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20172026
most citedA comprehensive and biophysically detailed computational model of the whole human heart electromechanics

120 citations · 532 across the 34 of their papers we have counts for

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37 papers

cs.LG2026

Optimal Transport Dropout for Structured Predictive Uncertainty

Giacomo Lorenzon, Francesco Regazzoni

Deterministic neural networks and neural operators provide point predictions with no intrinsic measure of reliability. Yet, predictive uncertainty may stem from irreducible outcome…

math.NA2026

A mathematical model for irreversible damage of the collagen scaffold in the myocardium

Irena Radišić, Francesco Regazzoni, Luca Dede' +1

We propose a dissipative, irreversible damage model for anisotropic media in large deformations to address the damage process of the myocardium following a cardiac infarction. We m…

math.NA2026

A stability-preserving polytopal discontinuous Galerkin method for the Fisher-Kolmogorov model with applications to neurodegenerative disease modelling

Paola Francesca Antonietti, Francesca Bonizzoni, Mattia Corti +3

The Fisher--Kolmogorov equation models the spatio-temporal evolution of interacting biological species and is extensively employed in fields such as ecology, population dynamics, a…

math.NA2026

The functional impact of myofiber macroscopic organization and disarray in computational models of the murine heart

Carlo Guastamacchia, Roberto Piersanti, Francesco Giardini +5

A major challenge in computational models of cardiac electromechanics is the reconstruction of myocardial fiber architecture, as direct in vivo measurements of fiber orientation ar…

math.NA2026

Hyperelastic constitutive model discovery with differentiable finite elements and structure-preserving neural networks

Francesco Regazzoni

The discovery of constitutive laws from experimentally accessible measurements is a central problem in nonlinear computational mechanics. Many data-driven constitutive identificati…

cs.LG2026

Elimination-compensation pruning for fully-connected neural networks

Enrico Ballini, Luca Muscarnera, Alessio Fumagalli +2

The unmatched ability of Deep Neural Networks in capturing complex patterns in large and noisy datasets is often associated with their large hypothesis space, and consequently to t…

cs.LG2026

Shape-informed cardiac mechanics surrogates in data-scarce regimes via geometric encoding and generative augmentation

Davide Carrara, Marc Hirschvogel, Francesca Bonizzoni +3

High-fidelity computational models of cardiac mechanics provide mechanistic insight into the heart function but are computationally prohibitive for routine clinical use. Surrogate…

math.NA2025

Cardiocirculatory Computational Models for the Study of Hypertension

Simone Celora, Andrea Tonini, Francesco Regazzoni +3

In this work, we develop patient-specific cardiocirculatory models with the aim of building Digital Twins for hypertension. In particular, in our pathophysiology-based framework, w…

math.NA2025

Improvements on uncertainty quantification with variational autoencoders

Andrea Tonini, Tan Bui-Thanh, Francesco Regazzoni +2

Inverse problems aim to determine model parameters of a mathematical problem from given observational data. Neural networks can provide an efficient tool to solve these problems. I…

cs.LG2025

Emergence of Structure in Ensembles of Random Neural Networks

Luca Muscarnera, Luigi Loreti, Giovanni Todeschini +2

Randomness is ubiquitous in many applications across data science and machine learning. Remarkably, systems composed of random components often display emergent global behaviors th…

math.NA2025

Influence of cellular mechano-calcium feedback in numerical models of cardiac electromechanics

Irena Radišić, Francesco Regazzoni, Michele Bucelli +3

Multiphysics and multiscale mathematical models enable the non-invasive study of cardiac function. These models often rely on simplifying assumptions that neglect certain biophysic…

math.NA2025★ 45 cited

Combining physics-based and data-driven models: advancing the frontiers of research with Scientific Machine Learning

Alfio Quarteroni, Paola Gervasio, Francesco Regazzoni

Scientific Machine Learning (SciML) is a recently emerged research field which combines physics-based and data-driven models for the numerical approximation of differential problem…

physics.med-ph2024

Elucidating the cellular determinants of the end-systolic pressure-volume relationship of the heart via computational modelling

Francesco Regazzoni, Corrado Poggesi, Cecilia Ferrantini

The left ventricular end-systolic pressure-volume relationship (ESPVr) is a key indicator of cardiac contractility. Despite its established importance, several studies suggested th…

q-bio.QM2024

A model learning framework for inferring the dynamics of transmission rate depending on exogenous variables for epidemic forecasts

Giovanni Ziarelli, Stefano Pagani, Nicola Parolini +2

In this work, we aim to formalize a novel scientific machine learning framework to reconstruct the hidden dynamics of the transmission rate, whose inaccurate extrapolation can sign…

math.NA2024

Shape-informed surrogate models based on signed distance function domain encoding

Linying Zhang, Stefano Pagani, Jun Zhang +1

We propose a non-intrusive method to build surrogate models that approximate the solution of parameterized partial differential equations (PDEs), capable of taking into account the…

math.NA2024★ 7 cited

Two new calibration techniques of lumped-parameter mathematical models for the cardiovascular system

Andrea Tonini, Francesco Regazzoni, Matteo Salvador +7

Cardiocirculatory mathematical models serve as valuable tools for investigating physiological and pathological conditions of the circulatory system. To investigate the clinical con…

math.NA2024

Robust radial basis function interpolation based on geodesic distance for the numerical coupling of multiphysics problems

Michele Bucelli, Francesco Regazzoni, Luca Dede' +1

Multiphysics simulations frequently require transferring solution fields between subproblems with non-matching spatial discretizations, typically using interpolation techniques. St…

math.NA2024

An integrated heart-torso electromechanical model for the simulation of electrophysiogical outputs accounting for myocardial deformation

Elena Zappon, Matteo Salvador, Roberto Piersanti +3

When generating in-silico clinical electrophysiological outputs, such as electrocardiograms (ECGs) and body surface potential maps (BSPMs), mathematical models have relied on singl…

cs.LG2023★ 60 cited

Physics-informed Neural Network Estimation of Material Properties in Soft Tissue Nonlinear Biomechanical Models

Federica Caforio, Francesco Regazzoni, Stefano Pagani +5

The development of biophysical models for clinical applications is rapidly advancing in the research community, thanks to their predictive nature and their ability to assist the in…

math.NA2023

lifex-ep: a robust and efficient software for cardiac electrophysiology simulations

Pasquale C. Africa, Roberto Piersanti, Francesco Regazzoni +6

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

math.NA2023★ 3 cited

Real-time whole-heart electromechanical simulations using Latent Neural Ordinary Differential Equations

Matteo Salvador, Marina Strocchi, Francesco Regazzoni +3

Cardiac digital twins provide a physics and physiology informed framework to deliver predictive and personalized medicine. However, high-fidelity multi-scale cardiac models remain…

math.NA2023

Preserving the positivity of the deformation gradient determinant in intergrid interpolation by combining RBFs and SVD: application to cardiac electromechanics

Michele Bucelli, Francesco Regazzoni, Luca Dede' +1

The accurate robust and efficient transfer of the deformation gradient tensor between meshes of different resolution is crucial in cardiac electromechanics simulations. We present…

math.NA2023★ 9 cited

A mathematical model to assess the effects of COVID-19 on the cardiocirculatory system

Andrea Tonini, Christian Vergara, Francesco Regazzoni +4

Impaired cardiac function has been described as a frequent complication of COVID-19-related pneumonia. To investigate possible underlying mechanisms, we represented the cardiovascu…

cs.LG2023★ 5 cited

Latent Dynamics Networks (LDNets): learning the intrinsic dynamics of spatio-temporal processes

Francesco Regazzoni, Stefano Pagani, Matteo Salvador +2

Predicting the evolution of systems that exhibit spatio-temporal dynamics in response to external stimuli is a key enabling technology fostering scientific innovation. Traditional…