IBT Publications by Schuler


Journal Articles (16)

S. Schuler, M. Schaufelberger, L. R. Bear, J. A. Bergquist, M. J. M. Cluitmans, J. Coll-Font, O. N. Onak, B. Zenger, A. Loewe, R. S. MacLeod, D. H. Brooks, and O. Dossel.
Reducing Line-of-Block Artifacts in Cardiac Activation Maps Estimated Using ECG Imaging: A Comparison of Source Models and Estimation Methods.
In IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 69(6) , pp. 2041-2052, 2022
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S. Schuler, N. Pilia, D. Potyagaylo, and A. Loewe.
Cobiveco: Consistent biventricular coordinates for precise and intuitive description of position in the heart – with MATLAB implementation.
In Medical Image Analysis, vol. 74, pp. 102247, 2021
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S. Schuler, A. Wachter, and O. Dössel.
Electrocardiographic Imaging Using a Spatio-Temporal Basis of Body Surface Potentials—Application to Atrial Ectopic Activity.
In Frontiers in Physiology, vol. 9:1126, 2018
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N. Pilia, S. Schuler, M. Rees, G. Moik, D. Potyagaylo, O. Dössel, and A. Loewe.
Non-invasive localization of the ventricular excitation origin without patient-specific geometries using deep learning..
In Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, vol. 143, pp. 102619, 2023
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T. Gerach, S. Schuler, A. Wachter, and A. Loewe.
The Impact of Standard Ablation Strategies for Atrial Fibrillation on Cardiovascular Performance in a Four-Chamber Heart Model.
In Cardiovascular Engineering and Technology, vol. 14(2) , pp. 296-314, 2023
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C. Nagel, G. Luongo, L. Azzolin, S. Schuler, O. Dössel, and A. Loewe.
Non-Invasive and Quantitative Estimation of Left Atrial Fibrosis Based on P Waves of the 12-Lead ECG—A Large-Scale Computational Study Covering Anatomical Variability.
In Journal of Clinical Medicine, vol. 10(8) , pp. 1797, 2021
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G. Luongo, S. Schuler, A. Luik, T. P. Almeida, D. C. Soriano, O. Dossel, and A. Loewe.
Non-Invasive Characterization of Atrial Flutter Mechanisms Using Recurrence Quantification Analysis on the ECG: A Computational Study.
In IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 68(3) , pp. 914-925, 2021
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G. Luongo, L. Azzolin, S. Schuler, M. W. Rivolta, T. P. Almeida, J. P. Martínez, D. C. Soriano, A. Luik, B. Müller-Edenborn, A. Jadidi, O. Dössel, R. Sassi, P. Laguna, and A. Loewe.
Machine learning enables noninvasive prediction of atrial fibrillation driver location and acute pulmonary vein ablation success using the 12-lead ECG.
In Cardiovascular Digital Health Journal, vol. 2(2) , pp. 126-136, 2021
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E. Kovacheva, T. Gerach, S. Schuler, M. Ochs, O. Dössel, and A. Loewe.
Causes of altered ventricular mechanics in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: an in-silico study.
In BioMedical Engineering OnLine, vol. 20(1) , pp. 69, 2021
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L. Azzolin, S. Schuler, O. Dössel, and A. Loewe.
A Reproducible Protocol to Assess Arrhythmia Vulnerability : Pacing at the End of the Effective Refractory Period..
In Frontiers in Physiology, vol. 12, pp. 656411, 2021
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T. Gerach, S. Schuler, J. Fröhlich, L. Lindner, E. Kovacheva, R. Moss, E. M. Wülfers, G. Seemann, C. Wieners, and A. Loewe.
Electro-Mechanical Whole-Heart Digital Twins: A Fully Coupled Multi-Physics Approach.
In Mathematics, vol. 9(11) , pp. 1247, 2021
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R. Moss, E. M. Wülfers, S. Schuler, A. Loewe, and G. Seemann.
A Fully-Coupled Electro-Mechanical Whole-Heart Computational Model: Influence of Cardiac Contraction on the ECG.
In Frontiers in Physiology, vol. 12, 2021
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C. Nagel, S. Schuler, O. Dössel, and A. Loewe.
A bi-atrial statistical shape model for large-scale in silico studies of human atria: model development and application to ECG simulations.
In Medical Image Analysis, vol. 74, pp. 102210, 2021
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D. Nairn, H. Lehrmann, B. Müller-Edenborn, S. Schuler, T. Arentz, O. Dössel, A. Jadidi, and A. Loewe.
Comparison of Unipolar and Bipolar Voltage Mapping for Localization of Left Atrial Arrhythmogenic Substrate in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation.
In Frontiers in Physiology, vol. 11, pp. 575846, 2020
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J. van der Waal, V. Meijborg, S. Schuler, R. Coronel, and T. Oostendorp.
In silico validation of electrocardiographic imaging to reconstruct the endocardial and epicardial repolarization pattern using the equivalent dipole layer source model..
In Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, 2020
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M. Keller, S. Schuler, M. Wilhelms, G. Lenis, O. Dössel, G. Seemann, C. Schmitt, and A. Luik.
Characterization of radiofrequency ablation lesion development based on simulated and measured intracardiac electrograms.
In IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 61(9) , pp. 2467-2478, 2014
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Conference Contributions (26)

S. Schuler, D. Potyagaylo, and O. Dössel.
Delay-Based Regularization for ECG Imaging of Transmembrane Voltages.
In Computing in Cardiology, vol. 46, 2019
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S. Schuler, D. Potyagaylo, and O. Dössel.
Using a Spatio-Temporal Basis for ECG Imaging of Ventricular Pacings: Insights From Simulations and First Application to Clinical Data.
In 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), pp. 1559-1562, 2019
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S. Schuler, J. D. Tate, T. F. Oostendorp, R. S. MacLeod, and O. Dössel.
Spatial Downsampling of Surface Sources in the Forward Problem of Electrocardiography.
In Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart, vol. 11504, pp. 29-36, 2019
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S. Schuler, A. Loewe, and O. Dössel.
Forcing Transmembrane Voltages to Decrease Slowly: A Temporal Regularization for ECG Imaging.
In Computing in Cardiology, vol. 45, 2018
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S. Schuler, L. Baron, A. Loewe, and O. Dössel.
Developing and coupling a lumped element model of the closed loop human vascular system to a model of cardiac mechanics.
In BMTMedPhys 2017, vol. 62(S1) , pp. S69, 2017
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S. Schuler, D. Potyagaylo, and O. Dössel.
ECG Imaging of Simulated Atrial Fibrillation: Imposing Epi-Endocardial Similarity Facilitates the Reconstruction of Transmembrane Voltages.
In Computing in Cardiology, vol. 44, 2017
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S. Schuler, M. W. Keller, T. Oesterlein, O. Dössel, and G. Seemann.
Influence of Catheter Orientation, Tissue Thickness and Conduction Velocity on the Intracardiac Electrogram.
In Biomedical Engineering/Biomedizinische Technik, vol. 58(s1) , 2013
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T. Gerach, J. Krauß, S. Schuler, and A. Loewe.
Whole Heart Simulation of Severe Aortic Stenosis Using a Lumped Parameter Model of Heart Valve Dynamics.
In 2023 Computing in Cardiology (CinC)(10363691) , pp. 1-4, 2023
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J. Brenneisen, S. Schuler, E. Kovacheva, T. Gerach, O. Dössel, and A. Loewe.
Influence of Geometrical Properties for the Calculation of a Pressure-Free Whole Heart Geometry.
In 14th WCCM-ECCOMAS Congress 2020, pp. 1-9, 2021
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G. Luongo, S. Schuler, M. W. Rivolta, O. Dössel, R. Sassi, and A. Loewe.
Semi-Supervised vs. Supervised Learning for Discriminating Atrial Flutter Mechanisms Using the 12-lead ECG.
In Computing in Cardiology Conference (CinC), vol. 48, 2021
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G. Luongo, S. Schuler, M. W. Rivolta, O. Dössel, R. Sassi, and A. Loewe.
Automatic classification of 20 different types of atrial tachycardia using 12-lead ECG signals.
In EP Europace, vol. 22(Supplement_1) , 2020
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G. Luongo, S. Schuler, M. W. Rivolta, O. Dössel, R. Sassi, and A. Loewe.
Automatic ECG-based Discrimination of 20 Atrial Flutter Mechanisms: Influence of Atrial and Torso Geometries.
In 2020 Computing in Cardiology(9344051) , pp. 1-4, 2020
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T. Gerach, S. Schuler, E. Kovacheva, O. Doessel, and A. Loewe.
Consequences of Using an Orthotropic Stress Tensor for Left Ventricular Systole.
In 2020 Computing in Cardiology Conference (CinC), vol. 47, 2020
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E. Kovacheva, L. Baron, S. Schuler, T. Gerach, O. Dössel, and A. Loewe.
Optimization Framework to Identify Constitutive Law Parameters of the Human Heart.
In Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering, vol. 6(3) , pp. 95-98, 2020
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M. Schaufelberger, S. Schuler, L. Bear, M. Cluitmans, J. Coll-Font, O. N. Onak, O. Dössel, and D. Brooks.
Comparison of Activation Times Estimation for Potential-Based ECG Imaging..
In Computing in Cardiology, vol. 46, 2019
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J. D. Tate, S. Schuler, O. Dössel, R. S. MacLeod, and T. F. Oostendorp.
Correcting Undersampled Cardiac Sources in Equivalent Double Layer Forward Simulations.
In Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart, vol. 11504, pp. 147-155, 2019
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G. Luongo, S. Schuler, O. Dössel, and A. Loewe.
12-Lead ECG Feature Identification to Discriminate Different Types of Atrial Flutter.
In 41 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2019
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G. Luongo, S. Schuler, T. P. Almeida, D. C. Soriano, O. Dössel, and A. Loewe.
Discrimination of Atrial Flutter on Simulated 12-Lead-ECG Signals by Applying Biosignal Processing.
In Gordon Research Conference - Cardiac Arrhythmia Mechanisms, 2019
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E. Kovacheva, S. Schuler, T. Gerach, O. Dössel, and A. Loewe.
A Method for Pressure-Volume-Based Parameter Identification for a Passive Constitutive Model of Myocardium.
In RISM Congress: iHEART - Modelling the Cardiac Function, 2019
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L. Azzolin, J. Sanchez, S. Schuler, O. Dössel, and A. Loewe.
Initiation and maintenance of re-entrant cardiac propagation: a computational vulnerability study.
In Gordon Research Conference - Cardiac Arrhythmia Mechanisms, 2019
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A. Müller, E. Kovacheva, S. Schuler, O. Dössel, and L. Baron.
Effects of local activation times on the tension development of human cardiomyocytes in a computational model.
In Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering, vol. 4(1) , pp. 247-250, 2018
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J. Greiner, S. Pollnow, S. Schuler, G. Lenis, O. Dössel, and G. Seemann.
Simulation of intracardiac electrograms around acute ablation lesions.
In Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering, vol. 2(1) , pp. 607-610, 2016
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M. W. Keller, S. Schuler, A. Luik, C. Schmitt, and O. Dössel.
Evaluating changes in electrogram morphology during radiofrequency ablation of cardiac arrhythmias.
In Biomedical Engineering/Biomedizinische Technik, vol. 58(s1) , 2013
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M. W. Keller, S. Schuler, A. Luik, O. Dössel, G. Seemann, C. Schilling, and C. Schmitt.
Comparison of simulated and clinical intracardiac electrograms.
In 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, pp. 6858-6861, 2013
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T. G. Oesterlein, M. W. Keller, S. Schuler, A. Luik, O. Dössel, G. Seemann, and C. Schmitt.
Determination of local activation time in bipolar endocardial electrograms: a comparison of clinical criteria and a new method based on the non-linear energy operator.
In Journal of Electrocardiology, vol. 46(4) , pp. e18, 2013
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M. W. Keller, S. Schuler, O. Dössel, and G. Seemann.
Differences in intracardiac signals on a realistic catheter geometry using mono and bidomain models.
In Computing in Cardiology, vol. 39, pp. 305-308, 2012
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Dissertations (1)

S. F. Schuler.
Novel Methods to Incorporate Physiological Prior Knowledge into the Inverse Problem of Electrocardiography - Application to Localization of Ventricular Excitation Origins.
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT). Dissertation. 2022
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Student Theses (2)

S. Schuler.
Developing and coupling a lumped parameter model of the closed loop human vascular system to a model of cardiac mechanics.
Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Masterarbeit. 2016
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S. Schuler.
Simulation von intrakardialen Elektrogrammen während der Katheterablation.
Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Bachelorarbeit. 2012
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