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ArticleCardiovascular engineering and technology2023

A Vector Fitting Approach for the Automated Estimation of Lumped Boundary Conditions of 1D Circulation Models.

Elisa Fevola, Tommaso Bradde, Piero Triverio, Stefano Grivet-Talocia

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Article in Cardiovascular engineering and technology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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  1. Uncertainty quantification of the pressure waveform using a Windkessel model.International journal for numerical methods in biomedical engineering · 2024
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Elisa FevolaDepartment of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1375-3234
Tommaso BraddeDepartment of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy.
Piero TriverioDepartment of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Stefano Grivet-TalociaDepartment of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy. stefano.grivet@polito.it.
Politecnico di Torino · ITUniversity of Toronto · CA

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Abstract

purposeThe choice of appropriate boundary conditions is a crucial step in the development of cardiovascular models for blood flow simulations. The three-element Windkessel model is usually employed as a lumped boundary condition, providing a reduced order representation of the peripheral circulation. However, the systematic estimation of the Windkessel parameters remains an open problem. Moreover, the Windkessel model is not always adequate to model blood flow dynamics, which often require more elaborate boundary conditions. In this study, we propose a method for the estimation of the parameters of high order boundary conditions, including the Windkessel model, from pressure and flow rate waveforms at the truncation point. Moreover, we investigate the effect of adopting higher order boundary conditions, corresponding to equivalent circuits with more than one storage element, on the accuracy of the model.

methodThe proposed technique is based on Time-Domain Vector Fitting, a modeling algorithm that, given samples of the input and output of a system, such as pressure and flow waveforms, can derive a differential equation approximating their relation.

resultsThe capabilities of the proposed method are tested on a 1D circulation model consisting of the 55 largest human systemic arteries, to demonstrate its accuracy and its usefulness to estimate boundary conditions with order higher than the traditional Windkessel models. The proposed method is compared to other common estimation techniques, and its robustness in parameter estimation is verified in presence of noisy data and of physiological changes of aortic flow rate induced by mental stress.

conclusionResults suggest that the proposed method is able to accurately estimate boundary conditions of arbitrary order. Higher order boundary conditions can improve the accuracy of cardiovascular simulations, and Time-Domain Vector Fitting can automatically estimate them.

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ArteriesHemodynamicsAortaBlood PressureHumansModels, CardiovascularBoundary conditionsCardiovascular modelingCirculation modelsVector fittingWindkessel model

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