NVIDIA-backed open source AI models children's hearts in seconds, replacing 6-hour manual workflow
nvidia · x · 2026-09-18
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia built a cardiac modeling service on MONAI, an open source medical imaging framework co-founded by NVIDIA, turning existing CT, MRI, and 3D ultrasound scans into anatomically precise heart models in seconds — work that once took 4-6 hours of manual modeling.
- About 1% of live births involve congenital heart defects, each anatomically unique; modeling lets surgeons test device fit before entering the cath lab or OR
- Over 20 U.S. children's hospitals now run cardiac modeling programs; Boston Children's uses it for roughly 500 cases a year, and CHOP expects 200 modeled cases this year
- CHOP is extending the same tools to other specialties
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