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Electrocardiographic imaging non-invasively reconstructs activation maps of the heart from temporal body surface potential maps by post-processing solutions of an inverse problem. Typically, activation times are detected through the maximal…
The bidomain model is widely used in electro-cardiology to simulate spreading of excitation in the myocardium and electrocardiograms. It consists of a system of two parabolic reaction diffusion equations coupled with an ODE system. Its…
A discrete time model that is capable of replicating the basic features of cardiac cell action potentials is suggested. The paper shows how the map-based approaches can be used to design highly efficient computational models (algorithms)…
This work deals with the numerical solution of the monodomain and bidomain models of electrical activity of myocardial tissue. The bidomain model is a system consisting of a possibly degenerate parabolic PDE coupled with an elliptic PDE for…
The numerical simulation of cardiac electrophysiology is a highly challenging problem in scientific computing. The Bidomain system is the most complete mathematical model of cardiac bioelectrical activity. It consists of an elliptic and a…
The refractory period of cardiac tissue can be quantitatively described using strength-interval (SI) curves. The information captured in SI curves is pertinent to the design of anti-arrhythmic devices including pacemakers and implantable…
This work is dedicated to the simulation of full cycles of the electrical activity of the heart and the corresponding body surface potential. The model is based on a realistic torso and heart anatomy, including ventricles and atria. One of…
First principles calculations based on density functional theory are having an incerasing impact on our understanding of molecule-surface interactions. For example, calculations of the multi-dimensional potential energy surface have…
The Extracellular-Membrane-Intracellular (EMI) model is a novel mathematical framework for cardiac electrophysiology simulations. The EMI model provides a more detailed description of the heart's electrical activity compared to traditional…
Computer-based simulations of non-invasive cardiac electrical outputs, such as electrocardiograms and body surface potential maps, usually entail severe computational costs due to the need of capturing fine-scale processes and to the…
This work presents a biventricular electromechanical human heart model that is comprehensive and clinically relevant, integrating a realistic 3D heart geometry with both systemic and pulmonary hemodynamics. The model uses a two-way…
In this work we address the issue of validating the monodomain equation used in combination with the Bueno-Orovio ionic model for the prediction of the activation times in cardiac electro-physiology of the left ventricle. To this aim, we…
Given a topological cell decomposition of a closed surface equipped with edge weights, we consider the Dirichlet energy of any geodesic realization of the 1-skeleton graph to a hyperbolic surface. By minimizing the energy over all possible…
The numerical tools to simulate the bidomain model in cardiac electrophysiology are constantly developing due to the great clinical interest and scientific advances in mathematical models and computational power. The bidomain model consists…
The prediction of heart surface potentials using measurements from the body's surface is known as the inverse problem of electrocardiography. It is an ill-posed problem due to the multiple factors that affect the heart signal as it…
We derive exact expressions for the forces and torques between biaxial molecules interacting via the RE-squared potential, a recent variant of the Gay-Berne potential. Moreover, efficient routines have been provided for rigid body MD…
Measurements of electric potentials from neural activity have played a key role in neuroscience for almost a century, and simulations of neural activity is an important tool for understanding such measurements. Volume conductor (VC) theory…
We investigate analytically the performance of many-body energy functionals, derived respectively by Klein and Luttinger and Ward, at different levels of diagrammatic approximations, ranging from second Born, to GW, to the so-called…
We discuss the forward and inverse problems between the potential V(x) measured in a heart chamber and its sources represented by a dipole density d(y) located on the heart wall. We show that the mapping from d(y) to V(x) is a compact…
Mathematical models of cardiac electrical activity are one of the most important tools for elucidating information about the heart diagnostic. Even though it is one of the major problems in biomedical research, an efficient mathematical…