Title:
Towards Engineering the Heart
Abstract:
Recent advances in cardiovascular imaging, data parsing, motion estimation
and computational fluid dynamics contribute to increasingly accurate
models of a patient's heart. Such models are at the core of future
intervention and surgery planning, outcome prediction and assessment of
cardiac disease progression. This talk presents our efforts towards
comprehensive patient-specific heart models containing multiple anatomical
and dynamic components. Explicit physiological constraints are captured in
the modeling of the left ventricle, aorta, left atrium, pulmonary veins,
mitral valve and aortic valve. We demonstrate a differential assessment of
the blood flow dynamics corresponding to specific heart conditions. We
discuss the complexity and challenges of heart models and also their
significant potential in improving the quality of care for patients with
heart disease.
We acknowledge the contributions of Siemens colleagues and academic and clinical collaborators. |