Interactive visualization of cardiac anatomy and atrial excitation for medical diagnosis and research

Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering

Bauer Silvio¹  Schmidt Jochen²  Oesterlein Tobias²  Dössel Olaf² 

[1] Karlsruhe Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IBT), address of first;Karlsruhe Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IBT), address of second author and third author;

关键词: visualization;    atrial fibrillation;    local activation time;    medical imaging;    intracardiac electrogram;    diagnostic software;   

DOI  :  10.1515/cdbme-2015-0097

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

State of the art biomedical engineering allows for acquiring enormous amounts of intracardiac data to aid diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. Modern catheters, which are used to acquire electrical information from within the heart, are capable of recording up to 64 channels simultaneously. The software available for data analysis, however, does not provide adequate performance to neither analyze nor visualize the acquired information in an appropriate manner. We present a software package that fascilitates interdisciplinary collaborations between engineers and physicians to adress open questions about pathophysiological mechanisms using data from everyday electrophysiogical studies. Therefore, a package has been compiled that enables algorithm development using MATLAB and subsequent visualization using the VTK C++ class libraries. The resulting application KaPAVIE, which is presented in this paper, is designed to meet the requirements from the clinical side and has been successfully applied in the clinical environment.

【 授权许可】

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