Laura Burattini

Automatic processing of cardiac signals in sport

Nowadays, wearable devices are revolutionizing athlete’s screening by continuously recording cardiac signals. This practice may be an innovative form of heart monitoring during sport activities further to pre-participation screening. Acquisitions during sport activity are highly corrupted by noise and interferences, thus automatic signal pre-processing techniques are essential to guarantee a reliable interpretation. New algorithms for signal characterization and clinical indexes extraction may help clinicians for evaluating athlete’s heart status. Finally software application, such as CaRiSMA or Sport?Sicuro!, may reveal cardiac abnormalities and act as primary tools to prevent sport related cardiac diseases, that may lead to sudden cardiac arrest. This workshop will review all recent signal processing techniques for the pre-processing, characterization and interpretation of cardiac signals during sport.

Laura Burattini - Biosketch

I took the PhD in Electrical/Biomedical Engineering in 1998 (University of Rochester, USA) and the Master degree in Electrical/Biomedical Engineering in 1993 (Politecnico di Milano, Italy). Since 2006, I join the Università Politecnica delle Marche where I am currently Associate Professor and President of the Unified Council of the Biomedical Engineering Degree. I teach the courses of “Bioengineering” and “Biomedical Signal and Data Processing”, manage the Cardiovascular Bioengineering Lab, and promote Erasmus exchanges. I co-founded the academic spin-off B.M.E.D. Bio-Medical Engineering Development srl (2012-2016). My research interests relate to processing and modelling of biomedical data, especially of cardiovascular, metabolic and motor systems. I am mainly active in sport field, especially in finding new weapons to prevent sport-related sudden cardiac death.

Associate Professor

Università Politecnica delle Marche

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