International Conference on Advancements of Medicine and Health Care through Technology; 5th – 7th June 2014, Cluj-Napoca, Romania: MEDITECH 2014

Front Matter....Pages 1-12
Making Existing Buildings Accessible....Pages 1-6
A Proposal for a Driving System of a Four DOF Rehabilitation Exoskeleton....Pages 7-10
Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation for Mobility Support of Elderly....Pages 11-16
Towards Knowledge Extraction from Electronic Health Records - Automatic Negation Identification....Pages 17-22
Importance of Lateral Cephalogram in Treating Class III Patients....Pages 23-26
The Use of Digital Imaging in the Evaluation of Perception in Facial Asymmetry Caused by Facial Nerve Disorders....Pages 27-30
Towards Assisting Medical Decisions by Using Rule Based Protocols and Semantic Resources....Pages 31-36
Preliminary Experiments on Using Subjective Logic for Reasoning on Diagnosis....Pages 37-42
Design of a Multi-site Electrical Stimulation System for Transcutaneous Lumbar Posterior Roots Stimulation....Pages 43-46
Imaging Techniques in the Assessment of Liver Tumoral Vascularization....Pages 47-52
The Use of Breath Test for the Assessment of Gastric Emptying Rate in Clinical Practice....Pages 53-56
Artificial Intelligence Applied in Diagnostic and Treatment of Dukes C Colorectal Cancer....Pages 57-62
Glaucoma Risk - Correlations between Measurements from Optical Coherence Tomography and Ocular Response Analyzer....Pages 63-68
Age-Specific Basal Rate Profile Characteristics at Initiation of Insulin Pump Therapy....Pages 69-72
The Informatised Follow Up of the Therapeutics Effects of Levonorgestrel Releasing Intrauterine Device - Mirena ® ....Pages 73-78
Evaluation of Self-Measurements for Two Blood Pressure Devices....Pages 79-82
Real-Time System for Continuous and Remote Monitoring of Respiration during Sleep Using Wireless Sensors Networks....Pages 83-86
Didactic Application for Monitoring Biomedical Parameters and Data Transfer over the Network Using Virtual Instrumentation....Pages 87-92
Low-Cost Platform for Remote Health Monitoring and Home Environment Analysis....Pages 93-96
Towards Improving Situation Awareness during Emergency Transportation through Ambulance-2-X Communication and Semantic Stream Reasoning....Pages 97-100
Materiovigilance and Medical Devices....Pages 101-106
Content Marketing in Dentist’s Websites. An Empirical Comparative Study between Romania and the UK....Pages 107-112
Reliability Indicators and a Failure Mode and Effect Analysis Calculation for a Holter Recorder....Pages 113-118
Patient Satisfaction with Healthcare - A Focus Group Exploratory Study....Pages 119-124
Simulation Based Training for Medical Staff from Department of Pediatrics and Neonatology....Pages 125-128
Polymer Based Nanostructures for Innovative Bio and Immunosensors Development....Pages 129-134
Study Regarding a System for Evaluation of the Sportsmen’s Balance....Pages 135-138
SQUID Gradiometer for Biomagnetic Fields....Pages 139-144
A Method to Determine the Nominal Diameter for Hip Joint with No “Pre-wear” Data....Pages 145-150
Pars Plana Vitrectomy with the 25 + Vitrectomy System....Pages 151-154
Using Laser Scanning to Measure the Difference between Classical Individual Custom Trays and 3D Ideal Individual Custom Trays in the Totally Edentulous....Pages 155-158
Micro-tweezers Based on V-Beam Thermal Actuator....Pages 159-162
Recording of Biomedical Parameters during Magnetotherapy....Pages 163-166
An Argumentative Approach to Assessing Safety in Medical Device Software Using Defeasible Logic Programming....Pages 167-172
Sensorial System for Visually Impaired Individuals....Pages 173-176
Assessment of Peripheral Diabetic Neuropathy: New versus Conventional Methods....Pages 177-180
An Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization Approach to Design the Sound Processor of a Hearing Aid....Pages 181-186
Equipment for SEMG Signals Acquisition and Processing....Pages 187-192
Assessment of Temperature Distribution in Intraperitoneal Chemohyperthermia....Pages 193-196
Capacitive Monitoring of a Tubular Layered Substance Delivery System....Pages 197-202
Potential Distribution and Nerve Fiber Responses in Transcutaneous Lumbosacral Spinal Cord Stimulation....Pages 203-208
Influence of the Electrical Parameters Variation of the Membrane Cell over the Nerve Fiber Activation....Pages 209-214
Application of Virtual Instrumentation for Transmitting and Processing ECG Signals....Pages 215-218
Approximation Method of the Temperature Propagation Parameters in Biological Media....Pages 219-222
PID Control of a Distributed Parameter Biological Process....Pages 223-228
Wavelet Based HRV Analysis....Pages 229-232
Evaluation of ZigBee Technology for a Low-Cost Video Surveillance System....Pages 233-236
Pathological Voice Assessment using TESPAR Analysis....Pages 237-240
A Histogram Method for Detecting Useful Surface Electromyogram Signals....Pages 241-246
Preliminary EEG Based Analysis of Few Acupoints Used in the Chronic Low Back Pain Treatment....Pages 247-250
Optical Coherence Tomography in the Diagnosis, Monitoring and Treatment of Macular Disorders....Pages 251-254
Ultrasound Image Enhancement for Visualization Using Spatially Variant Morphological Filters....Pages 255-258
Automatic, Simultaneous, Non-invasive Measurements of Flow and Area in the Human Pulmonary Arteries from MRI Images....Pages 259-264
Structured Light Based Imaging Architecture for Guided Fracture Reduction....Pages 265-270
Water as a Third Compartment within the Skin’s Stratum Corneum....Pages 271-276
Evaluating SAR Distribution on the Human Head during MRI Examination as Function of Frequency....Pages 277-280
Evaluation of Thermal Distribution in the Head Following Exposure to an Electromagnetic Field Generated by a MRI Birdcage-Type RF Coil....Pages 281-284
Assessment of the Need for Protection against Electromagnetic Radiation of Personnel Onboard Warships....Pages 285-290
Study on the Influence of Electromagnetic Field Produced by a Medical Equipment on the EEG Signals....Pages 291-294
Experimental and Computational Study of the Temperature Distribution at the Surface of a Metallic Implant Exposed to High Frequency Electromagnetic Fields....Pages 295-300
A Numerical Simulation of the Electrical Monitoring of the Brachial-Ulnar-Radial Arterial Hemodynamic....Pages 301-306
TPPS 4 Controlled Release from PVA Hydrogels in Photodynamic Therapy of Cancer....Pages 307-310
Preparation and Characterization of Anchoring Films Designed for the Biofunctionalization of Porous Titanium....Pages 311-316
Synthesis of Nanoceria for Biomedical Applications....Pages 317-320
Reliability of Gait Parameters Depending on HJC Estimation Method....Pages 321-324
Comparison of Vertebral Strengths Derived from FE models of the Vertebral Body and the Vertebral Body with Posterior Elements....Pages 325-330
Back Matter....Pages 331-335