Complex Medical Engineering

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Improving the Performance of a Traveling Wave Micropump for Fluid Transport in Micro Total Analysis Systems....Pages 3-12
Vision-based Tactile Sensor for Endoscopy....Pages 13-23
6-DOF Manipulator-based Novel Type of Support System for Biomedical Applications....Pages 25-34
The Development of a New Kind of Underwater Walking Robot....Pages 35-45
Mid-Infrared Robotic Laser Surgery System in Neurosurgery....Pages 47-55
Development of a Compact Automatic Focusing System for a Neurosurgical Laser Instrument....Pages 57-66
Non-invasive Monitoring of Arterial Wall Impedance....Pages 67-78
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
Advanced Volume Visualization for Interactive Extraction and Physics-based Modeling of Volume Data....Pages 81-92
Development of a Prosthetic Walking Training System for Lower Extremity Amputees....Pages 93-105
Electrophysiological Heart Simulator Equipped with Sketchy 3-D Modeling....Pages 107-116
Three-dimensional Display System of Individual Mandibular Movement....Pages 117-127
Robotic System for Less Invasive Abdominal Surgery....Pages 129-139
Front Matter....Pages 141-141
Attribute Selection Measures with Possibility and Their Application to Classifying MRSA from MSSA....Pages 143-151
A Virtual Schooling System for Hospitalized Children....Pages 153-163
Using Computational Intelligence Methods in a Web-Based Drug Safety Information Community....Pages 165-172
Analysis of Hospital Management Data using Generalized Linear Model....Pages 173-185
Data Mining Approach on Clinical/Pharmaceutical Information accumulated in the Drug Safety Information Community....Pages 187-193
Clinical Decision Support based on Mobile Telecommunication Systems....Pages 195-204
Web Intelligence Meets Immunology....Pages 205-213
Front Matter....Pages 215-215
Hand Movement Compensation on Visual Target Tracking for Patients with Movement Disorders....Pages 217-226
Front Matter....Pages 215-215
Approach Motion Generation of the Self-Aided Manipulator for Bed-ridden Patients....Pages 227-237
Lower-limb Joint Torque and Position Controls by Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES)....Pages 239-249
Pattern Recognition of EEG Signals During Right and Left Motor Imagery....Pages 251-261
A Hierarchical Interaction in Musical Ensemble Performance: Analysis of 1-bar Rhythm and Respiration Rhythm....Pages 263-273
Comparison of the Reaction Time Measurement System for Evaluating Robot Assisted Activities....Pages 275-285
Front Matter....Pages 287-287
Influence of Interhemispheric Interactions on Paretic Hand Movement in Chronic Subcortical Stroke....Pages 289-296
BOLD Contrast fMRI as a Tool for Imaging Neuroscience....Pages 297-312
What can be Observed from Functional Neuroimaging?....Pages 313-333
Human Brain Atlases in Education, Research and Clinical Applications....Pages 335-349
Deploying Chinese Visible Human Data on Anatomical Exploration: From Western Medicine to Chinese Acupuncture....Pages 351-360
MEG Single-event Analysis: Networks for Normal Brain Function and Their Changes in Schizophrenia....Pages 361-374
MEG and Complex Systems....Pages 375-382
MEG Source Localization under Multiple Constraints: An Extended Bayesian Framework....Pages 383-395
Differential Contribution of Early Visual Areas to Perception of Contextual Effects: fMRI Studies....Pages 397-406
Brain-machine Interface to Detect Real Dynamics of Neuronal Assemblies in the Working Brain....Pages 407-412
Prism-adaptation Therapy for Unilateral Neglect: from the Facts to a Bottom-up Explanatory Model....Pages 413-422
Somatosensory Processing in the Postcentral, Intraparietal and Parietal Opercular Cortical Regions....Pages 423-437
Predicting Motor Intention....Pages 439-445
Cortical Field Potentials and Cognitive Functions....Pages 447-458
FMRI Studies on Passively Listening to Words, Nonsense Words, and Separated KANAs of Japanese....Pages 459-468
Front Matter....Pages 287-287
Interpretation of Increases in Deoxy-Hb during Functional Activation....Pages 469-479
Probing the Plasticity of the Brain with TMS....Pages 481-487
Time Series of Awake Background EEG Generated by a Model Reflecting the EEG Report....Pages 489-498
Event-related Changes in the Spontaneous Brain Activity during 3D Perception from Random-dot Motion....Pages 499-510
Effects of Electric or Magnetic Brain Stimulation on Cortical and Subcortical Neural Functions in Rats....Pages 511-516
Event-related Potentials and Stimulus Repetition in Explicit and Implicit Memory Tasks....Pages 517-525
Multichannel Surface EMGs to Assess Function of Spinal Anterior Horn Cells....Pages 527-534
Cortical Processing of Sound in Patients with Sensorineural Hearing Loss....Pages 535-543
Efficacy of the Levodopa on Frontal Lobe Dysfunction in Patients with de Novo Parkinson’s Disease; A Study Using the Event-related Potential....Pages 545-551
Front Matter....Pages 553-553
A Wireless Integrated Immunosensor....Pages 555-563
Dynamics of Cortical Neurons and Spike Timing Variability....Pages 565-572
Can Newtonian Mechanics Aid in the Development of Brain Science?: A Challenge to Bernstein’s Degrees-of-Freedom Problem....Pages 573-593
Novel Registration Method for DSA Images Based on Thin-plate Spline....Pages 595-604
Development of a Simulator of Cardiac Function Estimation for before and after Left Ventricular Plasty Surgery....Pages 605-616
Back Matter....Pages 617-619