Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies: International Joint Conference, BIOSTEC 2008 Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, January 28-31, 2008 Revised Selected Papers

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Using the Web and ICT to Enable Persons with Disabilities....Pages 3-18
Hybrid Brains – Biology, Technology Merger....Pages 19-34
From the Bench to the Bedside: The Role of Semantic Web and Translational Medicine for Enabling the Next Generation Healthcare Enterprise....Pages 35-56
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Active Annuloplasty System for Mitral Valve Insufficiency....Pages 59-72
Towards a Probabilistic Manipulator Robot’s Workspace Governed by a BCI....Pages 73-84
New Soft Tissue Implants Using Organic Elastomers....Pages 85-95
Computer Aids for Visual Neuroprosthetic Devices....Pages 96-108
Tissue-Viability Monitoring Using an Oxygen-Tension Sensor....Pages 109-122
Towards a Morse Code-Based Non-invasive Thought-to-Speech Converter....Pages 123-135
Neurophysiologic and Cardiac Signals Simulator Based on Microconverter....Pages 136-147
Multipolar Electrode and Preamplifier Design for ENG-Signal Acquisition....Pages 148-159
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On a Chirplet Transform Based Method for Co-channel Voice Separation....Pages 163-175
Extraction of Capillary Non-perfusion from Fundus Fluorescein Angiogram....Pages 176-188
Content-Based Retrieval of Medical Images with Elongated Structures....Pages 189-201
Cardiovascular Response Identification Based on Nonlinear Support Vector Regression....Pages 202-213
Vessel Cross-Sectional Diameter Measurement on Color Retinal Image....Pages 214-227
Automatic Detection of Laryngeal Pathology on Sustained Vowels Using Short-Term Cepstral Parameters: Analysis of Performance and Theoretical Justification....Pages 228-241
MM-Correction: Meta-analysis-Based Multiple Hypotheses Correction in Omic Studies....Pages 242-255
A Supervised Wavelet Transform Algorithm for R Spike Detection in Noisy ECGs....Pages 256-264
Four-Channel Biosignal Analysis and Feature Extraction for Automatic Emotion Recognition....Pages 265-277
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Fast, Accurate and Precise Mid-Sagittal Plane Location in 3D MR Images of the Brain....Pages 278-290
Facing Polychotomies through Classification by Decomposition: Applications in the Bio-medical Domain....Pages 291-304
Automatic Speech Recognition Based on Electromyographic Biosignals....Pages 305-320
A Multiphase Approach to MRI Shoulder Images Classification....Pages 321-329
Human-Like Rule Optimization for Continuous Domains....Pages 330-343
Automated Discrimination of Pathological Regions in Tissue Images: Unsupervised Clustering vs. Supervised SVM Classification....Pages 344-356
ECoG Based Brain Computer Interface with Subset Selection....Pages 357-374
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THE-MUSS: Mobile U-Health Service System....Pages 377-389
Scalable Medical Image Understanding by Fusing Cross-Modal Object Recognition with Formal Domain Semantics....Pages 390-401
Human Factors Affecting the Patient’s Acceptance of Wireless Biomedical Sensors....Pages 402-412
The Policy Debate on Pseudonymous Health Registers in Norway....Pages 413-424
Application of Process Mining in Healthcare – A Case Study in a Dutch Hospital....Pages 425-438
Breast Contour Detection with Stable Paths....Pages 439-452
Formal Verification of an Agent-Based Support System for Medicine Intake....Pages 453-466
Efficient Privacy-Enhancing Techniques for Medical Databases....Pages 467-478
Authentication Architecture for Region-Wide e-Health System with Smartcards and a PKI....Pages 479-492
Understanding the Effects of Sampling on Healthcare Risk Modeling for the Prediction of Future High-Cost Patients....Pages 493-506
MEDLINE Abstracts Classification Based on Noun Phrases Extraction....Pages 507-519
Representing and Reasoning with Temporal Constraints in Clinical Trials Using Semantic Technologies....Pages 520-530
Gesture Therapy: A Vision-Based System for Arm Rehabilitation after Stroke....Pages 531-540
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