The Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) will host the First Workshop on Cardiac Digital Twins on September 10th, from 08:30 to 16:00, at the Institute of Exact Sciences (ICE) Auditorium – Reuni Building. The event is free of charge and open to the public, with no registration required.
The workshop will bring together national and international experts in computational modeling of cardiac function. Confirmed speakers include Dr. Julià Camps (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona), Dr. Joventino Oliveira Campos (UFJF, Juiz de Fora), and Dr. Lucas Arantes Berg (University of Oxford, Oxford).
The program features keynote talks, oral and poster presentations, as well as practical sessions. Topics include the development and application of digital twins of the heart, computational pipelines for personalized heart modeling, arrhythmia studies, and advanced electrophysiology simulations.
Highlights of the schedule:
- Opening Talks on digital twins of the heart and clinical applications.
- Poster and Oral Presentations by graduate students and researchers, covering fibrosis modeling, arrhythmia analysis, and surrogate models.
- Hands-on Sessions, including an introduction to MonoAlg3D and practical training on digital twins.
- Networking Opportunities, with a coffee break and a social “Happy Hour – Arrítmicos do Samba” at the end of the day.
The event is organized by the Graduate Program in Computational Modeling (PGMC/UFJF) and the Computational Physiology and High-Perfomance Computing Laboratory (FisioComp), with support from CNPq.
This workshop represents an opportunity for students, researchers, and health professionals to engage with the latest advances in computational cardiology and digital twin technologies.
📅 Program – I Workshop on Cardiac Digital Twins
Date: September 10th, 2025
Location: Institute of Exact Sciences Auditorium (Reuni Building), UFJF
08:30 – 09:30
Digital Twins of the Heart
Dr. Julià Camps (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
09:30 – 10:30
Digital Twins from Patients with Dilated Cardiomyopathy from the HU-UFJF
Dr. Joventino Campos (UFJF, Juiz de Fora)
10:30 – 11:00 ☕
Coffee Break
Poster and Oral Presentations
11:00 – 11:10
Evaluating the Influence of Different Realistic Fibrosis Patterns on Cardiac Arrhythmias via Computational Models
Guilherme Couto – oral
11:10 – 11:20
Uncovering Arrhythmic Substrate in a Heart Failure Patient Using Digital Twins
Thaís Soares – oral
11:20 – 11:30
Towards the Validation of a Digital Twin Pipeline on Patients with Bundle Branch Block
João Banhato – oral
11:30 – 11:40
Constrained-based Sparse Identification of Cardiac Electrophysiology Models Using PySINDy
Mariana Aparecida – oral
11:40 – 11:50
Comparing Surrogate Models for Action Potential Features in Ischemic Conditions
Yann Barbosa – oral
11:50 – 12:00
Development of a Three-Dimensional Computational Pipeline in Python for Personalized Heart Modeling
Felipe Namorato – oral
12:00 – 12:10
Digital Twin of a Rabbit Heart in a Langendorff Setup
Daniel Moreira – oral
12:10 – 12:15
Benchmarking Open Cardiac Electrophysiology Simulators: MonoAlg3D and OpenCARP
Lucas Marins – poster
12:15 – 12:20
Reduced Cellular Model for Cardiac Electromechanical Simulations
Helena Lannes – poster
12:20 – 12:25
Solving Cardiac Electrophysiology Models Based on the Markov-Chain Formulations with Tensor Cores
João Victor – poster
12:25 – 12:30
Comparing Manual and Automated Digital Electrode Placement for 12-lead ECG Using MRI-Based Torso Models
Matheus Faesy – poster
Afternoon Session
14:00 – 15:00
Introduction to MonoAlg3D
Dr. Lucas Berg (University of Oxford, Oxford)
15:00 – 16:00
Hands-on – Digital Twins
Dr. Julià Camps (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
Social Activity
17:00 – 21:00 🍻
Happy Hour – Arrítmicos do Samba