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A Methodology for Accessing the Local Arrangement of the Sheetlets that Make up the Extracellular Heart Tissue

  • Institut national des sciences appliquées Lyon
  • Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

The sheetlet angle is a biomarker that can describe the local arrangement of the sheetlets making the heart wall tissue. It could be of major interest for the analysis of cardiac function. In this preliminary study, we use the skeleton method to measure the local sheetlet angle in two human left ventricular transparietal tissue samples. The samples were imaged using synchrotron X-rays phase contrast micro-tomography and reconstructed in 3D with isotropic voxels of 3.5 μ m edges. We extract the skeleton from each sheetlet. Next, we scan the skeleton, voxel by voxel, performing principal component analysis (PCA) in a sliding cubic working window (WW) of 112 μ m edges. The tertiary eigenvector of the PCA provides the sheetlet angle, step by step, along the skeleton. We show that the proposed methodology is able to provide the transmural distribution of sheetlets angle at a scale of 112 μ m and locally to investigate the spatial evolution of the angle along the sheetlets. We compare the results obtained at a larger scale with the Fourier-based method.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFunctional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart - 11th International Conference, FIMH 2021, Proceedings
EditorsDaniel B. Ennis, Luigi E. Perotti, Vicky Y. Wang
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages159-167
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783030787097
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event11th International Conference on Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart, FIMH 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 21 Jun 202125 Jun 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12738 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference11th International Conference on Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart, FIMH 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period21/06/2125/06/21

Keywords

  • Laminar sheetlets
  • Left ventricular wall
  • Sheetlet angle
  • Surface skeleton
  • Synchrotron radiation phase contrast micro-tomography

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