prof.dr. N.M.S. de Groot

Parttime Professor
Signal Processing Systems (SPS), Department of Microelectronics

Expertise: Cardiologist-Electrophysiologist, chief Research Unit Translational Electrophysiology

Themes: Health and Wellbeing

Biography

Prof. Dr. Natasja MS de Groot is professor in translational electrophysiology at Erasmus Medical Center (Rotterdam). She is a Medical Delta professor at EMC and TU Delft, and in this context appointed as part-time professor at SPS and BE.

At EMC (her primary affiliation), she works as cardiologist-electrophysiologist. She is director of the unit translational electrophysiology and principal investigator of the Erasmus Medical Center of Atrial Fibrillation.

In 2018, she became leader of the Medical Delta Cardiac Arrhythmia Lab, one of the flagships of the collaboration between Leiden University Medical Center, Erasmus Medical Center and TU Delft.

Medical Delta Cardiac Arrhythmia Lab

Part of a larger program (with Erasmus MC) to unravel and target electropathology related to atrial arrhythmia

Projects history

Earlier recognition of cardiovascular diseases

Atrial Fibrillation FIngerPrinting: Spotting Bio-Electrical Markers to Early Recognize Atrial Fibrillation by the Use of a Bottom-Up Approach

Biomedical Signal Processing

Simulation of transmembrane potentials and corresponding electrograms

Simulation of transmembrane potentials and corresponding electrograms, based on the monodomain and the Courtemanche models.

Software, Mar 2023

cardiac fibre direction estimator

Estimator of the cardiac fibre direction from local activation timesĀ of a piece of cardiac tissue,

Software, Mar 2023

Improved Local Activation Time Annotation in Fractionated Atrial Electrograms of Atrial Mappings

Matlab software for improved estimation Local Activation Time in Fractionated Atrial Electrograms

Software, Feb 2023

  1. A Singular-value-based Map to Highlight Abnormal Regions Associated with Atrial Fibrillation Using High-resolution Electrograms and Multi-lead ECG
    H. Moghaddasi; R.C. Hendriks; B. Hunyadi; P. Knops; M.S. van Schie; N.M.S. de Groot; A.J. van der Veen;
    IEEE Trans. Biomedical Eng.,
    2024. DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2024.3420412
    document

  2. A Comparison of Methods for Fiber Direction Estimation from Electrograms
    Elena van Breukelen; Johannes Willem de Vries; Mathijs van schie; Natasja de Groot; Richard C. Hendriks;
    In 2024 Computing in Cardiology (CinC),
    2024.

  3. High Dominant Frequencies and Fractionated Potentials Do Not Indicate Focal or Rotational Activation During AF
    L. N. van Staveren; R. C. Hendriks; Y. J. H. J. Taverne; N. M. S. de Groot;
    Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Clinical Electrophysiology,
    2023.

  4. Estimation of Cardiac Fibre Direction Based on Activation Maps
    J. W. de Vries; M. Sun; N. M. S. de Groot; R. C. Hendriks;
    In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP),
    2023. Additional material: softwaresoftware

  5. An accurate and efficient method to train classifiers for atrial fibrillation detection in ECGs: Learning by asking better questions
    F. J. Wesselius; M. S.van Schie ; N. M. S. de Groot; Richard C. Hendriks;
    Computers in Biology and Medicine,
    Volume 143, April 2022. DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2022.105331
    document

  6. Joint cardiac tissue conductivity and activation time estimation using confirmatory factor analysis
    Miao Sun; Natasja de Groot; Richard C. Hendriks;
    Computers in Biology and Medicine,
    Volume 144, May 2022. DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2022.105393
    document

  7. Classification of De Novo Post-Operative and Persistent Atrial Fibrillation Using Multi-Channel ECG Recordings
    Hanie Moghaddasi; Richard C. Hendriks; Alle-Jan van der Veen; Natasja M.S. de Groot; Borbala Hunyadi;
    Computers in Biology and Medicine,
    Volume 143, April 2022. DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2022.105270
    document

  8. Estimation of the Atrial Activity from Electrograms: A Beamforming Perspective
    Tijs Moree; Mathijs S. van Schie; Natasja M. S. de Groot; Richard C. Hendriks;
    In Computing in Cardiology,
    2022.
    documentsoftware

  9. Surface Electrocardiogram Reconstruction Using Intra-operative Electrograms
    H. Moghaddasi; B. Hunyadi; A.J. van der Veen; N.M.S. de Groot; R.C. Hendriks;
    In 42nd WIC Symposium on Information Theory and Signal Processing in the Benelux (SITB 2022),
    Louvain la Neuve, Belgium, pp. 136, 2022.
    document

  10. Novel rank-based features of atrial potentials for the classification between paroxysmal and persistent atrial fibrillation
    H. Moghaddasi; R.C. Hendriks; A.J. van der Veen; N.M.S. de Groot; B. Hunyadi;
    In 2022 Computing in Cardiology (CinC),
    IEEE, September 2022.
    document

  11. Analyzing the Effect of Electrode Size on Electrogram and Activation Map Properties
    Bahareh Abdi; Mathijs S. van Schie; N. M. S. de Groot; Richard C. Hendriks;
    Computers in Biology and Medicine,
    Volume 134, July 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2021.104467
    document

  12. Critical appraisal of technologies to assess electrical activity during atrial fibrillation: a position paper
    N.M.S. de Groot; D. Shah; P.M. Boyle; E. Anter; G.D. Clifford; I. Deisenhofer; T. Deneke; P. van Dessel; O. Doessel; P. Dilaveris; F.R. Heinzel; S. Kapa; P. Lambiase; J. Lumens; P.G. Platonov; T. Ngarmukos; J.P. Martinez; A. Sanchez; Y. Takahashi; B.P. Valdigem; A.J. van der Veen; K. Vernooy; R. Casado-Arroyo;
    EP Europace,
    pp. 1-18, December 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/europace/euab254
    document

  13. Cardiac Tissue Conductivity Estimation Using Confirmatory Factor Analysis
    Miao Sun; Natasja M.S. de Groot; Richard C. Hendriks;
    Computers in Biology and Medicine,
    Volume 135, Aug. 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2021.104604
    document

  14. Digital Biomarkers and Algorithms for Detection of Atrial Fibrillation using Surface Electrocardiograms: A Systematic Review
    Fons J.Wesselius; Mathijs S. van Schie; Natasja M. S. de Groot; Richard C. Hendriks;
    Computers in Biology and Medicine,
    2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2021.104404
    document

  15. Improved local activation time annotation of fractionated atrial electrograms for atrial mapping
    Bahareh Abdi; Richard C. Hendriks; Alle-Jan van der Veen; Natasja M.S. de Groot;
    Computers in Biology and Medicine,
    Volume 117, February 2020. ISSN: 0010-4825. DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2019.103590
    documentsoftware

  16. Graph-Time Spectral Analysis for Atrial Fibrillation
    Miao Sun; Elvin Isufi; Natasja M.S. de Groot; Richard C. Hendriks;
    Biomedical Signal Processing and Control,
    Volume 59, May 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bspc.2020.101915
    document

  17. Tensor-based Detection of Paroxysmal and Persistent Atrial Fibrillation from Multi-channel ECG
    H. Moghaddasi; A.J. van der Veen; N.M.S. de Groot; B. Hunyadi;
    In 29th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2020),
    Amsterdam (Netherlands), EURASIP, pp. 1155-1159, August 2020.
    document

  18. Local Activation Time Estimation in Atrial Electrograms Using Cross-Correlation over Higher-Order Neighbors
    B. Kolling; B. Abdi; N.M.S. de Groot; R.C. Hendriks;
    In 29th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2020),
    Amsterdam (Netherlands), EURASIP, pp. 905-909, August 2020.
    document

  19. A Compact Matrix Model for Atrial Electrograms for Tissue Conductivity Estimation
    Bahareh Abdi; Richard C. Hendriks; Alle-Jan van der Veen; Natasja M. S. de Groot;
    Computers in Biology and Medicine,
    Volume 107, pp. 284-291, April 2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2019.02.012
    document

  20. A Simplified Atrial Electrogram Model for Tissue Conductivity Estimation
    Bahareh Abdi; Richard C. Hendriks; Alle-Jan van der Veen; Natasja M. S. de Groot;
    In 7th Dutch Bio-Medical Engineering Conference (Book of abstracts),
    Egmond aan Zee (Netherlands), January 2019.

  21. Local Activation Time Estimation in Fractionated Electrograms of Cardiac Mappings
    Bahareh Abdi; Alle-Jan van der Veen; Natasja de Groot; Richard C. Hendriks;
    In 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC),
    pp. 285-288, 2019. ISBN: 978-1-5386-1312-2. DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2019.8856683
    document

  22. Ventricular Activity Signal Removal in Atrial Electrograms of Atrial Fibrillation
    Bahareh Abdi; Richard C. Hendriks; Alle-Jan van der Veen; Natasja M. S. de Groot;
    In Biosignals,
    Prague (Czech Republic), pp. 179-184, February 2019. DOI: 10.5220/0007388901790184
    document

  23. A Graph Signal Processing Framework for Atrial Activity Extraction
    Miao Sun; Elvin Isufi; M.S de Groot; Richard C. Hendriks;
    In 27th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2019),
    2019.
    document

  24. Local activation time annotation in atrial electrogram arrays using deconvolution
    B. Abdi; R.C. Hendriks; A.J. van der Veen; N.M.S. de Groot;
    In 2019 Computing in Cardiology (CinC),
    IEEE, 2019. DOI: 10.23919/CinC49843.2019.9005874
    document

  25. Mission-Driven Resource Management for Reconfigurable Sensing Systems
    T. H. de Groot; O. A. Krasnov; A. G. Yarovoy;
    IEEE Systems Journal,
    Volume 12, Issue 2, pp. 1531-1542, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2016.2599072
    document

  26. Urban Objects Classification with an Experimental Acoustic Sensor Network
    De Groot, T.H.; Woudenberg, E.; Yarovoy, A.G.;
    IEEE Sensors Journal,
    Volume 15, Issue 5, pp. 3068-3075, May 2015. doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2014.2387573.
    document

  27. Mission-driven Resource Management for Reconfigurable Sensing Systems
    De Groot, T.H.;
    PhD thesis, Delft University of Technology, Delft, January 2015. ISBN 9789461863911.
    document

  28. Gradient-based Optimization Algorithms for Networks of Reconfigurable Sensors
    de Groot, T.H.; Krasnov, O.A.; Yarovoy, A.G.;
    Control Engineering Practice,
    Volume 29, Issue 1, pp. 74-85, August 2014.
    document

  29. A 780 #x2013;950 MHz, 64 #x2013;146 #x00B5;W Power-Scalable Synchronized-Switching OOK Receiver for Wireless Event-Driven Applications
    X. Huang; P. Harpe; G. Dolmans; H. de Groot; J. R. Long;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 49, Issue 5, pp. 1135-1147, May 2014.

  30. Mission-Driven Sensor Management based on Expected-Utility and Prospect Objectives
    de Groot, T.H.; Krasnov, O.A.; Yarovoy, A.G.;
    In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Fusion (Fusion 2014), July 7 - 10, 2014, Salamanca, Spain,
    pp. 1--8, July 2014.
    document

  31. Efficient Sequential-Hierarchical Deployment Strategy for Heterogeneous Sensor Networks
    de Groot, T.H.; Krasnov, O.A.; Yarovoy, A.;
    In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (IEEE ISSNIP 2014 - Sensor Networks), April 21-24, 2014, Singapore,
    pp. 1-6, April 2014.
    document

  32. Mission-driven Resource Allocation based on Subjective Input with Extra Level of Uncertainty
    de Groot, T.H.; Krasnov, O.A.; Yarovoy, A.G.;
    In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Fusion (Fusion 2014), July 7 - 10, 2014, Salamanca, Spain,
    pp. 1--7, July 2014.
    document

  33. 9.8 An 860 #x03BC;W 2.1-to-2.7GHz all-digital PLL-based frequency modulator with a DTC-assisted snapshot TDC for WPAN (Bluetooth Smart and ZigBee) applications
    V. K. Chillara; Y. H. Liu; B. Wang; A. Ba; M. Vidojkovic; K. Philips; H. de Groot; R. B. Staszewski;
    In 2014 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers (ISSCC),
    pp. 172-173, Feb 2014.

  34. Noise and Sensitivity in RF Envelope Detection Receivers
    X. Huang; G. Dolmans; H. de Groot; J. R. Long;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs,
    Volume 60, Issue 10, pp. 637-641, Oct 2013.

  35. Mission-driven system design during runtime for reconfigurable radars and antennas
    de Groot, T.H.; Krasnov, O.A; Yarovoy, A;
    In Proceedings of the 10th European Radar Conference (EuRAD), 6 - 11 October 2013, Nuremberg, Germany,
    pp. 463-466, 2013.
    document

  36. A 915 MHz, Ultra-Low Power 2-Tone Transceiver With Enhanced Interference Resilience
    X. Huang; A. Ba; P. Harpe; G. Dolmans; H. de Groot; J. R. Long;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 47, Issue 12, pp. 3197-3207, Dec 2012.

  37. Simulator for studying resource allocation in reconfigurable multi-sensor networks
    de Groot, T.H.; Krasnov, O.A; Yarovoy, A;
    In Proceedings of the 9th European Radar Conference (EuRAD), October 31 - November 2, 2012, Amsterdam, the Netherlands,
    pp. 326-329, 2012.
    document

  38. Adaptive optimization algorithms for utility-driven resource allocation in reconfigurable multi-sensor networks
    de Groot, T.H.; Krasnov, O.A; Yarovoy, A;
    In Proceedings of the 9th European Radar Conference (EuRAD), October 31 - November 2, 2012, Amsterdam, the Netherlands,
    pp. 330-333, 2012.
    document

  39. Generic utility definition for mission-driven resource allocation
    de Groot, T.H.; Krasnov, O.A; Yarovoy, A;
    In Processing of the IET International Conference on Radar Systems (Radar 2012), 22 - 25 October 2012, Glasgow, UK,
    pp. 1-5, Oct 2012.
    document

  40. A 915MHz 120 #x03BC;W-RX/900 #x03BC;W-TX envelope-detection transceiver with 20dB in-band interference tolerance
    X. Huang; A. Ba; P. Harpe; G. Dolmans; H. De Groot; J. Long;
    In 2012 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference,
    pp. 454-456, Feb 2012.

  41. A 26 uW 8 bit 10 MS/s Asynchronous SAR ADC for Low Energy Radios
    P.J.A. Harpe; C. Zhou; Yu Bi; N.P. van der Meijs; X. Wang; K. Philips; G. Dolmans; H. de Groot;
    IEEE J. Solid State Circuits,
    Volume 46, Issue 7, pp. 1585-1595, July 2011. 10.1109/JSSC.2011.2143870.
    document

  42. Resource allocation challenges for reconfigurable multi-sensor networks
    De Groot, T. H.; Tigrek, R.F.; Krasnov, O.A; Huizing, A; Yarovoy, A;
    In Proceedings of the 8th European Radar Conference (EuRAD-2011), October 9-14 2011, Manchester, UK,
    pp. 142-145, 2011.
    document

  43. Nanoscale chemical imaging of the reduction behavior of a single catalyst particle
    E. Smit; I. Swart; J.F. Creemer; Karunakaran; C; Bertwistle; D; H.W. Zandbergen; F.M.F. de Groot; B.M. Weckhuysen;
    Angewandte chemie-international edition,
    pp. 3632-3635, 2009.

  44. In-situ Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscopy of catalytic materials under reaction conditions
    E. Smit; J.F. Creemer; H.W. Zandbergen; B.M. Weckhuysen; F.M.F. de Groot;
    In Proc. 14th International Conference on X-Ray Absorption Fine Structure (XAFS14),
    Camerino, Italy, pp. 1-4, 2009.

  45. Extending the limits of a capacitive soil-water-content measument (U_SP_2_I_IC_T)
    Z.Y. Chang; B.P. Iliev; G.C.M. Meijer; J.F. de Groot;
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
    Volume 56, Issue 6, pp. 2240-2244, 2007.

  46. Extending the limits of a capacitive soil-water-content measurement
    Z.Y. Chang; B.P. Iliev; F. de Groot; G.C.M. Meijer;
    In s.n. (Ed.), IEEE, pp. 376-379, 2005. Editor onbekend JH.

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