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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, most of which are already available as preprints.
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, will begin on page 1 of Computing in Cardiology 2009 when it is published shortly.
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 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 (or if you missed this year's event), you may enjoy this year's photo album. After the final plenary session, a few of us gathered outside for the group photo below. We hope to see you again next year in Belfast!
CinC 2009, Wednesday afternoon. Photo by Anton Safer