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        Selected Publications in Personalized Intelligent Medicine

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Popular Articles

Lloyd E. Arresting sudden cardiac death. PittMed Magazine, October 2000.

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Scientific Articles

Shusterman V, Shtark M. Dynamic expert systems and biofeedback. Optoelectronics, Instrumentation and Data Processing 1993; 2: 62-68.

Shusterman V, Trofimov O. Building and application of expert systems for differential diagnostics of cardiovascular diseases.  Systems Analysis Modeling Simulation 1994; 14:15-24.

Shusterman V, Barnea O.  Spectral characteristics of skin temperature indicate peripheral stress-response.  Biofeedback and Self-Regulation 1995; 20: 357-367.

Shusterman V, Anderson KP, Barnea O. Spontaneous skin temperature oscillations in normal human subjects. American Journal of Physiology 1997; 273 (Regulatory Integrative Comp Physiol. 42): R1173-R1181.

Shusterman V, Aysin B, Gottipaty V, Weiss R, Brode S. Schwartzman D, Anderson KP. for the ESVEM Investigators. Autonomic nervous system activity and the spontaneous initiation of ventricular tachycardia. J Am Coll Cardiol, 1998; 32:1891-9.

Anderson KP, Shusterman V, Aysin B, Weiss R, Brode S, Gottipaty V. Distinctive RR dynamics preceding two modes of onset of spontaneous sustained ventricular tachycardia. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, 1999; 10:897-904.

Shusterman V, Beigel A, Shah SI, Aysin B, Weiss R, Gottipaty VK, Schwartzman D, Anderson KP. Changes in autonomic activity and ventricular repolarization. Journal of Electrocardiology, 1999; 32:185-192.

Shusterman V, Aysin B, Weiss R, Brode S, Gottipaty V, Schwartzman D, Anderson KP. Dynamics of the low frequency RR-interval oscillations preceding spontaneous ventricular tachycardia. American Heart Journal, 2000: 139:126-33.

Shusterman V, Shah SI, Beigel A, Anderson KP. Enhancing the precision of ECG baseline correction: selective filtering and removal of residual error. Computers and Biomedical Research, 2000; 33: 144-160.

Shusterman V, Aysin B, Anderson KP, Beigel A. Multidimensional rhythm disturbances as a precursor of sustained ventricular tachyarrhythmias. Circulation Research, 2001; 88: 705-712.

Shusterman V, Usiene I, Harrigal C, Lee JS, Kubota T, Feldman AM, London B.Strain-Specific Patterns of Cardiac Rhythm, Autonomic Nervous System Activity, and Susceptibility to Heart Failure in Mice. American Journal of Physiology – Heart and Circulatory Physiology 2002; 282: H2076-H2083.

Shusterman V, Jannetta PJ, Aysin B, Beigel A, Glukhovskoy M, Usiene I. Direct Mechanical Stimulation of Brainstem Modulates Cardiac Rhythm and Repolarization in Humans. J of Electrocardiology 2002; 35: 247-256.

Shusterman V, Aysin B, Ermentrout GB, London B, Schwartzman D. Detecting instabilities of cardiac rhythm. J of Electrocardiology 2003;36: 219-226.

Shusterman V, Goldberg A. Tracking Repolarization Dynamics in Real-Life Data. J of Electrocardiology 2004:37:180-186.

Shusterman V, Barnea O. Slow Rhythms of Peripheral Vasculature and Sympathetic Nervous System Activity in Stress and Biofeedback Relaxation. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine 2005;24:52-57.

Aysin B, Chaparro LF, Grave I, Shusterman V. Orthonormal-Basis Partitioning and Time-Frequency Representation of Cardiac Rhythm Dynamics. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 2005;52:878-889.

Lampert R, Shusterman V, Burg M, Lee F, Earley C,  Goldberg A, McPherson C, Batsford W Soufer R. Effects of Psychologic Stress on Repolarization and Relationship to Autonomic and Hemodynamic Factors, Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology 2005;16:373-377.

Shusterman V, Goldberg A, London B.Upsurge in T-wave alternans and nonalternating repolarization instability precedes spontaneous initiation of ventricular tachyarrhythmias in humans. Circulation 2006 Jun 27;113(25):2880-2887.

Lampert RJ, Soufer R, McPherson CA, Batsford WP, Tirado S, Earley C, Goldberg A, Shusterman V. Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Shocks Increase T-Wave Alternans. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, 2007;18:512-517.

Troy WC, Shusterman V.  Patterns and features of families of traveling waves in large-scale neuronal networks. SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, 2007; 6:263-292.

Shusterman V, Goldberg A, Schindler DM, Fleischmann KE, Lux RL, Drew BJ. Dynamic Tracking of Ischemia in the Surface Electrocardiogram. J Electrocardiol. 2007;40(Suppl);S179-86.

Roytvarf A, Shusterman V. A large-scale, energetic model of cardiovascular homeostasis predicts dynamics of arterial pressure in humans. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2008;55(2):407-18.

Shusterman V, Troy WC. From baseline to epileptiform activity: A path to synchronized rhythmicity in large-scale neural networks. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2008;77(6 Pt 1):061911.

Lampert R, Shusterman V, Burg M, McPherson C, Batsford W, Goldberg A, Soufer R, Anger-induced T-Wave alternans predicts future ventricular arrhythmias in patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators. J Am Coll Cardiol 2009;53:774–8.

Shusterman V, Lampert R, London B. The many faces of repolarization instability: which one is prognostic? J Electrocardiol. 2009;42(6):511-6.

Shusterman V, McTiernan CF, Goldberg A, Saba S, Salama G, London B. Adrenergic stimulation promotes T-wave alternans and arrhythmia inducibility in a TNF-{alpha} genetic mouse model of congestive heart failure. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2009.



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