Automatic Segmentation of Cardiac Tissue Movement from Ultrasound Record

Abstract

This thesis describes design and implementation of method, which determines beginning of heart beats in echocardiographic record. Design of this method is built around pyramidal Lucas-Kanade algorithm and fast Fourier transform. This method is implemented in C++ language with OpenCV and FFTW libraries. Analysis of the implementation has shown, that this method is sensitive to anomalies in echocardiographic record. This method is developed as a part of the project for an analysis of echocardiographic records for st. Anna hospital at Brno