Research projects

Current PhD and Post Doc projects

• Better patient selection to Trans Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) for severe aortic stenosis: is preoperative myocardial flow reserve related to long-term outcome?
• Automatic detection of aortic valve events using deep neural networks on cardiac signals from epicardially placed accelerometer.
• Enhanced monitoring of cardiac function in cardiac surgery using 3-axes accelerometers.
• Improved early diagnosis of thrombosis in Left Ventricular Assist Device using accelerometer.
• New real-time decision support during blood loss using machine learning on vital signs.
• The hemodynamic influence of venous pressure, mechanical ventilation, catecholamines and inflammation during laparoscopic liver resection and radiofrequency ablation of colorectal cancer liver metastasis. 
• Novel methods for evaluating acute response to cardiac resynchronization therapy
• Improved detection of adverse events during Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)
• Improved monitoring in awake craniotomy
• Cerebral blood flow monitoring in healthy subjects and surgical patients; association with postoperative cognitive impairment