Heartflow, Inc.

Leland Stanford Junior University

Other

Thorlabs Gmbh

Charles Anthony Taylor, Jr

Leo John Grady

Gilwoo Choi

Sethuraman Sankaran

Christopher K Zarins

Michiel Schaap

Hyun Jin Kim

Nan Xiao

Timothy A Fonte

David Spain

Campbell Rogers

Ying Bai

Sophie Khem

Bon-Kwon Koo

Clara Jaquet

Mark Rabbat

Jin Kim

Rhea Tombropoulos

Travis Michael Sanders

Souma Sengupta

Gregory Richard Hart

David Eberle

Jessica S Coogan

David Lesage

Frank Armstrong

Stanley C Hunley

Elizabeth H Nelson

Jason Matthew Mills

Ash Prabala

Jeffrey Erickson

Ryan Leonard Spilker

William Ratdke

Gregory Havenga

Martin Parker

Buzzy Spain

Thomas J R Hughes

Philipp Waltert

Sophia Khem

Computer-implemented methods are disclosed for assessing the effect of musculoskeletal activities on disease and/or clinical events, the method comprising: receiving a patient-specific vascular and musculoskeletal model of a patient's anatomy, including at least one vessel of the patient; receiving at least one characteristic of the patient's musculoskeletal activity; generating or updating a computational anatomic vascular and musculoskeletal model of the patient's anatomy based on the received at least one characteristic of musculoskeletal activity; performing at least one of a computational fluid dynamics analysis or a structural mechanics simulation on the computational anatomic vascular and musculoskeletal model; and estimating at least one of the patient's risk of disease or clinical events based on the performed computational fluid dynamics analysis and/or structural mechanics simulation. Systems and computer readable media for executing these methods are also disclosed.

Systems and methods for cardiovascular blood flow and musculoskeletal modeling for predicting device failure or clinical events

Systems and methods are disclosed for simulation of occluded arteries and/or optimization of occlusion-based treatments. One method includes obtaining a patient-specific anatomic model of a patient's vasculature; obtaining an initial computational model of blood flow through the patient's vasculature based on the patient-specific anatomic model; obtaining a post-treatment computational model by modifying portions of the initial computational model based on an occlusion-based treatment; generating a pre-treatment blood flow characteristic using the initial computational model or computing a post-treatment blood flow using the post-treatment computational model; and outputting a representation of the pre-treatment blood flow characteristic or the post-treatment blood flow characteristic.

Systems and methods for simulation of occluded arteries and optimization of occlusion-based treatments

Systems and methods are disclosed for evaluating a patient with vascular disease. One method includes receiving patient-specific data regarding a geometry of the patient's vasculature; creating an anatomic model representing at least a portion of a location of disease in the patient's vasculature based on the received patient-specific data; identifying one or more changes in geometry of the anatomic model based on a modeled progression or regression of disease at the location; calculating one or more values of a blood flow characteristic within the patient's vasculature using a computational model based on the identified one or more changes in geometry of the anatomic model; and generating an electronic graphical display of a relationship between the one or more values of the calculated blood flow characteristic and the identified one or more changes in geometry of the anatomic model.

Systems and methods of processing images to determine patient-specific plaque progression based on the processed images

Systems and methods are disclosed for creating an interactive tool for determining and displaying a functional relationship between a vascular network and an associated perfused tissue. One method includes receiving a patient-specific vascular model of a patient's anatomy, including at least one vessel of the patient; receiving a patient-specific tissue model, including a tissue region associated with the at least one vessel of the patient; receiving a selected area of the vascular model or a selected area of the tissue model; and generating a display of a region of the tissue model corresponding to the selected area of the vascular model or a display of a portion of the vascular model corresponding to the selected area of the tissue model, respectively.

Systems and methods for an interactive tool for determining and visualizing a functional relationship between a vascular network and perfused tissue

Systems and methods are disclosed for using vessel reactivity to guide diagnosis or treatment for cardiovascular disease. One method includes receiving a patient-specific vascular model of a patient's anatomy, including at least one vessel of the patient; determining, by measurement or estimation, a first vessel size at one or more locations of a vessel of the patient-specific vascular model at a first physiological state; determining a second vessel size at the one or more locations of the vessel of the patient-specific vascular model at a second physiological state using a simulation or learned information; comparing the first vessel size to the corresponding second vessel size; and estimating a characteristic of the vessel of the patient-specific vascular model based on the comparison.

Systems and methods for vessel reactivity to guide diagnosis or treatment of cardiovascular disease

Embodiments include a system for determining cardiovascular information for a patient. The system may include at least one computer system configured to receive patient-specific data regarding a geometry of the patient's heart, and create a three-dimensional model representing at least a portion of the patient's heart based on the patient-specific data. The at least one computer system may be further configured to create a physics-based model relating to a blood flow characteristic of the patient's heart and determine a fractional flow reserve within the patient's heart based on the three-dimensional model and the physics-based model.

Method and system for image processing to determine blood flow

Systems and methods for treatment planning based on plaque progression and regression curves

Systems and methods are disclosed for to determining a blood supply and blood demand. One method includes receiving a patient-specific model of vessel geometry of at least a portion of a coronary artery, wherein the model is based on patient-specific image data of at least a portion of a patient's heart having myocardium; determining a coronary blood supply based on the patient-specific model; determining at least a portion of the myocardium corresponding to the coronary artery; determining a myocardial blood demand based on either a mass or a volume of the portion of the myocardium, or based on perfusion imaging of the portion of the myocardium; and determining a relationship between the coronary blood supply and the myocardial blood demand.

Systems and methods for processing electronic images to assess end-organ demand

Systems and methods are disclosed for diagnosis, risk assessment, and/or virtual treatment assessment of visceral ischemia and related disorders. One method includes receiving a patient-specific anatomic model of a patient's visceral vasculature, including visceral vasculature of the patient's visceral organs and bowel; determining a location in the patient-specific anatomic model of the patient's visceral vasculature; determining, for the location in the patient-specific anatomic model, a blood flow characteristic of blood flow through the location in the patient-specific anatomic model of the patient's visceral vasculature; determining a tissue region of the patient's bowel proximate the location in the patient-specific anatomic model of the patient's visceral vasculature; and generating an assessment of blood supply adequacy to the tissue region of the patient's bowel or generating a risk score for risk of disease for the patient's bowel, based on the determined blood flow characteristic and an expected blood flow characteristic associated with the tissue region of the patient's bowel.

Systems and methods for diagnosis, risk assessment, and/or virtual treatment assessment of visceral ischemia

Systems and methods are disclosed for determining blood flow characteristics of a patient. One method includes: receiving, in an electronic storage medium, patient-specific image data of at least a portion of vasculature of the patient having geometric features at one or more points; generating a patient-specific reduced order model from the received image data, the patient-specific reduced order model comprising estimates of impedance values and a simplification of the geometric features at the one or more points of the vasculature of the patient; creating a feature vector comprising the estimates of impedance values and geometric features for each of the one or more points of the patient-specific reduced order model; and determining blood flow characteristics at the one or more points of the patient-specific reduced order model using a machine learning algorithm trained to predict blood flow characteristics based on the created feature vectors at the one or more points.

Systems and methods for estimation of blood flow characteristics using reduced order model and/or machine learning

Systems and methods are disclosed for evaluating a patient with vascular disease. One method includes receiving one or more vascular models associated with either the patient or with a plurality of individuals; receiving observed perfusion information associated with the patient; and estimating, using one or more computer processors, one or more blood flow characteristics or one or more pathological characteristics of the patient based on the observed perfusion information and the one or more vascular models.

Systems and methods for determination of blood flow characteristics and pathologies through modeling of myocardial blood supply

A noninvasive patient-specific method is provided to aid in the analysis, diagnosis, prediction or treatment of hemodynamics of the cardiovascular system of a patient. Coronary blood flow and pressure can be predicted using a 3-D patient image-based model that is implicitly coupled with a model of at least a portion of the remaining cardiovascular system. The 3-D patient image-based model includes at least a portion of the thoracic aorta and epicardial coronaries of the patient. The shape of one or more velocity profiles at the interface of the models is enforced to control complex flow features of recirculating or retrograde flow thereby minimizing model instabilities and resulting in patient-specific predictions of coronary flow rate and pressure. The invention allows for patient-specific predictions of the effect of different or varying physiological states and hemodynamic benefits of coronary medical interventions, percutaneous coronary interventions and surgical therapies.

Systems and methods for processing electronic images

Systems and methods are disclosed for assessing cardiovascular disease and treatment effectiveness based on adipose tissue. One method includes identifying a vascular bed of interest in a patient's vasculature; receiving a medical image of the patient's identified vascular bed of interest; identifying adipose tissue in the received medical image; receiving a geometric vascular model comprising a representation of the patient's identified vascular bed of interest; and computing an inflammation index associated with the geometric vascular model, using the identified adipose tissue.

Systems and methods for assessing cardiovascular disease and treatment effectiveness from adipose tissue

Systems and methods are disclosed for using patient specific anatomical models and physiological parameters to estimate perfusion of a target tissue to guide diagnosis or treatment of cardiovascular disease. One method includes receiving a patient-specific vessel model and a patent-specific tissue model of a patient anatomy; extracting one or more patient-specific physiological parameters (e.g. blood flow, anatomical characteristics, image characteristics, etc.) from the vessel or tissue models for one or more physiological states of the patient; estimating a characteristic of the perfusion of the patient-specific tissue model (e.g., via a trained machine learning algorithm) using the patient-specific physiological parameters; and outputting the estimated perfusion characteristic to a display.

Systems and methods for predicting perfusion deficits from physiological, anatomical, and patient characteristics

Systems and methods are disclosed for blood flow simulation. For example, a method may include performing a plurality of blood flow simulations using a first model of vascular blood flow, each of the plurality of blood flow simulations simulating blood flow in a vasculature of a patient or a geometry based on the vasculature of the patient; based on results of the plurality of blood flow simulations, generating a response surface mapping one or more first parameters of the first model to one or more second parameters of a reduced order model of vascular blood; determining values for the one or more parameters of the reduced order model mapped, by the response surface, from parameter values representing a modified state of the vasculature; and performing simulation using the reduced order model parameterized by the determined values, to determine a blood flow characteristic of the modified state of the vasculature.

Systems and methods for estimation of blood flow using response surface and reduced order modeling

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Charles Anthony Taylor, Jr