The beating of the heart is a synchronized contraction of muscle cells (myocytes) that is
triggered by a periodic sequence of electrical waves (action potentials) originating in the …

The electrocardiogram (ECG) has always been an important biomedical test to diagnose
cardiovascular diseases. Current approaches for ECG monitoring are based on body …

The heart is a fantastic machine; during a normal lifetime it beats about 2.5 billion times and
pumps 200.000 tons of blood through an enormous system of vessels extending 160.000 …

A bidomain reaction-diffusion model of the human heart was developed, and potentials
resulting from normal depolarization and repolarization were compared with results from a …

Ongoing developments in cardiac modelling have resulted, in particular, in the development
of advanced and increasingly complex computational frameworks for simulating cardiac …

This book on modelling the electrical activity of the heart is an attempt to describe continuum
based modelling of cardiac electrical activity from the cell level to the body surface (the …

More and more frequently, computational biomechanics deals with problems where the
portion of physical reality to be modeled spans over such a large range of spatial and …

Background Simulating the cardiac function requires the numerical solution of multi-physics
and multi-scale mathematical models. This underscores the need for streamlined, accurate …

This paper deals with the numerical simulation of electrocardiograms (ECG). Our aim is to
devise a mathematical model, based on partial differential equations, which is able to …

We study the well-posedness of the bidomain model that is commonly used to simulate
electrophysiological wave propagation in the heart. We base our analysis on a formulation …