Dr. sc. ETH, Dr. med. Reto A. Wildhaber - Professor for Digitale Biomarkers und Signal Processing at Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW - Senior Researcher at Signal and Information Processing Laboratory (ISI), ETH Zürich E-mail: reto.wildhaber@fhnw.ch Address: Hochschule für Life Sciences FHNW Institut für Medizintechnik und Medizininformatik Hofackerstrasse 30 4132 Muttenz Switzerland Phone: +41 61 228 61 25 Web: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW Institut für Medizintechnik und Medizininformatik / Contact ETH Zürich Signal and Information Processing Laboratory (ISI) / Contact

Research Interests

Teaching

• Joint Master of Biomedical Engineering, FHNW and University of Basel, "Model-Based Signal Processing and Diagnostics"
• Joint Master of Biomedical Engineering, FHNW and University of Basel, "Electrical Engineering and Electronics Basics"
• Joint Master of Biomedical Engineering, FHNW and University of Basel, "Hardware Programming of Medical Sensors"
• Master of Science in Engineering (MSE) Zürich, "Medical Diagnostics and Devices"

• B.Sc. Elektro - und Informationstechnologie, BFH
• B.Sc. Micro- and Medicaltechnology, BFH
• Master in Biomedical Engineering (BME), "Low-Power and Microelectronics"

Publications

2023

• A. Kieninger-Gräfitsch, M. Bigler, F. Waldmann, R. A. Wildhaber, C. Seiler
  Intracoronary ECG ST-segment shift remission time during reactive coronary hyperemia (Tau-icECG): A retrospective analysis of a new approach to assess hemodynamic coronary stenosis severity, (Poster)
  Österreichische Kardiologische Gesellschaft, Jahrestagung 2023.

• S. Knecht, F. Waldmann, R. Kuhn, D. Mannhart, M. Kühne, C. Sticherling, P. Badertscher, R. A. Wildhaber,.
  Technical Characterization of Single-Lead ECG Signal from four different Smartwatches and its Potential Clinical Implications,
  JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology 2023.
  Online/PDF (www.sciencedirect.com)

• R. Andonie, W. Wimmer, R. Wildhaber, M. Caversaccio, S. Weder
  Real-Time Feature Extraction from Electrocochleography with Impedance Measurements during Cochlear Implantation using Linear State-Space Models,
  IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 2023, doi: 10.1109/TBME.2023.3276993 .
  Online/PDF (ieeexplore.ieee.org/)

2022

• M. R. Bigler, A. Kieninger-Gräfitsch, F. Waldmann, C. Seiler, R. A. Wildhaber,
  Algorithm for Real-Time Analysis of Intracoronary Electrocardiogram,
  Front. Cardiovasc. Med., 9:930717, Sept. 2022, doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2022.930717.
  Online/PDF (frontiersin.org)

• M. R. Bigler, A. Kieninger-Gräfitsch, F. Waldmann, C. Seiler, R. A. Wildhaber,
  Algorithm for Real-Time Analysis of Intracoronary Electrocardiogram,
  Swiss Society of Cardiology (SSC), Annual Meeting 2022, St. Gallen, Switzerland.

• F. Waldmann, C. Baeriswyl, R. Andonie, and R. A. Wildhaber,
  Onset Detection of Pulse-Shaped Bioelectrical Signals Using Linear State Space Models,
  Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering, vol. 8, no. 2, 2022, pp. 101-104. doi: 10.1515/cdbme-2022-1027
  Online/PDF (degruyter.com)

• C. Baeriswyl, A. Bertrand, and R. A. Wildhaber ,
  Windowed State Space Filters for Peak Interference Suppression in Neural Spike Sorting,
  30th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2022), Belgrad, Serbia. (accepted)

• T. Perrin, U. Meyerfeldt, E. Thompson, F. Waldmann, M. Jacomet, R. Vogel, R. Wildhaber ,
  3D-Noncontact Noninvasive Localization of Atrial Activation by a Novel Esophageal – Mapping System: Preliminary Results,
  Swiss Society of Cardiology (SSC), Annual Meeting 2022, St. Gallen, Switzerland.

2021

• M. R. Bigler, C. Seiler, R. A. Wildhaber,
  Research Algorithm for Real-Time, Peri-Interventional Analysis of Intracoronary Electrocardiogram During Coronary Catheterization,
  Biomedical Reserach Day 2020, Bern 2020.

2020

• R. A. Wildhaber, E. Ren, F. Waldmann, and H.-A. Loeliger,
  Signal analysis using local polynomial approximations,
  28th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2020), Amsterdam, NL, January 18-22, 2021.
  PDF (Eurasop.org)

2019

• R. Sweda, R. A. Wildhaber, S. Mortier, et al.,
  Toward a novel semi‐invasive activation mapping tool for the diagnosis of supraventricular arrhythmias from the esophagus,
  Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology, April 2019.
  Wiley Online Library

• R. A. Wildhaber,
  Localized state space and polynomial filters with applications in electrocardiography,
  Ph.D. Dissertation, No. 25929, No. 25929, Hartung-Gorre Verlag Konstanz, 2019. ISBN-13:978-3-86628-652-8.
  PDF

2018

• R. A. Wildhaber, D. Bruegger, N. Zalmai, H. Malmberg, J. Goette, M. Jacomet, H. Tanner, A. Haeberlin, and H.-A. Loeliger,
  Estimation of the cardiac field in the esophagus using a multipolar esophageal catheter,
  IEEE Trans. Biomed. Circuits and Systems, vol. 12, pp. 791-800, Aug. 2018.
  IEEE Xplore / Preprint

• R. A. Wildhaber, N. Zalmai, M. Jacomet, and H.-A. Loeliger,,
  Windowed state space filters for signal detection and separation,
  IEEE Trans. Signal Proc., vol. 66, pp. 3768-3783, July 2018.
  IEEE Xplore / Preprint

2017

• N. Zalmai, R. A. Wildhaber, and H.-A. Loeliger,
  Autonomous state space models for recursive signal estimation beyond least squares,
  25th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Kos Island, Greece, Aug. 28 - Sept. 2, 2017.
  IEEE Xplore / EURASIP / Preprint

• R.A. Wildhaber et al.,
  A novel 2-D spatial-temporal ECG representation using multipolar esophageal catheters: a pilot study,
  JACC, Clin. Electrophysiol., vol. 3, no. 10, Supplement S2, p. 3, Oct. 2017.
  JACC Journals

• T. Marisa, T. Niederhauser, A. Haeberlin, R. A. Wildhaber, R. Vogel, J. Goette, and M. Jacomet,
  Pseudo asynchronous level crossing ADC for ECG signal acquisition,
  IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 267–278, April 2017.
  IEEE Xplorer

• R. A. Wildhaber, N. Zalmai, M. Jacomet and H.-A. Loeliger,
  Signal detection and discrimination for medical devices using windowed state space filters,
  IASTED International Conference, Biomedical Engineering, Innsbruck, 2017.
  IEEE Xplorer

2016

• A. Haeberlin, L. Lacheta, T. Niederhauser, T. Marisa, R. A. Wildhaber, J. Goette, M. Jacomet, J. Seiler, J. Fuhrer, L. Roten, H. Tanner, R. Vogel,
  Markers for silent atrial fibrillation in esophageal long-term electrocardiography,
  Journal of Electrocardiology, Vol. 49, No. 4, pp. 496–503, July–Aug. 2016..
  PubMed

• N. Zalmai, R.A. Wildhaber, D. Clausen, and H.-A. Loeliger,
  Inferring depolarization of cells from 3D-electrode measurements using a bank of linear state space models,
  41th IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Shanghai, China, March 20-25, 2016.
  IEEE Xplore

• T. Niederhauser, T. Marisa, L. Kohler, A. Haeberlin, R. A. Wildhaber, R. Abächerli, J. Goette, M. Jacomet, R. Vogel,
  A baseline wander tracking system for artifact rejection in long-term electrocardiography,
  IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 255–265, Feb. 2016.
  PubMed

2015

• T. Marisa, T. Niederhauser, A. Haeberlin, R. A. Wildhaber, R. Vogel, M. Jacomet, J. Goette
  Bufferless compression of asynchronously sampled ECG signals in cubic hermitian vector space,
  IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 62, No. 10, pp. 2878-2887, Dec. 2015.
  IEEE Xplore

• T. Niederhauser, T. Wyss-Balmer, A. Haeberlin, T. Marisa, R. A. Wildhaber, J. Goette, M. Jacomet, R. Vogel,
  Graphics-processor-unit-based parallelization of optimized baseline wander filtering algorithms for long-term electrocardiography,
  IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 62, No. 6, pp. 1576-1584, June 2015.
  IEEE Xplore

2014

• Y. Schindler Wildhaber, C. Michel, J. Epting, R. A. Wildhaber, E. Huber, P. Huggenberger, P. Burkhardt-Holm and C. Alewell,
  Redd morphology, hyporheic flow regime and sediment deposition in an anthropogenically modified small river – Effects on oxygen dynamics,
  Science of The Total Environment, Vol. 470–471, pp. 488-500, Feb. 2014.

2011

• R. A. Wildhaber, F. Verrey, R. H. Wenger,
  A graphical simulation software for instruction in cardiovascular mechanics physiology,
  Biomedical Engineering Online, Vol. 10, No. 8, 25 Jan. 2011.
  BioMedical Engineering OnLine

Patents

• T. Niederhauser, R. A. Wildhaber, et al.
  Catheter Comprising a Flexible Flat Cable and FPCB, and Method for Producing it,
  Patent Application No. 20190962.9-112, Oct. 2020.

• R. A. Wildhaber, et al.
  Apparatus for Providing Electrocardiographic and Especially Arrhythmia Information,
  Patent EU No. 18 201 568.5, Oct. 2018.

• R. A. Wildhaber, et al.
  Electrode Catheter and Method for Monitoring Cardiac Electrical Activity,
  Patent CF/00960/15, June 2015.

Other Projects

• lmlib.ch - Model-based signal processing library for biological signals in python
  Open Source Project,
  Supported by Signal and Information Processing Laboratory (ISI), ETH Zurich and Bern University of Applied Sciences, Institute for Human Centered Engineering (HuCE), Switzerland.
  lmlib.ch

• CLabUZH, Cardiopulmonary simulation software for teaching in human physiology.
  Open Source Project.
  https://www.physiol.uzh.ch/en/teaching.html

Last modified: Sept. 1, 2021