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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2023

An Adaptive H-Refinement Method for the Boundary Element Fast Multipole Method for Quasi-static Electromagnetic Modeling.

William A Wartman, Konstantin Weise, Manas Rachh, Leah Morales, Zhi-De Deng, Aapo Nummenmaa, Sergey N Makaroff

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William A WartmanElectrical and Computer Engineering Department, Worcester Polytechnic Inst., Worcester, MA 01609 USA.
Konstantin WeiseMax Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Stephanstr. 1a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
Manas RachhCenter for Computational Mathematics, Flatiron Institute, New York, NY 10012, USA.
Leah MoralesElectrical and Computer Engineering Department, Worcester Polytechnic Inst., Worcester, MA 01609 USA.
Zhi-De DengComputational Neurostimulation Research Program, Noninvasive Neuromodulation Unit, Experimental Therapeutics & Pathophysiology Branch, National Institute of Mental Health Intramural Research Program, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Aapo NummenmaaAthinoula A. Martinos Ctr. for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129 USA.
Sergey N MakaroffElectrical and Computer Engineering Department, Worcester Polytechnic Inst., Worcester, MA 01609 USA.

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Charge-Based Brain Modeling Engine with Boundary Element Fast Multipole MethodR01MH130490 · NIMH · WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE · PI Sergey N Makaroff · 2023 to 2026
$3.3M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH130490
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Abstract

Objective: In our recent work pertinent to modeling of brain stimulation and neurophysiological recordings, substantial modeling errors in the computed electric field and potential have sometimes been observed for standard multi-compartment head models. The goal of this study is to quantify those errors and, further, eliminate them through an adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) algorithm. The study concentrates on transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), transcranial electrical stimulation (TES), and electroencephalography (EEG) forward problems. Approach: We propose, describe, and systematically investigate an AMR method using the Boundary Element Method with Fast Multipole Acceleration (BEM-FMM) as the base numerical solver. The goal is to efficiently allocate additional unknowns to critical areas of the model, where they will best improve solution accuracy.The implemented AMR method's accuracy improvement is measured on head models constructed from 16 Human Connectome Project subjects under problem classes of TES, TMS, and EEG. Errors are computed between three solutions: an initial non-adaptive solution, a solution found after applying AMR with a conservative refinement rate, and a "silver-standard" solution found by subsequent 4:1 global refinement of the adaptively-refined model. Main Results: Excellent agreement is shown between the adaptively-refined and silver-standard solutions for standard head models. AMR is found to be vital for accurate modeling of TES and EEG forward problems for standard models: an increase of less than 25% (on average) in number of mesh elements for these problems, efficiently allocated by AMR, exposes electric field/potential errors exceeding 60% (on average) in the solution for the unrefined models. Significance: This error has especially important implications for TES dosing prediction - where the stimulation strength plays a central role - and for EEG lead fields. Though the specific form of the AMR method described here is implemented for the BEM-FMM, we expect that AMR is applicable and even required for accurate electromagnetic simulations by other numerical modeling packages as well.

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Adaptive mesh refinementElectroencephalographyNumerical modelingTranscranial electrical stimulationTranscranial magnetic stimulation

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