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  • Cardiovascular fluid mechanics
  • Computational fluid dynamics
  • Biomedical engineering

Background:

  • Accurate blood flow modeling is vital for understanding cardiovascular diseases.
  • Current computational and experimental methods face limitations due to parameter uncertainty, low resolution, and noise.
  • Extracting meaningful insights from cardiovascular flow data is challenging.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review data-driven modeling techniques for cardiovascular flow analysis.
  • To highlight common principles across various data-driven methods.
  • To provide examples of these techniques applied to cardiovascular fluid mechanics.

Main Methods:

  • Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
  • Robust PCA
  • Compressed Sensing
  • Kalman Filter for data assimilation
  • Low-rank data recovery
  • Dynamic Mode Decomposition
  • Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics

Main Results:

  • Data-driven techniques can overcome limitations of traditional methods in cardiovascular flow modeling.
  • These methods offer potential for reduced-order modeling and improved data interpretation.
  • Illustrative examples demonstrate applicability in cardiovascular fluid mechanics.

Conclusions:

  • Data-driven modeling holds transformative potential for cardiovascular research.
  • Challenges and opportunities exist in applying these techniques, particularly for patient-specific modeling.
  • Future work should focus on advancing data-driven approaches for personalized cardiovascular analysis.