The ?rst international conference on Functional Imaging and Modeling of the 1 Heart (FIMH) was held in Helsinki, Finland, in November 2001, thanks to the strongscienti?ccollaborationbetweenFranceandFinland. Thiseventwasa?rst attempt to federate the heart imaging community and to encourage collabo- tion between scientists in signal and image processing, applied mathematics and physics, biomedical engineering and computer science, and experts in card- logy, radiology, biology, and physiology, in Europe and beyond. The conference has encountered considerable success. The outstanding research works pres- ted have demonstrated a very active research ?eld with complex modeling and image analysis problems to be solved. One of the outcomes was the special issue of the Medical Image Analysis journal based on a selection of the conference’s best papers, to appear in the second half of 2003. The FIMH 2001 meeting was the starting point of a discussion for federating the European research e?ort in cardiac imaging, heart modeling, and cardiac image analysis. It was very successful, and a large coalition was created around 2 the e-Heart proposal for a Network of Excellence in the European Sixth Fra- work Program. The e-Heart network has already gathered about 200 researchers from 100 institutes. A project proposal has been submitted to the European Union. It was decided in the ?rst meeting to organize a regular biennial conference.
Author(s): Leon Axel (auth.), Isabelle E. Magnin, Johan Montagnat, Patrick Clarysse, Jukka Nenonen, Toivo Katila (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2674
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 311
Tags: Image Processing and Computer Vision; Imaging / Radiology; Cardiology; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Simulation and Modeling; Bioinformatics
Tagged MRI-Based Studies of Cardiac Function....Pages 1-7
A Novel Method for Quantifying the Contribution of Different Intracellular Mechanisms to Mechanically Induced Changes in Action Potential Characteristics....Pages 8-17
Automatic Construction of Biventricular Statistical Shape Models....Pages 18-29
Visualising Cardiac Anatomy Using Constructive Volume Geometry....Pages 30-38
Evaluation of a 3D Segmentation Software for the Coronary Characterization in Multi-slice Computed Tomography....Pages 39-51
A Levelset Based Method for Segmenting the Heart in 3D+T Gated SPECT Images....Pages 52-61
Modeling of Electro-mechanical Coupling in Cardiac Myocytes: Feedback Mechanisms and Cooperativity....Pages 62-71
Simulating Cardiac Mechanoenergetics in the Left Ventricle....Pages 72-80
Towards Patient Specific Models of Cardiac Mechanics: A Sensitivity Study....Pages 81-90
Does the Collagen Network Contribute to Normal Systolic Left Ventricular Wall Thickening? A Theoretical Study in Continuum Mechanics....Pages 91-100
Regularization in Cardiac Source Imaging....Pages 101-110
On the Influence of a Volume Conductor on the Orientation of Currents in a Thin Cardiac issue....Pages 111-121
First 36-Channel Magnetocardiographic Study of CAD Patients in an Unshielded Laboratory for Interventional and Intensive Cardiac Care....Pages 122-131
Heterogeneous Sinoatrial Node of Rabbit Heart - Molecular and Electrical Mapping and Biophysical Reconstruction....Pages 132-140
Construction of a Cardiac Motion Atlas from MR Using Non-rigid Registration....Pages 141-150
Motion-Compensation of Cardiac Perfusion MRI Using a Statistical Texture Ensemble....Pages 151-161
Measuring Myocardial Deformations in Tagged MR Image Sequences Using Informational Non-rigid Registration....Pages 162-172
Parametric Analysis of Main Motion to Study the Regional Wall Motion of the Left Ventricle in Echocardiography....Pages 173-183
Modeling and Tracking of the Cardiac Left Ventricular Motion by a State Space Harmonic Model in MRI Sequence....Pages 184-193
A Strategy to Quantitatively Evaluate MRI/PET Cardiac Rigid Registration Methods Using a Monte Carlo Simulator....Pages 194-204
Spatio-temporal Alignment of 4D Cardiac MR Images....Pages 205-214
Automatic Registration of MR First-Pass Myocardial Perfusion Images....Pages 215-223
Evaluation and Comparison of Surface and Intensity Based Rigid Registration Methods for Thorax and Cardiac MR and PET Images....Pages 224-233
Left Ventricular Flow Dynamics and Transmural Gradients in Myofiber Shortening with MRI-Tagging....Pages 234-241
Intravascular Ultrasound Images Vessel Characterization Using AdaBoost....Pages 242-251
Motion Analysis of 3D Ultrasound Texture Patterns....Pages 253-261
Estimation of the Diastolic Intraventricular Relative Pressures Using MRI Acceleration Measurements....Pages 262-271
Magnetic Resonance Fusion Imaging of Chronic Myocardial Ischemia....Pages 272-277
The Relationship between Regional Integrated Backscatter Levels and Regional Strain in Normal, Acutely Ischemic, and Reperfused Myocardium....Pages 278-286
Why Ischemic Hearts Respond Less to Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy. A Modeling Study....Pages 287-294
Finite Element Models for Mechanical Simulation of Coronary Arteries....Pages 295-305
