Direct estimation of wall shear stress from aneurysmal morphology: A statistical approach

Ali Sarrami-Foroushani, Toni Lassila, Jose M. Pozo, Ali Gooya, Alejandro F. Frangi*

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Abstract

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a valuable tool for studying vascular diseases,but requires long computational time. To alleviate this issue,we propose a statistical framework to predict the aneurysmal wall shear stress patterns directly from the aneurysm shape. A database of 38 complex intracranial aneurysm shapes is used to generate aneurysm morphologies and CFD simulations. The shapes and wall shear stresses are then converted to clouds of hybrid points containing both types of information. These are subsequently used to train a joint statistical model implementing a mixture of principal component analyzers. Given a new aneurysmal shape,the trained joint model is firstly collapsed to a shape only model and used to initialize the missing shear stress values. The estimated hybrid point set is further refined by projection to the joint model space. We demonstrate that our predicted patterns can achieve significant similarities to the CFD-based results.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMedical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2016 - 19th International Conference, Proceedings
EditorsLeo Joskowicz, Mert R. Sabuncu, William Wells, Gozde Unal, Sebastian Ourselin
PublisherSpringer-Verlag Italia
Pages201-209
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783319467252
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9902 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

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