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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2009
Kumaradevan Punithakumar, London, CA;
Shuo LI, London, CA;
Ismail Ben Ayed, London, CA;
Ian Ross, London, CA;
Ali Islam, London, CA;
Richard Rankin, London, CA;
Kumaradevan Punithakumar, London, CA;
Shuo Li, London, CA;
Ismail Ben Ayed, London, CA;
Ian Ross, London, CA;
Ali Islam, London, CA;
Richard Rankin, London, CA;
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
London Health Sciences Centre Research Inc., London, CA;
Abstract
Example methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to track endocardial motion are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes segmenting a plurality of cardiac images of a left ventricle to form respective ones of a plurality of segmented images, updating a plurality of models based on the plurality of segmented images to form respective ones of a plurality of motion estimates for the left ventricle, computing a plurality of probabilities for respective ones of the plurality of models, and computing a weighted sum of the plurality of motion estimates based on the plurality of probabilities, the weighted sum representing a predicted motion of the left ventricle.