@conference {598,
	title = {Cardiac Strain Assessment for Fibrotic Myocardial Tissue Detection in Left Ventricular Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy},
	booktitle = {XXXIII Congreso Anual de la Sociedad Espa{\~n}ola de Ingenier{\'\i}a Biom{\'e}dica.},
	year = {2015},
	month = {2015},
	address = {Madrid, Spain.},
	abstract = {<p>This work proposes an image processing methodology to\&nbsp;distinguish fibrotic from normal tissue by the assessment of the\&nbsp;local mechanical properties of the myocardium in magnetic\&nbsp;resonance tagging images. The procedure uses the information\&nbsp;provided by short axis images of the above mentioned modality\&nbsp;to estimate the Green-Lagrange strain tensor; a modified\&nbsp;method based on the Harmonic Phase is employed for motion\&nbsp;estimation. The method has been applied to the analysis of the\&nbsp;local deformation patterns in a set of patients affected by\&nbsp;hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in order to find the agreement\&nbsp;between hyperenhanced zones in late enhancement images and\&nbsp;areas in the myocardium with abnormal tensor values (both the\&nbsp;radial and the circumferential components as well as the\&nbsp;shearing component have been accounted for). The agreement is\&nbsp;measured taken as ground truth manual segmentation of late\&nbsp;enhancement images carried out by two cardiologists. Finally, a\&nbsp;set of example images illustrate the agreement between both\&nbsp;techniques.</p>
},
	author = {Santiago Sanz-Est{\'e}banez and S. Merino-Caviedes and T. Sevilla-Ruiz and A. Revilla-Orodea and Mart{\'\i}n-Fern{\'a}ndez, M and Carlos Alberola-Lopez}
}
