Model based visualization of cardiac virtual tissue

In standard analysis of simulations of the heart, usually only one state variable – the transmembrane voltage (or action potential) – is visualized. While this is the ‘most important’ variable to visualize, all but the most basic cardiac models have many state variables at each node; data that are not used when visualizing the output. In this paper, we present a novel visualization technique developed within the Integrative Biology project that uses the entire state of the cardiac virtual tissue to produce images based on the deviation from normal propagation of action potential.