Reconstructing blood flow in data-poor regimes: a vasculature network kernel for Gaussian process regression

Shaghayegh Z. Ashtiani, Mohammad Sarabian, Kaveh Laksari, Hessam Babaee

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Abstract

Blood flow reconstruction in the vasculature is important for many clinical applications. However, in clinical settings, the available data are often quite limited. For instance, transcranial Doppler ultrasound is a non-invasive clinical tool that is commonly used in clinical settings to measure blood velocity waveforms at several locations. This amount of data is grossly insufficient for training machine learning surrogate models, such as deep neural networks or Gaussian process regression. In this work, we propose a Gaussian process regression approach based on empirical kernels constructed by data generated from physics-based simulations - enabling near-real-time reconstruction of blood flow in data-poor regimes. We introduce a novel methodology to reconstruct the kernel within the vascular network. The proposed kernel encodes both spatiotemporal and vessel-to-vessel correlations, thus enabling blood flow reconstruction in vessels that lack direct measurements. We demonstrate that any prediction made with the proposed kernel satisfies the conservation of mass principle. The kernel is constructed by running stochastic one-dimensional blood flow simulations, where the stochasticity captures the epistemic uncertainties, such as lack of knowledge about boundary conditions and uncertainties in vasculature geometries. We demonstrate the performance of the model on three test cases, namely, a simple Y-shaped bifurcation, abdominal aorta and the circle of Willis in the brain.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number20240194
JournalJournal of the Royal Society Interface
Volume21
Issue number217
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 22 2024

Keywords

  • approximations
  • cardiovascular and cerebrovascular blood flow
  • data-poor regimes
  • empirical kernel
  • low-rank approximations

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biotechnology
  • Biophysics
  • Bioengineering
  • Biomaterials
  • Biochemistry
  • Biomedical Engineering

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