Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) tagging has been established as an essential
technique for measuring regional myocardial function. It allows quantification of local …

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a highly advanced and sophisticated imaging
modality for cardiac motion tracking and analysis, capable of providing 3D analysis of global …

In this paper we present a benchmarking framework for the validation of cardiac motion
analysis algorithms. The reported methods are the response to an open challenge that was …

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the modern world. Cardiac imaging is
routinely applied for assessment and diagnosis of cardiac diseases. Computerized image …

Tagged magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is unique in its ability to noninvasively image the
motion and deformation of the heart in vivo, but one of the fundamental reasons limiting its …

Regional myocardial function can be measured by several MR techniques including tissue
tagging, phase velocity map**, and more recently, displacement encoding with stimulated …

This paper presents a real-time control framework for a snake robot with hyper-kinematic
redundancy under dynamic active constraints for minimally invasive surgery. A proximity …

Ultrasound is a main noninvasive modality for the assessment of the heart function. Wall
tracking from ultrasound data is, however, inherently difficult due to weak echoes, clutter …

The popularity of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging in medicine is no mystery: it is non-
invasive, it produces high quality structural and functional image data, and it is very versatile …

Tagged magnetic resonance imaging (tagged MRI or tMRI) provides a means of directly and
noninvasively displaying the internal motion of the myocardium. Reconstruction of the …