The noninvasive evaluation of the cardiac function presents a great interest for the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases. Tagged cardiac MRI allows the measurement of anatomical and functional myocardial parameters. ...The noninvasive evaluation of the cardiac function presents a great interest for the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases. Tagged cardiac MRI allows the measurement of anatomical and functional myocardial parameters. This protocol generates a dark grid which is deformed with the myocardium displacement on both Short-Axis (SA) and Long-Axis (LA) frames in a time sequence. Visual evaluation of the grid deformation allows the estimation of the displacement inside the myocardium. The work described in this paper aims to make robust and reliable the visual enhancement of the grid tags on cardiac MRI sequences, thanks to an informational formalism based on Extreme Physical Informational (EPI). This approach leads to the development of an original diffusion pre-processing allowing us to make better the robustness of the visual detection and the following of the grid of tags.展开更多
文摘The noninvasive evaluation of the cardiac function presents a great interest for the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases. Tagged cardiac MRI allows the measurement of anatomical and functional myocardial parameters. This protocol generates a dark grid which is deformed with the myocardium displacement on both Short-Axis (SA) and Long-Axis (LA) frames in a time sequence. Visual evaluation of the grid deformation allows the estimation of the displacement inside the myocardium. The work described in this paper aims to make robust and reliable the visual enhancement of the grid tags on cardiac MRI sequences, thanks to an informational formalism based on Extreme Physical Informational (EPI). This approach leads to the development of an original diffusion pre-processing allowing us to make better the robustness of the visual detection and the following of the grid of tags.
