title: Internet-based system for simulation-based medical planning for cardiovascular disease.
abstract: Current practice in vascular surgery utilizes only diagnostic and empirical data to plan treatments, which does not enable quantitative a priori prediction of the outcomes of interventions. We have previously described simulation-based medical planning methods to model blood flow in arteries and plan medical treatments based on physiologic models. An important consideration for the design of these patient-specific modeling systems is the accessibility to physicians with modest computational resources. We describe a simulation-based medical planning environment developed for the World Wide Web (WWW) using the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) and the Java programming language.
authors.affiliation: Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94035, USA. bnsteel@stanford.edu
authors.forename: Brooke N
authors.initials: BN
authors.lastname: Steele
authors.forename: Mary T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Draney
authors.forename: Joy P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Ku
authors.forename: Charles A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Taylor
mesh_terms: D001783:Blood Flow Velocity; D001808:Blood Vessels / Q000503:physiopathology; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003658:Decision Making, Computer-Assisted; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008955:Models, Cardiovascular; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D012984:Software; D013813:Therapy, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D014652:Vascular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*