Computing in Cardiology 2010
Preliminary Scientific Program

Follow the links below for abstracts of all papers to be presented at CinC 2010. Preprints of many full papers are also available. The times shown below are tentative and are subject to change.

Outline

Schedule of Sessions

Monday, September 27, 2010
8:15
M1
Rosanna Degani Young Investigator Award
Chairs: Peter Macfarlane, Willem Dassen

Correlation between Time Domain Baroreflex Sensitivity and
Sympathetic Nerve Activity
Sónia Gouveia*, Ana Paula Rocha, Pablo Laguna and Philippe van de Borne

Fully Automated Gating of Optical Coherence Tomography Data
Kenji Sihan*, Charl Botha, Frits Post, Sebastiaan de Winter, Evelyn Regar, Patrick
Serruys, Ronald Hamers and Nico Bruining

MRI-Based Quantification of Myocardial Perfusion at Rest and Stress
Using Automated Frame-by-Frame Segmentation and Non-Rigid Registration
Giacomo Tarroni*, Amit R Patel, Federico Veronesi, James Walter, Claudio
Lamberti, Roberto M Lang, Victor Mor-Avi and Cristiana Corsi

Simulating the Impact of the Transmural Extent of Acute Ischemia on
the Electrocardiogram
Mathias Wilhelms*, Olaf Dössel and Gunnar Seemann

Monday, September 27, 2010
10:30
S21
Ischemia and Infarction I
Chairs: Francisco Castells, Mary Carey

Development and Comparison of Single-parameter Indices
Characterizing the Severity of Acute Myocardial Ischemia
John Wang*, James Warren, Galen Wagner and Milan Horacek

Validation of Electrocardiographic Criteria for Predicting the Culprit
Artery in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction
Niek van der Putten*, Peter Rijnbeek, Arnold Dijk, Ge van Herpen, Enno van der
Velde, Jonathan Lipton and Jan Kors

A Spatio-Temporal Study of Ischemia and the Time-Frequency Coupling
Variations between the ST Amplitude, Heart Rate and Dominant Angle
Raul Llinares and Gari D Clifford*

Enhancing the Acute MI Criteria in the Glasgow ECG Analysis Program to
Include ST Depression
Elaine Clark*, Maria Sejersten, Peter Clemmensen and Peter Macfarlane

Graphic Visualization of ECG Estimated Myocardial Infarct Size Using the
17 Segment Bull's Eye Presentation
Richard Gregg*, Sophia Zhou and Eric Helfenbein

Display of Heart-Surface Potentials Derived from 12-lead
Electrocardiograms
Milan Horacek*, James Warren and John Wang

Monday, September 27, 2010
10:30
S22
Telemedicine I
Chairs: Mark Donelly, Michael Daly

An Augmentative and Portable QTc-Observer(QTO-Q2) to Facilitate
More Purposeful Outpatient Monitoring
Thomas Chee Tat Ho* and Xiang Chen

Non-Invasive Sensors Based Human State in Nightlong Sleep Analysis for
Home-Care
Magdalena Smolen*, Klaudia Czopek and Piotr Augustyniak

Management of Non-uniform Data Transfer in Cardiac Monitoring
Systems with Adaptive Interpretation
Piotr Augustyniak*

Optimization of the Alarm-Management of a Heart Failure Home-
Monitoring System
Marija Vukovic*, Mario Drobics, Dieter Hayn, Peter Kastner and Günter Schreier

Multimedia Alarm Pages on Multiple Smartphone Platforms
MJB van Ettinger*, JA Lipton, SP Nelwan, RJ Barendse, TB van Dam and N van der
Putten

Evaluation of Patients' Adherence and Satisfaction with a Self-
Measurement Blood Pressure Telemonitoring Program
Michele Triventi*, Giovanni Calcagnini, Federica Censi, Eugenio Mattei, Stefano
Strano and Pietro Bartolini

Monday, September 27, 2010
10:30
S23
Novel Techniques in HRV
Chairs: Enno van der Velde, Peter Scott

Heart Rate Variability Characterized by Refined Multiscale Entropy
Applied to Cardiac Death in Ischemic Cardiomyopathy Patients
José Fernando Valencia*, Montserrat Vallverdú, Rico Schroeder, Iwona
Cygankiewicz, Rafael Vázquez, Antonio Bayés de Luna, Alberto Porta, Andreas
Voss and Pere Caminal

Assessing Sympatho-Vagal Balance in Schizophrenia through
Tone-Entropy Analysis
Ahsan Habib Khandoker*, Mami Fujibayashi, Toshio Moritani and Marimuthu
Palaniswami

RSA Component Extraction from Cardiovascular Signals by Combining
Adaptive Filtering and PCA Derived Respiration
Suvi Tiinanen*, Antti Kiviniemi, Mikko Tulppo and Tapio Seppänen

New Representation of Heart Rate and Evaluation of Geometric
Features Extracted From It
Nader Jafarnia Dabanloo*, Sadaf Moharreri, Saman Parvaneh and Ali Nasrabadi

Heart Rate Variability and QT Dispersion in a Cohort of Diabetes Patients
Herbert Jelinek*, Ahsan Habib Khandoker and Marimuthu Palaniswami

A Hypotensive Episode Predictor for Intensive Care Based on Heart Rate
and Blood Pressure Time Series
Joon Lee* and Roger Mark

Monday, September 27, 2010
10:30
S24
Modeling & Simulation: Forward & Inverse Problems
Chair: Dana Brooks

Differences in Non-Invasive Imaging of Atrial and Ventricular Recovery
Peter M van Dam* and Adriaan van Oosterom

Integrated Software Toolkit for Solving Bioelectric Field Problems
Rob MacLeod*, Dana Brooks, Mike Steffen, Burak Erem, Darrell Swenson and
Jeroen Stinstra

An Iterative Method for Indirectly Solving the Inverse Problem of
Electrocardiography
J Pedron*, AM Climent, J Millet and MS Guillem

A New Family of Variational-Form-Based Regularizers for Reconstructing
Epicardial Potentials from Body-Surface Mapping
Dafang Wang*, Robert Kirby, Rob MacLeod and Chris Johnson

The Effect of Finite Element Mesh Quality on Electrical Bidomain
Simulations
Darrell Swenson*, Joshua Levine, Zhisong Fu and Rob MacLeod

Accuracy of Estimates of Cardiac Action Potential Durations from
Extracellular Waveforms Simulated by the Bidomain Model
Simone Scacchi, Piero Colli Franzone, Luca F Pavarino* and Bruno Taccardi

Tuesday, September 28, 2010
8:00
S31
Arrhythmias
Chairs: Rebecca Di Maio, Roger Mark

Susceptibility to Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation: A Study Using Sinus
Rhythm P Wave Parameters
Aline Cabasson*, Lam Dang, Jean-Marc Vesin, Lukas Kappenberger, Roger
Abacherli and Remo Leber

Patient-Adaptive Ectopic Beat Classification Using Active Learning
Jenna Wiens* and John Guttag

An Automated Algorithm for the Detection of Atrial Fibrillation in the
Presence of Paced Rhythms
Eric Helfenbein, Richard Gregg*, James Lindauer and Sophia Zhou

A Mathematical Model of Atrioventricular Node during Atrial Fibrillation
Valentina DA Corino*, Frida Sandberg, Luca T Mainardi and Leif Sörnmo

Modulation of ECG Atrial Flutter Wave Amplitude by Heart Motion: A
Model-based and a Bedside Estimate
Vincent Jacquemet*, Bruno Dubé, Peter van Dam, Aimé-Robert Leblanc, Réginald
Nadeau, Marcio Sturmer, Teresa Kus and Alain Vinet

Noninvasive Three-dimensional Cardiac Activation Imaging of
Ventricular Arrhythmias in the Rabbit Heart
Chengzong Han*, Steven Pogwizd, Cheryl Killingsworth, Jiajie Yan and Bin He

Tuesday, September 28, 2010
8:00
S32
Cardiovascular Variability
Chairs: Linda Davarath, Luca Mainardi

Respiration Differentially Modulates HRV Obtained from Arterial
Pressure Wave and Electrocardiogram
Salvador Carrasco-Sosa and Alejandra Guillén-Mandujano*

Variability of the Systolic and Diastolic Electromechanical Periods in
Healthy Subjects
Salvador Carrasco-Sosa and Alejandra Guillén-Mandujano*

Gender Related Differences in Scaling Structure of Heart-Rate and Blood-
Pressure Variability as Assessed by Detrended Fluctuation Analysis
Paolo Castiglioni* and Marco Di Rienzo

Identification of Cardiovascular Baroreflex for Probing Homeostatic
Stability
Pedram Ataee*, Jin-Oh Hahn, Guy A Dumont and W Thomas Boyce

Heart Rate Variability and Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Assessment of
Affective States by Bivariate Autoregressive Spectral Analysis
Valentina Magagnin*, Maurizio Mauri, Pietro Cipresso, Luca T Mainardi, Emery N
Brown, Sergio Cerutti, Marco Villamira and Riccardo Barbieri

Derived Respiration: Comparison and New Measures for Respiratory
Variability
Joachim Taelman, Steven Vandeput, Devy Widjaja, Marijke Braeken, Bea Van den
Bergh and Sabine Van Huffel

Tuesday, September 28, 2010
8:00
S33
Cardiovascular MRI
Chairs: Rob McLeod, Frederic Frouin

Measurement of the Aortic Pulse Wave Velocity in MRI: Comparison of
Transit Time Estimators
Anas Dogui, Nadjia Kachenoura, Muriel Lefort, Alain De Cesare, Frederique
Frouin, Elie Mousseaux and Alain Herment*

Feasibility of a Novel Approach for 3D Mitral Valve Quantification from
Magnetic Resonance Images
Francesco Maffessanti*, Stevanella Marco, Votta Emiliano, Massimo Lombardi,
Oberdan Parodi, Daniele De Marchi, Carlo Conti, Alberto Redaelli and Enrico
Caiani

Rigid Registration of Delayed-Enhancement and Cine Cardiac MR Images
Using 3D Normalized Mutual Information
Yasmina Chenoune*, Constantin Constantinides, Racha El Berbari, Elodie Roullot,
Frédérique Frouin, Alain Herment and Elie Mousseaux

Atrial Tissue Response to Radio Frequency Ablation: MRI Based
Characterization of Injury
Joshua Blauer*, Joshua Cates, Nassir Marrouche and Rob MacLeod

Reproducible Evaluation of Diastolic Function Using Phase-Contrast
Magnetic Resonance Data
Emilie Bollache*, Alban Redheuil, Stéphanie Clément-Guinaudeau, Carine
Defrance, Ludivine Perdrix, Magalie Ladouceur, Muriel Lefort, Alain De Cesare,
Frédérique Frouin, Alain Herment, Benoît Diebold, Elie Mousseaux and Nadjia
Kachenoura

Comparison of Aortic Lumen Area and Distensibility Using Cine and
Phase Contrast Acquisitions
Alain Herment*, Muriel Lefort, Alain de Cesare, Nadjia Kachenoura, Frederique
Frouin and Elie Mousseaux

Tuesday, September 28, 2010
8:00
S34
Ventricular Cell Modeling and Ischemia
Chair: Chema Ferero

The Effect of the Shape of Ischemic Regions in the Heart on the Resulting
Extracellular Epicardial Potential Distributions
Josef Peter Barnes* and Peter Rex Johnston

Re-Entry in a Model of Ischaemic Human Ventricular Tissue
Richard Clayton*

Simulation of ECG under Ischemic Condition in Human Ventricular Tissue
Weigang Lu, Kuanquan Wang* and Henggui Zhang

M-cell Heterogeneity Influence in Arrhythmic Pattern Formation in
Sub-Epicardial Regional Ischemia: A Simulation Study
Oscar Alberto Henao Gallo, Carlos Alberto Ruiz Villa* and Jose Maria Ferrero de
LomaOsorio

Mechano-Electric Feedback Effects in a Ventricular Myocyte Model
Subjected to Dynamic Changes in Mechanical Load
Ivan Cenci*, Stefano Morotti, Jorge Negroni, Blanca Rodriguez and Stefano Severi

Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Luminal [Ca] Regulates the Spontaneous Ca
Release Events and Consequently Arrhythmia
Luyao Lu, Ling Xia* and Xiuwei Zhu

Tuesday, September 28, 2010
10:00
S41
Novel Techniques
Chairs: Nico Bruining, Thomas Hilbel

Impedimetric Point-of-Care Cardiac Marker System
Eyad Hamad*, Paul Maguire and James McLaughlin

Hybrid Edge Detection for Real-time Kalman Filter Based Left Ventricle
Tracking in 3D+T Echocardiography
Engin Dikici* and Fredrik Orderud

Application of Novel Mapping for Heart Rate Phase Space and Its Role in
Cardiac Arrhythmia Diagnosis
Nader Jafarnia Dabanloo*, Sadaf Moharreri, Saman Parvaneh and Ali Nasrabadi

ECG-based Indices of Poincaré Plot Asymmetry Differ between Different
Types of Athletic Training
Hans Esperer*, Martin Oehler, Chris Esperer and René Schwesig

Tuesday, September 28, 2010
10:00
S42
Medical Informatics
Chair: Stefan Nelwan

Dynamic Terminology Enhancement for Integrated ECG Resources
Alexandra Kokkinaki*, Ioanna Chouvarda and Nicos Maglaveras

EcgRuleML: A Rule-Based Markup Language for Describing Diagnostic
ECG Criteria
Raymond Robert Bond*, Dewar Darren Finlay, Chris Desmond Nugent and
George Moore

iCARDEA - an Approach to Reducing Human Workload in Cardiovascular
Implantable Electronic Device Follow-Ups
Maohua Yang, Christian Lüpkes*, Asuman Dogac, Mustafa Yuksel, Fulya Tunçer,
Tuncay Namlı, Manuela Plößnig, Jürgen Ulbts and Marco Eichelberg

Interoperability Challenges in the Health Management of Patients with
Implantable Defibrillators
Catherine Chronaki*, Manuela Ploessnig, Mustafa Yuksel, Gokce Banu Laleci
Eturkmen, Imbrahim Cingil, Christian Lupkes, Marco Eichenberg, Xavier Navarro,
Wolfgang Pecho and Asuman Dogac

Tuesday, September 28, 2010
10:00
S43
Cardiovascular Imaging I
Chairs: Mireille Garreau, Omar Escalona

MRI to X-ray Fluoroscopy Overlay for Guidance of Cardiac
Resynchronization Therapy Procedures
YingLiang Ma*, Simon Duckett, Anoopy Shetty, C Aldo Rinaldi and Kawal Rhode

Automatic Quantification of Oedema from T2 Weighted CMR Image
Using Hybrid Thresholding Oedema Sizing Algorithm
Kushsairy Kadir*, Alex Payne, John J Soraghan and Colin Berry

Comparison of the Data Derived from Three-dimensional Reconstruction of
Coronary Angiography and the Fractional Flow Reserve Measurements
Balazs Tar, Peter Lugosi, Janos Santa, Tamas Ungvári, Sandor Ember and Zsolt
Koszegi*

Abilities of Cardiac MSCT Imaging to Provide Useful Anatomical and
Functional Information for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Optimization
Mireille Garreau*, Marie-Paule Garcia, François Tavard, Antoine Simon, Julien
Fleureau, Dominique Boulmier, Pascal Haigron, Christine Toumoulin and
Christophe Leclercq

Tuesday, September 28, 2010
10:00
S44
Baroreflex
Chairs: Andreas Voss, Gari Clifford

Effect of Physiological Changes in Heart Rate Turbulence Using a
Lumped Parameter Model
Óscar Barquero-Pérez, Inmaculada Mora-Jiménez, Rebeca Goya-Esteban, Julio
Ramiro-Bargueño, Arcadi García-Alberola and José Luis Rojo-Álvarez*

Assessment of Coupling and Correlation between Cerebral
Autoregulation and Baroreflex in Stroke Patients
Ben-Yi Liau*, Shoou-jeng Yeh and Chuang-Chien Chiu

Joint Order Pattern Analysis to Assess Baroreflex Coupling of SBP and PI
Series in Rats
Tatjana Loncar Turukalo*, Sanja Milutinovic, Nina Japundzic Zigon and Dragana
Bajic

Tuesday, September 28, 2010
11:15
M5
Computing in Cardiac Safety - Plenary

Electrocardiography and Repolarization Abnormalities: Benefits and
Limitations of Fully Automated Methods for QT Measurement
Paul Kligfield*

Intracardiac Electrophysiology: Cellular Modelling of Abnormal
Repolarisation
Blanca Rodriguez*

Cardiovascular Computer Devices: Balancing Novelty, Flexibility,
Familiarity and Safety
Alan Murray*

Cardiac Computer Imaging: Intravascular Ultrasound and MRI Studies
Nico Bruining*

Tuesday, September 28, 2010
14:00
S61
Ischemia and Infarction II
Chairs: Daniel Guldenring, Richard Gregg

A Vectorial Approach for Evaluation of Depolarization Changes during
Acute Myocardial Ischemia
Daniel Romero Pérez*, Michael Ringborn, Pablo Laguna Lasaosa, Olle Pahlm and
Esther Pueyo Paules

Model-Based Medical Expert System for Diagnosing Myocardial
Ischemia Based on Newly Developed Ischemia Parameter
Hisham Alqysi*

Research on Myocardial Ischemia Detection Based on the Electrocardiogram R-S-T
Jinzhong Song* and Hong Yan

Body Surface Potential Mapping Improves Diagnosis of Acute
Myocardial Infarction in those with Significant Left Main Coronary
Artery Stenosis
Michael John Daly*, Peter Scott, Colum Owens, Audrey Tomlin, Bernadette Smith
and Jennifer Adgey

Detection of Inferior Myocardial Infarction:
A Comparison of Various Decision Systems and Learning Algorithms
Jiří Spilka*, Václav Chudáček, Jakub Kužílek, Lenka Lhotská and Martin Hanuliak

Combining Sgarbossa and Selvester ECG Criteria to Improve STEMI
Detection in Presence of LBBB
Richard Gregg*, Sophia Zhou and Eric Helfenbein

Tuesday, September 28, 2010
14:00
S62
Lead Systems
Chair: John Wang

Extended Multiple Linear Regression in the Derivation of
Electrocardiographic Leads
Daniel Guldenring*, Dewar Darren Finlay, Christopher Desmond Nugent and
Mark Patrick Donnelly

A Web-based Visualization Tool for Transforming the 12-lead ECG into a
Body Surface Potential Map
Raymond Robert Bond*, Dewar Darren Finlay, Chris Desmond Nugent and
George Moore

Real-Time Back-Projection of Fetal ECG Sources in OL-JADE for the
Optimization of Blind Electrode Positioning
Danilo Pani*, Stefania Argiolas and Luigi Raffo

Short Distance Bipolar Electrocardiographic Leads in Diagnosis of Left
Ventricular Hypertrophy
Juho Väisänen*, Merja Puurtinen, Jari Hyttinen and Jari Viik

Utilising a Genetic Algorithm to Minimise the Number of Leads in Body
Surface Mapping for the Electrocardiographic Diagnosis of Myocardial
Infarction
Peter Scott*, Cesar Navarro, Marisol Giardina, Omar Escalona, John Anderson
and Jennifer Adgey

Fuzzy integrated Neural Network Classification of Body Surface Potential
Contour Map to Detect Myocardial Infarction Location
Hamid SadAbadi, Nader Jafarnia Dabanloo*, Masood Ghasemi and Sepideh
Sabouri

Tuesday, September 28, 2010
14:00
S63
PhysioNet/Computing in Cardiology Challenge
Chairs: George Moody, Johan DeBie

The PhysioNet/Computing in Cardiology Challenge 2010: Mind the Gap
George B Moody*

Estimation of Missing Data in Multi-channel Physiological Time-series by
Reference Timing Channel and Average Substitution
Philip Langley*, Susan King, Kun Wang, Dingchang Zheng, Roberto Giovannini,
Marjan Bojarnejad and Alan Murray

PhysioNet 2010 Challenge: A Robust Multi-Channel Adaptive Filtering
Approach to the Estimation of Physiological Recordings
Ikaro Silva*

Reconstruction of Missing Physiological Signals Using Artificial Neural
Networks
Adam Sullivan, Henian Xia, Joseph McBride and Xiaopeng Zhao*

A Sensorless Kalman Estimator toward the Reconstruction of Physiologic
Data
Mohamed A Mneimneh* and Sahar Elturk

Reconstruction of Missing Cardiovascular Signals Using Adaptive Fltering
Andras Hartmann*

Tuesday, September 28, 2010
14:00
S64
System Modeling & Instrumentation
Chair: Guiseppe Baselli

Coupling the Guyton Model to Pulsatile Ventricles Using a
Multiresolution Modelling Environment
Virginie Le Rolle*, David Ojeda, Raphaël Madeleine, Guy Carrault and Alfredo I
Hernández

Simulation of the Effect of Tachycardia on Atherosclerotic Plaque
Development Based on the LDL Transport in Coronary Arteries
Antonis Sakellarios*, Panagiotis Siogkas, Vasilis Tsakanikas, Lampros Michalis,
Dimitrios Fotiadis, Katerina Naka and Nenad Filipovic

Atrioventricular Delay Optimization in Cardiac Resynchronization
Therapy Assessed by a Computer Model
Kevin Tse Ve Koon*, Christophe Thebault, Virginie Le Rolle, Erwan Donal and
Alfredo Ignacio Hernandez

Semi-Automated Extraction of Canine Left Ventricular Purkinje Fiber
Network
Jie Li, Kuanquan Wang*, Wangmeng Zuo, Henggui Zhang and Yongfeng Yuan

A LabVIEW Based Multichannel Recording Architecture for High Density
Electrical Mapping
A Liberos*, MS Guillem, J Millet and AM Climent

Predicting Unpinning Success Rates for a Pinned Spiral in an Excitable
Medium
Anna Behrend*, Philip Bittihn and Stefan Luther

Tuesday, September 28, 2010
16:00
S71
QT & Repolarisation
Chairs: Jean-Philippe Couderc, Kees Swenne

Analyzing Thorough QT Study 1 & 2 in the Telemetric and Holter ECG
Warehouse (THEW) Using Hannover ECG system (HES®): A validation
study
Antoun Khawaja*, Ratko Petrovic, Anton Safer, Tobias Baas, Olaf Doessel and
Ronald Fischer

Torsadogenic Drug-Induced Increased Short-term Variability of JT-area
Xiao Jie*, Blanca Rodriguez and Esther Pueyo

Electrocardiographic Markers Associated with Sotalol-induced Torsades
de Pointes
Jean-Philippe Couderc*, Xiajuang Xia, Stefan Kaab and Wojciech Zareba

Comparison of Three T-end Delineation Algorithms Based on Wavelet
Filterbank, Correlation and PCA
Tobias Baas*, Franz Gravenhorst, Ronald Fischer, Antoun Khawaja and Olaf
Dössel

QT/RR Coupling and Gender Differences
Josef Halamek*, Pavel Jurak, Jolana Lipoldova and Pavel Leinveber

Modified Rectangular Finite Impulse Response Filter for Stabilization of QT
Measurement
Jing Wu, Jean-Philippe Couderc* and Jean Xia

Tuesday, September 28, 2010
16:00
S72
Cardiovascular Mechanics
Chairs: Natalia Trayanova, JJ Rieta

Optimal Delineation of PCG Sounds via False-Alarm Bounded
Segmentation of a Wavelet-Based Principal Component Analysis
Metric
Mohammad Reza Homaeinezhad* and Ali Ghaffari

The Evaluation of Methods in Determination of the Arterial Compliance
for Real-Time Applications
Weichih Hu*, Liang-Yu Shyu, Hou-Ming Cheng and Chen-Huan Chen

Asymmetrical Oscillometric Pulse Waveform Envelopes in Normotensive
and Hypertensive Subjects
Dingchang Zheng*, Roberto Giovannini and Alan Murray

An Automatic Tool for Pediatric Heart Sound Segmentation
Arash Gharehbaghi*, Thierry Dutoit and Amir Sepehri

Detection of Systolic and Diastolic Durations on Cardiac Output and
Arterial Pressures
Mick Lykkegaard Schmidt*, Lars Johannesen, Jens Stampe Soerensen, Kasper
Lundhus, Samuel Emil Schmidt and Niels-Henrik Staalsen

Comparison between Sample Entropy and AR-models for Heart Sound-
based Detection of Coronary Artery Disease
Samuel Schmidt*, John Hansen, Claus Holst Hansen, Egon Toft and Johannes
Struijk

Tuesday, September 28, 2010
16:00
S73
CV Ultrasound Imaging
Chairs: Alain Herment, Dan Adam

Automatic Media-Adventitia Border Segmentation for IVUS Images
Matheus Cardoso Moraes* and Sergio Shiguemi Furuie

Quantitative Assessment of the Effects of Annuloplasty on Mitral
Annulus Dynamic Geometry Using Real-Time 3D Echocardiography
Laura Fusini, Federico Veronesi, Cristiana Corsi, Paola Gripari, Francesco
Maffessanti, Francesco Alamanni, Marco Zanobini, Moreno Naliato, Gloria
Tamborini, Mauro Pepi and Enrico G Caiani*

Heterogeneity of the Myocardial Strains as Revealed by Applying a
Wavelet De-Noising Process to the Myocardial Velocities
Noa Bachner*, Offir Ertracht, Nir Zagury, Ofer Binah and Dan Adam

Fusion of Electro-Anatomical Mapping and Speckle Tracking Echography for the
Characterization of Local Electro-Mechanical Delays in CRT Optimization
François Tavard, Antoine Simon, Erwan Donal, Alfredo Hernandez and Mireille
Garreau*

Myocardial Ischemia Detection Algorithm (MIDA): An Automated
Echocardiography Sequence Analysis for the Diagnosis of Heart Muscle
Damage
Vijayalakshmi Ahanathapillai and John Soraghan*

Segmentation of the Full Myocardium in Echocardiography Using
Constrained Level-Sets
Martino Alessandrini*, Thomas Dietenbeck, Daniel Barbosa, Jan D'Hooge, Olivier
Basset, Nicolo Speciale, Denis Friboulet and Olivier Bernard

Tuesday, September 28, 2010
16:00
S74
Atrial Cell Modeling
Chairs: Javier Saiz, Gerold Porenta

Potential Pharmacological Therapies for Atrial Fibrillation:
A Computational Study
Carlos Sánchez*, Alberto Corrias, Pablo Laguna, Mark Davies, Jonathan Swinton,
Ingemar Jacobson, Esther Pueyo and Blanca Rodríguez

Atrial Fibrillation-based Electrical Remodeling in a Computer Model of
the Human Atrium
Gunnar Seemann*, Paola Carrillo, Stefan Ponto, Mathias Wilhelms, Eberhard P
Scholz and Olaf Dössel

Functional Roles of Ionic Currents in A Mouse Sino-Atrial Node Cell
Model
Sanjay Kharche*, Ming Lei and Henggui Zhang

Wavefront-Obstacle and Wavefront-Wavefront Interactions as
Mechanisms for Atrial Fibrillation:
A Study Based on the FitzHugh-Nagumo Equations
Claudia Lenk*, Mario Einax and Philipp Maass

Anti-Arrythmogenic Effects of Atrial Specific Ultra Rapid Potassium Current Block: A Modelling Study
Phillip Law, Sanjay Kharche* and Henggui Zhang

Study of the Effect of Tissue Heterogeneity and Anisotropy in Atrial
Fibrillation Based on a Human Atrial Model
Dongdong Deng* and Ling Xia

Tuesday, September 28, 2010
17:30
P81
PhysioNet/CinC Challenge Posters

Principal Component Analysis-Based Method for Reconstruction of
Fragments of Corrupted or Lost Signal in Multilead Data Reflecting
Electrical Heart Activity and Hemodynamics
Robertas Petrolis*, Renata Simoliuniene and Algimantas Krisciukaitis

An Approach to Reconstructing Lost Cardiac Signals Using Pattern Matching
and Neural Networks via Related Cardiac Information
Thomas Chee Tat Ho* and Xiang Chen

Medical Multivariate Signal Reconstruction Using Recurrent Artificial
Neural Network
Luiz Eduard Virgilio Silva, Juliano Jinzenji Duque, Isaias Soares, Renato Tinós and
Luiz Otavio Murta Jr*

HMMFIT: Using Hidden Markov Models to Reconstruct Missing Signals
in Multi-Parameter Physiologic Data
Yanen Li, Yu Sun, Chengxiang Zhai* and Lui Sha

Lost Data Channel Reconstruction in Multichannel Biomedical Signals
Saulius Daukantas*, Vaidotas Marozas, Mantas Lukosevicius and Arunas
Lukosevicius

Filling in the Gap: a General Method Using Neural Networks
Rui Rodrigues*

Multi-parameter Physiologic Signal Reconstruction by Means of Wavelet
Singularity Detection and Signal Correlation
Wei Wu*

PhysioNet/CinC Challenge
Teresa Rocha*, Simão Paredes and Jorge Henriques

Reconstruction of Multivariate Signals Using a Q-Gaussian Radial Basis
Function Network
Luiz Eduardo Virgilio Silva*, Juliano Jinzenji Duque, Renato Tinós and Luiz Otavio
Murta Jr

Tuesday, September 28, 2010
17:30
P82
Novel Techniques Posters

Extracting Fetal ECG from a Single Maternal Abdominal Record
Mohammad Ayat*, Khaled Assaleh, Hasan Al-Nashash and Moncef Gabbouj

Image Registration of 3D Trans-Esophageal Echocardiography and X-Ray
Fluoroscopy for the Guidance of Trans-Catheter Aortic Valve
Implantation
Gang Gao*, Geraint Morton, Jane Hancock, Simon Redwood, Martyn Thomas
and Kawal Rhode

Mediated Spatiotemporal Registration of Cardiac DCE-MRI to Coronary
MR Angiography
Constantine Zakkaroff*, Aleksandra Radjenovic, Derek Magee and Roger Boyle

Categorization of Continuous ECG-based Risk Metrics for Cardiovascular
Death Using Asymmetric and Sample Size Entropy-Based Method
Anima Singh* and John Guttag

Obstructive Sleep Apnoea Using Photoplethysmography-Based Dynamic
Features
Lina María Sepúlveda-Cano*, Eduardo Gil-Herrando, Pablo Laguna-Lasaosa and
Germán Castellanos-Domínguez

On the Measurement of Physiological Similarity Between Independent
Components: Time-Structure Versus Frequency-Based Methods
A Jimenez-Gonzalez* and CJ James

Tuesday, September 28, 2010
17:30
P83
ECG Posters

N-Terminal Pro-Brain Natriuretic Peptide in Combination with the 80-
Lead Body Surface Map Improves Detection of Acute Inferior Myocardial
Infarction with Right Ventricular Involvement
Michael John Daly*, Nicholas McKeag, Conor McCann, Christopher Cardwell, Ian
Young and Jennifer Adgey

Myocardial Infarction Localization Using Combined Heart Vector
Analysis and Neural Network Localizer
Masood Ghasemi, Nader Jafarnia Dabanloo*, Sepideh Sabouri and Hamid
SadAbadi

A Comparison of IIR and Wavelet Filtering for Noise Reduction of the ECG
Jens Stampe Soerensen*, Lars Johannesen, Ulrik Silvanus Lerkevang Grove,
Kasper Lundhus, Jean-Philippe Couderc and Claus Graff

Analysis of Heart Rate Adaptation in Long-Term ECG Recordings Using
RR-Binning
Lars Johannesen*, Ulrik Silvanus Lerkevang Grove, Jens Stampe Soerensen, Mick
Lykkegaard Schmidt, Claus Graff and Jean-Philippe Couderc

Investigation on Two-year Peritoneal Dialysis Patients: Does the
Cardiovascular Condition Affect ECG Biometrics?
Tsu-Wang Shen, Shan-Chun Chang*, Chih-Hsien Wang and Te-Chao Fang

Principal Component Analysis of the QRS Complex During Diagnostic
Ajmaline Test for Suspected Brugada Syndrome
Velislav Batchvarov, Ivaylo Christov, Giovanni Bortolan* and Elijah Behr

Use of ECG Quality Metrics in Clinical Trials
Martino Vaglio*, Lamberto Isola and Fabio Badilini

Study of Differences in Heart Rate in Patients with Apnea and Insomnia
Syndromes
Juan Guerrero, Antonio Benetó, Enriqueta Gómez, Manuel Bataller, Pilar Rubio
and Alfredo Rosado*

Evaluation of Methods for Estimation of Respiratory Frequency from the
ECG
Ainara Sobron, Inaki Romero* and Txema Lopetegi

A Body Position Detection Method by Fusing Heterogeneous
Information of Surface ECG
Tsu-Wang Shen*, Fang-Chih Liu, Ya-Ting Tsao and Yi-Ling Ou

Design and Evaluation of an ECG Holter Analysis System
Alberto Rodríguez*, Gemma Rodríguez, Raúl Almeida, Nelvy Pina and Gisela
Montes de Oca

Evaluation of a Shock Advisory System with Non-Shockable Pediatric
Rhythms
Jean-Philippe Didon*, Irena Jekova and Vessela Krasteva

Slow Pulse Due to Calcium Current Induces Phase-2 Reentry in
Heterogeneous Tissue
Angelina Peñaranda*

Investigation of the Autonomic Nervous System Control of
Cardiovascular Variables using fMRI and Carotid Stimulation
Giovanni Calcagnini*, Eugenio Mattei, Michele Triventi, Barbara Basile, Andrea
Bassi, Marco Bozzali, Stefano Strano and Pietro Bartolini

Accurate R Peak Detection and Advanced Preprocessing of Normal ECG
for Heart Rate Variability Analysis
Devy Widjaja, Steven Vandeput, Joachim Taelman, Bea Van den Bergh and
Sabine Van Huffel

Blood Oxygen Level Measurement with a Chest-Based Pulse Oximetry
Prototype
Collin Schreiner*, Philip Catherwood, James McLaughlin and John Anderson

Personal Sensor-System Modalities Evaluation for Simplified ECG
Recording in Self-Care
Asta Krupaviciute*, Jocelyne Fayn, Eric McAdams, Christine Verdier, Chris Nugent
and Paul Rubel

An Alternative to Derive the Instantaneous Frequency of the Chest
Compressions to Suppress the CPR Artifact
Unai Ayala*, Elisabete Aramendi and Unai Irusta

Impact of the Approximated On-Line Centering and Whitening in
OL-JADE on the Quality of the Estimated Fetal ECG
Danilo Pani*, Stefania Argiolas and Luigi Raffo

A Beat-to-Beat P-Wave Analysis in a Healthy Population
Valentina DA Corino*, Ioanna Chouvarda, Nicos Maglaveras and Luca T
Mainardi

ECG Motion Artefact Reduction Improvements of a Chest-based
Wireless Patient Monitoring System
Philip Catherwood*, Nicola Donnelly, James McLaughlin and John Anderson

Low-Cost Early Detection of Cardiovascular Disease in Chronic Kidney
Disease Patients Based on Hybrid Heterogeneous ECG Features Including
T-wave Altemans and Heart Rate Variability
Yi-Ling Ou*, Tsu-Wang Shen, Chih-Hsien Wang and Te-Chao Fang

Tuesday, September 28, 2010
17:30
P84
Electrophysiology Posters

Comparison of Voltage-Sensitive Dye Di-4-ANEPPS Effects in Isolated
Hearts of Rat, Guinea Pig and Rabbit
Katerina Fialova*, Jana Kolarova, Ivo Provaznik and Marie Novakova

Transcutaneous Dual Tuned RF Coil System Voltage Gain and Efficiency
Evaluation for a Passive Implantable Atrial Defibrillator
Omar Jacinto Escalona, Jose Jesus Velasquez, Lawrence Chirwa, Niall Waterman*
and John Anderson

Tuesday, September 28, 2010
17:30
P85
Cardiovascular Variability Posters I

Changes of Heart Rate Complexity during Weaning from Mechanical
Ventilation
Vasilios Papaioannou, Ioanna Chouvarda*, Nikos Maglaveras and Ioannis
Pneumatikos

Estimation of Stress-Strain Relationships in Vascular Walls using a
Multi-Layer Hyperelastic Modelling Approach
Michel Edward Mickael*, Abbas Heydari, Roger Crouch and Sherri Johnstone

A New and Fast Index for the Quantification of Short-Range Self-
Similarity in RR Time Series
Miguel Angel García-González*, Mireya Fernández-Chimeno and Juan Ramos-
Castro

Knowledge Based Activity Recognition System: Results of a Study
Sophia Gerlach, Gerd Krassnig, Thomas Wittenberg and Matthias Struck*

Prediction of Ventricular Tachycardia by a Neural Network Using
Parameters of Heart Rate Variability
Segyeong Joo*, Kee-Joon Choi and Soo-Jin Huh

Frequency-domain Heart Rate Variability Analysis Performed by Digital
Filters
Tsung-Chieh Lee and Hung-Wen Chiu*

Quantitative Analysis of the Relationship Between Chaotic Features of
Surface ECG and an Intracardiac Electrogram
Sakineh Yahyazadeh, Mohammad Firoozabadi*, Majid Haghjoo and Saman
Parvaneh

Application of Neuro-Fuzzy Model in Prediction of Mean Arterial
Pressure Time Series
Amin Janghorbani* and Mohammad Hasan Moradi

Gender-Related Effects of Sucrose Ingestion and Hypoxia on Cardiac
Autonomic Modulation in Young Subjects
Tanja Princi*, Agostino Accardo, Petra Golja and Matjaz Klemenc

Perturbation in Parasympathetic Nervous System Activity Affects
Temporal Structure of Poincaré Plot
Chandan Karmakar, Ahsan Khandoker* and Marimuthu Palaniswami

Heart Rate Asymmetry (HRA) in Altered Parasympathetic Nervous
System Activity
Chandan Karmakar, Ahsan Khandoker* and Marimuthu Palaniswami

Using Cross-Correlation Function to Assess Dynamic Cerebral
Autoregulation in Response to Posture Changes for Stroke Patients
Ben-Yi Liau*, Shoou-Jeng Yeh and Chuang-Chien Chiu

The Estimation of Arterial Stiffness Based on Analysis of Heart Rate
Alexander Fedotov* and Lev Kalakutsky

Web Site on Heart Rate Variability: Hrv-Site
Mirian Álvarez González, Xosé Antón Vila Sobrino*, María José Lado Touriño,
Arturo José Méndez Penín and Leandro Rodríguez Liñares

Tuesday, September 28, 2010
17:30
P86
Cell Modeling Posters

Role of the Late Sodium Current in Arrhythmias Related to Low
Repolarization Reserve
Karen Cardona*, Beatriz Trenor, Lucia Romero, Jose Maria Ferrero and Javier Saiz

A Biophysical Model of Atrial Fibrillation to Simulate the Maze III
Ablation Pattern
Catalina Tobon, Karen Cardona*, Jose Felix Rodriguez, Fernando Hornero, Jose
Maria Ferrero (Jr) and Javier Sáiz

Monophasic Versus Biphasic Stimulation of Single Cardiomyocyte Cell: a
Simulation Study
Monica Caselli*, Aldo Casaleggio and Stefano Severi

Beta-Adrenergic Modulation of Heart Rate: Contribution of the Slow
Delayed Rectifier K+ Current (IKs)
Ronald Wilders*, Antoni CG van Ginneken and Arie O Verkerk

Simulation of Cardiac Action Potential Propagation using Hybrid Models
Matthew J Poole*

Development of a Biophysically Detailed Model of the Rapid-Delayed
Rectifier Potassium Channel
Ismail Adeniran*, Jules Hancox and Henggui Zhang

Gender and Age Based Differences in Risk of Proarrhythmia by
Dofetilide : A Computational Model Study
Rodolfo Gonzalez*, Julio Gomis-Tena, Alberto Corrias, Jose Maria Ferrero, Blanca
Rodriguez and Javier Saiz

An Improved Model of Ba Current through L-type Ca Channels Including
Voltage- and Ion-Dependent Inactivation
Stefano Morotti*, Eleonora Grandi, Aurora Summa, Kenneth S Ginsburg, Donald
M Bers and Stefano Severi

Mathematical Modelling of Electrotonic Interaction between Stem Cell-
Derived Cardiomyocytes and Fibroblasts
Michelangelo Paci*, Laura Sartiani, Marisa Jaconi, Elisabetta Cerbai and Stefano
Severi

Interplay of Potassium Channels in Modulating the Action Potential of
Human Ventricular Myocytes
Chong Wang*, Peter Beyerlein, Heike Pospisil, Antje Krause, Werner Dubitzky
and Chris Nugent

The Role of the Transient Outward Current in Action Potential
Repolarization: A Simulation Study
Beatriz Carbonell, Lázló Virág, Norbert Jost, András Varró and Chema Ferrero*

Wednesday, September 29, 2010
8:30
S91
Algorithms and Signal Processing
Chairs: Joel Xue, Milan Horacek

Moving Window Signal Concatenation for Spectral Analysis of ECG Waves
Piotr Augustyniak*

Heart Arrhythmia Detection Using Continuous Wavelet Transform and
Principal Component Analysis with Neural Network Classifier
Ali Ghaffari, C Nat Nataraj*, Parham Ghorbanian and Ali Jalali

Evaluation of Feature Models for 12-lead ECG Classification
Mariano Llamedo* and Juan Pablo Martínez

PCA-based Noise Reduction in Ambulatory ECGs
Iñaki Romero*

Filtering the Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Artifact:
An Analysis of the >Influence of the Signal-To-Noise Ratio in the Accuracy of the
Shock Advice Algorithm
Sofia Ruiz de Gauna*, Jesus Ruiz, Unai Irusta and Unai Ayala

Multi-Lead Discrete Wavelet-based ECG Arrhythmia Recognition via
Sequential Particle Support Vector Machine Classifiers
Mohammad Reza Homaeinezhad* and Ali Ghaffari

Wednesday, September 29, 2010
8:30
S92
Clinical ECG
Chairs: Jennifer Adgey, Shen Luo

Characteristics of the Standard 12-lead Holter ECG in Professional
Firefighters
Mary G Carey*, Salah Al-Zaiti and Rachael Butler

Effects of Sotalol on T-Wave Morphology in 24-Hour Holter ECG
Recordings
Thomas Brennan* and Lionel Tarassenko

The ECG in the Normal Human Pregnancy
Muti Goloba, Scott Nelson and Peter Macfarlane*

QTc Analysis and Comparison in Pre-Diabetic Patients
Pedro Virgilio Rivera Farina*, Javier Pérez Turiel, Francisco Javier Pagán Buzo,
Enrique González Sarmiento, Alberto Herreros López and Carlos David Rodríguez
Guerrero

Comparison of QRS duration in African Blacks and European Caucasians
Ibraheem Katibi, Brian Devine*, Elaine Clark, Suzanne Lloyd and Peter Macfarlane

Quality of Electrocardiographic Records in Population Studies: What Can
We Achieve?
Siegfried Perz*, Roswitha Küfner, Karl-Hans Englmeier, Moritz F Sinner, Stefan
Kääb, Christine Meisinger and H-Erich Wichmann

Wednesday, September 29, 2010
8:30
S93
Heart Rate Variability
Chairs: Alberto Porta, Esther Pueyo

Repeatability Value in Heart Rate Associated with Experienced Zen Meditation
Masaki Hoshiyama* and Asagi Hoshiyama

Wavelet Transform Cardiorespiratory Coherence for Monitoring Nociception
Christopher J Brouse*, Guy A Dumont, Dorothy Myers, Erin Cooke, Joanne Lim
and J Mark Ansermino

Respiratory Frequency Estimation from Heart Rate Variability Signals in
Non-Stationary Conditions Based on the Wigner-Ville Distribution
Eva Cirugeda*, Michele Orini and Raquel Bailón

Point Process Heart Rate Variability Assessment during Sleep
Deprivation
Luca Citi*, Elizabeth Klerman, Emery N Brown and Riccardo Barbieri

Stress during Pregnancy: Is the Autonomic Nervous System Influenced
by Anxiety?
Steven Vandeput, Joachim Taelman, Devy Widjaja, Marijke Braeken, Bea Van den
Bergh and Sabine Van Huffel

Wednesday, September 29, 2010
8:30
S94
Electrophysiology
Chairs: Olaf Doessel, Jean-Marc Vesin

Analysis of the Influence of Parasympathetic Postganglionic Neurons on
Cardiac Response in Ventricular Fibrillation
Juan Guerrero, Alfredo Rosado*, Antonio J Serrano, Manuel Bataller, Francisco J
Chorro, Luis Such and Antonio Alberola

Stability of Bipolar and Unipolar Endocardial Electrograms
Paola Milpied*, Rémi Dubois, Pierre Roussel, Christine Henry and Gérard Dreyfus

Spectral Analysis of Intracardiac Electrograms After PQRST Removal
Aldo Casaleggio*, Tiziana Guidotto, Vincenzo Malavasi and Paolo Rossi

Predicting Transthoracic Defibrillation Shock Outcome in the
Cardioversion of Atrial Fibrillation Employing Support Vector Machines
Jose David Diaz, Omar Jacinto Escalona, Noel Camilo Castro*, John Anderson,
Ben Glover and Ganesh Manoharan

Three-dimensional Frequency Mapping from the Non-Contact Unipolar
Electrograms in Atrial Fibrillation
Joao Junior Salinet*, Anita Ahmad, Peter Stafford, G André Ng and Fernando
Schlindwein

Automatic Location of Ventricular Arrhythmia Using Implantable
Defibrillator Stored Electrograms
Margarita* Sanromán-Junquera, Inmaculada Mora-Jiménez, Jesús Almendral,
Estrella Everss, Antonio Caamaño-Fernández, Felipe Atienza, Loreto Castilla and
José Luis Rojo-Álvarez

Wednesday, September 29, 2010
10:30
SA1
Repolarisation at Rest and during Exercise
Chair: Willi Kaiser

Continuous Time Analysis Method for T–Wave Alternans Detection
Manuel Blanco-Velasco*, Fernando Cruz-Roldán, Eduardo Moreno-Martínez,
Pedro Amo-López and Juan Pablo Martínez

Automated QT Interval Measurement in Holter ECGs Recorded at 180
and 1000 Samples per Second
Gopi Krishna Panicker, Vaibhav Salvi, Dilip Karnad, Peter Macfarlane, Elaine
Clark*, Arumagam Ramasamy, Snehal Kothari and Dhiraj Narula

Changes in the Ventricular Gradient Measured During Exercise Tests
Predict Antiarrhythmic Therapy in Primary Prevention ICD Patients
S Man*, PV De Winter, AC Maan, WPM Van Meerwijk, EE Van der Wall,
MJ Schalij and CA Swenne

Exercise Test Interpretation (XTI)
Willi Kaiser* and Martin Findeis

Evaluation of a Method for Quantification of Restitution Dispersion
from the Surface ECG
Ana Mincholé*, Esther Pueyo, José Felix Rodríguez, Ernesto Zacur and Pablo
Laguna

Evaluation of Restitution Properties using a Quasi-stationary Exercise Protocol
Joseph Starobin*, Vivek Varadarajan and Vladmir Polotski

Wednesday, September 29, 2010
10:30
SA2
Telemedicine II
Chair: Nicos Maglaveras

Enterprise Cardiovascular System to Support Multimodality Imaging and
Clinical Effectiveness
Neil Greenberg*, Robert Cecil, Fredrick Heupler and Richard Grimm

Emergency Medical Care Information System for Fetal Monitoring
Muhammad Ibn Ibrahimy*

An Approach Towards a Heart Beat Sound Information Retrieval System
Ehsan Safar Khorasani*, Shyamala Doraisamy, Azreen Azman and Masrah Azmi
Murad

Distinguishing between Heart and Lung Sounds in Remote Auscultation of Patients
Nausheen Mahmood, Aafreen Mahmood and Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood*

Monitoring System for Forecasting Hypotensive Episodes
Ricardo Jorge Santos*, Jorge Henriques and Jorge Bernardino

Matching Data Fragments with Imperfect Identifiers from Disparate Sources
Michael Craig*, Benjamin Moody, Sherman Jia, Mauricio Villarroel and Roger
Mark

Wednesday, September 29, 2010
10:30
SA3
MRI: Ventricular Function
Chairs: Victor Mor-Avi, Christiana Corsi

Semiautomatic Quantification of Left and Right Ventricular Functions in
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
L Masip*, PG Tahoces, M Souto, A Martínez and JJ Vidal

Three-Dimensional Analysis of Septal Curvature from Cardiac Magnetic
Resonance Images for the Evaluation of Severity of Pulmonary Hypertension
Francesco Maffessanti, M Agustina Sciancaleopre, Amit R Patel, Mardi Gomberg-
Maitland, Enrico G Caiani, Benjamin H Freed, Roberto M Lang and Victor Mor-Avi*

Estimation of Right Ventricular Volume, Quantitative Assessment of
Wall Motion and Trabeculae Mass in Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia
Massimo Lemmo*, Arshid Azarine, Giacomo Tarroni, Cristiana Corsi and Claudio
Lamberti

Evaluation of Semi-Automated Border Detection Algorithms for the Left
Ventricular Endocardium from Magnetic Resonance Images
Kun Wang*, Kieren Hollingsworth, Andrew J Sims, Andrew M Blamire and Alan
Murray

3D Evaluation of Myocardial End-Systolic Wall Stress From Cardiac
Magnetic Resonance Cine Data
Marion Senesi, Karine Defrance, Elie Mousseaux and Nadjia Kachenoura*

Transmural Changes in Fibre Helix Angle in Normal and Failing Canine
Ventricles
Richard Clayton*, Samia Abdalhamid, Ryan Bloor, Kanna Kotagiri, Georgios
Kyprianou, Jaeson Lee, Amruta Mane and Robert White

Wednesday, September 29, 2010
10:30
SA4
Ventricular Cell Modeling
Chair: Blanca Rodriguez

Analysis and Improvement of a Human Ventricular Cell Model for
Investigation of Cardiac Arrhythmias
Jesús Carro*, José Félix Rodríguez, Pablo Laguna and Esther Pueyo

Systems Biology in Drug Safety Assessment: Use of a Recalibrated Hund-
Rudy Model to Predict the Effect of Novel Drug Compounds on Action
Potential Duration
Mark Davies*

In-Silico Evaluation of Beta-Adrenergic Effects on the Long-QT Syndrome
David U J Keller*, Andreas Bohn, Olaf Dössel and Gunnar Seemann

Modelling of Intracellular Ca2+ Alternans and Ca2+-Voltage Coupling in
Cardiac Myocytes
Qince Li and Henggui Zhang*

Mechano-Electrical Feedback during Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy?
Nico Kuijpers*, Evelien Hermeling and Frits Prinzen

Enhanced Computer Modeling of Cardiac Action Potential Dynamics
Using Experimental Data-Based Feedback
Laura Munoz*, Robert Gilmour and Niels Otani

Wednesday, September 29, 2010
12:00
PB1
Forward/Inverse and System Modeling Posters

Focal Atrial Tachycardia: Investigating the Correlation Between P-Wave
Morphology and the Anatomic Site of Origin
Michael Colman*, Jonathan Stott, Henggui Zhang and Mark R Boyett

ECGSIM: Interactive Simulation of the ECG for Teaching and Research Purposes
Peter M van Dam*, Adriaan van Oosterom and Thom Oostendorp

Refined Estimate of the Dominant T Wave
Roberto Sassi* and Luca T Mainardi

Simulation of Fractionated Electrograms at Low Spatial Resolution in
Large-Scale Heart Models
Mark Potse* and Nico HL Kuijpers

Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Predictive Simulation Validation
Jess D Tate*, Jeroen G Stinstra, Thomas A Pilcher and Rob S MacLeod

A Chaotic Model for Generating Heart Rate Variability Signal Using
Integral Pulse Frequency Modulation
Mahdi Lak, Nader Jafarnia Dabanloo* and Seyed Kamaledin Setarehdan

Towards the Cardiac Equivalent Source Models in ECG and MCG
Problems: A Simulation Study
Guofa Shou, Ling Xia*, Huilong Duan and Mingqi Qian

The Inverse Problem of Phase Singularity Distribution:
An Eikonal Approach
Vincent Jacquemet*

Estimating the Influence of Cardiac Motion on Simulations of Electrical Excitation
Stefan Fruhner*, Harald Engel and Markus Bär

Role of the Fast Conduction System in Electrical Activation in Simple and
Detailed Biophysical Heart Models
Ali Pashaei*, Daniel Romero, Rafael Sebastian, Oscar Camara and Alejandro F Frangi

Moving Equivalent Dipoles Derived from the Body Surface Potential
Map by Solving the Inverse Problem
Vito Starc*

Study of the Static and Dynamic Characterization of the Biological Tissue
to Obtain the Temperature Estimation in RF Aablation using Computer Modeling
José Alba*, Macarena Trujillo, Ramón Blasco and Enrique J Berjano

Wednesday, September 29, 2010
12:00
PB2
Imaging & Related Topics Posters

Three-Dimensional Analysis of Regional Left Ventricular Endocardial
Curvature from Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Images
Francesco Maffessanti*, Enrico G Caiani, Hans-Joachim Nesser, Johannes Niel,
Regina Steringer-Macherbauer, Roberto M Lang and Victor Mor-Avi

Characterization of Degenerative Mitral Valve Disease Using
Morphologic Analysis of Real-Time 3D Echocardiographic Images
Sonal Chandra, Ivan S Salgo, Lissa Sugeng, Lynn Weinert, Masaaki Takeuchi,
Wendy Tsang, Roberto M Lang and Victor Mor-Avi*

Identifying Fetal Heart Anomalies Using Fetal ECG and Doppler
Cardiogram Signals
Ahsan Habib Khandoker*, Yoshitaka Kimura, Marimuthu Palaniswami and Slaven
Marusic

Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Induced Heating on Patients with
Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators and Pacemaker: Role of Lead Structure
Eugenio Mattei*, Giovanni Calcagnini, Federica Censi, Michele Triventi and Pietro Bartolini

Assessing Cardiac Phase Retrieval in Intravascular Ultrasound
Aura Hernàndez-Sabaté*, Monica Mitiko Soares Matsumoto, Sergio Shiguemi
Furuie and Debora Gil

Noninvasive 4D Blood Flow and Pressure Quantification in Central Blood
Vessels via PCMRI
Sebastian Meier*, Anja Hennemuth, Ola Friman, Jelena Bock, Michael Markl and
Tobias Preusser

A Computational Tool for Coronary Atherosclerotic Plaque Analysis of
Virtual Histology Images
Fernando Sales*, João Falcão, Breno Falcão, Sergio Furuie and Pedro Lemos

Automated Heart Localization for the Segmentation of the Ventricular
Cavities on Cine Magnetic Resonance Images
Constantin Constantinides*, Yasmina Chenoune, Elie Mousseaux, Frederique
Frouin and Elodie Roullot

A Method for Fast Browsing of Coronary Angiography Studies
Aafreen Mahmood and Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood*

Wednesday, September 29, 2010
12:00
PB3
Cardiovascular Variability Posters II

Poincaré Plot in Ischemic Rabbit Hearts
Oto Janoušek*, Marina Ronzhina, Marie Nováková, Ivo Provazník and Jana
Kolářová

HRV in Isolated Rabbit Hearts and In Vivo Rabbit Hearts
Oto Janoušek*, Marina Ronzhina, Peter Scheer, Marie Nováková, Ivo Provazník
and Jana Kolářová

Determination of the Frequency Bands for Heart Rate Variability:
Studies on the Intact and Isolated Rabbit Hearts
Marina Ronzhina*, Oto Janousek, Marie Novakova, Peter Scheer, Ivo Provaznik
and Jana Kolarova

Time Domain BRS Estimation: Least Squares versus Quantile Regression
Sónia Gouveia*, Conceição Rocha, Ana Paula Rocha and Maria Eduarda Silva

Relationship between Fractal Dimension and Power-Law Exponent of
Heart Rate Variability in Normal and Heart Failure Subjects
Monica Cusenza, Agostino Accardo*, Gianni D'Addio and Graziamaria Corbi

Ventilatory Threshold Prediction by Spectral Analysis of Heart Rate
Variability in Incremental Maximal Tests
Adolfo Benítez-Herrera, Miguel A García-González*, Rosa Angulo-Barroso, Ferran
Rodríguez-Guisado, Xavier Iglesias-Reig, Raul Bescós, Michel Marina and Josep M
Padullés

Modifications of Autonomic Activity and Baroreceptor Response During
Tilt-induced Vasovagal Syncope
Chun-An Cheng*, Jiunn-Tay Lee and Hung-Wen Chiu

Respiration Signal as a Promising Diagnostic Tool for Late Onset Sepsis
in Premature Newborns
Xavier Navarro*, Fabienne Porée, Alain Beuchée and Guy Carrault

Identification of Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nerves Function in
Cardiovascular Regulation Using NARX Model
Ali Ghaffari, C Nat Nataraj*, Ali Jalali, Parham Ghorbanian and Fatemeh Jalali

Tone-Entropy Analysis as a Cardiac Risk Stratification Tool
Herbert Jelinek, Ahsan Habib Khandoker* and Marimuthu Palaniswami

A New Parameter in the Nonlinear Dynamics of the Heart:
The Higher Reconstruction Step
Antônio Carlos da Silva Filho*, Fátima MHSP da Silva, Lourenço Gallo Júnior
and Júlio Cesar Crescêncio

Statistical Properties and Memory of Excursions in Heartbeat Intervals
Israel Reyes Ramirez*, Lev Guzman Vargas and Ricardo Hernandez Perez

Towards a Data Fusion Model for Predicting Deterioration in
Haemodialysis Patients
Yasmina Borhani*, Susannah Fleming, David Clifton, Sheera Sutherland, Lyndsay
Hills, David Meredith, Chris Pugh and Lionel Tarassenko

Wednesday, September 29, 2010
12:00
PB4
ECG Algorithms and Signal Processing Posters

QRS Morphological Analysis Using a Two-Layered Self-Organizing Map for
Heartbeat Classification
Mutsuo Kaneko*, Fumiaki Iseri, Takafumi Gotoh, Hidehiro Ohki, Naomichi Sueda
and Tatsuya Yoneyama

Robust Delineation of High-Resolution Ambulatory Holter ECG Events
via False-Alarm Controlled Segmentation of a Wavelet-Based
Geometrical Decision Statistic
Mohammad Reza Homaeinezhad* and Ali Ghaffari

A Wavelet-based Algorithm for Delineation and Classification of ECG Waves
Lars Johannesen*, Ulrik Silvanus Lerkevang Grove, Jens Stampe Soerensen, Mick
Lykkegaard Schmidt, Jean-Philippe Couderc and Claus Graff

Predicting Effectiveness of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Based on
the Analysis of QRS Components Using the Meyer Orthogonal Wavelet Transformation
Xiaojuan Xia*, Jean-Philippe Couderc, Scott McNitt and Wojciech Zareba

Automatic Electrocardiogram Delineator Based on the Phasor Transform
of Single Lead Recordings
Arturo Martínez*, Raúl Alcaraz and José Joaquín Rieta

An Efficient Approach for Heartbeat Classification
Stevan Jokić*, Srđan Krčo, Dejan Sakač and Zoran Lukić

Long-Duration Ambulatory Holter ECG QRS Complex Geometrical
Templates Extraction by Non-Parametric Clustering of the QRS Virtual
Close-up Extracted Feature Space
Mohammad Reza Homaeinezhad* and Ali Ghaffari

A Fast and Robust Time-Series Based Decision Rule for Identification of
Atrial Fibrillation Arrhythmic Patterns in the ECG
Omar Jacinto Escalona* and Mauricio Enrique Reina

Segment Clustering for Holter Recording Analysis
Jose Luis Rodríguez-Sotelo, Diego Peluffo-Ordóñez, David Cuesta-Frau, Germán
Castellanos-Domínguez and Lina Sepúlveda*

Optimal Delineation of Ambulatory Holter ECG Events via False-Alarm
Bounded Segmentation of a Wavelet-Based Principal Component
Analysis Decision Statistic
Mohammad Reza Homaeinezhad*

Long-Duration ECG Signal Events Detection-Delineation via
Segmentation of a Wavelet-Based Independent Components Analyzed
Metric
Mohammad Reza Homaeinezhad* and Ali Ghaffari

Linear and Non-Linear Features for Intrapartum Cardiotocography Evaluation
Václav Chudáček*, Jiří Spilka, Petr Janků and Lenka Lhotská

Hidden Markov Tree-based Arrhythmia Classification
Samar Krimi, Kaïs Ouni* and Noureddine Ellouze

P Wave Delineation Using Spatially Projected Leads from Wavelet Transform Loops
Rute Almeida, Juan Pablo Martínez, Ana Paula Rocha and Pablo Laguna*

BEATS: An Interactive Research Oriented ECG Marker System
S Man*, AC Maan, EE van der Wall, MJ Schalij and CA Swenne

Wednesday, September 29, 2010
12:00
PB5
ECG - Atrial Fibrillation Posters

Radial Basis Function Networks Applied to QRST Cancellation in Atrial
Fibrillation Recordings
Jorge Mateo, Ana Torres, César Sánchez and José Joaquín Rieta*

Ectopic Beats Canceler for Improved Atrial Activity Extraction from
Holter Recordings of Atrial Fibrillation
Arturo Martínez*, Raúl Alcaraz and José Joaquín Rieta

Simulation of Monitoring Strategies for Atrial Fibrillation Detection
Federica Censi*, Giovanni Calcagnini, Eugenio Mattei, Michele Triventi and Pietro
Bartolini

Organization Analysis of Atrial Fibrillation Applied to the Improvement
of Electrical Cardioversion Protocols
Raúl Alcaraz, Fernando Hornero and José Joaquín Rieta*

Study of Sample Entropy Ideal Computational Parameters in the
Estimation of Atrial Fibrillation Organization from the ECG
Raúl Alcaraz, Daniel Abásolo, Roberto Hornero and José Joaquín Rieta*

Wednesday, September 29, 2010
12:00
PB6
T-Wave Alternans Posters

Sensitivity of T-Wave Alternans Identification Algorithms to Residual
Physiological Noise Affecting the ECG after Preprocessing
Silvia Bini*, Laura Burattini and Roberto Burattini

Signal Processing Subsystem Validation for T Wave Alternans Estimation
Rebeca Goya-Esteban, Inmaculada Mora-Jiménez*, Manuel Blanco-Velasco,
Óscar Barquero-Pérez, Antonio Caamaño-Fernandez, Arcadi García-Alverola and
José Luis Rojo-Álvarez

T Wave and QRS Complex Alternans During Standard Diagnostic Stress
ECG Test
Ivaylo Christov*, Giovanni Bortolan, Iana Simova and Tzvetana Katova

T-Wave Alternans Quantification: Which Information from Different
Methods?
Laura Burattini*, Silvia Bini and Roberto Burattini

Wednesday, September 29, 2010
12:00
PB7
Cardiovascular Mechanics Posters

Assessment of Autonomic Cardiac Control in Women with Cardiac
Syndrome X Using Time Related Autonomic Balance Indicator
Mikhail Matveev, Svetlin Tsonev*, Rada Prokopova and Temenuga Donova

Discrete Wavelet-Aided Delineation of PCG Signal Events via Analysis of
an Area Curve Length-Based Decision Statistic
Mohammad Reza Homaeinezhad* and Ali Ghaffari

Robust Arterial Blood Pressure Events Detection-Delineation via
Segmentation of a Wavelet-Derived Stationary-Baseline Metric
Mohammad Reza Homaeinezhad* and Ali Ghaffari

Elimination of the Respiratory Effect on the Thoracic Impedance Signal
with Whole-body Impedance Cardiography
Pavel Jurák*, Josef Halámek, Vlastimil Vondra, Ivo Viščor, Jolana Lipoldová and
Martin Plachý

Estimation of Hemodynamic Parameters from Seismocardiogram
Kouhyar Tavakolian, Andrew Blaber, Brandon Ngai, Bahman Yari Saeed Khanloo,
Alireza Akhbardeh and Bozena Kaminska*

Mitral Valve Modelling in Ischemic Patients: Finite Element Analysis
from Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Carlo A Conti, Marco Stevanella, Francesco Maffessanti*, Francesco Trunfio,
Emiliano Votta, Alberto Roghi, Oberdan Parodi, Enrico G Caiani and Alberto
Redaelli

Long-term Characterisation of Arterial Blood Pressure Series
Juan Carlos Perfetto*, Graciela Aurora Ruiz and Carlos Enrique D'attellis

Wednesday, September 29, 2010
12:00
PB8
Informatics Posters

Displaying Computerized ECG Recordings and Vital Signs on Windows
Phone 7 Smartphones
Stefan Klug*, Kai Krupka, Hartmut Dickhaus, Hugo A Katus and Thomas Hilbel

Transmural Exchange of Cardiology Related Information Between Two
Academic Centres and Referring Hospitals Using XDS(-I)
Arnold Dijk*, Jan Peter Busman, Niek van der Putten and Willem Dassen

Open-source Teleconsulting System for International Cooperative
Medical Decision Making in Congenital Heart Diseases
Andrea Gori*, Alessandro Taddei, Alessio Ciregia, Debora Mota, Paolo
Marcheschi, Nadia Assanta, Bruno Murzi and Giorgio Ricci

Library for Managing and Processing ECG Signal Data: Design and
Implementation in Delphi and C#
Alberto Rodríguez*, Raúl Almeida, Gemma Rodríguez, Nelvy Pina and Gisela
Montes de Oca

A Personalised Self Management System for Chronic Heart Failure
William P Burns*, Richard J Davies, Chris D Nugent, Paul J McCullagh, Huiru
Zheng, Norman D Black and Gail A Mountain

Wednesday, September 29, 2010
14:00
MC
Closing Plenary Session
Chairs: Dewar Finlay, Chris Nugent

Nonhyperemic Intracoronary Pressure Waveform Analysis Predicts the
Fractional Flow Reserve
Peter Lugosi, Peter Santa, Zoltan Beres, Balazs Tar, Janos Santa and Zsolt Koszegi*

Development and Validation of Automated Endocardial and Epicardial
Contour Detection for MRI Volumetric and Wall Motion Analysis
Enrico G Caiani*, Alberto Redaelli, Oberdan Parodi, Emiliano Votta, Francesco
Maffessanti, E Tripoliti, Gaetano Nucifora, Daniele De Marchi, Giacomo Tarroni,
Massimo Lombardi and Cristiana Corsi

Polysomnography in Extreme Environments: the MagIC Wearable
System for Monitoring Climbers Ascending on Mount Everest Slopes
Paolo Meriggi*, Paolo Castiglioni, Carolina Lombardi, Francesco Rizzo, Andrea
Faini, Marco Di Rienzo and Gianfranco Parati

Investigation of Drowsiness while Driving utilizing Analysis of Heart Rate
Fluctuations
Gabriela Dorfman Furman* and Anda Baharav

Features of Arterial Blood Pressure as Indicators of Impending Acute
Kidney Injury in ICU Patients
Li-wei Lehman*, Mohammed Saeed, George Moody and Roger Mark

Development and Clinical Validation of a Physiological Data Acquisition
Device Intended for Monitoring and Exercise Guidance of Heart Failure
and Chronic Heart Disease Patients
Athina Kokonozi, Alexander Astaras, Panagiotis Semertzidis, Emmanouil Michail,
Dimitris Filos, Ioanna Chouvarda, Olivier Grossenbacher, Jean-Marc Koller,
Leopoldo Rossini, Jacque-André Porchet, Marc Correvon, Jean Luprano, Auli
Sipilä, Chryssanthos Zambou and Nikolaos Maglaveras*

Computing in Cardiology 2010Preliminary Scientific Program

Outline

Monday, September 27, 2010

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Schedule of Sessions

Computing in Cardiology 2010
Preliminary Scientific Program