world. Optic flow methods are essential tools to assess and quantify the contraction of the cardiac walls, but are hampered by the aperture problem. Harmonic phase (HARP) techniques measure the phase in magnetic resonance (MR) tagged images. Due to the regular geometry, patterns generated by a 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 tracking multi-scale features such as maxima, minima, saddles and corners, on HARP and sine HARP tagged images.