Computing in Cardiology 2010
Scientific Program

Follow the links below for abstracts of all papers presented at CinC 2010. Preprints of many full papers are also available.

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: Jennifer Adgey, 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, Gerard 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

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: Adriaan van Oosteroom

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: Pablo Laguna, 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
Devy Widjaja*, Joachim Taelman, Steven Vandeput, Marijke Braeken, RA Otte, Bea Van den Bergh and Sabine Van Huffel

Tuesday, September 28, 2010
8:00
S33
Cardiovascular MRI
Chairs: Rob McLeod, Phillip Morrow

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

Feasibility of a Novel Approach for 3D Mitral Valve Quantification from Magnetic Resonance Images
Francesco Maffessanti*, Marco Stevanella, Emiliano Votta, 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, Frédérique Frouin and Elie Mousseaux

Tuesday, September 28, 2010
8:00
S34
Ventricular Cell Modeling and Ischemia
Chairs: Colin Jamison, Peter van Dam

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 Rodríguez 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
Chairs: Stefan Nelwan, Peter Donnelly

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 Plößnig, Mustafa Yuksel, Gokce Banu Laleci Eturkmen, Christian Lüpkes, 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, Kawal Rhode and Gang Gao*

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: Michael Daly, 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
Chairs: Peter Macfarlane, Dewar Finlay

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

Intracardiac Electrophysiology: Cellular Modelling of Abnormal Repolarisation
Blanca Rodríguez*

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: Jim McLaughlin, Richard Gregg

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

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

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
Chairs: John Wang, John Anderson

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*

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

Reconstruction of Missing Cardiovascular Signals using Adaptive Filtering
Andras Hartmann*

Tuesday, September 28, 2010
14:00
S64
System Modeling & Instrumentation
Chair: Anthony Fisher, Sally McClean

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, Nenad Filipovic and Kostas Stefanou

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 Hernández

Semi-Automated Extraction of Canine Left Ventricular Purkinje Fiber Network
Kuanquan Wang*, Jie Li, 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: A Validation Study
Antoun Khawaja*, Ratko Petrovic, Anton Safer, Tobias Baas, Olaf Dössel and Ronald Fischer

Torsadogenic Drug-Induced Increased Short-term Variability of JT-area
Xiao Jie*, Blanca Rodríguez 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 Dössel

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

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

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

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, Cathal Breen

An Automatic Media-Adventitia Border Segmentation Approach 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: Chema Ferrero, Leif Sörnmo

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

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

Patient-Specific Correlation of Perfusion Defects to Coronary Arteries
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 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

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

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

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

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

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
Tsu-Wang Shen, Chih-Hsien Wang*, Yi-Ling Ou 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*, Nicos 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

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

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

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

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

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 Sáiz

A Biophysical Model of Atrial Fibrillation to Simulate the Maze III Ablation Pattern
Catalina Tobon, Karen Cardona*, Jose Felix Rodríguez, 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 Rodríguez and Javier Sáiz

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*

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

Tuesday, September 28, 2010
17:30
P87
New and Noteworthy Posters

Time-Frequency Analysis of Cardio-Respiratory Response to Mental Task Execution
Luigi Yuri Di Marco*, Roberto Sottile, Lorenzo Chiari

Wednesday, September 29, 2010
8:30
S91
Algorithms and Signal Processing
Chairs: Daniel Guldenring, 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*, Antoun Khawaja 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: Raymond Bond, 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: Sheryl Prucka, Ling Xia

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, Raquel Bailón and Pablo Laguna*

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 Dössel, 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
Chairs: Willi Kaiser, Paul Kligfield

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

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
Chairs: Leo Galway, Declan Bogan

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*

Wednesday, September 29, 2010
10:30
SA4
Ventricular Cell Modeling
Chair: Blanca Rodríguez, Harold Ostrow

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*, Hitesh Mistry, Leyla Hussein, Najah Abi-Gerges, Chris Pollard and Jonathan Swinton

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* and Niels Otani

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

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, Frédérique Frouin and Elodie Roullot

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

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
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 Nováková, Peter Scheer, Ivo Provazník and Jana Kolářová

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

Heart Rate Variability of 10yrs Normal and Intrauterine Growth Restriction Children under Passive Smoking Conditions during Pregnancy Using Poincaré Plots
Taher Biala*, Michael Dodge, FS Schlindwein and Michael Wailoo

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, Zoran Lukić, Vlado Delic and Tatjana Loncar Turukalo*

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

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: Bill Sanders, 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, and Chryssanthos Zambou

Computing in Cardiology 2010Scientific Program

Outline

Monday, September 27, 2010

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Schedule of Sessions

Computing in Cardiology 2010
Scientific Program