A Duplex Pipeline for the Generation of Realistic Echocardiographic Sequences with Doppler Imaging

Synthetic sequences can be promising tools for advanced in silico evaluation and learning of intraventricular blood flow in echocardiographic imaging. In this paper, we propose a simulation framework that allows the generation of realistic 2D synthetic echocardiographic images. A template acquisition involving a B-mode sequence and Doppler information was combined with a physical simulator to generate synthetic data. A reference motion field of the blood flow was derived from the Doppler velocities. The simulated images were evaluated qualitatively by showing realistic B-mode textures, as well as Doppler velocities similar to those of the real echocardiographic template.