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Runsang Liu¹, Hui Yang¹

¹Complex System Monitoring, Modeling, and Control Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.

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This study introduces a novel self-organizing network approach for simulating cardiac electrical dynamics. This method effectively models heart geometry and electrical wave propagation, offering a new tool for cardiac simulation.

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Area of Science:

Computational Biology
Biophysics
Network Science

Background:

Traditional cardiac simulation methods face challenges with complex heart geometry.
Self-organizing networks offer a promising low-dimensional representation for cardiac modeling.
Investigating electrical activity simulation on these networks remains an underexplored area.

Purpose of the Study:

To present a novel self-organizing network approach for simulating cardiac electrical dynamics.
To explore the characterization of heart structure-function relationships using network theory.
To simulate the propagation and turbulent behavior of electrical waves in cardiac tissue.

Main Methods:

Formulating and solving reaction-diffusion equations on a self-organizing network.
Representing cardiac tissue using sparse adjacency matrices.
Validating the approach on 2D cardiac tissues (healthy and infarcted) and whole heart models.

Main Results:

The self-organizing network effectively encodes and resembles complex heart geometry.
The approach provides a compact network representation of the heart.
Simulations accurately captured spatiotemporal dynamics, validated against finite element methods.

Conclusions:

The proposed self-organizing network approach is effective for cardiac electrical dynamics simulation.
This method offers a new paradigm for understanding heart function through network theory.
The approach demonstrates potential for accurate and efficient cardiac modeling.