An anisotropic multi-front fast marching method for real-time simulation of cardiac electrophysiology

  • Authors:
  • Maxime Sermesant;Ender Konukoglu;Hervé Delingette;Yves Coudière;Phani Chinchapatnam;Kawal S. Rhode;Reza Razavi;Nicholas Ayache

  • Affiliations:
  • INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France and King's College London, Division of Imaging Sciences, UK;INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France;INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France;Nantes University, Jean Leray Mathematics Laboratory, France;University College London, Centre for Medical Image Computing, UK;King's College London, Division of Imaging Sciences, UK;King's College London, Division of Imaging Sciences, UK;INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France

  • Venue:
  • FIMH'07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Functional imaging and modeling of the heart
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

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.