# Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Uses Open Source AI and MONAI to Model Pediatric Hearts

DevFeed: [Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Uses Open Source AI and MONAI to Model Pediatric Hearts](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/heart-of-the-matter-how-a-major-children-s-hospital-uses-open-source-nvidia-ai-for-cardiac-care-26608.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/childrens-hospital-open-source-ai-cardiac-care/>)

Author: Isha Salian

Published: 2026-09-15T09:00:42Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [NVIDIA Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/nvidia-blog.md>)

Topics: [MONAI](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monai.md>), [Medical imaging](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/medical-imaging.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Machine learning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/machine-learning.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-for-good](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-for-good.md>), [healthcare-and-life-sciences](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/healthcare-and-life-sciences.md>), [machine-learning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/machine-learning.md>), [medical-imaging](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/medical-imaging.md>), [monai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monai.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [openusd](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/openusd.md>), [robotics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/robotics.md>), [simulation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/simulation.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>)

## AI overview

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia uses open source AI tools built on MONAI to generate anatomically precise pediatric heart models from medical images in seconds. Its teams are applying machine learning to support care for children with congenital heart disease.

## Source excerpt

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is using open source AI tools to model children's hearts in seconds -- with the goal of enabling safer, more precise care for kids with congenital heart disease.