C.E.P.S. : an efficient tool for cardiac electrophysiology simulations

International audienceNumerical models become a new and important tool to understand the mechanisms of cardiac arrythmias, delivering more and more accurate in-silico experiments. Beyond the development of mathematical models or numerical algorithms, a software tool must be developed to support this research. C.E.P.S. (Cardiac ElectroPhysiology Simulator) is a software tool under development by Inria Carmen team. Its purpose is to provide researchers from the modelling group, and collaborators, with a common environment to develop efficiently new models and numerical methods for cardiac electrophysiology. CEPS is designed to run on massively parallel architectures, and to make use of state-of-the-art and well known computing libraries to achieve realistic and complex heart simulations. Our short-term goals include solving monodomain and bidomain equations on 3D domain representing major structures of the heart (ventricles, atria and Purkinje fibers). CEPS supports the coupling surface/volume elements, surface/cable elements and volume/cable elements in order to include the complete structure of the heart. It is also designed to simulate electrocardiograms following heart/torso coupling. We also aim to automatically incorporate ionic models from CellML or JSIM databases. The structure of the code allows to easily include new PDE/ODE systems, to account for progresses in modelling, but also elements or numerical methods of arbitrary order of accuracy, for research on more efficient numerical solvers.Les modèles numériques sont un outil nouveau et important pour la compréhension des mécanismes des arythmies cardiaques, fournissant des expériences in-silico de plus en plus précises. Au-delà du développement de modèles mathématiques et d'algorithmes numériques, un logiciel doit être développé pour soutenir cette recherche. C.E.P.S. (Cardiac ElectroPhysiology Simulator ) est un outil logiciel en cours de développement par l'équipe-projet Inria Carmen. Son but est de fournir aux chercheurs du groupe de modélisation et ses collaborateurs avec un environnement commun pour développer de nouveaux modèles et méthodes numériques efficaces pour l'électrophysiologie cardiaque. CEPS est conçu pour fonctionner sur les architectures massivement parallèles, et utilise des bibliothèques de calcul bien connues pour réaliser des simulations cardiaques réalistes et complexes. Nos objectifs à court terme comprennent la résolution des équations monodomaine et bidomaine sur le domaine 3D représentant les grandes structures du cœur (ventricules , oreillettes et réseau de conduction cardique). CEPS prend en charge les éléments de couplage surface / volume, surface / câble et volume / câble afin d'y inclure la structure complète du cœur. CEPS est également conçu pour simuler les électrocardiogrammes suivants le couplage coeur / torse . Nous visons également à incorporer automatiquement des modèles ioniques des bases de données de CellML ou JSIM. La structure du code permet d'inclure facilement de nouvelles EDP / systèmes d'EDO

Integration of data and model in cardiac electrophysiology

The Carmen team plans to build realistic numerical models of the electrical activity of the heart.To solve these models, the team is developing the numerical solver CEPS, an open source simulationpackage.Its purpose is to integrate a broad range of multiscale novel models in a generic extensible and efficient platform.Additionally, numerical solvers like CEPS require anatomical and distributed electrophysical information representing the geometrical domain and the parameters of a simulation.Building complete cardiac models directly from imaging data and expert knowledge is time-consuming and error-prone: specific expertise and multiple softwares are often needed to process data stemming from medical imaging into realistic meshes and parameter distribution.Furthermore, visualization and analysis of simulation results are performed in software that are not specific to cardiac applications.On the whole, this makes it difficult to confront numerical models to experimental data.The goal of the IDAM project is twofold:- ease the preprocess and postprocess stages of any cardiac numerical simulation;- improve the CEPS numerical solver to allow the integration of more complex models;To achieve this, we rely on MUSIC, the multimodal platform for cardiac imaging developed by the Imaging team at Liryc.By using the toolbox and pipeline architecture in MUSIC, we aim to streamline the workflow of a complete cardiac simulation: anatomical mesh generation from patient specific data, description of simulation parameters, running and analysing the simulations

C.E.P.S. : an efficient tool for cardiac electrophysiology simulations

Les modèles numériques sont un outil nouveau et important pour la compréhension des mécanismes des arythmies cardiaques, fournissant des expériences in-silico de plus en plus précises. Au-delà du développement de modèles mathématiques et d'algorithmes numériques, un logiciel doit être développé pour soutenir cette recherche. C.E.P.S. (Cardiac ElectroPhysiology Simulator ) est un outil logiciel en cours de développement par l'équipe-projet Inria Carmen. Son but est de fournir aux chercheurs du groupe de modélisation et ses collaborateurs avec un environnement commun pour développer de nouveaux modèles et méthodes numériques efficaces pour l'électrophysiologie cardiaque. CEPS est conçu pour fonctionner sur les architectures massivement parallèles, et utilise des bibliothèques de calcul bien connues pour réaliser des simulations cardiaques réalistes et complexes. Nos objectifs à court terme comprennent la résolution des équations monodomaine et bidomaine sur le domaine 3D représentant les grandes structures du cœur (ventricules , oreillettes et réseau de conduction cardique). CEPS prend en charge les éléments de couplage surface / volume, surface / câble et volume / câble afin d'y inclure la structure complète du cœur. CEPS est également conçu pour simuler les électrocardiogrammes suivants le couplage coeur / torse . Nous visons également à incorporer automatiquement des modèles ioniques des bases de données de CellML ou JSIM. La structure du code permet d'inclure facilement de nouvelles EDP / systèmes d'EDO.Numerical models become a new and important tool to understand the mechanisms of cardiac arrythmias, delivering more and more accurate in-silico experiments. Beyond the development of mathematical models or numerical algorithms, a software tool must be developed to support this research. C.E.P.S. (Cardiac ElectroPhysiology Simulator) is a software tool under development by Inria Carmen team. Its purpose is to provide researchers from the modelling group, and collaborators, with a common environment to develop efficiently new models and numerical methods for cardiac electrophysiology. CEPS is designed to run on massively parallel architectures, and to make use of state-of-the-art and well known computing libraries to achieve realistic and complex heart simulations. Our short-term goals include solving monodomain and bidomain equations on 3D domain representing major structures of the heart (ventricles, atria and Purkinje fibers). CEPS supports the coupling surface/volume elements, surface/cable elements and volume/cable elements in order to include the complete structure of the heart. It is also designed to simulate electrocardiograms following heart/torso coupling. We also aim to automatically incorporate ionic models from CellML or JSIM databases. The structure of the code allows to easily include new PDE/ODE systems, to account for progresses in modelling, but also elements or numerical methods of arbitrary order of accuracy, for research on more efficient numerical solvers

MUSIC: Cardiac Imaging, Modelling and Visualisation Software for Diagnosis and Therapy

International audienceThe tremendous advancement of cardiac imaging methods, the substantial progress in predictive modelling, along with the amount of new investigative multimodalities, challenge the current technologies in the cardiology field. Innovative, robust and multimodal tools need to be created in order to fuse imaging data (e.g., MR, CT) with mapped electrical activity and to integrate those into 3D biophysical models. In the past years, several cross-platform toolkits have been developed to provide image analysis tools to help build such software. The aim of this study is to introduce a novel multimodality software platform dedicated to cardiovascular diagnosis and therapy guidance: MUSIC. This platform was created to improve the image-guided cardiovascular interventional procedures and is a robust platform for AI/Deep Learning, image analysis and modelling in a newly created consortium with international hospitals. It also helps our researchers develop new techniques and have a better understanding of the cardiac tissue properties and physiological signals. Thus, this extraction of quantitative information from medical data leads to more repeatable and reliable medical diagnoses

StarPU

StarPU is a runtime system that offers support for heterogeneous multicore machines

StarPU

StarPU is a runtime system that offers support for heterogeneous multicore machines