Key result
The proposed deep learning-assisted parallel-chain MCMC method significantly reduced geometric uncertainty in computational hemodynamics and increased the effective acceptance ratio to 45.6%.
Why the study?
Reliability of computational hemodynamic predictions depends largely on uncertainties of modeling parameters and boundary conditions, requiring quantification and reduction of vascular geometry uncertainty within a Bayesian framework.
A novel deep learning-assisted parallel MCMC method efficiently reduces geometric uncertainty in computational hemodynamics, achieving high accuracy with lower computational cost.
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May enhance hemodynamic model reliability in research settings; leaves open clinical validation and adoption.
Computational hemodynamic modeling has been widely used in cardiovascular research and healthcare. However, the reliability of model predictions is largely dependent on the uncertainties of modeling parameters and boundary conditions, which should be carefully quantified and further reduced with available measurements. In this work, we focus on propagating and reducing the uncertainty of vascular geometries within a Bayesian framework. A novel deep learning (DL)-assisted parallel Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method is presented to enable efficient Bayesian posterior sampling and geometric uncertainty reduction. A DL model is built to approximate the geometry-to-hemodynamic map, which is trained actively using online data collected from parallel MCMC chains and utilized for early rejection of unlikely proposals to facilitate convergence with less expensive full-order model evaluations. Numerical studies on two-dimensional aortic flows are conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness and merit of the proposed method.
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Du et al. (2022) studied Geometric uncertainty in computational hemodynamics. Deep learning-assisted parallel-chain MCMC (DA_OLT) vs. Standard Metropolis-Hastings MCMC and other MCMC variants was evaluated on Geometric uncertainty reduction and computational efficiency (Effective Acceptance Ratio). The proposed deep learning-assisted parallel-chain MCMC method significantly reduced geometric uncertainty in computational hemodynamics and increased the effective acceptance ratio to 45.6%.
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