An Anisotropic Multi-front Fast Marching Method for Real-Time Simulation of Cardiac Electrophysiology
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Cardiac arrhythmias can develop complex electrophysiological patterns which complexify the planning and control of therapies, especially in the context of radio-frequency ablation. The development of electrophysiology models aims at testing different therapy strategies. However, current models are computationally expensive and often too complex to be adjusted with limited clinical data. In this paper, we propose a real-time method to simulate cardiac electrophysiology on triangular meshes. This model is based on a multi-front integration of the Fast Marching Method. This efficient approach opens new possibilities, including the ability to directly integrate modelling in the interventional room.
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