arXiv:2409.12567cs.NEcs.AI2024-09被引 9

用并行差分进化算法快速校准神经损伤模型,提升仿真效率与精度。

Model calibration using a parallel differential evolution algorithm in computational neuroscience: simulation of stretch induced nerve deficit

  • 采用并行差分进化算法加速神经电-机械模型参数校准。
  • 在六种损伤场景下,计算时间大幅缩短且性能优于人工调参。
  • 适用于多轴突束的复杂神经损伤模拟,适合计算资源充足的团队使用。

神经损伤(包括脑和脊髓损伤)是全球年轻成人致残和死亡的主要原因。评估机械性损伤后直接功能损害的一种方法是模拟神经元在机械事件后的功能缺陷。本研究采用一个包含多个自由参数的电-机械耦合模型,需基于实验结果进行校准。校准通过差分进化(DE)算法完成,每个参数配置需在六个不同损伤案例上运行,每次计算耗时数分钟。为减少参数调优时间,采用单一固定直径轴突的简化触发过程加速计算。随后将该模型用于更真实的独立轴突束参数优化,此配置在单处理器上难以运行。为此,我们基于OpenMP开发了并行实现,充分利用多处理器计算能力。并行DE算法取得良好结果,其性能显著优于已发表的人工校准最优方案,且耗时更短。尽管未能完全复现实验数据,但该模型提供了一个复杂的平均框架,可模拟轴突束中渐进性的功能改变。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Neuronal damage, in the form of both brain and spinal cord injuries, is one of the major causes of disability and death in young adults worldwide. One way to assess the direct damage occurring after a mechanical insult is the simulation of the neuronal cells functional deficits following the mechanical event. In this study, we use a coupled mechanical electrophysiological model with several free parameters that are required to be calibrated against experimental results. The calibration is carried out by means of an evolutionary algorithm (differential evolution, DE) that needs to evaluate each configuration of parameters on six different damage cases, each of them taking several minutes to compute. To minimise the simulation time of the parameter tuning for the DE, the stretch of one unique fixed-diameter axon with a simplified triggering process is used to speed up the calculations. The model is then leveraged for the parameter optimization of the more realistic bundle of independent axons, an impractical configuration to run on a single processor computer. To this end, we have developed a parallel implementation based on OpenMP that runs on a multi-processor taking advantage of all the available computational power. The parallel DE algorithm obtains good results, outperforming the best effort achieved by published manual calibration, in a fraction of the time. While not being able to fully capture the experimental results, the resulting nerve model provides a complex averaging framework for nerve damage simulation able to simulate gradual axonal functional alteration in a bundle.

神经建模差分进化并行计算生物仿真

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