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Automatic In-Vitro Orifice Area Determination and Fluttering Analysis for Tricuspid Heart Valves

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Abstract

Patients suffering from a tricuspid heart valve deficiency are often treated by replacing the valve with artificial or biological implants. In case of biological implants, the use of porcine heart valves is common. To supply patients with the best such xenograft implants, quality assessment and inspection methods for biological heart valves are necessary. We describe initial approaches to automatically testing tricuspid heart valves in-vitro in an artificial circulation system. We use two criteria to judge the quality of the valve, i.e. the evolution of the orifice area during a heart cycle and the fluttering of the valve leaflets in the stream.

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  1. Institute for Signal Processing, University of Luebeck, Luebeck

    Tobias Hahn & Alexandru Paul Condurache

  2. Institute of Imaging and Computer Vision, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen

    Til Aach

  3. Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Clinic of Schleswig-Holstein, Luebeck

    Michael Scharfschwerdt & Martin Misfeld

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  2. Alexandru Paul Condurache
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  1. Institut für Medizinische Informatik, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistraße 52, 20246, Hamburg

    Heinz Handels  & Jan Ehrhardt  & 

  2. Institut für Medizinische Statistik und Epidemiologie, Technische Universität München, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Ismaninger Straße 22, 81675, München

    Alexander Horsch

  3. Abteilung für Medizinische und Biologische Informatik / H0100, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg

    Hans-Peter Meinzer

  4. Institut für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie Campus Benjamin Franklin, Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Hindenburgdamm 30, 12000, Berlin

    Thomas Tolxdorff

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Hahn, T., Condurache, A.P., Aach, T., Scharfschwerdt, M., Misfeld, M. (2006). Automatic In-Vitro Orifice Area Determination and Fluttering Analysis for Tricuspid Heart Valves. In: Handels, H., Ehrhardt, J., Horsch, A., Meinzer, HP., Tolxdorff, T. (eds) Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2006. Informatik aktuell. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-32137-3_5

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