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MeMeA 2015: Torino, Italy
- 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications, MeMeA 2015, Torino, Italy, May 7-9, 2015. IEEE 2015, ISBN 978-1-4799-6477-2
T1.1: Biosignal processing I
- Eliana S. Almeida, Rangaraj M. Rangayyan, Paulo M. Azevedo-Marques:
Gaussian mixture modeling for statistical analysis of features of high-resolution CT images of diffuse pulmonary diseases. 1-5 - Mario Klunder, Ronny Feuer, Oliver Sawodny, Michael Ederer:
Using deconvolution to determine the sphincter strength distribution around the urethra. 6-11 - Davide Alinovi, Luca Cattani, Gianluigi Ferrari, Francesco Pisani, Riccardo Raheli:
Spatio-temporal video processing for respiratory rate estimation. 12-17 - Angela Lombardi, Pietro Guccione, Luigi Mascolo, Paolo Taurisano, Leonardo Fazio, Giovanni Nico:
Combining Graph Analysis and Recurrence Plot on fMRI data. 18-23 - Elisa Fiorina, Francesco Pennazio, Cristiana Peroni, Ernesto Lopez Torres, Maria Evelina Fantacci, Alessandra Retico, Luca Rei, Andrea Chincarini, Paolo Bosco, Marina Boccardi, Martina Bocchetta, Piergiorgio Cerello:
Automated hippocampus segmentation with the Channeler Ant Model: Results on different datasets. 24-29
T2.1: Imaging and communication I
- Stephanie L. Bennett, Rafik A. Goubran, Frank Knoefel:
Measurements of change in thermal images due to applied pressure. 30-35 - Guy Mathurin Kouamou Ntonfo, Monique Frize, Erika Bariciak:
Detection of Necrotizing Enterocolitis in newborns using abdominal thermal signature analysis. 36-39 - Daniel Hadhazi, Róbert Varga, Áron Horváth, Benjamin Czétényi, Gábor Horváth, Ákos Horváth:
Digital chest tomosynthesis: The main steps to a computer assisted lung diagnostic system. 40-45 - Manuela Maffongelli, Samuel Poretti, Andrea Salvadè, Ricardo Monleone, Francesco Meani, Alessandro Fedeli, Matteo Pastorino, Andrea Randazzo:
Preliminary test of a prototype of microwave axial tomograph for medical applications. 46-51 - Defne Us, Amalia Moreno-Galera, Sanaz Nazari-Farsani, Karri T. Palovuori, Heikki Kosola, Tiziana Zedda, Ulla Ruotsalainen:
AvanTomography: A compact module for positron emission mammography. 52-57
T3.1: Special Session: Non-invasive assessment of the neuromuscular system
- Xingchen Wang, Olena Kuzmicheva, Matthias Spranger, Axel Gräser:
Gait feature analysis of polyneuropathy patients. 58-63 - Lucia Grassi, Stefano Rossi, Paolo Cappa:
Dynamic Posturography: Perturbed equilibrium assessment on healthy adult subjects. 64-67 - Alessandra Retico, Riccardo Stara, Maria Evelina Fantacci, Alessandra Toncelli, Angelo Galante, Tiziana M. Florio, Marcello Alecci, Mirco Cosottini, Guja Astrea, Roberta Battini, Gianluigi Tiberi, Mauro Costagli, Michela Tosetti:
Non-invasive assessment of Neuromuscular Disorders by 7 tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy: Dedicated radio-frequency coil development. 68-73 - Maria Evelina Fantacci, Chiara Sottocornola, Alessandra Retico, Guja Astrea, Roberta Battini, Michela Tosetti:
A non-invasive method for a quantitative evaluation of muscle involvement in MRI of Neuromuscular Diseases. 74-78 - Marco Gazzoni:
Low cost inkjet printing for the fast prototyping of surface EMG detection systems. 79-83
T1.2: Sensors for medical systems / Sensor fusion and calibration
- Alessandra Retico, Assunta Vitacolonna, Angelo Galante, Tiziana M. Florio, Annamaria Cimini, Riccardo Stara, Gianluigi Tiberi, Michela Tosetti, Nunzia Fontana, Giuliano Manara, Agostino Monorchio, Marcello Alecci:
A 7T double-tuned (1H/31P) microstrip surface RF coil for the IMAGO7 MR scanner. 84-88 - R. Bruce Wallace, Akshay Puli, Rafik A. Goubran, Frank Knoefel, Shawn Marshall, Michelle Porter, Andrew Smith:
Big data analytics to identify deceleration characteristics of an older driver. 89-94 - Emiliano Schena, Paola Saccomandi, Carlo Massaroni, Valeria Quattrocchi, Giulia Frauenfelder, Francesco Giurazza, Sergio Silvestri, Michele Arturo Caponero, Andrea Polimadei:
Temperature monitoring during Laser Ablation by FBG sensors encapsulated within a metallic needle: Experiments on healthy swine tissue. 95-99 - Nuno Miguel Matos Pires, Tao Dong:
On-site, parallel detection of bio-analytes in water by an integrated capillary flow based opto-microfluidic device. 100-105 - Praful P. Pai, Pradyut Kumar Sanki, Swapna Banerjee:
A photoacoustics based continuous non-invasive blood glucose monitoring system. 106-111
T2.2: Special Session: Ultrasound technology in medical applications
- Federica Palorini, Daniela Origgi, Marika Guernieri, Adriano Troia, Chiara Magnetto, Giovanni Durando:
Measurements of temperature increase induced on a tissue-mimicking material by a clinical US-guided HIFU system. 112-116 - P. Alberto Giuliano Albo, Simona Lago:
Heat capacity measurements of novel tissue-mimicking materials. 117-120 - Giovanni Durando, Claudio Guglielmone, Roberto Canaparo, Loredana Serpe:
Acoustic characterization of ultrasound fields able to induce sonodynamic activity in an in vitro cancer model. 121-124 - Adriano Troia, Rugiada Cuccaro, Alessandro Schiavi:
New formulations for realization and characterization of homogeneous tissue mimicking materials for HIFU exposures. 125-130 - Baki Karaboce:
Focused ultrasound temperature effect in tissue-mimicking material and sheep liver. 131-134
T3.2: Special Session: Precise motion measurement using Inertial Measurement Units (IMU)
- Nina Rudigkeit, Marion Gebhard, Axel Gräser:
Evaluation of control modes for head motion-based control with motion sensors. 135-140 - Juri Taborri, Emilia Scalona, Stefano Rossi, Eduardo Palermo, Fabrizio Patane, Paolo Cappa:
Real-time gait detection based on Hidden Markov Model: Is it possible to avoid training procedure? 141-145 - Valentina Agostini, Marco Knaflitz, Laura Antenucci, Giulia Lisco, Laura Gastaldi, Shigeru Tadano:
Wearable sensors for gait analysis. 146-150 - Susana Carneiro, Joana Silva, Bruno Aguiar, Tiago Rocha, Inês Sousa, Tiago Montanha, José Carlos Ribeiro:
Accelerometer-based methods for energy expenditure using the smartphone. 151-156 - Pasquale Daponte, Luca De Vito, Sergio Rapuano, Maria Riccio, Francesco Picariello:
Compensating magnetic disturbances on MARG units by means of a low complexity data fusion algorithm. 157-162
T1.3: Measurement for patient safety and quality control
- Gabriella Nagy, Annamária R. Várkonyi-Kóczy, János T. Tóth:
An Anytime Voice Controlled Ambient Assisted Living System for motion disabled persons. 163-168 - Silvia Macis, Daniela Loi, Danilo Pani, Luigi Raffo, Serena La Manna, Vincenzo Cestone, Davide Guerri:
Home telemonitoring of vital signs through a TV-based application for elderly patients. 169-174 - Monique Frize, Jeff Gilchrist, Hasmik Martirosyan, Erika Bariciak:
Integration of outcome estimations with a clinical decision support system: Application in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). 175-179 - Giuseppe Cicotti, Antonio Coronato:
Towards a Probabilistic Model Checking-based approach for Medical Device Risk Assessment. 180-185 - Ivan Luigi Spano, Sara Sulis, Alessandro Serpi, Ignazio Marongiu, Gianluca Gatto, Vincenzo Nissardi:
An Automatic Sensing Test procedure for Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators. 186-190
T2.3: Special Session: Wireless Communications in Healthcare
- Ting-Ying Wei, Chung-Ping Young:
A mobile approach for neurofeedback cognitive enhancement. 191-195 - Daniel Magalotti, Pisana Placidi, Marco Dionigi, Andrea Scorzoni, Lucia Bissi, Leonello Servoli:
A wireless personal sensor node for the Dosimetry of Interventional Radiology operators. 196-201 - Nataraj Kuntagod, Sanjoy Paul, Senthil Kumaresan, Bharat Balasubramaniam, Imtiaz Ahmed:
Connected vision care for eradication of preventable blindness. 202-207 - Octavian Postolache, José Miguel Dias Pereira, Vítor Viegas, Pedro Silva Girão:
Gait rehabilitation assessment based on microwave Doppler radars embedded in walkers. 208-213 - Constantinos Patsakis, Achilleas Papageorgiou, Francisco Falcone, Agusti Solanas:
s-health as a driver towards better emergency response systems in urban environments. 214-218
T3.3: Special Session: Mechanical and Thermal Measurements for Medicine and Biology
- Emiliano Schena, Paola Saccomandi, Carlo Massaroni, Giulia Frauenfelder, Francesco Giurazza, Giorgio M. Peroglio, Sergio Silvestri, Michele Arturo Caponero, Andrea Polimadei:
Thermocouples for temperature monitoring during pancreatic laser ablation: Analysis of the measurement error. 219-223 - Rinaldo Vallascas:
A new arterial blood pressure Holter based on the oscillometric method. 224-228 - Ilaria Ercoli, Lorenzo Scalise, Annalisa Cenci, Paolo Marchionni, Enrico Primo Tomasini, Virginio Paolo Carnielli:
A measurement procedure for the assessment of thermoregulatory activitity in premature babies. 229-233 - Francesco Montecchia, Stefano Luciani, Roberto Cicchetti, Rosanna Grossi, Fabio Midulla, Corrado Moretti, Paola Papoff:
Pharyngeal and esophageal pressure measurements to evaluate respiratory mechanics in infants on high flow nasal cannula: A feasibility study. 234-239 - Alessia Demichelis, Carla Divieto, Leonardo Mortati, Mariapaola Sassi, Guido Sassi:
Preliminary measurements of elasticity properties of lung tumor living cells for cancer detection. 240-243
F1.1: Biosignal processing II
- Guglielmo Frigo, Sabrina Brigadoi, Giada Giorgi, Giovanni Sparacino, Claudio Narduzzi:
A compressive sensing spectral model for fNIRS haemodynamic response de-noising. 244-249 - Sergio Casciaro, Francesco Conversano, Paola Pisani, Antonio Greco, Aimé Lay-Ekuakille, Maurizio Muratore:
A new ultrasound parameter for osteoporosis diagnosis: Clinical validation on normal- and under-weight women. 250-254 - Andreas Tobola, Chris Espig, Franz J. Streit, Oliver Korpok, Björn Schmitz, Christian Hofmann, Matthias Struck, Christian Weigand, Heike Leutheuser, Björn M. Eskofier, Georg Fischer:
Scalable ECG hardware and algorithms for extended runtime of wearable sensors. 255-260 - Mojtaba Jafari Tadi, Eero Lehtonen, Tero Koivisto, Mikko Pänkäälä, Ari Paasio, Mika Teräs:
Seismocardiography: Toward heart rate variability (HRV) estimation. 261-266 - Iraj Koohi, Saif Ahmad, Izmail Batkin, Voicu Z. Groza, Shervin Shirmohammadi, Hilmi R. Dajani, Emil M. Petriu:
Method for evaluation of trustworthiness of oscillometric blood pressure measurements. 267-272
F2.1: Imaging and communication II
- Gabriele Piantadosi, Stefano Marrone, Roberta Fusco, Antonella Petrillo, Mario Sansone, Carlo Sansone:
Data-driven selection of motion correction techniques in breast DCE-MRI. 273-278 - Giuseppe Di Leo, Consolatina Liguori, Alfredo Paolillo, Paolo Sommella:
A web-based application for dermoscopic measurements and learning. 279-284 - Matthias Becker, Karl-Ingo Friese, Franz-Erich Wolter, Nils-Claudius Gellrich, Harald Essig:
Development of a reliable method for orbit segmentation & measuring. 285-290 - Yang Li, Wei Liang, Jindong Tan, Yinlong Zhang:
A novel automatically initialized level set approach based on region correlation for lumbar vertebrae CT image segmentation. 291-296 - Samanta Rosati, Gabriella Balestra, Valentina Giannini, Simone Mazzetti, Filippo Russo, Daniele Regge:
ChiMerge discretization method: Impact on a computer aided diagnosis system for prostate cancer in MRI. 297-302
F3.1: Special Session: Mechanical and Thermal Measurements for Medicine and Biology
- Emiliano Schena, Paola Saccomandi, Marina Piccolo, Carlo Massaroni, Sergio Silvestri, Claudia L. Piccolo, Giulia Frauenfelder, Francesco Giurazza, Bruno Beomonte Zobel:
MRI-thermometry on ex vivo swine liver: Preliminary trials to assess the sensitivity of two sequences. 303-307 - Giulia Lupi, Andrea Scorza, Maria Livia Rugiano, Salvatore Andrea Sciuto, Fabiano Bini:
Preliminary study for a water-paraffin based phantom in MRI quality assurance test. 308-313 - Emanuele Rizzuto, Silvia Carosio, Antonio Musaro, Zaccaria Del Prete:
A Digital Image Correlation based technique to control the development of a skeletal muscle engineered tissue by measuring its surface strain field. 314-318 - Roberto Di Marco, Stefano Rossi, Benedetta Bachetti, Claudia Mazzà, Paolo Cappa:
Effect of the calibration procedure of an optoelectronic system on the joint kinematics. 319-323 - Wei Chen, Riccardo Gassino, Yu Liu, Alessio Carullo, Guido Perrone, Alberto Vallan, Daniele Tosi:
Performance assessment of FBG temperature sensors for laser ablation of tumors. 324-328
PS1: Poster session 1
- Luigi Iuppariello, Paolo Bifulco, Maria Romano, Mario Cesarelli, Giovanni D'Addio:
Submovements composition and quality assessment of reaching movements in subjects with Parkinson's Disease. 329-334 - Qing Zhu, Xiaogang Sun, Xingsong Wang, Qingcong Wu, Bin Liang:
Development of intraoperative noninvasive force measuring system during femoral fracture reduction. 335-339 - Franco Simini, Adrian Monkas, Gonzalo Carballo, Jonatan Aguirre, Fabian Ferreira, Santiago Gomez:
Mechanical Ventilator spontaneous breathing detection tested by robot SIMVENT. 340-343 - Peter Drotár, Jirí Mekyska, Zdenek Smékal, Irena Rektorová, Lucia Masarová, Marcos Faúndez-Zanuy:
Contribution of different handwriting modalities to differential diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease. 344-348 - Yunfeng Wu, Xin Luo, Pinnan Chen, Lifang Liao, Shanshan Yang, Rangaraj M. Rangayyan:
Forward autoregressive modeling for stride process analysis in patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease. 349-352 - Guglielmo Frigo, Maria Rubega, G. Lezziero, Roberto Fontana, Claudia Cecchetto, Stefano Vassanelli, Giovanni Sparacino, Matteo Bertocco:
A software-based platform for multichannel electrophysiological data acquisition. 353-358 - Francesco Lamonaca, Domenico Luca Carnì, Domenico Grimaldi, Alfonso Nastro, Maria Riccio, Vitaliano Spagnuolo:
Blood oxygen saturation measurement by smartphone camera. 359-364 - Xiahan Yang, Yahong Rosa Zheng, Lixin Ma:
Automated cardiac self-gated radial CMRI. 365-368 - Andrea Scorza, Giulia Lupi, Salvatore Andrea Sciuto, Fabiano Bini, Franco Marinozzi:
A novel approach to a phantom based method for maximum depth of penetration measurement in diagnostic ultrasound: a preliminary study. 369-374 - Maria Kyrarini, Xingchen Wang, Axel Gräser:
Comparison of vision-based and sensor-based systems for joint angle gait analysis. 375-379 - Gloria Cosoli, Luigi Casacanditella, Filippo Pietroni, Andrea Calvaresi, Gian Marco Revel, Lorenzo Scalise:
A novel approach for features extraction in physiological signals. 380-385 - Emanuele Piuzzi, Andrea Capuano, Stefano Pisa, Paolo Cappa, Fabrizio Patane, Stefano Rossi, Nicola Giaquinto, Giuseppe Maria D'Aucelli:
Impedance plethysmography system with inertial measurement units for motion artefact reduction: Application to continuous breath activity monitoring. 386-390 - R. Bruce Wallace, Michael Rockwood, Rafik A. Goubran, Frank Knoefel, Shawn Marshall, Michelle Porter:
Measurement of vehicle acceleration in studies of older drivers from GPS position and OBDII velocity sensors. 391-396 - D. M. G. Preethichandra, E. M. I. Mala Ekanayake:
Nano-structured polypyrrole as a low-cost substrate for glucose biosensing applications in rural health. 397-401 - Krisjanis Nesenbergs, Leo Selavo:
Smart textiles for wearable sensor networks: Review and early lessons. 402-406 - Romeo Ciobanu, Cristina Schreiner, Vasile Drug, Thomas Schreiner, Dorin Antal:
Sensors in LTCC-technology with embedded microfluidic features, for medical applications. 407-410 - Aimé Lay-Ekuakille, G. Pagliara, Patrizia Vergallo, Md. Zia Ur Rahman, D. V. Rama Koti Reddy, Sergio Casciaro, Francesco Conversano:
Microsensors and energy harvesting for thermotherapy: Design and characterization. 411-415 - Johannes C. Ayena, Landry Delphin Chapwouo Tchakouté, Martin J.-D. Otis, Bob-Antoine Jerry Ménélas:
An efficient home-based risk of falling assessment test based on Smartphone and instrumented insole. 416-421 - Giovanni Durando, Claudio Guglielmone, Maria Vittoria Actis, Giuseppe Massazza:
Characterization of therapeutic ultrasound devices for rehabilitation and physical medicine. 422-425 - Catalina Luca, Doru Andritoi, Calin Corciova, Radu Ciorap:
Study on the influence of wireless communication technology on sensitive medical equipments. 426-431 - Yu-Cheng Fan, Hung-Kuan Liu:
Three-dimensional gesture interactive system design of home automation for physically handicapped people. 432-435 - Gregorio Andria, Anna Maria Lucia Lanzolla, Giuseppe Russo, Mirko Parabita, Raffaele Antonelli Incalzi, Giuseppe Cavallo, Marco Benvenuto:
An innovative measurement system based on MEMs for telerehabilitation. 436-439 - Gregorio Andria, Anna Maria Lucia Lanzolla, Giuseppe Cavallo, Giuseppe Russo, F. Marinosci, Raffaele Antonelli Incalzi, Marco Benvenuto:
A novel approach for design and testing digital m-health applications. 440-444 - Rinaldo Vallascas, Mariangela Usai:
New FEM 3D model for arm-cuff interface simulation. 445-450
S1.1: Bioengineering and rehabilitation -Monitoring of rehabilitation
- Qingcong Wu, Xingsong Wang, Fengpo Du, Qing Zhu:
Fuzzy sliding mode control of an upper limb exoskeleton for robot-assisted rehabilitation. 451-456 - Siyu He, José Gómez-Tames, Wenwei Yu:
Needle detection by electro-localization for a needle EMG exam robotic simulator. 457-461 - Daniele Marioli, Emilio Sardini, Mauro Serpelloni:
Power harvesting integrated in a knee implant for autonomous sensors implanted in human body. 462-466 - Manuel Schimmack, Andrea Hand, Paolo Mercorelli, Anthimos Georgiadis:
Using a seminorm for wavelet denoising of sEMG signals for monitoring during rehabilitation with embedded orthosis system. 467-472 - Nicole A. Capela, Edward D. Lemaire, Natalie Baddour:
Improving classification of sit, stand, and lie in a smartphone human activity recognition system. 473-478
S2.1: Embedded systems -Medical and Instrumentation uncertainty
- Gianluca Barabino, Danilo Pani, Alessia Dessì, Luigi Raffo:
A configurable biopotentials acquisition module suitable for fetal electrocardiography studies. 479-483 - Claudio Crema, Alessandro Depari, Alessandra Flammini, Mirko Lavarini, Emiliano Sisinni, Angelo Vezzoli:
A smartphone-enhanced pill-dispenser providing patient identification and in-take recognition. 484-489 - Aydin Saribudak, Stephen Gundry, Jianmin Zou, M. Ümit Uyar:
Genomic based personalized chemotherapy analysis to support decision systems for breast cancer. 495-500 - Gianfranco Genta, Giulio Barbato, Raffaello Levi, Matteo Erriu, Francesca M. G. Pili:
Measurement issues in probing depth evaluation of periodontal pockets. 501-506
S3.1: Special Session: Metrology in Biosciences
- Katarzyna Polak-Krasna, Anthimos Georgiadis, Pirjo Heikkila:
Mechanical characterisation and modelling of electrospun materials for biomedical applications. 507-511 - Carlos Fuhrhop, Anthimos Georgiadis:
Coplanar micro-strips/electrospun sensor system to measure the electronics properties of the polyethylene oxide (PEO) electrospun. 512-516 - Martin Kammel, Andreas Kummrow, Manuela John, Stephan Reitz, Klaus Witt, Jörg Neukammer:
Flow cytometer for reference measurements of blood cell concentrations with low uncertainty. 517-520 - Carla Divieto, Mariapaola Sassi:
Reproducible measurements of human mesenchymal stem cells counting and proliferation in 3D scaffolds for regenerative medicine. 521-525 - Marcello Manfredi, Simona Martinotti, Mauro Patrone, Maria Paola Sassi, Elia Ranzato, Emilio Marengo:
Targeted quantitation of HMGB1 protein by label-free Mass Spectrometry technique. 526-530
PS2: Poster Session 2
- Ali Karime, Basim Hafidh, Wail Gueaieb, Abdulmotaleb El-Saddik:
A modular mobile exergaming system with an adaptive behavior. 531-536 - Alessandro Dionisi, Daniele Marioli, Emilio Sardini, Mauro Serpelloni:
Low power wearable system for vital signs measurement in all day long applications. 537-542 - Stefano Basso, Guglielmo Frigo, Giada Giorgi:
A smartphone-based indoor localization system for visually impaired people. 543-548 - Luke Russell, Rafik A. Goubran, Felix Kwamena:
Smart environments using near-field communication and HTML5. 549-554 - Vitoantonio Bevilacqua, Gianluca Grimaldi, Davide Semeraro, Sergio Simeone, Marianna Delussi, Marina de Tommaso:
An innovative framework for rare neurodegenerative diseases analysis. 555-559 - Angelo Galante, Nadia Catallo, Piero Sebastiani, Antonello Sotgiu, Raffaele Sinibaldi, Cinzia De Luca, Allegra Conti, Vittorio Pizzella, Gian Luca Romani, Stefania Della Penna:
Very Low Field MRI: A fast system compatible with Magnetoencephalography. 560-564 - Muhammad Naveed Tabassum, Ibrahim Elshafiey, Mubashir Alam:
Efficient techniques to enhance nearfield imaging of human head for anomaly detection. 565-569 - Maria João M. Vasconcelos, Luís Rosado, Márcia Ferreira:
A new risk assessment methodology for dermoscopic skin lesion images. 570-575 - Giampaolo E. D'Errico:
Receiver operating characteristic: A tool for cell confluence estimation. 576-579 - Shilun Feng, Lars Eric Roseng, Tao Dong:
Quantitative detection of Escherichia coli and measurement of urinary tract infection diagnosis possibility by use of a portable, handheld sensor. 586-589