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Inverse problems in reduced order models of cardiovascular haemodynamics: aspects of data assimilation and heart rate variability

Sanjay Pant Orcid Logo, Chiara Corsini, Catriona Baker, Tain-Yen Hsia, Giancarlo Pennati, Irene E. Vignon-Clementel

Journal of The Royal Society Interface, Volume: 14, Issue: 126

Swansea University Author: Sanjay Pant Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1098/rsif.2016.0513

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Inverse problems in cardiovascular modelling have become increasingly important to assess each patient individually. These problems entail estimation of patient-specific model parameters from uncertain measurements acquired in the clinic. In recent years, the method of data assimilation, especially...

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Published in: Journal of The Royal Society Interface
ISSN: 1742-5689 1742-5662
Published: 2017
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa34499
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Abstract: Inverse problems in cardiovascular modelling have become increasingly important to assess each patient individually. These problems entail estimation of patient-specific model parameters from uncertain measurements acquired in the clinic. In recent years, the method of data assimilation, especially the unscented Kalman filter, has gained popularity to address computational efficiency and uncertainty consideration in such problems. This work highlights and presents solutions to several challenges of this method pertinent to models of cardiovascular haemodynamics. These include methods to (i) avoid ill-conditioning of the covariance matrix, (ii) handle a variety of measurement types, (iii) include a variety of prior knowledge in the method, and (iv) incorporate measurements acquired at different heart rates, a common situation in the clinic where the patient state differs according to the clinical situation. Results are presented for two patient-specific cases of congenital heart disease. To illustrate and validate data assimilation with measurements at different heart rates, the results are presented on a synthetic dataset and on a patient-specific case with heart valve regurgitation. It is shown that the new method significantly improves the agreement between model predictions and measurements. The developed methods can be readily applied to other pathophysiologies and extended to dynamical systems which exhibit different responses under different sets of known parameters or different sets of inputs (such as forcing/excitation frequencies).
Keywords: data assimilation, unscented Kalman filter, parameter estimation, heart rate, singleventricle physiology, haemodynamics
College: Faculty of Science and Engineering
Issue: 126

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