June 10 Tuesday
📝 Registration
On-site Registration:
📅 Tuesday, June 10
🕛 12:00 – 15:00_
📍 Kopernika 7E, Kraków
- If you’re unable to register between 12:00 – 15:00 at Kopernika 7E, on-site registration will also be available during the Welcome Reception at Św. Anny 12 starting at 17:00, and at the main conference venue on Wednesday June 11 and Thursday June 12.
🎉 Social Events & Sightseeing (with Participation Form)
- Sightseeing Tour – Czartoryski Museum
🕒 Afternoon of June 10
📍 Czartoryski Museum, Kraków
Participants will be assigned to small groups for the museum visit.
👉 Participation in Social Events:
If you wish to take part in the sightseeing tour of the Czartoryski Museum, please fill out the participation form. We have three groups — this will help us organize them effectively.
➡️ CZARTORYSKI MUSEUM SIGHTSEEING
- Meeting Point for Sightseeing Tour:
📍 Kopernika 7E – Volunteers will be present to guide you to the museum and later to the reception venue. - Welcome Reception & Opening Ceremony:
🕔 Entry from 17:00
🕕 Opening Speech at 18:00 by Prof. Peter van Dam
📍 Św. Anny 12, Kraków
June 11 Wednesday
8.00: Registration – continue
8.30: Welcome and introduction ECGI and working groups
Session 1: Forward simulation approach in inverse ECG
Chairs: Peter van Dam, Teodor Buchner
9.10: Introduction
9.15: Vito Starc, University of Ljubljana Faculty of Medicine, Information preservation by a moving equivalent dipole model to represent the 12-lead ECG in humans
9.45: Molly Maleckar, Simula, Oslo: A new generation: approaches for synthetic ECG
10.15: Gernot Plank, University Graz: Scalable Generation of Whole-Heart Digital Twins under Normal Sinus Rhythm from the 12 lead ECG – Towards Industrial and Clinical Applications
10.45 Coffee break
Session 2: ECGI repolarization
Chairs: Lluis Mont, Maria Guillem
11.10: Introduction
11.15: Manon Kloosterman, University Medical Center Utrecht, Validation of electrocardiographic imaging with invasive high-density depolarization and repolarization mapping
11.45: Karin Smits, Department of Physiology, Maastricht University Medical Center+, CARIM, The Netherlands): The influence of delayed ventricular activation on cardiac repolarization: insights from electrocardiographic imaging
12.15: Ksenia Sedova, IKEM Prague: Electrocardiographic manifestation of ventricular repolarization.
12.45 Lunch break
Session 3: Clinical Experiences with ECGI systems: the 3D functional heart
Chairs: Yesim Serinagaoglu, Ksenia Sedova, Peter van Dam
* session supported by iTeam 3D-MR project
13.30: Introduction
13.45: Peter van Dam, Jagiellonian University Medical College, 3D aspects of ECG
14.15: Leonora Parreira, Lisbon Luz Hospital. Lisbon. Portugal
Exclusively ECGI-guided ablation. Ready for prime time?
14.45: Lluis Mont (Hospital Clínic, Universitat de Barcelona): ECGI in Everyday Practice: Clinical Applications from Cardiac Arrhythmias Management to Device Implantation
15:15 Sabine Ernst (Brompton, London): Why do we need non-invasive 3D mapping: the clinical perspective
15.15: Posters with coffee and beverages and company demos
15.45: Michał Goncerz, MD – Jagiellonian University Medical College, Department of Anatomy – 3D virtual teaching of heart anatomy
Hands-on workshop with Mixed Reality Glasses supported by eduXR project
- Join us from 3:45 PM to 5:15 PM (possible few groups – one session last 20-25 min) for a unique hands-on workshop that brings the human heart to life like never before — in stunning 3D through Mixed Reality.
- Led by an experienced anatomist with years of teaching expertise in immersive 3D technologies, this session offers a revolutionary way to explore cardiac anatomy. You’ll wear Mixed Reality glasses and dive into an interactive learning experience that redefines how we see and understand the heart.
- We warmly invite all participants to immerse themselves in this extraordinary educational journey and rediscover cardiac anatomy from an entirely new perspective.
17.15: Closing session
19.00: Dinner
📍Location: Restauracja Galicyjska, ul. Pijarska 9, 31-015 Kraków
June 12 Thursday
Session 4: ECGI methods
Chairs: Vito Starc, Sabine Ernst
8.45: Introduction
9.00: Alejandro Lopez-Rincon, University Utrecht, Using Bayesian Optimization to Estimate the Conductivity Tensor in the Forward Problem of ECG
9.30: Emma Lagracie, Université de Bordeaux, France: An alternative epicardial source model for ECGI
10.00: Marta Martínez Pérez, Corify Care SL, Madrid, Spain Establishing ECG imaging resynchronization criteria for enhanced cardiac resynchronization therapy in patients with LBBB
10.30: Beata Ondrusova, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria, Comparative Study of ECGI Methods for Premature Ventricular Contraction Localization
11.00 Coffee break
Session 5: ECGI in Rhythm disorders
Chairs: Beata Ondrusova, Pawel Matusik
11.25: Introduction
11.30: Philip Cuculich, Washington University school of Medicine, St Louis, USA: Real-World Value Using ECGI In The EP Lab & Remaining Challenges to Solve – Thoughts From Clinicians
12.00: Raúl Moreno-López, ITACA Institute, Universitat Politècnica de València, València, Spain. Exploring Personalized Atrial Fibrillation Ablation Through ECG Imaging and Artificial Intelligence
12.30: Inés Llorente Lipe, ITACA Institute, Universitat Politècnica de València, València, Spain, Stability Mapping for Guiding Atrial Fibrillation Ablation Using Non-Invasive Mapping
13.00: Lunch Break
Session 6: Why do we need ECGI?
Chairs: Rob MacLeod, Peter van Dam
14.00: Introduction
14.10: Jean-Baptiste Guichard (Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, IDIBAPS, Catalonia, Spain): Use of ECGI to guide atrial flutter ablation
14.40: Pyotr Platonov, Lund University Hospital, (Lund Sweden): Why would a cardiologist need a new ECG technique? Is 12-lead ECG not enough?
15.40: Coffee break
16.00: Two activities after the coffee break:
1. Lets work together: Working groups
This session aims to bring people together and discuss options for collaboration. In the past this has been very successful, with several papers and this collaborations between groups (see ecg-imaging.org). This list below will be finalized, but the participation of all attendees is highly appreciated. Subjects to be discussed in groups:
- ECGI in Robotics
- ECGI in non-invasive ablation
- ECG to optimize devices
- Forward / inverse Methodology
- Role of AI in ECGI
- Model building
2. Michał Goncerz, MD – Jagiellonian University Medical College, Department of Anatomy – 3D virtual teaching of heart anatomy
Hands-on workshop with Mixed Reality Glasses supported by eduXR project
- Join us from 4:00 PM to 5:15 PM (possible few groups – one session last 20-25 min) for a unique hands-on workshop that brings the human heart to life like never before — in stunning 3D through Mixed Reality.
- Led by an experienced anatomist with years of teaching expertise in immersive 3D technologies, this session offers a revolutionary way to explore cardiac anatomy. You’ll wear Mixed Reality glasses and dive into an interactive learning experience that redefines how we see and understand the heart.
- We warmly invite all participants to immerse themselves in this extraordinary educational journey and rediscover cardiac anatomy from an entirely new perspective.
17.15: Present working groups
19.30: Dinner (extra fee)
📍Location: ul. Sienna 12, 31-041 Kraków
June 13 Friday
8.45: Session 8: Wrap-up talks
Introduction
9.00: Peter van Dam and Rob MacLeod
9.30: Working groups
10.00: Consortium for ECGI: what is our role
10.30: Conclusion and take home messages
11.00: Coffee
12.00: Farewell