Title :
Cuore: a graphical user interface to analyze heart wall motion in MR bioimages
Author :
Cerasoli, Alessandro ; Marcenaro, Giampiero ; Scapparone, Francesca
Author_Institution :
BIOTEK, Genova, Italy
Abstract :
A graphical user interface realized using K-Windows for cardiological diagnostic examinations is presented. It is based on optical flow (OF) theory and it represents an useful tool to detect movement of the cardiac wall during the normal pulse rate in cyclic sequences of MR images. The visualization of the movements is realized using a vectorial representation of the original images
Keywords :
biomechanics; biomedical NMR; cardiology; graphical user interfaces; image sequences; medical image processing; motion estimation; Cuore; K-Windows; MR bioimages; MR images; cardiac wall movement detection; cardiological diagnostic examinations; cyclic sequences; heart wall motion analysis; magnetic resonance imaging; medical diagnostic imaging; movements visualization; normal pulse rate; optical flow theory; vectorial representation; Animation; Computer vision; Data visualization; Graphical user interfaces; Heart; Image analysis; Image converters; Image sequences; Motion analysis; Sun;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1995., IEEE 17th Annual Conference
Conference_Location :
Montreal, Que.
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2475-7
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1995.575200
