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President's Newsletter, November 2009
CinC President Peter Macfarlane's newsletter reports on our organization's recent activities and plans. If you participated in a CinC meeting or submitted an abstract to CinC within the past few years, you should have received a copy of this newsletter by email in November; if you did not, and you would like to receive our announcements, please add yourself to the CinC mailing list (or send an empty email to AddThisAddress@cinc.org) and we will send them to your email address in the future.
CinC 2009 in Park City
The 36th annual CinC conference took place 13-16 September 2009 in Park City, Utah. The three-day scientific program included presentations of over 200 papers.
The winner of the Rosanna Degani Young Investigator Award this year was Kun Wang of Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, whose paper, A Comparison of 2D and 3D Edge Detectors in Semi Automated Measurements of Chamber Volumes Using 3D Echocardiographic Laboratory Phantom Images, begins on page 1 of Computers in Cardiology 2009.
This year's PhysioNet/CinC Challenge Awards were won by Xiaoxiao Chen of Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA (Forecasting Acute Hypotensive Episodes in Intensive Care Patients Based on a Peripheral Arterial Blood Pressure Waveform); and Jorge Henriques and Teresa Rocha of the University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (Prediction of acute hypotensive episodes using neural network multi-models).
The Gary and Bill Sanders Poster Awards for CinC 2009 were given to Beatriz Carbonell of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain (Ionic Basis of Arrhythmic Risk Biomarkers on Simulated Rabbit Ventricular Myocytes); R Sebastian of University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain (Modeling the Purkinje Conduction System with a Non-Deterministic Rule-Based Iterative Method); Wanmeng Zuo of Harbin Institute of Technology, China (Simulation of Effects of Ischemia in 3-D Human Ventricle); Antoine Simon, of the University of Rennes, France (Cardiac Function Estimation Using Multislice Computed Tomography: A Comparison to Speckle Tracking Imaging); Remy Dubois, of ESPCI Paris Tech, France (Mapping Myocardial Elasticity Changes after RF-Ablation Using Supersonic Shear Imaging); and Pietro Bonizzi, of the University of Nice, France (Ventricular Activity Residual Reduction in Remainder ECGs Based on Short-Term Autoregressive Model Interpolation).
If you were among the more than 300 attendees at CinC 2009 (or if you missed it), you may enjoy the CinC 2009 photo album. After the final plenary session, a few of us gathered outside for the group photo below. We hope to see you again at CinC 2011 in Hangzhou, China!
CinC 2009, Wednesday afternoon. Photo by Anton Safer