How a Major Children's Hospital Uses Open Source NVIDIA AI for Cardiac Care
nordicinst · x · 2026-09-15
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) has built a cardiac modeling service on MONAI — an open source medical imaging framework co-founded by NVIDIA — that turns a child's existing CT, MRI, and 3D ultrasound scans into anatomically precise heart models in seconds. Work that once took a skilled researcher four hours is now fast enough for routine clinical use.
Key facts:
- About 1% of live births involve congenital heart defects, and no two are alike; surgical devices were rarely designed for a specific child's anatomy.
- Modeling lets clinicians validate device fit before catheterization or surgery.
- More than 20 U.S. children's hospitals now run cardiac modeling programs; at Boston Children's Hospital, modeling supports over half of all cardiac surgeries (500 cases/year), and CHOP expects 200 modeled cases this year.
- CHOP is extending the same tools to other specialties.
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