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M. Meo-received-the and M. Sc, She is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree at the Computer Science, Signals and System Laboratory of Sophia Antipolis (I3S) Her main research interests concern statistical signal processing, blind source separation and multivariate signal decomposition techniques (principal component analysis, non-negative matrix factorization ), clustering and classification, 2009.

V. Zarzoso, 10) graduated with highest distinction in telecommunications engineering from the Polytechnic University of Valencia He obtained the Ph.D. degree from the University of Liverpool, Liverpool, U.K., in 1999 and the Habilitation to Lead Researches (HDR) from the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis he has been with the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, where he is presently a Professeur des universités. His research interests include statistical signal and array processing and its application to biomedical problems and digital communications, He currently coordinates a French National Research Agency Young Investigator's project on array signal processing for atrial fibrillation analysis (ANR "PERSIST"), 1996.

. Dr, Zarzoso is an Associate, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

O. Meste and M. Sc, degree in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in control and signal processing from the, respectively. He is currently a Full Professor at the Computer Science, Signals and Systems Laboratory of Sophia Antipolis (I3S), University of Sophia Antipolis. He heads the Department of Electrical Engineering and Industrial Data Processing at the IUT and the biomedical signal processing research activity at the I3S Laboratory. His current research interests are in the areas of digital processing, time-frequency representations, and modeling of biological signals and systems, including ECG, EMG and EEG. Dr, Meste is a former member of the Bio Imaging and Signal Processing technical committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, 1989.

G. Decebal and M. D. Latcu-received-the, He become a specialist in cardiology from Paul Sabatier University he was an intern at different hospitals in the Toulouse area. Since 2007, he has been with the Cardiology Department, Princess Grace Hospital, Monaco. His research interests are in the area of cardiac arrhythmias, including ventricular fibrillation, atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter, as well as their computer-aided catheter ablation, 2001.

N. Saoudi-received-the and M. D. , He specialized in cardiology from Rouen University Hospital From 1978 to 1984, he was in intern at Fort de France Hospital, Martinique, France, and Rouen University Hospital. From 1984 to 1985, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in cardiac electrophysiology at the University of Miami, FL. In 1993 he become Professor of Cardiology at Rouen University Hospital. He is currently Professor of Cardiology and Head of the Cardiology Department at Princess Grace Hospital, Monaco. His research interests are in the areas of electrocardiology and cardiac arrhythmias. He published the world's first case of catheter ablation of atrial flutter (1985) and the first description of an isthmus block in humans, 1978.

. Dr, Saoudi is a former President of the French Arrhythmia Group of the French Society of Cardiology, and is also Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, the Heart Rhythm Society and the American College of Cardiology. He is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Medicine, and the recipient of a number of awards, including the French Legion of Honor and the Russian Sanitary Merit