Elastic image registration versus speckle tracking for 2-d myocardial motion estimation: A direct comparison in vivo

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 449-459

  Heyde, Brecht ^a   Jasaityte, Ruta ^a   Barbosa, Daniel ^a   Robesyn, Valérie ^a   Bouchez, Stefaan ^b   Wouters, Patrick ^b   Maes, Frederik ^c   Claus, Piet ^a   D'Hooge, Jan ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d Norwegian Institute for Science and Technology   (Norway)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; elastic registration; sonomicrometry; speckle tracking; strain estimation

Indexed keywords

CIRCUMFERENTIAL STRAIN; DOBUTAMINE; ELASTIC IMAGE REGISTRATION; ELASTIC REGISTRATION; END-SYSTOLIC; ESTIMATION PROCESS; GOLD STANDARDS; IN-VIVO; IN-VIVO SETTING; MULTIPLE SOLUTIONS; MYOCARDIAL MOTION; MYOCARDIAL STRAIN; POSTERIORI; REFERENCE STRAINS; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; SONOMICROMETRY; SPECKLE TRACKING; STRAIN ESTIMATION; STRAIN VALUES; ULTRASOUND SYSTEM;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ESTIMATION; IMAGE REGISTRATION; SPECKLE;

MOTION ESTIMATION;

DOBUTAMINE; ESMOLOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARDIAC IMAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTIC IMAGE REGISTRATION METHOD; GOLD STANDARD; HEART CYCLE; HEART MOVEMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; INOTROPISM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISCHEMIA; NONHUMAN; REST; SHEEP; SPECKLE TRACKING METHOD; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ELASTOGRAPHY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG MODULUS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MOVEMENT; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEEP;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84873312829     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2012.2230114     Document Type: Article

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