Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart

Whole Heart Segmentation from MRI and CTA Using a Local Normalised Correlation Coefficient Criterion.- An Image-Based Catheter Segmentation Algorithm for Optimized Electrophysiology Procedure Workflow.- Fast Left Ventricle Tracking in 3D Echocardiographic Data Using Anatomical Affine Optical Flow.- Parameter Estimation.- Kalman Filter with Augmented Measurement Model: An ECG Imaging Simulation Study.- Estimation of In Vivo Myocardial Fibre Strain Using an Architectural Atlas of the Human Heart.- Changes in In Vivo Myocardial Tissue Properties Due to Heart Failure.- Estimation of Conductivity Tensors from Human Ventricular Optical Mapping Recordings.- Modeling Methods.- Data-Driven Reduction of a Cardiac Myofilament Model.- An Inverse Spectral Method to Localize Discordant Alternans Regions on the Heart from Body Surface Measurements.- From Medical Images to Fast Computational Models of Heart Electromechanics: An Integrated Framework towards Clinical Use.- Dimensional Reduction of Cardiac Models for Effective Validation and Calibration.- Image Analysis.- Automatic Electrode and CT/MR Image Co-localisation for Electrocardiographic Imaging.- Detection of Vortical Structures in 4D Velocity Encoded Phase Contrast MRI Data Using Vector Template Matching.- Myocardial Deformation from Local Frequency Estimation in Tagging MRI.- Spatio-temporal Registration of 2D US and 3D MR Images for the Characterization of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.- A Semi-automatic Approach for Segmentation of Three-Dimensional Microscopic Image Stacks of Cardiac Tissue.- Motion Modeling.- Influence of the Grid Topology of Free-Form Deformation Models on the Performance of 3D Strain Estimation in Echocardiography.- Cardiac Motion and Deformation Estimation from Tagged MRI Sequences Using a Temporal Coherent Image Registration Framework.- Speckle Tracking in Interpolated Echocardiography to Estimate Heart Motion.- Variational Myocardial Tracking from Cine-MRI with Non-linear Regularization: Validation of Radial Displacements vs. Tagged-MRI.- Improving Efficiency of Data Assimilation Procedure for a Biomechanical Heart Model by Representing Surfaces as Currents.- Modeling Methods.- Surface-Based Electrophysiology Modeling and Assessment of Physiological Simulations in Atria.- Flow Analysis in Cardiac Chambers Combining Phase Contrast, 3D Tagged and Cine MRI.- Modelling Parameter Role on Accuracy of Cardiac Perfusion Quantification.- Texture Mapping by Isometric Spherical Embedding for the Visualization and Assessment of Regional Myocardial Function.- Biophysical Modeling.- Evaluation of Different Mapping Techniques for the Integration of Electro-Anatomical Voltage and Imaging Data of the Left Ventricle.- Atrial Fibrosis and Atrial Fibrillation: A Computer Simulation in the Posterior Left Atrium.- Collagen Bundle Orientation Explains Aortic Valve Leaflet Coaptation.- A High-Fidelity and Micro-anatomically Accurate 3D Finite Element Model for Simulations of Functional Mitral Valve.- Image Analysis.- Determination of Atrial Myofibre Orientation Using Structure Tensor Analysis for Biophysical Modelling.- Large Scale Left Ventricular Shape Atlas Using Automated Model Fitting to Contours.- Atlases of Cardiac Fiber Differential Geometry.- Manifold Learning Characterization of Abnormal Myocardial Motion Patterns: Application to CRT-Induced Changes.- Motion Modeling.- Intraventricular Dyssynchrony Assessment Using Regional Contraction from LV Motion Models.- Applying a Level Set Method for Resolving Physiologic Motions in Free-Breathing and Non-gated Cardiac MRI.- Right Ventricular Strain Analysis from 3D Echocardiography by Using Temporally Diffeomorphic Motion Estimation.- Regional Analysis of Left Ventricle Function Using a Cardiac-Specific Polyaffine Motion Model.