Automated analysis of 3D echocardiography
Stralen, M. van
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Stralen, M. van. (2009, February 25). Automated analysis of 3D echocardiography. ASCI dissertation series. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/1887/13521
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Author: Stralen, M. van
Title: Automated analysis of 3D echocardiography
Issue date: 2009-02-25
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Automated analysis of 3D echocardiography
Marijn van Stralen
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Automated analysis of 3D echocardiography Stralen, Marijn van
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Automated analysis of 3D echocardiography
Proefschrift
ter verkrijging van
de graad van Doctor aan de Universiteit Leiden, op gezag van Rector Magnificus prof.mr. P.F. van der Heijden,
volgens besluit van het College voor Promoties te verdedigen op woensdag 25 februari 2009
klokke 15:00 uur
door
Marijn van Stralen
geboren te Roermond
in 1980
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Promotores: Prof. dr. ir. J.H.C. Reiber
Prof. dr. ir. A.F.W. van der Steen (Erasmus MC Rotterdam) Copromotor: Dr. ir. J.G. Bosch (Erasmus MC Rotterdam)
Referent: Prof. dr. W.J. Niessen (Erasmus MC Rotterdam) Overige leden: Prof. dr. ir. N. de Jong (Erasmus MC Rotterdam)
Prof. dr. M.J. Schalij
Advanced School for Computing and Imaging
This work was carried out in the ASCI graduate school.
ASCI dissertation series number 171
This study was part of ICIN project number 47. It was financially supported by the Technology Program of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs (SenterNovem IOP, grant IBVC-02003). Chapter 6 was also supported by the Dutch Technology Foun- dation STW (grant 06666), applied science division of NWO.
Financial support by the Netherlands Heart Foundation for the publication of this thesis is gratefully acknowledged.
Financial support for the publication of this thesis was kindly provided by:
? Lecoeur Electronique
? Medis medical imaging systems bv
? Oldelft Ultrasound
? TomTec Imaging Systems GmbH
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Contents
1 Introduction 1
Motivation, 2 | 3D echocardiography, 3 | Digital image analysis, 12 | Outline of this thesis, 16.
2 Semi-automatic endocardial border detection for left ventricular vol-
ume estimation in 3D echocardiography 19
Introduction, 20 | Methods, 23 | Results, 30 | Discussion, 32 | Conclusions and future work, 35.
3 Automated tracking of the mitral valve annulus motion in apical echocar- diographic images using multidimensional dynamic programming 37 Introduction, 38 | Materials and methods, 39 | Results, 47 |
Discussion, 53 | Conclusions, 56.
4 Interpolation of irregularly distributed sparse 4D ultrasound data us-
ing normalized convolution 57
Introduction, 58 | Methods, 62 | Experiments, 66 | Results, 69 | Discussion, 70 | Conclusions, 71.
5 Automatic time continuous detection of the left ventricular long axis and the mitral valve plane in 3D echocardiography 73 Introduction and literature, 74 | Materials and methods, 75 | Results, 84 | Discussion, 91 | Conclusions, 95.
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6 Automated left ventricular volume estimation in 3D echocardiography
using active appearance models 97
Introduction, 98 | Active appearance models, 100 | Methods, 104 | Experiments and results, 112 | Discussion, 119 | Conclusions, 128.
7 Discussion and conclusions 131
Research objective, 132 | Contributions, 132 | Discussion, 133 | Recommendations for future work, 135 | Conclusions, 136.
8 Summary 139
9 Samenvatting 143
Bibliography 147
Publications 159
Dankwoord 165
Curriculum Vitae 167
