PUNCH: Physics-informed Uncertainty-aware Network for Coronary Hemodynamics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.17192v1
• Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:47:23 GMT
• Title: PUNCH: Physics-informed Uncertainty-aware Network for Coronary Hemodynamics
• Authors: Sukirt Thakur, Marcus Roper, Yang Zhou, Reza Akbarian Bafghi, Brahmajee K. Nallamothu, C. Alberto Figueroa, Srinivas Paruchuri, Scott Burger, Maziar Raissi,
• Abstract summary: We introduce a non-diagnosed, uncertainty-aware framework for estimating coronary flow reserve directly from standard angiography.<n>The system integrates physics-informed neural networks with variational inference to infer coronary blood flow from first-principles models of contrast transport.<n>The pipeline runs in approximately three minutes per patient on a single GPU, with no population-level training.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD) affects millions worldwide yet remains underdiagnosed because gold-standard physiological measurements are invasive and variably reproducible. We introduce a non-invasive, uncertainty-aware framework for estimating coronary flow reserve (CFR) directly from standard angiography. The system integrates physics-informed neural networks with variational inference to infer coronary blood flow from first-principles models of contrast transport, without requiring ground-truth flow measurements. The pipeline runs in approximately three minutes per patient on a single GPU, with no population-level training. Using 1{,}000 synthetic spatiotemporal intensity maps (kymographs) with controlled noise and artifacts, the framework reliably identifies degraded data and outputs appropriately inflated uncertainty estimates, showing strong correspondence between predictive uncertainty and error (Pearson $r = 0.997$, Spearman $ρ= 0.998$). Clinical validation in 12 patients shows strong agreement between PUNCH-derived CFR and invasive bolus thermodilution (Pearson $r = 0.90$, $p = 6.3 \times 10^{-5}$). We focus on the LAD, the artery most commonly assessed in routine CMD testing. Probabilistic CFR estimates have confidence intervals narrower than the variability of repeated invasive measurements. By transforming routine angiography into quantitative, uncertainty-aware assessment, this approach enables scalable, safer, and more reproducible evaluation of coronary microvascular function. Because standard angiography is widely available globally, the framework could expand access to CMD diagnosis and establish a new paradigm for physics-informed, patient-specific inference from clinical imaging.

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