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

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Auteurs principaux: Caforio, Federica, Regazzoni, Francesco, Pagani, Stefano, Karabelas, Elias, Augustin, Christoph, Haase, Gundolf, Plank, Gernot, Quarteroni, Alfio
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author Caforio, Federica
Regazzoni, Francesco
Pagani, Stefano
Karabelas, Elias
Augustin, Christoph
Haase, Gundolf
Plank, Gernot
Quarteroni, Alfio
author_facet Caforio, Federica
Regazzoni, Francesco
Pagani, Stefano
Karabelas, Elias
Augustin, Christoph
Haase, Gundolf
Plank, Gernot
Quarteroni, Alfio
contents 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 interpretation of clinical data. However, high-resolution and accurate multi-physics computational models are computationally expensive and their personalisation involves fine calibration of a large number of parameters, which may be space-dependent, challenging their clinical translation. In this work, we propose a new approach which relies on the combination of physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) with three-dimensional soft tissue nonlinear biomechanical models, capable of reconstructing displacement fields and estimating heterogeneous patient-specific biophysical properties. The proposed learning algorithm encodes information from a limited amount of displacement and, in some cases, strain data, that can be routinely acquired in the clinical setting, and combines it with the physics of the problem, represented by a mathematical model based on partial differential equations, to regularise the problem and improve its convergence properties. Several benchmarks are presented to show the accuracy and robustness of the proposed method and its great potential to enable the robust and effective identification of patient-specific, heterogeneous physical properties, s.a. tissue stiffness properties. In particular, we demonstrate the capability of the PINN to detect the presence, location and severity of scar tissue, which is beneficial to develop personalised simulation models for disease diagnosis, especially for cardiac applications.
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spellingShingle Physics-informed Neural Network Estimation of Material Properties in Soft Tissue Nonlinear Biomechanical Models
Caforio, Federica
Regazzoni, Francesco
Pagani, Stefano
Karabelas, Elias
Augustin, Christoph
Haase, Gundolf
Plank, Gernot
Quarteroni, Alfio
Machine Learning
Numerical Analysis
Biological Physics
Medical Physics
I.2.1; J.2
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 interpretation of clinical data. However, high-resolution and accurate multi-physics computational models are computationally expensive and their personalisation involves fine calibration of a large number of parameters, which may be space-dependent, challenging their clinical translation. In this work, we propose a new approach which relies on the combination of physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) with three-dimensional soft tissue nonlinear biomechanical models, capable of reconstructing displacement fields and estimating heterogeneous patient-specific biophysical properties. The proposed learning algorithm encodes information from a limited amount of displacement and, in some cases, strain data, that can be routinely acquired in the clinical setting, and combines it with the physics of the problem, represented by a mathematical model based on partial differential equations, to regularise the problem and improve its convergence properties. Several benchmarks are presented to show the accuracy and robustness of the proposed method and its great potential to enable the robust and effective identification of patient-specific, heterogeneous physical properties, s.a. tissue stiffness properties. In particular, we demonstrate the capability of the PINN to detect the presence, location and severity of scar tissue, which is beneficial to develop personalised simulation models for disease diagnosis, especially for cardiac applications.
title Physics-informed Neural Network Estimation of Material Properties in Soft Tissue Nonlinear Biomechanical Models
topic Machine Learning
Numerical Analysis
Biological Physics
Medical Physics
I.2.1; J.2
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.09787