Johan Montagnat – författare

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.

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 Universit'edeMontr'eal,Canada J. Montagnat CREATIS,Lyon,France P. Nekkola UniversityofTechnology,Munich,Germany J. Nenonen HelsinkiUniversityofTechnology,Finland A. Noble MedicalVisionLaboratory,Oxford, UnitedKingdom J. Ohayon Universit'edeSavoie,France M. Orkisz CREATIS,Lyon,France N. Rougon ARTEMIS,InstitutNationaldes T'el'ecommunicationd'Evry,France C. Roux ENSTBretagne,France P. Rubel INSERMU121,Lyon,France F. Sachse UniversityofKarlsruhe,Germany J. Sequeira LIM,Marseille,France G. Sutherland MIC,KatholiekeUniversiteitLeuven,Belgium B. Tilg UniversityofGraz,Austria Y. Usson TIMC,Grenoble,France Y. -M. Zhu CREATIS,Lyon,France TableofContents InvitedSpeaker ModulesinCardiacModeling:Mechanics,Circulation, andDepolarizationWave ...1 T. Arts,P. Bovendeerd,A. vanderToorn,L. Geerts,R. Kerckho?s, F. Prinzen Session1:AnatomicalModeling GeometricalModelingoftheHeartandItsMainVessels ...10 J. -L.Mari,L. Astart,J. Sequeira Reconstructing3DBoundaryElementHeartModels from2DBiplaneFluoroscopy...17 H. Veister..a,J. L..otj..onen IntroducingSpectralEstimationforBoundaryDetection inEchographicRadiofrequencyImages ...24 I. Dydenko,D. Friboulet,I. E. Magnin GeometricalModellingoftheFibreOrganization intheHumanLeftVentricle...

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.