US 11,992,293 B2
Method and system for processing electronic images for boundary condition optimization
Timothy A Fonte, San Francisco, CA (US); Charles A. Taylor, Atherton, CA (US); Hyun Jin Kim, San Mateo, CA (US); and Sophia Khem, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to HeartFlow, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed by HeartFlow, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US)
Filed on Feb. 1, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/163,690.
Application 17/163,690 is a continuation of application No. 15/875,286, filed on Jan. 19, 2018, granted, now 10,939,828.
Application 15/875,286 is a continuation of application No. 14/447,195, filed on Jul. 30, 2014, granted, now 9,913,616, issued on Mar. 13, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/860,138, filed on Jul. 30, 2013.
Prior Publication US 2021/0153749 A1, May 27, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/02 (2006.01); A61B 5/021 (2006.01); A61B 5/026 (2006.01); A61B 5/027 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/03 (2006.01); A61B 6/50 (2024.01); G16H 50/50 (2018.01)
CPC A61B 5/02 (2013.01) [A61B 5/02007 (2013.01); A61B 5/02108 (2013.01); A61B 5/026 (2013.01); A61B 5/027 (2013.01); A61B 5/7278 (2013.01); A61B 6/032 (2013.01); A61B 6/504 (2013.01); A61B 6/507 (2013.01); A61B 6/5217 (2013.01); G16H 50/50 (2018.01); A61B 5/7246 (2013.01); A61B 6/50 (2013.01); Y02A 90/10 (2018.01)] 30 Claims
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11. A method for determining cardiovascular information for a patient using at least one computer system, the method comprising:
retrieving, using at least one processor, data for a plurality of patients of a general population;
dividing, using the at least one processor, the general population into a tuning population and a testing population;
retrieving, using the at least one processor, data for each of a plurality of patients of the tuning population, the data including an invasively obtained measurement of a blood flow characteristic for each of the plurality of patients of the tuning population and a blood flow characteristic computed based at least in part on a respective boundary condition for each of the plurality of patients of the tuning population;
determining, using the at least one processor, boundary conditions tuning characteristics by iteratively comparing the computed blood flow characteristic for each of the plurality of patients of the tuning population to the invasively obtained blood flow characteristic measurement of a respective patient of each of the plurality of patients of the tuning population;
testing the boundary conditions tuning characteristics for each of a plurality of patients of the testing population different form the tuning population based on comparisons between non-invasively computed and invasively obtained blood flow characteristic values for each of the plurality of patients in the testing population;
using the boundary conditions tuning characteristics and a patient-specific anatomical model representing at least a portion of an anatomy of a patient not in the tuning population or the testing population to compute a patient-specific blood flow characteristic value for the patient not in either the tuning population or the testing population; and
outputting the patient-specific anatomical model and the computed patient-specific blood flow characteristic value.