%0 Conference Proceedings %T Characterization of ventricular torsion in healthy subjects using Gabor filters and a variational framework %A Jaume Garcia %A Debora Gil %A Joel Barajas %A Francesc Carreras %A Sandra Pujades %A Petia Radeva %B Proc. Computers in Cardiology %D 2006 %F Jaume Garcia2006 %O IAM;MILAB %O exported from refbase (http://refbase.cvc.uab.es/show.php?record=1509), last updated on Fri, 11 Nov 2016 12:27:35 +0100 %X In this work, we present a fully automated method for tissue deformation estimation in tagged magnetic resonance images (TMRI). Gabor filter banks, tuned independently for each left ventricle level, provide optimally filtered complex images which phase remains constant along the cardiac cycle. This fact can be thought as the brightness constancy condition required by classical optical flow (OF) methods. Pairs of these filtered sequences, together with a variational formulation are used in a second step to obtain dense continuous deformation maps that we call Harmonic Phase Flow. This method has been used to determine reference values of ventricular torsion (VT) in a set of 8 healthy volunteers. The results encourage the use of VT as a useful parameter for ventricular function assessment in clinical routine. %U http://refbase.cvc.uab.es/files/GGB2006a.pdf %P 877-880