Title
GPU-Based Parallelization for Computer Simulation of Electrocardiogram
Abstract
This paper presents a parallel algorithm using GPU for computer simulation of Electrocardiogram (ECG) based on a 3-dimensional (3D) whole-heart model. The computer heart model includes approximately 50,000 discrete elements (model cells) inside a torso model represented by 344 nodal points with 684 triangular meshes. After the excitation propagation is simulated in the heart model, the Poisson question is applied to the volume conductor for computing ECG, which involves a maximum of about 50,000 electric current dipole sources and four boundaries including the torso surface and three surfaces of heart model. The parallel algorithm was designed to solve this problem based on GPU. It accelerates the speed of calculation of ECG to 2.74 times with very low relative error compared with the serial algorithm. This study demonstrates a potential method using GPU for parallel computing in biomedical simulation study.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/CIT.2009.134
CIT (1)
Keywords
Field
DocType
electrocardiography,parallel processing,stochastic processes,whole-heart model,gpu-based parallelization,gpu,poisson process,medical signal processing,cuda,ecg,computer heart model,heart model,torso model,3-dimensional whole-heart model,serial algorithm,model cell,parallel algorithm,parallel computing,electrocardiogram,computer simulation,biomedical simulation study,solid modeling,3 dimensional,heart,relative error,kernel,parallel computer,triangular mesh,computational modeling
Kernel (linear algebra),Torso,Polygon mesh,Computer science,Cardinal point,Parallel algorithm,CUDA,Parallel computing,Solid modeling,Approximation error
Conference
Volume
ISBN
Citations 
1
978-0-7695-3836-5
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.44
3
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wenfeng Shen13210.23
Daming Wei221544.97
Weimin Xu3617.98
Xin Zhu47316.49
Shizhong Yuan5183.78