A new Cellular Automata Model of Cardiac Action Potential Propagation based on Summation of Excited Neighbors

The heart tissue is an excitable media. A Cellular Automata is a type of model that can be used to model cardiac action potential propagation. One of the advantages of this approach against the methods based on differential equations is its high speed in large scale simulations. Recent cellular automata models are not able to avoid flat edges in the result patterns or have large neighborhoods. In this paper, we present a new model to eliminate flat edges by minimum number of neighbors.

Authors:

• F. Pourhasanzade
• S. H. Sabzpoushan

Keywords:

• Cellular Automata
• Action Potential Simulation
• Isotropic Pattern.

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