METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMAGE PROCESSING AND PATIENT-SPECIFIC MODELING OF BLOOD FLOW
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Abstract
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.
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204 Claims
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1-184. -184. (canceled)
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185. A method processing images for planning treatment for arterial stenotic lesions, comprising:
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identifying a set of stenotic lesions in a patient'"'"'s coronary arteries from medical image data of the patient; generating a plurality of treatment options for the set of stenotic lesions, wherein each of the plurality of treatment options corresponds to a stenting configuration in which one or more of the stenotic lesions are stented; and calculating, for each of the plurality of treatment options, predicted hemodynamic metrics for the set of stenotic lesions resulting from the stenting configuration corresponding to that treatment option. - View Dependent Claims (186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195)
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196. An apparatus for processing images for planning treatment for arterial stenotic lesions, the apparatus executing a method comprising:
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identifying a set of stenotic lesions in a patient'"'"'s coronary arteries from medical image data of the patient; generating a plurality of treatment options for the set of stenotic lesions, wherein each of the plurality of treatment options corresponds to a stenting configuration in which one or more of the stenotic lesions are stented; and calculating, for each of the plurality of treatment options, predicted hemodynamic metrics for the set of stenotic lesions resulting from the stenting configuration corresponding to that treatment option. - View Dependent Claims (197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203)
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204. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer program instructions for processing images for planning treatment for arterial stenotic lesions, the computer program instructions when executed by a processor causes the processor to perform operations comprising:
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identifying a set of stenotic lesions in a patient'"'"'s coronary arteries from medical image data of the patient; generating a plurality of treatment options for the set of stenotic lesions, wherein each of the plurality of treatment options corresponds to a stenting configuration in which one or more of the stenotic lesions are stented; and calculating, for each of the plurality of treatment options, predicted hemodynamic metrics for the set of stenotic lesions resulting from the stenting configuration corresponding to that treatment option.
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