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Displacement Calculation of Heart Walls in ECG Sequences Using Level Set Segmentation and B-Spline Free Form Deformations

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Computer Vision and Graphics (ICCVG 2010)

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In the paper a problem of displacement calculation of the walls of left heart ventricle in echocardiographic (ECG) ultrasound sequences/videos is addressed. A novel method, which is proposed in it, consists of: 1) speckle reduction anisotrophic diffusion (SRAD) filtration of ultrasonography (USG) images, 2) segmentation of heart structures in consecutive de-noised frames via active contour without edges method, 3) calculation of left ventricle frame-to-frame deformation vectors by B-Spline Free Form Deformation (FFD) algorithm. Results from method testing on synthetic USG-like and real ECG images are presented in the paper.

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  1. Department of Measurement and Instrumentation, AGH University of Science and Technology, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059, Kraków, Poland

    Andrzej Skalski & Paweł Turcza

  2. Department of Telecommunications AGH University of Science and Technology, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059, Kraków, Poland

    Tomasz Zieliński

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  1. Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, 86 Koszykowa St, 02-008, Warsaw, Poland

    Leonard Bolc

  2. Institute of Automatics, AGH University of Science and Technology, Al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059, Kraków, Poland

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  3. Faculty of Applied Informatics and Mathematics, Department of Informatics, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Nowoursynowska 159, 02-776, Warsaw, Poland

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  4. Institute of Computer Science, The Silesian University of Technology, Akademicka 16, 44-100, Gliwice, Poland

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Skalski, A., Turcza, P., Zieliński, T. (2010). Displacement Calculation of Heart Walls in ECG Sequences Using Level Set Segmentation and B-Spline Free Form Deformations. In: Bolc, L., Tadeusiewicz, R., Chmielewski, L.J., Wojciechowski, K. (eds) Computer Vision and Graphics. ICCVG 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6375. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15907-7_33

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