HVSMR-2.0: A 3D cardiovascular MR dataset for whole-heart segmentation in congenital heart disease

DF Pace, HTM Contreras, J Romanowicz, S Ghelani… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
Patients with congenital heart disease often have cardiac anatomy that deviates significantly
from normal, frequently requiring multiple heart surgeries. Image segmentation from a …

Congenital heart disease illustrated: use of cross-sectional imaging in pediatric cardiology

YH Loke, SK Gupta, J Mandell… - Journal of Thoracic …, 2024 - journals.lww.com
In the modern era of cardiac imaging, there is increasing use of cardiac computed
tomography and cardiac magnetic resonance for visualization of congenital heart disease …

Tetralogy of Fallot regurgitation energetics and kinetics: an intracardiac flow analysis of the right ventricle using computational fluid dynamics

YH Loke, IN Yildiran, F Capuano, E Balaras… - … International Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Repaired Tetralogy of Fallot (rTOF) patients suffer from pulmonary regurgitation and
may require pulmonary valve replacement (PVR). Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging …

Virtual planning and patient-specific graft design for aortic repairs

S Aslan, X Liu, Q Wu, P Mass, YH Loke… - Cardiovascular …, 2024 - Springer
Purpose Patients presenting with coarctation of the aorta (CoA) may also suffer from co-
existing transverse arch hypoplasia (TAH). Depending on the risks associated with the …

Automatic Laplacian-based shape optimization for patient-specific vascular grafts

M Habibi, S Aslan, X Liu, YH Loke, A Krieger… - Computers in Biology …, 2025 - Elsevier
Cognitional heart disease is one of the leading causes of mortality among newborns. Tissue-
engineered vascular grafts offer the potential to help treat cognitional heart disease through …

[HTML][HTML] The convergent cavopulmonary connection: a novel and efficient configuration of Fontan to accommodate mechanical support

P Sinha, J Contento, B Kim, K Wang, Q Wu… - JTCVS open, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective The current total cavopulmonary connection Fontan has competing inflows and
outflows, creating hemodynamic inefficiencies that contribute to Fontan failure and …

[HTML][HTML] Numerical simulation of the cavopulmonary connection flow with conduit stenoses of varying configurations

M Timofeeva, C Lav, MMH Cheung, A Ooi - Computers in Biology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The circulation in the total cavopulmonary connection (TCPC) is a low-energy system which
operation and efficiency are subjected to multiple factors. Some retrospective studies report …

Computational Fontan analysis: preserving accuracy while expediting workflow

X Liu, S Aslan, B Kim, L Warburton… - World Journal for …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Postoperative outcomes of the Fontan operation have been linked to geometry
of the cavopulmonary pathway, including graft shape after implantation. Computational fluid …

In vitro measurement of hepatic flow distribution in Fontan vascular conduits: Towards rapid validation techniques

R Rasooli, B Kose, SS Lashkarinia, A Sasmazel… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Fontan operation is the last stage of single-ventricle surgical reconstructions that connects
superior and inferior vena cava (SVC, IVC) to the pulmonary arteries. The key design …

[HTML][HTML] Virtual reality cardiac surgical planning software (CorFix) for designing patient-specific vascular grafts: development and pilot usability study

B Kim, P Nguyen, YH Loke, V Cleveland, X Liu… - JMIR cardio, 2022 - cardio.jmir.org
Background: Patients with single ventricle heart defects receive 3 stages of operations
culminating in the Fontan procedure. During the Fontan procedure, a vascular graft is …