Dr. Brecht Heyde Profile

Dr. Brecht Heyde

Post-Doctoral Researcher

SPIE Involvement:

Editor | Author

Area of Expertise:

Ultrasound imaging , Echocardiography , Image registration , Motion and deformation imaging , Validation , Beamforming

Profile Summary

Brecht Heyde received his M.Sc. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Ghent University (Belgium) in 2009. In 2013 he obtained his PhD at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven, Belgium) for his work on 2D and 3D cardiac strain imaging. In this field he has published and co-authored over 50 scientific papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He currently holds a postdoctoral research position at the lab of Cardiovascular Imaging and Dynamics (KU Leuven, Belgium) and is a visiting scholar at the Ultrasound Imaging Lab of Duke University (North Carolina, US) in 2015-2016.

Publications (2)

Proceedings Article | 1 April 2016 Paper

Fast myocardial strain estimation from 3D ultrasound through elastic image registration with analytic regularization

Bidisha Chakraborty, Brecht Heyde, Martino Alessandrini, Jan D'hooge

Proceedings Volume 9790, 979006 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2216781

KEYWORDS: 3D image processing, Ultrasonography, Image registration, Statistical analysis, Image analysis, Echocardiography, Image processing, Motion analysis, Radon, Medical imaging, Tomography

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Proceedings Article | 1 April 2016 Paper

Automatic short axis orientation of the left ventricle in 3D ultrasound recordings

João Pedrosa, Brecht Heyde, Laurens Heeren, Jan Engvall, Jose Zamorano, Alexandros Papachristidis, Thor Edvardsen, Piet Claus, Jan D'hooge

Proceedings Volume 9790, 97900E (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2214106

KEYWORDS: Cardiology, Image segmentation, Ultrasonography, Echocardiography, 3D image processing, Image analysis, Image quality, Feature extraction, Doppler effect, Databases, Medical imaging

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