Cardiac digital twins at scale from MRI: Open tools and representative models from ~ 55000 UK Biobank participants.

A cardiac digital twin is a virtual replica of a patient's heart for screening, diagnosis, prognosis, risk assessment, and treatment planning of cardiovascular diseases. This requires an anatomically accurate patient-specific 3D structural representation of the heart, suitable for electro-mecha...

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Main Authors: Devran Ugurlu, Shuang Qian, Elliot Fairweather, Charlene Mauger, Bram Ruijsink, Laura Dal Toso, Yu Deng, Marina Strocchi, Reza Razavi, Alistair Young, Pablo Lamata, Steven Niederer, Martin Bishop
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Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2025-01-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0327158
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author Devran Ugurlu
Shuang Qian
Elliot Fairweather
Charlene Mauger
Bram Ruijsink
Laura Dal Toso
Yu Deng
Marina Strocchi
Reza Razavi
Alistair Young
Pablo Lamata
Steven Niederer
Martin Bishop
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Shuang Qian
Elliot Fairweather
Charlene Mauger
Bram Ruijsink
Laura Dal Toso
Yu Deng
Marina Strocchi
Reza Razavi
Alistair Young
Pablo Lamata
Steven Niederer
Martin Bishop
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description A cardiac digital twin is a virtual replica of a patient's heart for screening, diagnosis, prognosis, risk assessment, and treatment planning of cardiovascular diseases. This requires an anatomically accurate patient-specific 3D structural representation of the heart, suitable for electro-mechanical simulations or study of disease mechanisms. However, generation of cardiac digital twins at scale is demanding and there are no public repositories of models across demographic groups. We describe an automatic open-source pipeline for creating patient-specific left and right ventricular meshes from cardiovascular magnetic resonance images, its application to a large cohort of [Formula: see text] participants from UK Biobank, and the construction of the most comprehensive cohort of adult heart models to date, comprising 1423 representative meshes across sex (male, female), body mass index (range: 16-42 kg/m2) and age (range: 49-80 years). Our code is available at https://github.com/cdttk/biv-volumetric-meshing/tree/plos2025, and pre-trained networks, representative volumetric meshes with fibers and UVCs are available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15649643.
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spelling doaj-art-612080eab9b641119ff93bc9fd2cc9622025-08-20T03:51:20ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032025-01-01207e032715810.1371/journal.pone.0327158Cardiac digital twins at scale from MRI: Open tools and representative models from ~ 55000 UK Biobank participants.Devran UgurluShuang QianElliot FairweatherCharlene MaugerBram RuijsinkLaura Dal TosoYu DengMarina StrocchiReza RazaviAlistair YoungPablo LamataSteven NiedererMartin BishopA cardiac digital twin is a virtual replica of a patient's heart for screening, diagnosis, prognosis, risk assessment, and treatment planning of cardiovascular diseases. This requires an anatomically accurate patient-specific 3D structural representation of the heart, suitable for electro-mechanical simulations or study of disease mechanisms. However, generation of cardiac digital twins at scale is demanding and there are no public repositories of models across demographic groups. We describe an automatic open-source pipeline for creating patient-specific left and right ventricular meshes from cardiovascular magnetic resonance images, its application to a large cohort of [Formula: see text] participants from UK Biobank, and the construction of the most comprehensive cohort of adult heart models to date, comprising 1423 representative meshes across sex (male, female), body mass index (range: 16-42 kg/m2) and age (range: 49-80 years). Our code is available at https://github.com/cdttk/biv-volumetric-meshing/tree/plos2025, and pre-trained networks, representative volumetric meshes with fibers and UVCs are available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15649643.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0327158
spellingShingle Devran Ugurlu
Shuang Qian
Elliot Fairweather
Charlene Mauger
Bram Ruijsink
Laura Dal Toso
Yu Deng
Marina Strocchi
Reza Razavi
Alistair Young
Pablo Lamata
Steven Niederer
Martin Bishop
Cardiac digital twins at scale from MRI: Open tools and representative models from ~ 55000 UK Biobank participants.
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title Cardiac digital twins at scale from MRI: Open tools and representative models from ~ 55000 UK Biobank participants.
title_full Cardiac digital twins at scale from MRI: Open tools and representative models from ~ 55000 UK Biobank participants.
title_fullStr Cardiac digital twins at scale from MRI: Open tools and representative models from ~ 55000 UK Biobank participants.
title_full_unstemmed Cardiac digital twins at scale from MRI: Open tools and representative models from ~ 55000 UK Biobank participants.
title_short Cardiac digital twins at scale from MRI: Open tools and representative models from ~ 55000 UK Biobank participants.
title_sort cardiac digital twins at scale from mri open tools and representative models from 55000 uk biobank participants
url https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0327158
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