Fig. 3.

Cm-rep template of the open mitral leaflets used for deformable modeling. (a and b) The medial manifold of the template is a triangulated mesh, with red nodes referring to the anterior leaflet and blue labels referring to the posterior leaflet. The mitral annulus is represented by the bold black curve on the outer medial edge. (c) Leaflet boundaries constructed analytically from the medial manifold, given a constant radial thickness for initialization. (For interpretation of the references to color in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article.)