Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart

Therecentdevelopmentsindynamiccardiacimagingandmodelingarethe- sultofanincreasinglyfruitfulcooperationbetweentheoreticians,engineers,and practitioners. Thestandardclinicalparametersareprogressivelybene?ttingfrom moreaccuratequantitativemeasurementsthankstoasimultaneoususeof- phisticateddataacquisitiontechniquessuchasmultichannelECGandMEG, dynamicUS,doppler,X-Ray,CT,helicalCT,MRI,fMRI,SPECT,PET...data andadvancedphysicalandmathematicaltools. Itisbecomingpossibleto- cientlycombineprioranatomicalandfunctionalknowledgewithadvanced3D spatio-temporaldigitaldata. Thechallengenowisclearlytocorrelatethemicro structureandfunctionoftheorganfromthecellularlevelwithitsmacroscopic functionalbehavior. TheFIMH2001internationalworkshopaimedtopromotecollaborationb- weenscientistsinsignalandimageprocessing,appliedmathematicsandphysics, biomedicalengineeringandcomputerscience,andexpertsincardiology,rad- logy,biology,andphysiology. TheFIMH2001workshop,inits?rstyear,focused oncomplexheartmodelsinvolvinganatomicalandfunctionalinformation. The goalistograduallymovetowardhybrid3Dbiomechanicalandelectrophysio- gicalmodelsabletosimulatethedynamicbehavioroftheheart. WefeelthatFIMH2001presentedanopportunitytocreateacardio-vascular researchnetworkataEuropeanleveltofederatethemainpluridisciplinary groupsinvolvedinadvancedresearchincardiovascularimagingandmodeling inEurope. Theideaistocreatewhatcouldbecalledthe"EuropeanBeating HeartProject". Thepurposeofsuchaprojectistojoinresearche?ortsto- provediagnosisandtherapyofpathologicaldysfunctionsoftheheart,forthe bene?tofthepatient,throughfundamentalandclinicalresearch. September2001 ToivoKatila IsabelleE. Magnin VI Preface Acknowledgements Themembersoftheprogramcommitteedeservespecialthanksfortheirjob inreviewingallthepapers,andfortheirsupportintheorganizationofthe conference. WethankthemembersoftheCREATISunitinLyonandtheLaboratory ofBiomedicalEngineeringinHelsinkifortheirinvolvementandsupportinthe organizationofthisconference. Conferencesupportedby InstitutNationaldesSciencesAppliqu'eesdeLyon(INSA),France HelsinkiUniversityofTechnology(HUT),Finland CentreNationaldelaRechercheScienti?que(CNRS),France ScienceAcademyofFinland Jointincentiveaction"BeatingHeart"oftheCNRS,France FrenchCulturalCenter,Helsinki French-FinnishAssociationforScienti?candTechnicalResearch(AFFRST) FrenchBiomedicalEngineeringSociety(SFGBM) Organization FIMH2001wasco-organizedbytheCREATISLaboratory,CNRSUMR5515, Lyon,France,andtheLaboratoryofBiomedicalEngineeringattheHelsinski UniversityofTechnology,Finland. ConferenceChairs ToivoKatila LaboratoryofBiomedicalEngineering,H- sinskiUniversityofTechnology,Finland IsabelleE. Magnin CREATIS,CNRSUMR5515,Lyon,France OrganizationCommittee PatrickClarysse CREATIS,CNRSUMR5515,Lyon,France JohanMontagnat CREATIS,CNRSUMR5515,Lyon,France JukkaNenonen LaboratoryofBiomedicalEngineering,H- sinskiUniversityofTechnology,Finland ProgramCommittee T. Arts UniversityofTechnologyofEindhoven,The Netherlands N. Ayache INRIASophia-Antipolis,France S. Baillet LaPiti'eSalp'etri'ere,Paris,France M. Barlaud I3S,Sophia-Antipolis,France L. Bidaut HopitauxUniversitairesdeGen'eve,Switz- land B. Bijnens MIC,KatholiekeUniversiteitLeuven,Belgium I. Bloch ENST,Paris,France E. Canet CREATIS,Lyon,France P. Clarysse CREATIS,Lyon,France L. Cohen CEREMADE,Paris,France P. Croisille CREATIS,Lyon,France J. Declerck OMIA,Oxford,UnitedKingdom H. Delingette INRIASophia-Antipolis,France J. D'hooge MIC,KatholiekeUniversiteitLeuven,Belgium R. Fenici CatholicUniversityofRome,Italy D. Friboulet CREATIS,Lyon,France A. Herment INSERMU494,Paris,France M. Horacek DalhousieUniversity,Canada M. Janier CREATIS,Lyon,France H. Larson HvidovreHospital,Denmark K. Lauerma HelsinkiUniversityCentralHospital,Finland VIII Organization ProgramCommittee(continuation) S. Loncaric UniversityofZagreb,Croatia J. L..otj..onen VTTTechnology,Tampere,Finland I. E. Magnin CREATIS,Lyon,France M. M.. akij..arvi HelsinkiUniversityCentralHospital,Helsinki, Finland J. Meunier Un...