HARP-I: A Harmonic Phase Interpolation Method for the Estimation of Motion from Tagged MR Images

Hernan Mella, Joaquin Mura, Hui Wang, Michael D. Taylor, Radomir Chabiniok, Jaroslav Tintera, Julio Sotelo, Sergio Uribe

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Abstract

We proposed a novel method called HARP-I, which enhances the estimation of motion from tagged Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). The harmonic phase of the images is unwrapped and treated as noisy measurements of reference coordinates on a deformed domain, obtaining motion with high accuracy using Radial Basis Functions interpolations. Results were compared against Shortest Path HARP Refinement (SP-HR) and Sine-wave Modeling (SinMod), two harmonic image-based techniques for motion estimation from tagged images. HARP-I showed a favorable similarity with both methods under noise-free conditions, whereas a more robust performance was found in the presence of noise. Cardiac strain was better estimated using HARP-I at almost any motion level, giving strain maps with less artifacts. Additionally, HARP-I showed better temporal consistency as a new method was developed to fix phase jumps between frames. In conclusion, HARP-I showed to be a robust method for the estimation of motion and strain under ideal and non-ideal conditions.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number9320570
Pages (from-to)1240-1252
Number of pages13
JournalIEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
Volume40
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2021

Keywords

  • CSPAMM
  • Cardiac MRI
  • SPAMM
  • cardiac strain
  • harmonic phase analysis
  • motion estimation
  • sine-wave modeling
  • tagged MRI

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Radiological and Ultrasound Technology
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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