Warped-average template technique to track on a cycle-by-cycle basis the cardiac filling phases on left ventricular volume

The dynamic time warping approach is utilised to obtain a template from the left ventricular volume signal. The technique, by performing shrinking and enlarging of the temporal axes of two waveforms, indicates the best non-linear alignment between them. In this application this technique is used to track on a cycle-by-cycle basis the diastasis onset and offset thus allowing one to reliably measure temporal sub-intervals of the filling period.