About the Authors

Nicolas Franzina

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicolas Franzina, Adrian Zurbuchen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Sitem Center for Translational Medicine and Biomedical Entrepreneurship, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Adrian Zurbuchen

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicolas Franzina, Adrian Zurbuchen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

adrian.zurbuchen@sitem.unibe.ch (AZ); andreas.haeberlin@insel.ch (AH)

Affiliation Sitem Center for Translational Medicine and Biomedical Entrepreneurship, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Andreas Zumbrunnen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Thomas Niederhauser

Roles Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Institute for Human Centered Engineering, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Biel, Switzerland

Tobias Reichlin

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Juergen Burger

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sitem Center for Translational Medicine and Biomedical Entrepreneurship, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Andreas Haeberlin

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

adrian.zurbuchen@sitem.unibe.ch (AZ); andreas.haeberlin@insel.ch (AH)

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Sitem Center for Translational Medicine and Biomedical Entrepreneurship, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Dr. Reichlin is a consultant for Medtronic. He has received speaker’s honoraria or travel support from Abbott, Bayer, Biotronik, Biosense Webster, BMS, Boston Scientific, Daiichi, Medtronic, and Pfizer. He has received institutional support from Abbott, Biotronik, Biosense Webster, Boston Scientific, Medtronic, and Microport. Dr. Haeberlin has received travel grants from Medtronic. He is a consultant for Cairdac, co-founder and CEO of Act-Inno, and has received research funding from Novartis.