Heart deformation pattern analysis through shape modelling

Moroni D, Colantonio S, Salvetti O, Salvetti M

I.4.6 Segmentation  I.4.7 Feature Measurement  I.4.8 Scene Analysis  J.3 Life and Medical Sciences  Shape Modeling 

In this paper, we present an approach to the description of time-varying anatomical structures. The main goal is to compactly but faithfully describe the whole heart cycle in such a way to allow for deformation pattern characterization and assessment. Using such an encoding, a reference database can be built, thus permitting similarity searches or data mining procedures.

Source: PATTERN RECOGNITION AND IMAGE ANALYSIS, vol. 19 (issue 2), pp. 262-270