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Automatic Mapping of Atrial Fiber Orientations for Patient-Specific Modeling of Cardiac Electromechanics using Image-Registration

12/05/2018
by   Julia M. Hoermann, et al.
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Knowledge of appropriate local fiber architecture is necessary to simulate patient-specific electromechanics in the human heart. However, it is not yet possible to reliably measure in-vivo fiber directions, especially in human atria. Thus, we present a method which defines the fiber architecture in arbitrarily shaped atria using image registration and reorientation methods based on atlas atria with fibers predefined from detailed histological observations. Thereby, it is possible to generate detailed fiber families in every new patient-specific geometry in an automated, time-efficient process. We demonstrate the good performance of the image registration and fiber definition on ten differently shaped human atria. Additionally, we show that characteristics of the electrophysiological activation pattern which appear in the atlas atria also appear in the patients' atria. We arrive at analogous conclusions for coupled electro-mechano-hemodynamical computations.

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