euHeart - Matters of the Heart
Welcome to euHeart, a European research initiative targeting the personalized diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease: the leading cause of morbidity in the western world.
- Source: Philips
The project combines seventeen industrial, clinical and academic partners, whose collective goal is the development of individualized, computer-based, human heart models. Using comprehensive, patient-specific data as the basis for their design, these models will provide insight into the origin and progression of specific disease patterns, including those associated with heart failure, heart rhythm disorders, coronary artery disease, and aortic disease.
Along with these new computing tools, euHeart aims to highlight the benefits of multi-scale models for meaningfully improving clinical outcomes. Individualized models developed during the project will, consequently, be integrated into clinical contexts, to guide disease treatment and management - while data gained from the models’ construction will be used to optimize the medical tools employed for cardiovascular intervention.
As indicated by this balance of objectives, euHeart is a project concerned with, not merely thinking, but acting; a project focused on bridging the gap between academia and industry, to provide a better quality of cardiac care in the clinics of the European community.
