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Kraaijeveld, Michael (author)Atrial Fibrillation or AF is the most common heart rhythm anomaly affecting millions of people. This work explores the possibilities of reinterpreting speech processing techniques for use in atrial fibrillation detection. An existing method of modelling single heartbeat, single lead ECG signals by means of an ARMA model's amplitude response as a...master thesis 2024
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van Breukelen, Elena (author)For the heart to pump blood throughout the body, electrical impulses that trigger the cellular contraction must be generated and spread through the myocardial tissue. These signals propagate faster along the longitudinal cardiac fiber direction than the transverse direction, conferring the heart with anisotropic conduction properties. Therefore,...master thesis 2023
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Wang, Chengyan (author)Atrial fibrillation (AF) is one of the most common heart diseases. Billions of people have suffered from it in the world. Although it can lead to terrible complications such as stroke and heart failure, the underlying mechanisms of it are still under-explored. Besides, there is no so-called optimal therapy for the patients. As the disease is...master thesis 2023
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Suresan, Anjali (author)Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is a cardiac arrhythmia that occurs due to the initiation of electrical impulses in the heart in an uncoordinated manner, giving rise to a disorganized and rapid heartbeat. The progression of AF over time can lead to complications such as stroke and heart failure. Catheter ablation is an established treatment protocol...master thesis 2023
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Licurici, Teodor (author)Estimating the transmembrane currents travelling through the epicardium and local activation times based on atrial epicardial electrograms can greatly help in the study of cardiac arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation. This work focuses on the accurate estimation of the aforementioned signals and features. To do this, two least squares-based...master thesis 2023
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Rodewijk, Koen (author)Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most commonly occurring arrhythmia in clinical practice and can have a significant impact on the current and future wellbeing of the patient. By placing an unipolar sensor array directly on the epicardium during an open-heart surgery to measure the electrical activity of the atrium, more insight about this disease...master thesis 2023
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Venema, Ilja (author)Current speech-encoding strategies in cochlear implants (CI’s) do not provide their users with sufficient spectral resolution for complex listening tasks and pitch perception. This paper presents a new test that has been developed to assess pitch perception: the glide tone test (GTT). A total of 25 normal hearing (NH) participants were tested to...master thesis 2022
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Rakesh Arya, Stephy Annie Curie (author)The earplug development followed by ALPINE, a hearing protection company is a trial and error method. This method leads to high material wastage. It is also a time-consuming and expensive development process. So, the objective of this thesis is to ease the error earplug development process by implementing a prediction model. The research is...master thesis 2022
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Hunter, William (author)Atrial fibrillation is a common cardiovascular disease, affecting the regular beating of the heart through chaotic contraction of the heart's upper chambers. On its own, the condition—increasingly prevalent among the elderly—is not life threatening, but it leads to an increased risk of stroke and heart failure. As of yet, there is no consensus...master thesis 2022
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Kos, Cees (author)The heart is one of our vital organs. It functions by periodically contracting in a rhythmic way. Sometimes, this rhythmic behaviour is affected by abnormalities in the tissue. These conditions are referred to as cardiac arrhythmias. One kind is of specific interest, called atrial fibrillation (AF). To further study AF, methods have been...master thesis 2022
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de Vries, Jordi (author)Being able to estimate atrial tissue conductivity parameters from epicardial electrograms is an important tool in diagnosing and treating heart rhythm disorders such as atrial fibrillation. One of these parameters is the atrial fibre direction, which is often assumed to be known in conductivity estimation methods. In this thesis, a novel method...master thesis 2022
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Moree, Tijs (author)The most common serious heart rhythm disease is atrial fibrillation. It is not fatal on its own but does increase the risk of heart failures and strokes. There is little understanding about the mechanisms behind the disease, so more insight is desired. Using an array of electrodes, measurements are being performed of the electrical atrial...master thesis 2022
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van der Werf, Ids (author)Sound pressure varies over space and time. Knowledge about this exact behavior has many applications, e.g., room compensation, dereverberation and sound field reconstruction. Inside enclosures, the sound field is influenced by the surroundings, such as the geometry of the enclosure and the materials used.<br/>Reconstructing a satisfying sound...master thesis 2022
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Roest, Tobias (author)Public address (PA) systems are an integral part of every building. Their function as a safety and security system could benefit from adding recording capabilities. With such capabilities, people could be located during evacuation or announcements could be adjusted to room acoustics for better intelligibility. However, adding microphones to a PA...master thesis 2022
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Kordes, Arthur (author)Atrial Fibrillation affects millions of people worldwide. It is associated with an impaired quality of life and an increased risk of stroke, cardiac failure and mortality. Treatments exist, but early detection and treatment is crucial, due to the progressive nature of the disease. Algorithms can help with early detection. Machine learning...master thesis 2021
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de Koeijer, Niels (author)With the aid of an array of loudspeakers, sound zone algorithms seek to reproduce multiple distinct zones of audio inside an enclosure. Typical approaches determine the loudspeaker inputs by optimizing over a cost function that models the sound pressure inside the enclosure. However, recent methods propose cost functions that include a...master thesis 2021
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Riemens, Ellen (author)Loudspeakers are placed in an environment unknown to the loudspeaker designers. The room influences the acoustic experience for the user. Having information about the room makes it possible to better reproduce the sound field as intended. Using microphone measurements, the location of acoustic reflectors can be inferred. Current state-of-the-art...master thesis 2021
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AGARWAL, SARTHAK (author)Causal inference is a familiar topic in biomedical research and a key concept in the study of connectivity in various physiological systems. This work aimed to analyse the coupling between the beat to beat parameters derived from ECG and respiration. It was the first time such an analysis was carried out in the context of finding the differences...master thesis 2021
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van Es, Tim (author), Helfferich, Florens (author)Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common type of cardiac arrhythmia occurring in around 0.5% of the world population. AF is characterized by the rapid and irregular beating of the atrial chambers of the heart, which can cause lead to strokes and other heart-failures. To prevent these consequences the early detection of AF is paramount. Using...bachelor thesis 2021
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Kohabir, Amar (author), Smit, Alex (author)When symptoms of atrial fibrillation (AF), a common cardiac arrhythmia, are experienced, a Holter monitor or event recorder is used for official diagnosis. Apart from the fact that these devices are experienced as inconvenient, AF can already manifest damage in a pre-symptomatic phase. This thesis is aimed at developing a method for recording...bachelor thesis 2021