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- affiliation: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Barcelona, Spain
- affiliation: KU Leuven, Faculty of Medicine, Belgium
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2020 – today
- 2023
[j20]Freddy L. Bueno-Palomeque
, Konstantinos A. Mountris, Nuria Ortigosa, Raquel Bailón, Bart H. Bijnens, Fátima Crispi, Esther Pueyo, Ana Mincholé, Pablo Laguna:
QRS-T Angles as Markers for Heart Sphericity in Subjects With Intrauterine Growth Restriction: A Simulation Study. IEEE J. Biomed. Health Informatics 27(10): 4707-4718 (2023)- [c45]Freddy L. Bueno-Palomeque, Konstantinos A. Mountris, Nuria Ortigosa, Raquel Bailón, Bart H. Bijnens, Fátima Crispi, Esther Pueyo, Ana Mincholé, Pablo Laguna:
QRS Width and T-Peak to T-End Interval Are Prolonged in Preadolescents with Severe Intrauterine Growth Restriction at Birth when Compared to Controls. CinC 2023: 1-4 - [p1]Mariana A. Nogueira, Bart H. Bijnens:
AI and Decision Support. AI and Big Data in Cardiology 2023: 157-170 - 2022
- [c44]Maria Inmaculada Villanueva, Marc López, Sergio Sánchez, Patricia Garcia-Cañadilla, Paula C. Randanne, Ameth Hawkins, Elisenda Eixarch, Elisenda Bonet-Carne, Eduard Gratacós, Fátima Crispi, Bart H. Bijnens, Gabriel Bernardino:
Haemodynamic Changes in the Fetal Circulation Post-connection to an Artificial Placenta: A Computational Modelling Study. STACOM@MICCAI 2022: 46-55 - 2021
- [j19]Gabriel Bernardino, Amir Hodzic, Hélène Langet, Damien Legallois, Mathieu De Craene, Miguel Ángel González Ballester, Eric Saloux, Bart H. Bijnens:
Volumetric parcellation of the cardiac right ventricle for regional geometric and functional assessment. Medical Image Anal. 71: 102044 (2021) - [j18]Cecília Nunes, Hélène Langet, Mathieu De Craene, Oscar Camara, Bart H. Bijnens, Anders Jonsson:
Decision Tree Learning for Uncertain Clinical Measurements. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 33(9): 3199-3211 (2021) - [c43]Paula Casademunt, Oscar Camara, Bart H. Bijnens, Èric Lluch, Hernán G. Morales:
Valve Flattening with Functional Biomarkers for the Assessment of Mitral Valve Repair. STACOM@MICCAI 2021: 169-178 - 2020
- [j17]Mariana A. Nogueira, Mathieu De Craene, Sergio Sanchez-Martinez, Devyani Chowdhury, Bart H. Bijnens, Gemma Piella:
Analysis of nonstandardized stress echocardiography sequences using multiview dimensionality reduction. Medical Image Anal. 60 (2020) - [j16]Gabriel Bernardino, Oualid M. Benkarim, María Sanz-de la Garza, Susanna Prat-Gonzàlez, Álvaro Sepúlveda-Martínez, Fátima Crispi, Marta Sitges, Constantine Butakoff, Mathieu De Craene, Bart H. Bijnens, Miguel Ángel González Ballester:
Handling confounding variables in statistical shape analysis - application to cardiac remodelling. Medical Image Anal. 65: 101792 (2020) - [c42]Judit Ros, Oscar Camara, Uxio Hermida, Bart H. Bijnens, Hernán G. Morales:
Towards Mesh-Free Patient-Specific Mitral Valve Modeling. M&Ms and EMIDEC/STACOM@MICCAI 2020: 66-75 - [c41]Xabier Morales, Jordi Mill, Gaspar Delso, Filip Loncaric, Ada Doltra, Xavier Freixa, Marta Sitges, Bart H. Bijnens, Oscar Camara:
4D Flow Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Left Atrial Haemodynamic Characterization and Model Calibration. M&Ms and EMIDEC/STACOM@MICCAI 2020: 156-165 - [i2]Gabriel Bernardino, Amir Hodzic, Hélène Langet, Mathieu De Craene, Miguel Ángel González Ballester, Eric Saloux, Bart H. Bijnens:
Volumetric parcellation of the right ventricle for regional geometric and functional assessment. CoRR abs/2003.08423 (2020) - [i1]Gabriel Bernardino, Oualid M. Benkarim, María Sanz-de la Garza, Susanna Prat-Gonzàlez, Álvaro Sepúlveda-Martínez, Fátima Crispi, Marta Sitges, Mathieu De Craene, Bart H. Bijnens, Miguel Ángel González Ballester:
Handling confounding variables in statistical shape analysis - application to cardiac remodelling. CoRR abs/2007.14239 (2020)
2010 – 2019
- 2018
- [j15]Vedrana Balicevic, Hrvoje Kalinic, Sven Loncaric, Maja Cikes, Bart H. Bijnens:
A computational model-based approach for atlas construction of aortic Doppler velocity profiles for segmentation purposes. Biomed. Signal Process. Control. 40: 23-32 (2018) - [j14]Bruno Paun, Bart H. Bijnens, Andrew C. Cook, Timothy J. Mohun, Constantine Butakoff:
Quantification of the detailed cardiac left ventricular trabecular morphogenesis in the mouse embryo. Medical Image Anal. 49: 89-104 (2018) - 2017
- [j13]Sergio Sanchez-Martinez, Nicolas Duchateau, Tamás Erdei, Alan Fraser, Bart H. Bijnens, Gemma Piella:
Characterization of myocardial motion patterns by unsupervised multiple kernel learning. Medical Image Anal. 35: 70-82 (2017) - [j12]Bruno Paun, Bart H. Bijnens, Tinen L. Iles, Paul Anthony Iaizzo, Constantine Butakoff:
Patient independent representation of the detailed cardiac ventricular anatomy. Medical Image Anal. 35: 270-287 (2017) - [c40]Hector Dejea, Patricia Garcia-Cañadilla, Marco Stampanoni, Monica Zamora, Fátima Crispi, Bart H. Bijnens, Anne Bonnin:
Microstructural Analysis of Cardiac Endomyocardial Biopsies with Synchrotron Radiation-Based X-Ray Phase Contrast Imaging. FIMH 2017: 23-31 - [c39]Gabriel Bernardino, Constantine Butakoff, Marta Nuñez Garcia, Sebastian Imre Sarvari, Merida Rodriguez-Lopez, Fátima Crispi, Miguel Ángel González Ballester, Mathieu De Craene, Bart H. Bijnens:
Estimating 3D Ventricular Shape From 2D Echocardiography: Feasibility and Effect of Noise. FIMH 2017: 450-460 - [c38]Paula Giménez Mínguez, Bart H. Bijnens, Gabriel Bernardino, Èric Lluch, Iris Soveral, Olga Gómez, Patricia Garcia-Cañadilla:
Assessment of Haemodynamic Remodeling in Fetal Aortic Coarctation Using a Lumped Model of the Circulation. FIMH 2017: 471-480 - [c37]Mariana A. Nogueira, Gemma Piella, Sergio Sanchez-Martinez, Hélène Langet, Eric Saloux, Bart H. Bijnens, Mathieu De Craene:
Characterizing Patterns of Response During Mild Stress-Testing in Continuous Echocardiography Recordings Using a Multiview Dimensionality Reduction Technique. FIMH 2017: 502-513 - [c36]Daniele Pezzatini, Carlos Yagüe, Paula A. Rudenick, Josep Blat, Bart H. Bijnens, Oscar Camara:
A Web-Based Tool for Cardiac Dyssynchrony Assessment on Ultrasound Data. VCBM 2017: 137-141 - 2015
- [j11]Nicolas Duchateau, Geneviève Giraldeau, Luigi Gabrielli, Juan Fernandez-Armenta, Diego Penela, Reinder Evertz, Lluís Mont, Josep Brugada, Antonio Berruezo, Marta Sitges, Bart H. Bijnens:
Quantification of local changes in myocardial motion by diffeomorphic registration via currents: Application to paced hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy in 2D echocardiographic sequences. Medical Image Anal. 19(1): 203-219 (2015) - [c35]Nuria Ortigosa, Fátima Crispi, Raquel Bailón, Merida Rodriguez-Lopez, Eduard Gratacós, Sebastián Savari, Marta Sitges, Bart H. Bijnens, Pablo Laguna:
Heart Morphology Differences Induced by Intrauterine Growth Restriction and Premature Birth Measured on the ECG in Pre-Adolescents. CinC 2015: 797-800 - [c34]Sergio Sanchez-Martinez, Nicolas Duchateau, Bart H. Bijnens, Tamás Erdei, Alan Fraser, Gemma Piella:
Characterization of Myocardial Velocities by Multiple Kernel Learning: Application to Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction. FIMH 2015: 65-73 - [c33]David Soto-Iglesias, Nicolas Duchateau, Constantine Butakoff, David Andreu, Juan Fernandez-Armenta, Bart H. Bijnens, Antonio Berruezo, Marta Sitges, Oscar Camara:
Quantitative Analysis of Lead Position vs. Correction of Electrical Dyssynchrony in an Experimental Model of LBBB/CRT. FIMH 2015: 74-82 - [c32]Vedrana Balicevic, Sven Loncaric, Rubén Cárdenes, A. Gonzalez-Tendero, Bruno Paun, Fátima Crispi, Constantine Butakoff, Bart H. Bijnens:
Assessment of Myofiber Orientation in High Resolution Phase-Contrast CT Images. FIMH 2015: 111-119 - [c31]Marta Nuñez Garcia, Catalina Tobon-Gomez, Kawal S. Rhode, Bart H. Bijnens, Oscar Camara, Constantine Butakoff:
Quantification of Gaps in Ablation Lesions Around the Pulmonary Veins in Delayed Enhancement MRI. FIMH 2015: 215-222 - [c30]Bruno Paun, Bart H. Bijnens, Constantine Butakoff:
Subject Independent Reference Frame for the Left Ventricular Detailed Cardiac Anatomy. FIMH 2015: 240-247 - 2014
- [j10]Patricia Garcia-Cañadilla, Paula A. Rudenick, Fátima Crispi, Monica Cruz-Lemini, Georgina Palau-Caballero, Oscar Camara, Eduard Gratacós, Bart H. Bijnens:
A Computational Model of the Fetal Circulation to Quantify Blood Redistribution in Intrauterine Growth Restriction. PLoS Comput. Biol. 10(6) (2014) - [j9]Antonio R. Porras, Martino Alessandrini, Mathieu De Craene, Nicolas Duchateau, Marta Sitges, Bart H. Bijnens, Hervé Delingette, Maxime Sermesant, Jan D'hooge, Alejandro F. Frangi, Gemma Piella:
Improved Myocardial Motion Estimation Combining Tissue Doppler and B-Mode Echocardiographic Images. IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging 33(11): 2098-2106 (2014) - 2013
- [j8]Hrvoje Kalinic, Sven Loncaric, Bart H. Bijnens:
Absolute joint moments: a novel image similarity measure. EURASIP J. Image Video Process. 2013: 24 (2013) - [c29]Babak Ghafaryasl, Bart H. Bijnens, Erwin van Vliet, Fátima Crispi, Rubén Cárdenes:
Cardiac Microstructure Estimation from Multi-photon Confocal Microscopy Images. FIMH 2013: 80-88 - [c28]Vedrana Balicevic, Hrvoje Kalinic, Sven Loncaric, Maja Cikes, Georgina Palau-Caballero, Catalina Tobon-Gomez, Bart H. Bijnens:
Atlas Construction for Cardiac Velocity Profiles Segmentation Using a Lumped Computational Model of Circulatory System. FIMH 2013: 89-96 - [c27]Patricia Garcia-Cañadilla, Paula A. Rudenick, Fátima Crispi, Monica Cruz-Lemini, Georgina Palau-Caballero, Eduard Gratacós, Bart H. Bijnens:
Understanding Prenatal Brain Sparing by Flow Redistribution Based on a Lumped Model of the Fetal Circulation. FIMH 2013: 123-131 - [c26]Nicolas Duchateau, Gemma Piella, Adelina Doltra, Lluís Mont, Josep Brugada, Marta Sitges, Bart H. Bijnens, Mathieu De Craene:
Manifold Learning Characterization of Abnormal Myocardial Motion Patterns: Application to CRT-Induced Changes. FIMH 2013: 450-457 - [c25]Rubén Cárdenes, Rafael Sebastián, David Soto-Iglesias, David Andreu, Juan Fernandez-Armenta, Bart H. Bijnens, Antonio Berruezo, Oscar Camara:
Estimation of Electrical Pathways Finding Minimal Cost Paths from Electro-Anatomical Mapping of the Left Ventricle. STACOM 2013: 220-227 - [c24]Antonio R. Porras, Mathieu De Craene, Nicolas Duchateau, Marta Sitges, Bart H. Bijnens, Alejandro F. Frangi, Gemma Piella:
Myocardial Motion Estimation Combining Tissue Doppler and B-mode Echocardiographic Images. MICCAI (2) 2013: 484-491 - 2012
- [j7]Hrvoje Kalinic, Sven Loncaric, Maja Cikes, Davor Milicic, Bart H. Bijnens:
Image registration and atlas-based segmentation of cardiac outflow velocity profiles. Comput. Methods Programs Biomed. 106(3): 188-200 (2012) - [j6]Estanislao Oubel, Mathieu De Craene, Alfred O. Hero III, Amir Pourmorteza, Marina Huguet, Gustavo Avegliano, Bart H. Bijnens, Alejandro F. Frangi:
Cardiac motion estimation by joint alignment of tagged MRI sequences. Medical Image Anal. 16(1): 339-350 (2012) - [c23]Nicolas Duchateau, Mathieu De Craene, Xavier Pennec, Beatriz Merino, Marta Sitges, Bart H. Bijnens:
Which Reorientation Framework for the Atlas-Based Comparison of Motion from Cardiac Image Sequences? STIA 2012: 25-37 - [c22]Catalina Tobon-Gomez, Georgina Palau-Caballero, Marta Sitges, Bart H. Bijnens:
Exercise Induced Inter-individual Variation of Right Ventricular Pressures: Simulations Using a Modular Model of the Cardiovascular System. STACOM 2012: 336-344 - [c21]Georgina Palau-Caballero, Catalina Tobon-Gomez, Vedrana Balicevic, Constantine Butakoff, Sven Loncaric, Marta Sitges, Bart H. Bijnens:
Improving Clinical Translation of Cardiovascular Circulatory Models through an Intuitive Graphical User Interface to CircAdapt, Presenting Simulation Results as Clinical Images and Signals. STACOM 2012: 345-354 - [c20]Paula A. Rudenick, Bart H. Bijnens, Constantine Butakoff, David Garcia-Dorado, Arturo Evangelista:
Understanding Hemodynamics and Its Determinant Factors in Type B Aortic Dissections Using an Equivalent Lumped Model. STACOM 2012: 375-382 - 2011
- [j5]Nicolas Duchateau, Mathieu De Craene, Gemma Piella, Etelvino Silva, Adelina Doltra, Marta Sitges, Bart H. Bijnens, Alejandro F. Frangi:
A spatiotemporal statistical atlas of motion for the quantification of abnormal myocardial tissue velocities. Medical Image Anal. 15(3): 316-328 (2011) - [c19]Hrvoje Kalinic, Sven Loncaric, Bart H. Bijnens:
A novel image similarity measure for image registration. ISPA 2011: 195-199 - [c18]Paula A. Rudenick, Bart H. Bijnens, David Garcia-Dorado, Arturo Evangelista:
In-vitro assessment of flow patterns and velocities in different anatomic configurations of descending chronic aortic dissections. ISPA 2011: 733-738 - [c17]Hrvoje Kalinic, Sven Loncaric, Maja Cikes, Davor Milicic, Bart H. Bijnens:
Model-based segmentation of aortic ultrasound images. ISPA 2011: 739-743 - 2010
- [c16]Paula A. Rudenick, Maurizio Bordone, Bart H. Bijnens, Eduardo Soudah, Eugenio Oñate, David Garcia-Dorado, Arturo Evangelista:
A Multi-method Approach towards Understanding the Pathophysiology of Aortic Dissections - The Complementary Role of In-Silico, In-Vitro and In-Vivo Information. STACOM/CESC 2010: 114-123 - [c15]Federico M. Sukno, Constantine Butakoff, Bart H. Bijnens, Alejandro F. Frangi:
Sparse active shape models: influence of the interpolation kernel on segmentation accuracy and speed. Medical Imaging: Image Processing 2010: 76234X
2000 – 2009
- 2009
- [c14]Hrvoje Kalinic, Sven Loncaric, Maja Cikes, Davor Milicic, Bart H. Bijnens:
Comparison of different metods for atlas construction. EUSIPCO 2009: 1319-1323 - [c13]Oscar Camara, Steffen Oeltze, Mathieu De Craene, Rafael Sebastián, Etel Silva, David Tamborero, Lluís Mont, Marta Sitges, Bart H. Bijnens, Alejandro F. Frangi:
Cardiac Motion Estimation from Intracardiac Electrical Mapping Data: Identifying a Septal Flash in Heart Failure. FIMH 2009: 21-29 - [c12]Daniel Romero, Rafael Sebastián, Bart H. Bijnens, Viviana Zimmerman, Patrick M. Boyle, Edward J. Vigmond, Alejandro F. Frangi:
The Purkinje System and Cardiac Geometry: Assessing Their Influence on the Paced Heart. FIMH 2009: 68-77 - [c11]Ignacio Larrabide, Pedro Omedas, Yves Martelli, Xavier Planes, Maarten Nieber, Juan A. Moya, Constantine Butakoff, Rafael Sebastián, Oscar Camara, Mathieu De Craene, Bart H. Bijnens, Alejandro F. Frangi:
GIMIAS: An Open Source Framework for Efficient Development of Research Tools and Clinical Prototypes. FIMH 2009: 417-426 - [c10]Mathieu De Craene, Oscar Camara, Bart H. Bijnens, Alejandro F. Frangi:
Large Diffeomorphic FFD Registration for Motion and Strain Quantification from 3D-US Sequences. FIMH 2009: 437-446 - [c9]Chong Zhang, Mathieu De Craene, Maria-Cruz Villa-Uriol, Jose M. Pozo, Bart H. Bijnens, Alejandro F. Frangi:
Estimating Continuous 4D Wall Motion of Cerebral Aneurysms from 3D Rotational Angiography. MICCAI (1) 2009: 140-147 - [c8]Nicolas Duchateau, Mathieu De Craene, Etel Silva, Marta Sitges, Bart H. Bijnens, Alejandro F. Frangi:
Septal Flash Assessment on CRT Candidates Based on Statistical Atlases of Motion. MICCAI (1) 2009: 759-766 - [c7]Hrvoje Kalinic, Sven Loncaric, Maja Cikes, Davor Milicic, Ivo Cikes, George R. Sutherland, Bart H. Bijnens:
A method for registration and model-based segmentation of Doppler ultrasound images. Medical Imaging: Image Processing 2009: 72590S - [c6]Mathieu De Craene, Oscar Camara, Bart H. Bijnens, Alejandro F. Frangi:
Non-stationary diffeomorphic registration: application to endo-vascular treatment monitoring. Medical Imaging: Image Processing 2009: 72591F - 2003
- [j4]Igor Dydenko, Denis Friboulet, Jean-Marie Gorce, Jan D'hooge, Bart H. Bijnens, Isabelle E. Magnin:
Towards ultrasound cardiac image segmentation based on the radiofrequency signal. Medical Image Anal. 7(3): 353-367 (2003) - [c5]Jan D'hooge, Oliver Turschner, Christoph Dommke, Piet Claus, Bart H. Bijnens, Jan Thoen, Frans Van de Werf, George R. Sutherland, Paul Suetens:
The Relationship between Regional Integrated Backscatter Levels and Regional Strain in Normal, Acutely Ischemic, and Reperfused Myocardium. FIMH 2003: 278-286 - [c4]Piet Claus, Bart H. Bijnens, Ole-Alexander Breithardt, George R. Sutherland:
Why Ischemic Hearts Respond Less to Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy. A Modeling Study. FIMH 2003: 287-294 - 2002
- [j3]Jan D'hooge, Bart H. Bijnens, Jan Thoen, Frans Van de Werf, George R. Sutherland, Paul Suetens:
Echocardiographic Strain and Strain-rate Imaging: A New Tool to Study Regional Myocardial Function. IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging 21(9): 1022-1030 (2002) - 2001
- [c3]Jan D'hooge, Fadi Jamal, Bart H. Bijnens, Jan Thoen, Frans Van de Werf, George R. Sutherland, Paul Suetens:
Two-Dimensional Ultrasonic Strain Rate Measurement of the Human Heart in Vivo. FIMH 2001: 47-52 - [c2]Piet Claus, Bart H. Bijnens, Frank Weidemann, Christoph Dommke, Virginie Bito, Frank Heinzel, Karin Sipido, Ivan De Scheerder, Frank E. Rademakers, George R. Sutherland:
Post-Systolic Thickening in Ischaemic Myocardium: A Simple Mathematical Model for Simulating Regional Deformation. FIMH 2001: 134-139
1990 – 1999
- 1994
- [j2]Erwin Bellon, Wilfried Houtput, Bart H. Bijnens, Paul Suetens, Guy Marchal, Peter Lauwers:
Combining fast response and low cost in an Intensive Care Unit viewing station. J. Digit. Imaging 7(2): 91-94 (1994) - 1992
- [j1]Luc Maes, Bart H. Bijnens, Paul Suetens, Frans Van de Werf:
Automated contour detection of the left ventricle in short axis view in 2D echocardiograms. Mach. Vis. Appl. 6(1): 1-9 (1992) - 1991
- [c1]Paul Suetens, Rudi Verbeeck, D. Delaere, Johan Nuyts, Bart H. Bijnens:
Model-Based Image Segmentation: Methods and Applications. AIME 1991: 3-24
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