EP challenge - STACOM'11: Forward approaches to computational electrophysiology using MRI-based models and in-vivo CARTO mapping in swine hearts

Mihaela Pop, Maxime Sermesant, Tommaso Mansi, Eugene Crystal, Sudip Ghate, Jatin Relan, Charles Pierre, Yves Coudiere, Jennifer Barry, Ilan Lashevsky, Beiping Qiang, Elliot R. McVeigh, Nicholas Ayache, Graham A. Wright

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Abstract

Our broad aim is to integrate experimental measurements (electro-cardiographic and MR) and cardiac computer models, for a better understanding of transmural wave propagation in individual hearts. In this paper, we first describe the acquisition and processing of the data provided to the EP simulation challenge organized at STACOM'11. The measurements were obtained in two swine hearts (i.e., one healthy and one with chronic infarction) and comprise in-vivo electro-anatomical CARTO maps (e.g., surfacic endo-/epicardial depolarization maps and bipolar voltage maps recorded in sinus rhythm), and high-resolution ex-vivo diffusion-weighted DW-MR images (voxel size <1mm 3). We briefly detail how we built anisotropic 3D MRI-based models for these two hearts, with fiber directions obtained using DW-MRI methods (which also allowed for infarct identification). We then focus on applications in cardiac modelling concerning propagation of depolarization wave, by employing forward mathematical approaches. Specifically, we present simulation results for the depolarization wave using a fast, macroscopic monodomain formalism (i.e., the two-variable Aliev-Panfilov model) and comparisons with measured depolarization times. We also include simulations obtained using the healthy heart and a simple Eikonal model, as well as a complex bidomain model. The results demonstrate small differences between computed isochrones using these computer models; specifically, we calculated a mean error ± S.D. of 2.8 ± 1.67 ms between Aliev-Panfilov and Eikonal models, and 6.1 ± 3.9 ms between Alie-Panfilov and bidomain models, respectively.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Pages1-13
Number of pages13
Volume7085 LNCS
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event2nd International Workshop on Statistical Atlases and Computational Models of the Heart: Imaging and Modelling Challenges, STACOM 2011, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2011 - Toronto, ON, Canada
Duration: Sep 22 2011Sep 22 2011

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7085 LNCS
ISSN (Print)03029743
ISSN (Electronic)16113349

Other

Other2nd International Workshop on Statistical Atlases and Computational Models of the Heart: Imaging and Modelling Challenges, STACOM 2011, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2011
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityToronto, ON
Period9/22/119/22/11

Keywords

  • 3D computer modelling
  • cardiac DW-MRI
  • electrophysiology

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Computer Science
  • Theoretical Computer Science

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