cs.LGSep 6, 2026

PPIM: Pennes Physics-Informed Mamba for Heat-Source-Conditioned 3D Bioheat Simulation

Authors: Dongyun Lee, Kyungho Yoon, Minwoo Shin

Organizations: Department of Software, Yonsei University (Mirae Campus), Wonju, 26493, Republic of Korea · School of Mathematics and Computing, Yonsei University, Seoul, 03722, Republic of Korea

Abstract

Three-dimensional bioheat simulation aims to predict transient temperature distributions in biological tissue and is commonly modeled using the Pennes bioheat equation, which combines thermal diffusion, perfusion-mediated heat loss, and external heat generation. In this study, we consider a controlled 3D Pennes bioheat simulation under a localized heat-source condition inspired by microwave ablation (MWA). To evaluate neural approximation performance, we compare three neural partial differential equation (PDE) solvers under the same controlled simulation: a spatial Fourier-feature physics-informed neural network (PINN), a generic PINNMamba temporal subsequence model, and Pennes Physics-Informed Mamba (PPIM). PPIM builds on the temporal subsequence model by incorporating conditioned heat-source input and Pennes-aware state-space model (SSM) decay initialization. All three neural models are trained under the same conditions with the same Pennes residual, and an explicit finite-difference method (FDM) solution is used only as the numerical reference. In a representative 600~s run, PPIM achieved the lowest MAE, relative L1L_1 error, and relative L2L_2 error among the evaluated neural solvers. Error maps further showed that the remaining PPIM errors were more concentrated near the heat-source region than across the rest of the domain. These results indicate that PPIM is effective for approximating the FDM reference final temperature field in this controlled simulation. The source code is available at https://github.com/muvYun/PPIM.

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