Creating patient-specific models of the heart is a promising approach for predicting outcomes in response to congenital malformations, injury, or disease, as well as an important tool for developing and customizing therapies. However, integrating multi-modal imaging data to construct patient-specific models is a non-trivial task. Here, we propose an approach that employs a prolate spheroidal coordinate system to interpolate information from multiple imaging datasets and map those data onto a single geometric model of the left ventricle. We demonstrate the mapping of the location and transmural extent of post-infarction scar segmented from late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) MRI, as well as mechanical activation calculated from displacement encoding with stimulated echoes (DENSE) MRI. As a supplement to this article, we provide MATLAB and Python versions of the routines employed here for download from SimTK (https://simtk.org/projects/lvdatamap).
This project provides MATLAB and Python code to register multiple imaging protocols to create a patient-specific finite element mesh of a left ventricle suitable for simulation in FEBio. This work was recently published in the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering "Open-Source Routines for Building Personalized Left Ventricular Models from Cardiac MRI" (doi:10.1115/1.4043876)
This project provides MATLAB and Python code to register multiple imaging protocols to create a patient-specific finite element mesh of a left ventricle suitable for simulation in FEBio. The imaging data sets used were processed in the freely available segmentation software Segment (http://medviso.com/segment/). We use landmark locations in the LV to register different imaging data into a common cardiac coordinate system and pass information via the epicardial surface.
Two fitting examples are provided- fitting LGE MRI scar and DENSE MRI mechanical activation.
The data files are provided under "Downloads"
The library of scripts are provided under "Source Code"
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The downloads include MATLAB and Segment (medviso.com/segment/) files necessary to recreate an infarcted LV model shown in " Open-Source Routines for Building Personalized Left Ventricular Models from Cardiac MRI Data" (doi:10.1115/1.4043876)
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