Title
An Interactive, Patient-Specific Virtual Surgical Planning System for Upper Airway Obstruction Treatments.
Abstract
Upper airway obstructions leading todifficulty breathing are significant problems that often require surgery to improve patient quality of life. However, these surgeries often have poor outcomes with little symptom improvement. This paper outlines the design of an interactive, patient-specific virtual surgical planning system that uses patient CT scans to generate three-dimensional representations of the airways and incorporates computational fluid dynamics (CFD) as a part of the surgical planning process. Individualized virtual surgeries can be performed by editing these models, which are then analyzed using CFD to compare pre- and post- surgery flow characteristics to assess patient symptom improvement. The prototype system shows significant promise by being intuitive, interactive, with a potential fast flow solver that provides near real-time feedback to the clinician.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/EMBC.2018.8513672
EMBC
Field
DocType
Volume
Computer vision,Surgical planning,Computer science,Medical physics,Computed tomography,Breathing,Artificial intelligence,Airway obstruction,Solver,Airway
Conference
2018
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rachel B. Clipp100.34
jared vicory2133.59
Samantha Horvath3163.54
Sorin Mitran45424.75
Julia S Kimbell572.08
John S. Rhee631.25
Andinet Enquobahrie77315.45