Data-Driven Discovery of a Hyperelastic Strain-Energy Function for Veins Using Constitutive Artificial Neural Networks
Abstract
Veins are commonly subjected to altered mechanical loading in clinical settings such as vein grafting, arteriovenous fistula creation, and tissue-engineered vascular graft implantation, making accurate constitutive models of venous tissue clinically important. Venous mechanical behavior differs characteristically from that of arteries, and existing constitutive models struggle to simultaneously fit the circumferential and axial stress-stretch responses across vein types. Here, we present a constitutive artificial neural network (CANN) framework that discovers a compact, interpretable hyperelastic constitutive model from biaxial mechanical data across three types of veins (saphenous, jugular, and inferior vena cava). The framework incorporates an expanded candidate function library with structurally motivated terms representing progressive fiber recruitment and fiber-family interactions. Sobol sensitivity analysis, correlation-based pruning, and response-level family collapse were then used to reduce the discovered basis to a compact strain-energy density function (SEF). The resulting eight-term SEF achieved significantly higher fitting accuracy than established venous constitutive models across all three types of veins (R2>0.9, p<0.01). These findings establish a framework for constitutive model discovery in veins and propose a candidate constitutive form for further validation across larger, independent cohorts.
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BibTeX
@misc{bazzi2026datadriven,
title = {{Data-Driven Discovery of a Hyperelastic Strain-Energy Function for Veins Using Constitutive Artificial Neural Networks}},
author = {Marisa Bazzi and Divya Adil and Gavin Mays and Ellen Kuhl and Christopher K. Breuer and Jay D. Humphrey and Alison L. Marsden},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.15229},
eprint = {2610.15229},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.15229},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Data-Driven Discovery of a Hyperelastic Strain-Energy Function for Veins Using Constitutive Artificial Neural Networks
AU - Marisa Bazzi
AU - Divya Adil
AU - Gavin Mays
AU - Ellen Kuhl
AU - Christopher K. Breuer
AU - Jay D. Humphrey
AU - Alison L. Marsden
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/10
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.15229
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.15229
AB - Veins are commonly subjected to altered mechanical loading in clinical settings such as vein grafting, arteriovenous fistula creation, and tissue-engineered vascular graft implantation, making accurate constitutive models of venous tissue clinically important. Venous mechanical behavior differs characteristically from that of arteries, and existing constitutive models struggle to simultaneously fit the circumferential and axial stress-stretch responses across vein types. Here, we present a constitutive artificial neural network (CANN) framework that discovers a compact, interpretable hyperelastic constitutive model from biaxial mechanical data across three types of veins (saphenous, jugular, and inferior vena cava). The framework incorporates an expanded candidate function library with structurally motivated terms representing progressive fiber recruitment and fiber-family interactions. Sobol sensitivity analysis, correlation-based pruning, and response-level family collapse were then used to reduce the discovered basis to a compact strain-energy density function (SEF). The resulting eight-term SEF achieved significantly higher fitting accuracy than established venous constitutive models across all three types of veins (R^2>0.9, p<0.01). These findings establish a framework for constitutive model discovery in veins and propose a candidate constitutive form for further validation across larger, independent cohorts.
ER -