Aortic coarctation is one of the most difficult cardiac defects to diagnose before birth, and it accounts for 8% of congenital heart diseases. Antenatal diagnosis is crucial for early treatment of the neonate and to decrease ...

Many cardiac diseases are associated with changes in ventricular shape. However, in daily practice, the heart is mostly assessed by 2D echocardiography only. While 3D techniques are available, they are rarely used. In this ...

Artificial placenta (AP) is a promising approach to improve survival in extremely premature fetuses, removing them from the uterus and replacing the placenta by an external oxygenator. In in vivo experiments with lambs, ...

Diagnosis through imaging generally requires the combination of several modalities. Algorithms for data fusion allow merging information from different sources, mostly combining all images in a single step. In contrast, ...

Rule-based methods are often used for assigning fiber orientation to cardiac anatomical models. However, existing methods have been developed using data mostly from the left ventricle. As a consequence, fiber information ...

Aims: Endurance athletes develop cardiac remodeling to cope with increased cardiac output during exercise. This remodeling is both anatomical and functional and shows large interindividual variability. In this study, we ...