Mathematics and Computing in Cardiology
A special issue of Mathematical and Computational Applications (ISSN 2297-8747).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2018) | Viewed by 3676
Special Issue Editor
Interests: biomedical signal processing; ECG; heart rate variability
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The heart is the motor that keeps the body alive, responsible for making blood flow to all cells and passing it through the lungs to oxygenate it. Its rhythm is controlled by the nervous system and each beat propagates through heart muscles, following a well-defined pattern to get the atria and ventricles to contract and relax at the right time to achieve the highest possible efficiency in blood pumping. However, this perfect machine can fail causing various cardiovascular illnesses.
Physicians analyze heart sounds, record the electrical activity through electrocardiograms, take pictures of arteries and veins that cover the heart, or even record videos showing blood flow in these channels. All this is done to infer what is wrong and to find solutions.
Computers and mathematics are becoming increasingly important in this process. Devices are more reliable, portable and fast. Algorithms capable of extracting more information and presenting it in a better way to doctors have been implemented. Mathematical models for different components of the cardiovascular system have been designed, tested and correlated with real physiology. They are great advances, but there is still a lot to do.
In this Special Issue, we would like to receive contributions describing applications of mathematics and computation to cardiology. Some possible topics include:
- ECG and heart rate variability
- Blood pressure
- Phonocardiography
- Echocardiography and other image techniques
- Hardware devices
- Software tools
- Mathematical models
- Clinical applications
Dr. Xosé Antón Vila Sobrino
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- ECG
- Mathematical models
- Machine learning
- Signal processing
- Image processing
- Software tools
- Cardiology
- Sensors
- Patient monitoring
- Clinical diagnosis
- Heart rate variability
