[HTML][HTML] The living heart project: a robust and integrative simulator for human heart function

B Baillargeon, N Rebelo, DD Fox, RL Taylor… - European Journal of …, 2014‏ - Elsevier
The heart is not only our most vital, but also our most complex organ: Precisely controlled by
the interplay of electrical and mechanical fields, it consists of four chambers and four valves …

Advances in computational modelling for personalised medicine after myocardial infarction

K Mangion, H Gao, D Husmeier, X Luo, C Berry - Heart, 2018‏ - heart.bmj.com
Myocardial infarction (MI) is a leading cause of premature morbidity and mortality worldwide.
Determining which patients will experience heart failure and sudden cardiac death after an …

Distribution of normal human left ventricular myofiber stress at end diastole and end systole: a target for in silico design of heart failure treatments

M Genet, LC Lee, R Nguyen… - Journal of applied …, 2014‏ - journals.physiology.org
Ventricular wall stress is believed to be responsible for many physical mechanisms taking
place in the human heart, including ventricular remodeling, which is frequently associated …

Personalised computational cardiology: patient-specific modelling in cardiac mechanics and biomaterial injection therapies for myocardial infarction

KL Sack, NH Davies, JM Guccione, T Franz - Heart failure reviews, 2016‏ - Springer
Predictive computational modelling in biomedical research offers the potential to integrate
diverse data, uncover biological mechanisms that are not easily accessible through …

Construction and validation of subject-specific biventricular finite-element models of healthy and failing swine hearts from high-resolution DT-MRI

KL Sack, E Aliotta, DB Ennis, JS Choy… - Frontiers in …, 2018‏ - frontiersin.org
Predictive computational modeling has revolutionized classical engineering disciplines and
is in the process of transforming cardiovascular research. This is particularly relevant for …

Percutaneous ventricular restoration using the parachute device in patients with ischemic heart failure: three-year outcomes of the PARACHUTE first-in-human study

MA Costa, EL Mazzaferri Jr, H Sievert… - Circulation: Heart …, 2014‏ - ahajournals.org
Background—Left ventricle remodeling after anterior wall myocardial infarction leads to
increased left ventricle volumes, myocardial stress, and ultimately heart failure (HF) …

An integrated electromechanical-growth heart model for simulating cardiac therapies

LC Lee, J Sundnes, M Genet, JF Wenk… - … and modeling in …, 2016‏ - Springer
An emerging class of models has been developed in recent years to predict cardiac growth
and remodeling (G&R). We recently developed a cardiac G&R constitutive model that …

In vivo estimation of passive biomechanical properties of human myocardium

A Palit, SK Bhudia, TN Arvanitis, GA Turley… - Medical & biological …, 2018‏ - Springer
Identification of in vivo passive biomechanical properties of healthy human myocardium from
regular clinical data is essential for subject-specific modelling of left ventricle (LV). In this …

Organ‐level validation of a cross‐bridge cycling descriptor in a left ventricular finite element model: effects of ventricular loading on myocardial strains

SM Shavik, ST Wall, J Sundnes, D Burkhoff… - Physiological …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Although detailed cell‐based descriptors of cross‐bridge cycling have been applied in finite
element (FE) heart models to describe ventricular mechanics, these multiscale models have …

An inverse finite element method for determining the tissue compressibility of human left ventricular wall during the cardiac cycle

AI Hassaballah, MA Hassan, AN Mardi, M Hamdi - PloS one, 2013‏ - journals.plos.org
The determination of the myocardium's tissue properties is important in constructing
functional finite element (FE) models of the human heart. To obtain accurate properties …