Three-dimensional reconstruction of a cardiac outline by magnetocardiography

IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2015 Jan;62(1):60-9. doi: 10.1109/TBME.2014.2336671. Epub 2014 Jul 8.

Abstract

A 3-D cardiac visualization is significantly helpful toward clinical applications of magnetocardiography (MCG), but the cardiac reconstruction requires a segmentation process using additional image modalities. This paper proposes a 3-D cardiac outline reconstruction method using only MCG measurement data without further imaging techniques. The cardiac outline was reconstructed by a combination of both spatial filtering and coherence mapping method. The strength of cardiac activities was first estimated by the array-gain constraint minimum-norm spatial filter with recursively updated gram matrix (AGMN-RUG). Then, waveforms were reconstructed at whole source grids, and the maximum source points of an atrium and ventricle were selected as a reference, respectively. Next, the coherence between each maximum source point and whole source points was compared by the coherence mapping method. A reconstructed cardiac outline was validated by comparing with an overlapped volume ratio when the reconstructed volume was identically matched with the original volume. The results obtained by the AGMN-RUG were compared to the results by other spatial filters. The accuracy of numerical simulation and phantom experiment by the AGMN-RUG was superior 10% and 8%, respectively, than the accuracy by the standardized low-resolution electromagnetic tomography. This accuracy demonstrated the efficacy of the proposed 3-D cardiac reconstruction method.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms*
  • Computer Simulation
  • Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / methods*
  • Heart Conduction System / anatomy & histology
  • Heart Conduction System / physiology*
  • Humans
  • Imaging, Three-Dimensional / methods*
  • Magnetocardiography / instrumentation
  • Magnetocardiography / methods*
  • Models, Cardiovascular*
  • Phantoms, Imaging
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Sensitivity and Specificity