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Characterisation of Anti-Arrhythmic Drug Effects on Cardiac Electrophysiology using Physics-Informed Neural Networks

13 Mar 2024arXiv:2403.08439archive 2025-07-28

Ching-En Chiu, Arieh Levy Pinto, Rasheda A Chowdhury, Kim Christensen, Marta Varela

The ability to accurately infer cardiac electrophysiological (EP) properties is key to improving arrhythmia diagnosis and treatment. In this work, we developed a physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) framework to predict how different myocardial EP parameters are modulated by anti-arrhythmic drugs. Using in vitro optical mapping images and the 3-channel Fenton-Karma model, we estimated the changes in ionic channel conductance caused by these drugs. Our framework successfully characterised the action of drugs HMR1556, nifedipine and lidocaine - respectively, blockade of I_K, I_(Ca), and I_(Na) currents - by estimating that they decreased the respective channel conductance by 31.8±2.7% (p=8.2 ×10⁻⁵), 80.9±21.6% (p=0.02), and 8.6±0.5% (p=0.03), leaving the conductance of other channels unchanged. For carbenoxolone, whose main action is the blockade of intercellular gap junctions, PINNs also successfully predicted no significant changes (p>0.09) in all ionic conductances. Our results are an important step towards the deployment of PINNs for model parameter estimation from experimental data, bringing this framework closer to clinical or laboratory images analysis and for the personalisation of mathematical models.

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