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ArticlePLoS computational biology2026

Body surface potential driven personalisation of electrophysiological digital twins in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Shambhavi Malik, Ludovica Cicci, Abdul Qayyum, Rahul Ghelani, Ji-Jian Chow, Jagdeep Singh Mohal, Zachary I Whinnett, Amanda Varnava, Gernot Plank, Prapa Kanagaratnam and 1 more

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Shambhavi MalikNational Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1374-4765
Ludovica CicciNational Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Abdul QayyumNational Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Rahul GhelaniImperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom.
Ji-Jian ChowImperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom.
Jagdeep Singh MohalNational Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Zachary I WhinnettNational Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Amanda VarnavaImperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom.
Gernot PlankMedical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
Prapa KanagaratnamImperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom.
Steven A NiedererNational Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.

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Using Atrial Mechanics To Identify Fibrosis In Patients with Atrial FibrillationR01HL152256 · NHLBI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI ENNIS, DANIEL B · 2020 to 2023
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NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL152256
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Abstract

backgroundHypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is associated with marked inter-patient heterogeneity in ventricular electrophysiology, contributing to arrhythmic risk that is insufficiently captured by current clinical methods. Electrocardiographic imaging (ECGI) provides high-density body surface potential (BSP) measurements but remains largely descriptive. Computational modelling offers a mechanistic framework to interpret BSP signals in terms of underlying tissue-level properties. METHODS AND

findingsWe developed a BSP-driven workflow to construct patient-specific electrophysiology (EP) models of HCM by integrating multimodal clinical imaging with Bayesian model calibration. Anatomically detailed torso-heart finite-element models were generated for 17 HCM patients using thoracic computed tomography (CT), cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR), and 252-electrode BSP recordings. Ventricular depolarisation and repolarisation were simulated using a reaction-eikonal (RE) formulation coupled to a biophysically detailed ToR-ORd-dynCl ionic model. Emulator-based Bayesian history matching (HM) was used to personalise EP parameters, with staged calibration of QRS and T-wave morphology informed by targeted sensitivity analysis. The calibrated cohort reproduced clinical BSP morphology with Pearson correlation coefficient (PCC) [Formula: see text] for a median of 94.0% (IQR: 91.6 to 96.8%) of electrodes, achieving a median PCC of 0.89 (IQR: 0.80 to 0.94) across the full 252-electrode vest. Calibration substantially reduced uncertainty in the high-dimensional EP parameter space while yielding physiologically plausible conduction and repolarisation properties. Models calibrated exclusively to sinus rhythm robustly generalised to right-ventricular (RV) apical pacing without parameter retuning, reproducing clinically observed pacing-induced trends in depolarisation and repolarisation. Exploratory analysis revealed biologically consistent associations between inferred EP parameters and patient demographics.

conclusionsThis study demonstrates that high-density BSP data can be used to functionally personalise mechanistic EP in HCM. The framework captures intrinsic patient-specific EP properties and generalises beyond the calibration condition, supporting its use for mechanistic investigation of arrhythmogenic substrate.

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Body Surface Potential MappingCardiomyopathy, HypertrophicAdultAgedBayes TheoremComputational BiologyComputer SimulationElectrocardiographyFemaleHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleMiddle AgedModels, CardiovascularPatient-Specific Modeling

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PMID42507707
PMCPMC13432148

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