Generate tetrahedral meshes of adult human heart, using the statistical shape model.

Deformetrica: http://www.deformetrica.org/

Gmsh: https://gmsh.info/

The file Weights.csv in DataInput/PCA should contain a table with desired weights of each of the 18 modes provided as rows.

Pipeline.py conatins all the relevant functions. To generate heart meshes:

• provide the path to your gmsh executable,
• set up the output path and the indices of meshes to be tetrahedralized and run the script.

If you would like to just download already existing meshes, check out

1. https://zenodo.org/record/4590294 for the original hearts on which the statistical shape model was based.
2. https://zenodo.org/record/4593739 for the meshes with extreme variation along the modes.
3. https://zenodo.org/record/4506930 for a set of 1000 meshes with randomly generated weights.

Please quote the following publication:

Rodero C, Strocchi M, Marciniak M, Longobardi S, Whitaker J, et al. (2021) Linking statistical shape models and simulated function in the healthy adult human heart. PLOS Computational Biology 17(4): e1008851. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008851

The code is openly available. If this tool has been useful in your research, please reference this site https://github.com/MaciejPMarciniak/CardiacMeshConstruction