4D deformable models with temporal constraints: application to 4D cardiac image segmentation

In this paper, deformable surfaces are represented as simplex meshes owing to their generality and their ability to compute mean curvature at each vertex. The segmentation accuracy of this 4D deformable model is estimated on synthetic SPECT image sequences for which a ground truth about the LV volume is known. Segmentation of non-synthetic SPECT and other modalities 4D images is also discussed.