Structural identifiability of viscoelastic mechanical systems.

Mahdi, Adam; Meshkat, Nicolette; Sullivant, Seth · PLoS One · 2014

biomechanical · Level V

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Abstract

We solve the local and global structural identifiability problems for viscoelastic mechanical models represented by networks of springs and dashpots. We propose a very simple characterization of both local and global structural identifiability based on identifiability tables, with the purpose of providing a guideline for constructing arbitrarily complex, identifiable spring-dashpot networks. We illustrate how to use our results in a number of examples and point to some applications in cardiovascular modeling.

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