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An Inverse Problem Involving a Viscous Eikonal Equation with Applications in Electrophysiology
Karl Kunisch1,2, Philip Trautmann1
1Institute for Mathematics and Scientific Computing, University of Graz, Heinrichstrasse 36, A-8010 Graz, Austria.
Abstract:
In this work we discuss the reconstruction of cardiac activation instants based on a viscous Eikonal equation from boundary observations. The problem is formulated as a least squares problem and solved by a projected version of the Levenberg-Marquardt method. Moreover, we analyze the well-posedness of the state equation and derive the gradient of the least squares functional with respect to the activation instants. In the numerical examples we also conduct an experiment in which the location of the activation sites and the activation instants are reconstructed jointly based on an adapted version of the shape gradient method from (J. Math. Biol. 79, 2033-2068, 2019). We are able to reconstruct the activation instants as well as the locations of the activations with high accuracy relative to the noise level.
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