4D Cardiac Motion Modeling Using Pair-Wise Mesh Registration

Abstract

In this paper, we present a novel method for the real-time cardiac motion compensation. Our method generates interpolated cardiac motion using segmented mesh models from preoperative 3D+T computed tomography angiography (CTA). We propose a pair-wise mesh registration technique for building correspondence and interpolating the control points over a cardiac cycle. The key contribution of this work is a rapid creation of a deformation field through a concise mathematical formulation while maintaining desired properties. These are $$C^2$$ continuity, invertibility, incompressibility of cardiac structure and capability to handling large deformation. And we evaluated the proposed method using different conditions, such as deformation resolution, temporal sampling rates, and template model selection.