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In this paper we present a new technique for tracking the movement of the myocardium using a statistical model derived from the motion fields in the hearts of several healthy volunteers. To build the statistical model we tracked the motion of the myocardium in 17 volunteers using a nonrigid registration technique based on free-form deformations and mapped the motion fields obtained into a common reference coordinate system. A principal component analysis (PCA) was then performed on the motion fields to extract the major modes of variation in the fields between the successive time frames. The modes of variation obtained were then used to parametrize the free-form deformations and build our statistical model. The results of using our model to track the motion of the heart in normal volunteers are also presented.
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Chandrashekara, R., Rao, A., Sanchez-Ortiz, G.I., Mohiaddin, R.H., Rueckert, D. (2003). Construction of a Statistical Model for Cardiac Motion Analysis Using Nonrigid Image Registration. In: Taylor, C., Noble, J.A. (eds) Information Processing in Medical Imaging. IPMI 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2732. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45087-0_50
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