5th Kuala Lumpur International Conference on Biomedical Engineering 2011: (BIOMED 2011) 20-23 June 2011, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Front Matter....Pages -
Cardiovascular Modeling: Physiological Concepts and Simulation....Pages 1-1
Effect of Pain Perception on the Heartbeat Evoked Potential....Pages 2-2
In-vivo Cartilage Mechano-Biology: How to Make Progress in Osteoarthritis Research....Pages 3-6
Sensors and Instrumentation to Meet Clinical Needs....Pages 7-7
Tissues Injuries from Epidermal Loadings in Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Wheeled Mobility....Pages 8-8
Computer Aided Surgery for Minimally Invasive Therapy....Pages 9-9
Role of Mechanical Loading in the Aetiology of Deep Tissue Injury....Pages 10-10
Tissue Engineering Approaches to the Treatment of Spinal Disorders....Pages 11-11
Study of the Optimal Circuit Using Simultaneous Apheresis with Hemodialysis....Pages 12-15
Biomedical Engineering Education under European Union Support....Pages 16-19
OBE Implementation and Design of Continual Quality Improvement (CQI) for Accreditation of Biomedical Engineering Program University of Malaya....Pages 20-24
Ocular Lens Microcirculation Model, A Web-Based Bioengineering Educational Tool....Pages 25-28
Analysis of Skin Color of Malaysian People....Pages 29-32
Comparison of Spectrometer, Camera, and Scanner Reproduction of Skin Color....Pages 33-36
Context and Implications of Blood Angiogenin Level Findings in Healthy and Breast Cancer Females of Malaysia....Pages 37-39
Detection of Acute Leukaemia Cells Using Variety of Features and Neural Networks....Pages 40-46
A Novel Phantom for Accurate Performance Assessment of Bone Mineral Measurement Techniques: DEXA and QCT....Pages 47-50
Calcination Effects on the Sinterability of Hydroxyapatite Bioceramics....Pages 51-54
Chitin Fiber Reinforced Silver Sulfate Doped Chitosan as Antimicrobial Coating....Pages 55-59
Effects of Joule Heating on Electrophoretic Mobility of Titanium Dioxide (TiO 2 ), Escherichia Coli and Staphylococcus Aureus (Live and Dead)....Pages 60-68
Electrochromic Property of Sol-Gel Derived TiO 2 Thin Film for pH Sensor....Pages 69-72
Failure Analysis of Retrieved UHMWPE Tibial Insert in Total Knee Replacement....Pages 73-79
Influence of Magnesium Doping in Hydroxyapatite Bioceramics Sintered by Short Holding Time....Pages 80-83
In-vitro Biocompatibility of Folate-Decorated Star-Shaped Copolymeric Micelle for Targeted Drug Delivery....Pages 84-87
Mercury (II) Removal Using CNTS Grown on GACs....Pages 88-91
Optical Properties Effect of Cadmium Sulfide Quantum Dots Towards Conjugation Process....Pages 92-96
Synthesis of Hydroxyapatite through Dry Mechanochemical Method and Its Conversion to Dense Bodies: Preliminary Result....Pages 97-101
The Effect of Ball Milling Hours in the Synthesizing Nano-Crystalline Forsterite via Solid-State Reaction....Pages 102-104
The Effect of Titanium Dioxide to the Bacterial Growth on Lysogeny Broth Agar....Pages 105-107
Thermal Analysis on Hydroxyapatite Synthesis through Mechanochemical Method....Pages 108-111
Continuous Passive Ankle Motion Device for Patient Undergoing Tibial Distraction Osteogenesis....Pages 112-115
Musculoskeletal Model of Hip Fracture for Safety Assurance of Reduction Path in Robot-assisted Fracture Reduction....Pages 116-120
Speed Based Surface EMG Classification Using Fuzzy Logic for Prosthetic Hand Control....Pages 121-124
Activity of Upper Body Muscles during Bowing and Prostration Tasks in Healthy Subjects....Pages 125-129
Analysis of the Effect of Mechanical Properties on Stress Induced in Tibia....Pages 130-133
Comparative Studies of the Optimal Airflow Waveforms and Ventilation Settings under Respiratory Mechanical Loadings....Pages 134-138
Development of Inexpensive Motion Analysis System–Preliminary Findings....Pages 139-142
Diabetic Foot Syndrome-3-D Pressure Pattern Analysis as Compared with Normal Subjects....Pages 143-147
Effects of Arterial Longitudinal Tension on Pulsatile Axial Blood Flow....Pages 148-150
Effect of Extracellular Matrix on Smooth Muscle Cell Phenotype and Migration....Pages 151-152
Effects of the Wrist Angle on the Performance and Perceived Discomfort in a Long Lasting Handwriting Task....Pages 153-156
Estimation of Muscle Force with EMG Signals Using Hammerstein-Wiener Model....Pages 157-160
Hip 3D Joint Mechanics Analysis of Normal and Obese Individuals’ Gait....Pages 161-166
Impact Load and Mechanical Respond of Tibiofemoral Joint....Pages 167-169
Investigation of Lung Lethargy Deformation Using Finite Element Method....Pages 170-174
Knee Energy Absorption in Full Extension Landing Using Finite Element Analysis....Pages 175-178
Knee Joint Stress Analysis in Standing....Pages 179-181
Mechanical Behavior of in-situ Chondrocyte at Different Loading Rates: A Finite Element Study....Pages 182-186
Posture and EMG Evaluation of Assist Functions of Full-Body Suits....Pages 187-189
Posture Control and Muscle Activation in Spinal Stabilization Exercise....Pages 190-192
Preliminary Findings on Anthropometric Data of 19-25 Year Old Malaysian University Students....Pages 193-196
Quantification of Patellar Tendon Reflex by Motion Analysis....Pages 197-199
Quantitative Analysis of the Human Ankle Viscoelastic Behavior at Different Gait Speeds....Pages 200-202
Response of the Human Spinal Column to Loading and Its Time Dependent Characteristics....Pages 203-206
Shoulder’s Modeling via Kane’s Method: Determination of Torques in Smash Activity....Pages 207-209
Simulation of Brittle Damage for Fracture Process of Endodontically Treated Tooth....Pages 210-214
Stress Distribution Analysis on Semi Constrained Elbow Prosthesis during Flexion and Extension Motion....Pages 215-218
Stress Distribution of Dental Posts by Finite Element Analysis....Pages 219-221
Temporal Characteristics of the Final Delivery Phase and Its Relation to Tenpin Bowling Performance....Pages 222-224
The Biomechanics Analysis for Dynamic Hip Screw on Osteoporotic and Unstable Femoral Fracture....Pages 225-228
Hemodynamic Activities of Motor Cortex Related to Jaw and Arm Muscles Determined by Near Infrared Spectroscopy....Pages 229-232
Time-Dependent EMG Power Spectrum Parameters of Biceps Brachii during Cyclic Dynamic Contraction....Pages 233-236
Transcutaneous Viscoelastic Properties of Brain through Cranial Defects....Pages 237-240
Two Practical Strategies for Developing Resultant Muscle Torque Production Using Elastic Resistance Device....Pages 241-244
A Novel Body Temperature Measuring and Data Transmitting System Using Bio - Sensors and Real-Time Transmission Technique....Pages 245-248
A Quantitative Study of Gastric Activity on Feeding Low and High Viscosity Meals....Pages 249-252
A Study of Extremely Low Frequency Electromagnetic Field (ELF EMF) Exposure Levels at Multi Storey Apartment....Pages 253-257
Accuracy Improvement for Low Perfusion Pulse Oximetry....Pages 258-261
Application of a Manometric Technique to Verify Nasogastric Tube Placement in Intubated, Mechanically Ventilated Patients....Pages 262-265
Assessment of Diabetics with Various Degrees of Autonomic Neuropathy Based on Cross-Approximate Entropy....Pages 266-269
Automated Diagnosis of Melanoma Based on Nonlinear Complexity Features....Pages 270-274
Bowel Ischemia Monitoring Using Rapid Sampling Microdialysis Biosensor System....Pages 275-278
Changes in Cortical Blood Oxygenation Responding to Arithmetical Tasks and Measured by Near-Infrared Spectroscopy....Pages 279-282
Color Coded Heart Rate Monitoring System Using ANT+....Pages 283-286
Control Brain Machine Interface for a Power Wheelchair....Pages 287-291
Design and Development of Microcontroller Based ECG Simulator....Pages 292-295
Development of CW CO 2 Laser Percussion Technique....Pages 296-299
Electric Field Measurement for Biomedical Application Using GNU Radio....Pages 300-304
EZ430-Chronos Watch as a Wireless Health Monitoring Device....Pages 305-307
Face Detection for Drivers’ Drowsiness Using Computer Vision....Pages 308-311
Histological Study to Estimate Risks of Radon Inhalation Dose on a Lung Cancer: In vivo ....Pages 312-314
Influence of Hair Color on Photodynamic Dose Activation in PDT for Scalp Diseases....Pages 315-319
Measurement and Diagnosis Assessment of Plethysmographycal Record....Pages 320-323
Measurement of Available Chlorine in Electrolyzed Water Using Electrical Conductivity....Pages 324-327
Measuring the Depth of Sleep by Near Infrared Spectroscopy and Polysomnography....Pages 328-331
Multi-frequency Microwave Radiometer System for Measuring Deep Brain Temperature in New Born Infants....Pages 332-335
Number of Pulses of rTMS Affects the Inter-reversal Time of Perceptual Reversal....Pages 336-339
Permittivity of Urine between Benign and Malignant Breast Tumour....Pages 340-343
Problems and Solution When Developing Intermittent Pneumatic Compression....Pages 344-347
Pulse Oximetry Color Coded Heart Rate Monitoring System Using ZigBee....Pages 348-351
Study of Electromagnetic Field Radiation on the Human Muscle Activity....Pages 352-355
The pH Sensitivity of the Polarization Capacitance on Stainless-Steel Electrodes....Pages 356-358
Ultrasound Dosimetery Using Microbubbles....Pages 359-362
Visualization of Measured Data for Wireless Devices BluesenseAD....Pages 363-366
Voltammetric Approach for In-vivo Detecting Dopamine Level of Rat’s Brain....Pages 367-370
Wearable ECG Recorder with Acceleration Sensors for Measuring Daily Stress....Pages 371-374
Wireless Sensor Network for Flexible pH Array Sensor....Pages 375-379
Application of Gold Nanoparticles for Enhanced Photo-Thermal Therapy of Urothelial Carcinoma....Pages 380-383
Nanobiosensor for the Detection and Quantification of Specific DNA Sequences in Degraded Biological Samples....Pages 384-387
Polysilicon Nanogap Formation Using Size Expansion Technique for Biosensor Application....Pages 388-392
A Modified Beer-Lambert Model of Skin Diffuse Reflectance for the Determination of Melanin Pigments....Pages 393-397
A Review of ECG Peaks Detection and Classification....Pages 398-402
An Image Approach Model of RBC Flow in Microcirculation....Pages 403-406
An Image-Based Anatomical Network Model and Modelling of Circulation of Mouse Retinal Vasculature....Pages 407-410
Analysis of Normal and Atherosclerotic Blood Vessels Using 2D Finite Element Models....Pages 411-414
Comparative Analysis of Preprocessing Techniques for Quantification of Heart Rate Variability....Pages 415-419
Detection of Influence of Stimuli or Sevices on the Physical Condition and Satisfaction with Unconscious Response Reflecting Activities of Autonomic Nervous System....Pages 420-423
Determination of Reflectance Optical Sensor Array Configuration Using 3-Layer Tissue Model and Monte Carlo Simulation....Pages 424-427
Effects of ECM Degradation Rate, Adhesion, and Drag on Cell Migration in 3D....Pages 428-431
Finite Element Analysis of Different Ferrule Heights of Endodontically Treated Tooth....Pages 432-435
How to Predict the Fractures Initiation Locus in Human Vertebrae Using Quantitative Computed Tomography(QCT) Based Finite Element Method?....Pages 436-438
Influence of Cancellous Bone Existence in Human Lumbar Spine: A Finite Element Analysis....Pages 439-442
Laser Speckle Contrast Imaging for Perfusion Monitoring in Burn Tissue Phantoms....Pages 443-446
Microdosimetry Modeling Technique for Spherical Cell....Pages 447-449
Recurrent Breast Cancer with Proportional Homogeneous Poisson Process....Pages 450-457
Simulation of the Effects of Electric and Magnetic Loadings on Internal Bone Remodeling....Pages 458-462
Study of Hematocrit in Relation with Age and Gender Using Low Power Helium - Neon Laser Irradiation....Pages 463-466
Three-Dimensional Fluid-Structure Interaction Modeling of Expiratory Flow in the Pharyngeal Airway....Pages 467-471
A Hybrid Trial to Trial Wavelet Coherence and Novelty Detection Scheme for a Fast and Clear Notification of Habituation: An Objective Uncomfortable Loudness Level Measure....Pages 472-475
Application of Data Mining on Polynomial Based Approach for ECG Biometric....Pages 476-479
Brain Waves after Short duration Exercise Induced by Wooden Tooth Brush as a Physical Agent - A Pilot Study....Pages 480-483
Change Point Detection of EEG Signals Based on Particle Swarm Optimization....Pages 484-487
Comparative Analysis of the Optimal Performance Evaluation for Motor Imagery Based EEG-Brain Computer Interface....Pages 488-491
Comparison of Influences on P300 Latency in the Case of Stimulating Supramarginal Gyrus and Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex by rTMS....Pages 492-495
Cortical Connectivity during Isometric Contraction with Concurrent Visual Processing by Partial Directed Coherence....Pages 496-499
Cross Evaluation for Characteristics of Motor Imagery Using Neuro-feedback Based EEG-Brain Computer Interface....Pages 500-502
EEG Artifact Signals Tracking and Filtering in Real Time for Command Control Application....Pages 503-506
EEG Patterns for Driving Wireless Control Robot....Pages 507-510
Effects of Physical Fatigue onto Brain Rhythms....Pages 511-515
Evaluation of Motor Imagery Using Combined Cue Based EEG-Brain Computer Interface....Pages 516-518
Fitting and Eliminating to the TMS Induced Artifact on the Measured EEG by the Equivalent Circuit Simulation Improved Performance....Pages 519-522
Gender Identification by Using Fundamental and Formant Frequency for Malay Children....Pages 523-526
Improving Low Pass Filtered Speech Intelligibility Using Nonlinear Frequency Compression with Cepstrum and Spectral Envelope Transformation....Pages 527-531
Long-Term Heart Rate Variability Assessment....Pages 532-535
Neural Network Classifier for Hand Motion Detection from EMG Signal....Pages 536-541
Performance Comparison between Mutative and Constriction PSO in Optimizing MFCC for the Classification of Hypothyroid Infant Cry....Pages 542-547
Periodic Lateralized Epileptiform Discharges (PLEDs) in Post Traumatic Epileptic Patient— Magnetoencephalographic (MEG) Study....Pages 548-551
Premonitory Symptom of Septic Shock in Heart Rate Variability....Pages 552-555
Review of Electromyographic Control Systems Based on Pattern Recognition....Pages 556-559
Speaker Verification Using Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM)....Pages 560-564
Speaker-Independent Vowel Recognition for Malay Children Using Time-Delay Neural Network....Pages 565-568
Feasibility of Using the Wavelet-Phase Stability in the Objective Quantification of Neural Correlates of Auditory Selective Attention....Pages 569-573
Sharing the Medical Resource: The Feasibility and Benefit of Global Medical Instruments Support and Service....Pages 574-577
Hybrid Capillary-Flap Valve for Vapor Control in Point-of-Care Microfluidic CD....Pages 578-581
Semi-automated Dielectrophoretic Cell Characterisation Module for Lab-on-Chip Applications....Pages 582-586
A Preliminary Study of Compression Efficiency and Noise Robustness of Orthogonal Moments on Medical X-Ray Images....Pages 587-590
Activities of Oxy-Hb and DeOxy-Hb on Motor Imaging and Motor Execution by Near-Infrared Spectroscopy....Pages 591-595
An Overview: Segmentation Method for Blood Cell Disorders....Pages 596-599
Assessment of Ischemic Stroke Rat Using Near Infrared Spectroscopy....Pages 600-603
Brain Lesion Segmentation of Diffusion-Weighted MRI Using Thresholding Technique....Pages 604-610
Characterization of Renal Stones from Ultrasound Images Using Nonseparable Quincunx Wavelet Transform....Pages 611-616
Cluster Approach for Auto Segmentation of Blast in Acute Leukimia Blood Slide Images....Pages 617-622
Comparison of the Basal Ganglia Volumetry between SWI and T1WI in Normal Human Brain....Pages 623-626
Computer-Aided Diagnosis System for Pancreatic Tumor Detection in Ultrasound Images....Pages 627-630
Detection of Gastrointestinal Disease in Endoscope Imaging System....Pages 631-634
Digital Image Analysis of Chronic Ulcers Tissues....Pages 635-638
Early Ischemic Stroke Detection through Image Colorization Graphical User Interface....Pages 639-642
Evaluation of the Effects of Chang’s Attenuation Correction Technique on Simlar Transverse Views of Cold and Hot Regions in Tc-99m SPECT: A Phantom Study....Pages 643-649
Efficiency of Enhanced Distance Active Contour (EDAC) for Microcalcifications Segmentation....Pages 650-654
Estimating Retinal Vessel Diameter Change from the Vessel Cross-Section....Pages 655-658
Face-Central Incisor Morphometric Relation in Malays and Chinese....Pages 659-662
Fingertip Synchrotron Radiation Angiography for Prediction of Diabetic Microangiopathy....Pages 663-666
Hybrid Multilayered Perceptron Network Trained by Modified Recursive Prediction Error-Extreme Learning Machine for Tuberculosis Bacilli Detection....Pages 667-673
Intelligent Spatial Based Breast Cancer Recognition and Signal Enhancement System in Magnetic Resonance Images....Pages 674-677
Investigating the Mozart Effect on Brain Function by Using Near Infrared Spectroscopy....Pages 678-681
Latex Glove Protein Estimation Using Maximum Minimum Area Variation....Pages 682-685
Measurement of the Area and Diameter of Human Pupil Using Matlab....Pages 686-689
Medical Image Pixel Extraction via Block Positioning Subtraction Technique for Motion Analysis....Pages 690-693
Monte Carlo Characterization of Scattered Radiation Profile in Volumetric 64 Slice CT Using GATE....Pages 694-697
Multi-Modality Medical Images Feature Analysis....Pages 698-703
Parametric Dictionary Design Using Genetic Algorithm for Biomedical Image De-noising Application....Pages 704-707
Quantification of Inter-crystal Scattering and Parallax Effect in Pixelated High Resolution Small Animal Gamma Camera: A Monte Carlo Study....Pages 708-711
Quantitative Assessment of the Influence of Crystal Material and Size on the Inter Crystal Scattering and Penetration Effect in Pixilated Dual Head Small Animal PET Scanner....Pages 712-715
Rapid Calibration of 3D Freehand Ultrasound for Vessel Intervention....Pages 716-719
Segmentation of Tumor in Digital Mammograms Using Wavelet Transform Modulus Maxima on a Low Cost Parallel Computing System....Pages 720-723
The Correlation Analyses between fMRI and Psychophysical Results Contribute to Certify the Activated Area for Motion-Defined Pattern Perception....Pages 724-727
A New Method for Measuring Pistoning in Lower Limb Prosthetic....Pages 728-731
Ambulatory Function Monitor for Amputees....Pages 732-734
Anthromorphic Design Methodology for Multifingered Arm Prosthesis....Pages 735-738
Approximation Technique for Prosthetic Design Using Numerical Foot Profiling....Pages 739-742
Comparison Study of the Transradial Prosthetics and Body Powered Prosthetics Using Pressure Distribution Approach....Pages 743-746
Effect of Position in Fixed Screw on Prosthetic Temporomandibular Joint....Pages 747-749
Evaluation of EMG Feature Extraction for Movement Control of Upper Limb Prostheses Based on Class Separation Index....Pages 750-754
Modeling and Fabrication of Articulate Patellar....Pages 755-757
Pistoning Measurement in Lower Limb Prostheses – A Literature Review....Pages 758-761
Prosthetics and Orthotics Services in the Rehabilitation Clinics of University Malaya Medical Centre....Pages 762-764
Prosthetic Foot Design: The Significance of the Normalized Ground Reaction Force....Pages 765-768
A Survey on Welfare Equipment Using Information Technologies in Korea and Japan....Pages 769-772
Biomechanical Analysis on the Effect of Bone Graft of the Wrist after Arthroplasty....Pages 773-777
Can Walking with Orthosis Decrease Bone Osteoporosis in Paraplegic Subjects?....Pages 778-780
Design and Development of Arm Rehabilitation Monitoring Device....Pages 781-784
Development of Artificial Hand Gripper for Rehabilitation Process....Pages 785-788
Motor Control in Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder–Fitts’ Paradigm Test....Pages 789-792
Quantitative Analysis of Conductive Fabric Sensor Used for a Method Evaluating Rehabilitation Status....Pages 793-796
Study on Posture Homeostasis – One Hour Pilot Experiment....Pages 797-800
The Development of Muscle Training System Using the Electromyogram and Interactive Game for Physical Rehabilitation....Pages 801-804
A Preliminary Study on Magnetic Fields Effects on Stem Cell Differentiation....Pages 805-810
A Preliminary Study on Possibility of Improving Animal Cell Growth....Pages 811-814
Dynamic Behaviour of Human Bone Marrow Derived-Mesenchymal Stem Cells on Uniaxial Cyclical Stretched Substrate – A Preliminary Study....Pages 815-818
Effect of Herbal Extracts on Rat Bone Marrow Stromal Cells (BMSCs) Derived Osteoblast–Preliminary Result....Pages 819-822
Fabrication and In-vivo Evaluation of BCP Scaffolds....Pages 823-826
Fabrication of Porous Ceramic Scaffolds via Polymeric Sponge Method Using Sol-Gel Derived Strontium Doped Hydroxyapatite Powder....Pages 827-830
Hydrogel Scaffolds: Advanced Materials for Soft Tissue Re-growth....Pages 831-835
Process Optimization to Improve the Processing of Poly (DL-lactide-co-glycolide) into 3D Tissue Engineering Scaffolds....Pages 836-840
The Fabrication of Human Amniotic Membrane Based Hydrogel for Cartilage Tissue Engineering Applications: A Preliminary Study....Pages 841-844
Artificial Oxygen Carriers (Hemoglobin-Vesicles) as a Transfusion Alternative and for Oxygen Therapeutics....Pages 845-848
Enzymatic Synthesis of Soybean Oil Based-Fatty Amides....Pages 849-853
Rat Model of Healing the Skin Wounds and Joint Inflammations by Recombinant Human Angiogenin, Erythropoietin and Tumor Necrosis Factor- α ....Pages 854-857
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