| Abstrakt: |
A patent has been issued to HeartFlow Inc. for systems and methods that assess cardiovascular disease and treatment effectiveness using adipose tissue. The patent describes a method that involves identifying a vascular bed of interest in a patient's vasculature, receiving a medical image of the identified vascular bed, identifying adipose tissue in the image, receiving a geometric vascular model, and computing an inflammation index associated with the model using the identified adipose tissue. The patent also includes a system and a computer-readable medium for implementing this method. The invention aims to fill existing gaps in cardiovascular disease assessment and treatment by utilizing knowledge of adipose tissue. [Extracted from the article] |
