[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive and biophysically detailed computational model of the whole human heart electromechanics

M Fedele, R Piersanti, F Regazzoni, M Salvador… - Computer Methods in …, 2023 - Elsevier
While ventricular electromechanics is extensively studied in both physiological and
pathological conditions, four-chamber heart models have only been addressed recently; …

Building Digital Twins for Cardiovascular Health: from principles to clinical impact

K Sel, D Osman, F Zare… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ahajournals.org
The past several decades have seen rapid advances in diagnosis and treatment of
cardiovascular diseases and stroke, enabled by technological breakthroughs in imaging …

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

M Bucelli, A Zingaro, PC Africa… - … journal for numerical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

[HTML][HTML] lifex: A flexible, high performance library for the numerical solution of complex finite element problems

PC Africa - SoftwareX, 2022 - Elsevier
Numerical simulations are ubiquitous in mathematics and computational science. Several
industrial and clinical applications entail modeling complex multiphysics systems that evolve …

[HTML][HTML] A machine learning method for real-time numerical simulations of cardiac electromechanics

F Regazzoni, M Salvador, L Dedè… - Computer methods in …, 2022 - Elsevier
We propose a machine learning-based method to build a system of differential equations
that approximates the dynamics of 3D electromechanical models for the human heart …

GPU accelerated digital twins of the human heart open new routes for cardiovascular research

F Viola, G Del Corso, R De Paulis, R Verzicco - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
The recruitment of patients for rare or complex cardiovascular diseases is a bottleneck for
clinical trials and digital twins of the human heart have recently been proposed as a viable …

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

PC Africa, I Fumagalli, M Bucelli, A Zingaro… - Computer Physics …, 2024 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Reconstructing relaxed configurations in elastic bodies: Mathematical formulations and numerical methods for cardiac modeling

NA Barnafi, F Regazzoni, D Riccobelli - Computer Methods in Applied …, 2024 - Elsevier
Modeling the behavior of biological tissues and organs often necessitates the knowledge of
their shape in the absence of external loads. However, when their geometry is acquired in …

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

M Corti, A Zingaro, AM Quarteroni - Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] An electromechanics-driven fluid dynamics model for the simulation of the whole human heart

A Zingaro, M Bucelli, R Piersanti, F Regazzoni… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
We introduce a multiphysics and geometric multiscale computational model, suitable to
describe the hemodynamics of the whole human heart, driven by a four-chamber …