Patent Document ID: 9390224
Application ID: 14535755
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method for reporting the presence of myocardial bridging in a patient, the method comprising: receiving patient-specific image data of the patient's heart; receiving or generating a patient-specific model using the received patient-specific data, the patient-specific model representing at least a portion of the patient's myocardium and the patient's epicardial coronary artery; determining, in the patient-specific model, a distance from a surface of the modeled myocardium to a segment of the modeled epicardial coronary artery; detecting, using the determined distance, a portion of the determined segment of the epicardial coronary artery that is inside, at least partially surrounded by, or adjacent to the determined surface of the modeled myocardium; identifying or labeling the detected portion of the determined segment of the epicardial coronary artery as a location of myocardial bridging; computing, using at least one computer processor, at least one physical anatomical feature of the myocardial bridging from the detected portion of the determined segment of the epicardial coronary artery; and determining a severity score of the myocardial bridging using the physical anatomical feature of the myocardial bridging computed from the patient-specific model.