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We present an optical flow-based algorithm to estimate heart wall motion from ultrasound sequences. The method exploits two ultrasound modalities, i.e., B-mode (grayscale data) and tissue Doppler (partial velocity measurements). We use a local affine velocity model to account for typical heart motions such as contraction/expansion and shear. The affine model parameters give also access to so-called strain rate parameters that describe local myocardial deformation such as wall thickening. The estimation of large motions is made possible through the use of a coarse-to-fine multi-scale strategy, which also adds robustness to the method.
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Sühling, M., Arigovindan, M., Jansen, C., Hunziker, P., Unser, M. (2007). Myocardial Motion and Strain Rate Analysis from Ultrasound Sequences. In: Jähne, B., Mester, R., Barth, E., Scharr, H. (eds) Complex Motion. IWCM 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3417. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69866-1_13
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