Automatic 3D reconstruction of the beating left ventricle using transthoracic echographic images

Presents an algorithm for 3D reconstruction of the beating left ventricle from echocardiographic image sequences. The authors especially stress on the automatic tracking process of the ventricular wall. Their algorithm is based on a combination of active shape modeling (snakes) and methods for computing the ventricular wall motion between two frames. The authors also investigate anisotropic diffusion filtering methods to improve the ventricle detection. Results are presented which prove the efficiency of their method.