A multiscale model of the electrohysterogram the BioModUE_PTL project.

The electrohysterogram (EHG) is a promising means of monitoring pregnancy and of detecting a risk of preterm labor. To improve our understanding of the EHG as well as its relationship with the physiologic phenomena involved in uterine contractility, we plan to model these phenomena in terms of generation and propagation of uterine electrical activity. This activity can be realistically modeled by representing the principal ionic dynamics at the cell level, the propagation of electrical activity at the tissue level and then the way it is reflected on the skin surface through the intervening tissue.