M.Sc. Pascal Maierhofer

Motivation
Modeling and simulating patient-specific heart geometries hold great potential for helping electrophysiologists identify the origins of atrial fibrillation (AF) and accelerate clinical interventions. However, creating these models from clinical data remains a challenging and labor-intensive process due to anatomical variations among patients. To facilitate the creation of personalized models, AugmentA [1] was developed at IBT. AugmentA automates the annotation based on specific rules for each atrial region and helps with further data augmentation. However, manual interventions can be necessary for certain patient geometries. For our current research, we collect clinical electrophysiological data in two German hospitals to create patient-specific atrial digital models.

Structure of AugmentA [1].

[1] L. Azzolin et al., “AugmentA: Patient-specific augmented atrial model generation tool,” Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, vol. 108, p. 102265, Sep. 2023, doi: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2023.102265.