@article {853, title = {Groupwise Non-Rigid Registration with Deep Learning: An Affordable Solution Applied to 2D Cardiac Cine MRI Reconstruction}, journal = {Entropy}, volume = {22}, year = {2020}, pages = {687}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.3390/e22060687}, url = {https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/22/6/687}, author = {Mart{\'\i}n-Gonz{\'a}lez, Elena and Sevilla, Teresa and Revilla-Orodea, Ana and Pablo Casaseca-de-la-Higuera and Alberola-L{\'o}pez, Carlos} } @article {749, title = {Vortical Features for Myocardial Rotation Assessment in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy using Cardiac Tagged Magnetic Resonance}, journal = {Medical Image Analysis}, volume = {In Press}, year = {2018}, month = {04/2018}, type = {Original Article}, abstract = {

Left ventricular rotational motion is a feature of normal and diseased cardiac function. However, classical torsion and twist measures rely on the definition of a rotational axis which may not exist. This paper reviews global and local rotation descriptors of myocardial motion and introduces new curl-based (vortical) features built from tensorial magnitudes, intended to provide better comprehension about fibrotic tissue characteristics mechanical properties. Fifty-six cardiomyopathy patients and twenty-two healthy volunteers have been studied using tagged magnetic resonance by means of harmonic phase analysis. Rotation descriptors are built, with no assumption about a regular geometrical model, from different approaches. The extracted vortical features have been tested by means of a sequential cardiomyopathy classification procedure; they have proven useful for the regional characterization of the left ventricular function by showing great separability not only between pathologic and healthy patients but also, and specifically, between heterogeneous phenotypes within cardiomyopathies.

}, doi = {10.1016/j.media.2018.03.005}, author = {Santiago Sanz-Est{\'e}banez and Lucilio Cordero-Grande and T. Sevilla-Ruiz and A. Revilla-Orodea and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and M Martin-Fernandez and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} } @conference {600, title = {An Automated Tensorial Classification Procedure for Left Ventricular Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy}, booktitle = {IWBBIO 2016 (4th International Work-Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering)}, volume = {1}, year = {2016}, month = {2016}, pages = {1-12}, edition = {LNBI 9656}, address = {Granada, Spain}, abstract = {

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death globally. Therefore, classi cation tools play a major role in prevention and\ treatment of these diseases. Statistical learning theory applied to magnetic resonance imaging has led to the diagnosis of a variety of cardiomyopathies states.\ We propose a two-stage classi cation scheme capable of\ distinguishing between heterogeneous groups of hypertrophic cardiomyopathies and healthy patients.\ A multimodal processing pipeline is employed to estimate robust tensorial descriptors of myocardial mechanical\ properties for both short-axis and long-axis magnetic resonance tagged\ images using the least absolute deviation method. A homomorphic ltering procedure is used to align the cine segmentations to the tagged sequence and provides 3D tensor information in meaningful areas.\ Results\ have shown that the proposed pipeline provides tensorial measurements\ on which classi ers for the study of hypertrophic cardiomyopathies can\ be built with acceptable performance even for reduced samples sets.

}, keywords = {Fuzzy clustering, HARmonic Phase, Homomorphic Filtering, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, Least Absolute Deviation, Magnetic Resonance Tagging, Support Vector Machines}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-31744-1 17}, author = {Santiago Sanz-Est{\'e}banez and J Royuela-del-Val and S. Merino-Caviedes and A. Revilla-Orodea and T. Sevilla-Ruiz and Martin-Fernandez, M and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} } @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 = {

This work proposes an image processing methodology to\ distinguish fibrotic from normal tissue by the assessment of the\ local mechanical properties of the myocardium in magnetic\ resonance tagging images. The procedure uses the information\ provided by short axis images of the above mentioned modality\ to estimate the Green-Lagrange strain tensor; a modified\ method based on the Harmonic Phase is employed for motion\ estimation. The method has been applied to the analysis of the\ local deformation patterns in a set of patients affected by\ hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in order to find the agreement\ between hyperenhanced zones in late enhancement images and\ areas in the myocardium with abnormal tensor values (both the\ radial and the circumferential components as well as the\ shearing component have been accounted for). The agreement is\ measured taken as ground truth manual segmentation of late\ enhancement images carried out by two cardiologists. Finally, a\ set of example images illustrate the agreement between both\ techniques.

}, 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} } @conference {656, title = {Tissue and Label Modelling for Segmentation of Scar with Contour Correction in Cardiac DE-CMR Volumes}, booktitle = {XXXIII Congreso Anual de la Sociedad Espa{\~n}ola de Ingenier{\'\i}a Biom{\'e}dica}, year = {2015}, month = {2015}, address = {Madrid, Spain}, author = {S. Merino-Caviedes and Lucilio Cordero-Grande and P{\'e}rez Rodr{\'\i}guez, M Teresa and T. Sevilla-Ruiz and A. Revilla-Orodea and Mart{\'\i}n-Fern{\'a}ndez, Marcos and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} } @conference {589, title = {Tissue and Label Modelling for Segmentation of Scar with Contour Correction in Cardiac DE-CMR Volumes}, booktitle = {XXXIII Congreso Anual de la Sociedad Espa{\~n}ola de Ingenier{\'\i}a Biom{\'e}dica}, year = {2015}, month = {11/2015}, address = {Madrid, Spain}, abstract = {Most scar segmentation methods for cardiac DE-CMR images are constrained by a previous myocardial segmentation that provides borders for the scar identification. However, the automation of these methods rely on an existing myocardial segmentation from CINE-CMR that is registered to the DE-CMR volume; in this step, however, alignment errors are usually introduced and they carry over to the labeling operation. These errors typically remain unchanged after tissue labeling, so inconsistencies between the two (alignment and labeling) may exist. We explore this issue and present a method that, with the same inputs, identifies the healthy and scarred tissue and selectively corrects the endocardial and epicardial contours depending on the image edges, the estimated probabilistic distributions and the proximity to the aligned myocardial borders. For this, we model the posterior probability of each ROI label with a Bayesian approach that unifies the prior tissue probabilities and the myocardial labels. The maximum a posteriori criterion is used to compute a first DE-CMR label map, which is afterwards refined by a connected component analysis. Preliminary results show better accuracy for the endocardial and epicardial contours, and the segmented scar compares favorably with respect to state of the art methods.}, author = {S. Merino-Caviedes and Lucilio Cordero-Grande and P{\'e}rez Rodr{\'\i}guez, M. T. and T. Sevilla-Ruiz and A. Revilla-Orodea and Mart{\'\i}n-Fern{\'a}ndez, M. and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} } @article {445, title = {Multi-stencil streamline fast marching: a general 3D framework to determine myocardial thickness and transmurality in late enhancement images}, journal = {Medical Imaging, IEEE Transactions on}, volume = {33}, year = {2014}, pages = {23{\textendash}37}, author = {S. Merino-Caviedes and Lucilio Cordero-Grande and A. Revilla-Orodea and Perez, M. T. and Marcos Martin-Fernandez and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} } @article {cordero2011unsupervised, title = {Unsupervised 4D myocardium segmentation with a Markov Random Field based deformable model}, journal = {Medical image analysis}, volume = {15}, number = {3}, year = {2011}, pages = {283{\textendash}301}, publisher = {Elsevier}, author = {Lucilio Cordero-Grande and Gonzalo Vegas-S{\'a}nchez-Ferrero and Pablo Casaseca-de-la-Higuera and Alberto San-Rom{\'a}n-Calvar, J and A. Revilla-Orodea and Marcos Martin-Fernandez and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} }