Deformation process modeling in medical imaging

A computational model for generating a graphic deformation process of the left ventricle of a heart from the diastolic state to the systolic state is presented. The deformation process is represented by several intermediate states which are interpolated from the two given states of the left ventricle. The model includes a topology preserved mapping, a generic correspondence scheme, and a process generator. The strength of the proposed technique is that it can handle the cases where two original shapes have different numbers of vertices. This makes the construction of the two original shapes independent