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

- 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, 2025 'European heart journal-cardiovascular imaging', 26(1), 4-21.
- Nogueira M, Sanchez-Martinez S, Piella G, De Craene M, Yaguee C, Marti-Castellote PM, Bonet M, Oladapo OT & Bijnens B 2025, 'Labour monitoring and decision support: a machine-learning-based paradigm', Frontiers in global womens health, 6 -1368575.
- Villanueva-Baxarias I, Pellisé-Tintoré A, Pérez-Rodríguez M, Nogué L, Vaziraani P, Soveral I, Crispi F, Gómez O, Garcia-Canadilla P, Camara O, Bijnens B & Bernardino G 2025, 'Understanding the hemodynamic changes in fetuses with coarctation of the aorta using a lumped model of fetal circulation', Plos computational biology, 21 - 5 - e1013096.
- Yazaki K, Fan CPS, Thilakam SS, Hui W, Dragulescu A, Mertens L, Bijnens B & Friedberg MK 2025, 'Regional Right Ventricular Remodeling in Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome Across Staged Surgical Palliation and Its Association With Global Right Ventricular Function and Clinical Outcomes', Journal of the american society of echocardiography, 38 - 10 - 932 - 945.
- Novoa RH, Fabijanovic D, Vellvé K, Loncaric F, Rodríguez-Lopez M, Sepúlveda-Martínez A, Sarvari SI, Valenzuela-Alcaraz B, Crovetto F, Faner R, Agustí A, Sitges M, Cikes M, Bernardino G, Blanco I, Bijnens B & Crispi F 2025, 'Cardiac remodeling and exercise tolerance in small for gestational age: a follow-up cohort study from preadolescence into adolescence', Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine, 12 - 1654596.