[Smileyferret]

I don’t disagree with you that much of medicine is hand-waving and voodoo magic, but arrhythmias due to scar tissue likely have a similar mechanism to other well-studied arrhythmias. Overall I think that cardiology has some of the more scientific explanations of its pathophysiology than other fields. Scarring simply interrupts smooth conduction of impulses throughout the myocardium and makes it more susceptible to arrhythmias. If you want to see a similar mechanism explained, check out this video:

https://youtu.be/j8pVU9snSH4

[earleybird]

Thanks for the link.

I need to choose words better - rather than "dark arts" I probably should have said "tacit knowledge". I certainly didn't mean to imply that arrhythmias are not well studied, rather, my hope is that we can use AI methods to do better science.

side note: I know EEs who claim antenna design is a black art :-) It also is well studied and yet according to some, it appears magical at times.