TY - CHAP
T1 - Towards Quantifying Neurovascular Resilience
AU - Moriconi, Stefano
AU - Rehwald, Rafael
AU - Zuluaga, Maria A.
AU - Jäger, H. Rolf
AU - Nachev, Parashkev
AU - Ourselin, Sébastien
AU - Cardoso, M. Jorge
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - Whilst grading neurovascular abnormalities is critical for prompt surgical repair, no statistical markers are currently available for predicting the risk of adverse events, such as stroke, and the overall resilience of a network to vascular complications. The lack of compact, fast, and scalable simulations with network perturbations impedes the analysis of the vascular resilience to life-threatening conditions, surgical interventions and long-term follow-up. We introduce a graph-based approach for efficient simulations, which statistically estimates biomarkers from a series of perturbations on the patient-specific vascular network. Analog-equivalent circuits are derived from clinical angiographies. Vascular graphs embed mechanical attributes modelling the impedance of a tubular structure with stenosis, tortuosity and complete occlusions. We evaluate pressure and flow distributions, simulating healthy topologies and abnormal variants with perturbations in key pathological scenarios. These describe the intrinsic network resilience to pathology, and delineate the underlying cerebrovascular autoregulation mechanisms. Lastly, a putative graph sampling strategy is devised on the same formulation, to support the topological inference of uncertain neurovascular graphs.
AB - Whilst grading neurovascular abnormalities is critical for prompt surgical repair, no statistical markers are currently available for predicting the risk of adverse events, such as stroke, and the overall resilience of a network to vascular complications. The lack of compact, fast, and scalable simulations with network perturbations impedes the analysis of the vascular resilience to life-threatening conditions, surgical interventions and long-term follow-up. We introduce a graph-based approach for efficient simulations, which statistically estimates biomarkers from a series of perturbations on the patient-specific vascular network. Analog-equivalent circuits are derived from clinical angiographies. Vascular graphs embed mechanical attributes modelling the impedance of a tubular structure with stenosis, tortuosity and complete occlusions. We evaluate pressure and flow distributions, simulating healthy topologies and abnormal variants with perturbations in key pathological scenarios. These describe the intrinsic network resilience to pathology, and delineate the underlying cerebrovascular autoregulation mechanisms. Lastly, a putative graph sampling strategy is devised on the same formulation, to support the topological inference of uncertain neurovascular graphs.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85075755393&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-33327-0_18
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-33327-0_18
M3 - Conference paper
AN - SCOPUS:85075755393
SN - 9783030333263
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 149
EP - 157
BT - Machine Learning and Medical Engineering for Cardiovascular Health and Intravascular Imaging and Computer Assisted Stenting - 1st International Workshop, MLMECH 2019, and 8th Joint International Workshop, CVII-STENT 2019, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2019, Proceedings
A2 - Liao, Hongen
A2 - Wang, Guijin
A2 - Liu, Yongpan
A2 - Ding, Zijian
A2 - Balocco, Simone
A2 - Zhang, Feng
A2 - Duong, Luc
A2 - Phellan, Renzo
A2 - Zahnd, Guillaume
A2 - Albarqouni, Shadi
A2 - Demirci, Stefanie
A2 - Breininger, Katharina
A2 - Moriconi, Stefano
A2 - Lee, Su-Lin
PB - SPRINGER
T2 - 1st International Workshop on Machine Learning and Medical Engineering for Cardiovasvular Healthcare, MLMECH 2019, and the 8th International Joint Workshops on Computing and Visualization for Intravascular Imaging and Computer Assisted Stenting, CVII-STENT 2019, held in conjunction with 22nd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2019
Y2 - 13 October 2019 through 13 October 2019
ER -