Integrated Dynamic Shape Tracking and RF Speckle Tracking for Cardiac Motion Analysis

We present a novel dynamic shape tracking (DST) method that solves for Lagrangian motion trajectories originating at the left ventricle (LV) boundary surfaces using a graphical structure and Dijkstra’s shortest path algorithm.

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