Section: Application Domains

Cardiac electrophysiology

The purpose is to simulate the propagation of the action potential in the heart. A lot of works has already been devoted to this topic in the literature (see e.g. [76] , [81] , [80] and the references therein), nevertheless there are only very few studies showing realistic electrocardiograms obtained from partial differential equations models. Our goal is to find a compromise between two opposite requirements: on the one hand, we want to use predictive models, and therefore models based on physiology, on the other hand, we want to use models simple enough to be parametrized (in view of patient-specific simulations). We are now working on using our ECG simulator to address the inverse problem of electrocardiology. In collaboration with the Macsproject-team, we are working on the electromechanical coupling in the myocardium. We are also interested in various clinical and industrial issues related to cardiac electrophysiology. In particular, we collaborated with ELA Medical company (pacemaker manufacturer, Sorin group).