title: In the Spotlight: Cardiovascular Engineering.
abstract: This article reviews the development of patient-specific image-based models of the heart and the circulatory system. The goal of these types of models is to provide better assessment of cardiovascular function under the patient-specific pathophysiological conditions and to serve as a testbed for improved cardiovascular therapies that are tailored to the patient. These new models constitute a part of the growing trend towards the development of new computational approaches (i.e., computational medicine) that can aid treatment and prevention of human disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA. ntrayanova@jhu.edu
authors.forename: Natalia
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Trayanova
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001698:Biomedical Engineering / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends*; D003198:Computer Simulation / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D008955:Models, Cardiovascular; D011173:Portraits as Topic