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Which Anatomical Directions to Quantify Local Right Ventricular Strain in 3D Echocardiography?

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Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart (FIMH 2023)

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Technological advances in image quality and post-processing have led to the better clinical adoption of 3D echocardiography to quantify cardiac function. However, the right ventricle (RV) raises specific challenges due to its specific half-moon shape, which led to a lack of consensus regarding the estimation of RV motion and deformation locally. In this paper, we detail three ways to estimate local anatomically-relevant directions at each point of the RV surface, in 3D, and the resulting Green-Lagrange strain projected along these directions. Using a database of RV surface meshes extracted from 3D echocardiographic sequences from 100 control subjects, we quantified differences between these strategies in terms of local anatomical directions and local strain, both at the individual and population levels. For the latter, we used a specific dimensionality reduction technique to align the latent spaces encoding the strain patterns obtained from different computations of the anatomical directions. Differences were subtle but visible at specific regions of the RV and partially interpretable, although their impact on the population latent representation was low, which sets a preliminary quantitative basis to discuss these computation standards.

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The authors acknowledge the support from the French ANR (LABEX PRIMES of Univ. Lyon [ANR-11-LABX-0063], the JCJC project “MIC-MAC” [ANR-19-CE45-0005]), and the European Union - NextGenerationEU, Ministry of Universities and Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, through a call from Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). They are also grateful to P. Moceri (CHU Nice, France) for providing the imaging data related to the studied population, and to M. Sermesant (INRIA Epione, Sophia Antipolis, France) for initial discussions on this topic.

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Di Folco, M., Dargent, T., Bernardino, G., Clarysse, P., Duchateau, N. (2023). Which Anatomical Directions to Quantify Local Right Ventricular Strain in 3D Echocardiography?. In: Bernard, O., Clarysse, P., Duchateau, N., Ohayon, J., Viallon, M. (eds) Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart. FIMH 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13958. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35302-4_62

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