Gabriel Balaban

Scientific Publications

• Myklebust, Lena, Monopoli, Giulia, Balaban, Gabriel, Aabel, Eivind Westrum, Ribe, Margareth, Castrini, Anna Isotta, Hasselberg, Nina Eide, Bakketun, Cecilie Bugge, Five, Christian K., Haugaa, Kristina Ingrid Helena Hermann, Maleckar, Mary Margot Catherine & Arevalo, Hermenegild (2024). Stretch of the papillary insertion triggers reentrant arrhythmia: an in silico patient study. Frontiers in Physiology. ISSN 1664-042X. 15 doi:
  10.3389/fphys.2024.1447938
• Jones, Richard, Zaidi, Hassan, Hammersley, Daniel, Owen, Ruth, Balaban, Gabriel, Hatipoglu, Suzan, Marvao, Antonio, Simard, Francois, Lota, Amrit, Mahon, Ciara, Almogheer, Batool, Mach, Lukas, Musella, Francesca, Chen, Xiuyu, Gregson, John, Lazzari, Laura, Ravendren, Andrew, Leyva, Francisco, Zhao, Shihua, Vazir, Ali, Lamata, Pablo, Halliday, Brian, Pennell, Dudley, Bishop, Martin & Prasad, Sanjay (2023). Comprehensive Phenotypic Characterization of Late Gadolinium Enhancement Predicts Sudden Cardiac Death in Coronary Artery Disease Author links open overlay panel. JACC Cardiovascular Imaging. ISSN 1936-878X. doi:
  10.1016/j.jcmg.2022.10.020
• Ludwicki, Kristin, Riebel, Leto, Ohnemus, Sophia, Westby, Frida Marie Engøy, Forsch, Nickolas & Balaban, Gabriel (2023). An Automated Cardiac Constitutive Modelling Framework with Evolutionary Strain Energy Functions. I McCabe, Kimberly J. (red.) Computational Physiology : Simula Summer School 2022 − Student Reports. Springer. ISBN 9783031253744. p {0}. doi:
  10.1007/978-3-031-25374-4_1
• Zaidi, Hassan, Jones, Richard, Hammersley, Daniel, Hapitoglu, Suzan, Balaban, Gabriel, Mach, Lukas, Halliday, Brian, Lamata, Pablo, Prasad, Sanjay & Bishop, Martin (2023). Machine learning analysis of complex late gadolinium enhancement patterns to improve risk prediction of major arrhythmic events. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine. ISSN 2297-055X. doi:
  10.3389/fcvm.2023.1082778
• Dahal-Koirala, Shiva, Balaban, Gabriel, Neumann, Ralf Stefan, Scheffer, Lonneke, Lundin, Knut, Greiff, Victor, Sollid, Ludvig Magne, Qiao, Shuo-Wang & Sandve, Geir Kjetil Ferkingstad (2022). TCRpower: quantifying the detection power of T-cell receptor sequencing with a novel computational pipeline calibrated by spike-in sequences. Briefings in Bioinformatics. ISSN 1467-5463. 23(2) p {0}. doi:
  10.1093/bib/bbab566
• Balaban, Gabriel, Halliday, Brian P., Hammersley, Daniel, Rinaldi, Christopher A., Prasad, Sanjay K., Bishop, Martin J. & Lamata, Pablo (2022). Left ventricular shape predicts arrhythmic risk in fibrotic dilated cardiomyopathy. Europace. ISSN 1099-5129. 24(7) p {0}. doi:
  10.1093/europace/euab306
• Balaban, Gabriel, Aabel, Eivind, Ribe, Margareth, Castrini, Anna, Haugaa, Kristina Ingrid Helena Hermann & Maleckar, Mary (2022). Towards an Automated Pipeline to Create Patient Specific 3D LV Geometry Models of Patients with Mitral Annular Disjunction. Computing in cardiology. ISSN 2325-8861. doi:
  10.22489/CinC.2022.022
• Balaban, Gabriel, Halliday, Brian P., Porter, Bradley, Bai, Wenjia, Nygård, Ståle, Owen, Ruth, Hatipoglu, Suzan, Ferreira, Nuno Dias, Izgi, Cemil, Tayal, Upasana, Corden, Ben, Ware, James S., Pennell, Dudley J., Rueckert, Daniel, Plank, Gernot, Rinaldi, Christopher A., Prasad, Sanjay K. & Bishop, Martin (2021). Late-Gadolinium Enhancement Interface Area and Electrophysiological Simulations Predict Arrhythmic Events in Patients With Nonischemic Dilated Cardiomyopathy. JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology. ISSN 2405-500X. 7(2) p {0}. doi:
  10.1016/j.jacep.2020.08.036
• Yao, Ying, Zia, Asima, Neumann, Ralf Stefan, Pavlović, Milena, Balaban, Gabriel, Lundin, Knut Erik Aslaksen, Sandve, Geir Kjetil & Qiao, Shuo Wang (2021). T cell receptor repertoire as a potential diagnostic marker for celiac disease. Clinical Immunology. ISSN 1521-6616. 222:108621 p {0}. doi:
  10.1016/j.clim.2020.108621
• Pavlović, Milena, Scheffer, Lonneke, Motwani, Keshav, Kanduri, Chakravarthi, Kompova, Radmila, Vazov, Nikolay Aleksandrov, Waagan, Knut, Bernal, Fabian Leonardo Martinez, Costa, Alexandre Almeida, Corrie, Brian, Akbar, Rahmad, Al Hajj, Ghadi S., Balaban, Gabriel, Brusko, Todd M., Chernigovskaia, Mariia, Christley, Scott, Cowell, Lindsay G., Frank, Robert, Grytten, Ivar, Gundersen, Sveinung, Haff, Ingrid Hobæk, Hovig, Eivind, Hsieh, Ping-Han, Klambauer, Günter, Kuijjer, Marieke L., Lund-Andersen, Christin, Martini, Antonio, Minotto, Thomas, Pensar, Johan, Rand, Knut Dagestad, Riccardi, Enrico, Robert, Philippe Paul Auguste, Rocha, Artur, Slabodkin, Andrei, Snapkov, Igor, Sollid, Ludvig Magne, Titov, Dmytro, Weber, Cédric R., Widrich, Michael, Yaari, Gur, Greiff, Victor & Sandve, Geir Kjetil Ferkingstad (2021). The immuneML ecosystem for machine learning analysis of adaptive immune receptor repertoires. Nature Machine Intelligence. ISSN 2522-5839. 3(11) p {0}. doi:
  10.1038/s42256-021-00413-z
• Gemmell, Philip M., Gillette, Karli, Balaban, Gabriel, Rajani, Ronak, Vigmond, Edward J., Plank, Gernot & Bishop, Martin (2020). A computational investigation into rate-dependant vectorcardiogram changes due to specific fibrosis patterns in non-ischæmic dilated cardiomyopathy. Computers in Biology and Medicine. ISSN 0010-4825. 123:103895 p {0}. doi:
  10.1016/j.compbiomed.2020.103895
• Balaban, Gabriel, Costa, Caroline Mendonca, Porter, Bradley, Halliday, Brian, Rinaldi, Christopher A., Prasad, Sanjay K., Plank, Gernot, Ismail, Tevfik & Bishop, Martin (2020). 3D Electrophysiological Modeling of Interstitial Fibrosis Networks and Their Role in Ventricular Arrhythmias in Non-Ischemic Cardiomyopathy. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. ISSN 0018-9294. 67(11) p {0}. doi:
  10.1109/TBME.2020.2976924
• Balaban, Gabriel, Halliday, Brian P, Bai, Wenjia, Porter, Bradley, Malvuccio, Carlotta, Lamata, Pablo, Rinaldi, Christopher Aldo, Plank, Gernot, Rueckert, Daniel, Prasad, Sanjay Kant & Bishop, Martin (2019). Scar shape analysis and simulated electrical instabilities in a non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy patient cohort. PLoS Computational Biology. ISSN 1553-734X. 15(10) doi:
  10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007421
• Finsberg, Henrik Nicolay, Balaban, Gabriel, Ross, Stian Balnagown, Håland, Trine Synnøve Fink, Odland, Hans Henrik, Sundnes, Joakim & Wall, Samuel Thomas (2018). Estimating cardiac contraction through high resolution data assimilation of a personalized mechanical model. Journal of Computational Science. ISSN 1877-7503. 24 p {0}. doi:
  10.1016/j.jocs.2017.07.013
• Balaban, Gabriel, Finsberg, Henrik Nicolay, Funke, Simon Wolfgang, Håland, Trine Synnøve Fink, Hopp, Einar, Sundnes, Joakim, Wall, Samuel T & Rognes, Marie Elisabeth (2018). In vivo estimation of elastic heterogeneity in an infarcted human heart. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology. ISSN 1617-7959. p {0}. doi:
  10.1007/s10237-018-1028-5
• Balaban, Gabriel, Halliday, Brian, Costa, Caroline, Bai, Wenjia, Porter, Bradley, Rinaldi, Christopher, Plank, Gernot, Rueckert, Daniel, Prasad, Sanjay & Bishop, Martin (2018). Fibrosis Microstructure Modulates Reentry in Non-ischemic Dilated Cardiomyopathy: Insights From Imaged Guided 2D Computational Modeling. Frontiers in Physiology. ISSN 1664-042X. doi:
  10.3389/fphys.2018.01832
• Balaban, Gabriel, Finsberg, Henrik Nicolay, Odland, Hans Henrik, Rognes, Marie Elisabeth, Ross, Stian Balnagown, Sundnes, Joakim & Wall, Samuel Thomas (2017). High-resolution data assimilation of cardiac mechanics applied to a dyssynchronous ventricle. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering. ISSN 2040-7939. 33:e2863(11) p {0}. doi:
  10.1002/cnm.2863
• Balaban, Gabriel, Alnæs, Martin Sandve, Sundnes, Joakim & Rognes, Marie Elisabeth (2016). Adjoint multi-start-based estimation of cardiac hyperelastic material parameters using shear data. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology. ISSN 1617-7959. p {0}. doi:
  10.1007/s10237-016-0780-7
• Balaban, Gabriel, Logg, Anders Bernhard & Rognes, Marie Elisabeth (2012). A Newton Method for Fluid-Structure Interaction Using Full Jacobians Based on Automatic Form Differentiation. I Eberhardsteiner, Josef, Böhm, Helmut J. & Rammerstorfer, Franz G. (red.) 6th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering, ECCOMAS 2012. Elsevier. ISBN 978-395035370-9. p {0}.

Dissemination

• Finsberg, Henrik Nicolay, Balaban, Gabriel, Sundnes, Joakim, Rognes, Marie Elisabeth & Wall, Samuel Thomas (2016). Optimization of a Spatially Varying Cardiac Contraction parameter using the Adjoint Method.
• Finsberg, Henrik Nicolay, Balaban, Gabriel, Sundnes, Joakim, Rognes, Marie Elisabeth, Odland, Hans Henrik, Ross, Stian Balnagown & Wall, Samuel (2016). Personalized Cardiac Mechanical Model using a High Resolution Contraction Field.
• Finsberg, Henrik Nicolay, Balaban, Gabriel, Sundnes, Joakim, Rognes, Marie Elisabeth, Odland, Hans Henrik, Wall, Samuel Thomas & Ross, Stian Balnagown (2015). Personalization of a Cardiac Computational Model using Clinical Measurements.
• Rognes, Marie Elisabeth, Balaban, Gabriel, Sundnes, Joakim & Alnæs, Martin Sandve (2015). Identifying the Parameters of the Heart: Variational Data Assimilation in Cardiac Mechanics Using Dolfin-Adjoint.
• Balaban, Gabriel, Sundnes, Joakim, Alnæs, Martin Sandve & Rognes, Marie Elisabeth (2014). Least Squares Fitting of a Cardiac Hyperelasticity Model Using an Automatically Derived Adjoint Equation.

• 2023 - now
  Associate Professor
  Kristiania University College
• 2021 - 2023
  Postdoctoral Researcher
  Simula Research Laboratory
• 2019 - 2021
  Postdoctoral Researcher
  University of Oslo
• 2016 - 2019
  Research Associate
  King's College London

• 2013 - 2017
  PhD in Computer Science
  University of Oslo, Norway
• 2010 - 2012
  Master in Mathematics
  University of Oslo
• 2003 - 2008
  Honours BSc in Mathematics, Minor in German Studies
  Trent University, Canada

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