SimVascular

The only fully open source software package providing a complete pipeline from medical image data segmentation to patient specific blood flow simulation and analysis.

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What SimVascular can do for you

Patient-specific cardiovascular simulation has become a paradigm in cardiovascular research and is emerging as a powerful tool in basic, translational and clinical research. In this paper we discuss the recent development of a fully open-source SimVascular software package, which provides a complete pipeline from medical image data segmentation to patient-specific blood flow simulation and analysis. This package serves as a research tool for cardiovascular modeling and simulation, and has contributed to numerous advances in personalized medicine, surgical planning and medical device design. The SimVascular software has recently been refactored and expanded to enhance functionality, usability, efficiency and accuracy of image-based patient-specific modeling tools. Moreover, SimVascular previously required several licensed components that hindered new user adoption and code management and our recent developments have replaced these commercial components to create a fully open source pipeline. These developments foster advances in cardiovascular modeling research, increased collaboration, standardization of methods, and a growing developer community.

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Programming languages
  • C++ 59%
  • Tcl 27%
  • Makefile 5%
  • CMake 3%
  • Python 3%
  • C 1%
  • JavaScript 1%
  • Other 1%
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Participating organisations

Lawson Health Research Institute
Digital Research Alliance of Canada
Canarie

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Contributors

MP
Martin Pfaller
Association of German Engineers (VDI)
NW
Nathan Wilson
NW
Nathan Wilson
SK
Sanjay R. Kharche