Fast-Models of Cardiac Electrophysiology for Diagnosis and Therapy Planning
M. Sermesant (INRIA)
Modelling cardiac electrophysiology has been an active research area for several decades, but the translation to clinical applications is still very challenging. Coping with clinical data, usually sparse and noisy, and restricted time constraints add difficulties. We aim at designing models usable in a clinical context for diagnosis and therapy planning.
For instance, testing different strategies of radio-frequency ablation or multi-site pacing is of great interest in cardiac arrhythmias. We propose a real-time method to simulate cardiac electrophysiology on tetrahedral meshes, based on a multi-front anisotropic Fast Marching Method. This efficient approach opens up new possibilities, including the direct integration of modelling in the clinical environment.