Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart

Invited Speaker.- Modules in Cardiac Modeling: Mechanics, Circulation, and Depolarization Wave.- Anatomical Modeling.- Geometrical Modeling of the Heart and Its Main Vessels.- Reconstructing 3D Boundary Element Heart Models from 2D Biplane Fluoroscopy.- Introducing Spectral Estimation for Boundary Detection in Echographic Radiofrequency Images.- Geometrical Modelling of the Fibre Organization in the Human Left Ventricle.- Invited Speaker.- Challenges in Modelling Human Heart's Total Excitation.- Motion and Deformation.- Two-Dimensional Ultrasonic Strain Rate Measurement of the Human Heart in Vivo.- Deformation Field Estimation for the Cardiac Wall Using Doppler Tissue Imaging.- A New Kinetic Modeling Scheme for the Human Left Ventricle Wall Motion with MR-Tagging Imaging.- Integrated Quantitative Analysis of Tagged Magnetic Resonance Images.- Invited Speaker.- Measurement of Ventricular Wall Motion, Epicardial Electrical Mapping, and Myocardial Fiber Angles in the Same Heart.- Functional Imaging.- A 3-D Model-Based Approach for the PET-Functional and MR-Anatomical Cardiac Imaging Data Fusion.- 3D Regularisation and Segmentation of Factor Volumes to Process PET H2 15O Myocardial Perfusion Studies.- In Vivo Assessment of Rat Hearts with and without Myocardial Infarction by Cine NMR - Comparison of the NMR Method to Invasive Techniques and Application to Intervention Studies.- Dempster Shafer Approach for High Level Data Fusion Applied to the Assessment of Myocardial Viability.- Invited Speaker.- Experimental and Computational Modeling of Cardiac Electromechanical Coupling.- Towards Electromechanical Modeling.- Towards Model-Based Estimation of the Cardiac Electro-Mechanical Activity from ECG Signals and Ultrasound Images.- A Physiologically-Based Model for the Active Cardiac Muscle Contraction.- Post-Systolic Thickening in Ischaemic Myocardium: A Simple Mathematical Model for Simulating Regional Deformation.- Simulation of Anisotropic Propagation in the Myocardium