Publications

Journal articles | Invited lectures | Conference proceedings (invited lectures) | Conference proceedings | Conference abstracts in journals

Journal articles

A. Smrdel
Independent component analysis of oddball EEG recordings to detect Parkinson’s disease
Scientific Reports,
vol. 15, Article number: 21889, July 2025; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-07645-8, 2025.
Ž. Pirnar, F. Jager, K. Geršak
Peak amplitude of the normalized power spectrum of the electromyogram of the uterus in the low frequency band is an effective predictor of premature birth.
PLoS ONE,
vol. 19(9): e0308797, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0308797, 2024.
F. Jager
An open dataset with electrohysterogram records of pregnancies ending in induced and cesarean section delivery
Scientific Data,
Volume 10, Article number: 669, October 2023; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02581-6, 2023.
Žiga Pirnar, Franc Jager, Ksenija Geršak
Characterization and separation of preterm and term spontaneous, induced, and cesarean EHG records
Computers in Biology and Medicine,
Volume 151, Part A, December 2022, 106238; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2022.106238, 2022.
A.Smrdel
Use of common spatial patterns for early detection of Parkinson’s disease
Scientific Reports,
12, Article number: 18793 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-23247-0, 2022.
F. Jager, K. Geršak, P. Vouk, Ž. Pirnar, A. Trojner-Bregar, M. Lučovnik and A. Borovac
Assessing Velocity and Directionality of Uterine Electrical Activity for Preterm Birth Prediction Using EHG Surface Records
Sensors,
vol. 20(24), 7328; https://doi.org/10.3390/s20247328, 2020.
F. Jager, S. Libenšek, K. Geršak
Characterization and automatic classification of preterm and term uterine records.
PLoS ONE,
vol. 13(8): e0202125, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0202125, 2018.
U. Smrdel, M. Skoblar Vidmar, A. Smrdel
Glioblastoma in patients over 70 years of age.
Radiology and oncology,
vol. 52(2), pp. 167-172, doi:10.2478/raon-2018-0010, 2018.
M. Amon and F. Jager
Electrocardiogram ST-Segment Morphology Delineation Method Using Orthogonal Transformations.
PLoS ONE,
vol. 11(2): e0148814, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0148814, 2016.
A. Trojner-Bregar, M. Lučovnik, I. Verdenik, F. Jager, K. Geršak, R. Garfield
Uterine electromyography during active phase compared with latent phase of labor at term.
Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica,
vol. 95(2), pp. 197-202, doi:10.1111/aogs.12818, Feb. 2016.
U. Pangerc and F. Jager
Robust detection of heart beats in multimodal records using slope- and peak-sensitive band-pass filters.
Physiological measurement,
vol. 36(8), pp. 1645-1664, 2015.
A. J. Hussain, P. Fergus, H. Al-Askar, D. Al-Jumeily and F. Jager
Dynamic neural network architecture inspired by the immune algorithm to predict preterm deliveries in pregnant women.
Neurocomputing,
vol. 151(3), pp. 963-974, 2015.
A. Smrdel and F. Jager
Separating sets of term and pre-term uterine EMG records.
Physiological measurement,
vol. 36(2), pp. 341-355, 2015.
A. Smrdel and F. Jager
Automatic classification of long-term ambulatory ECG records according to type of ischemic heart disease.
BioMedical Engineering OnLine (Online),
vol. 10:107, pp. 1-13, 2011.
A. Minchole, F. Jager, P. Laguna
Discrimination between ischemic and artifactual ST segment events in Holter recordings.
Biomedical Signal Processing and Control,
vol. 5, pp. 21-31, 2010.
J. Faganeli and F. Jager
Automatic classification of transient ischaemic and transient non-ischaemic heart-rate related ST segment deviation episodes in ambulatory ECG records.
Physiological measurement,
vol. 31, pp. 323-336, 2010
G. Fele-Žorž, G. Kavšek, Ž. Novak-Antolič and F. Jager
A comparison of various linear and non-linear signal processing techniques to separate uterine EMG records of term and pre-term delivery groups.
Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing,
vol. 46(9), pp. 911-922, 2008.
M. Cvikl, F. Jager, A. Žemva
Hardware implementation of a modified delay-coordinate mapping-based QRS complex detection algorithm.
EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process.
vol. 2007(1), pp. 1-13, 2007.
A. Smrdel and F. Jager
Diurnal changes of heart rate and sympathovagal activity for temporal patterns of transient ischemic episodes in 24-hour electrocardiograms.
EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process.
vol. 2007(1), pp. [1]-10, 2007.
B. Mali, T. Jarm, F. Jager, D. Miklavčič
An algorithm for synchronization of in vivo electroporation with ECG.
J. med. eng. technol.
vol. 29(6), pp. 288-296, 2005.
M. Amon and F. Jager
Comparison of Protocols to Annotate Ischaemic Electrocardiogram Episodes in the Reference ESC DB and LTST DB Databases.
Electrotechnical review,
vol. 72(4), pp.183-188, 2005.
R. Dorn and F. Jager.
SEMIA: semi-automatic interactive graphic editing tool to annotate ambulatory records.
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine.
vol. 75 (3), pp.235-249, 2004.
A. Smrdel and F. Jager.
Automated detection of transient ST segment episodes in 24-hour electrocardiograms.
Med. Biol. Eng. Comput.,
vol. 42, pp.303-311, 2004.
F. Jager, G. B. Moody, R. G. Mark.
Protocol to assess robustness of ST analysers: A case study.
Physiological Measurement,
Vol. 25 (3), pp.629-643, 2004.
F. Jager, A. Taddei, G. B. Moody, M. Emdin, G. Antolič, R. Dorn, A. Smrdel, C. Marchesi, R. G. Mark
Long-term ST database: a reference for the development and evaluation of automated ischaemia detectors and for the study of the dynamics of myocardial ischaemia.
Med. Biol. Eng. Comput.,
vol. 41, pp.172-182, 2003.
F. Jager
Feature Extraction and Shape Representation of Ambulatory Electrocardiogram Using the Karhunen Loeve Transform.
Electrotechnical review,
vol. 69(2), pp.83-89, 2002.
F. Jager, G. B. Moody, R. G. Mark
Detection of Transient ST-Segment Episodes During Ambulatory ECG-Monitoring.
Comp. and Biom. Res.
vol. 31, pp.305-322, 1998.
F. Jager
Characterization of Temporal Patterns of Transient Ischemic Episodes of Electrocardiograms.
Electrotechnical review,
vol. 65(1), pp.29-36, 1998.
A. Smrdel and F. Jager
Multipass Algorithm for Detection of Transient ST Segment Changes in Electrocardiogram.
Electrotechnical review,
vol. 65(5), pp.289-295, 1998.
F. Jager
Guidelines for Assessing Performance of ST Analyzers.
Journal of Medical Engineering & Technology,
vol. 22:1, pp.25-30, 1998.
S. Šega, F. Jager, T. Kiauta.
A comparison of cardiovascular reflex tests and spectral analysis of heart rate variability in healthy subjects.
Clinical Autonomic Research,
vol.3, pp.175-182, 1993.
A. Jaklič, F. Jager, L. Gyergyek.
Realizacija sistema za analizo elektrokardiografskih signalov na osebnem računalniku IBM PC/AT.
Electrotechnical review,
vol. 57, pp 127-130, 1990.
I. Koren, F. Jager, L Gyergyek.
Razvrščanje utripov pri elektrokardiogramu.
Electrotechnical review,
vol. 57, pp 123-126, 1990.

Invited lectures

F. Jager,
Characterization and classification of uterine records:
invited lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 26th February, 2019, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
F. Jager,
Separating sets of term and pre-term uterine EMG records:
invited lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 10th September, 2013, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
F. Jager,
SEMIA: semi-automated interactive graphic tool to annotate 24-hour ambulatory ECG records.
Cambridge (Massachusetts): The Harvard - MIT, Division of Health Sciences and Technology, 29. 7. 2003.
F. Jager,
The long-term ST database. Cambridge (Massachusetts): The Harvard - MIT, Division of Health Sciences and Technology, 1. 9. 1998.

Conference proceedings (invited lectures)

B. Mali, T. Jarm, F. Jager, D. Miklavčič
Algorithm for synchronization of electroporation pulse delivery with electrocardiogram.
Fifth International Conference on Simulations in Biomedicine. Simulations in Biomedicine V, (Advances in computational bioengineering), Southampton, vol. 7, pp 381-390, 2003.

Conference proceedings

K. Andrews and A. Smrdel
Responsive Data Visualisation.
Proc. Eurographics/VGTC Conference on Visualization (EuroVis 2017 Posters)
pp. 113-115, doi:10.2312/eurp.20171182, The Eurographics Association, 2017.
U. Pangerc and F. Jager
Robust detection of heart beats in multimodal data using integer multiplier digital filters and morphological algorithms.
Computers in Cardiology 2014,
pp. 285-288, IEEE Press, 2014.
J. Faganeli and F. Jager
Automatic distinguishing between ischemic and heart-rate related transient ST segment episodes in ambulatory ECG records.
Computers in Cardiology 2008,
pp. 381-384, IEEE Press, 2008.
A. Smrdel and F. Jager
An algorithm to estimate the ST segment level in 24-hour ambulatory ECG records.
Computers in Cardiology 2008,
pp. 701-704, IEEE Press, 2008.
A. Smrdel and F. Jager.
An algorithm for classification of ambulatory ECG leads according to type of transient ischemic episodes.
11th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2007,
vol. 16, pp. 34-37, 2007.
A. Smrdel and F. Jager
Diurnal Changes of Heart Rate and Sympatho-Vagal Activity for Temporal Patterns of Transient Ischemia.
Computers in Cardiology 2005,
pp.857-860, IEEE Press, 2005.
A. Mincholé, B. Skarp, F. Jager, P. Laguna
Evaluation of a Root Mean Squared Based Ischemia Detector on the Long-Term ST Database with Body Position Change Cancellation.
Computers in Cardiology 2005,
pp.853-856, IEEE Press, 2005.
F. Jager, A. Smrdel, R. G. Mark
An Open-Source Tool to Evaluate Performance of Transient ST Segment Episode Detection Algorithms.
Computers in Cardiology 2004,
pp.585-588, IEEE Press, 2004.
B. Mali, T. Jarm, F. Jager, D. Miklavčič.
An algorithm for synchronization of electroporation with electrocardiogram.
International electrotechnical and computer conference ERK 2004,
vol. 13, pp. 217-220, 2004.
G. B. Moody and F. Jager.
Distinguishing ischemic from non-ischemic ST changes: the physionet/computers in cardiology challenge 2003.
Computers in Cardiology 2003,
pp. 235-237, IEEE Press, 2003.
A. Smrdel and F. Jager
Advanced Detection of ST Segment Episodes in 24-Hour Ambulatory ECG Data by Automated Tracking of Transient ST Segment Reference Level.
Computers in Cardiology 2002,
pp.325-328, IEEE Press, 2002.
R. Dorn and F. Jager.
Dogodkovno vodeni grafični vmesnik.
International electrotechnical and computer conference ERK 2001.
vol. 10, pp. 39-42, 2001.
F. Jager, A. Taddei, M. Emdin, G. Antolič, R. Dorn, G. B. Moody, B. Glavić, A. Smrdel, M. Varanini, M. Zabukovec, S. Bordigiago, C. Marchesi, R. G. Mark
The Long-term ST database: A research resource for algorithm development and physiologic studies of transient myocardial ischemia.
Computers in Cardiology 2000,
pp.841-844, IEEE Press, 2000.
A. Smrdel, G. B. Moody, G. Antolič, F. Jager, R. G. Mark
Relationships Among Heart Rate, Patterns of Ischemic Change and Time of Day.
Computers in Cardiology 99,
pp.551-554, IEEE Press, 1999.
F. Jager, G. B. Moody, A. Taddei, G. Antolič, A. Smrdel, B. Glavić, M. Emdin, C. Marchesi, R. G. Mark
Research Resources for Development and Evaluation of Transient Ischemia Detectors.
Computer-Aided Data Analysis in Medicine, CADAM 98,
Informatica Medica Slovenica,
vol. 5(1,2), pp.45-54, 1998.
F. Jager, G. B. Moody, A. Taddei, G. Antolič, A. Smrdel, B. Glavić, C. Marchesi, R. G. Mark
A Long-Term ST Database for Development and Evaluation of Ischemia Detectors.
Computers in Cardiology 98,
pp.301-304, IEEE Press, 1998.
F. Jager, G. B. Moody, G. Antolič, D. Mašič, R. G. Mark
Sympatho-Vagal Correlates of Transient Ischemia in Ambulatory Patients
Computers in Cardiology 97,
pp.387-390, IEEE Press, 1997.
F. Jager, G. B. Moody, B. Pavlič, I. Blažina, I. Župič, R. G. Mark
Characterization of Temporal Patterns of Transient Ischemic ST Change Episodes During Ambulatory ECG Monitoring.
Computers in Cardiology 96,
pp.681-684, IEEE Press, 1996.
F. Jager, G. B. Moody, A. Taddei, G. Antolič, M. Zabukovec, M. Škrjanc, M. Emdin, R. G. Mark.
Development of a Long Term Database for Assessing the Performance of Transient Ischemia Detectors.
Computers in Cardiology 96,
pp.481-484, IEEE Press, 1996.
F. Jager, G. B. Moody, R. G. Mark.
Characterization of Transient Ischemic and Non-ischemic ST Segment Changes.
Computers in Cardiology 95,
pp.721-724, IEEE Computer Society, 1995.
F. Jager, G. B. Moody, S. Divjak, R. G. Mark.
Assessing the Robustness of Algorithms for Detecting Transient Ischemic ST Segment Changes.
Computers in Cardiology 94,
pp.229-232, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, 1994.
A. Jaklič, F. Jager, L. Gyergyek.
Design and implementation of a real-time ECG analyzer on an IBM PC/AT personal computer.
Seventh Symposium on Microcomputer and Microprocessor Applications,
vol. 2, pp. 349-356, 1992.
F. Jager, R. G. Mark, G. B. Moody, S. Divjak.
Analysis of Transient ST Segment Changes During Ambulatory Monitoring Using the Karhunen-Loeve Transform.
Computers in Cardiology 92,
pp. 691-694, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, 1992.
F. Jager, R. G. Mark, G. B. Moody.
Analysis of Transient ST Segment Changes During Ambulatory Monitoring.
Computers in Cardiology 91,
pp. 453-456, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, 1991.
F. Jager, G. B. Moody, A. Taddei, R. G. Mark.
Performance Measures for Algorithms to Detect Transient Ischemic ST Segment Changes.
Computers in Cardiology 91,
pp. 369-372, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, 1991.
F. Jager, A. Jaklič, I. Koren, L. Gyergyek.
A real-time personal computer based system for analysis of electrocardiograms.
Computers in Cardiology 89,
pp. 497-500, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, 1989.
T. Kiauta, F. Jager, Z. Bjelogrlić, S. Šega, A. Grad.
Personal computer-based analysis of heart rate fluctuations in human subjects.
Computers in Cardiology 89,
pp. 407-410, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, 1989.
F. Jager, L. Gyergyek, A. Bjelogrlić, A. Babić, D. Zazula.
An algorithm for QRS wave detection in electrocardiograms.
Computers in Cardiology 88,
pp. 509-512, IEEE Computer Society, Washington, 1988.
D. Zazula, K. Turkulin, L Gyergyek, M. Vezjak, F. Jager, F. Solina.
An 8-bit microcomputer for on-line analyses of exercise electrocardiograms.
Computers in Cardiology 83,
pp. 415-418, IEEE Computer society, Piscataway, 1983.
D. Zazula, K. Turkulin, L. Gyergyek, M. Vezjak, F. Solina, F. Jager.
Analysis of exercise electrocardiogramms using microcomputer analyzer Gorenje MAE 101.
Third Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering,
pp. 5-9, 1983.
F. Solina L. Gyergyek, F. Jager, M. Vezjak, F. Mihelič, D. Zazula.
Prepoznavanje motenj srčnega ritma z računalnikom.
Jugoslovenske konferencije o elektronici, telekomunikacijama, automatizaciji i nuklearnoj tehnici,
pp. 313-320, 1982.
L. Gyergyek, K. Turkulin, M. Vezjak, D. Zazula, F. Solina, F. Jager.
Computer program for processing of electrocardiograms during exercise test.
JUREMA 26 (1981),
pp. 19-23, 1981.

Conference abstracts in journals

B. Mali, T. Jarm, F. Jager, D. Miklavčič.
The electroporation pulse delivery algorithm.
Electroporation based technologies and treatments: proceedings of the international scientific workshop and postgraduate course.,
pp. 73, 2003.
F. Jager, A. Taddei, G. B. Moody, M. Emdin, G. Antolič, A. Smrdel, C. Marchesi, R. G. Mark.
The long-term ST database: reference for automated ischaemia detection system and for studies of transient myocardial ischaemia.
European heart journal,
pp. 106, 2002.
F. Jager.
Guidelines for assessing performance of ST analyzers.
Analysis of non-invasive cardiovascular signals in ischemic heart disease: methods, development and evaluation: workshop,
pp. 23, 1996.