Improving Understanding of Long-Term Cardiac Functional Remodelling via Cross-Sectional Analysis of Polyaffine Motion Parameters

Changes in cardiac motion dynamics occur as a direct result of alterations in structure, hemodynamics, and electrical activation. Abnormal ventricular motion compromises long-term sustainability of heart function. While motion abnormalities are reasonably well documented and have been identified for many conditions, the remodelling process that occurs as a condition progresses is not well understood. Thanks to the recent development of a method to quantify full ventricular motion (as opposed to 1D abstractions of the motion) with few comparable parameters, population-based statistical analysis is possible. A method for describing functional remodelling is proposed by performing statistical cross-sectional analysis of spatio-temporally aligned subject-specific polyaffine motion parameters. The proposed method is applied to pathological and control datasets to compare functional remodelling occurring as a process of disease as opposed to a process of ageing.

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