讲座题目：University of Glasgow ECG Program: Research Update

报告人：Peter W. Macfarlane

时 间：8月25日（周三）下午1:30-2:15
地 点：廖凯原楼2-102
主持人：任秋实（教授）

报告内容摘要：
      The University of Glasgow has developed its own 12 lead resting ECG analysis program which is used worldwide. This talk will very briefly summarise the approach used for automated ECG analysis by the program. Examples of the different types of interpretation from the Glasgow Program will be presented.An area of significant interest has been that of acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) and work on ECG diagnostic criteria in this area will be outlined. In particular, the need to use different criteria for males and females will be stressed.
     Another area of interest has been the variation of ECG appearances with race. The Glasgow team has databases from individuals in different parts of the world, including China, and has derived interesting data on racial variation of ECG appearances. Additional leads are sometimes used in the diagnosis of a heart attack and the normal limits of the ECG in this situation will also be reviewed.
     Finally, work has been done in collaboration with Cardiac Science on artificial pacemaker spike detection. It will be shown that a very high sampling rate greatly improves the detection of pacemaker stimuli and the possibility of detecting biventricular pacing artefacts is now greatly improved.

报告人简介：
      Professor Macfarlane came to work in Glasgow Royal Infirmary over 35 years ago and was one of the founding members of the University of Glasgow Department of Medical Cardiology, which was created shortly after he arrived. This has been integrated into what is now known as the Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, which is part of the College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences. 
      Professor Macfarlane’s major interest throughout has been the application of computer techniques to ECG interpretation. His work has been adopted commercially and applied world-wide. He is particularly interested in differences in ECG appearances due to age, gender and ethnicity. As a result, he has influenced recently published international guidelines for the ECG definition of acute myocardial infarction. In addition, he has established an ECG Core Laboratory for handling ECGs recorded in national and international clinical trials and epidemiological studies, including the landmark West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Trial.
      He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, the Royal College of Physicians of Glasgow, the European Society of Cardiology and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is immediate Past President of the International Society of Electrocardiology and currently President of the Board of Computing in Cardiology, whose annual meeting will be held in Hangzhou in September 2011. He was awarded a DSc. on the basis of his contribution to research in his own field.  He was also jointly awarded the 1998 Rijlant International Prize in Electrocardiology by the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine.