Bart Bijnens

Bart Bijnens

Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Engineering Sciences

Bart Bijnens obtained an MSc in Electronic Engineering and PhD in Medical Sciences (1997, KULeuven, Belgium). He was tenured Professor of Cardiovascular Imaging&Dynamics at the Medical Faculty in Leuven (1998-04), supervised clinical research at St. George's Hospital in London (2005-6) and was resident Visiting Professor at the University of Zagreb (2007), Croatia. Since Sept. 2008, he is ICREA Research Professor in Barcelona at the UPF mentoring the 'Translational Computing in Cardiology' group. He is recognised as international expert in pathophysiological concepts and (image-based) assessment of CV diseases, with a reputation of being able to explain basic pathophysiology principles and put technical developments in context. This resulted in many international collaborations/publications/lectures as well as being requested by centres all over the world for advice on research in cardiovascular mechanics and imaging.

Research interests

Translational Cardiovascular Pathophysiology, focussing on assessing cardiac function and understanding changes induced by disease and how treatment can modulate this remodelling. This is approached by integrating information handling and computing, combined with basic pathophysiology knowledge in order to advance clinical sciences. This implies an approach from basic understanding of disease towards a clinical study; selecting/designing appropriate investigational tools to assess relevant clinical parameters; quantifying diagnostic information (from clinical information to imaging data) to extract pertinent information and interpreting results and relate them to pathophysiology. Recent projects include the combination of computational modelling with interpretable machine learning in order to find easy to implement/deploy techniques for the identification of patients at risk for adverse events, as well as to improve our understanding of disease and decission making.

Selected publications

- Sanchez-Martinez S, Marti-Castellote PM, Hoodbhoy Z, Bernardino G, Prats-Valero J, Aguado AM, Testa L, Piella G, Crovetto F, Snyder C, Mohsin S, Nizar A, Ahmed R, Jehan F, Jenkins K, Gratacós E, Crispi F, Chowdhury D, Hasan BS, Bijnens B . 2024, ' Prediction of low birth weight from fetal ultrasound and clinical characteristics: a comparative study between a low- and middle-income and a high-income country ', Bmj global health , 9 - 12 -e016088.
- Aguado AM, Jimenez-Perez G, Chowdhury D, Prats-Valero J, Sánchez-Martínez S, Hoodbhoy Z, Mohsin S, Castellani R, Testa L, Crispi F, Bijnens B, Hasan B & Bernardino G 2024, 'AI-enabled workflow for automated classification and analysis of feto-placental Doppler images', Frontiers in digital health, 6 -1455767.
- Vellve K, Garcia-Canadilla P, Nogueira M, Youssef L, Arranz A, Nakaki A, Boada D, Blanco I, Faner R, Figueras F, Agusti A, Gratacos E, Crovetto F, Bijnens B & Crispi F 2024, 'Pulmonary vascular reactivity in growth restricted fetuses using computational modelling and machine learning analysis of fetal Doppler waveforms', Scientific reports, 14 - 1 -5919.
- Muraru D, Pontone G, Jurcut R, Magne J, Donal E, Stankovic I, Anagnostopoulos C, Bartko PE, Bijnens B, Fontana M, Galli E, Michalski B, Marra MP, Pezel T, Rossi A, Smiseth OA, van de Veire N, Edvardsen T, Petersen SE & Cosyns B 2024, 'How to conduct clinical research in cardiovascular imaging: a primer for clinical cardiologists and researchers-a statement of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) of the ESC', European heart journal-cardiovascular imaging, 26 - 1 - 4 - 21.
- Fraser AG, Bijnens B , Sutherland GR & Kristoffersen K, 2024 "A historical note on early clinical Doppler echocardiography in Norway" European heart journal-cardiovascular imaging, 25 -7 - e180–e181.