Functional imaging and modeling of the heart : second international workshop, FIMH 2003, Lyon, France, June 5-6, 2003 : proceedings

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. Isabelle E. Magnin ... [et Al.]. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. 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 This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart, FIMH 2003, held in Lyon, France, in June 2003. The 29 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected for presentation. The papers are organized in topical sections on anatomy extraction and description, modeling of the cardiac mechanics and functions, electro-physiology and electro- and magnetography, motion estimation, image registration and image analysis, and data acquisition and experimental and modeling issues