Publications by authors named "Wolfgang Utschick"

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide. The diagnoses of cardiovascular diseases are usually carried out by cardiologists utilizing Electrocardiograms (ECGs). To assist these physicians in making an accurate diagnosis, there is a growing need for reliable and automatic ECG classifiers.

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Objective: Physicians use electrocardiograms (ECG) to diagnose cardiac abnormalities. Sometimes they need to take a deeper look at abnormal heartbeats to diagnose the patients more precisely. The objective of this research is to design a more accurate heartbeat classification algorithm to assist physicians in identifying specific types of the heartbeat.

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Optical flow cytometry is used as the gold standard in single cell function diagnostics with the drawback of involving high complexity and operator costs. Magnetic flow cytometers try to overcome this problem by replacing optical labeling with magnetic nanoparticles to assign each cell a magnetic fingerprint. This allows operators to obtain rich cell information from a biological sample with minimal sample preparation at near in-vivo conditions in a decentralized environment.

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