Fusion of structural and functional cardiac magnetic resonance imaging data for studying ventricular fibrillation

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2014:2014:5579-82. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2014.6944891.

Abstract

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) techniques such as Current Density Imaging (CDI) and Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) provide a complementing set of imaging data that can describe both the functional and structural states of biological tissues. This paper presents a Joint Independent Component Analysis (jICA) based fusion approach which can be utilized to fuse CDI and DTI data to quantify the differences between two cardiac states: Ventricular Fibrillation (VF) and Asystolic/Normal (AS/NM). Such an approach could lead to a better insight on the mechanism of VF. Fusing CDI and DTI data from 8 data sets from 6 beating porcine hearts, in effect, detects the differences between two cardiac states, qualitatively and quantitatively. This initial study demonstrates the applicability of MRI-based imaging techniques and jICA-based fusion approach in studying cardiac arrhythmias.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Animals
  • Diffusion Tensor Imaging
  • Heart / physiopathology*
  • In Vitro Techniques
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods*
  • Sus scrofa
  • Ventricular Fibrillation / pathology*
  • Ventricular Fibrillation / physiopathology*