Patent ID: 9649171
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: A61B,G06F,G06T,G16B,G16H,G16Z

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method of evaluating a patient with vascular disease, the method comprising: receiving or determining patient-specific data representing at least a portion of a location of disease in the patient's vasculature; receiving or determining, from the patient-specific data, values of one or more plaque remodeling characteristics at the location of disease, the one or more plaque remodeling characteristics including at least one of: plaque composition, plaque location, plaque vulnerability, hemodynamic forces, intramural stress, and/or plaque inflammatory status; calculating, based on the received or determined values of the one or more plaque remodeling characteristics, a propensity of the disease in the patient's vasculature to progress or regress; generating, using the calculated propensity, an anatomic model of the location of disease at a first point of time; identifying, based on the calculated propensity, a progression or regression of the disease in the patient's vasculature by modeling the progression or the regression of the disease using the generated anatomic model; identifying a second point of time different from the first point of time, the second point of time being associated with the progression or regression of the disease in the patient's vasculature; and generating a display including the identified progression or regression of the disease at the location of disease at the second point of time or generating a display including recommending assessment of the progression or regression of disease at the location of disease at the second point of time.