Massimo Pappalardo , Ph.D., General Chair, 2009 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS)
Mauricio Pereira da Cunha, Ph.D., Vice President of the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society (UFFC-S) for Ultrasonics
Donald Yuhas, Ph.D., Technical Program Committee (TPC) Chair, 2009 IEEE IUS
Susan Trolier-McKinstry, Ph.D., President of the UFFC-S
Awards and Recognitions
Presenter:Helmut Ermert, Ph.D., Awards Chair of the UFFC-S
Plenary presentation
Giorgio Parisi, Ph.D., University of Rome "La Sapienza"
A new approach to the study of Heart Sounds
Heart Sounds have a fundamental role in cardiac semiotics. However a
deterministic and unambiguous association between noises in cardiac
dynamics has yet to be accomplished due to the many and different
overlapped events which contribute to the acoustic emission. The
current computer-based availabilities in signal processing enabled us
to move from the standard cardiac auscultation, even in its
improved forms like hi-tech phonocardiograms paying attention to
unexplored characteristics of heart-related sounds: their spatial
distribution on the chest surface and their evolution in time. In this
talk we will present some results on a new equipment and a new sound
visualization technique designed to enable the association of the
spatial distribution of the heart acoustic emission with physiological
and pathological patient condition.
prof. Giorgio Parisi
Giorgio Parisi was born 8/4/48 in Rome, Italy. He graduated from Rome
University in 1970, his thesis supervisor being Nicola Cabibbo. He has
worked as researcher at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati from 1971
to 1981. In this period he has been on leave of absence from Frascati
at Columbia University, New York (1973-1974), at the Institute des
Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (1976-1977) and at the Ecole Normale
Superieure, Paris (1977-1978).
He became full professor in 1981. From 1981 to 1992 he was full
professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Rome II (Tor
Vergata), becoming later professor of Quantum Theories at the
University of Rome I (La Sapienza).
He received the Feltrinelli prize for physics from the Accademia dei
Lincei in 1986, the Boltzmann medal in 1992, the Italgas prize in
1993, the Dirac medal and prize in 1999, the Enrico Fermi Prize in
2003, the David Heinmann Prize in 2005, the Galileo Prize in 2006 and
the Microsoft European Science prize in 2007. He became correspondent
fellow of the Accademia dei Lincei in 1987 and fellow in 1992; he is
also fellow of the French Academy from 1993, of the Accademia dei
Quaranta from 2001 and of the US Academy of Science from 2004.
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