VVRED 2006
Workshop Program

Sunday June 25 - Self-organized dinner

Monday June 26 - Workshops 1 & 2

• Workshop 1 (Monday, AM)
  • Outline the general workshop goals
  • Address a set of challenge problems in clinical cardiology for which
  • ECG-based diagnosis and monitoring would be useful
  • State and discuss the clinical basis for each challenge:
    1. Identification and quantification of demand and supply ischemia and infarction
    2. Decision support for EP ablation procedures
    3. Estimation of an individual's normal ECG for reference when clinically required for serial comparison
  • Focus initial challenges, discuss any additional ones as required
  • Discuss the facets of the challenges, and how they each play a role:
    1. Clinical motivation, nature of the problem and limitations of current methodologies
    2. Relevant physiology and Biophysics: what are the electrical sources linked to the condition, why are they challenging to detect?
    3. Signal Acquisition, analysis and processing: how do we get the data, what are the necessary processing and analysis steps?
    4. Role of simulation and modeling: how can modeling contribute to understanding the problem and developing diagnostics and therapy?
• Plan for Workshops 2, 3, and 4:
  
  • Take each challenge through a set of facets in order to understand it and develop steps to addressing it.
  • Introduce each challenge with one or two short (15 minutes) presentations from a workshop participant to outline the topic and then provide an overview of the current technical state of the art.
  • Use first half hour to formulate the challenge and last half hour to summarize, in between open discussion.
• Workshop 2 (Monday, PM):
  • Theme: Identifying and quantifying demand and supply ischemia and infarction
  • Outline: Galen, Anton
  • Current state of electrocardiographic imaging: Ron and Rob
• Workshop Dinner
  
  • Details TBA

Tuesday June 26 - workshops 3 and 4

• Workshop 3 (Tuesday, AM)
  • Theme: Decision support for EP ablation procedures
  • Outline: John Sapp
  • Current state of electrocardiographic imaging: John (Note: by imaging, we mean here the spatial measurement of cardiac bioelectricity.)
• Workshop 4 (Tuesday, PM)
  • Theme: Estimation of an individual's normal ECG for reference when clinically required for serial comparison
  • Outline: Anton Gorgels
  • Current state of individualized ECG's: Pentti, Adriaan