Title
Collaboration
:
Methodist Hospital Research Institute / Dirar Khoury MD
Center for Mathematical Biosciences / Robert Azencott , Yi Peng Li
Data
:
Ultra-sound movies of beating heart (30 views / sec)
Goal
:
Automatic extraction of Myocardium motion field
Challenge
:
Presence of strong random “Speckle Noise.”
Mathematics
:
Minimize a Stochastic Cost Functional to extract a vector field of non linear deformations
Intra-Cardiac Echography of Left-Ventricule :
Diastole Computed Myocardium Deformation Vector Field
IntraCardiac Echography :
Left Ventricule viewed at time T and T + 0.1 s
