Patient-Specific Left Ventricle Mesh Generation Using the Bull’s Eye of the Wall Thickness Measurements from Medical Images

Abstract

This paper presents an automatic procedure for the generation of personalized left ventricle (LV) meshes based on measurements of the wall thickness in a standard format. The procedure takes as input measurements of the wall thickness (WT) of a patient and generates a computational meshes with microstructural information which is suitable for computer simulation of the electrical and mechanical cardiac activity. In this work we describe the procedure, present sample measurements from an open dataset and the generated mesh. Finally, we demonstrate the use of the created mesh in a computer simulation of the electrical activity of the LV.