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Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) imaging is widely used to personalize heart models for cardiac digital twin analysis because of its ability to visualize soft tissues and capture dynamic functions. However, CMR images have an anisotropic nature, characterized by large inter-slice distances and misalignments from cardiac motion. These limitations result in data loss and measurement inaccuracies, hindering the capture of detailed anatomical structures. In this work, we introduce MorphiNet, a novel network that reproduces heart anatomy learned from high-resolution Computed Tomography (CT) images, unpaired with CMR images. MorphiNet encodes the anatomical structure as gradient fields, deforming template meshes into patient-specific geometries. A multilayer graph subdivision network refines these geometries while maintaining dense point correspondence, suitable for downstream computational analysis. MorphiNet achieved the strongest overall trade-off in bi-ventricular myocardium reconstruction on CMR patients with tetralogy of Fallot, with 0.3 higher Dice score and 2.6 lower Hausdorff distance compared to the best existing template-based methods, while achieving comparable geometric accuracy to neural implicit function methods on CT data at 50× faster inference. Cross-dataset validation on the Automated Cardiac Diagnosis Challenge confirmed robust generalization, achieving a 0.7 Dice score with 30% improvement over previous template-based approaches. We validate our anatomical learning approach through the successful restoration of missing cardiac structures and demonstrate significant improvement over standard Loop subdivision. Motion tracking experiments further confirm MorphiNet's capability for cardiac function analysis, including ejection-fraction estimates that correctly identify myocardial dysfunction in tetralogy of Fallot patients. Code and checkpoints are available at https://github.com/MalikTeng/MorphiNetV2.

More information Original publication

DOI

10.1109/tmi.2026.3683925

Type

Journal article

Publication Date

2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00

Volume

PP