Generation of ultra-realistic synthetic echocardiographic sequences

Mathieu de Craene (1) , Martino Alessandrini (2) , Pascal Allain (1) , Stephanie Marchesseau (1) , I Waechter-Stehle (3) , J Weese (3) , E Saloux (4) , H. G. Morales (1) , R Cuingnet (1) , Hervé Delingette (5) , M Sermesant (5) , Olivier Bernard (6) , J D 'Hooge (2)

1 Medisys - MedisysResearch Lab
2 Laboratory of Cardiovascular Imaging and Dynamics
3 Philips Research Europe - Hamburg, Sector Medical Imaging Systems
4 Service de cardiologie et de pathologie vasculaire [CHU Caen]
5 ASCLEPIOS - Analysis and Simulation of Biomedical Images
6 Images et Modèles

This paper proposes a new simulation framework for generat-ing realistic 3D ultrasound synthetic images that can serve for validating strain quantification algorithms. Our approach ex-tends previous work and combines a real ultrasound sequence with synthetic biomechanical and ultrasound models. It pro-vides images that fairly represent all typical ultrasound arti-facts. Ground truth motion fields are unbiased to any track-ing algorithm and model both healthy and pathological con-ditions.

Mots clés: Ultra-sound imaging; Motion detection and tracking; Modeling of image formation

Domaines: Imagerie médicale; Modélisation et simulation; Apprentissage [cs.LG]; Traitement des images [eess.IV]

Mathieu de Craene, Martino Alessandrini, Pascal Allain, Stephanie Marchesseau, I Waechter-Stehle, et al.. Generation of ultra-realistic synthetic echocardiographic sequences. Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2014 IEEE 11th International Symposium on, Apr 2014, Beijing, China. pp.73 - 76, ⟨10.1109/ISBI.2014.6867812⟩. ⟨hal-01095133⟩