Reconstructing patient-specific cardiac models from contours via Delaunay triangulation and graph-cuts.

This study proposes a novel method to reconstruct the left cardiac structure from contours. Given the contours representing left ventricle (LV), left atrium (LA), and aorta (AO), re-orientation, contour matching, extrapolation, and interpolation are performed sequentially. The processed data are then reconstructed via a variational method. The weighted minimal surface model is revised to handle the multi-phase cases, which happens at the LV-LA-AO junction. A Delaunay-based tetrahedral mesh is generated to discretize the domain while the max-flow/min-cut algorithm is utilized as the minimization tool. The reconstructed model including LV, LA, and AO structure is extracted from the mesh and post-processed further. Numerical examples show the robustness and effectiveness of the proposed method.