Extracting cardiac myofiber orientations from high frequency ultrasound images

Xulei Qin, Zhibin Cong, Rong Jiang, Ming Shen, Mary B. Wagner, Paul Kishbom, Baowei Fei

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Abstract

Cardiac myofiber plays an important role in stress mechanism during heart beating periods. The orientation of myofibers decides the effects of the stress distribution and the whole heart deformation. It is important to image and quantitatively extract these orientations for understanding the cardiac physiological and pathological mechanism and for diagnosis of chronic diseases. Ultrasound has been wildly used in cardiac diagnosis because of its ability of performing dynamic and noninvasive imaging and because of its low cost. An extraction method is proposed to automatically detect the cardiac myofiber orientations from high frequency ultrasound images. First, heart walls containing myofibers are imaged by B-mode high frequency (>20 MHz) ultrasound imaging. Second, myofiber orientations are extracted from ultrasound images using the proposed method that combines a nonlinear anisotropic diffusion filter, Canny edge detector, Hough transform, and K-means clustering. This method is validated by the results of ultrasound data from phantoms and pig hearts.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationMedical Imaging 2013
Subtitle of host publicationUltrasonic Imaging, Tomography, and Therapy
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
EventMedical Imaging 2013: Ultrasonic Imaging, Tomography, and Therapy - Lake Buena Vista, FL, United States
Duration: Feb 12 2013Feb 14 2013

Publication series

NameProgress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE
Volume8675
ISSN (Print)1605-7422

Conference

ConferenceMedical Imaging 2013: Ultrasonic Imaging, Tomography, and Therapy
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLake Buena Vista, FL
Period2/12/132/14/13

Keywords

  • Cardiac myofiber orientation
  • Denoising
  • Heart
  • High frequency ultrasound imaging
  • Nonlinear anisotropic diffusion filter
  • Orientation extraction

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging
  • Biomaterials

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