Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies Book

Invited Papers

Using the Web and ICT to Enable Persons with Disabilities Albert M. Cook 3

Hybrid Brains-Biology, Technology Merger Kevin Warwick 19

From the Bench to the Bedside: The Role of Semantic Web and Translational Medicine for Enabling the Next Generation Healthcare Enterprise Vipul Kashyap 35

Part I Biodevices

Active Annuloplasty System for Mitral Valve Insufficiency Andrés Diaz Lantada Pilar Lafont Ignacio Rada Antonio Jiménez José Luis Hernández Héctor Lorenzo-Yustos Julio Muñoz-García 59

Towards a Probabilistic Manipulator Robot's Workspace Governed by a BCI Fernando A. Auat Cheeín Fernando di Sciascio Teodiano Freire Bastos Filho Ricardo Carelli 73

New Soft Tissue Implants Using Organic Elastomers David N. Ku 85

Computer Aids for Visual Neuroprosthetic Devices Samuel Romero Christian Morillas Juan Pedro Cobos Francisco Pelayo Alberto Prieto Eduardo Fernández 96

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 109

Towards a Morse Code-Based Non-invasive Thought-to-Speech Converter Nicoletta Nicolaou Julius Georgiou 123

Neurophysiologic and Cardiac Signals Simulator Based on Microconverter Maurício C. Tavares Carlos M. Richter Tiago R. Oliveria Raimes Moraes 136

Multipolar Electrode and Preamplifier Design for ENG-Signal Acquisition Fabien Soulier Lionel Gouyet Guy Cathébras Serge Bernard David Guiraud Yues Bertrand 148

Part II Biosignals

On a Chirplet Transform Based Method for Co-channel Voice Separation B. Dugnol C. Fernández G. Galiano J.Velasco 163

Extraction of Capillary Non-perfusion from Fundus Fluorescien Angiorgram Jayanthi Sivaswamy Amit Agarwal Mayank Chawla Alka Rani Taraprasad Das 176

Content-Based Retrieval of Medical Images with Elongated Structures Alexei Manso Correa Machado Christiano Augusto Caldas Teixeira 189

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 202

Vessel Cross-Sectional Diameter Measurements on Color Retinal Image Alauddin Bhuiyan Baikunth Nath Joey Chuam Ramamohanarao Kotagiri 214

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 Vítor Osma-Ruiz Pedro Gómez-Vilda 228

MM-Correction: Meta-analysis-Based Multiple Hypotheses Correction in Omic Studies Christine Nardini Lei Wang Hesen Peng Luca Benin' Michael D. Kuo 242

A Supervised Wavelet Transform Algorithm for R Spike Detection in Noisy ECGs G. de Lannoy A. de Decker M. Verleysen 256

Four-Channel Biosignal Analysis and Feature Extraction for Automatic Emotion Recognition Jonghwa Kim Elisabeth André 265

Fast, Accurate and Precise Mid-Sagittal Plane Location in 3D MR Images of the Brian Felipe P.G. Bergo Alexander X. Falcão Clarissa L. Yasuda Guilherme C.S. Ruppert 278

Facing Polychotomies through Classification by Decomposition: Applications in the Bio-medical Domain Paolo Soda 291

Automatic Speech Recognition Based on Electromyographic Biosignals Szu-Chen Stan Jou Tanja Schultz 305

A Multiphase Approach to MRI Shoulder Images Classification Gabriela Pérez J.F. Garamendi R. Montes Diez E. Schiavi 321

Human-Like Rule Optimization for Continuous Domains Fedja Hadzic Tharam S. Dillon 330

Automated Discrimination of Pathological Regions in Tissue Images: Unsupervised Clustering vs. Supervised SVM Classification Santa Di Cataldo Elisa Ficarra Enrico Macii 344

ECoG Based Brain Computer Interface with Subset Selection Nuri F. Ince Fikri Goksu Ahmed H. Tewfik 357

Part III Healthinf

The-Muss: Mobile U-Health Service System Dongsoo Han Sungjoon Park Minkyu Lee 377

Scalable Medical Image Understanding by Fusing Cross-Modal Object Recognition with Formal Domain Semantics Manuel Möet;ller Michael Sintek Paul Buitelaar Saikat Mukherjee Xiang Sean Zhou Jöet;rg Freund 390

Human Factors Affecting the Patient's Acceptance of Wireless Biomedical Sensors Rune Fensli Egil Boisen 402

The Policy Debate on Pseudonymous Health Registers in Norway Herbj&ophi;orn Andresen 413

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 425

Brest Contour Detection with Stable Paths Jaime S. Cardoso Ricardo Sousa Luís F. Teixeira M.J. Cardoso 439

Formal Verification of an Agent-Based Support System for Medicine Intake Mark Hoogendoorn Michael C.A. Klein Zulfiqar A. Memon Jan Treur 453

Efficient Privacy-Enhancing Techniques for Medical Databases Peter Schartner Martin Schaffer 467

Authentication Architecture for Region-Wide e-Health System with Smartcards and a PKI André Zúquete Helder Gomes João Paulo Silva Cunha 479

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 493

Medline Abstracts Classification Based on Noun Phrases Extraction Fernando Ruiz-Rico José-Luis Vicedo Marí-Cansuelo Rubio-Sánchez 507

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 520

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 531

Author Index 541