Effects of segmentation on patient-specific numerical simulation of cerebral aneurysm hemodynamics

Prem Venugopal; Holger Schmitt; Gary R. Duckwiler; Daniel J. Valentino

doi:10.1117/12.651763

13 March 2006 Effects of segmentation on patient-specific numerical simulation of cerebral aneurysm hemodynamics

Prem Venugopal, Holger Schmitt, Gary R. Duckwiler, Daniel J. Valentino

Proceedings Volume 6143, Medical Imaging 2006: Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical Images; 61430F (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.651763
Event: Medical Imaging, 2006, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

One of the factors affecting the accuracy of patient-specific, imaging-based computational hemodynamic studies is the accuracy of geometric models created from medical images. In the present study we have investigated as to how accurate the geometric models should be in the context of cerebral aneurysms in order to obtain an accurate reproduction of intra-aneurysmal hemodynamics in individual patients using numerical simulations. Computed tomography angiography (CTA) images obtained for a patient-specific anterior communicating artery (ACoA) aneurysm and a patient-specific middle cerebral artery (MCA) aneurysm were used to construct the geometric models. For each aneurysm, two models were created, one using a different threshold value for image segmentation than the other. The average distance between the models was about the size of one in-plane pixel. It was found that for the MCA aneurysm, the simulated pressure and shear stress distributions for the two models were entirely different while for the ACoA aneurysm the mean pressure distribution obtained for the two models were similar, but the shear stress distributions were completely different. These results indicate that accurate reproduction of intra-aneurysmal hemodynamics would require the geometric reconstruction from medical images to be highly accurate.

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Prem Venugopal, Holger Schmitt, Gary R. Duckwiler, and Daniel J. Valentino "Effects of segmentation on patient-specific numerical simulation of cerebral aneurysm hemodynamics", Proc. SPIE 6143, Medical Imaging 2006: Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical Images, 61430F (13 March 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.651763

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