Simulation of realistic echocardiographic sequences for ground-truth validation of motion estimation

Martino Alessandrini (1) , H. Liebgott (1) , D. Friboulet (2) , Olivier Bernard (2)

1 Imagerie Ultrasonore
2 Images et Modèles

We present a framework for the simulation of realistic cardiac ultrasound sequences. Both the visual aspect and the synthesized motion mimic a real echocardiography sequence used as template. The resulting simulation appears virtually indistinguishable from a real scan. As the true tissue motion is known, these synthetic sequences can provide a trustful benchmark for the analysis of heart motion. This possibility is illustrated by comparing the performance of two well known motion estimation algorithms.

Domaines: Imagerie

Martino Alessandrini, H. Liebgott, D. Friboulet, Olivier Bernard. Simulation of realistic echocardiographic sequences for ground-truth validation of motion estimation. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'12), Sep 2012, Orlando, United States. pp.2329 - 2332, ⟨10.1109/ICIP.2012.6467363⟩. ⟨hal-00830363⟩