Computing in Cardiology 2017, Volume 44

Rennes, France


Preface

Front Cover
Copyright
Board of Directors
Editor
Organizing and program committees
Awards
Introduction

Index by Session

1Rosanna Degani Young Investigator Finals
2-1Resuscitation
2-2Diagnostic ECG
2-3SA Node & Atrial Conduction
2-4Sensors, Seismocardiography and Ballistocardiography
3-1Vascular Imaging
3-2Cardiac Rotors in Arrhythmia
3-3Arrhythmias & Exercise
3-4Sudden Cardiac Death
4-1Imaging for EP Interventions
4-2Detection of Atrial Fibrillation
4-3ECG Imaging
4-4Predictive Modelling of Cardiac Cells
5-1Challenge I
5-2Long Term Monitoring
5-3ECG Imaging II
5-4MRI-based Cardiac Mechanics
6-1Phonocardiography
6-2ECG Criteria and Signal Processing
6-3Ventricular Arrhythmias
6-4Mapping & Miscellaneous Arrhythmias
6-5Atrial Modelling
6-6Health Informatics & Technology
6-7Modelling Therapy
6-8Heart Rate Variability in Applications
6-9Challenge Posters I
6-10Previous Challenges
7-1Imaging Cardiac Motion
7-2Invasive Recordings and Atrial Fibrillation
7-3ECG/EG-based Analysis
7-4Heart Rate Variability
7-5Arrhythmias & Signal Processing
8-1Cardiovascular Mechanics
8-2Repolarization
8-3Heart and Thorax Modelling
8-4Sleep Apnea
8-5ECG Analysis
9-1ECG Imaging III
9-2Cardiac Mechanics & Heart Failure
9-3Databases & Algorithm Development
9-4Heart Rate Analysis
10-1ECG in Exercise and Ischemia
10-2Photoplethysmography & Sensor Technology
10-3Cardiovascular Responses
10-4Noninvasive Characterization of Atrial Fibrillation
11-1Cardiovascular Imaging
11-2Cardiovascular Mechanics
11-3ECG Miscellaneous
11-4Ventricular Modelling
11-5Heart Rate Variability
11-6Blood Pressure
11-7System Analysis in Fetal and Pre-term Populations
11-8Atrial Fibrillation
11-9Challenge Posters II
12-1Challenge II
12-2Special Session: Clinical Guidelines in e-Health: Where do we stand?
12-3Special Session: Electrocardiographic Imaging: Challenges in Clinical Evaluation and Validation
12-4Special Session: Understanding the Mechanisms of Atrial Fibrillation using Novel Computational Approaches
13Closing Plenary

1: Rosanna Degani Young Investigator Finals

Comparison between Cardiac Baroreflex Sensitivity Estimates Derived from Sequence and Phase Rectified Signal Averaging Techniques During Head-up Tilt
Beatrice De Maria, Vlasta Bari, Giovanni Ranuzzi, Laura Dalla Vecchia, Sergio Cerutti, Alberto Porta
Personalization of Atrial Fibrillation Antiarrhythmic Drug Treatments: a Population of Models Approach
Alejandro Liberos, Alfonso Bueno-Orovio, Miguel Rodrigo, Ismael Hernández-Romero, Maria de la Salud Guillem Sánchez, Francisco Fernandez-Aviles, Felipe Atienza, Blanca Rodriguez, Andreu M. Climent
GPU Implementation of Levenberg-Marquardt Optimization for T1 Mapping
Shufang Liu, Aurélien Bustin, Darius Burschka, Anne Menini, Freddy Odille
Development of a Computational Fluid Dynamics Model of the Left Atrium in Atrial Fibrillation on a Patient Specific Basis
Alessandro Masci, Martino Alessandrini, Luca Dedè, Davide Forti, Filippo Menghini, Corrado Tomasi, Alfio Quarteroni, Cristiana Corsi

2-1: Resuscitation

A Simple Algorithm for Ventilation Detection in the Capnography Signal During Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
Mikel Leturiondo, Jesus Ruiz, Sofia Ruiz de Gauna, Digna M González-Otero, José M Bastida, Mohamud Daya
Chest Compression Metrics During Manual Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: a Manikin Study
Sofia Ruiz de Gauna, Digna M González-Otero, James K Russell, Jesus Ruiz, Sara Pelayo, Purificación Saiz
An Investigation into the Use of the Impedance Cardiogram as a Predictor of Manual Chest Compression Efficacy
Olibhéar McAlister, Dewar D. Finlay, Raymond R. Bond, Daniel Guldenring, Ben McCartney, Laura Davis, Hannah Torney, Paul Crawford, Frances Denny, Rebecca Funston, David McEneaney
Closed-loop Adaptive Filtering for Suppressing Chest Compression Oscillations in the Capnogram during Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
Mikel Leturiondo, J.J. Gutiérrez, Sofia Ruiz de Gauna, Sandra Plaza, Jose F Veintemillas, Mohamud Daya
Removing Piston-driven Mechanical Chest Compression Artefacts from the ECG
Iraia Isasi, Unai Irusta, Elisabete Aramendi, Unai Ayala, Erik Alonso, Jo Kramer-Johansen, Trygve Eftestol
Blinded Analysis of an Exercise ECG Database Using High Frequency QRS Analysis
Noam Omer, Yair Granot, Jari Viik, Shimon Abboud

2-2: Diagnostic ECG

T-wave Alternans Presence in Young Competitive Athletes – to Be or Not to Be Accepted as a Prognostic Factor?
Iana Simova, Ivan Gruev, Giovanni Bortolan, Ivaylo Christov, Sofia Georgieva
Specificity of New Diagnostic Criteria for Left Ventricular Hypertrophy
Elaine Clark, Peter Macfarlane
Detecting ECG Limb Lead-wire Interchanges Involving the Right Leg Lead-wire
Richard Gregg, E. William Hancock, Saeed Babaeizadeh
Tensor-based Analysis of ECG Changes Prior to In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
Griet Goovaerts, Sabine Van Huffel, Xiao Hu
Electrocardiographic Parameters Indicative for Increased Risk of Adverse Events in Diabetics after Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
Dimiter Simov, Ivaylo Christov, Iana Simova, Mikhail Matveev, Ivo Petrov

2-3: SA Node & Atrial Conduction

Bradycardic Effects of Mutations in the HCN4 Gene at Different Levels of Autonomic Tone in Humans
Alan Fabbri, Arie O. Verkerk, Stefano Severi, Ronald Wilders
Electrophysiological Parameters in the Electrical Propagation During Atrial Fibrillation: a Population of Models Study
Ana Simon Chica, Alejandro Liberos, Ismael Hernández-Romero, Alfonso Bueno Orovio, Miguel Rodrigo, Maria de la Salud Guillem Sánchez, Felipe Atienza, Francisco Fernández-Avilés, Blanca Rodriguez, Andreu M. Climent
Asymmetry of Unipolar Electrograms in a Thin Tissue with Epicardial-Endocardial Activation Delay
Eric Irakoze, Halekote Ramesh Chirasvi, Vincent Jacquemet
Mechanism of Sinus Bradycardia in Carriers of the 1795insD Mutation in the SCN5A Gene
Ronald Wilders
A Three-dimensional Computational Model of Action Potential Propagation through a Network of Individual Cells.
Pierre-Elliott Bécue, Mark Potse, Yves Coudière

2-4: Sensors, Seismocardiography and Ballistocardiography

Clinical Performance of High Frequency QRS Analysis for Detecting Ischemia Using a Limited Sampling Rate
Noam Omer, Shimon Abboud, Yair Granot
Contactless Mapping of Thoracic and Abdominal Movements: Applications for Seismocardiography
Pavel Shirkovskiy, Alexandre Laurin, Mathias Fink, Dominique Chapelle, Ros K. Ing
Challenges in Using Seismocardiography for Blood Pressure Monitoring
Kasper Sørensen, Ajay Verma, Andrew Blaber, John Zanetti, Samuel Emil Schmidt, Johannes Struijk, Kouhyar Tavakolian
Signal Detection Accuracy of Digital Accelerometers for Ballistocardiographic Propose
Nico Jähne-Raden, Klaus-Hendrik Wolf, Michael Marschollek
Respiratory Rate Detection Using a Camera as Contactless Sensor
Luca Iozzia, Jesus Lazaro, Eduardo Gil, Luca Cerina, Luca Mainardi, Pablo Laguna

3-1: Vascular Imaging

Wavelet Analysis for Multiresolution Tissue Characterization in Intracoronary Optical Images
Maysa M G Macedo, Pedro Nicz, Carlos Campos, Pedro Lemos, Marco Antonio Gutierrez

3-2: Cardiac Rotors in Arrhythmia

Image-Based Computational Evaluation of the Competing Effect of Atrial Wall Thickness and Fibrosis on Re-entrant Drivers for Atrial Arrhythmias
Aditi Roy, Marta Varela, Oleg Aslanidi
Spiral-wave Instability in a Medium with a Gradient in the Fibroblast Density: a Computational Study
Soling Zimik, Rahul Pandit
Optimized Adjustment of Single Action-potentials to Case-specific Atrial Physiology: Towards Clinical Implementation
Pedro Lind, Yvonne Richter, Gunnar Seemann, Claudia Lenk, Philipp Maass

3-3: Arrhythmias & Exercise

Evaluation of Changes in T-wave Alternans Induced by 60 Days of Immobilization by Head-down Bed-rest
Alba Martin, Violeta Monasterio, Pablo Laguna, Juan Pablo Martínez, Enrico Caiani

3-4: Sudden Cardiac Death

Optimisation of the Global Re-entry Vulnerability Index to Minimise Cycle Length Dependency and Prediction of Ventricular Arrhythmias During Human Epicardial Sock Mapping
Michele Orini, Peter Taggart, Martin Hayward, Pier Lambiase
Automatic Coordinate Prediction of the Exit of Ventricular Tachycardia from 12-Lead Electrocardiogram
Prashnna Gyawali, Shuhang Chen, Huafeng Liu, B. Milan Horacek, John L. Sapp, Linwei Wang
Electrical and Anatomical Imaging of Arrhythmogenic Substrates for Scar-related Ventricular Tachycardia
Omar Gharbia, Susumu Tao, Albert C. Lardo, Henry Halperin, Linwei Wang

4-1: Imaging for EP Interventions

Integration of Electrical, Structural, and Anatomical Imaging for the Guidance of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
Uyen Chau Nguyen, Matthijs Cluitmans, Casper Mihl, Justin J.G. Luermans, Bas L.J.H. Kietselaer, Sebastiaan C.A.M. Bekkers, Suzanne Gommers, Paul Volders, Frits W. Prinzen, Kevin Vernooy
Preliminary Computational Framework to Map MRI-Derived Markers to Predict Response to Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
Carolina Vallecilla, Martino Alessandrini, Claudio Fabbri, Corrado Tomasi, Cristiana Corsi, Stefano Severi
Multimodal Image Integration for Catheter Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia
Nicolas Courtial, Antoine Simon, Mathieu Lederlin, Sophie Bruge, Raphael P. Martins, Mireille Garreau
A Platform for Quantifying Atrial Structural Remodelling
Orod Razeghi, Rashed Karim, John Whitaker, Catalina Tobon Gomez, Steven Niederer

4-2: Detection of Atrial Fibrillation

Detection of Atrial Fibrillation Using an Earlobe Photoplethysmographic Sensor
Thomas Conroy, Jairo Hernandez Guzman, Burr Hall, Gill Tsouri, Jean-Philippe Couderc
Photoplethysmogram Modeling During Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation: Detector Evaluation
Andrius Sološenko, Andrius Petrenas, Vaidotas Marozas, Leif Sörnmo
Validating Features for Atrial Fibrillation Detection from Photoplethysmogram under Hospital and Free-living Conditions
Linda M. Eerikäinen, Lukas Dekker, Alberto G. Bonomi, Rik Vullings, Fons Schipper, Jenny Margarito, Helma M. de Morree, Ronald M. Aarts
Signal Quality Assessment of F-waves in Atrial Fibrillation
Mikael Henriksson, Andrius Petrenas, Vaidotas Marozas, Frida Sandberg, Leif Sornmo
Identification of Atrial Fibrillation Episodes Using a Camera as Contactless Sensor
Valentina Corino, Luca Iozzia, Andrea Mariani, Giacomo D'Alessandro, Claudia D'Ettorre, Luca Cerina, Giorgio Scarpini, Federico Lombardi, Luca Mainardi

4-3: ECG Imaging

A 64-Lead Body Surface Potential Mapping System
João Salinet, Victor Gonçalves Marques, Marcelo Mazzetto, Erick Camargo, Carlos Pastore, Idágene Cestari
ECG-Based Reconstruction of Heart Position and Orientation with Bayesian Optimization
Jaume Coll-Font, Dana Brooks
Effect of the Geometric Inaccuracy in MARS-based Inverse ECG Solution Approach
Önder Nazim Onak, Yesim Serinagaoglu Dogrusöz, Gerhard Wilhelm Weber
Exploring Possible Choices of the Tikhonov Regularization Parameter for the Method of Fundamental Solution in Electrocardiography
Judit Chamorro-Servent, Rémi Dubois, Yves Coudière
L_0 Norm Based Sparse Regularization for Non-invasive Infarct Detection Using ECG Signal
Sandesh Ghimire, Linwei Wang
Inverse Localization of Intraventricular Pacing Sites by Equivalent Dipole Source
Jana Svehlikova, Milan Tysler

4-4: Predictive Modelling of Cardiac Cells

Using Populations of Models to Navigate Big Data in Electrophysiology: Evaluation of Parameter Sensitivity of Action Potential Models
Carlos Ledezma, Benjamin Kappler, Veronique Meijborg, Bas Boukens, Marco Stijnen, PJ Tan, Vanessa Diaz-Zuccarini
Identification of Parameters describing Phenomenological Cardiac Action Potential Models using Sigma-point Methods
Jesus Fernandez-Bes, David Adolfo Sampedro-Puente, Esther Pueyo
In Silico Assessment of Nifedipine Effects on Human Heart Cells: Pharmacokinetic-Pharmacodynamic Analyses at the Population Level
Mitra Abbasi, Sebastian Polak
Sensitivity Analysis of the QT and JTpeak Intervals from a High-resolution Human Left-ventricular Wedge Model
Massimo W Rivolta, Roberto Sassi, Viatcheslav Gurev, John J Rice, Coeli M Lopes, Jean-Philippe Couderc
Parameters Estimation approach for the MEA/hiPSC-CM asaays
Julien Bouyssier, Nejib Zemzemi
IKs Computational Modeling to Enforce the Investigation of D242N, a KV7.1 LQTS Mutation
Chiara Bartolucci, Cristina Moreno, Anna Oliveras, Carmen Muñoz, Alicia de la Cruz, Diego A. Peraza, Juan R Gimeno, Mercedes Martín-Martínez, Stefano Severi, Antonio Felipe, Pier D Lambiase, Teresa Gonzalez, Carmen Valenzuela

5-1: Challenge I

AF Classification from a Short Single Lead ECG Recording: the Physionet Computing in Cardiology Challenge 2017
Gari Clifford, Chengyu Liu, Benjamin Moody, Li-Wei Lehman, Ikaro Silva, Qiao Li, Alistair Johnson, Roger Mark
Robust ECG Signal Classification for the Detection of Atrial Fibrillation Using Novel Neural Networks
Zhaohan Xiong, Martin Stiles, Jichao Zhao
Heart Rhythm Classification using Short-term ECG Atrial and Ventricular Activity Analysis
Sasan Yazdani, Priscille Laub, Adrian Luca, Jean-Marc Vesin
Atrial Fibrillation Detection Using Boosting and Stacking Ensemble
Dawid Smolen
Detection of Atrial Fibrillation in ECG Hand-held Devices Using a Random Forest Classifier
Morteza Zabihi, Ali Bahrami Rad, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos, Serkan Kiranyaz, Susanna Narkilahti, Moncef Gabbouj
Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks for Electrocardiogram Classification
Martin Zihlmann, Dmytro Perekrestenko, Michael Tschannen

5-2: Long Term Monitoring

Wrist and Arm Body Surface Bipolar ECG Leads Signal and Sensor Study for Long-term Rhythm Monitoring
Omar Escalona, Louise McFrederick, Maira Borges, Pedro Linares, Ricardo Villegas, Gilberto Perpiñan, James McLaughlin, David McEneaney
Arm-ECG Bipolar Leads Signal Recovery Methods for Wearable Long-term Heart Rate and Rhythm Monitoring
William David Lynn, Omar Escalona, Pedro Vizcaya, David McEneaney
Distant Pulse Measurement System for Real-Time Surveillance Applications
Jaromir Przybylo, Miroslaw Jablonski, Eliasz Kantoch, Piotr Augustyniak

5-3: ECG Imaging II

Evaluation of Inverse Problem with Slow-Conducting Channel in Scar Area in a Post-Infarction Model
Zexi Chen, Miguel Rodrigo, Alejandro Liberos, Ismael Hernández-Romero, Jesus Requena, Andreu M. Climent, Maria de la Salud Guillem Sánchez
On the Correctness of the Transmembrane Potential Based Inverse Problem of ECG
Vitaly Kalinin, Alexander Kalinin, Walther Schulze, Danila Potyagaylo, Alexander Shlapunov

5-4: MRI-based Cardiac Mechanics

Assessment of Aortic Pulse Wave Velocity Using 4D Flow Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Methods Comparison
Sophia Houriez--Gombaud-Saintonge, Elie Mousseaux, Ioannis Bargiotas, Alain De Cesare, Thomas Dietenbeck, Kevin Bouaou, Alban Redheuil, Gilles Soulat, Umit Gencer, Damian Craiem, Yasmina Chenoune, Nadjia Kachenoura
Bayesian Classification Applied to Strain in Arrhythmogenic Left-Ventricle Cardiomyopathy
Yolanda Vives-Gilabert, Begoña Igual, Santiago Jiménez-Serrano, Jorge Sanz, Raquel Cervigón, Antonio Cebrián, Jose Manuel Santabárbara, José Millet, Esther Zorio, Francisco Castells
Relative Aortic Blood Pressure Using 4D Flow MRI: Associations with Age and Aortic Tapering
Kevin Bouaou, Ioannis Bargiotas, Damian Craiem, Gilles Soulat, Thomas Dietenbeck, Sophia Houriez--Gombaud-Saintonge, Alain De Cesare, Umit Gencer, Alain Giron, Alban Redheuil, Didier Lucor, Elie Mousseaux, Nadjia Kachenoura

6-1: Phonocardiography

Classification of Congenital Heart Diseases By SVM-MFCC Using Phonocardiograph
Gholamreza Attarodi, Asghar Tareh, Nader Jafarnia Dabanloo, Ali Adeliansedehi
Diagnosis of Aortic Valve Stenosis Based on PCG Signal Using Wavelet Packet Decomposition (WPD) and Parametric Models
Pegah Derakhshan Mehr, Nader Jafarnia Dabanloo, Gholamreza Attarodi, Keivan Maghooli, Nazanin Hemmati
Second Heart Sound Onset to Identify T-Wave Offset
Agnese Sbrollini, Marta Beghella Bartoli, Angela Agostinelli, Micaela Morettini, Francesco Di Nardo, Sandro Fioretti, Laura Burattini

6-2: ECG Criteria and Signal Processing

Heartbeat Detection Using Oscillatory Envelope Pattern in Noisy Electrocardiogram
Hsiao-Lung Chan, Fu-Tai Wang, Yi-Sheng Lee, Chun-Li Wang
ECG-Based Predictors of Sudden Cardiac Death in Chagas’ Disease
Alex Chaves Alberto, Gabriel Azevedo Limeira, Roberto Coury Pedrosa, Vicente Zarzoso, Jurandir Nadal
Fine Tuning of the Dynamic Low-pass Filter for Electromyographic Noise Suppression in Electrocardiograms
Ivaylo Christov, Tatiana Neycheva, Ramun Schmid
Robust Automatic Detection of P Wave and T Wave in Electrocardiogram
Dimitrios Zavantis, Ermioni Mastora, George Manis
Information Theory Based Evaluation of Interactions between RR and QT Intervals in the Normal and People with High Risk for Cardiac Arrhythmias
Chenxi Li, Yue Pan, Ping Zhan, Zhigang Wang, Zhengguo Zhang, Yi Peng
Beyond HRV: Analysis of ECG Signals using Attractor Reconstruction
Jane Lyle, Peter Charlton, Esther Bonet-Luz, Gary Chaffey, Mark Christie, Manasi Nandi, Philip Aston
Irregular Heart Beat Detection Using Sequentially Truncated Multi-Linear Singular Value Decomposition
Alexander Suarez, Griet Goovaerts, Carolina Varon, Carlos R. Vazquez Seisdedos, Sabine Van Huffel
Application of an Inverse-Forward Approach to Derive the 12-lead ECG from Body Surface Potential Maps
Laura Bear, Peter Huntjens, Mark Potse, Josselin Duchateau, Sylvain Ploux, Remi Dubois
New Improved Methodology for ECG Signal Compression
Rupali Tornekar, Suhas Gajre
"Comparative Study of Lossless ECG Signal Compression Techniques for Wireless Networks"
Rupali Tornekar, Suhas Gajre
Attenuation of QRS Power in the Frequency Range from 0.05 to 1 kHz
Josef Halamek, Pavel Leinveber, Filip Plesinger, Magdalena Matejkova, Pavel Jurak
A Robust Detection Method of Short Atrial Fibrillation Episodes
Zouhair Haddi, Jean-François Pons, Stéphane Delliaux, Bouchra Ananou, Jean-Claude Deharo, Ahmed Charaï, Rachid Bouchakour, Mustapha Ouladsine
Characterizing Electrocardiographic Changes During Pre-seizure Periods through Temporal and Spectral Features
Lucia Billeci, Maurizio Varanini

6-3: Ventricular Arrhythmias

Prediction of Ventricular Tachycardia Using Nonlinear Features of Heart Rate Variability and Artificial Neural Network Classifier
Nastaran Ehtiati, Gholamreza Attarodi, Nader Jafarnia Dabanloo, Javid Farhadi Sedehi, Ali Moti Nasrabadi
Prediction of the Exit Site of Ventricular Tachycardia Based on Different ECG Lead Systems
Michal Kania, Yves Coudière, Hubert Cochet, Michel Haïssaguerre, Pierre Jaïs, Mark Potse
Non-Invasive Assessment of Spatiotemporal Organization of Ventricular Fibrillation Through Principal Component Analysis
Marianna Meo, Mark Potse, Stéphane Puyo, Laura Bear, Mélèze Hocini, Michel Haïssaguerre, Rémi Dubois
Prediction of Ventricular Fibrillation from HRV Signals Using Combination of Genetic Algorithm and Neural Networks
Javid Farhadi Sedehi, Nader Jafarnia Dabanloo, Gholamreza Attarodi, Mehdi Eslamizadeh
Effect of Different Ventricular Arrhythmia Origin on Cardiac Sound Variability Using M-mode Signal Representation
Raúl Ortiz-Puente, Margarita Sanromán-Junquera, Sergio Muñoz-Romero, Mariano Barbero-Puchades, Mercedes Ortiz, Rebeca Goya-Esteban, Jose Luis Rojo-Alvarez, Jesús Almendral-Garrote

6-4: Mapping & Miscellaneous Arrhythmias

Atrial Electro-anatomic Mapping with a Novel Noncontact Approach
Shu Meng, Jichao Zhao, Nigel Lever, Gregory Sands, Laura Bear, Anne Gillis, Bruce Smaill
Dual-sided Mapping During Global Stretch Using a Custom Miniaturized Endocardial Balloon with a Multipurpose Multichannel Acquisition System for Preclinical Electrophysiological Studies
Conrado J. Calvo, Alvaro Tormos, Eduardo Roses, Manuel Zarzoso, Antonio Cebrián, Santiago Jimenez, Elena Simarro, Jaime Yagüe, José Millet, Javier Chorro, Antonio Guill
A Single-sensor High-resolution Panoramic Optical Mapping Configuration for Simultaneous Non-overlapped Complete Atrial and Ventricular Parametric Imaging
Conrado J. Calvo, Antonio Guill, Alvaro Tormos, Manuel Zarzoso, Luis Such-Miquel, Oscar Arias, Luis Such, Francisco Chorro, José Millet
A High Resolution Bi-atrial Optical Mapping System for the Analysis of Arrhythmia in the Hypertensive Heart
Girish Ramlugun, Gregory Sands, Jichao Zhao, Ian LeGrice, Bruce Smaill
Design and Presenting of a Novel Algorithm Using Anfis for New Generation of Cardiac Pacemakers
Asghar Dabiri Aghdam, Nader Jafarnia Dabanloo, Gholamreza Attarodi, Mohammad Sattari, Nazanin Hemmati
Study on the Alternatives to Reduce High-Frequency Noise from Invasive Recordings of Atrial Fibrillation
Miguel Martínez, Juan Ródenas, Raul Alcaraz, José J Rieta
Application of the Stationary Wavelet Transform to Reduce Power-line Interference in Atrial Electrograms
Miguel Martínez, Juan Ródenas, Raul Alcaraz, José J Rieta
Open-loop Adaptive Filtering for Suppressing Chest Compression Oscillations in the Capnogram during Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
Mikel Leturiondo, Jesus Ruiz, J.J. Gutiérrez, Luis A Leturiondo, Jose F Veintemillas, James K Russell, Mohamud Daya
Heart Arrhythmia Classification Using Extracted Features in Poincare Plot of RR Intervals?
Shahab Rezaei, Sadaf Moharreri, Mostafa Abdollahpur, Saman Parvaneh
Atrial Fibrillation Analysis for Real Time Patient Monitoring
Ragheed Allami, Andrew Stranieri, Faezeh Marzbanrad, Venki Balasubramanian, Herbert F Jelinek

6-5: Atrial Modelling

A Spatially Extended Model of the Human Atrioventricular Node
Mikael Wallman, Frida Sandberg
Pace-and-Drive of the Human Sinoatrial Node: a Preliminary Computational Investigation
Alan Fabbri, Axel Loewe, Ronald Wilders, Stefano Severi
Effects of the Small Conductance Calcium-Activated Potassium Current (IsK) in Human Sinoatrial Node
Alan Fabbri, Michelangelo Paci, Jari Hyttinen, Ronald Wilders, Stefano Severi
In Silico Analysis of the Effects of Fibroblasts Coupling to Atrial Myocytes under Conditions of Atrial Fibrillation Remodeling
Jorge Sánchez, Beatriz Trenor, Javier Saiz
Lead and Carbon Monoxide Effects on Human Atrial Action Potential. In Silico Study
Catalina Tobon, Diana C Pachajoa, Juan P Ugarte, Andres Orozco-Duque, Javier Saiz
Maximization of Left Atrial Information through the Optimization of ECG Lead Systems
Axel Loewe, Sebastian Debatin, Gustavo Lenis, Olaf Doessel

6-6: Health Informatics & Technology

An Interactive Virtual Reality Environment for Analysis of Clinical Atrial Arrhythmias and Ablation Planning
Axel Loewe, Emanuel Poremba, Tobias G. Oesterlein, Nicolas Pilia, Micha Pfeiffer, Olaf Doessel, Stefanie Speidel
A System for Electrocardiographic Studies in the Community
Rene Ivan Gonzalez-Fernandez, Jorge Aquilera-Perez, Gisela Montes de Oca-Colina, Marisabel Lopez-Fernandez, Pedro Luis Gonzalez-Acosta, Miguel Portieles-Perez
An Optimized Drug Similarity Framework for Side-effect Prediction
Yi Zheng, Shameek Ghosh, Jinyan Li
Characterization of Screen-Printed Textile Electrodes Based on Conductive Polymer for ECG Acquisition
Andrea Achilli, Danilo Pani, Annalisa Bonfiglio
Characterizing Dry Electrodes Impedance by Parametric Modeling for Arm Wearable Long-term Cardiac Rhythm Monitoring
Antonio Bosnjak, Pedro Linares, James McLaughlin, Omar Escalona
Biomedical Signal Quality Assessment via Learning to Rank with an Application to Mechanical Heart Signals
Olli Lahdenoja, Mojtaba Jafari Tadi, Matti Kaisti, Timo Knuutila, Mikko Pänkäälä, Tero Koivisto
A Database of Electrocardiogram Signals Acquired in Different Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scanners
Johannes Krug, Marcus Schmidt, Georg Rose, Michael Friebe
Comparison of Compression Solutions for Impedance and Field Potential Signals of Cardiomyocytes
Pauline Guyot, Levy Batista, El-Hadi Djermoune, Jean-Marie Moureaux, Leo Doerr, Matthias Beckler, Thierry Bastogne
Study of Similarity Measures for Case-Based Reasoning in Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation
Hélène Feuillâtre, Vincent Auffret, Miguel Castro, Hervé Le Breton, Mireille Garreau, Pascal Haigron
Time-varying Acoustic Emission Characterization for Guidewire Coronary Artery Perforation Identification
Alfredo Illanes, Anna Schaufler, Iván Maldonado Zambrano, Axel Boese, Michael Friebe
Parsing HL7 aECG Files and Segmenting Leads for Interactive Progressive-based Interpretation of the 12-Lead Electrocardiogram
Andrew Cairns, Raymond Bond, Dewar Finlay, Daniel Guldenring, Aaron Peace, Fabio Badilini, Guido Libretti
Respiratory Frequency Estimation from Accelerometric Signals Acquired by Mobile Phone in a Controlled Breathing Protocol
Federica Landreani, Alba Martin, Claudia Casellato, Esteban Pavan, Carlo Frigo, Pierre-François Migeotte, Andrea Faini, Gianfranco Parati, Enrico Caiani
Cardiac-gated Slit Lamp Videography as a Novel Approach to Assessing a Microcirculatory Network
Paul F. Brennan, Dewar Finlay, Mark S Spence, Agnes Awuah, James McLaughlin, Johnny Moore, Andrew Nesbit, Emanuele Trucco, Ruixuan Wang, Tara Moore
A Practical Noise Stress Test to Assess Performance of Automated Photo-plethysmogram Analysis
Reza Firoozabadi, Saeed Babaeizadeh
Correlations of First and Second Heart Sounds with Age, Sex, and Body Mass Index
Bjarke Skogstad Larsen, Simon Winther, Morten Bøttcher, Louise Nissen, Johannes Struijk, Mads Græsbøll Christensen, Samuel Emil Schmidt
Imaging Photoplethysmography: a Real-time Signal Quality Index
Sibylle Fallet, Yann Schoenenberger, Lionel Martin, Fabian Braun, Virginie Moser, Jean-Marc Vesin
Wearable Pressure Sensor Array for Health Monitoring
Matti Kaisti, Joni Leppänen, Olli Lahdenoja, Pekka Kostiainen, Mikko Pänkäälä, Ulf Meriheinä, Tero Koivisto

6-7: Modelling Therapy

Study of the Behavior of Different Guidewire Shapes in a Patient-Specific Numerical Model for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation
Phuoc Vy, Vincent Auffret, Miguel Castro, Pierre Badel, Michel Rochette, Pascal Haigron, Stéphane Avril, Hervé Le Breton
Computer Modeling of Irrigated-tip Electrodes During RF Cardiac Ablation: Comparative Analysis between Including and Excluding the Problem of Fluid Dynamics
Ana González-Suárez, Juan J. Pérez, Enrique Berjano
Dual Extruder 3D-Bioprinter for Computer Designed Cardiac Structures
Ana Maria Sanchez de la Nava, Alejandro Liberos, Eduardo Gabriel Nieva, Ismael Hernández-Romero, Ana Simon Chica, María Eugenia Fernández-Santos, Felipe Atienza, Andreu M. Climent, Francisco Fernández-Avilés

6-8: Heart Rate Variability in Applications

Heart Rate Dynamics with the Applications into a Quantitative Evaluation of Improvements on Cardiac Stress Endurance after High Intensity Interval Training in Healthy Men
Szi-Wen Chen, Jiunn-Woei Liaw, Burt Chang
Nonlinear Heart Rate Variability Measures During the Oral Glucose Tolerance Test
Gilberto Perpiñan, Erika Severeyn, Sara Wong, Miguel Altuve
Analysis of Heart Rate Variability Indices after Selective Acute Atrial Ischemia in Humans
Pedro Gomis, Jesús Álvarez-García, Pere Caminal, Juan Cinca
The Effect of Haloperidol Administration on Heart Rate Variability in Isolated Heart of Schizophrenia-like and Control Rats
Oto Janousek, Tibor Stracina, Marina Ronzhina, Jakub Hejc, Tibor Stark, Jana Ruda, Vincenzo Micale, Jana Kolarova, Marie Novakova, Ivo Provaznik
Nonlinear Effects of Winter Swimming and Sauna Recreational Activities on the Heart Rate Variability
Ilya Potapov, Samuli Haverinen, Juhani Smolander, Jari Viik, Esa Räsänen
Analysis in Cardiac Stability over Thirty Minute Periods
Masaki Hoshiyama, Alan Murray
Effects of Respiratory-Gated Auricular Vagal Nerve Stimulation (RAVANS) on Nonlinear Heartbeat Dynamics of Hypertensive Patients
Ronald Garcia, Roberta Sclocco, Aileen Gabriel, Gaetano Valenza, Vitaly Napadow, Riccardo Barbieri
A Universal Method to Control Over-time Alterations of Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia in Short and Long Signals
Iga Grzegorczyk, Jan Gieraltowski, Pawel Krzesinski, Jan Zebrowski
Influence of Snack Intake on Cardiac Autonomic Nervous System in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
Saman Parvaneh, Amir Abdolahi, Mehrnoosh Arafati, Faezeh Naderi
Instantaneous Assessment of Hedonic Olfactory Perception Using Heartbeat Nonlinear Dynamics: a Preliminary Study
Alberto Greco, Mimma Nardelli, Antonio Lanata, Maria Sole Morelli, Fabio Di Francesco, Enzo Pasquale Scilingo, Riccardo Barbieri, Gaetano Valenza
Diagnosis of Sleep Apnea by Evaluating Points Distri?bution in Poincare Plot of RR Intervals
Shahab Rezaei, Sadaf Moharreri, Shadi Ghiasi, Saman Parvaneh

6-9: Challenge Posters I

Atrial Fibrillation Detection Using Feature Based Algorithm and Deep Conventional Neural Network
Shadi Ghiasi, Mostafa Abdollahpur, nasimalsadat madani, kamran kiyani, ali ghaffari
Densely Connected Convolutional Networks and Signal Quality Analysis to Detect Atrial Fibrillation Using Short Single-Lead ECG Recordings
Saman Parvaneh, Jonathan Rubin, Rahman Asif, Bryan Conroy, Saeed Babaeizadeh
Cardiac Arrhythmia Detection from ECG Combining Convolutional and Long Short-Term Memory Networks
Philip Warrick, Masun Nabhan Homsi
Combining Multi-source Features and Support Vector Machine for Heart Rhythm Classification
Chengyu Liu, Qiao Li, Pradyumna B Suresha, Gari Clifford
Atrial Fibrillation Detection Using Convolutional Neural Networks
Sandeep Chandra Bollepalli, S Sastry Challa, Soumya Jana, Shivnarayan Patidar
Robust Feature Extraction from Noisy ECG for Atrial Fibrillation Detection
Octavian Lucian Hasna, Rodica Potolea
Rhythm and Quality Classification from Short ECGs Recorded using a Mobile Device
Joachim A. Behar, Aviv Rosenberg, Yael Yaniv, Julien Oster
Arrhythmia Classification from the Abductive Interpretation of Short Single-Lead ECG Records
Tomas Teijeiro, Constantino A. Garcia, Daniel Castro, Paulo Félix
Fusing QRS Detection, Waveform Features, and Robust Interval Estimation with a Random Forest to Classify Atrial Fibrillation
Christoph Hoog Antink, Steffen Leonhardt, Marian Walter
ECG Classification Based on Time and Frequency Domain Features Using Random Forrests
Martin Kropf, Dieter Hayn, Günter Schreier
Detection of Atrial Fibrillation Episodes from Short Single Lead Recordings by Means of Ensemble Learning
Pietro Bonizzi, Kurt Driessens, Joel Karel
Identification of Features for Machine Learning Analysis for Automatic Arrhythmogenic Event Classification
Vadim Gliner, Yael Yaniv
AF Detection and ECG Classification based on Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network
Mohamed Limam, Frederic Precioso
SVM Based ECG Classification Using Rhythm and Morphology Features, Cluster Analysis and Multilevel Noise Estimation
Radovan Smíšek, Jakub Hejc, Marina Ronzhina, Andrea Nemcová, Lucie Maršánová, Jirí Chmelík, Jana Kolárová, Ivo Provazník, Lukáš Smital, Martin Vítek
Identifying Normal, AF and other Abnormal ECG Rhythms using a Cascaded Binary Classifier
Shreyasi Datta, Chetanya Puri, Ayan Mukherjee, Rohan Banerjee, Anirban Dutta Choudhury, Rituraj Singh, Arijit Ukil, Soma Bandyopadhyay, Arpan Pal, Sundeep Khandelwal
AF Classification from ECG Recording Using Feature Ensemble and Sparse Coding
Bradley Whitaker, Muhammed Rizwan, Burak Aydemir, James Rehg, David Anderson
Multi-parametric Analysis for Atrial Fibrillation Classification in the ECG
Ivaylo Christov, Vessela Krasteva, Iana Simova, Tatyana Neycheva, Ramun Schmid
ENCASE: an ENsemble ClASsifiEr for ECG Classification Using Expert Features and Deep Neural Networks
Shenda Hong, Meng Wu, Yuxi Zhou, Qingyun Wang, Junyuan Shang, Hongyan Li, Junqing Xie
Cardiac Rhythm Classification from a Short Single Lead ECG Recording via Random Forest
Ruhi Mahajan, Rishikesan Kamaleswaran, John Andrew Howe, Oguz Akbilgic
Diagnosis of AF Based on Time and Frequency Features by using a Hierarchical Classifier
Yang Liu, Kuanquan Wang, Qince Li, Runnan He, Yong Xia, Zhen Li, Hao Liu, Henggui Zhang
Computer-based Assessment of the Effects of Amiodarone on Short QT Syndrome Variant 1 in Human Ventricles
Cunjin Luo, Kuanquan Wang, Henggui Zhang, Yang Liu, Yong Xia

6-10: Previous Challenges

Noise Resistance of Several Top-Scored Heart Beat Detectors
Marcus Vollmer
A Data-Driven Feature Extraction Method for Enhanced Phonocardiogram Segmentation
Francesco Renna, Jorge Oliveira, Miguel Coimbra
Nonlinear Analysis of Heart Sounds for the Detection of Cardiac Disorders Using Recurrence Quantification Analysis
Shadi Ghiasi, Mostafa Abdollahpur, nasimalsadat madani, Ali Ghaffari
Reducing False Arrhythmia Alarms of Patient Monitoring Systems in the Intensive Care Units
Erdem Yanar, Yesim Serinagaoglu Dogrusoz

7-1: Imaging Cardiac Motion

3D Echocardiographic Optimization of Residual Native Myocardial Function in Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Devices
Diego Medvedofsky, Roberto Lang, Gabriel Sayer, Karima Addetia, Eric Kruse, Sirtaz Adatya, Gene Kim, Lynn Weinert, Megan Yamat, Nir Uriel, Victor Mor-Avi
Evaluation the Myocardial Motion at Scar Locations using 4D MDCT Cardiac Images
Weichih Hu, Hsuan-Ming Tsao
Comparison of Left Ventricular Curvedness Derived from CMR Imaging with the Wall Motion Score Index for Male Patients after First-time Myocardial Infarction
Soo Kng Teo, Xiao Dan Zhao, Ru San Tan, Liang Zhong, Yi Su
The Differential Meaning of LV and LA Strains in Aortic Valve Stenosis: A Feature Tracking MRI Study
Jérôme LAMY, Gilles Soulat, Morgane Evin, Khaoula Bouazizi-Verdier, Alain Giron, Alban Redheuil, Elie Mousseaux, Nadjia Kachenoura

7-2: Invasive Recordings and Atrial Fibrillation

Comparative Study of Methods for Atrial Fibrillation Cycle Length Estimation in Fractionated Electrograms
Diego I Osorio, Raul Alcaraz, José J Rieta
Phase Analysis of Endoatrial Electrograms for 3D Rotor Detection in Atrial Fibrillation
Maddalena Valinoti, Francesca Berto, Martino Alessandrini, Roberto Mantovan, Axel Loewe, Olaf Doessel, Stefano Severi, Cristiana Corsi
Persistent Atrial Fibrillation Hierarchical Activation: from Highest DF Sites to Wave Fractionation at the Boundaries
João Salinet, Fernando Schlindwein, Peter Stafford, Tiago Almeida, Xin Li, Frederique Vanheusden, Maria de la Salud Guillem Sánchez, G. André Ng
Spurious Rotor Detection During Atrial Fibrillation: Phase Singularities in Fact Reflect Blurred Conduction Block
Stef Zeemering, Piotr Podziemski, Pawel Kuklik, Arne van Hunnik, Bart Maesen, Ulrich Schotten
Deterministic Structures in Fractionated Atrial Electrograms During Human Persistent Atrial Fibrillation
Tiago Almeida, Fernando Schlindwein, João Salinet, Xin Li, Gavin Chu, Jiun Tuan, Peter Stafford, G. André Ng, Diogo Soriano
Level-set Method for Robust Analysis of Optical Mapping Recordings of Fibrillation
Daniel Gurevich, Conner Herndon, Ilija Uzelac, Flavio Fenton, Roman Grigoriev

7-3: ECG/EG-based Analysis

A Group Lasso Based Method for Automatic Physiological Rhythm Analysis
Rebeca Goya-Esteban, Óscar Barquero-Pérez, Carlos Figuera, Arcadi García-Alberola, Jose Luis Rojo-Alvarez
Effect of Extracellular Calcium Concentration on Controlling Cardiac Alternans
Shiuan-Ni Liang, Pik-Yin Lai
A Predictive Personalised Model for the Left Atrium
Cesare Corrado, Steven Williams, Gernot Plank, Mark O’Neill, Steven Niederer
A Fractionation-based Local Activation Wave Detector for Atrial Electrograms of Atrial Fibrillation
Diego I Osorio, Raul Alcaraz, José J Rieta

7-4: Heart Rate Variability

Impact of Nonstationarities on Short Heart Rate Variability Recordings During Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Vlasta Bari, Luca Faes, Davide Tonon, Beatrice De Maria, Giovanni Ranuzzi, Gianluca Rossato, Alberto Porta
Time-frequency Analysis of the Autonomic Response to Head-up Tilt Testing in Brugada Syndrome
Mireia Calvo, Virginie Le Rolle, Daniel Romero, Nathalie Béhar, Pedro Gomis, Philippe Mabo, Alfredo Hernández
Robust Pulse Rate Variability Analysis from Reflection and Transmission Photoplethysmographic Signals
Elena Peralta, Jesus Lazaro, Eduardo Gil, Raquel Bailón, Vaidotas Marozas
Comparison of Heart Rate Variability Assessment During Exercise from Polar RS800 and ECG
David Hernando, Nuria Garatachea, Jose Antonio Casajús, Raquel Bailón
Short- and Long-Range Correlations in Beat Rate Variability of Human Pluripotent-Stem-Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes
Jiyeong Kim, Jukka Kuusela, Katriina Aalto-Setälä, Esa Räsänen
Analysis of Heart Rate Variability Influence on Heart Rate Turbulence Using Boosted Regression Trees in Heart Failure Patients
Óscar Barquero-Pérez, Sandra Cantero, Rebeca Goya-Esteban, Carlos Figuera, Arcadi García-Alberoa, Jose Luis Rojo-Alvarez

7-5: Arrhythmias & Signal Processing

Evaluating the Risks of Arrhythmia through Big Data: Automatic Processing and Neural Networks to Classify Epicardial Electrograms
Carlos Ledezma, Benjamin Kappler, Veronique Meijborg, Bas Boukens, Marco Stijnen, PJ Tan, Vanessa Diaz-Zuccarini
Atrial Fibrillation Detection using Stationary Wavelet Transform and Deep Learning
Yong Xia, Naren Wulan, Kuanquan Wang, Henggui Zhang
Morphology-based Detection of Premature Ventricular Contractions
Rohit Hadia, Daniel Guldenring, Dewar Finlay, Alan Kennedy, Ghalib Janjua, Raymond Bond, James McLaughlin
Computational Evaluation of Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation Settings for Variable Atrial Tissue Depth and Blood Flow Conditions
Desmond Dillon-Murphy, David Nordsletten, Navjeevan Soor, Henry Chubb, Mark O'Neill, Adelaide de Vecchi, Oleg Aslanidi
Arrhythmia Classification in Long-Term Data Using Relative RR Intervals
Marcus Vollmer
A Four-Lead Real Time Arrhythmia Analysis Algorithm
Jianwei Su, Jian Dai, Zehong Guan, Zehui SUN, Wenyu Ye, Cadathur Rajagopalan

8-1: Cardiovascular Mechanics

The Influence of Right Ventricular Afterload in Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy: A CircAdapt Study
Clemens Zeile, Alexander Schmeisser, Thomas Rauwolf, Tobias Weber, Sebastian Sager
Model-based Estimation of Internal Heart Power in Aortic Valve Disease Patients.
Matthias Gsell, Gernot Plank
Novel non-invasive Pressure-Volume Loop measurement for local Pulse Wave Velocity estimation
Ghalib Muhammad Waqas Janjua, Dewar Finlay, Daniel Guldenring, Rohit Hadia, James Mclaughlin
Non-invasive Technique for Determining Local PWV in the Human Ascending Aorta
Madalina Negoita, Alun D Hughes, Kim H Parker, Ashraf W Khir

8-2: Repolarization

T-Wave Alternans Identification in Direct Fetal Electrocardiography
Ilaria Marcantoni, Marica Vagni, Angela Agostinelli, Agnese Sbrollini, Micaela Morettini, Luca Burattini, Francesco Di Nardo, Sandro Fioretti, Laura Burattini
Theoretical Assessment of a Repolarization Time Marker Based on the Intracardiac Bipolar Electrogram
Michele Orini, Stefan van Duijvenboden, Neil Srinivasan, Malcolm Finlay, Peter Taggart, Pier Lambiase
T-wave Morphology Restitution Dependency with Heart Rate Range and Its Association with Sudden Cardiac Death in Chronic Heart Failure
Julia Ramírez, Michele Orini, Esther Pueyo, Pablo Laguna
Assessment of Spatial Heterogeneity of Ventricular Repolarization after Quinidine in Healthy Subjects
Valentina Corino, Roberto Sassi, Luca Mainardi, Massimo Rivolta
The Effects of 0.67 Hz High-pass Filtering on the Spatial QRS-T Angle
Daniel Guldenring, Dewar D Finlay, Alan Kennedy, Raymond R Bond, James McLaughlin
Comparison of ECG T-wave Duration and Morphology Restitution Markers for Sudden Cardiac Death Prediction in Chronic Heart Failure
Julia Ramírez, Michele Orini, Esther Pueyo, Pablo Laguna

8-3: Heart and Thorax Modelling

Statistical Variations of Heart Orientation in Healthy Adults
Freddy Odille, Shufang Liu, Peter van Dam, Jacques Felblinger
Solving Inaccuracies in the Heart Position and Orientation for Inverse Solution by Using Electrical Information
Miguel Rodrigo, Andreu M. Climent, Alejandro Liberos, Ismael Hernández-Romero, Angel Arenal, Javier Bermejo, Francisco Fernandez-Aviles, Felipe Atienza, Maria de la Salud Guillem Sánchez
Role of Myocardial Properties and Pacing Lead Location on ECG in Personalized Paced Heart Models
Konstantin Ushenin, Arseniy Dokuchaev, Sonya Magomedova, Oleg Sopov, Vitaly Kalinin, Olga Solovyova
Patient-specific Parameterization of Left-ventricular Model of Cardiac Electrophysiology using Electrocardiographic Recordings
Karli Gillette, Anton Prassl, Jason Bayer, Edward Vigmond, Aurel Neic, Gernot Plank
A New, Low-Energy Defibrillation Strategy: Use of Multiple Electric Field Directions to Reshape Scroll Wave Filaments
Kayleigh Wheeler, Valentin Krinski, Niels Otani

8-4: Sleep Apnea

Assessing Cardiovascular Comorbidities in Sleep Apnea Patients Using SpO2
Margot Deviaene, Carolina Varon, Dries Testelmans, Bertien Buyse, Sabine Van Huffel
Sleep Questionnaires in Screening for Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Joachim A. Behar, Niclas Palmius, Jonathan Daly, Qiao Li, Fabiola Rizzatti, Lia Bittencourt, Gari D. Clifford
Instantaneous Time Course of Autonomic-Cardiovascular Response to Short-Term Hypoxia in Healthy Subjects: a Time-Frequency Analysis Approach
Salvador Carrasco-Sosa, Alejandra Guillén-Mandujano
Overnight T-Wave Alternans in Sleep Apnea Patients
Laura Burattini, Ilaria Ciotti, Michela D'Ignazio, Alessandro Miccoli, Angela Agostinelli, Agnese Sbrollini, Micaela Morettini, Francesco Di Nardo, Sandro Fioretti

8-5: ECG Analysis

Electrocardiographic P-wave Delineation Based on Adaptive Slope Gaussian Detection
Francisco González, Raul Alcaraz, José J Rieta
AThrIA: a New Adaptive Threshold Identification Algorithm for Electrocardiographic P Waves
Agnese Sbrollini, Sofia Mercanti, Angela Agostinelli, Micaela Morettini, Francesco Di Nardo, Sandro Fioretti, Laura Burattini
Modeling Cardiovascular Condition Evolution in Hypertensive Population Using Graph Signal Processing
Antonio G. Marques, Cristina Soguero-Ruiz, Javier Ramos, Inmaculada Mora-Jiménez, Rebeca Goya-Esteban, Rafael García-Carretero, Óscar Barquero-Pérez
Quantification of hERG Block from the ECG
Johan De Bie, Brian Chiu, David Mortara, Cristiana Corsi, Stefano Severi
ECG Artefact Detection Using Ensemble Decision Trees
Jonathan Moeyersons, Carolina Varon, Dries Testelmans, Bertien Buyse, Sabine Van Huffel
Model-based Delineation of Non-Uniformly Sampled ECG Signals
Thomas Niederhauser, Andreas Haeberlin, Barbara Jesacher, Andreas Fischer, Hildegard Tanner

9-1: ECG Imaging III

Spatial Distribution and Orientation of a Single Moving Dipole Computed in 12-Lead ECGs in a Healthy Population Using a Spherically Bounded Model
Vito Starc, Cees A. Swenne
Influence of Body-Surface Geometry Accuracy on Noninvasive Reconstruction of Electrical Activation and Recovery in Electrocardiographic Imaging
Matthijs Cluitmans, Paul Volders
How Accurately Can the Method of Fundamental Solutions Solve the Inverse Problem of Electrocardiology?
Peter Johnston
ECG Imaging of Simulated Atrial Fibrillation: Imposing Epi-Endocardial Similarity Facilitates the Reconstruction of Transmembrane Voltages
Steffen Schuler, Danila Potyagaylo, Olaf Doessel
Including a Priori Knowledge in the Solution of the Inverse Problem During Atrial Fibrillation
Víctor Suárez-Gutiérrez, Miguel Ángel Cámara, Óscar Barquero-Pérez, Ismael Hernández-Romero, Maria de la Salud Guillem Sánchez, Andreu M. Climent, Felipe Alonso-Atienza, Carlos Figuera

9-2: Cardiac Mechanics & Heart Failure

The Effect of Mitochondria in Intracellular Calcium Dynamics in Cardiomyocytes: a Simulation Study
Ainhoa Asensio, Jose M Ferrero
Ionic Modulation of Calcium Dynamics in Simulated Human Heart Failure
Maria Teresa Mora, Jose M Ferrero, Beatriz Trenor
The Role of the Ina-Ik1 Complex on Human Ventricular Conduction Velocity
Peter Marinov, Alfonso Bueno-Orovio, Blanca Rodriguez
Differential Responses to Beta-Adrenergic Stimulation in the Long QT Syndrome Type 1: Characterization and Mechanisms
David Adolfo Sampedro-Puente, Jesus Fernandez-Bes, Esther Pueyo
Investigation of the Presence and Mechanisms of Action Potential Alternans in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Aurore Lyon, Ana Mincholé, Elisa Passini, Blanca Rodriguez

9-3: Databases & Algorithm Development

L1 Penalized Cox Regression to Characterize Cardiovascular Events in Hypertensive Patients
Rafael García-Carretero, Óscar Barquero-Pérez, Inmaculada Mora-Jiménez, Cristina Soguero-Ruiz, Rebeca Goya-Esteban, Antonio G. Marques, Javier Ramos
Towards Heart Sound Classification Without Segmentation Using Convolutional Neural Network
Wenjie Zhang, Jiqing Han
The Physionet QT Database: Study on the Reliability of P-wave Manual Annotations under Noisy Recordings
Francisco González, Raul Alcaraz, José J Rieta
A Review of Basic Statistical Concepts used in Clinical Test Interpretation and Decision Support
John Wang
Semi-Supervised One-Class Transfer Learning for Heart Rate Based Epileptic Seizure Detection
Thomas De Cooman, Carolina Varon, Anouk Van de Vel, Berten Ceulemans, Lieven Lagae, Sabine Van Huffel
Semantic Biomarker Selection for Functional Genomics of Heart Failure Model Organisms
Ludwig Lausser, Steffen Just, Wolfgang Rottbauer, Hans Kestler

9-4: Heart Rate Analysis

The Periodic Repolarization Dynamics Index Identifies Changes in Ventricular Repolarization Oscillations Associated with Music-Induced Emotions
Giuiano Cerruto, Luca Mainardi, Srefan Koelsch, Michele Orini
Altered Central Cardiovascular Network Pattern in Neuropathological Disease – Application of the Three Dimensional High Resolution Joint Symbolic Dynamics
Steffen Schulz, Minia Ricoy Castro, Beatriz Giraldo, Jens Haueisen, Karl-Juergen Baer, Andreas Voss
Inspiration and Expiration Dynamics in Acute Emotional Stress Assessment
Javier Milagro, Eduardo Gil, Jorge Mario Garzón Rey, Jordi Aguiló, Raquel Bailón
Intrapartum Fetal-State Classification Using Long Short-Term Memory Neural Networks
Philip Warrick, Emily Hamilton
Types of Interference Effects on the Autonomic-Cardiovascular Response to the Simultaneous Performance of Active Orthostatic and Cold Face Tests
Salvador Carrasco-Sosa, Alejandra Guillén-Mandujano, Aldo R. Mejía-Rodríguez
Removal of Respiratory Influences from Heart Rate During Emotional Stress
Carolina Varon, Jesus Lazaro, Alberto Hernando Sanz, Alexander Caicedo, Sabine Van Huffel, Raquel Bailón

10-1: ECG in Exercise and Ischemia

ECG as a Tool to Estimate Potassium and Calcium Concentrations in the Extracellular Space
Nicolas Pilia, Olaf Doessel, Gustavo Lenis, Axel Loewe
The STAFF III Database: ECGs Recorded During Acutely Induced Myocardial Ischemia
Juan Pablo Martínez, Olle Pahlm, Michael Ringborn, Stafford Warren, Pablo Laguna, Leif Sornmo
QRS Fragmentation Index as a New Discriminator for Early Diagnosis of Heart Diseases
Francisco-Manuel Melgarejo-Meseguer, Mariela Salar-Alcaraz, Zaida Molins-Bordallo, Francisco-Javier Gimeno-Blanes, Estrella Everss Villalba, Jose-Antonio Flores-Yepes, Jose Luis Rojo-Alvarez, Arcadi Garcia-Alberola
Using Generalised Polynomial Chaos to Examine Various Parameters in a Half-ellipsoidal Ventricular Model of Partial Thickness Ischaemia
Barbara Johnston, Peter Johnston
Detecting Ischemic Stress to the Myocardium Using Laplacian Eigenmaps and Changes to Conduction Velocity
Wilson Good, Burak Erem, Jaume Coll-Font, Dana Brooks, Rob MacLeod

10-2: Photoplethysmography & Sensor Technology

A Two Step Gaussian Modelling to Assess PPG Morphological Variability Induced by Psychological Stress
Swati Banerjee, Raquel Bailón, Jesus Lazaro, Vaidotas Marozas, Pablo Laguna, Eduardo Gil
Detecting Episodes of Brady- and Tachycardia Using Photo-plethysmography at the Wrist in Free-living Conditions
Alberto Bonomi, Linda M. Eerikäinen, Fons Schipper, Ronald Aarts, Helma de Morree, Lukas Dekker
Impact of Mixed Media on Transfer Functions with a Pacemaker System for Estimation of RF Heating During MRI Scans
Xiaoyi Min, Shiloh Sison
Pulse Photoplethysmography Derived Respiration for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Detection
Jesus Lazaro, Eduardo Gil, Margot Deviaene, Raquel Bailón, Dries Testelmans, Bertien Buyse, Carolina Varon, Sabine Van Huffel
Sleep Insights from the Finger Tip: How Photoplethysmography Can Help Quantify Sleep
Shuli Eyal, Anda Baharav

10-3: Cardiovascular Responses

Progressive Fetal Distress Estimation by Characterization of Fetal Heart Rate Decelerations Response Based on Signal Variability in Cardiotocographic Recordings.
Patricio Fuentealba, Alfredo Illanes, Frank Ortmeier
Stratifying the Risk of Developing Atrial Fibrillation after Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery Using Heart Rate Asymmetry Indexes
Giovanni Ranuzzi, Vlasta Bari, Beatrice De Maria, Valeria Pistuddi, Marco Ranucci, Alberto Porta
Pulse Arrival Time Accurately Detects Pacing-Induced Mechanical Alternans
Stefan van Duijvenboden, Nick Child, Ben Hanson, Jaswinder Gill, Peter Taggart, Michele Orini
Influence of U-shape Accelerations of Heart Rate on Very Low Frequency Band and Heart Rate Multifractality
Mateusz Solinski, Jan Gieraltowski, Jan Zebrowski, Pawel Kuklik
Significant Physiological Features to Identify High Performance States
María Dolores Pelaez Coca, María Teresa Lozano Albalate, Montserrat Aiger, Alberto Hernando, Eduardo Gil
Autonomic Nervous System Non-stationary Response to Hyperbaric Environments
Carlos Sánchez, María Dolores Pelaez Coca, María Teresa Lozano Albalate, Alberto Hernando, Montserrat Aiger, Eduardo Gil

10-4: Noninvasive Characterization of Atrial Fibrillation

Noninvasive Characterization of Short- and Long-Term Recurrence of Atrial Signals During Persistent Atrial Fibrillation
Pietro Bonizzi, Stef Zeemering, Joël Karel, Muhammad Haziq Kamarul Azman, Theo Lankveld, Ulrich Schotten, Harry Crijns, Ralf Peeters, Olivier Meste
P-wave Analysis in Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation Patients before and after Pulmonary Vein Isolation
Nuria Ortigosa, Óscar Cano
A Patient-Specific Methodology for Prediction of Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation Onset
Elisabetta De Giovanni, Amir Aminifar, Adrian Luca, Sasan Yazdani, Jean-Marc Vesin, David Atienza
Preliminary Results from Clinical Validation Study of a Method for Non-Invasive Assessment of Atrioventricular Node Refractoriness During Atrial Fibrillation
Frida Sandberg, Valentina Corino, Leif Sornmo, Pyotr Platonov, Fredrik Holmqvist

11-1: Cardiovascular Imaging

Characterization of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy using Left Ventricular Regional Wall Thickness derived from CMR Imaging
Soo Kng Teo, Xiao Dan Zhao, Ru San Tan, Liang Zhong, Yi Su
Lumen Border Segmentation at Intravascular Ultrasound Images Using Fuzzy Compound Approach
Mehdi Eslamizadeh, Gholamreza Attarodi, Nader Jafarnia Dabanloo, Javid Farhadi Sedehi, Seyed Kamaledin Setarehdan

11-2: Cardiovascular Mechanics

Impact of Interventricular Lead Distance on Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Outcomes.
Tatiana Chumarnaya, Maria Trifanova, Tamara Lyubimtseva, Viktoria Lebedeva, Ivan Poroshin, Maria Trukshina, Dmitry Lebedev, Olga Solovyova
Experimental Method for Recording Epicardium Potentials and Cardiac Myocyte Shortening
Gustavo Shimabukuro Marchini, Daniel Seiei Uehara Tamashiro, Helena T Oyama, Lucas Cortella, Ismar Newton Cestari, Idágene Aparecida Cestari
Progression towards Heart Failure after Myocardial Infarction Is Accompanied by a Change in the Spatial QRS-T Angle
Marjolein C. De Jongh, Agnese Sbrollini, Arie C. Maan, Enno T. Van der Velde, M.J. Schalij, Cees A. Swenne
Analysis of Hemodynamic Related Changes in High Frequency Content of QRS Complex in Working Isolated Rabbit Heart
Petra Novotna, Jakub Hejc, Marina Ronzhina, Oto Janousek, Tibor Stracina, Veronika Olejnickova, Jana Kolarova, Marie Novakova
Application of Cardiac Impedance Signal in the Reservoir-Wave Model of Circulatory System in Humans
Marek Zylinski, Wiktor Niewiadomski, Marta Sadowiec, Marcel Mlynczak, Gerard Cybulski
Central Hemodynamic Variability During Sleep in Subjects with and without Atrial Fibrillation
Michal Sitarek, Gerard Cybulski, Anna Gasiorowska, Ewa Ziólkowska, Wiktor Niewiadomski, Anna Strasz

11-3: ECG Miscellaneous

Human Activity Recognition for Physical Rehabilitation Using Wearable Sensors Fusion and Artificial Neural Networks
Eliasz Kantoch
Biometrics via Spatial P-QRS-T Loop Features: Effect of Different VCG Transformations
Vessela Krasteva, Irena Jekova, Ramun Schmid
Automatic Registration of 3D Camera Recording to Model for Leads Localization
Samir Alioui, Martim Kastelein, Eelco van Dam, Peter van Dam
An ECG Web Services Portal for Standard and Serial ECG Analysis with Enhanced 3D Graphical Capabilities
Jocelyne Fayn, Paul Rubel
Electrophysiological Effects on Renal Ischaemia/Reperfusion-Induced Cardiac Hypertrophy
Karine Panico, Giovanni Weber, Marcela S. Carneiro-Ramos, João Salinet
Beat-to-beat T-peak-T-end Interval Duration Variability Assessed by RR-Interval Histogram Analysis in Healthy Sedentary and Athlete
Olivassé Nasario-Junior, Paulo Roberto Benchimol-Barbosa, Jurandir Nadal
Estimation and Removal of T Wave Component in Atrial Flutter ECG to Aid Non-Invasive Localization of Ectopic Source
Muhammad Haziq Kamarul Azman, Olivier Meste, Kushsairy Kadir, Decebal Gabriel Latcu
Quantitative Measurement of Respiratory Split in the Second Heart Sound
Hong Tang, Huaming Chen, Ting Li
Heart Rate Recovery in Brugada Syndrome: a Bi-exponential Approach for Assessing Parasympathetic Reactivation after Submaximal Exercise
Daniel Romero, Nathalie Behar, Philippe Mabo, Alfredo Hernandez

11-4: Ventricular Modelling

Intracellular Calcium Regulation in Canine Ventricular Myocytes: a Simulation Study
Estefania Renu, Jose M Ferrero
Effects of Small Conductance Calcium Activated Potassium Channels in Cardiac Myocytes
Angelina Peñaranda, Blas Echebarria, Enrique Alvarez-Lacalle, Inmaculada R. Cantalapiedra
Dimension Reduction for the Emulation of Cardiac Electrophysiology Models for Single Cells and Tissue
Brodie Lawson, Chris Drovandi, Pamela Burrage, Blanca Rodriguez, Kevin Burrage
Effects of Quinidine on Short QT Syndrome Variant 2 in the Human Ventricles: a Modelling Study
Cunjin Luo, Kuanquan Wang, Henggui Zhang, Yang Liu, Yong Xia
Ranolazine Attenuates Stretch-induced Modifications of Electrophysiological Characteristics in HL-1 Cells
Irene Del-Canto, Lidia Gomez-Cid, Ismael Hernandez-Romero, María S Guillem, Maria Eugenia Fernández-Santos, Luis Such, Francisco Fernández-Avilés, Felipe Atienza, Francisco J Chorro, Andreu M Climent
One-dimensional Simulation of Alternating Conduction under Hyperkalaemic Conditions
Jiaqi Liu, Yuan Gao, Yinglan Gong, Ling Xia, Wenlong Xu, Mingfeng Jiang, Gangmin Ning
A Big Data Approach to Myocyte Membrane Analysis: Using Populations of Models to Understand the Cellular Causes of Heart Failure
Carlos Ledezma, Benjamin Kappler, Veronique Meijborg, Bas Boukens, Marco Stijnen, PJ Tan, Vanessa Diaz-Zuccarini
Estimation of Location and Activation Time of Purkinje Myocardial Junctions from Sparse and Noisy Endocardial Electrical Samples
Fernando Barber, Miguel Lozano, Ignacio Garcia, Rafael Sebastian
Modelling Stochastic Calcium Waves in Cardiac Myocytes Based on the Two-Pool CICR Model
Serife Arif, Choi-Hong Lai, Nadarajah Ramesh

11-5: Heart Rate Variability

Emotion Recognition Using Parabolic Phase Space ?Mapping for Heart Rate Variability Analysis
Shahab Rezaei, Sadaf Moharreri, Shadi Ghiasi, Saman Parvaneh
Changes of Permutation Pattern Entropy and Ordinal Pattern Entropy During Three Emotion States: Natural, Happiness and Sadness
Yirong Xia, Licai Yang, Hongyu Shi, Yuan Zhuang, Chengyu Liu
Respiration-Guided Analysis of Pulse and Heart Rate Variabilities for Acute Emotional Stress Assessment
Jorge Mario Garzón Rey, Jesus Lazaro, Javier Milagro, Eduardo Gil, Jordi Aguilo, Raquel Bailón
Linking Changes in Heart Rate Variability to Mood Changes in Daily Life
Oliver Carr, Fernando Andreotti, Kate Saunders, Amy Bilderbeck, Guy Goodwin, Maarten De Vos
Heart Rate Asymmetry in Response to Colored Light
Saman Parvaneh, Nader Jafarnia Dabanloo, Shahab Rezaei, Sadaf Moharreri, Nima Toosizadeh
New Feature Set for Better Representation of Dynamic of RR Intervals in Poincare Plot ?
Sadaf Moharreri, Nader Jafarnia Dabanloo, Shahab Rezaei, Saman Parvaneh
Using Distances to Classify Recordings of Young and Elderly Subjects
Stavroula Vlachothanasi, George Manis

11-6: Blood Pressure

Non-Invasive Detection of Intracranial Hypertension Using Random Forests
Federico Wadehn, Thomas Heldt, Dario Walser, Marek Czosnyka, Michal Bohdanowicz
Comparison of Systolic Period Duration Using Aortic Flow or Pressure Based Methods in Anesthetized Patients
Arthur Le Gall, Alexandre Laurin, Fabrice Vallee, Denis Chemla
Design and Implementation of a Non-invasive and Cuff-less Arterial Blood Pressure Monitoring System
Seyed Mohsen Anvari, Amir Hosein Kayvanpour, Mojtaba Jafari Tadi, Tero Koivisto, Mohammadreza Yazdchi, Seyed Mohammad Hasan Nayebpour
Pulse Interval Modulation-based Method to Extract the Respiratory Rate from Oscillometric Cuff Pressure Waveform During Blood Pressure Measurement
Yihan Gui, Fei Chen, Alan Murray, Dingchang Zheng
Spatial Characterization of Hypertension Clusters using a Rural Australian Clinical Database
Rachel Whitsed, Ana Horta, Faezeh Marzbanrad, Herbert F Jelinek
Characterization of a Carotid Distension Waveform from Audio Signal Acquired with a Stethoscope
Iván Maldonado Zambrano, Alfredo Illanes, Axel Boese, Michael Friebe
Coupling Analysis for Systolic, Diastolic and RR Interval Time Series Using Multivariable Fuzzy Measure Entropy
Lina Zhao, Shoushui Wei, Hong Tang, Chengyu Liu

11-7: System Analysis in Fetal and Pre-term Populations

Fetal Phonocardiogram Denoising by Wavelet Transformation: Robustness to Noise
Agnese Sbrollini, Annachiara Strazza, Manila Caragiuli, Claudia Mozzoni, Selene Tomassini, Angela Agostinelli, Micaela Morettini, Sandro Fioretti, Francesco Di Nardo, Laura Burattini
Effect of Chronic Hypoxia on Autonomic Nervous System of Fetal Mice
Ahsan Khandoker, Thuraia Al Khoori, Takahiro Minato, Takuya Ito, Yoshitaka Kimura
An Algorithm for Risk Stratification of Preterm Infants
Venkata Naga Sai Apurupa Amperayani, Premananda Indic, Colm Travers, Riccardo Barbieri, David Paydarfar, Namasivayam Ambalavanan
Quantification of Fetal ST-Segment Deviations
Angela Agostinelli, Mariachiara Di Cosmo, Agnese Sbrollini, Luca Burattini, Micaela Morettini, Francesco Di Nardo, Sandro Fioretti, Laura Burattini
Analyzing Fetal and Maternal Cardiorespiratory Interactions During Labor
Faezeh Marzbanrad, Gari Clifford

11-8: Atrial Fibrillation

Classification of Atrial Fibrillation in Short-term ECG Recordings Using a Machine Learning Approach and Hybrid QRS Detection
Joanna Rymko, Mateusz Solinski, Anna Perka, Jacek Rosinski, Michal Lepek
Experimental Study of Atrial Fibrillation Cycle Length During Rapid Atrial Septal Pacing
Adrian Luca, Sasan Yazdani, Jean-Marc Vesin, Nathalie Virag
Spectral Analysis of the ECG to Guide Optimal Endpoint in Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation
Raul Alcaraz, Fernando Hornero, José J Rieta

11-9: Challenge Posters II

Atrial Fibrillation Screening through Combined Timing Features of Short Single-Lead Electrocardiograms
Manuel García, Juan Ródenas, Raul Alcaraz, José J Rieta
Atrial Fibrillation Detection Using Feedforward Neural Networks and Automatically Extracted Signal Features
Santiago Jiménez-Serrano, Jaime Yagüe-Mayans, Elena Simarro-Mondejar, Conrado J. Calvo, Francisco Castells, José Millet Roig
Detection of Atrial Fibrillation Using Decision Tree Ensemble
Guangyu Bin, Minggang Shao, Guanghong Bin, Jiao Huang, Dingchang Zheng, Shuicai Wu
A Hierarchical Cardiac Rhythm Classification Methodology Based on Electrocardiogram Fiducial Points
Dionisije Sopic, Elisabetta De Giovanni, Amir Aminifar, David Atienza
Detection of AF and Other Rhythms Using RR Variability and ECG Spectrum Measures
Lucia Billeci, Franco Chiarugi, Magda Costi, David Lombardi, Maurizio Varanini
Arrhythmia Classification via Time and Frequency Domain Analyses of Ventricular and Atrial Contractions
Irena Jekova, Todor Stoyanov, Ivan Dotsinsky
Combining Template-based and Feature-based Classification to Detect Atrial Fibrillation from a Short Single Lead ECG Recording
Matthieu Da Silva-Filarder, Faezeh Marzbanrad
Can Supervised Learning Be Used to Classify Cardiac Rhythms?
Marcus Vollmer, Philipp Sodmann, Leonard Caanitz, Neetika Nath, Lars Kaderali
Identification of AF and Other Cardiac Arrhythmias from a Single-lead ECG Using Dynamic Time Warping
Maria Tziakouri, Costas Pitris, Christina Orphanidou
Automated Detection of Atrial Fbrillation using Fourier-Bessel expansion and Teager Energy Operator from Electrocardiogram Signals
Shivnarayan Patidar, Ashish Sharma, Niranjan Garg
Atrial Fibrillation Classification Using QRS Complex Features and LSTM
Vykintas Maknickas, Algirdas Maknickas
Atrial Fibrillation Classification from a Short Single Lead ECG Recording Using Hierarchical Classifier
Erin Coppola, Prashnna Gyawali, Nihar Vanjara, Daniel Giaime, Linwei Wang
Electrocardiogram Classification -- a Human Expert Way
Heikki Väänänen, Jarno Mäkelä
Classification of ECG Recordings with Neural Networks Based on Specific Morphological Features and Regularity of the Signal
Katarzyna Stepien, Iga Grzegorczyk

12-1: Challenge II

Comparing Feature Based Classifiers and Convolutional Neural Networks to Detect Arrhythmia from Short Segments of ECG
Fernando Andreotti, Oliver Carr, Marco A F Pimentel, Adam Mahdi, Maarten De Vos
Classification of Atrial Fibrillation Using Multidisciplinary Features and Gradient Boosting
Andrew Goodwin, Sebastian Goodfellow, Danny Eytan, Robert Greer, Mjaye Mazwi, Peter Laussen, Sebastian Goodfellow
Beat by Beat: Classifying Cardiac Arrhythmias with Recurrent Neural Networks
Patrick Schwab, Gaetano Claudio Scebba, Jia Zhang, Marco Delai, Walter Karlen
Automatic Detection of Atrial Fibrillation and Other Arrhythmias in Holter ECG Recordings using PQRS Morphology and Rhythm Features
Filip Plesinger, Petr Nejedly, Ivo Viscor, Josef Halamek, Pavel Jurak

12-2: Special Session: Clinical Guidelines in e-Health: Where do we stand?

Remote ECG Interpretation: Guidelines and their Implementation
Iana Simova, Milen Predovski, Ivaylo Christov, Dimitar Simov

12-3: Special Session: Electrocardiographic Imaging: Challenges in Clinical Evaluation and Validation

Overcoming Barriers to Quantification and Comparison of Electrocardiographic Imaging Methods: a Community-Based Approach
Jwala Dhamala, Jaume Coll-Font, Jess Tate, Maria de la Salud Guillem Sánchez, Dana Brooks, Linwei Wang, Rob MacLeod, Sandesh Ghimire
Analyzing Source Sampling to Reduce Error in ECG Forward Simulations
Jess Tate, Karli Gillette, Brett Burton, Wilson Good, Jaume Coll-Font, Dana Brooks, Rob MacLeod

12-4: Special Session: Understanding the Mechanisms of Atrial Fibrillation using Novel Computational Approaches

Stability of Conduction Patterns in Persistent Atrial Fibrillation
Pawel Kuklik, Benjamin Schäffer, Ruken Ö Akbulak, Mario Jularic, Christiane Jungen, Jana Nuehrich, Niklas Klatt, Christian Eickholt, Christian Meyer, Stephan Willems
The Combination of Pulmonary Vein Electrophysiology and Atrial Fibrosis Determines Driver Location
Caroline Roney, Jason Bayer, Rémi Dubois, Marianna Meo, Hubert Cochet, Pierre Jaïs, Edward Vigmond
The Efficacy of Class III Anti-arrhythmic Drug Action in 3D Canine Atrial Models: Is the Blockade of IKCa Pro- or Anti-arrhythmic?
Marta Varela, Purwa Dar, Jules Hancox, Oleg Aslanidi
A Computational Framework to Benchmark Basket Catheter Guided Ablation
Martino Alessandrini, Maddalena Valinoti, Axel Loewe, Tobias Oesterlein, Olaf Doessel, Cristiana Corsi, Stefano Severi

13: Closing Plenary

The VED Meter - a New Tool to Measure the Ventricular Conduction Abnormalities in Heart Failure Patients
Filip Plesinger, Pavel Jurak, Josef Halamek, Pavel Leinveber, Scott McNitt, Arthur J. Moss, Wojciech Zareba, Jean-Pilippe Couderc
Tolerance to Spikes: a Comparison of Sample and Bubble Entropy
George Manis, Roberto Sassi
Effects of Fibroblasts coupling on the Electrophysiology of Cardiomyocytes from Different Regions of the Human Atrium: a Simulation Study
Gunnar Seemann, Axel Loewe, Eike M. Wülfers