TY - GEN A1 - Weiser, Martin T1 - Delayed Residual Compensation for Bidomain Equations T2 - AIP Conference Proceedings N2 - The biodomain model of cardioelectric excitation consists of a reaction‐diffusion equation, an elliptic algebraic constraint, and a set of pointwise ODEs. Fast reaction enforces small time steps, such that for common mesh sizes the reaction‐diffusion equation is easily solved implicitly due to a dominating mass matrix. In contrast, the elliptic constraint does not benefit from small time steps and requires a comparably expensive solution. We propose a delayed residual compensation that improves the solution of the elliptic constraint and thus alleviates the need for long iteration times. Y1 - 2010 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3498495 VL - 1281 SP - 419 EP - 422 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Weiser, Martin A1 - Erdmann, Bodo A1 - Deuflhard, Peter ED - Wilson, E. ED - Fitt, A. ED - Ockendon, H. ED - Norbury, J. T1 - On Efficiency and Accuracy in Cardioelectric Simulation T2 - Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 2008 N2 - Reasons for the failure of adaptive methods to deliver improved efficiency when integrating monodomain models for myocardiac excitation are discussed. Two closely related techniques for reducing the computational complexity of linearly implicit integrators, deliberate sparsing and splitting, are investigated with respect to their impact on computing time and accuracy. Y1 - 2010 SP - 371 EP - 376 PB - Springer ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wilhelms, Mathias A1 - Seemann, Gunnar A1 - Weiser, Martin A1 - Dössel, Olaf T1 - Benchmarking Solvers of the Monodomain Equation in Cardiac Electrophysiological Modeling JF - Biomed. Engineer. Y1 - 2010 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/BMT.2010.712 VL - 55 SP - 99 EP - 102 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Weiser, Martin T1 - Pointwise Nonlinear Scaling for Reaction-Diffusion-Equations N2 - Parabolic reaction-diffusion systems may develop sharp moving reaction fronts which pose a challenge even for adaptive finite element methods. We propose a method to transform the equation into an equivalent form that usually exhibits solutions which are easier to discretize, giving higher accuracy for a given number of degrees of freedom. The transformation is realized as an efficiently computable pointwise nonlinear scaling that is optimized for prototypical planar travelling wave solutions of the underlying reaction-diffusion equation. The gain in either performance or accuracy is demonstrated on different numerical examples. T3 - ZIB-Report - 07-45 KW - reaction-diffusion equations KW - travelling waves KW - nonlinear scaling KW - discretization error Y1 - 2007 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-10493 SN - 1438-0064 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Göbel, Fritz A1 - Huynh, Ngoc Mai Monica A1 - Chegini, Fatemeh A1 - Pavarino, Luca A1 - Weiser, Martin A1 - Scacchi, Simone A1 - Anzt, Hartwig T1 - A BDDC Preconditioner for the Cardiac EMI Model in three Dimensions JF - SIAM J. Sci. Comput. N2 - We analyze a Balancing Domain Decomposition by Constraints (BDDC) preconditioner for the solution of three dimensional composite Discontinuous Galerkin discretizations of reaction-diffusion systems of ordinary and partial differential equations arising in cardiac cell-by-cell models like the Extracellular space, Membrane and Intracellular space (EMI) Model. These microscopic models are essential for the understanding of events in aging and structurally diseased hearts which macroscopic models relying on homogenized descriptions of the cardiac tissue, like Monodomain and Bidomain models, fail to adequately represent. The modeling of each individual cardiac cell results in discontinuous global solutions across cell boundaries, requiring the careful construction of dual and primal spaces for the BDDC preconditioner. We provide a scalable condition number bound for the precondition operator and validate the theoretical results with extensive numerical experiments. Y1 - 2025 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Gander, Lia A1 - Krause, Rolf A1 - Weiser, Martin A1 - Costabal, Francisco A1 - Pezzuto, Simone T1 - On the Accuracy of Eikonal Approximations in Cardiac Electrophysiology in the Presence of Fibrosis T2 - Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart. FIMH 2023. N2 - Fibrotic tissue is one of the main risk factors for cardiac arrhythmias. It is therefore a key component in computational studies. In this work, we compare the monodomain equation to two eikonal models for cardiac electrophysiology in the presence of fibrosis. We show that discontinuities in the conductivity field, due to the presence of fibrosis, introduce a delay in the activation times. The monodomain equation and eikonal-diffusion model correctly capture these delays, contrarily to the classical eikonal equation. Importantly, a coarse space discretization of the monodomain equation amplifies these delays, even after accounting for numerical error in conduction velocity. The numerical discretization may also introduce artificial conduction blocks and hence increase propagation complexity. Therefore, some care is required when comparing eikonal models to the discretized monodomain equation. Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35302-4_14 VL - 13958 PB - Springer, Cham ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Chegini, Fatemeh A1 - Steinke, Thomas A1 - Weiser, Martin T1 - Efficient adaptivity for simulating cardiac electrophysiology with spectral deferred correction methods N2 - The locality of solution features in cardiac electrophysiology simulations calls for adaptive methods. Due to the overhead incurred by established mesh refinement and coarsening, however, such approaches failed in accelerating the computations. Here we investigate a different route to spatial adaptivity that is based on nested subset selection for algebraic degrees of freedom in spectral deferred correction methods. This combination of algebraic adaptivity and iterative solvers for higher order collocation time stepping realizes a multirate integration with minimal overhead. This leads to moderate but significant speedups in both monodomain and cell-by-cell models of cardiac excitation, as demonstrated at four numerical examples. Y1 - 2022 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Chegini, Fatemeh A1 - Kopanicakova, Alena A1 - Krause, Rolf A1 - Weiser, Martin T1 - Efficient Identification of Scars using Heterogeneous Model Hierarchies JF - EP Europace N2 - Aims. Detection and quantification of myocardial scars are helpful both for diagnosis of heart diseases and for building personalized simulation models. Scar tissue is generally charac­terized by a different conduction of electrical excitation. We aim at estimating conductivity-related parameters from endocardial mapping data, in particular the conductivity tensor. Solving this inverse problem requires computationally expensive monodomain simulations on fine discretizations. Therefore, we aim at accelerating the estimation using a multilevel method combining electrophysiology models of different complexity, namely the mono­domain and the eikonal model. Methods. Distributed parameter estimation is performed by minimizing the misfit between simulated and measured electrical activity on the endocardial surface, subject to the mono­domain model and regularization, leading to a constrained optimization problem. We formulate this optimization problem, including the modeling of scar tissue and different regularizations, and design an efficient iterative solver. We consider monodomain grid hierarchies and monodomain-eikonal model hierarchies in a recursive multilevel trust-region method. Results. From several numerical examples, both the efficiency of the method and the estimation quality, depending on the data, are investigated. The multilevel solver is significantly faster than a comparable single level solver. Endocardial mapping data of realistic density appears to be just sufficient to provide quantitatively reasonable estimates of location, size, and shape of scars close to the endocardial surface. Conclusion. In several situations, scar reconstruction based on eikonal and monodomain models differ significantly, suggesting the use of the more accurate but more expensive monodomain model for this purpose. Still, eikonal models can be utilized to accelerate the computations considerably, enabling the use of complex electrophysiology models for estimating myocardial scars from endocardial mapping data. Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/europace/euaa402 VL - 23 SP - i113 EP - i122 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Deuflhard, Peter A1 - Weiser, Martin T1 - Numerische Mathematik 3. Adaptive Lösung partieller Differentialgleichungen Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-3-11-069168-9 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110689655 PB - de Gruyter ET - 2 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Steyer, Joshua A1 - Chegini, Fatemeh A1 - Potse, Mark A1 - Loewe, Axel A1 - Weiser, Martin T1 - Continuity of Microscopic Cardiac Conduction in a Computational Cell-by-Cell Model T2 - 2023 Computing in Cardiology Conference (CinC) N2 - Conduction velocity in cardiac tissue is a crucial electrophysiological parameter for arrhythmia vulnerability. Pathologically reduced conduction velocity facilitates arrhythmogenesis because such conduction velocities decrease the wavelength with which re-entry may occur. Computational studies on CV and how it changes regionally in models at spatial scales multiple times larger than actual cardiac cells exist. However, microscopic conduction within cells and between them have been studied less in simulations. In this work, we study the relation of microscopic conduction patterns and clinically observable macroscopic conduction using an extracellular-membrane-intracellular model which represents cardiac tissue with these subdomains at subcellular resolution. By considering cell arrangement and non-uniform gap junction distribution, it yields anisotropic excitation propagation. This novel kind of model can for example be used to understand how discontinuous conduction on the microscopic level affects fractionation of electrograms in healthy and fibrotic tissue. Along the membrane of a cell, we observed a continuously propagating activation wavefront. When transitioning from one cell to the neighbouring one, jumps in local activation times occurred, which led to lower global conduction velocities than locally within each cell. Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.22489/CinC.2023.385 SN - 2325-887X VL - 50 PB - Computing in Cardiology ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Chegini, Fatemeh A1 - Froehly, Algiane A1 - Huynh, Ngoc Mai Monica A1 - Pavarino, Luca A1 - Potse, Mark A1 - Scacchi, Simone A1 - Weiser, Martin T1 - Efficient numerical methods for simulating cardiac electrophysiology with cellular resolution T2 - 10th Int. Conf. Computational Methods for Coupled Problems in Science and Engineering 2023 N2 - The cardiac extracellular-membrane-intracellular (EMI) model enables the precise geometrical representation and resolution of aggregates of individual myocytes. As a result, it not only yields more accurate simulations of cardiac excitation compared to homogenized models but also presents the challenge of solving much larger problems. In this paper, we introduce recent advancements in three key areas: (i) the creation of artificial, yet realistic grids, (ii) efficient higher-order time stepping achieved by combining low-overhead spatial adaptivity on the algebraic level with progressive spectral deferred correction methods, and (iii) substructuring domain decomposition preconditioners tailored to address the complexities of heterogeneous problem structures. The efficiency gains of these proposed methods are demonstrated through numerical results on cardiac meshes of different sizes. Y1 - 2023 UR - https://www.scipedia.com/public/2023f U6 - https://doi.org/10.23967/c.coupled.2023.004 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Steyer, Joshua A1 - Chegini, Fatemeh A1 - Starý, Tomas A1 - Potse, Mark A1 - Weiser, Martin A1 - Loewe, Axel T1 - Electrograms in a Cardiac Cell-by-Cell Model T2 - Workshop Biosignals 2024 N2 - Cardiac electrograms are an important tool to study the spread of excitation waves inside the heart, which in turn underlie muscle contraction. Electrograms can be used to analyse the dynamics of these waves, e.g. in fibrotic tissue. In computational models, these analyses can be done with greater detail than during minimally invasive in vivo procedures. Whilst homogenised models have been used to study electrogram genesis, such analyses have not yet been done in cellularly resolved models. Such high resolution may be required to develop a thorough understanding of the mechanisms behind abnormal excitation patterns leading to arrhythmias. In this study, we derived electrograms from an excitation propagation simulation in the Extracellular, Membrane, Intracellular (EMI) model, which represents these three domains explicitly in the mesh. We studied the effects of the microstructural excitation dynamics on electrogram genesis and morphology. We found that electrograms are sensitive to the myocyte alignment and connectivity, which translates into micro-fractionations in the electrograms. Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.47952/gro-publ-194 ER -