Evaluation of differential optical flow techniques on synthesized echo images
- 1 March 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
- Vol. 43 (3) , 259-272
- https://doi.org/10.1109/10.486283
Abstract
The performance of three methods for evaluation of motion on synthesized 2-D echo image sequences with features similar to real ones are examined. The selected techniques based on the computation of optical flow are of the differential type and assume that the image brightness pattern is constant over time. They differ in the choice of the smoothing term and in the local or global treatment of the domain. The images were synthesized by simulating the process of echo formation, considering the interaction between ultrasonic fields and human tissues. Moreover, two different approaches were followed to generate the sequences: (1) a known motion field was applied to the intensity distribution of the synthesized images; (2) a known motion field was applied directly to the point scatterer distribution of the tissue. Favorable results were obtained by applying Lucas-Kanade and Horn-Schunck techniques to the sequences of the first type, while all the techniques produced large errors when applied to the other type of sequences. A discussion about the suitability of the above-mentioned techniques for evaluation of motion on real echocardiographic images is also presented together with some results.Keywords
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