O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2007 • March 26-29, 2007 • San Diego, California

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Session

Patient-Specific Cardiovascular Modeling

Bill Katz, Senior Scientist, Dept. of Bioengineering, Stanford University

Date: Thursday, March 29
Time:�11:45am - 12:30pm
Location: Douglas A

Advances in a number of areas (including interdisciplinary collaboration, imaging, and computational power) are priming our ability to perform physics-based simulations of some biological phenomena. Models are created at higher-resolution and with greater fidelity to the real-world. Simulations, which were impractical due to computation time, are now solved on grids and multi-cpu/multi-core computers. And visualization of the results are handled with open source toolkits using standard graphics boards.

To bootstrap development of this field, Simbios, the NIH Center for Physics-based Simulation of Biological Structures at Stanford, develops and provides open access to models and source code. One driving biological problem is cardiovascular simulation. In this talk, we'll focus on patient-specific modeling of the cardiovascular system, from image analysis to model creation to blood flow simulation and visualization. We'll look at some research results from the Stanford Cardiovascular Biomechanics Lab, and we'll show how recently released software uses a mix of open source code and commercial components.