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Virtual downsizing for decision support in mitral valve repair

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Purpose

Various options are available for the treatment of mitral valve insufficiency, including reconstructive approaches such as annulus correction through ring implants. The correct choice of general therapy and implant is relevant for an optimal outcome. Additional to guidelines, decision support systems (DSS) can provide decision aid by means of virtual intervention planning and predictive simulations. Our approach on virtual downsizing is one of the virtual intervention tools that are part of the DSS workflow. It allows for emulating a ring implantation based on patient-specific lumen geometry and vendor-specific implants.

Methods

Our approach is fully automatic and relies on a lumen mask and an annulus contour as inputs. Both are acquired from previous DSS workflow steps. A virtual surface- and contour-based model of a vendor-specific ring design (26–40 mm) is generated. For each case, the ring geometry is positioned with respect to the original, patient-specific annulus and additional anatomical landmarks. The lumen mesh is parameterized to allow for a vertex-based deformation with respect to the user-defined annulus. Derived from post-interventional observations, specific deformation schemes are applied to atrium and ventricle and the lumen mesh is altered with respect to the ring location.

Results

For quantitative evaluation, the surface distance between the deformed lumen mesh and segmented post-operative echo lumen close to the annulus was computed for 11 datasets. The results indicate a good agreement. An arbitrary subset of six datasets was used for a qualitative evaluation of the complete lumen. Two domain experts compared the deformed lumen mesh with post-interventional echo images. All deformations were deemed plausible.

Conclusion

Our approach on virtual downsizing allows for an automatic creation of plausible lumen deformations. As it takes only a few seconds to generate results, it can be added to a virtual intervention toolset without unnecessarily increasing the pipeline complexity.

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Acknowledgements

This work is part of the BMBF VIP+ project DSSMitral (partially funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research under Grant 03VP00852).

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  1. Fraunhofer Institute for Medical Image Computing – MEVIS, Am Fallturm 1, 28359, Bremen, Germany

    Mathias Neugebauer, Lennart Tautz, Markus Hüllebrand & Anja Hennemuth

  2. German Heart Institute Berlin – DHZB, Berlin, Germany

    Simon Sündermann, Franziska Degener, Titus Kühne & Volkmar Falk

  3. Charité – University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Lennart Tautz, Franziska Degener, Leonid Goubergrits, Titus Kühne, Volkmar Falk & Anja Hennemuth

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Neugebauer, M., Tautz, L., Hüllebrand, M. et al. Virtual downsizing for decision support in mitral valve repair. Int J CARS 14, 357–371 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11548-018-1868-6

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