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Section: Partnerships and Cooperations
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Inria Associate Teams Not Involved in an Inria International Lab
CURATIVE
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Title: CompUteR-based simulAtion Tool for mItral Valve rEpair
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International Partner (Institution - Laboratory - Researcher):
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See also: https://team.inria.fr/curative/
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The mitral valve of the heart ensures one-way flow of oxygenated blood from the left atrium to the left ventricle. However, many pathologies damage the valve anatomy producing undesired backflow, or regurgitation, decreasing cardiac efficiency and potentially leading to heart failure if left untreated. Such cases could be treated by surgical repair of the valve. However, it is technically difficult and outcomes are highly dependent upon the experience of the surgeon.
One way to facilitate the repair is to simulate the mechanical behavior of the pathological valve with subject-specific data. Our main goal is to provide surgeons with a tool to study solutions of mitral valve repairs. This tool would be a computer-based model that can simulate a potential surgical repair procedure in order to evaluate its success. The surgeons would be able to customize the simulation to a patient and to a technique of valve repair. Our methodology will be to realistically simulate valve closure based on segmentation methods faithful enough to capture subject-specific anatomy and based on a biomechanical model that can accurately model the range of properties exhibited by pathological valves.
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During the first year, we worked on three aspects of this project: i) developing a fast image-based mitral valve simulation, ii) extracting the mitral valve chordae from a CT scan (see section New Results) and iii) developing a Cosserat model for catheter robot for heart surgical procedures. The work on fast image-based mitral valve simulation has been accepted to the The International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery [17].