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Kluft, Annefleur (author)Introduction: Heart failure (HF) poses a significant burden on public health. This can be largely attributed to recurrent hospitalizations in consequence of HF decompensation. Detection of early signs of impending fluid retention may facilitate timely medical intervention and thereby prevent hospitalizations. Monitoring of Cardiac Implantable...master thesis 2024
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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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Eenkhoorn, C. (author), Goos, T.G. (author), Dankelman, J. (author), Franx, Arie (author), Eggink, Alex J. (author)Introduction: In clinical practice, fetal heart rate monitoring is performed intermittently using Doppler ultrasound, typically for 30 minutes. In case of a non-reassuring heart rate pattern, monitoring is usually prolonged. Noninvasive fetal electrocardiography may be more suitable for prolonged monitoring due to improved patient comfort and...journal article 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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Senthil Kumar, Arunjunai Rajan (author)Batteryless Internet of Things (IoT) devices powered by energy harvesting enable sustainable and maintenance-free operation, but face challenges in achieving synchronised bidirectional communication between intermittently-powered nodes. This thesis presents CardioSync, a novel framework that leverages the human heartbeat as a shared clock to...master thesis 2023
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Yümlü, Ege (author)Smartwatches are equipped with sensors that allow continuous monitoring of physiological and physical activities, making them ideal sources of data for data analysis. However, accurately identifying individuals based on smartwatch data can be challenging due to the presence of outliers. Hence, outlier detection techniques play a crucial part in...bachelor thesis 2023
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Harthoorn, Jip (author)Advancements in the precision and accuracy of consumer-grade wearables, such as a Fitbit, have enabled the identification and therefore authentication of individuals based on their emitted heart frequencies using these wrist-worn devices. With this type of authentication, a password is essentially sent out every second. This makes it a perfect...bachelor thesis 2023
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Chiriţă, Matei (author)The aim of this paper is to complete the gap in the knowledge and experiment using as little as only the heart rate of some subjects to manage to successfully authorise them in some supposed system. The focus will be on the Gaussian Mixture model and the One Class Support Vector Machine, both outlier detectors, because most of the past research...bachelor thesis 2023
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Beekhuizen, Michael (author)Cardiovascular diseases are one of the primary causes of mortality worldwide. Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation is a specific type that is difficult to detect and diagnose in a short time frame. To overcome this, we investigated if long-term wearable data can be used for the detection of heart diseases. The BigIdeasLab_STEP dataset and long-term...master thesis 2023
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Dostanic, M. (author)The high death toll of cardiovascular diseases worldwide and the lack of effective treatments for them are the main motivation for developing alternative and more efficient models for cardiac drug development and disease research. The missing link between current laboratory research on static in vitro and animal models and the clinical stage...doctoral thesis 2023
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Sterrenburg, Jasper (author)Life is an ever-evolving process, over time new ideas are born and offer new possibilities and approaches to handle familiar problems or processes differently. This is also the case for educational buildings and the architectural ideas that they represent, especially in the social and interactive realm.<br/>The school’s beating heart focuses on...student report 2023
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van Ravensberg, Annemiek (author)Background: Solutions targeting early recognition of congestion in heart failure (HF) patients have the potential to prevent readmissions and can thus significantly reduce the burden on HF care. The gold standard measure of congestion is invasively measured pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (PCWP). However, the invasive nature and accessibility...master thesis 2023
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Wenink, Kristel (author)Introduction: Currently, there is no method available for intra-operative evaluation of the completeness (transmurality and continuity) of surgical ablation lesions. This study aimed to investigate the changes in electrogram characteristics and activation patterns caused by different (non)transmural and (dis)continuous ablation lesions in ex...master thesis 2023
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Müller, Britt (author)Children with a Congenital Heart Defect (CHD) need to visit the outpatient clinic regularly their whole lives, often starting from birth. These hospital visits are frequently accompanied by feelings of anxiety and fear, which can have a detrimental impact on a child’s life. In collaboration with the Hospital Hero Foundation and the Willem...master thesis 2023
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Pentenga, Puck (author)A congenital heart defect (CHD) is an anomaly in the structure of the heart that is present at birth. In the last 15 years, a CHD is present in 9 per 1,000 live births, making it the most prevalent birth defect (Linde et al., 2011). <br/>CHD’s prevalence coupled with its inherent complexity culminates into situations that are both complicated...master thesis 2023
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Hut, T.Y. (author), Roest, Arno (author), Gaillard, D.H.K. (author), Hazekamp, Mark (author), Van Den Boogaard, Pieter (author), Lamb, Hildo (author), Jongbloed, Monique (author), Rijnberg, Friso (author), Kenjeres, S. (author)Objectives: Recent evidence suggests that conduits implanted in Fontan patients at the age of 2-4 years become undersized for adulthood. The objective of this study is to use computational fluid dynamic models to evaluate the effect of virtual expansion of the Fontan conduit on haemodynamics and energetics of the total cavopulmonary...journal article 2023
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de Bakker, Marie (author), Petersen, Teun B. (author), Rueten-Budde, Anja J. (author), Akkerhuis, K. Martijn (author), Umans, Victor A. (author), Brugts, Jasper J. (author), Germans, Tjeerd (author), Reinders, M.J.T. (author), Katsikis, Peter D. (author)Aims Risk assessment tools are needed for timely identification of patients with heart failure (HF) with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) who are at high risk of adverse events. In this study, we aim to derive a small set out of 4210 repeatedly measured proteins, which, along with clinical characteristics and established biomarkers, carry...journal article 2023
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Dostanic, M. (author), Windt, Laura (author), Wiendels, Maury (author), van Meer, Berend J. (author), Mummery, Christine L. (author), Sarro, Pasqualina M (author), Mastrangeli, Massimo (author)We present a novel design of elastic micropillars for tissue self-assembly in engineered heart tissue (EHT) platforms. The innovative tapered profile confines reproducibly the tissue position along the main micropillar axis, increasing the accuracy of tissue contraction force measurement. Polydimethylsiloxane-based pillars were designed and...conference paper 2023
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Gülcher, Oskar J. (author), Vis, Annemijn (author), Peirlinck, M. (author), Kluin, Jolanda (author)Background: Maintaining balanced left and right cardiac outputs in a total artificial heart (TAH) is challenging due to the need for continuous adaptation to changing hemodynamic conditions. Proper balance in ventricular outputs of the left and right ventricles requires a preload-sensitive response and mechanisms to address the higher...review 2023
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Tselentis, D. (author), Papadimitriou, E. (author)Driving pattern recognition has been applied for the purposes of driving styles identification and harsh driving events detection. However, the evolution of driving behavior around and especially before such events has not been investigated at a microscopic level. The objective of this research is to reveal existing driving patterns around harsh...journal article 2023