Pranav Bhagirath

CONTENTS Chapter 1. General Introduction 11 SECTION 1. UTILITY OF CARDIAC IMAGING IN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY Chapter 2. Multimodality imaging for patient evaluation and guidance of catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation - current status and future perspective. Int J Cardiol. 2014 Aug 20;175(3):400-8. 21 Chapter 3. Evaluation of state-of-the-art segmentation algorithms for left ventricle infarct from late Gadolinium enhancement MR images. Med Image Anal. 2016 May;30:95-107. 41 Chapter 4. Implementation of a standardized cardiac magnetic resonance based workflow for atrial fibrillation catheter ablation. Submitted 75 Chapter 5. Left atrial sphericity: a promising parameter to predict response to ablation Submitted 91 Chapter 6. Interventional cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in electrophysiology: advances toward clinical translation. Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol. 2015 Feb;8(1):203-11. 107 SECTION 2. ELECTRICAL ASSESSMENT OF ARRHYTHMOGENIC SUBSTRATE Chapter 7. Integrated whole-heart computational workflow for inverse potential mapping and personalized simulations. J Transl Med. 2016 May 25;14(1):147. 133 Chapter 8. Computing volume potentials for noninvasive imaging of cardiac excitation. Ann Noninvasive Electrocardiol. 2015 Mar;20(2):132-9. 149 Chapter 9. A priori model independent inverse potential mapping: the impact of electrode positioning. Clin Res Cardiol. 2016 Jan;105(1):79-88. 165 Chapter 10. Feasibility and Accuracy of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Based Whole-Heart Inverse Potential Mapping of Sinus Rhythm and Idiopathic Ventricular Foci. J Am Heart Assoc. 2015 Oct 14;4(10):e002222. 189 Chapter 11. General discussion 207