Medical Biometrics: First International Conference, ICMB 2008, Hong Kong, China, January 4-5, 2008. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
A New Feature Selection and Classification Scheme for Screening of Oral Cancer Using Laser Induced Fluorescence....Pages 1-8
Tongueprint Feature Extraction and Application to Health Statistical Analysis....Pages 9-16
RISC: A New Filter Approach for Feature Selection from Proteomic Data....Pages 17-24
An Effective Feature Set for ECG Pattern Classification....Pages 25-32
Research on Gesture Definition and Electrode Placement in Pattern Recognition of Hand Gesture Action SEMG....Pages 33-40
Semantic Feature Extraction for Brain CT Image Clustering Using Nonnegative Matrix Factorization....Pages 41-48
Extracting Tongue Cracks Using the Wide Line Detector....Pages 49-56
An Effective Recognition Method of Breast Cancer Based on PCA and SVM Algorithm....Pages 57-64
Predicting Protein Quaternary Structure with Multi-scale Energy of Amino Acid Factor Solution Scores and Their Combination....Pages 65-72
A Knowledge Discovery Approach to Diagnosing Intracranial Hematomas on Brain CT: Recognition, Measurement and Classification....Pages 73-82
An Adaptive Feature Extractor for Gesture SEMG Recognition....Pages 83-90
Approach to Health Supporting System Using Traditional Chinese Medicine....Pages 91-98
A Multimodal Database for a Home Remote Medical Care Application....Pages 99-106
Adaptive Segmentation and Feature Quantization of Sublingual Veins of Healthy Humans....Pages 107-114
Using Formal Concept Analysis to Leverage Ontology-Based Acu-Point Knowledge System....Pages 115-121
Implementation of a Portable Personal EKG Signal Monitoring System....Pages 122-128
Examining the Influence of Occupational Therapy and Its Effectiveness in Long-Term Care on Dementia Patients Through Ontology-Based Clustering....Pages 129-136
Automatic Classification of Tongueprints in Healthy and Unhealthy Individuals....Pages 137-144
VWPS: A Ventilator Weaning Prediction System with Artificial Intelligence....Pages 145-152
A Method of Classifying Tongue Colors for Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnosis Based on the CIELAB Color Space....Pages 153-159
Hepatitis Diagnosis Using Facial Color Image....Pages 160-167
Texture Feature Extraction and Classification for Iris Diagnosis....Pages 168-175
Screening Diabetic Retinopathy Through Color Retinal Images....Pages 176-183
Real-Time RFID-Based Intelligent Healthcare Diagnosis System....Pages 184-191
Quantitative Assessment of Pap Smear Cells by PC-Based Cytopathologic Image Analysis System and Support Vector Machine....Pages 192-199
An Integrated MRI and MRS Approach to Evaluation of Multiple Sclerosis with Cognitive Impairment....Pages 200-207
Using Modified Contour Deformable Model to Quantitatively Estimate Ultrasound Parameters for Osteoporosis Assessment....Pages 208-215
Noninvasive Ultrasound Imaging for Bone Quality Assessment Using Scanning Confocal Acoustic Diagnosis, μCT, DXA Measurements, and Mechanical Testing....Pages 216-223
Hierarchical Matching of Anatomical Trees for Medical Image Registration....Pages 224-231
Interactive Deformable Registration Visualization and Analysis of 4D Computed Tomography....Pages 232-239
Pinhole SPECT vs. Cone-Beam SPECT....Pages 240-247
Constructing the Histogram Representation for Automatic Gridding of cDNA Microarray Images....Pages 248-255
Compression of Medical Images Using Enhanced Vector Quantizer Designed with Self Organizing Feature Maps....Pages 256-264
Indicator and Calibration Material for Microcalcifications in Dual-Energy Mammography....Pages 265-272
Tongue Image Matching Using Color and Texture....Pages 273-281
Pixel Based Tongue Color Analysis....Pages 282-289
Gradient Direction Edge Enhancement Based Nucleus and Cytoplasm Contour Detector of Cervical Smear Images....Pages 290-297
Three Dimensional Reconstruction and Dynamic Analysis of Mitral Annular Based on Connected Equi-length Curve Angle Chain....Pages 298-306
A Segmentation Method Based on Dynamic Programming for Breast Mass in MRI Images....Pages 307-313
A Multi-resolution Optical Flow Based Approach to Respiratory Motion Correction in 3D PET/CT Images....Pages 314-322
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