Fast uncertainty quantification of tracer distribution in the brain interstitial fluid with multilevel and quasi Monte Carlo

03/04/2020
by   Matteo Croci, et al.
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Mathematical models in biology involve many parameters that are uncertain or in some cases unknown. Over the last years, increased computing power has expanded the complexity and increased the number of degrees of freedom of many such models. For this reason, efficient uncertainty quantification algorithms are now needed to explore the often large parameter space of a given model. Advanced Monte Carlo methods such as quasi Monte Carlo (QMC) and multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) have become very popular in the mathematical, engineering, and financial literature for the quantification of uncertainty in model predictions. However, applying these methods to physiologically relevant simulations is a difficult task given the typical complexity of the models and geometries involved. In this paper, we design and apply QMC and MLMC methods to quantify uncertainty in a convection-diffusion model for tracer transport within the brain. We show that QMC outperforms standard Monte Carlo simulations when the number of random inputs is small. MLMC considerably outperforms both QMC and standard Monte Carlo methods and should therefore be preferred for brain transport models.

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