We present a new approach to analyze the deformation of the left ventricle of the heart, based on a parametric model that gives a compact representation of a set of points in a 3D image. We present four diierent approaches to tracking surfaces in a sequence of 3D cardiac images. Following tracking, we then infer quantitative parameters which are useful for the physician, such as the variation o...

We present a mobile system for tracking the gaze of an observer in real-time as they move around freely and interact with a wall-sized display. The system combines a head-mounted eye tracker with a motion capture system for tracking markers attached to the eye tracker. Our open-source software library libGaze provides routines for calibrating the system and computing the viewer’s position and g...

Existing large scale display systems generally adopt an indirect approach to user interaction. An alternative to the standard desktop-oriented devices, such as the computer mouse to control large wall-sized displays, can be considered in improving user-efficiency. By using an infrared laser pointer and an infrared tracking device, a more direct interaction with the large display can be achieved...

Background Although myocardial function is clinically assessed with global measurements (ventricular volumes, ejection fraction), recent research has shown that regional measurements, such as wall-thickening, strain, and torsion, could provide earlier sub-clinical markers to examine left ventricular (LV) dysfunction and myocardial diseases. Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance myocardial feature t...

The ability to visually extract and track features is appealing to scientists in many simulations including flow fields. However, as the resolution of the simulation becomes higher, the number of features to track increases and so does the cost in large-scale simulations. Since many of these features act in groups, it seems more cost-effective to follow groups of features rather than individual...

An ion-counting nanodosemeter (ND) yielding the distribution of radiation-induced ions in a low-pressure gas within a millimetric, wall-less sensitive volume (SV) was equipped with a silicon microstrip telescope that tracks the primary particles, allowing correlation of nanodosimetric data with particle position relative to the SV. The performance of this tracking ND was tested with a broad 250...

Estimating an occupant's location is arguably the most fundamental sensing task in smart buildings. The applications for fine-grained, responsive building operations require the location sensing systems to provide location estimates in real time, also known as indoor tracking. Existing indoor tracking systems require occupants to carry specialized devices or install programs on their smartphone...

This paper presents the imaging method applied for moving target tracking by a multistatic ultra-wideband radar system. The imaging method consists of such signal processing phases as raw radar data pre-processing, background subtraction, the fusion of the data obtained by the particular receiving channels of a radar, detection, localization and the tracking itself. In this paper, the particula...

AIMS To evaluate the impact of acoustic window on the feasibility and accuracy of longitudinal global strain (global-ε) by speckle tracking for assessing left ventricular (LV) systolic function. METHODS AND RESULTS The study included 70 patients (57 ± 17 years, 64% men), 28 selected patients with a suboptimal image quality (IQ) defined by three or more segments (4 ± 3 segments/patient) with w...

Tracking the movement of rolling leukocytes in vivo contributes to the understanding of the mechanism of the inflammatory process and to the development of anti-inflammatory drugs. Several roadblocks exist that hinder successful automated tracking including the moving background, the severe image noise and clutter, the occlusion of the target leukocyte by other leukocytes and structures, the ji...