Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart: 4th International Conference, FIHM 2007, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, June 7-9, 2007. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Local Wall-Motion Classification in Echocardiograms Using Shape Models and Orthomax Rotations....Pages 1-11
A Fully 3D System for Cardiac Wall Deformation Analysis in MRI Data....Pages 12-21
Automated Tag Tracking Using Gabor Filter Bank, Robust Point Matching, and Deformable Models....Pages 22-31
Strain Measurement in the Left Ventricle During Systole with Deformable Image Registration....Pages 32-40
Vessel Enhancement in 2D Angiographic Images....Pages 41-49
Effect of Noise and Slice Profile on Strain Quantifications of Strain Encoding (SENC) MRI....Pages 50-59
Reconstruction of Detailed Left Ventricle Motion from tMRI Using Deformable Models....Pages 60-69
Computer Aided Reconstruction and Motion Analysis of 3D Mitral Annulus....Pages 70-80
Volumetric Analysis of the Heart Using Echocardiography....Pages 81-90
Constrained Reconstruction of Sparse Cardiac MR DTI Data....Pages 91-99
An Experimental Framework to Validate 3D Models of Cardiac Electrophysiology Via Optical Imaging and MRI....Pages 100-109
A Framework for Analyzing Confocal Images of Transversal Tubules in Cardiomyocytes....Pages 110-119
Computer Simulation of Altered Sodium Channel Gating in Rabbit and HumanVentricular Myocytes....Pages 120-128
Scroll Waves in 3D Virtual Human Atria: A Computational Study....Pages 129-138
Determining Recovery Times from Transmembrane Action Potentials and Unipolar Electrograms in Normal Heart Tissue....Pages 139-149
Simulations of Cardiac Electrophysiological Activities Using a Heart-Torso Model....Pages 150-159
An Anisotropic Multi-front Fast Marching Method for Real-Time Simulation of Cardiac Electrophysiology....Pages 160-169
Parallel Solution in Simulation of Cardiac Excitation Anisotropic Propagation....Pages 170-179
A Three Dimensional Ventricular E-Cell (3Dv E-Cell) with Stochastic Intracellular Ca 2 +  Handling....Pages 180-189
A Model for Simulation of Infant Cardiovascular Response to Orthostatic Stress....Pages 190-199
Effects of Geometry and Architecture on Re-entrant Scroll Wave Dynamics in Human Virtual Ventricular Tissues....Pages 200-209
Can We Trust the Transgenic Mouse? Insights from Computer Simulations....Pages 210-219
Relating Discontinuous Cardiac Electrical Activity to Mesoscale Tissue Structures: Detailed Image Based Modeling....Pages 220-229
Is There Any Place for Magnetocardiographic Imaging in the Era of Robotic Ablation of Cardiac Arrhythmias?....Pages 230-239
Towards the Numerical Simulation of Electrocardiograms....Pages 240-249
Experimental Measures of the Minimum Time Derivative of the Extracellular Potentials as an Index of Electrical Activity During Metabolic and Hypoxic Stress....Pages 250-259
Experimental Epicardial Potential Mapping in Mouse Ventricles: Effects of Fiber Architecture....Pages 260-268
Noninvasive Electroardiographic Imaging: Application of Hybrid Methods for Solving the Electrocardiography Inverse Problem....Pages 269-279
Towards Noninvasive 3D Imaging of Cardiac Arrhythmias....Pages 280-289
Forward and Inverse Solutions of Electrocardiography Problem Using an Adaptive BEM Method....Pages 290-299
Contributions of the 12 Segments of Left Ventricular Myocardium to the Body Surface Potentials....Pages 300-309
Numerical Analysis of the Resolution of Surface Electrocardiographic Lead Systems....Pages 310-319
Simultaneous High-Resolution Electrical Imaging of Endocardial, Epicardial and Torso-Tank Surfaces Under Varying Cardiac Metabolic Load and Coronary Flow....Pages 320-329
Characteristic Strain Pattern of Moderately Ischemic Myocardium Investigated in a Finite Element Simulation Model....Pages 330-339
Constitutive Modeling of Cardiac Tissue Growth....Pages 340-349
Effect of Pacing Site and Infarct Location on Regional Mechanics and Global Hemodynamics in a Model Based Study of Heart Failure....Pages 350-360
Effective Estimation in Cardiac Modelling....Pages 361-372
Open-Source Environment for Interactive Finite Element Modeling of Optimal ICD Electrode Placement....Pages 373-382
Mathematical Modeling of Electromechanical Function Disturbances and Recovery in Calcium-Overloaded Cardiomyocytes....Pages 383-392
Locally Adapted Spatio-temporal Deformation Model for Dense Motion Estimation in Periodic Cardiac Image Sequences....Pages 393-402
Visualisation of Dog Myocardial Structure from Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Imaging: The Paradox of Uniformity and Variability....Pages 403-412
Statistical Comparison of Cardiac Fibre Architectures....Pages 413-423
Extraction of the Coronary Artery Tree in Cardiac Computer Tomographic Images Using Morphological Operators....Pages 424-432
Segmentation of Myocardial Regions in Echocardiography Using the Statistics of the Radio-Frequency Signal....Pages 433-442
A Hyperelastic Deformable Template for Cardiac Segmentation in MRI....Pages 443-452
Automated Segmentation of the Left Ventricle Including Papillary Muscles in Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Images....Pages 453-462
Simulation of 3D Ultrasound with a Realistic Electro-mechanical Model of the Heart....Pages 463-473
Automated, Accurate and Fast Segmentation of 4D Cardiac MR Images....Pages 474-483
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