Physics-Informed Hemodynamic Modeling for Data-Free Prediction and Sparse-Data Assimilation
Organizations: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China. · Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China. · Department of Cardiology, Laboratory of Cardiac Structure and Function at Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, and Cardiac Structure and Function Research Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No.37 Guoxue Street, Chengdu 610041, P.R. China. · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China. · Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon Hung Hom, Hong Kong, China.
Abstract
Clinical decision-making for coronary intervention relies mainly on angiography and fractional flow reserve (FFR). However, angiography is two-dimensional and lacks depth information for 3D lesion characterization, while FFR provides only a single functional index, offering limited hemodynamic insight. Among existing methods, numerical analysis is computationally expensive, whereas learning-based approaches require extensive supervision and often lack physical consistency. To address these limitations, we propose physics-informed hemodynamic modeling, an integrated deep learning framework for 3D coronary blood flow analysis from dual-view angiography. First, an attention-enhanced CNN reconstructs coronary geometry from angiography. The resulting point clouds are then mapped to a reference domain and Fourier-encoded for joint representation. A decoupled network separately predicts velocity and pressure fields, with embedded physical priors enabling efficient transfer across physiological conditions. Across 32 clinical patients evaluated under four flow conditions, the trans-stenotic pressure-drop mean absolute percentage error was 2.02%, while the velocity and pressure relative-L2 errors were 0.054 and 0.023, respectively. Validation against hospital-measured FFR further achieved 93.8% diagnostic accuracy (30/32; exact 95% CI, 79.2%-99.2%). The framework also supports illustrative revascularization comparisons and sparse-data assimilation, with the full angiography-to-hemodynamics pipeline completed within 20 minutes per patient.