Depth Attenuation Degree Based Visualization for Cardiac Ischemic Electrophysiological Feature Exploration.

Although heart researches and acquirement of clinical and experimental data are progressively open to public use, cardiac biophysical functions are still not well understood. Due to the complex and fine structures of the heart, cardiac electrophysiological features of interest may be occluded when t...

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Publicado en:BioMed Research International Vol. 2016; pp. 1 - 9
Autores principales: Yang, Fei, Zhang, Lei, Lu, Weigang, Liu, Lei, Zhang, Yue, Zuo, Wangmeng, Wang, Kuanquan, Zhang, Henggui
Formato: diagnostic images equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell 11/27/2016
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Sumario:Although heart researches and acquirement of clinical and experimental data are progressively open to public use, cardiac biophysical functions are still not well understood. Due to the complex and fine structures of the heart, cardiac electrophysiological features of interest may be occluded when there is a necessity to demonstrate cardiac electrophysiological behaviors. To investigate cardiac abnormal electrophysiological features under the pathological condition, in this paper, we implement a human cardiac ischemic model and acquire the electrophysiological data of excitation propagation. A visualization framework is then proposed which integrates a novel depth weighted optic attenuation model into the pathological electrophysiological model. The hidden feature of interest in pathological tissue can be revealed from sophisticated overlapping biophysical information. Experiment results verify the effectiveness of the proposed method for intuitively exploring and inspecting cardiac electrophysiological activities, which is fundamental in analyzing and explaining biophysical mechanisms of cardiac functions for doctors and medical staff.