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Dipl.-Ing. Ingmar Voigt

Alumnus of the Pattern Recognition Lab of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Personalized healthcare with robust patient-specific models of anatomy and function
Project Description

Patient-Specific Model of Left Heart Anatomy, Dynamics and Hemodynamics from 4D TEE: A First Validation Study

Patient-specific models of the heart physiology have become powerful instruments able to improve the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac disease. A systemic representation of the whole organ is required to capture the complex functional and hemodynamical interdependencies among the anatomical structures. We propose a novel framework for per- sonalized modeling of the left-side heart that integrates comprehensive data of the morphology, function and hemodynamics. Patient-specific fluid dynamics are computed over the entire cardiac cycle using embedded boundary and ghost fluid methods, constrained by the dynamics of highly detailed anatomical models. Personalized boundary conditions are determined by estimating cardiac shape and motion from 4D TEE images through robust discriminative learning methods. Qualitative and quantitative validation of the computed blood dynamics is performed against Doppler echocardiography measurements, following an original methodology. Results showed a high agreement between simulation and ground truth and a correlation of r = 0:85 (p < 0:0002675). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that computational  uid dynamics are simulated on a systemic and comprehensive patient-specific model of the heart and validated against routinely acquired clinical ground truth.

Publications

Voigt, Ingmar; Mansi, Tommaso; Mihalef, Viorel; Ionasec, Razvan; Calleja, Anna; Assoumou Mengue, Etienne; Sharma, Puneet; Houle, Helene; Georgescu, Bogdan; Hornegger, Joachim; Comaniciu, Dorin
Patient-Specific Model of Left Heart Anatomy, Dynamics and Hemodynamics from 4D TEE: A First Validation Study In: Metaxas, Dimitris; Axel, Leon (Eds.)
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart (5th International Conference on Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart New York 25-27.05.2011) Heidelberg : Springer 2011, pp. n/a (BiBTeXWho cited this?

Mihalef, Viorel; Ionasec, Razvan; Sharma, Puneet; Georgescu, Bogdan; Voigt, Ingmar; Suehling, Michael; Comaniciu, Dorin
Patient-Specific Modelling of Whole Heart Anatomy, Dynamics and Hemodynamics from 4D cardiac CT Images 
In: Journal of the Royal Society ? Interface Focus (2011) pp. (to appear) (BiBTeXWho cited this?

Media

Our model at the cover of the issue of Interface Focus Journal: http://rsfs.royalsocietypublishing.org/site/misc/VPH.xhtml

Acknowledgements

Part of this work has been done in the framework of the EU project Sim-e-Child (IST 2004-027749).