To meet this challenge we will bring together leading European physiological modelling and cardiac groups to develop, integrate and clinically validate patient-specific computational models of the cardiac physiology and disease-related processes. The main outcome of euHeart will be an open source framework for the description and representation of normal and pathological multi-scale and multi-physics cardiovascular models, using the international encoding standards. In addition, a library of innovative tools for the execution of the biophysical simulations, the personalisation of the models and the automated analysis of multi-modal images are developed.
Evidence of clinical benefit will be collected to quantify potential impact for a number of significant CVD's namely, heart failure, cardiac rhythm disorder, coronary artery disease and valvular and aortic diseases. Each of the selected clinical applications provides a complementary focus for the resulting integrated model of cardiac fluid-electro-mechanical function. The consortium contains a mix of academic leadership, clinical sites, and industrial partners ensuring exploitation of the wealth of models.
For further information, please visit:
http://www.euheart.org
Project co-ordinator:
Philips Technologie GmbH
Partners:
- INRIA, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique
- King's College London
- Academisch Medisch Centrum bij de Universiteit van Amsterdam
- Polydimensions GmbH
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- The University of Sheffield
- Hospital Clinico San Carlos de Madrid Insalud
- Philips Iberica S.A.
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)
- Volcano Europe SA/NV
- The Chancellor, Master and Scholars of the University of Oxford
- HemoLab B.V.
- Deutsche Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ)
- Berlin Heart GmbH
- Universität Karlsruhe (Technische Hochschule)
- Philips Medical Systems Nederland BV
Timetable: from 06/2008 to 05/2012
Total cost: 19.053.465
EC funding: 13.900.000
Programme Acronym: FP7-ICT
Subprogramme Area: Virtual physiological human
Contract type: Collaborative project (generic)
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