BIOSTEC 2008: Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
Ana L. N. Fred, Joaquim Filipe, Hugo Gamboa (Eds.): Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, International Joint Conference, BIOSTEC 2008, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, January 28-31, 2008, Revised Selected Papers. Springer 2009 Communications in Computer and Information Science 25 ISBN 978-3-540-92218-6
Invited Papers
Albert Cook: Using the Web and ICT to Enable Persons with Disabilities. 3-18
Kevin Warwick: Hybrid Brains - Biology, Technology Merger. 19-34
Vipul Kashyap: From the Bench to the Bedside: The Role of Semantic Web and Translational Medicine for Enabling the Next Generation Healthcare Enterprise. 35-56
BIODEVICES
Andrés Díaz Lantada, Pilar Lafont Morgado, Ignacio Rada Martínez, Antonio Jiménez Ramos, José Luis Hernández Riesco, Héctor Lorenzo-Yustos, Julio Muñoz García: Active Annuloplasty System for Mitral Valve Insufficiency. 59-72
Fernando Alfredo Auat Cheeín, Fernando di Sciascio, Teodiano Freire Bastos Filho, Ricardo O. Carelli: Towards a Probabilistic Manipulator Robot's Workspace Governed by a BCI. 73-84
David N. Ku: New Soft Tissue Implants Using Organic Elastomers. 85-95
Samuel F. Romero, Christian A. Morillas, Juan Pedro Cobos, Francisco J. Pelayo, Alberto Prieto, Eduardo Fernández: Computer Aids for Visual Neuroprosthetic Devices. 96-108
Dafina Tanase, Niels Komen, Arie Draaijer, Gert-Jan Kleinrensink, Johannes Jeekel, Johan F. Lange, Paddy J. French: Tissue-Viability Monitoring Using an Oxygen-Tension Sensor. 109-122
Nicoletta Nicolaou, Julius Georgiou: Towards a Morse Code-Based Non-invasive Thought-to-Speech Converter. 123-135
Maurício Campelo Tavares, Carlos Mendes Richter, Tiago Rockembach Oliveira, Raimes Moraes: Neurophysiologic and Cardiac Signals Simulator Based on Microconverter. 136-147
Fabien Soulier, Lionel Gouyet, Guy Cathébras, Serge Bernard, David Guiraud, Yves Bertrand: Multipolar Electrode and Preamplifier Design for ENG-Signal Acquisition. 148-159
BIOSIGNALS
Benjamín Dugnol Álvarez, Carlos Fernández García, Gonzalo Galiano Casas, Julián Velasco Valdés: On a Chirplet Transform Based Method for Co-channel Voice Separation. 163-175
Jayanthi Sivaswamy, Amit Agarwal, Mayank Chawla, Alka Rani, Taraprasad Das: Extraction of Capillary Non-perfusion from Fundus Fluorescein Angiogram. 176-188
Alexei Manso Correa Machado, Christiano Augusto Caldas Teixeira: Content-Based Retrieval of Medical Images with Elongated Structures. 189-201
Lu Wang, Steven W. Su, Gregory S. H. Chan, Branko G. Celler, Teddy M. Cheng, Andrey V. Savkin: Cardiovascular Response Identification Based on Nonlinear Support Vector Regression. 202-213
Alauddin Bhuiyan, Baikunth Nath, Joselíto J. Chua, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao: Vessel Cross-Sectional Diameter Measurement on Color Retinal Image. 214-227
Rubén Fraile, Juan Ignacio Godino-Llorente, Nicolás Sáenz-Lechón, Víctor Osma-Ruiz, Pedro Gómez Vilda: Automatic Detection of Laryngeal Pathology on Sustained Vowels Using Short-Term Cepstral Parameters: Analysis of Performance and Theoretical Justification. 228-241
Christine Nardini, Lei Wang, Hesen Peng, Luca Benini, Michael D. Kuo: MM-Correction: Meta-analysis-Based Multiple Hypotheses Correction in Omic Studies. 242-255
Gael de Lannoy, Arnaud de Decker, Michel Verleysen: A Supervised Wavelet Transform Algorithm for R Spike Detection in Noisy ECGs. 256-264
Jonghwa Kim, Elisabeth André: Four-Channel Biosignal Analysis and Feature Extraction for Automatic Emotion Recognition. 265-277
Felipe P. G. Bergo, Alexandre X. Falcão, Clarissa L. Yasuda, Guilherme C. S. Ruppert: Fast, Accurate and Precise Mid-Sagittal Plane Location in 3D MR Images of the Brain. 278-290
Paolo Soda: Facing Polychotomies through Classification by Decomposition: Applications in the Bio-medical Domain. 291-304
Szu-Chen Stan Jou, Tanja Schultz: Automatic Speech Recognition Based on Electromyographic Biosignals. 305-320
Gabriela Pérez, Juan Francisco Garamendi, Raquel Montes Diez, Emanuele Schiavi: A Multiphase Approach to MRI Shoulder Images Classification. 321-329
Santa Di Cataldo, Elisa Ficarra, Enrico Macii: Automated Discrimination of Pathological Regions in Tissue Images: Unsupervised Clustering vs. Supervised SVM Classification. 344-356
Nuri F. Ince, Fikri Goksu, Ahmed H. Tewfik: ECoG Based Brain Computer Interface with Subset Selection. 357-374
HEALTHINF

Manuel Möller, Michael Sintek, Paul Buitelaar, Saikat Mukherjee, Xiang Sean Zhou, Joerg Freund: Scalable Medical Image Understanding by Fusing Cross-Modal Object Recognition with Formal Domain Semantics. 390-401
Rune Fensli, Egil Boisen: Human Factors Affecting the Patient's Acceptance of Wireless Biomedical Sensors. 402-412
Herbjørn Andresen: The Policy Debate on Pseudonymous Health Registers in Norway. 413-424
R. S. Mans, Helen Schonenberg, Minseok Song, Wil M. P. van der Aalst, Piet J. M. Bakker: Application of Process Mining in Healthcare - A Case Study in a Dutch Hospital. 425-438
Jaime S. Cardoso, Ricardo Sousa, Luís Filipe Teixeira, Maria J. Cardoso: Breast Contour Detection with Stable Paths. 439-452
Mark Hoogendoorn, Michel C. A. Klein, Zulfiqar A. Memon, Jan Treur: Formal Verification of an Agent-Based Support System for Medicine Intake. 453-466
Peter Schartner, Martin Schaffer: Efficient Privacy-Enhancing Techniques for Medical Databases. 467-478
André Zúquete, Helder Gomes, João Paulo da Silva Cunha: Authentication Architecture for Region-Wide e-Health System with Smartcards and a PKI. 479-492
Sai T. Moturu, Huan Liu, William G. Johnson: Understanding the Effects of Sampling on Healthcare Risk Modeling for the Prediction of Future High-Cost Patients. 493-506
Fernando Ruiz-Rico, José Luis Vicedo González, María-Consuelo Rubio-Sánchez: MEDLINE Abstracts Classification Based on Noun Phrases Extraction. 507-519
Ravi D. Shankar, Susana B. Martins, Martin J. O'Connor, David B. Parrish, Amar K. Das: Representing and Reasoning with Temporal Constraints in Clinical Trials Using Semantic Technologies. 520-530
Luis Enrique Sucar, Gildardo Azcárate, Ron S. Leder, David J. Reinkensmeyer, Jorge Hernández, Israel Sanchez, Pedro Saucedo: Gesture Therapy: A Vision-Based System for Arm Rehabilitation after Stroke. 531-540



