Dr inż. Zbigniew Tyfa works in the Division of Medical Equipment. His research activity has been focused on biomedical image processing, programming, and numerical simulations of blood flow. He defended his doctoral thesis Zautomatyzowany system modelowania geometrii naczyń krwionośnych i analizy przepływu krwi w ich układach [Automated system for modeling blood vessel geometry and analysis of blood flow in vascular systems] in 2021. In his LIDER-funded project, the young scholar will continue his research to develop safe numerical techniques to diagnose cardiovascular disease.
Dr inż. Zbigniew Tyfa explains:
‘The objective in the project is to develop an interactive application called MAPIATO, which will aid physicians, especially neurosurgeons, in deciding on patient-specific optimal aneurysm treatment option based on the anatomy of the patient's vessels. Data generated by this program will rely on a neural network and tens of thousands of results generated from computational fluid mechanics (i.e., numerical simulations of intracranial arterial blood flow). For this, we will perform in-silico analysis of blood flow in the geometries of vascular vessels prior to and post virtual surgeries to manage different aneurysms. MAPIATO will aid the physician in planning medical intervention for a particular aneurysm by providing an objective representation of the possible outcomes of the selected technique.’
The laureate of the grant scheme funded by NCBR has assembled an interdisciplinary group of researchers for the project, of which he will be the leader. The group includes dr n. med. Karol Wiśniewski (neurosurgery), dr inż. Justyna Gaj (materials engineering and biomedical engineering), dr inż. Olga Jarzyna (mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering), mgr inż. Bartosz Kawecki (mechanical engineering), dr inż. Krzysztof Olasek (mechanical engineering, flow metrology), mgr inż. Paweł Tarasiuk (computer science, mathematics and neural networks).