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Researcher
Nele Vandersickel
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65
Results
2026
Networks and Topology: Identification and Theoretical Characterization of Atrial Arrhythmia Mechanisms
Arthur Santos Bezerra
Nele Vandersickel
Eike Wülfers
Dissertation
2026
2025
Analysis and generation of the fibrosis textures based on histology data of the human hearts with non-ischemic cardiomyopathy
Arstanbek Okenov
Timur Nezlobinskii
Claire A. Glashan
Katja Zeppenfeld
Nele Vandersickel
Alexander Panfilov
A1
Journal Article
in
PHYSICS IN MEDICINE & BIOLOGY
2025
Cross-correlation as an alternative for Local Activation Times for the analysis of reentries in Directed Graph Mapping
Arthur Santos Bezerra
Sander Hendrickx
Robin Van Den Abeele
Eike M. Wülfers
Bjorn Verstraeten
Sebastiaan Lootens
Arstanbek Okenov
Timur Nezlobinsky
Sebastien Knecht
Mattias Duytschaever
et al.
U
Journal Article
in
Biomedical Signal Processing and Control
2025
DGM-TOP : automatic identification of the critical boundaries in atrial tachycardia
Robin Van Den Abeele
Sander Hendrickx
Niels Carlier
Eike Wülfers
Arthur Santos Bezerra
Bjorn Verstraeten
Sebastiaan Lootens
Karel Desplenter
Arstanbek Okenov
Timur Nezlobinskii
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
FRONTIERS IN PHYSIOLOGY
2025
Estimation, generation, and structural analysis of cardiac fibrosis
Arstanbek Okenov
Nele Vandersickel
Alexander Panfilov
Dissertation
2025
How a Topological Mindset May Offer Extra Control During Mapping and Ablation of Left-Sided Reentrant Atrial Tachycardia
Mattias Duytschaever
Maarten De Smet
Jordi Martens
Milad El Haddad
Benjamin De Becker
Clara Francois
Rene Tavernier
Robin Van Den Abeele
Sander Hendrickx
Nele Vandersickel
et al.
U
Journal Article
in
Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology
2025
Paired reentries maintain ventricular tachycardia: a topological analysis of arrhythmic mechanisms using the index theorem
Robin Van Den Abeele
Sebastiaan Lootens
Bjorn Verstraeten
Arthur Santos Bezerra
Arstanbek Okenov
Timur Nezlobinskii
Viktor Van Nieuwenhuize
Sander Hendrickx
Nele Vandersickel
U
Journal Article
in
Frontiers in Network Physiology
2025
Reentry-driven model of atrial fibrillation is maintained by paired reentries and terminated by strategic pairwise virtual ablation
Arthur Santos Bezerra
Robin Van Den Abeele
Bjorn Verstraeten
Sebastiaan Lootens
Arstanbek Okenov
Timur Nezlobinsky
Sander Hendrickx
Vincent F. M. Segers
Nele Vandersickel
U
Journal Article
in
Frontiers in Physiology
2025
Topological insights into cardiac arrhythmia and pairwise rotational activity
Robin Van Den Abeele
Nele Vandersickel
Dissertation
2025
2024
Atrial topology for a unified understanding of typical and atypical flutter
Mattias Duytschaever
Robin Van Den Abeele
Niels Carlier
Arthur Santos Bezerra
Bjorn Verstraeten
Sebastiaan Lootens
Karel Desplenter
Arstanbek Okenov
Timur Nezlobinskii
Dipen Shah
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
CIRCULATION-ARRHYTHMIA AND ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY
2024
Computer based method for identification of fibrotic scars from electrograms and local activation times on the epi- and endocardial surfaces of the ventricles
Arstanbek Okenov
Timur Nezlobinskii
Katja Zeppenfeld
Nele Vandersickel
Alexander Panfilov
A1
Journal Article
in
PLOS ONE
2024
Directed Graph Mapping exceeds phase mapping for the detection of simulated 2D meandering rotors in fibrotic tissue with added noise
Sebastiaan Lootens
Iris Janssens
Robin Van Den Abeele
Eike Wülfers
Arthur Santos Bezerra
Bjorn Verstraeten
Sander Hendrickx
Arstanbek Okenov
Timur Nezlobinskii
Alexander Panfilov
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
COMPUTERS IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
2024
Effects of fibrotic border zone on drivers for atrial fibrillation : an in-silico mechanistic investigation
Shaheim Ogbomo-Harmitt
George Obada
Nele Vandersickel
Andrew P. King
Oleg Aslanidi
P1
Conference
2024
Impact of topology on the number of loops during macro-re-entrant atrial tachycardia
Nele Vandersickel
Sander Hendrickx
Robin Van Den Abeele
Bjorn Verstraeten
Editorial material
2024
The development of small-molecule ERBB4 agonists as a treatment for heart failure
J Cools
E Feyen
S Van Den Bogaert
B Goovaerts
Y Fu
E Wuelfers
L Roderick
Nele Vandersickel
G W De Keulenaer
V F M Segers
U
Journal Article
in
European Heart Journal
2024
2023
Directed graph mapping for ventricular tachycardia : a comparison to established mapping techniques
Joshua Hawson
Enid Van Nieuwenhuyse
Robin Van Den Abeele
Ahmed Al-kaisey
Robert D. Anderson
David Chieng
Louise Segan
Troy Watts
Timothy Campbell
Sander Hendrickx
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
JACC-CLINICAL ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY
2023
Directed graph mapping shows rotors maintain non-terminating and focal sources maintain self-terminating Torsade de Pointes in canine model
Robin Van Den Abeele
Sander Hendrickx
Enid Van Nieuwenhuyse
Albert Dunnink
Alexander Panfilov
Marc Vos
Eike Wülfers
Nele Vandersickel
A1
Journal Article
in
FRONTIERS IN PHYSIOLOGY
2023
2022
DG-Mapping : a novel software package for the analysis of any type of reentry and focal activation of simulated, experimental or clinical data of cardiac arrhythmia
Enid Van Nieuwenhuyse
Sander Hendrickx
Robin Van Den Abeele
Bharathwaj Rajan
Lars Lowie
Sebastien Knecht
Mattias Duytschaever
Nele Vandersickel
A1
Journal Article
in
MEDICAL & BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING & COMPUTING
2022
Dg-mapping as a tool to determine the spatial distribution of the focal sources and the number of reentries during torsade de pointes in the cavb dog model
Robin Van Den Abeele
Enid Van Nieuwenhuyse
Sander Hendrickx
Marc Vos
Alexander Panfilov
Nele Vandersickel
C3
Conference
2022
DGM : Directed-Graph Mapping as a novel tool to analyze cardiac arrhythmias
Enid Van Nieuwenhuyse
Nele Vandersickel
Alexander Panfilov
Dissertation
2022
2021
Determination of dominant loop in dual loop atrial tachycardia with direct graph mapping : an alternative for entrainment mapping?
Lars Lowie
Enid Van Nieuwenhuyse
Jorge Sanchez
Alexander Panfilov
Sebastien Knecht
Mattias Duytschaever
Nele Vandersickel
C3
Conference
2021
Directed graph mapping exceeds phase mapping in discriminating true and false rotors detected with a basket catheter in a complex in-silico excitation pattern
Enid Van Nieuwenhuyse
Laura Martinez-Mateu
Javier Saiz
Alexander Panfilov
Nele Vandersickel
A1
Journal Article
in
COMPUTERS IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
2021
Directed graph mapping is able to distinguish between the true and false rotors in a complex in-silico excitation pattern
Enid Van Nieuwenhuyse
Laura Martinez-Mateu
Javier Saiz
Alexander Panfilov
Nele Vandersickel
C3
Conference
2021
Evaluation of directed graph-mapping in complex atrial tachycardias
Enid Van Nieuwenhuyse
Teresa Strisciuglio
Giuseppe Lorenzo
Milad El Haddad
Jan Goedgebeur
Nicolas Van Cleemput
Christophe Ley
Alexander Panfilov
Jan De Pooter
Yves Vandekerckhove
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
JACC-CLINICAL ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY
2021
Finding type and location of the source of cardiac arrhythmias from the averaged flow velocity field using the determinant-trace method
Qi-Hao Li
Enid Van Nieuwenhuyse
Yuan-Xun Xia
Jun-Ting Pan
Mattias Duytschaever
Sebastien Knecht
Nele Vandersickel
Changsong Zhou
Alexander Panfilov
Hong Zhang
A1
Journal Article
in
PHYSICAL REVIEW E
2021
2020
Gap19, a Cx43 hemichannel inhibitor, acts as a gating modifier that decreases main state opening while increasing substate gating
Alessio Lissoni
Nan Wang
Timur Nezlobinskii
Maarten De Smet
Alexander Panfilov
Nele Vandersickel
Luc Leybaert
Katja Witschas
A1
Journal Article
in
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
2020
Prospective evaluation of entrainment mapping as an adjunct to new-generation high-density activation mapping systems of left atrial tachycardias
Teresa Strisciuglio
Nele Vandersickel
Giuseppe Lorenzo
Enid Van Nieuwenhuyse
Milad El Haddad
Jan De Pooter
Maria Kyriakopoulou
Alexandre Almorad
Michelle Lycke
Yves Vandekerckhove
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
HEART RHYTHM
2020
2019
Directed networks as a novel way to describe and analyze cardiac excitation : directed graph mapping
Nele Vandersickel
Enid Van Nieuwenhuyse
Nicolas Van Cleemput
Jan Goedgebeur
Milad El Haddad
Jan De Neve
Anthony Demolder
Teresa Strisciuglio
Mattias Duytschaever
Alexander Panfilov
A1
Journal Article
in
FRONTIERS IN PHYSIOLOGY
2019
R-from-T as a common mechanism of arrhythmia initiation in long QT syndromes
Michael B. Liu
Nele Vandersickel
Alexander Panfilov
Zhilin Qu
A1
Journal Article
in
CIRCULATION - ARRHYTHMIA AND ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY
2019
2018
Dynamical anchoring of distant arrhythmia sources by fibrotic regions via restructuring of the activation pattern
Nele Vandersickel
Masaya Watanabe
Qian Tao
Jan Fostier
Katja Zeppenfeld
Alexander Panfilov
A1
Journal Article
in
PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
2018
2017
Effect of myocyte-fibroblast coupling on the onset of pathological dynamics in a model of ventricular tissue
S Sridhar
Nele Vandersickel
Alexander Panfilov
A1
Journal Article
in
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
2017
Effects of early afterdepolarizations on excitation patterns in an accurate model of the human ventricles
Enid Van Nieuwenhuyse
Gunnar Seemann
Alexander Panfilov
Nele Vandersickel
A1
Journal Article
in
PLOS ONE
2017
Short-lasting episodes of torsade de pointes in the chronic atrioventricular block dog model have a focal mechanism, while longer-lasting episodes are maintained by re-entry
Nele Vandersickel
Alexandre Bossu
Jan De Neve
Albert Dunnink
Veronique MF Meijborg
Marcel AG van der Heyden
Jet DM Beekman
Jacques MT De Bakker
Marc A Vos
Alexander Panfilov
A2
Journal Article
in
JACC. CLINICAL ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY
2017
Spatial patterns of excitation at tissue and whole organ level due to early afterdepolarizations
Nele Vandersickel
Enid Van Nieuwenhuyse
Gunnar Seemann
Alexander Panfilov
A1
Journal Article
in
FRONTIERS IN PHYSIOLOGY
2017
2016
Global alternans instability and its effect on non-linear wave propagation : dynamical Wenckebach block and self terminating spiral waves
Nele Vandersickel
Arne Defauw
Peter Dawyndt
Alexander Panfilov
A1
Journal Article
in
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
2016
Modeling the Landau-gauge ghost propagator in 2, 3, and 4 spacetime dimensions
Attilio Cucchieri
David Dudal
Tereza Mendes
Nele Vandersickel
A1
Journal Article
in
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
2016
Perpetuation of torsade de pointes in heterogeneous hearts : competing foci or re-entry?
Nele Vandersickel
Teun P de Boer
Marc A Vos
Alexander Panfilov
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON
2016
Physiology-based regularization of the electrocardiographic inverse problem
Matthijs JM Cluitmans
Michael Clerx
Nele Vandersickel
Ralf LM Peeters
Paul GA Volders
Ronald L Westra
A1
Journal Article
in
MEDICAL & BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING & COMPUTING
2016
2015
A comparative study of early afterdepolarization-mediated fibrillation in two mathematical models for human ventricular cells
Soling Zimik
Nele Vandersickel
Alok Ranjan Nayak
Alexander Panfilov
Rahul Pandit
A1
Journal Article
in
PLOS ONE
2015
Decreased repolarization reserve increases defibrillation threshold by favoring early afterdepolarizations in an in silico model of human ventricular tissue
Nele Vandersickel
Ivan Kazbanov
Arne Defauw
Daniel A Pijnappels
Alexander Panfilov
A1
Journal Article
in
HEART RHYTHM
2015
2014
A study of early afterdepolarizations in a model for human ventricular tissue
Nele Vandersickel
Ivan Kazbanov
Anita Nuitermans
Louis Weise
Rahul Pandit
Alexander Panfilov
A1
Journal Article
in
PLOS ONE
2014
BRST-symmetry breaking and Bose-ghost propagator in lattice minimal Landau gauge
Attilio Cucchieri
David Dudal
Tereza Mendes
Nele Vandersickel
A1
Journal Article
in
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
2014
Small size ionic heterogeneities in the human heart can attract rotors
Arne Defauw
Nele Vandersickel
Peter Dawyndt
Alexander Panfilov
A1
Journal Article
in
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-HEART AND CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY
2014
2012
Modeling the gluon propagator in Landau gauge: lattice estimates of pole masses and dimension-two condensates
Attilio Cucchieri
David Dudal
T Mendes
Nele Vandersickel
A1
Journal Article
in
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
2012
No-pole condition in Landau gauge: properties of the Gribov ghost form factor and a constraint on the 2d gluon propagator
Attilio Cucchieri
David Dudal
Nele Vandersickel
A1
Journal Article
in
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
2012
The Gribov problem and QCD dynamics
Nele Vandersickel
Daniel Zwanziger
A1
Journal Article
in
PHYSICS REPORTS-REVIEW SECTION OF PHYSICS LETTERS
2012
2011
A study of the Gribov-Zwanziger framework: from propagators to glueballs
Nele Vandersickel
Henri Verschelde
David Dudal
Dissertation
2011
Dynamical origin of the refinement of the Gribov-Zwanziger theory
David Dudal
SP Sorella
Nele Vandersickel
A1
Journal Article
in
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
2011
From propagators to glueballs in the Gribov-Zwanziger framework
Nele Vandersickel
David Dudal
Orlando Oliveira
Silvio P Sorella
P1
Conference
2011
Gribov horizon and BRST symmetry: a pathway to confinement
SP Sorella
L Baulieu
David Dudal
MS Guimaraes
MQ Huber
Nele Vandersickel
D Zwanziger
P1
Conference
2011
On the reanimation of a local BRST invariance in the (Refined) Gribov-Zwanziger formalism
David Dudal
Nele Vandersickel
A1
Journal Article
in
PHYSICS LETTERS B
2011
2010
Analytic approach to the study of the electric magnetic asymmetry of the dimension-2 condensate
David Vercauteren
David Dudal
Nele Vandersickel
Henri Verschelde
John Gracey
P1
Conference
2010
Gribov horizon and i-particles: about a toy model and the construction of physical operators
L Baulieu
David Dudal
MS Guimaraes
MQ Huber
SP Sorella
Nele Vandersickel
D Zwanziger
A1
Journal Article
in
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
2010
Indirect lattice evidence for the refined Gribov-Zwanziger formalism and the gluon condensate < A2> in the Landau gauge
David Dudal
O Oliveira
Nele Vandersickel
A1
Journal Article
in
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
2010
More on the renormalization of the horizon function of the Gribov-Zwanziger action and the Kugo-Ojima Green function(s)
David Dudal
SP Sorella
Nele Vandersickel
A1
Journal Article
in
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C
2010
2009
A gauge invariant infrared stabilization of 3D Yang-Mills gauge theories
David Dudal
J.A. Gracey
S.P. Sorella
Nele Vandersickel
Henri Verschelde
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS A-MATHEMATICAL AND THEORETICAL
2009
A purely algebraic construction of a gauge and renormalization group invariant scalar glueball operator
David Dudal
SP Sorella
Nele Vandersickel
Henri Verschelde
A1
Journal Article
in
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C
2009
A renormalization group invariant scalar glueball operator in the (Refined) Gribov-Zwanziger framework
David Dudal
SP Sorella
Nele Vandersickel
Henri Verschelde
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2009
Asymmetry of the dimension-two gluon condensate: the zero temperature case
David Dudal
JA Gracey
Nele Vandersickel
David Vercauteren
Henri Verschelde
A1
Journal Article
in
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
2009
Gribov no-pole condition, Zwanziger horizon function, Kugo-Ojima confinement criterion, boundary conditions, BRST breaking and all that
David Dudal
SP Sorella
Nele Vandersickel
Henri Verschelde
A1
Journal Article
in
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
2009
The effects of Gribov copies in 2D gauge theories
David Dudal
SP Sorella
Nele Vandersickel
Henri Verschelde
A1
Journal Article
in
PHYSICS LETTERS B
2009
2008
Landau gauge gluon and ghost propagators in the refined Gribov-Zwanziger framework in 3 dimensions
David Dudal
J.A. Gracey
S.P. Sorella
Nele Vandersickel
Henri Verschelde
A1
Journal Article
in
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
2008
New features of the gluon and ghost propagator in the infrared region from the Gribov-Zwanziger approach
David Dudal
SP SORELLA
Nele Vandersickel
Henri Verschelde
A1
Journal Article
in
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
2008
Refinement of the Gribov-Zwanziger approach in the Landau gauge: Infrared propagators in harmony with the lattice results
David Dudal
JA GRACEY
SP SORELLA
Nele Vandersickel
Henri Verschelde
A1
Journal Article
in
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
2008
2007
Unitarity analysis of a non-Abelian gauge invariant action with a mass
David Dudal
Nele Vandersickel
Henri Verschelde
A1
Journal Article
in
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
2007