Calibration of ionic and cellular cardiac electrophysiology models

Whittaker, Dominic G.; Clerx, Michael; Lei, Chon Lok; Christini, David J.; Mirams, Gary R.

Abstract

© 2020 The Authors. WIREs Systems Biology and Medicine published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Cardiac electrophysiology models are among the most mature and well-studied mathematical models of biological systems. This maturity is bringing new challenges as models are being used increasingly to make quantitative rather than qualitative predictions. As such, calibrating the parameters within ion current and action potential (AP) models to experimental data sets is a crucial step in constructing a predictive model. This review highlights some of the fundamental concepts in cardiac model calibration and is intended to be readily understood by computational and mathematical modelers working in other fields of biology. We discuss the classic and latest approaches to calibration in the electrophysiology field, at both the ion channel and cellular AP scales. We end with a discussion of the many challenges that work to date has raised and the need for reproducible descriptions of the calibration process to enable models to be recalibrated to new data sets and built upon for new studies. This article is categorized under: Analytical and Computational Methods > Computational Methods Physiology > Mammalian Physiology in Health and Disease Models of Systems Properties and Processes > Cellular Models.

Citation

Whittaker, D. G., Clerx, M., Lei, C. L., Christini, D. J., & Mirams, G. R. (2020). Calibration of ionic and cellular cardiac electrophysiology models. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Systems Biology and Medicine, 12(4), https://doi.org/10.1002/wsbm.1482

• Journal Article Type: Review
• Acceptance Date: Jan 18, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Feb 21, 2020
• Publication Date: Jul 1, 2020
• Deposit Date: Jan 20, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 1, 2020
• Journal: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Systems Biology and Medicine
• Print ISSN: 1939-5094
• Electronic ISSN: 1939-005X
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 4
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/wsbm.1482
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/3766044
• Publisher URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wsbm.1482