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Robust Cardiac Motion Estimation using Ultrafast Ultrasound Data: A Low-Rank-Topology-Preserving Approach

by A. I. Aviles and T. Widlak and A. Casals and M. M. Nillesen and H. Ammari

(Report number 2017-12)

Abstract
Cardiac motion estimation is an important diagnostic tool to detect heart diseases and it has been explored with modalities such as MRI and conventional ultrasound (US) sequences. US cardiac motion estimation still presents challenges because of the complex motion patterns and the presence of noise. In this work, we propose a novel approach to estimate the cardiac motion using ultrafast ultrasound data. { Our solution is based on a variational formulation characterized by the L2-regularized class. The displacement is represented by a lattice of b-splines and we ensure robustness by applying a maximum likelihood type estimator. While this is an important part of our solution, the main highlight of this paper is to combine a low-rank data representation with topology preservation. Low-rank data representation (achieved by finding the k-dominant singular values of a Casorati Matrix arranged from the data sequence) speeds up the global solution and achieves noise reduction. On the other hand, topology preservation (achieved by monitoring the Jacobian determinant) allows to radically rule out distortions while carefully controlling the size of allowed expansions and contractions. Our variational approach is carried out on a realistic dataset as well as on a simulated one. We demonstrate how our proposed variational solution deals with complex deformations through careful numerical experiments. Beyond cardiac motion estimation, our approach is promising for the analysis of other organs that experience motion.

Keywords: cardiac motion estimation, ultrafast imaging, low-rank-topology-preserving approach

@Techreport{IWCMA17_708,
  author = {A. I. Aviles and T. Widlak and A. Casals and M. M. Nillesen and H. Ammari},
  title = {Robust Cardiac Motion Estimation using Ultrafast Ultrasound Data: A Low-Rank-Topology-Preserving Approach
},
  institution = {Seminar for Applied Mathematics, ETH Z{\"u}rich},
  number = {2017-12},
  address = {Switzerland},
  url = {https://www.sam.math.ethz.ch/sam_reports/reports_final/reports2017/2017-12.pdf },
  year = {2017}
}

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