Who?
As a cardiac imaging researcher, I want to:
- To learn normal myocardial shape at different age ranges
- To determine shape features that may identify patients at risk for developing sudden cardiac death
- To differentiate between cardiac disease states with overlapping phenotype (hypertensive heart disease vs. hypertrophic cardiomyopathy)
- To quantify response to treatment by measuring shape alterations after treatment intervention
How?
These needs/desires serve as the basis for the design of the CAWorks tool and its underlying infrastructure. Within CAWorks, users can:
- Download a fully-functional image analysis tool
- Analyze mask images of left-ventricular myocardium from computed tomography (high-resolution image volumes) and/or cardiac MRI cross-sections
- Access large diffeomorphic metric mapping (LDDMM)-based cardiac shape analysis within the tool
CAWorks Benefits:
- Provide a research environment without costs associated with building and maintaining the infrastructure
- Provide quantitative metrics at high spatial resolution independent of imaging plane of acquisition
- Export results to any labeling convention including, but not limited to, AHA 17-segments
Pipeline for shape analysis of high-resolution CT images
Pipeline for shape analysis of MRI cross-sections
Learn More
Additional information on CAWorks can be found in the tools section here.