Siemens Healthcare Gmbh

Siemens Healthineers Ag

Felix Meister

Tommaso Mansi

Tiziano Passerini

Viorel Mihalef

Chloé Audigier

Eric Lluch Alvarez

Systems and methods for estimating local conductivities from anatomical information derived from MR images, ECG, and sparse contact maps are provided. ECG features and sparse measurements are mapped to an anatomical model represented as a graph. Graph convolutional layers and a multilayer perceptron are applied to extract local and global features respectively. The local and global features are combined and further processed by a series of fully connected layers to regress a set of vertex conductivities.

Real-time estimation of local cardiac tissue properties and uncertainties based on imaging and electro-anatomical maps

For soft tissue deformation prediction, a biomechanical or other tissue-related physics model is used to find an instantaneous state of the soft tissue. A machine-learned artificial neural network is applied to predict the position of volumetric elements (e.g., mesh node) from the instantaneous state. Since the machine-learned artificial neural network may predict quickly (e.g., in a second or less), the soft tissue position at different times or a further time given the instantaneous state is provided in real-time without the minutes of physics model computation. For example, a real-time, biomechanical solver is provided, allowing interaction with the soft tissue model, while still getting accurate results. The accuracy allows for generating images of a soft tissue with greater accuracy and/or the benefit of user interaction in real-time.

Real-time and accurate soft tissue deformation prediction

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Erlangen, Germany

Felix Meister