Neural Network Surrogate and Projected Gradient Descent for Fast and Reliable Finite Element Model Calibration: a Case Study on an Intervertebral Disc

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Autori principali: Atad, Matan, Gruber, Gabriel, Ribeiro, Marx, Nicolini, Luis Fernando, Graf, Robert, Möller, Hendrik, Nispel, Kati, Ezhov, Ivan, Rueckert, Daniel, Kirschke, Jan S.
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author Atad, Matan
Gruber, Gabriel
Ribeiro, Marx
Nicolini, Luis Fernando
Graf, Robert
Möller, Hendrik
Nispel, Kati
Ezhov, Ivan
Rueckert, Daniel
Kirschke, Jan S.
author_facet Atad, Matan
Gruber, Gabriel
Ribeiro, Marx
Nicolini, Luis Fernando
Graf, Robert
Möller, Hendrik
Nispel, Kati
Ezhov, Ivan
Rueckert, Daniel
Kirschke, Jan S.
contents Accurate calibration of finite element (FE) models is essential across various biomechanical applications, including human intervertebral discs (IVDs), to ensure their reliability and use in diagnosing and planning treatments. However, traditional calibration methods are computationally intensive, requiring iterative, derivative-free optimization algorithms that often take days to converge. This study addresses these challenges by introducing a novel, efficient, and effective calibration method demonstrated on a human L4-L5 IVD FE model as a case study using a neural network (NN) surrogate. The NN surrogate predicts simulation outcomes with high accuracy, outperforming other machine learning models, and significantly reduces the computational cost associated with traditional FE simulations. Next, a Projected Gradient Descent (PGD) approach guided by gradients of the NN surrogate is proposed to efficiently calibrate FE models. Our method explicitly enforces feasibility with a projection step, thus maintaining material bounds throughout the optimization process. The proposed method is evaluated against SOTA Genetic Algorithm and inverse model baselines on synthetic and in vitro experimental datasets. Our approach demonstrates superior performance on synthetic data, achieving an MAE of 0.06 compared to the baselines' MAE of 0.18 and 0.54, respectively. On experimental specimens, our method outperforms the baseline in 5 out of 6 cases. While our approach requires initial dataset generation and surrogate training, these steps are performed only once, and the actual calibration takes under three seconds. In contrast, traditional calibration time scales linearly with the number of specimens, taking up to 8 days in the worst-case. Such efficiency paves the way for applying more complex FE models, potentially extending beyond IVDs, and enabling accurate patient-specific simulations.
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spellingShingle Neural Network Surrogate and Projected Gradient Descent for Fast and Reliable Finite Element Model Calibration: a Case Study on an Intervertebral Disc
Atad, Matan
Gruber, Gabriel
Ribeiro, Marx
Nicolini, Luis Fernando
Graf, Robert
Möller, Hendrik
Nispel, Kati
Ezhov, Ivan
Rueckert, Daniel
Kirschke, Jan S.
Machine Learning
Accurate calibration of finite element (FE) models is essential across various biomechanical applications, including human intervertebral discs (IVDs), to ensure their reliability and use in diagnosing and planning treatments. However, traditional calibration methods are computationally intensive, requiring iterative, derivative-free optimization algorithms that often take days to converge. This study addresses these challenges by introducing a novel, efficient, and effective calibration method demonstrated on a human L4-L5 IVD FE model as a case study using a neural network (NN) surrogate. The NN surrogate predicts simulation outcomes with high accuracy, outperforming other machine learning models, and significantly reduces the computational cost associated with traditional FE simulations. Next, a Projected Gradient Descent (PGD) approach guided by gradients of the NN surrogate is proposed to efficiently calibrate FE models. Our method explicitly enforces feasibility with a projection step, thus maintaining material bounds throughout the optimization process. The proposed method is evaluated against SOTA Genetic Algorithm and inverse model baselines on synthetic and in vitro experimental datasets. Our approach demonstrates superior performance on synthetic data, achieving an MAE of 0.06 compared to the baselines' MAE of 0.18 and 0.54, respectively. On experimental specimens, our method outperforms the baseline in 5 out of 6 cases. While our approach requires initial dataset generation and surrogate training, these steps are performed only once, and the actual calibration takes under three seconds. In contrast, traditional calibration time scales linearly with the number of specimens, taking up to 8 days in the worst-case. Such efficiency paves the way for applying more complex FE models, potentially extending beyond IVDs, and enabling accurate patient-specific simulations.
title Neural Network Surrogate and Projected Gradient Descent for Fast and Reliable Finite Element Model Calibration: a Case Study on an Intervertebral Disc
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06067