Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart: 4th International Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, June 7-9, 2007: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, cartea 4466

Imaging and Image Analysis.- Local Wall-Motion Classification in Echocardiograms Using Shape Models and Orthomax Rotations.- A Fully 3D System for Cardiac Wall Deformation Analysis in MRI Data.- Automated Tag Tracking Using Gabor Filter Bank, Robust Point Matching, and Deformable Models.- Strain Measurement in the Left Ventricle During Systole with Deformable Image Registration.- Vessel Enhancement in 2D Angiographic Images.- Effect of Noise and Slice Profile on Strain Quantifications of Strain Encoding (SENC) MRI.- Reconstruction of Detailed Left Ventricle Motion from tMRI Using Deformable Models.- Computer Aided Reconstruction and Motion Analysis of 3D Mitral Annulus.- Volumetric Analysis of the Heart Using Echocardiography.- Constrained Reconstruction of Sparse Cardiac MR DTI Data.- An Experimental Framework to Validate 3D Models of Cardiac Electrophysiology Via Optical Imaging and MRI.- A Framework for Analyzing Confocal Images of Transversal Tubules in Cardiomyocytes.- Cardiac Electrophysiology.- Computer Simulation of Altered Sodium Channel Gating in Rabbit and HumanVentricular Myocytes.- Scroll Waves in 3D Virtual Human Atria: A Computational Study.- Determining Recovery Times from Transmembrane Action Potentials and Unipolar Electrograms in Normal Heart Tissue.- Simulations of Cardiac Electrophysiological Activities Using a Heart-Torso Model.- An Anisotropic Multi-front Fast Marching Method for Real-Time Simulation of Cardiac Electrophysiology.- Parallel Solution in Simulation of Cardiac Excitation Anisotropic Propagation.- A Three Dimensional Ventricular E-Cell (3Dv E-Cell) with Stochastic Intracellular Ca 2?+? Handling.- A Model for Simulation of Infant Cardiovascular Response to Orthostatic Stress.- Effects of Geometry and Architecture on Re-entrantScroll Wave Dynamics in Human Virtual Ventricular Tissues.- Can We Trust the Transgenic Mouse? Insights from Computer Simulations.- Relating Discontinuous Cardiac Electrical Activity to Mesoscale Tissue Structures: Detailed Image Based Modeling.- Electro- and Magetocardiography.- Is There Any Place for Magnetocardiographic Imaging in the Era of Robotic Ablation of Cardiac Arrhythmias?.- Towards the Numerical Simulation of Electrocardiograms.- Experimental Measures of the Minimum Time Derivative of the Extracellular Potentials as an Index of Electrical Activity During Metabolic and Hypoxic Stress.- Experimental Epicardial Potential Mapping in Mouse Ventricles: Effects of Fiber Architecture.- Noninvasive Electroardiographic Imaging: Application of Hybrid Methods for Solving the Electrocardiography Inverse Problem.- Towards Noninvasive 3D Imaging of Cardiac Arrhythmias.- Forward and Inverse Solutions of Electrocardiography Problem Using an Adaptive BEM Method.- Contributions of the 12 Segments of Left Ventricular Myocardium to the Body Surface Potentials.- Numerical Analysis of the Resolution of Surface Electrocardiographic Lead Systems.- Simultaneous High-Resolution Electrical Imaging of Endocardial, Epicardial and Torso-Tank Surfaces Under Varying Cardiac Metabolic Load and Coronary Flow.- Cardiac Mechanics and Clinical Application.- Characteristic Strain Pattern of Moderately Ischemic Myocardium Investigated in a Finite Element Simulation Model.- Constitutive Modeling of Cardiac Tissue Growth.- Effect of Pacing Site and Infarct Location on Regional Mechanics and Global Hemodynamics in a Model Based Study of Heart Failure.- Effective Estimation in Cardiac Modelling.- Open-Source Environment for Interactive Finite Element Modeling of Optimal ICD Electrode Placement.- Mathematical Modeling of Electromechanical Function Disturbances and Recovery in Calcium-Overloaded Cardiomyocytes.- Locally Adapted Spatio-temporal Deformation Model for Dense Motion Estimation in Periodic Cardiac Image Sequences.- Imaging and Anatomical Modeling.- Visualisation of Dog Myocardial Structure from Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Imaging: The Paradox of Uniformity and Variability.- Statistical Comparison of Cardiac Fibre Architectures.- Extraction of the Coronary Artery Tree in Cardiac Computer Tomographic Images Using Morphological Operators.- Segmentation of Myocardial Regions in Echocardiography Using the Statistics of the Radio-Frequency Signal.- A Hyperelastic Deformable Template for Cardiac Segmentation in MRI.- Automated Segmentation of the Left Ventricle Including Papillary Muscles in Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Images.- Simulation of 3D Ultrasound with a Realistic Electro-mechanical Model of the Heart.- Automated, Accurate and Fast Segmentation of 4D Cardiac MR Images.