SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSESSING THE SEVERITY OF PLAQUE AND/OR STENOTIC LESIONS USING CONTRAST DISTRIBUTION PREDICTIONS AND MEASUREMENTS

    公开(公告)号:US20220265239A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-08-25

    申请号:US17663076

    申请日:2022-05-12

    申请人: HeartFlow, Inc.

    摘要: Systems and methods are disclosed for assessing the severity of plaque and/or stenotic lesions using contrast distribution predictions and measurements. One method includes: receiving patient-specific images of a patient's vasculature and a measured distribution of a contrast agent delivered through the patient's vasculature; associating the measured distribution of the contrast agent with a patient-specific anatomic model of the patient's vasculature; defining physiological and boundary conditions of a blood flow model of the patient's blood flow and pressure; simulating the distribution of the contrast agent through the patient-specific anatomic model; comparing the measured distribution of the contrast agent and the simulated distribution of the contrast agent through the patient-specific anatomic model to determine whether a similarity condition is satisfied; and updating the defined physiological and boundary conditions and re-simulating distribution of the contrast agent through the one or more points of the patient-specific anatomic model until the similarity condition is satisfied.

    SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR ESTIMATION OF BLOOD FLOW CHARACTERISTICS USING REDUCED ORDER MODEL AND MACHINE LEARNING

    公开(公告)号:US20210161384A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-03

    申请号:US17169912

    申请日:2021-02-08

    申请人: HeartFlow, Inc.

    摘要: 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.