In this study we present a novel computational model for unprecedented simulations of the whole cardiac electrophysiology. According to the heterogeneous electrophysiologic properties of the heart, the whole cardiac geometry is decomposed into a set of coupled conductive media having different topology and electrical conductivities: (i) a network of slender bundles comprising a fast conduction atrial network, the AV-node and the ventricular bundles; (ii) the Purkinje network; and (iii) the atrial and ventricular myocardium. The propagation of the action potential in these conductive media is governed by the bidomain/monodomain equations, which are discretized in space using an in- house finite volume method and coupled to three different cell models, the Courtemanche model [1] for the atrial myocytes, the Stewart model [2] for the Purkinje Network and the ten Tusscher-Panfilov model [3] for the ventricular myocytes. The developed numerical model correctly reproduces the cardiac electrophysiology of the whole human heart in healthy and pathologic conditions and it can be tailored to study and optimize resynchronization therapies or invasive surgical procedures. Importantly, the whole solver is GPU-accelerated using CUDA Fortran providing an unprecedented speedup, thus opening the way for systematic parametric studies and uncertainty quantification analyses. (c) 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Del Corso, G., Verzicco, R., Viola, F. (2022). A fast computational model for the electrophysiology of the whole human heart. JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS, 457 [10.1016/j.jcp.2022.111084].

A fast computational model for the electrophysiology of the whole human heart

Roberto Verzicco;
2022-01-01

Abstract

In this study we present a novel computational model for unprecedented simulations of the whole cardiac electrophysiology. According to the heterogeneous electrophysiologic properties of the heart, the whole cardiac geometry is decomposed into a set of coupled conductive media having different topology and electrical conductivities: (i) a network of slender bundles comprising a fast conduction atrial network, the AV-node and the ventricular bundles; (ii) the Purkinje network; and (iii) the atrial and ventricular myocardium. The propagation of the action potential in these conductive media is governed by the bidomain/monodomain equations, which are discretized in space using an in- house finite volume method and coupled to three different cell models, the Courtemanche model [1] for the atrial myocytes, the Stewart model [2] for the Purkinje Network and the ten Tusscher-Panfilov model [3] for the ventricular myocytes. The developed numerical model correctly reproduces the cardiac electrophysiology of the whole human heart in healthy and pathologic conditions and it can be tailored to study and optimize resynchronization therapies or invasive surgical procedures. Importantly, the whole solver is GPU-accelerated using CUDA Fortran providing an unprecedented speedup, thus opening the way for systematic parametric studies and uncertainty quantification analyses. (c) 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
2022
Pubblicato
Rilevanza internazionale
Articolo
Esperti anonimi
Settore ING-IND/06 - FLUIDODINAMICA
English
Electrophysiology
Bidomain equations
Heart modeling
GPU computing
Del Corso, G., Verzicco, R., Viola, F. (2022). A fast computational model for the electrophysiology of the whole human heart. JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS, 457 [10.1016/j.jcp.2022.111084].
Del Corso, G; Verzicco, R; Viola, F
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