Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies

1. Using the Web and ICT to Enable Persons with Disabilities
Albert M. Cook

2. Hybrid Brains – Biology, Technology Merger
Kevin Warwick

3. From the Bench to the Bedside: The Role of Semantic Web and Translational Medicine for Enabling the Next Generation Healthcare Enterprise
Vipul Kashyap

4. Active Annuloplasty System for Mitral Valve Insufficiency
Andrés Díaz Lantada, Pilar Lafont, Ignacio Rada, Antonio Jiménez, José Luis Hernández, Héctor Lorenzo-Yustos, Julio Muñoz-García

5. Towards a Probabilistic Manipulator Robot’s Workspace Governed by a BCI
Fernando A. Auat Cheeín, Fernando Sciascio, Teodiano Freire Bastos Filho, Ricardo Carelli

6. New Soft Tissue Implants Using Organic Elastomers
David N. Ku

7. Computer Aids for Visual Neuroprosthetic Devices
Samuel Romero, Christian Morillas, Juan Pedro Cobos, Francisco Pelayo, Alberto Prieto, Eduardo Fernández

8. Tissue-Viability Monitoring Using an Oxygen-Tension Sensor
Dafina Tanase, Niels Komen, Arie Draaijer, Gert-Jan Kleinrensink, Johannes Jeekel, Johan F. Lange, Paddy J. French

9. Towards a Morse Code-Based Non-invasive Thought-to-Speech Converter
Nicoletta Nicolaou, Julius Georgiou

10. Neurophysiologic and Cardiac Signals Simulator Based on Microconverter
Maurício C. Tavares, Carlos M. Richter, Tiago R. Oliveira, Raimes Moraes

11. Multipolar Electrode and Preamplifier Design for ENG-Signal Acquisition
Fabien Soulier, Lionel Gouyet, Guy Cathébras, Serge Bernard, David Guiraud, Yves Bertrand

12. On a Chirplet Transform Based Method for Co-channel Voice Separation
B. Dugnol, C. Fernández, G. Galiano, J. Velasco

13. Extraction of Capillary Non-perfusion from Fundus Fluorescein Angiogram
Jayanthi Sivaswamy, Amit Agarwal, Mayank Chawla, Alka Rani, Taraprasad Das

14. Content-Based Retrieval of Medical Images with Elongated Structures
Alexei Manso Correa Machado, Christiano Augusto Caldas Teixeira

15. Cardiovascular Response Identification Based on Nonlinear Support Vector Regression
Lu Wang, Steven W. Su, Gregory S. H. Chan, Branko G. Celler, Teddy M. Cheng, Andrey V. Savkin

16. Vessel Cross-Sectional Diameter Measurement on Color Retinal Image
Alauddin Bhuiyan, Baikunth Nath, Joey Chua, Ramamohanarao Kotagiri

17. Automatic Detection of Laryngeal Pathology on Sustained Vowels Using Short-Term Cepstral Parameters: Analysis of Performance and Theoretical Justification
Rubén Fraile, Juan Ignacio Godino-Llorente, Nicolás Sáenz-Lechón, Víctor Osma-Ruiz, Pedro Gómez-Vilda

18. MM-Correction: Meta-analysis-Based Multiple Hypotheses Correction in Omic Studies
Christine Nardini, Lei Wang, Hesen Peng, Luca Benini, Michael D. Kuo

19. A Supervised Wavelet Transform Algorithm for R Spike Detection in Noisy ECGs
G. Lannoy, A. Decker, M. Verleysen

20. Four-Channel Biosignal Analysis and Feature Extraction for Automatic Emotion Recognition
Jonghwa Kim, Elisabeth André

21. Fast, Accurate and Precise Mid-Sagittal Plane Location in 3D MR Images of the Brain
Felipe P. G. Bergo, Alexandre X. Falcão, Clarissa L. Yasuda, Guilherme C. S. Ruppert

22. Facing Polychotomies through Classification by Decomposition: Applications in the Bio-medical Domain
Paolo Soda

23. Automatic Speech Recognition Based on Electromyographic Biosignals
Szu-Chen Stan Jou, Tanja Schultz

24. A Multiphase Approach to MRI Shoulder Images Classification
Gabriela Pérez, J. F. Garamendi, R. Montes Diez, E. Schiavi

25. Human-Like Rule Optimization for Continuous Domains
Fedja Hadzic, Tharam S. Dillon

26. Automated Discrimination of Pathological Regions in Tissue Images: Unsupervised Clustering vs. Supervised SVM Classification
Santa Cataldo, Elisa Ficarra, Enrico Macii

27. ECoG Based Brain Computer Interface with Subset Selection
Nuri F. Ince, Fikri Goksu, Ahmed H. Tewfik

28. THE-MUSS: Mobile U-Health Service System
Dongsoo Han, Sungjoon Park, Minkyu Lee

29. Scalable Medical Image Understanding by Fusing Cross-Modal Object Recognition with Formal Domain Semantics
Manuel Möller, Michael Sintek, Paul Buitelaar, Saikat Mukherjee, Xiang Sean Zhou, Jörg Freund

30. Human Factors Affecting the Patient’s Acceptance of Wireless Biomedical Sensors
Rune Fensli, Egil Boisen

31. The Policy Debate on Pseudonymous Health Registers in Norway
Herbjørn Andresen

32. Application of Process Mining in Healthcare – A Case Study in a Dutch Hospital
R. S. Mans, M. H. Schonenberg, M. Song, W. M. P. Aalst, P. J. M. Bakker

33. Breast Contour Detection with Stable Paths
Jaime S. Cardoso, Ricardo Sousa, Luís F. Teixeira, M. J. Cardoso

34. Formal Verification of an Agent-Based Support System for Medicine Intake
Mark Hoogendoorn, Michel C. A. Klein, Zulfiqar A. Memon, Jan Treur

35. Efficient Privacy-Enhancing Techniques for Medical Databases
Peter Schartner, Martin Schaffer

36. Authentication Architecture for Region-Wide e-Health System with Smartcards and a PKI
André Zúquete, Helder Gomes, João Paulo Silva Cunha

37. Understanding the Effects of Sampling on Healthcare Risk Modeling for the Prediction of Future High-Cost Patients
Sai T. Moturu, Huan Liu, William G. Johnson

38. MEDLINE Abstracts Classification Based on Noun Phrases Extraction
Fernando Ruiz-Rico, José-Luis Vicedo, María-Consuelo Rubio-Sánchez

39. Representing and Reasoning with Temporal Constraints in Clinical Trials Using Semantic Technologies
Ravi D. Shankar, Susana B. Martins, Martin J. O’Connor, David B. Parrish, Amar K. Das

40. Gesture Therapy: A Vision-Based System for Arm Rehabilitation after Stroke
L. Enrique Sucar, Gildardo Azcárate, Ron S. Leder, David Reinkensmeyer, Jorge Hernández, Israel Sanchez, Pedro Saucedo

Nyckelord: Computer Science, Computational Biology/Bioinformatics, Biomedicine general, Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics), Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet), Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems, Information Systems and Communication Service