Moya-Albor, Ernesto
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Optical flow estimation of the heart's short axis view using a perceptual approach

2013 , Moya-Albor, Ernesto , Escalante-Ramírez, Boris , Vallejo, Enrique

This article describes a perceptual approach to calculate the optical flow estimation of the left ventricle in a short axis view of the heart in computer tomography images. The method is based on the the Hermite transform which is an image representation model that incorporates some of the more important properties of the first stages of the human visual system. Our optical flow estimation approach incorporates a differential method that uses the steered Hermite coefficients as local constraints and uses the implicit multiresolution scheme of the Hermite transform to compute large displacements. It also involves several of the constraints seen in the current differential methods which allows obtaining an accurate optical flow. We use the anatomic short axis view of the heart to calculate the optical flow estimation instead of the original computer tomography images of the axial plane. This view allows visualizing the left ventricle like a circular structure, which is more suitable for visualization of the left ventricle motion.© 2013 SPIE.

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3D optical flow estimation in cardiac CT images using the Hermite transform

2017 , Moya-Albor, Ernesto , Mira, Carlos , Brieva, Jorge , Escalante-Ramírez, Boris , Vallejo Venegas, Enrique

Heart diseases are one of the most important causes of death in the Western world. It is, then, important to implement algorithms to aid the specialist in analyzing the heart motion. We propose a new strategy to estimate the cardiac motion through a 3D optical flow differential technique that uses the Steered Hermite transform (SHT). SHT is a tool that performs a decomposition of the images in a base that model the visual patterns used by the human vision system (HSV) for processing the information. The 3D + t analysis allows to describe most of motions of the heart, for example, the twisting motion that takes place on every beat cycle and to identify abnormalities of the heart walls. Our proposal was tested on two phantoms and on two sequences of cardiac CT images corresponding to two different patients. We evaluate our method using a reconstruction schema, for this, the resulting 3D optical flow was applied over the volume at time t to obtain a estimated volume at time t + 1. We compared our 3D optical flow approach to the classical Horn and Shunk's 3D algorithm for different levels of noise. © 2017 SPIE.

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Texture descriptor approaches to level set segmentation in medical images

2014 , Olveres, Jimena , Nava, Rodrigo , Moya-Albor, Ernesto , Escalante-Ramírez, Boris , Brieva, Jorge , Cristóbal, Gabriel , Vallejo, Enrique , Schelkens, Peter , Ebrahimi, Touradj , Cristóbal, Gabriel , Truchetet, Frédéric , Saarikko, Pasi

Medical image analysis has become an important tool for improving medical diagnosis and planning treatments. It involves volume or still image segmentation that plays a critical role in understanding image content by facilitating extraction of the anatomical organ or region-of-interest. It also may help towards the construction of reliable computer-aided diagnosis systems. Specifically, level set methods have emerged as a general framework for image segmentation; such methods are mainly based on gradient information and provide satisfactory results. However, the noise inherent to images and the lack of contrast information between adjacent regions hamper the performance of the algorithms, thus, others proposals have been suggested in the literature. For instance, characterization of regions as statistical parametric models to handle level set evolution. In this paper, we study the influence of texture on a level-set-based segmentation and propose the use of Hermite features that are incorporated into the level set model to improve organ segmentation that may be useful for quantifying left ventricular blood flow. The proposal was also compared against other texture descriptors such as local binary patterns, Image derivatives, and Hounsfield low attenuation values

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A level set approach for left ventricle detection in CT images using shape segmentation and optical flow

2015 , Brieva, Jorge , Moya-Albor, Ernesto , Escalante-Ramírez, Boris

The left ventricle (LV) segmentation plays an important role in a subsequent process for the functional analysis of the LV. Typical segmentation of the endocardium wall in the ventricle excludes papillary muscles which leads to an incorrect measure of the ejected volume in the LV. In this paper we present a new variational strategy using a 2D level set framework that includes a local term for enhancing the low contrast structures and a 2D shape model. The shape model in the level set method is propagated to all image sequences corresponding to the cardiac cycles through the optical flow approach using the Hermite transform. To evaluate our strategy we use the Dice index and the Hausdorff distance to compare the segmentation results with the manual segmentation carried out by the physician.

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Watermarked cardiac CT image segmentation using deformable models and the Hermite transform

2015 , Gomez-Coronel, Sandra L. , Moya-Albor, Ernesto , Escalante-Ramírez, Boris , Brieva, Jorge , Romero, Eduardo , Lepore, Natasha

Medical image watermarking is an open area for research and is a solution for the protection of copyright and intellectual property. One of the main challenges of this problem is that the marked images should not differ perceptually from the original images allowing a correct diagnosis and authentication. Furthermore, we also aim at obtaining watermarked images with very little numerical distortion so that computer vision tasks such as segmentation of important anatomical structures do not be impaired or affected. We propose a preliminary watermarking application in cardiac CT images based on a perceptive approach that includes a brightness model to generate a perceptive mask and identify the image regions where the watermark detection becomes a difficult task for the human eye. We propose a normalization scheme of the image in order to improve robustness against geometric attacks. We follow a spread spectrum technique to insert an alphanumeric code, such as patient's information, within the watermark. The watermark scheme is based on the Hermite transform as a bio-inspired image representation model. In order to evaluate the numerical integrity of the image data after watermarking, we perform a segmentation task based on deformable models. The segmentation technique is based on a vector-value level sets method such that, given a curve in a specific image, and subject to some constraints, the curve can evolve in order to detect objects. In order to stimulate the curve evolution we introduce simultaneously some image features like the gray level and the steered Hermite coefficients as texture descriptors. Segmentation performance was assessed by means of the Dice index and the Hausdorff distance. We tested different mark sizes and different insertion schemes on images that were later segmented either automatic or manual by physicians.

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Motion magnification using the Hermite transform

2015 , Brieva, Jorge , Gomez-Coronel, Sandra L. , Moya-Albor, Ernesto , Escalante-Ramírez, Boris , Mora Esquivel, Juan I. , Ponce, Hiram

We present an Eulerian motion magnification technique with a spatial decomposition based on the Hermite Transform (HT). We compare our results to the approach presented in. We test our method in one sequence of the breathing of a newborn baby and on an MRI left ventricle sequence. Methods are compared using quantitative and qualitative metrics after the application of the motion magnification algorithm.

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