atrium are essential for resolving important flow features in the LV. Seo et al. [@seo2014effect] showed the MV to significantly affect the vortex ring propagation and flow field inside LV. They also found that due to the asymmetry of the MV a circulatory flow pattern can be generated in the LV which can enhance apical washout ability and reduce the risk of thrombus formation. Su et al. [@su2016cardiac] investigated the effect of MV on vortex formation time (VFT). Their results showed that VFT is a promising parameter to characterize the performance of the LV. However, only a few simulations studied the flow pattern inside the LV incorporated with both ventricular valves [@su2014numerical; @su2016cardiac; @mao2017fully] and even fewer compared flow pattern in healthy LV with left ventricles with any kind of heart failure [@su2016cardiac].

In this study, a generalized method to automate reconstruction of the 3D LV geometry from standard 2D echo projections [@rajan2016automated] is extended to reconstruct the valves and the superior wall to generate a closed 3D geometry for CFD simulations (section \[Superior wall reconstruction\]). A new method is developed for the reconstruction of AV and MV based on $1$ and $3$ standard sections from 2D echo, respectively (section 