| CPC A61B 34/10 (2016.02) [A61F 2/2412 (2013.01); A61B 2034/104 (2016.02); A61B 2034/105 (2016.02); A61B 2034/108 (2016.02); G06T 2210/41 (2013.01)] | 15 Claims |
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1. A computer implemented method for selecting, from a series of cardiac implants having different sizes, a cardiac implant having an optimum size, and predicting an optimum deployment position, for implantation of the cardiac implant in a patient, the method comprising:
obtaining a patient-specific three-dimensional anatomical model corresponding to data representative of a patient-specific three-dimensional image of a cardiac region, the patient-specific three-dimensional anatomical model comprising a finite element mesh;
obtaining an implant model representing a finite element representation of the cardiac implant;
virtually deploying the implant model into the patient-specific three-dimensional anatomical model;
calculating a deployed shape of the implant model at a plurality of deployment locations of the implant model; and
predicting the optimum size, and optimum position, of the cardiac implant when deployed in the cardiac region based on the patient-specific three-dimensional anatomical model and the implant model,
wherein the predicting comprises querying a database including a plurality of records, each record including data representative of a patient-specific three-dimensional image of a cardiac region and an associated size and associated position of the cardiac implant of the series.
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