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The role of computational methods in cardiovascular medicine: a narrative review

Alfio Quarteroni, Luca Dede', Christian Vergara, Stefano Pagani

Background and Objective: Computational models of the cardiovascular system allow for a detailed and quantitative investigation of both physiological and pathological conditions, thanks to their ability to combine clinical-possibly patient-specific-data wi ...

Ame Publishing Company2024

Whole-heart electromechanical simulations using Latent Neural Ordinary Differential Equations

Alfio Quarteroni, Luca Dede', Francesco Regazzoni

Cardiac digital twins provide a physics and physiology informed framework to deliver personalized medicine. However, high-fidelity multi-scale cardiac models remain a barrier to adoption due to their extensive computational costs. Artificial Intelligence-b ...

Nature Portfolio2024

A mathematical model that integrates cardiac electrophysiology, mechanics, and fluid dynamics: Application to the human left heart

Alfio Quarteroni, Luca Dede'

We propose a mathematical and numerical model for the simulation of the heart function that couples cardiac electrophysiology, active and passive mechanics and hemodynamics, and includes reduced models for cardiac valves and the circulatory system. Our mod ...

Wiley2023

lifex-cfd: An open-source computational fluid dynamics solver for cardiovascular applications

Alfio Quarteroni, Luca Dede', Marco Fedele

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is an important tool for the simulation of the cardiovascular function and dysfunction. Due to the complexity of the anatomy, the transitional regime of blood flow in the heart, and the strong mutual influence between the ...

Elsevier2023

Optimized numerical solutions of SIRDVW multiage model controlling SARS-CoV-2 vaccine roll out: An application to the Italian scenario

Alfio Quarteroni, Nicola Parolini, Luca Dede'

In the context of SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, mathematical modelling has played a funda-mental role for making forecasts, simulating scenarios and evaluating the impact of pre-ventive political, social and pharmaceutical measures. Optimal control theory represent ...

KEAI PUBLISHING LTD2023

Impact of atrial fibrillation on left atrium haemodynamics: A computational fluid dynamics study

Alfio Quarteroni, Luca Dede'

We analyse the haemodynamics of the left atrium, highlighting differences between healthy individuals and patients affected by atrial fibrillation. The computational study is based on patient-specific geometries of the left atria to simulate blood flow dyn ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

The role of mechano-electric feedbacks and hemodynamic coupling in scar-related ventricular tachycardia

Alfio Quarteroni, Luca Dede', Stefano Pagani

Mechano-electric feedbacks (MEFs), which model how mechanical stimuli are transduced into electrical signals, have received sparse investigation by considering electromechanical simulations in simplified scenarios. In this paper, we study the effects of di ...

2022

Data integration for the numerical simulation of cardiac electrophysiology

Alfio Quarteroni, Luca Dede', Andrea Manzoni, Stefano Pagani

The increasing availability of extensive and accurate clinical data is rapidly shaping cardiovascular care by improving the understanding of physiological and pathological mechanisms of the cardiovascular system and opening new frontiers in designing thera ...

WILEY2021

A mathematical dashboard for the analysis of Italian COVID-19 epidemic data

Alfio Quarteroni, Nicola Parolini, Luca Dede'

An analysis of the COVID-19 epidemic is proposed on the basis of the epiMOX dashboard (publicly accessible at ) that deals with data of the epidemic trends and outbreaks in Italy from late February 2020. Our analysis provides an immediate appreciation of t ...

Wiley2021

Active Force Generation in Cardiac Muscle Cells: Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Simulation of the Actin-Myosin Interaction

Alfio Quarteroni, Luca Dede', Francesco Regazzoni

Cardiac in silico numerical simulations are based on mathematical models describing the physical processes involved in the heart function. In this review paper, we critically survey biophysically-detailed mathematical models describing the subcellular mech ...

SPRINGER SINGAPORE PTE LTD2021

An image-based computational hemodynamics study of the Systolic Anterior Motion of the mitral valve

Alfio Quarteroni, Luca Dede', Christian Vergara, Marco Fedele

Systolic Anterior Motion (SAM) of the mitral valve - often associated with Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy (HOCM) - is a cardiac pathology in which a functional subaortic stenosis is induced during systole by the mitral leaflets partially obstructi ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

Outer loop and isthmus in ventricular tachycardia circuits: Characteristics and implications

Alfio Quarteroni, Luca Dede', Andrea Manzoni, Stefano Pagani

BACKGROUND The isthmus of ventricular tachycardia (VT) circuits has been extensively characterized. Few data exist regarding the contribution of the outer loop (OL) to the VT circuit. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to characterize the electrophysi ...

2020

Deep learning-based reduced order models in cardiac electrophysiology

Alfio Quarteroni, Luca Dede', Andrea Manzoni

Predicting the electrical behavior of the heart, from the cellular scale to the tissue level, relies on the numerical approximation of coupled nonlinear dynamical systems. These systems describe the cardiac action potential, that is the polarization/depola ...

2020

Isogeometric Analysis of the electrophysiology in the human heart: Numerical simulation of the bidomain equations on the atria

Alfio Quarteroni, Luca Dede', Luca Pegolotti

We consider Isogeometric Analysis (IGA) for the numerical solution of the electrophysiology of the atria, which in this work is modeled by means of the bidomain equations on thin surfaces. First, we consider the bidomain equations coupled with the Roger-Mc ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2019

Biomembrane modeling with isogeometric analysis

Alfio Quarteroni, Luca Dede', Andrea Bartezzaghi

We consider the numerical approximation of lipid biomembranes at equilibrium described by the Canham-Helfrich model, according to which the bending energy is minimized under area and volume constraints. Energy minimization is performed via L-2-gradient flo ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2019

A transmurally heterogeneous orthotropic activation model for ventricular contraction and its numerical validation

Alfio Quarteroni, Luca Dede', Simone Rossi, Luca Barbarotta

Models for cardiac mechanics require an activation mechanism properly representing the stress-strain relations in the contracting myocardium. In this paper, we propose a new activation model that accounts for the transmural heterogeneities observed in myoc ...

Wiley2018

Active contraction of cardiac cells: a reduced model for sarcomere dynamics with cooperative interactions

Alfio Quarteroni, Luca Dede', Francesco Regazzoni

We propose a reduced ODE model for the mechanical activation of cardiac myofilaments, which is based on explicit spatial representation of nearest-neighbour interactions. Our model is derived from the cooperative Markov Chain model of Washio et al. (Cell M ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2018

A monolithic algorithm for the simulation of cardiac electromechanics in the human left ventricle

Alfio Quarteroni, Luca Dede', Antonello Gerbi

In this paper, we propose a monolithic algorithm for the numerical solution of the electromechanics model of the left ventricle in the human heart. Our coupled model integrates the monodomain equation with the Bueno-Orovio minimal model for electrophysiolo ...

2018

Isogeometric analysis and proper orthogonal decomposition for parabolic problems

Alfio Quarteroni, Luca Dede', Shengfeng Zhu

We investigate the combination of Isogeometric Analysis (IGA) and proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) based on the Galerkin method for model order reduction of linear parabolic partial differential equations. For the proposed fully discrete scheme, the a ...

Springer2017

Isogeometric approximation of cardiac electrophysiology models on surfaces: An accuracy study with application to the human left atrium

Alfio Quarteroni, Luca Dede', Alessandro Samuele Patelli, Toni Mikael Lassila, Andrea Bartezzaghi

We consider Isogeometric Analysis in the framework of the Galerkin method for the spatial approximation of cardiac electrophysiology models defined on NURBS surfaces; specifically, we perform a numerical comparison between basis functions of degree p >= 1 ...

Elsevier2017