November 10, 2011 - Philippe Burlina

Title: Patient-Specific Mitral Valve Surgical Planning using Volumetric Ultrasound

Abstract:
Cardiac surgical interventions often involve reconstructing complex structures on an arrested and flaccid heart under cardiopulmonary bypass. The relatively recent introduction of 4D (3D volumetric + time) ultrasound in pre- and intra-operative settings has opened the way to the development of tools to extract patient-specific information to help cardiac surgeons perform pre-operative planning and to predict the outcome of complex surgical interventions. In this talk, I describe techniques developed in a collaborative project between APL, the JHU SOM, and JHU BME dept., aimed at combining machine vision and modeling/simulation, to help surgeons tailor mitral valve surgical interventions (valvuloplasty) to specific patient conditions. At the end of the presentation, I will also review other recent collaboration projects in medical image analysis between the JHU APL and the JHU SOM.