Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Volume 36, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.3387
Keywords
aortic valve stenosis; computational fluid dynamics; heart valve disease; meta-modeling; statistical shape modeling
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- European Research Council [689617]
- PLGrid Infrastructure
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Background Advances in medical imaging, segmentation techniques, and high performance computing have stimulated the use of complex, patient-specific, three-dimensional Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations. Patient-specific, CFD-compatible geometries of the aortic valve are readily obtained. CFD can then be used to obtain the patient-specific pressure-flow relationship of the aortic valve. However, such CFD simulations are computationally expensive, and real-time alternatives are desired. Aim The aim of this work is to evaluate the performance of a meta-model with respect to high-fidelity, three-dimensional CFD simulations of the aortic valve. Methods Principal component analysis was used to build a statistical shape model (SSM) from a population of 74 iso-topological meshes of the aortic valve. Synthetic meshes were created with the SSM, and steady-state CFD simulations at flow-rates between 50 and 650 mL/s were performed to build a meta-model. The meta-model related the statistical shape variance, and flow-rate to the pressure-drop. Results Even though the first three shape modes account for only 46% of shape variance, the features relevant for the pressure-drop seem to be captured. The three-mode shape-model approximates the pressure-drop with an average error of 8.8% to 10.6% for aortic valves with a geometric orifice area below 150 mm(2). The proposed methodology was least accurate for aortic valve areas above 150 mm(2). Further reduction to a meta-model introduces an additional 3% error. Conclusions Statistical shape modeling can be used to capture shape variation of the aortic valve. Meta-models trained by SSM-based CFD simulations can provide an estimate of the pressure-flow relationship in real-time.
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