Object-oriented Modeling in the Service of
Medicine
Keywords
- Bond graph modeling
- Object-oriented modeling
- Graphical modeling
- Cardiovascular system
- Hemodynamics
Abstract
The models employed in all aspects of science and engineering have
grown increasingly complex, in order to allow them to capture more and
more details of the systems that they are representing. Unfortunately,
the increased complexity makes these models more difficult to maintain
and harder to understand. Especially in a domain, such as medicine,
with domain experts, who possess rather limited mathematical skills in
general, the complexity of advanced models has become problematic, as
these experts no longer are capable of fully understanding and
criticizing these models. The object-oriented modeling paradigm offers
a means to increase the overall model complexity, thereby enhancing the
realism of its simulations, without making these models more difficult
to understand or maintain than the simple toy models of the past. In
this paper, the approach is demonstrated by means of a fairly elaborate
model of human hemodynamics.
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