Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies

Front Matter ....Pages I-XXI
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
 An Electronic-Engineered Sensory Sternal Retractor Aimed at Post-sternotomy Pain Reduction  (Giovanni Saggio, Alessandra Bianco, Giancarlo Orengo, Giuseppe Tancredi, Costantino Del Gaudio, Jacob Zeitani)....Pages 3-18
 \(\mu \)SmartScope: Towards a Fully Automated 3D-Printed Smartphone Microscope with Motorized Stage  (Luís Rosado, Paulo T. Silva, José Faria, João Oliveira, Maria João M. Vasconcelos, Dirk Elias et al.)....Pages 19-44
 A Portable Chemical Detection System with Anti-body Biosensor for Impedance Based Monitoring of T2-mycotoxin Bioterrorism Agents  (V. I. Ogurtsov, K. Twomey)....Pages 45-73
 Microfluidic Devices Integrating Clinical Alternative Diagnostic Techniques Based on Cell Mechanical Properties  (A. S. Moita, D. Vieira, F. Mata, J. Pereira, A. L. N. Moreira)....Pages 74-93
 A Biochip Based Medical Device for Point-of-Care ABO Compatibility: Towards a Smart Transfusion Line  (Karine Charrière, Alain Rouleau, Olivier Gaiffe, Pascal Morel, Véronique Bourcier, Christian Pieralli et al.)....Pages 94-105
 Novel Pattern Recognition Method for Analysis the Radiation Exposure in Cancer Treatment  (Dmitriy Dubovitskiy, Valeri Kouznetsov)....Pages 106-118
Front Matter ....Pages 119-119
 Automatic Segmentation of Neurons from Fluorescent Microscopy Imaging  (Silvia Baglietto, Ibolya E. Kepiro, Gerrit Hilgen, Evelyne Sernagor, Vittorio Murino, Diego Sona)....Pages 121-133
 Evaluation of Dense Vessel Detection in NCCT Scans  (Aneta Lisowska, Erin Beveridge, Alison O’Neil, Vismantas Dilys, Keith Muir, Ian Poole)....Pages 134-145
 Tracking Anterior Mitral Leaflet in Echocardiographic Videos Using Morphological Operators and Active Contours  (Malik Saad Sultan, Nelson Martins, Eva Costa, Diana Veiga, Manuel João Ferreira, Sandra Mattos et al.)....Pages 146-162
 Convolutional Neural Network Based Segmentation of Demyelinating Plaques in MRI  (Bartłomiej Stasiak, Paweł Tarasiuk, Izabela Michalska, Arkadiusz Tomczyk, Piotr S. Szczepaniak)....Pages 163-188
Front Matter ....Pages 189-189
 Compositional Analysis of Homeostasis of Gene Networks by Clustering Algorithms  (Sohei Ito, Kenji Osari, Shigeki Hagihara, Naoki Yonezaki)....Pages 191-211
 Fast and Sensitive Classification of Short Metagenomic Reads with SKraken  (Jia Qian, Davide Marchiori, Matteo Comin)....Pages 212-226
 Computational Identification of Essential Genes in Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes  (Dawit Nigatu, Werner Henkel)....Pages 227-247
 A Heuristic for the Live Parsimony Problem  (Rogério Güths, Guilherme P. Telles, Maria Emilia M. T. Walter, Nalvo F. Almeida)....Pages 248-267
 Evaluating Runs of Homozygosity in Exome Sequencing Data - Utility in Disease Inheritance Model Selection and Variant Filtering  (Jorge Oliveira, Rute Pereira, Rosário Santos, Mário Sousa)....Pages 268-288
 Virus Disassembly Pathways Predicted from Geometry and Configuration Energy  (Claudio Alexandre Piedade, Marta Sousa Silva, Carlos Cordeiro, António E. N. Ferreira)....Pages 289-301
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 Towards Swarm Intelligence of Alcoholics  (Andrew Schumann)....Pages 305-327
Front Matter ....Pages 329-329
 Technologies for Ageing in Place: A Systematic Review of Reviews and Meta-analyses  (Luís Pereira, Ana Dias, Alexandra Queirós, Nelson Pacheco Rocha)....Pages 331-353
 A Model-Based Approach for Jump Analyses Regarding Strength and Balance  (Sandra Hellmers, Sebastian Fudickar, Lena Dasenbrock, Andrea Heinks, Jürgen M. Bauer, Andreas Hein)....Pages 354-375
 Regression, Classification and Ensemble Machine Learning Approaches to Forecasting Clinical Outcomes in Ischemic Stroke  (Ahmedul Kabir, Carolina Ruiz, Sergio A. Alvarez, Majaz Moonis)....Pages 376-402
Back Matter ....Pages 403-404