Contributions towards Data driven Deep Learning methods to predict Steady State Fluid Flow in mechanical Heart Valves

Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering

Oldenburg Jan¹  Stiehm Michael²  Schmitz Klaus-Peter²  Renkewitz Julian³ 

[1] Institute for ImplantTechnology and Biomaterials e.V., Friedrich-Barnewitz-Str. 4, 18119 Rostock-Warnemünde, Germany;Institute for ImplantTechnology and Biomaterials e.V., Rostock-Warnemünde, Germany;Student of Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Rostock University Medical Center, Rostock-Warnemünde, Germany;

关键词: mechanical heart valve;    convolutional neural network;    deep learning;    fluid flow;    computational fluid dynamics;   

DOI  :  10.1515/cdbme-2021-2159

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

It is commonly accepted that hemodynamic situation is related with cardiovascular diseases as well as clinical post-procedural outcome. In particular, aortic valve stenosis and insufficiency are associated with high shear flow and increased pressure loss. Furthermore, regurgitation, high shear stress and regions of stagnant blood flow are presumed to have an impact on clinical result. Therefore, flow field assessment to characterize the hemodynamic situation is necessary for device evaluation and further design optimization. In-vitro as well as in-silico fluid mechanics methods can be used to investigate the flow through prostheses. In-silico solutions are based on mathematical equitation’s which need to be solved numerically (Computational Fluid Dynamics - CFD). Fundamentally, the flow is physically described by Navier-Stokes. CFD often requires high computational cost resulting in long computation time. Techniques based on deep-learning are under research to overcome this problem. In this study, we applied a deep-learning strategy to estimate fluid flows during peak systolic steady-state blood flows through mechanical aortic valves with varying opening angles in randomly generated aortic root geometries. We used a data driven approach by running 3,500 two dimensional simulations (CFD). The simulation data serves as training data in a supervised deep learning framework based on convolutional neural networks analogous to the U-net architecture. We were able to successfully train the neural network using the supervised data driven approach. The results showing that it is feasible to use a neural network to estimate physiological flow fields in the vicinity of prosthetic heart valves (Validation error below 0.06), by only giving geometry data (Image) into the Network. The neural network generates flow field prediction in real time, which is more than 2500 times faster compared to CFD simulation. Accordingly, there is tremendous potential in the use of AIbased approaches predicting blood flows through heart valves on the basis of geometry data, especially in applications where fast fluid mechanic predictions are desired.

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