Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies: International Joint Conference, BIOSTEC 2008 Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, January 28-31, 2008, Revised Selected Papers - Communications in Computer and Information Science 2009 edition

Marc Notes: Title from e-book title screen (viewed January 19, 2009). Table of Contents: Invited Papers -- Using the Web and ICT to Enable Persons with Disabilities Albert M. Cook -- Hybrid Brains-Biology, Technology Merger Kevin Warwick -- From the Bench to the Bedside: The Role of Semantic Web and Translational Medicine for Enabling the Next Generation Healthcare Enterprise Vipul Kashyap -- Part I. Biodevices -- Active Annuloplasty System for Mitral Valve Insufficiency / Andres Diaz Lantada, Pilar Lafont, Ignacio Rada, Antonio Jimenez, Jose Luis Hernandez, Hector Lorenzo-Yustos, Julio Munoz-Garcia -- Towards a Probabilistic Manipulator Robot's Workspace Governed by a BCI / Fernando A. Auat Cheein, Fernando di Sciascio, Teodiano Freire Bastos Filho, Ricardo Carelli -- New Soft Tissue Implants Using Organic Elastomers / David N. Ku -- Computer Aids for Visual Neuroprosthetic Devices / Samuel Romero, Christian Morillas, Juan Pedro Cobos, Francisco Pelayo, Alberto Prieto, Eduardo Fernandez -- Tissue-Viability Monitoring Using an Oxygen-Tension Sensor / Dafina Tanase, Niels Komen, Arie Draaijer, Gert-Jan Kleinrensink, Johannes Jeekel, John F. Lange, Paddy J. French -- Towards a Morse Code-Based Non-invasive Thought-to-Speech Converter / Nicoletta Nicolaou, Julius Georgiou -- Neurophysiologic and Cardiac Signals Simulator Based on Microconverter / Mauricio C. Tavares, Carlos M. Richter, Tiago R. Oliveria, Raimes Moraes -- Multipolar Electrode and Preamplifier Design for ENG-Signal Acquisition / Fabien Soulier, Lionel Gouyet, Guy Cathebras, Serge Bernard, David Guiraud, Yues Bertrand -- Part II. Biosignals -- On a Chirplet Transform Based Method for Co-channel Voice Separation / B. Dugnol, C. Fernandez, G. Galiano, J. Velasco -- Extraction of Capillary Non-perfusion from Fundus Fluorescien Angiorgram / Jayanthi Sivaswamy, Amit Agarwal, Mayank Chawla, Alka Rani, Taraprasad Das -- Content-Based Retrieval of Medical Images with Elongated Structures / Alexei Manso Correa Machado, Christiano Augusto Caldas Teixeira -- Cardiovascular Response Indentification Based on Nonlinear Support Vector Regression / Lu Wang, Steven W. Su, Gregory S. H. Chan, Branko G. Celler, Teddy M. Cheng, Andrey V. Savkin -- Vessel Cross-Sectional Diameter Measurements on Color Retinal Image / Alauddin Bhuiyan, Baikunth Nath, Joey Chuam, Ramamohanarao Kotagiri -- Automatic Detection of Laryngeal Pathology on Sustained Vowels Using Short-Term Cepstral Parameters: Analysis of Performance and Theoretical Justification / Ruben Fraile, Juan Ignacio Godino-Llorente, Nicolas Saenz-Lechon, Vitor Osma-Ruiz, Pedro Gomez-Vilda -- MM-Correction: Meta-analysis-Based Multiple Hypotheses Correction in Omic Studies / Christine Nardini, Lei Wang, Hesen Peng, Luca Benin', Michael D. Kuo -- A Supervised Wavelet Transform Algorithm for R Spike Detection in Noisy ECGs / G. de Lannoy, A. de Decker, M. Verleysen -- Four-Channel Biosignal Analysis and Feature Extraction for Automatic Emotion Recognition / Jonghwa Kim, Elisabeth Andre -- Fast, Accurate and Precise Mid-Sagittal Plane Location in 3D MR Images of the Brian / Felipe P. G. Bergo, Alexander X. Falcao, Clarissa L. Yasuda, Guilherme C. S. Ruppert -- Facing Polychotomies through Classification by Decomposition: Applications in the Bio-medical Domain / Paolo Soda -- Automatic Speech Recognition Based on Electromyographic Biosignals / Szu-Chen Stan Jou, Tanja Schultz -- A Multiphase Approach to MRI Shoulder Images Classification / Gabriela Perez, J. F. Garamendi, R. Montes Diez, E. Schiavi -- Human-Like Rule Optimization for Continuous Domains / Fedja Hadzic, Tharam S. Dillon -- Automated Discrimination of Pathological Regions in Tissue Images: Unsupervised Clustering vs. Supervised SVM Classification / Santa Di Cataldo, Elisa Ficarra, Enrico Macii -- ECoG Based Brain Computer Interface with Subset Selection / Nuri F. Ince, Fikri Goksu, Ahmed H. Tewfik -- Part III. Healthinf -- The-Muss: Mobile U-Health Service System / Dongsoo Han, Sungjoon Park, Minkyu Lee -- Scalable Medical Image Understanding by Fusing Cross-Modal Object Recognition with Formal Domain Semantics / Manuel M&oumlet;ller, Michael Sintek, Paul Buitelaar, Saikat Mukherjee, Xiang Sean Zhou, J&oumlet;rg Freund -- Human Factors Affecting the Patient's Acceptance of Wireless Biomedical Sensors / Rune Fensli, Egil Boisen -- The Policy Debate on Pseudonymous Health Registers in Norway / Herbj&ophi;orn Andresen -- Application of Process Mining in Healthcare-A Case Study in a Dutch Hospital / R. S. Mans, M. H. Schonenberg, M. Song, W. M. P. van der Aalst, P. J. M. Bakker -- Brest Contour Detection with Stable Paths / Jaime S. Cardoso, Ricardo Sousa, Luis F. Teixeira, M. J. Cardoso -- Formal Verification of an Agent-Based Support System for Medicine Intake / Mark Hoogendoorn, Michael C. A. Klein, Zulfiqar A. Memon, Jan Treur -- Efficient Privacy-Enhancing Techniques for Medical Databases / Peter Schartner, Martin Schaffer -- Authentication Architecture for Region-Wide e-Health System with Smartcards and a PKI / Andre Zuquete, Helder Gomes, Joao Paulo Silva Cunha -- 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 -- Medline Abstracts Classification Based on Noun Phrases Extraction / Fernando Ruiz-Rico, Jose-Luis Vicedo, Mari-Cansuelo Rubio-Sanchez -- Representing and Reasoning with Temporal Constraints in Clinical Trails Using Semantic Technologies / Ravi D. Shankar, Susana B. Martins, Martin J. O'Connor, David B. Parrish, Amar K. Das -- Gesture Therapy: A Vision-Based System for Arm Rehabilitation after Stroke / L. Enrique Sucar, Gildardo Azcarate, Ron S. Leder, David Reinkensmeyer, Jorge Hernandez, Israel Sanchez, Pedro Saucedo -- Author Index. Publisher Marketing: This book contains the best papers of the First International Joint Conference on B- medical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2008), organized by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information Control and Communication (INSTICC), technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Bi- ogy Society (EMB), ACM SIGART and the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC), in cooperation with AAAI. The purpose of the International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering S- tems and Technologies is to bring together researchers and practitioners, including engineers, biologists, health professionals and informatics/computer scientists, int- ested in both theoretical advances and applications of information systems, artificial intelligence, signal processing, electronics and other engineering tools in knowledge areas related to biology and medicine. BIOSTEC is composed of three co-located conferences; each specializes in one of the aforementioned main knowledge areas, namely: BIODEVICES (International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and - vices) focuses on aspects related to electronics and mechanical engineering, - pecially equipment and materials inspired from biological systems and/or - dressing biological requirements. Monitoring devices, instrumentation sensors and systems, biorobotics, micro-nanotechnologies and biomaterials are some of the technologies addressed at this conference."