CARDITIS

Today, cardiac care of patients is a major medical problem and a lot of research and effort has gone into to reduce the incidence of cardiovascular diseases.

CARDITIS plans to develop a user-friendly, fast and reliable tool that will provide access to heterogeneous health information sources (MRI, IVUS, CT, Biplane angiography) and will introduce new methods for decision support and risk analysis.

CARDITIS' primary objective is to improve understanding of the human cardiovascular system.

The objectives of the CARDITIS system are:

• The introduction of a surgery planning system based on the construction of a 3D patient-specific geometric model of the cardiovascular system;
• The development of innovative and efficient methods for multimodal imaging, reconstruction and knowledge representation;
• To provide cardio surgeons and cardiologists with a tool for handling realistic simulations of medical procedures, an interactive virtual environment to design surgical plans and alter the geometry of the 3D individualized model.

For further information, please visit:
http://www.carditis.info

Project co-ordinator:
TeliaSonera Finland

Partners:

• TeliaSonera -ICT Turku, University of Turku (FI)
• IDS SCHEER (CZ)
• Michaelideion Cardiac Centre - HITECH SNT S.A. (GR)
• DAP Noesis - Apollonion Hospital (CY)

Timetable: from 04/04 – to 09/06

Total cost: € 3.644.650

EC funding: € 2.200.000

Instrument: STREP

Project Identifier: IST-2002-507170

Source: FP6 eHealth Portfolio of Projects