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Jordi Mill wins the best presentation award in STACOM 2018

STACOM is The Statistical Atlases and Computational Modeling of the Heart workshop, and it has been running annually at MICCAI since 2010. The 9th edition of STACOM workshop was held on 16 September 2018 at the MICCAI 2018 in Granada, Spain.

28.09.2018

 

The STACOM workshop is aiming to create a collaborative forum for young/senior researchers (engineers, biophysicists, mathematicians) and clinicians, working on statistical analysis of cardiac morphology and dynamics, computational modelling of the heart and fluid dynamics, data/models sharing, personalisation of cardiac electro-mechanical models, quantitative image analysis and translational methods into clinical practice.

Jordi Mill has done his end-of-master project at BCN MedTech this past year under the frame of the national project COMPILAAO and it has been supervised by Oscar Cámara and Andy Luis Olivares. The results of his end-of-master project were sent to STACOM 2018, and the work was selected for an oral presentation, winning later the best presentation award. Jordi will start now his PhD at BCN MedTech.

The work presented is entitled “Joint analysis of personalized in-silico haemodynamics and shape descriptors of the left atrial appendage” and has been developed in collaboration with the Arrhythmia Unit of the  Department of Cardiology of the  Cardiovascular Center in Aalst, Belgium and the Department of Cardiology of Hospital Clinic in Barcelona.

Abstract of the work:

 The left atrial appendage (LAA) is a complex and heterogeneous bulge structure of the left atrium (LA). It is known that, in atrial fibrillation (AF) patients, around 70% to 90% of the thrombi are formed there. However, the exact mechanism of the process of thrombus formation and the role of the LAA in that process are not fully understood yet. The main goal of this work is to perform patient-specific haemodynamics simulations of the LA and LAA and jointly analyse the resulting blood flow parameters with morphological descriptors of these structures in relation with the risk of thrombus formation. Some LAA morphological descriptors such as ostium characteristics and pulmonary configuration were found to influence LAA blood flow patterns. These findings improve our knowledge on the required conditions for thrombus formation in the LAA. 

 

Authors:

Jordi Mill1 , Andy Olivares1 , Etelvino Silva, Ibai Genua1 , Álvaro Fernández1 , Ainhoa Aguado1 , Marta Nuñez1 , Tom de Potter2 , Xavier Freixa3 , Oscar Camara1.

1Physense, BCN MedTech, Department of Information and Communication Technologies,Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.

2Arrhythmia Unit, Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Center, Aalst, Belgium.

3Department of Cardiology, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona,Spain.

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