The global burden caused by cardiovascular disease is substantial, with heart disease
representing the most common cause of death around the world. There remains a need to …

Cardiac dynamics modeling has been useful for studying and treating arrhythmias.
However, it is a multiscale problem requiring the solution of billions of differential equations …

Personalized cardiac electrophysiology simulations have demonstrated great potential to
study cardiac arrhythmias and help in therapy planning of radio-frequency ablation. Its …

The use of computer models as a tool for the study and understanding of the complex
phenomena of cardiac electrophysiology has attained increased importance nowadays. At …

The heart rhythm disorder long QT syndrome (LQTS) can result in sudden death in the
young or remain asymptomatic into adulthood. The features of the surface electrocardiogram …

This work presents the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) for computational simulations of the
cardiac electrical activity using monodomain model. An optimized implementation of the …

Large‐scale 3D virtual heart model simulations are highly demanding in computational
resources. This imposes a big challenge to the traditional computation resources based on …

The study of complex systems has emerged as an important field with many discoveries still
to be made. Computer simulation and visualization provide important tools for studying …

The inclusion of nonconducting media, mimicking cardiac fibrosis, in two models of cardiac
tissue produces the formation of ectopic beats. The fraction of nonconducting media in …

According to the World Health Organization, cancer is a worldwide health problem. Its high
mortality rate motivates scientists to study new treatments. One of these new treatments is …