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Kristin McLeod is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Cardiac Modeling (CaMo) Department, Simula Research Laboratory. Since October 2013 she has been collaborating with CCI and GEVU in the devlopment of next generation ultrasound systems for cardiology. McLeod represented CCI at the Virtual Physiological Human Conference in Trondheim, giving an oral presentation of her poster titled Metamodelling of Structural Abnormalities in the ARVC Heart. As stated on the VPH webpage: (i) the establishment of a digital representation of the individual is key to realising a real personalized medicine |
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Metamodelling of Structural Abnormalities in the ARVC Heart. Presentation by Kristin McLeod, PhD: Quantifying the structural abnormalities of the ventricles in ARVC patients may lead to measures of disease severity that could give insight into the stage of the disease to better evaluate the need for clinical intervention in the form of antiarrhythmic medication or ICD implantation. Structural abnormalities can be qualitatively analyzed from images by visual inspection. However, comparing qualitative measures from different observers and different patients is difficult. Therefore, defining quantitative measures of structural abnormalities can give a more unbiased means for comparative analysis. A metamodelling approach for analysing the structure was presented, to study the relationship between anatomical features and clinical diagnostic indices. |
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