Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart

Cardiac Imaging and Electrophysiology.- Characterization of Post-infarct Scars in a Porcine Model – A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study.- Evolution of Intracellular Ca2?+? Waves from about 10,000 RyR Clusters: Towards Solving a Computationally Daunting Task.- Cardiac Motion Estimation from Intracardiac Electrical Mapping Data: Identifying a Septal Flash in Heart Failure.- Extracting Clinically Relevant Circular Mapping and Coronary Sinus Catheter Potentials from Atrial Simulations.- Cardiac Architecture Imaging and Analysis.- Cardiac Fibre Trace Clustering for the Interpretation of the Human Heart Architecture.- A Quantitative Comparison of the Myocardial Fibre Orientation in the Rabbit as Determined by Histology and by Diffusion Tensor-MRI.- Adaptive Reorientation of Cardiac Myofibers: Comparison of Left Ventricular Shear in Model and Experiment.- The Purkinje System and Cardiac Geometry: Assessing Their Influence on the Paced Heart.- Noise-Reduced TPS Interpolation of Primary Vector Fields for Fiber Tracking in Human Cardiac DT-MRI.- Comparison of Rule-Based and DTMRI-Derived Fibre Architecture in a Whole Rat Ventricular Computational Model.- Cardiac Imaging.- Fixing the Beating Heart: Ultrasound Guidance for Robotic Intracardiac Surgery.- Lumen Border Detection of Intravascular Ultrasound via Denoising of Directional Wavelet Representations.- A Statistical Approach for Detecting Tubular Structures in Myocardial Infarct Scars.- Quantitative Tool for the Assessment of Myocardial Perfusion during X-Ray Angiographic Procedures.- Multiview RT3D Echocardiography Image Fusion.- Cardiac Electrophysiology.- Investigating Arrhythmogenic Effects of the hERG Mutation N588K in Virtual Human Atria.- Left to Right Atrial Electrophysiological Differences: Substrate for a Dominant Reentrant Source during Atrial Fibrillation.- Electrocardiographic Simulation on Coupled Meshfree-BEM Platform.- HERG Effects on Ventricular Action Potential Duration and Tissue Vulnerability: A Computational Study.- Voxel Based Adaptive Meshless Method for Cardiac Electrophysiology Simulation.- Cardiac Motion Estimation.- Local Cardiac Wall Motion Estimation from Retrospectively Gated CT Images.- Physically-Constrained Diffeomorphic Demons for the Estimation of 3D Myocardium Strain from Cine-MRI.- Coronary Occlusion Detection with 4D Optical Flow Based Strain Estimation on 4D Ultrasound.- Cardiac Motion Extraction from Images by Filtering Estimation Based on a Biomechanical Model.- Active Model with Orthotropic Hyperelastic Material for Cardiac Image Analysis.- Cardiac Mechanics.- Personalised Electromechanical Model of the Heart for the Prediction of the Acute Effects of Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy.- Ventricular Mechanical Asynchrony in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: A Model Study.- A Hybrid Tissue-Level Model of the Left Ventricle: Application to the Analysis of the Regional Cardiac Function in Heart Failure.- Cardiac Electrophysiology.- The Role of Blood Vessels in Rabbit Propagation Dynamics and Cardiac Arrhythmias.- Estimation of Atrial Multiple Reentrant Circuits from Surface ECG Signals Based on a Vectorcardiographic Approach.- Atrial Anatomy Influences Onset and Termination of Atrial Fibrillation: A Computer Model Study.- Cardiac Image Analysis.- Left Ventricle Segmentation from Contrast Enhanced Fast Rotating Ultrasound Images Using Three Dimensional Active Shape Models.- Free-Form Deformations Using Adaptive Control Point Status for Whole Heart MR Segmentation.- Integrating Viability Information into a Cardiac Model for Interventional Guidance.- 3D TEE Registration with X-Ray Fluoroscopy for Interventional Cardiac Applications.- Multi-sequence Registration of Cine, Tagged and Delay-Enhancement MRI with Shift Correction and Steerable Pyramid-Based Detagging.- Segmentation of Left Ventricle in Cardiac Cine MRI: An Automatic Image-Driven Method.- Cardiac Biophysical Simulation.- The Importance of Model Parameters and Boundary Conditions in Whole Organ Models of Cardiac Contraction.- Numerical Simulation of the Electromechanical Activity of the Heart.- A Global Sensitivity Index for Biophysically Detailed Cardiac Cell Models: A Computational Approach.- Cardiac Motion Recovery and Boundary Conditions Estimation by Coupling an Electromechanical Model and Cine-MRI Data.- Atrioventricular Blood Flow Simulation Based on Patient-Specific Data.- Cardiac Research Platforms.- A Software Platform for Real-Time Visualization and Manipulation of 4D Cardiac Images.- euHeartDB: A Web-Enabled Database for Geometrical Models of the Heart.- GIMIAS: An Open Source Framework for Efficient Development of Research Tools and Clinical Prototypes.- Cardiac Image Analysis.- Maximum Likelihood Motion Estimation in 3D Echocardiography through Non-rigid Registration in Spherical Coordinates.- Large Diffeomorphic FFD Registration for Motion and Strain Quantification from 3D-US Sequences.- Random Forest Classification for Automatic Delineation of Myocardium in Real-Time 3D Echocardiography.- Discriminative Joint Context for Automatic Landmark Set Detection from a Single Cardiac MR Long Axis Slice.- Cardiac Anatomical and Functional Imaging.- Cardiac Imaging and Modeling for Guidance of Minimally Invasive Beating Heart Interventions.- Computer-Assisted Open Heart CABG: Image-Guided Navigation for All Target Vessels.- Extraction of Coronary Vascular Tree and Myocardial Perfusion Data from Stacks of Cryomicrotome Images.- Intravoxel Fibre Structure of the Left Ventricular Free Wall and Posterior Left-Right Ventricular Insertion Site in Canine Myocardium Using Q-Ball Imaging.- Cardiac Electrophysiology.- Relationship between Maximal Upstroke Velocity of Transmembrane Voltage and Minimum Time Derivative of Extracellular Potential.- Effects of Anisotropy and Transmural Heterogeneity on the T-Wave Polarity of Simulated Electrograms.- From Intracardiac Electrograms to Electrocardiograms: Models and Metamodels.