Taking mathematics to heart

Oneday, a virtual version of your own heart may helpdoctors diagnose heart disease and determine the besttreatment for you, without the need for unnecessary inva-sive clinical practices. The five-year ERC Advanced GrantiHEART (an integrated heart model for the simulation ofthe cardiac function) of the European Research Council has precisely the ambition to make a significant stepforward in the direction of constructing a mathematicalvirtual heart. Its ultimate goal is to simulate heart functionwith increasing accuracy and to be personalized to yourheart based on medical imaging (CT scans, MRI, etc.). Thiswould hopefully help to prevent or treat cardiovasculardisease by providing a personalized virtual heart to pa-tients, essentially a detailed mathematical description ofa patient’s heart and how it functions—or malfunctions.has precisely the ambition to make a significant stepforward in the direction of constructing a mathematicalvirtual heart. Its ultimate goal is to simulate heart functionwith increasing accuracy and to be personalized to yourheart based on medical imaging (CT scans, MRI, etc.). Thiswould hopefully help to prevent or treat cardiovasculardisease by providing a personalized virtual heart to pa-tients, essentially a detailed mathematical description ofa patient’s heart and how it functions—or malfunctions.