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

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart, FIMH 2007, held in Salt Lake City, UT, USA in June 2007. The 48 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The contributions describe both experimental and computational studies and cover topics such as imaging and image analysis, cardiac electrophysiology, electro- and magnetocardiography, cardiac mechanics and clinical application, imaging and anatomical modeling. 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 Back Matter....Pages - Imaging And Image Analysis -- Cardiac Electrophysiology -- Electro- And Magnetocardiography -- Cardiac Mechanics And Clinical Application -- Imaging And Anatomical Modeling. Frank B. Sachse, Gunnar Seemann (eds.). Includes Bibliographical References And Index.