Fusion of 3D real-time echocardiography and cine MRI using a saliency analysis

This paper presents a novel 3D multimodal registration strategy to fuse 3D real-time echocardiography images with cardiac cine MRI images. This alignment is performed in a saliency space, which is designed to maximize similarity between the two imaging modalities. This fusion improves the quality of the available information. The method performs in two steps: temporal and spatial registrations. A temporal alignment is firstly achieved by...