Abstract:

   The annual report of the American Heart Association shows that cardiac diseases are the first cause of death in the developed countries. A simulation of the cardiac electrophysiology would be necessary in order to understand the multiple pathologies of the human heart and try to cure them.

   There is a duality in the simulation of the cardiac electrophysiology:

- Continuous models consider the cardiac tissue as a contiuous, excitable medium, governed by a couple of ODE (ordinary differential equations). In this article we will consider the FitzHugh-Nagumo model.

- Discrete models discretize the cardiac tissue into a network of interconnected cells. In this article we will consider cellular automata to simulate the interaction between cells.

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