Consistent estimation of cardiac motions by 4D image registration

Dinggang Shen, Hari Sundar, Zhong Xue, Yong Fan, Harold Litt

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Abstract

A 4D image registration method is proposed for consistent estimation of cardiac motion from MR image sequences. Under this 4D registration framework, all 3D cardiac images taken at different time-points are registered simultaneously, and motion estimated is enforced to be spatiotemporally smooth, thereby overcoming potential limitations of some methods that typically estimate cardiac deformation sequentially from one frame to another, instead of treating the entire set of images as a 4D volume. To facilitate our image matching process, an attribute vector is designed for each point in the image to include intensity, boundary and geometric moment invariants (GMIs). Hierarchical registration of two image sequences is achieved by using the most distinctive points for initial registration of two sequences and gradually adding less-distinctive points for refinement of registration. Experimental results on real data demonstrate good performance of the proposed method in registering cardiac images and estimating motions from cardiac image sequences.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMedical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2005 - 8th International Conference, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages902-910
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)3540293264, 9783540293262
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2005
Externally publishedYes
Event8th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2005 - Palm Springs, CA, United States
Duration: 2005 Oct 262005 Oct 29

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3750 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other8th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2005
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPalm Springs, CA
Period05/10/2605/10/29

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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