Main description:

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.

Contents:

Invited Papers.- Using the Web and ICT to Enable Persons with Disabilities.- Hybrid Brains - Biology, Technology Merger.- From the Bench to the Bedside: The Role of Semantic Web and Translational Medicine for Enabling the Next Generation Healthcare Enterprise.- I: BIODEVICES.- Active Annuloplasty System for Mitral Valve Insufficiency.- Towards a Probabilistic Manipulator Robot's Workspace Governed by a BCI.- New Soft Tissue Implants Using Organic Elastomers.- Computer Aids for Visual Neuroprosthetic Devices.- Tissue-Viability Monitoring Using an Oxygen-Tension Sensor.- Towards a Morse Code-Based Non-invasive Thought-to-Speech Converter.- Neurophysiologic and Cardiac Signals Simulator Based on Microconverter.- Multipolar Electrode and Preamplifier Design for ENG-Signal Acquisition.- II: BIOSIGNALS.- On a Chirplet Transform Based Method for Co-channel Voice Separation.- Extraction of Capillary Non-perfusion from Fundus Fluorescein Angiogram.- Content-Based Retrieval of Medical Images with Elongated Structures.- Cardiovascular Response Identification Based on Nonlinear Support Vector Regression.- Vessel Cross-Sectional Diameter Measurement on Color Retinal Image.- Automatic Detection of Laryngeal Pathology on Sustained Vowels Using Short-Term Cepstral Parameters: Analysis of Performance and Theoretical Justification.- MM-Correction: Meta-analysis-Based Multiple Hypotheses Correction in Omic Studies.- A Supervised Wavelet Transform Algorithm for R Spike Detection in Noisy ECGs.- Four-Channel Biosignal Analysis and Feature Extraction for Automatic Emotion Recognition.- Fast, Accurate and Precise Mid-Sagittal Plane Location in 3D MR Images of the Brain.- Facing Polychotomies through Classification by Decomposition: Applications in the Bio-medical Domain.- Automatic Speech Recognition Based on Electromyographic Biosignals.- A Multiphase Approach to MRI Shoulder Images Classification.- Human-Like Rule Optimization for Continuous Domains.- Automated Discrimination of Pathological Regions in Tissue Images: Unsupervised Clustering vs. Supervised SVM Classification.- ECoG Based Brain Computer Interface with Subset Selection.- III: HEALTHINF.- THE-MUSS: Mobile U-Health Service System.- Scalable Medical Image Understanding by Fusing Cross-Modal Object Recognition with Formal Domain Semantics.- Human Factors Affecting the Patient's Acceptance of Wireless Biomedical Sensors.- The Policy Debate on Pseudonymous Health Registers in Norway.- Application of Process Mining in Healthcare - A Case Study in a Dutch Hospital.- Breast Contour Detection with Stable Paths.- Formal Verification of an Agent-Based Support System for Medicine Intake.- Efficient Privacy-Enhancing Techniques for Medical Databases.- Authentication Architecture for Region-Wide e-Health System with Smartcards and a PKI.- Understanding the Effects of Sampling on Healthcare Risk Modeling for the Prediction of Future High-Cost Patients.- MEDLINE Abstracts Classification Based on Noun Phrases Extraction.- Representing and Reasoning with Temporal Constraints in Clinical Trials Using Semantic Technologies.- Gesture Therapy: A Vision-Based System for Arm Rehabilitation after Stroke.