Non-Invasive Reconstruction of Cardiac Activation Dynamics Using Physics-Informed Neural Networks
This work addresses the problem of cardiac arrhythmogenesis diagnosis for cardiologists and patients, providing a potential pathway toward patient-specific, non-invasive reconstruction of cardiac activation.
The authors tackled the problem of non-invasive reconstruction of cardiac activation dynamics, achieving accurate spatiotemporal reconstruction under varying levels of measurement noise and reduced spatial resolution. Their approach preserved global propagation patterns and activation timing.
Cardiac arrhythmogenesis is governed by complex electromechanical interactions that are not directly observable in vivo, motivating the development of non-invasive computational approaches for reconstructing three-dimensional activation dynamics. We present a physics-informed neural network framework for recovering cardiac activation patterns, active tension propagation, deformation fields, and hydrostatic pressure from measurable deformation data in simplified left ventricular geometries. Our approach integrates nonlinear anisotropic constitutive modeling, heterogeneous fiber orientation, weak formulations of the governing mechanics, and finite-element-based loss functions to embed physical constraints directly into training. We demonstrate that the proposed framework accurately reconstructs spatiotemporal activation dynamics under varying levels of measurement noise and reduced spatial resolution, while preserving global propagation patterns and activation timing. By coupling mechanistic modeling with data-driven inference, this method establishes a pathway toward patient-specific, non-invasive reconstruction of cardiac activation, with potential applications in digital phenotyping and computational support for arrhythmia assessment.