Heart failure diagnosis for tagged magnetic resonance images

This paper proposes an automated method to track the tag intersections in the Tagged Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) to diagnose Heart failure. Heart Failure brings about declining of a function to supply blood by contraction of myocardium. Physician always analyzes myocardial motion using the images. The proposed method employs Mean shift belief propagation (MSBP) that integrates all information about image to track tag intersections. This method enables us to extract tag intersections with disappearing tags over time. The experimental results show a clinical ability of tracking tag intersections.