학술논문

Analysis identifying minimal governing parameters for clinically accurate in silico fractional flow reserve
Document Type
article
Source
Frontiers in Medical Technology, Vol 4 (2022)
Subject
fractional flow reserve
computational fluid dynamics
patient-specific modeling
sensitivity analysis
uncertainty quantication
Sobol analysis
Medical technology
R855-855.5
Language
English
ISSN
2673-3129
Abstract
BackgroundPersonalized hemodynamic models can accurately compute fractional flow reserve (FFR) from coronary angiograms and clinical measurements (FFRbaseline), but obtaining patient-specific data could be challenging and sometimes not feasible. Understanding which measurements need to be patient-tuned vs. patient-generalized would inform models with minimal inputs that could expedite data collection and simulation pipelines.AimsTo determine the minimum set of patient-specific inputs to compute FFR using invasive measurement of FFR (FFRinvasive) as gold standard.Materials and MethodsPersonalized coronary geometries (N=50) were derived from patient coronary angiograms. A computational fluid dynamics framework, FFRbaseline, was parameterized with patient-specific inputs: coronary geometry, stenosis geometry, mean arterial pressure, cardiac output, heart rate, hematocrit, and distal pressure location. FFRbaseline was validated against FFRinvasive and used as the baseline to elucidate the impact of uncertainty on personalized inputs through global uncertainty analysis. FFRstreamlined was created by only incorporating the most sensitive inputs and FFRsemi-streamlined additionally included patient-specific distal location.ResultsFFRbaseline was validated against FFRinvasive via correlation (r=0.714, p