Complex Medical Engineering

Part 1. Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics

1. Improving the Performance of a Traveling Wave Micropump for Fluid Transport in Micro Total Analysis Systems
Takaaki Suzuki, Isaku Kanno, Hidetoshi Hata, Hirofumi Shintaku, Satoyuki Kawano, Hidetoshi Kotera

2. Vision-based Tactile Sensor for Endoscopy
Kazuto Takashima, Kiyoshi Yoshinaka, Ken Ikeuchi

3. 6-DOF Manipulator-based Novel Type of Support System for Biomedical Applications
Shuxiang Guo, Qiang Wang, Gang Song

4. The Development of a New Kind of Underwater Walking Robot
Wei Zhang, Shuxiang Guo

5. Mid-Infrared Robotic Laser Surgery System in Neurosurgery
Shigeru Omori, Ryoichi Nakumura, Yoshihiro Muragaki, Ichiro Sakuma, Katsuhiro Miura, Masao Doi, Hiroshi Iseki

6. Development of a Compact Automatic Focusing System for a Neurosurgical Laser Instrument
Masafumi Noguchi, Eisuke Aoki, Etsuko Kobayashi, Shigeru Omori, Yoshihiro Muragaki, Hiroshi Iseki, Ichiro Sakuma

7. Non-invasive Monitoring of Arterial Wall Impedance
Akira Sakane, Kenji Shiba, Toshio Tsuji, Noboru Saeki, Masashi Kawamoto

Part 2. Complex Virtual Technology in Medicine

8. Advanced Volume Visualization for Interactive Extraction and Physics-based Modeling of Volume Data
Megumi Nakao, Tomohiro Kuroda, Kotaro Minato

9. Development of a Prosthetic Walking Training System for Lower Extremity Amputees
Takahiro Wada, Satoshi Tanaka, Toyokazu Takeuchi, Kazuya Ikuta, Kazuyoshi Tsukamoto

10. Electrophysiological Heart Simulator Equipped with Sketchy 3-D Modeling
Ryo Haraguchi, Takeo Igarashi, Shigeru Owada, Takenori Yao, Tsunetoyo Namba, Takashi Ashihara, Takanori Ikeda, Kazuo Nakazawa

11. Three-dimensional Display System of Individual Mandibular Movement
Michihiko Koseki, Akira Niitsuma, Norio Inou, Koutarou Maki

12. Robotic System for Less Invasive Abdominal Surgery
Ichiro Sakuma, Takashi Suzuki, Eisuke Aoki, Etsuko Kobayashi, Hiromasa Yamashita, Nobuhiko Hata, Takeyoshi Dohi, Kozo Konishi, Makoto Hashizume

Part 3. Information and Communication Technology in Medicine

13. Attribute Selection Measures with Possibility and Their Application to Classifying MRSA from MSSA
Kouichi Hirata, Masateru Harao, Minoru Wada, Shogo Ozaki, Shigeki Yokoyama, Kimiko Matsuoka

14. A Virtual Schooling System for Hospitalized Children
Eisuke Hanada, Mamoru Miyamoto, Kenji Moriyama

15. Using Computational Intelligence Methods in a Web-Based Drug Safety Information Community
A. Ammar Ghaibeh, Mikio Sasaki, Eiko Nakata Doolin, Kumiko Sakamoto, Hiroshi Chuman, Aiko Yamauchi

16. Analysis of Hospital Management Data using Generalized Linear Model
Yuko Tsumoto, Shusaku Tsumoto

17. Data Mining Approach on Clinical/Pharmaceutical Information accumulated in the Drug Safety Information Community
Aiko Yamauchi, Kumiko Sakamoto, Hiroshi Chuman

18. Clinical Decision Support based on Mobile Telecommunication Systems
Shusaku Tsumoto, Shoji Hirano, Eiisuke Hanada

19. Web Intelligence Meets Immunology
Jiming Liu, Ning Zhong, Yiyu Yao, Jing-Long Wu

Part 4. Complex Technology in Rehabilitation

20. Hand Movement Compensation on Visual Target Tracking for Patients with Movement Disorders
Junko Ide, Takenao Sugi, Masatoshi Nakamura, Hiroshi Shibasaki

21. Approach Motion Generation of the Self-Aided Manipulator for Bed-ridden Patients
Akihiko Hanafusa, Hiroko Washida, Johta Sasaki, Teruhiko Fuwa, Yasuhito Shiota

22. Lower-limb Joint Torque and Position Controls by Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES)
Koji Ito, Takahiro Shioyama, Toshiyuki Kondo

23. Pattern Recognition of EEG Signals During Right and Left Motor Imagery
Katsuhiro Inoue, Daiki Mori, Gert Pfurtscheller, Kousuke Kumamaru

24. A Hierarchical Interaction in Musical Ensemble Performance: Analysis of 1-bar Rhythm and Respiration Rhythm
Tomohito Yamamoto, Yoshihiro Miyake

25. Comparison of the Reaction Time Measurement System for Evaluating Robot Assisted Activities
Tomomi Hashimoto, Kunio Sugaya, Toshimitsu Hamada, Toshiko Akazawa, Yoshihito Kagawa, Yasuyuki Takakura, Yoshie Takahashi, Shusuke Kusano, Mitsuru Naganuma, Ryuhei Kimura

Part 5. Cognitive Neuroscience and Technology

26. Influence of Interhemispheric Interactions on Paretic Hand Movement in Chronic Subcortical Stroke
Nagako Murase, Julie Duque, Riccardo Mazzocchio, Leonardo G. Cohen

27. BOLD Contrast fMRI as a Tool for Imaging Neuroscience
Robert Turner

28. What can be Observed from Functional Neuroimaging?
Jorge Riera

29. Human Brain Atlases in Education, Research and Clinical Applications
Wieslaw L. Nowinski

30. Deploying Chinese Visible Human Data on Anatomical Exploration: From Western Medicine to Chinese Acupuncture
Pheng Ann Heng, Shao Xiang Zhang, Yongming Xie, Tien Tsin Wong, Yim Pan Chui, Jack Chun Yiu Cheng

31. MEG Single-event Analysis: Networks for Normal Brain Function and Their Changes in Schizophrenia
Andreas A. Ioannides

32. MEG and Complex Systems
Gareth R. Barnes, Michael I. G. Simpson, Arjan Hillebrand, Avgis Hadjipapas, Caroline Witton, Paul L. Furlong

33. MEG Source Localization under Multiple Constraints: An Extended Bayesian Framework
Jeremie Mattout, Christophe Phillips, Richard Henson, Karl Friston

34. Differential Contribution of Early Visual Areas to Perception of Contextual Effects: fMRI Studies
Yoshimichi Ejima

35. Brain-machine Interface to Detect Real Dynamics of Neuronal Assemblies in the Working Brain
Yoshio Sakurai

36. Prism-adaptation Therapy for Unilateral Neglect: from the Facts to a Bottom-up Explanatory Model
Revol Patrice, Pisella Laure, Luauté Jacques, Jacquin-Courtois Sophie, Farné Alessandro, Ota Hisaaki, Rode Gilles, Boisson Dominique, Rossetti Yves

37. Somatosensory Processing in the Postcentral, Intraparietal and Parietal Opercular Cortical Regions
Yoshiaki Iwamura

38. Predicting Motor Intention
Mark Hallett, Ou Bai

39. Cortical Field Potentials and Cognitive Functions
Hisae Gemba

40. FMRI Studies on Passively Listening to Words, Nonsense Words, and Separated KANAs of Japanese
Chang Cai, Takanori Kochiyama, Tokuhiko Satake, Kunihiico Osaka, Jinglong Wu

41. Interpretation of Increases in Deoxy-Hb during Functional Activation
Yoko Hoshi, Shunji Kohri, Norio Kobayashi

42. Probing the Plasticity of the Brain with TMS
John Christopher Rothwell

43. Time Series of Awake Background EEG Generated by a Model Reflecting the EEG Report
Shigeto Nishida, Masatoshi Nakamura, Akio Ikeda, Takashi Nagamine, Hiroshi Shibasaki

44. Event-related Changes in the Spontaneous Brain Activity during 3D Perception from Random-dot Motion
Sunao Iwaki, Giorgio Bonmassar, John W. Belliveau

45. Effects of Electric or Magnetic Brain Stimulation on Cortical and Subcortical Neural Functions in Rats
Tetsuo Touge, Daniel Gonzalez, Takanori Miki, Chiharu Hiramine, Hiroaki Takeuchi

46. Event-related Potentials and Stimulus Repetition in Explicit and Implicit Memory Tasks
Hisao Tachibana

47. Multichannel Surface EMGs to Assess Function of Spinal Anterior Horn Cells
Katsuya Ogata, Tomomi Kurokawa-Kuroda, Yoshinobu Goto, Shozo Tobimatsu

48. Cortical Processing of Sound in Patients with Sensorineural Hearing Loss
Yasushi Naito

49. Efficacy of the Levodopa on Frontal Lobe Dysfunction in Patients with de Novo Parkinson’s Disease; A Study Using the Event-related Potential
Koichi Hirata, Yuka Watanabe, Akinori Hozumi, Hideaki Tanaka, Mio Arai, Yoshiaki Kaji, Masako Saito, Kayoko Iwata

Part 6. Complex Bioinformatics

50. A Wireless Integrated Immunosensor
Tomohiro Ishikawa, Turgut-Sefket Aytur, Bernhard E. Boser

51. Dynamics of Cortical Neurons and Spike Timing Variability
Takashi Tateno

52. Can Newtonian Mechanics Aid in the Development of Brain Science?: A Challenge to Bernstein’s Degrees-of-Freedom Problem
Suguru Arimoto, Masahiro Sekimoto

53. Novel Registration Method for DSA Images Based on Thin-plate Spline
Jian Yang, Songyuan Tang, Qin Li, Yue Liu, Yongtian Wang

54. Development of a Simulator of Cardiac Function Estimation for before and after Left Ventricular Plasty Surgery
Tatsushi Tokuyasu, Akito Ichiya, Tadashi Kitamura, Genichi Sakaguchi, Masashi Komeda

Avainsanat: Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Bioinformatics, Biomedicine general, Neurology, Rehabilitation, Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)