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ArticleJournal of computational physics2017

Efficient computation of electrograms and ECGs in human whole heart simulations using a reaction-eikonal model.

Aurel Neic, Fernando O Campos, Anton J Prassl, Steven A Niederer, Martin J Bishop, Edward J Vigmond, Gernot Plank

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Article in Journal of computational physics, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 86 papers.

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7 authors.

Aurel NeicInstitute of Biophysics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
Fernando O CamposInstitute of Biophysics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
Anton J PrasslInstitute of Biophysics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
Steven A NiedererDept. Biomedical Engineering, Division of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, King's College of London, London, United Kingdom.
Martin J BishopDept. Biomedical Engineering, Division of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, King's College of London, London, United Kingdom.
Edward J VigmondUniversity of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.
Gernot PlankInstitute of Biophysics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.

Funding

Austrian Science Fund FWF F 3210Austrian Science Fund FWF I 2760British Heart Foundation PG/11/101/29212British Heart Foundation PG/15/91/31812
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Anatomically accurate and biophysically detailed bidomain models of the human heart have proven a powerful tool for gaining quantitative insight into the links between electrical sources in the myocardium and the concomitant current flow in the surrounding medium as they represent their relationship mechanistically based on first principles. Such models are increasingly considered as a clinical research tool with the perspective of being used, ultimately, as a complementary diagnostic modality. An important prerequisite in many clinical modeling applications is the ability of models to faithfully replicate potential maps and electrograms recorded from a given patient. However, while the personalization of electrophysiology models based on the gold standard bidomain formulation is in principle feasible, the associated computational expenses are significant, rendering their use incompatible with clinical time frames. In this study we report on the development of a novel computationally efficient reaction-eikonal (R-E) model for modeling extracellular potential maps and electrograms. Using a biventricular human electrophysiology model, which incorporates a topologically realistic His-Purkinje system (HPS), we demonstrate by comparing against a high-resolution reaction-diffusion (R-D) bidomain model that the R-E model predicts extracellular potential fields, electrograms as well as ECGs at the body surface with high fidelity and offers vast computational savings greater than three orders of magnitude. Due to their efficiency R-E models are ideally suitable for forward simulations in clinical modeling studies which attempt to personalize electrophysiological model features.

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Bidomain modelCardiac electrophysiologyEikonal modelElectrical activation and repolarization

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PMID28819329
PMCPMC5555399

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