Research Article

Robust Myocardial Motion Tracking for Echocardiography: Variational Framework Integrating Local-to-Global Deformation

Table 2

The comparison results of the proposed method with the conventional methods using FBTE, for Case I and Case II (in pixels).

Method Case I Case II

Block matching (SSD) 3.6992 4.6566
Block matching (cross-correlation) 2.3396 5.5866
Optical flow (LK) 2.6326 2.1521
Proposed method 0.4052 0.7930