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EU funded project aims to improve diagnosis and treatment of heart conditions.

A new European research project, called euHeart, aims to use advanced computer modelling technology to improve treatment of heart disorders.
 
Headed by Philips Electronics, the project aims to produce personalised, patient-specific for a more tailor diagnosis, and therefore, more accurate treatment.
 
Using the technique, clinicians hope to be able to predict the outcome of various forms of treatment on a given patient.
 
Speaking about the development, Henk van Houten, senior vice president of Philips Research and head of the Healthcare Research programme, said: "The development of computer models that integrate structural and functional information of the heart and then personalise it to individual patients is a mammoth task that will require the multi-disciplinary effort of researchers with strong know-how in biophysical modelling and image processing, clinical experts, and engineers in the device and imaging industries. In the euHeart project we are confident that we have brought together the necessary expertise and that we can make a real contribution to improving the treatment of one of the world’s killer diseases." 

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