Accelerating massively parallel hemodynamic models of coarctation of the aorta using neural networks
- Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States). Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (United States). Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ (United States). Dept. of Biological and Health Systems Engineering
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA (United States). Dept. of Data Sciences; Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA (United States). Dept. of Biostatistics; Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States). Dept. of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology; The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA (United States)
Comorbidities such as anemia or hypertension and physiological factors related to exertion can influence a patient’s hemodynamics and increase the severity of many cardiovascular diseases. Observing and quantifying associations between these factors and hemodynamics can be difficult due to the multitude of co-existing conditions and blood flow parameters in real patient data. Machine learning-driven, physics-based simulations provide a means to understand how potentially correlated conditions may affect a particular patient. Here, we use a combination of machine learning and massively parallel computing to predict the effects of physiological factors on hemodynamics in patients with coarctation of the aorta. We first validated blood flow simulations against in vitro measurements in 3D-printed phantoms representing the patient’s vasculature. We then investigated the effects of varying the degree of stenosis, blood flow rate, and viscosity on two diagnostic metrics – pressure gradient across the stenosis (ΔP) and wall shear stress (WSS) - by performing the largest simulation study to date of coarctation of the aorta (over 70 million compute hours). Using machine learning models trained on data from the simulations and validated on two independent datasets, we developed a framework to identify the minimal training set required to build a predictive model on a per-patient basis. We then used this model to accurately predict ΔP (mean absolute error within 1.18 mmHg) and WSS (mean absolute error within 0.99 Pa) for patients with this disease.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Institutes of Health (NIH); USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC52-07NA27344; DP5OD019876
- OSTI ID:
- 1817150
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1840107
- Report Number(s):
- LLNL-JRNL-811060; PII: 66225
- Journal Information:
- Scientific Reports, Vol. 10, Issue 1; ISSN 2045-2322
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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