Dr. Mahesh Kappanayil has worked at Amrita Hospital, Kochi since 2004, where he is Professor of Paediatric Cardiology and heads the Amrita Medical 3D Printing, Extended Reality and Innovation Laboratories. He also coordinates the Amrita Centre for Cardiac Engineering and is nodal officer of the Amrita Telemedicine Unit. He holds an MBBS, DCH, DNB (Paediatrics) and FNB (Paediatric Cardiology), and is recognised as an expert in advanced cardiac imaging including cardiac MRI and CT, having led the paediatric cardiac MRI programme at Amrita since 2010 , the first dedicated congenital heart MRI programme in India. With his team of engineers he creates digital twins of patient anatomy from scan images, which clinicians can walk through in virtual reality for surgical planning. He advises Maitri-Labs on the CHD segmentation programme's acquisition protocols and clinical endpoints.
- Virtual reality in planning complex heart surgeryThe Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery · 2026 ↗
- Beyond In-Distribution Metrics: A Systematic Out-of-Distribution Evaluation of Congenital Heart Disease SegmentationSTACOM @ MICCAI · 2026 ↗
- 3-Dimensional Virtual Reality-Based Visualization of Fetal Cardiac Anatomy With the Use of Ultrasound DatasetsJACC: Case Reports · 2025 ↗
- Phenotypic expression, genotypic profiling and clinical outcomes of infantile hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a retrospective studyArchives of Disease in Childhood · 2024 ↗
- Prenatal Diagnosis of a Large Left Coronary Artery to Right Ventricle Fistula With 3-Dimensional/4-Dimensional Spatiotemporal Image Correlation Rendering Followed by Successful Neonatal Transcatheter ClosureCirculation: Cardiovascular Imaging · 2022 ↗