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Therecentdevelopmentsindynamiccardiacimagingandmodelingarethe- sultofanincreasinglyfruitfulcooperationbetweentheoreticians,engineers,and practitioners. Thestandardclinicalparametersareprogressivelybene?ttingfrom moreaccuratequantitativemeasurementsthankstoasimultaneoususeof- phisticateddataacquisitiontechniquessuchasmultichannelECGandMEG, dynamicUS,doppler,X-Ray,CT,helicalCT,MRI,fMRI,SPECT,PET. . . data andadvancedphysicalandmathematicaltools. Itisbecomingpossibleto- cientlycombineprioranatomicalandfunctionalknowledgewithadvanced3D spatio-temporaldigitaldata. Thechallengenowisclearlytocorrelatethemicro structureandfunctionoftheorganfromthecellularlevelwithitsmacroscopic functionalbehavior. TheFIMH2001internationalworkshopaimedtopromotecollaborationb- weenscientistsinsignalandimageprocessing,appliedmathematicsandphysics, biomedicalengineeringandcomputerscience,andexpertsincardiology,rad- logy,biology,andphysiology. TheFIMH2001workshop,inits?rstyear,focused oncomplexheartmodelsinvolvinganatomicalandfunctionalinformation. The goalistograduallymovetowardhybrid3Dbiomechanicalandelectrophysio- gicalmodelsabletosimulatethedynamicbehavioroftheheart. WefeelthatFIMH2001presentedanopportunitytocreateacardio-vascular researchnetworkataEuropeanleveltofederatethemainpluridisciplinary groupsinvolvedinadvancedresearchincardiovascularimagingandmodeling inEurope. Theideaistocreatewhatcouldbecalledthe EuropeanBeating HeartProject . Thepurposeofsuchaprojectistojoinresearche?ortsto- provediagnosisandtherapyofpathologicaldysfunctionsoftheheart,forthe bene?tofthepatient,throughfundamentalandclinicalresearch. September2001 ToivoKatila IsabelleE. Magnin VI Preface Acknowledgements Themembersoftheprogramcommitteedeservespecialthanksfortheirjob inreviewingallthepapers,andfortheirsupportintheorganizationofthe conference. WethankthemembersoftheCREATISunitinLyonandtheLaboratory ofBiomedicalEngineeringinHelsinkifortheirinvolvementandsupportinthe organizationofthisconference. Conferencesupportedby InstitutNationaldesSciencesAppliqu eesdeLyon(INSA),France HelsinkiUniversityofTechnology(HUT),Finland CentreNationaldelaRechercheScienti?que(CNRS),France ScienceAcademyofFinland Jointincentiveaction BeatingHeart oftheCNRS,France FrenchCulturalCenter,Helsinki French-FinnishAssociationforScienti?candTechnicalResearch(AFFRST) FrenchBiomedicalEngineeringSociety(SFGBM) Organization FIMH2001wasco-organizedbytheCREATISLaboratory,CNRSUMR5515, Lyon,France,andtheLaboratoryofBiomedicalEngineeringattheHelsinski UniversityofTechnology,Finland. ConferenceChairs ToivoKatila LaboratoryofBiomedicalEngineering,H- sinskiUniversityofTechnology,Finland IsabelleE. Magnin CREATIS,CNRSUMR5515,Lyon,France OrganizationCommittee PatrickClarysse CREATIS,CNRSUMR5515,Lyon,France JohanMontagnat CREATIS,CNRSUMR5515,Lyon,France JukkaNenonen LaboratoryofBiomedicalEngineering,H- sinskiUniversityofTechnology,Finland ProgramCommittee T. Arts UniversityofTechnologyofEindhoven,The Netherlands N. Ayache INRIASophia-Antipolis,France S. Baillet LaPiti eSalp etri`ere,Paris,France M. Barlaud I3S,Sophia-Antipolis,France L. Bidaut H opitauxUniversitairesdeGen`eve,Switz- land B. Bijnens MIC,KatholiekeUniversiteitLeuven,Belgium I. Bloch ENST,Paris,France E. Canet CREATIS,Lyon,France P. Clarysse CREATIS,Lyon,France L. Cohen CEREMADE,Paris,France P. Croisille CREATIS,Lyon,France J. Declerck OMIA,Oxford,UnitedKingdom H. Delingette INRIASophia-Antipolis,France J. D hooge MIC,KatholiekeUniversiteitLeuven,Belgium R. Fenici CatholicUniversityofRome,Italy D. Friboulet CREATIS,Lyon,France A. Herment INSERMU494,Paris,France M. Horacek DalhousieUniversity,Canada M. Janier CREATIS,Lyon,France H. Larson HvidovreHospital,Denmark K. Lauerma HelsinkiUniversityCentralHospital,Finland VIII Organization ProgramCommittee(continuation) S. Loncaric UniversityofZagreb,Croatia J. L otj onen VTTTechnology,Tampere,Finland I. E. Magnin CREATIS,Lyon,France M. M akij arvi HelsinkiUniversityCentralHospital,Helsinki, Finland J. Meunier Un
