Method and system for propagation of myocardial infarction from delayed enhanced cardiac imaging to cine magnetic resonance imaging using hybrid image registration

An apparatus for propagating at least a portion of static image over a cardiac cycle, comprising:

• means for selecting a reference frame of a cine image sequence comprising a plurality of frames;
• means for calculating a plurality of deformation fields within the cine image sequence to register the frames of the cine image sequence to the reference frame;
• means for registering a static image to the reference frame of the cine image sequence;
• and
• means for propagating at least a portion of the static image to a plurality of cardiac phases corresponding to the plurality of frames in the cine image sequence based on a deformation field resulting from registering the static image to the reference frame and the plurality of deformation fields calculated within the cine image sequence.

A non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with computer executable instructions for propagating at least a portion of a static image over a cardiac cycle, the computer executable instructions defining steps comprising:

• selecting a reference frame of a cine image sequence comprising a plurality of frames;
• calculating a plurality of deformation fields within the cine image sequence to register the frames of the cine image sequence to the reference frame;
• registering a static image to the reference frame of the cine image sequence;
• and
• propagating at least a portion of the static image to a plurality of cardiac phases corresponding to the plurality of frames in the cine image sequence based on a deformation field resulting from registering the static image to the reference frame and the plurality of deformation fields calculated within the cine image sequence.