Biomedical Informatics and Technology: First International Conference, ACBIT 2013, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, September 16-17, 2013. Revised Selected Papers

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Quantitative Comparison between Approximate Entropy and Spectral Measures in Evaluating Wakefulness State Using EEG Signals....Pages 1-9
Bioradiolocation: Methods and Applications....Pages 10-28
Identification of Mental Disorders by Hidden Markov Modeling of Photoplethysmograms....Pages 29-39
Finger Plethysmograms Analysis of Emotional Labor for the Elderly....Pages 40-52
Development of the System which Carries Out the Self-check of the Mental Condition Using the Nonlinear Analysis of the Plethysmogram....Pages 53-66
Modeling of Heartbeat Dynamics with a System of Coupled Nonlinear Oscillators....Pages 67-75
Universal Multi-complexity Measures for Physiological State Quantification in Intelligent Diagnostics and Monitoring Systems....Pages 76-90
A Simple and Low Cost Micromixer for Laminar Blood Mixing: Design, Optimization, and Analysis....Pages 91-104
Analytical and Numerical Approaches for Optimization Design of MEMS Based SU-8 Microneedles....Pages 105-114
Attenuation Correction during Image Reconstruction....Pages 115-126
Development of Software for Data Analysis and Image Reconstruction in Small Animal PET....Pages 127-137
Liver Segmentation Based on Reaction-Diffusion Evolution and Chan-Vese Model in 4DCT....Pages 138-149
Correlation of Diffusion Tensor Imaging Indices with MMSE Score in Alzheimer Patients: A Sub-anatomic Region Based Study on ADNI Database....Pages 150-160
Segmentation of Breast Tissues in Infrared Images Using Modified Phase Based Level Sets....Pages 161-174
Selection of Wavelet Transform and Neural Network Parameters for Classification of Breathing Patterns of Bio-radiolocation Signals....Pages 175-178
Mining Standardized Semantic Interoperable Electronic Healthcare Records....Pages 179-193
Psychomime Classification Using Similarity Measures and Fuzzy c-Means....Pages 194-206
Anatomical Object Detection in Fetal Ultrasound: Computer-Expert Agreements....Pages 207-218
Towards Nature-Inspired Modularization of Artificial Neural Networks via Static and Dynamic Weights....Pages 219-234
Nuclear Boundary and Pore Detection in SEM Images....Pages 235-247
Regional Classification of Left Ventricular Wall in Small Animal Ultrasound Imaging....Pages 248-256
Chaos Analysis of Brain MRI for Studying Mental Disorders....Pages 257-270
Involuntary Attention Enhancement by Melody: Neurophysiological Evidence....Pages 271-276
Application of EEG to TV Commercial Evaluation....Pages 277-282
The Relation between Oral Reading and Readers’ Psychophysiological Conditions: Through Nonlinear Chaos Analysis of Pulse Waves....Pages 283-287
Early Neurological Markers for Unconscious Detection of Bitter and Sour Taste for Investigating Taste Preferences....Pages 288-293
Dual Pathway for Controlling Attention Ability in the Central Nerve System....Pages 294-299
Mismatch Negativity as a Marker of Detecting Difference of Music Chords....Pages 300-304
Individual Feature Extraction and Identification on EEG Signals in Relax and Visual Evoked Tasks....Pages 305-318
The Influence of Listening to Nature Sounds on Mental Health....Pages 319-323
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