Biomechanical Model Construction from Different Modalities: Application to Cardiac Images
M. Sermesant6
, C. Forest6, X. Pennec6, H. Delingette6 and N. Ayache6
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Epidaure Research Project, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, 2004 route des Lucioles, 06902 Sophia Antipolis, France |
Abstract
This article describes a process to include in a volumetric model various anatomical and mechanical information provided by
different sources. Three stages are described, namely a mesh construction, the non-rigid deformation of the tetrahedral mesh
into various volumetric images, and the rasterization procedure allowing the transfer of properties from a voxel grid to a
tetrahedral mesh. The method is experimented on various imaging modalities, demonstrating its feasibility. By using a biomechanical
model, we include physically-based a priori knowledge which should allow to better recover the cardiac motion from images.
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