XII Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2010 (eBook)

MEDICON 2010, 27-30 May 2010, Chalkidiki, Greece

Nicolas Pallikarakis, Panagiotis D. Bamidis (Herausgeber)

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2010 | 2010
1000 Seiten
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-642-13039-7 (ISBN)

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Over the past three decades, the exploding number of new technologies and applications introduced in medical practice, often powered by advances in biosignal processing and biomedical imaging, created an amazing account of new possibilities for diagnosis and therapy, but also raised major questions of appropriateness and safety. The accelerated development in this field, alongside with the promotion of electronic health care solutions, is often on the basis of an uncontrolled diffusion and use of medical technology. The emergence and use of medical devices is multiplied rapidly and today there exist more than one million different products available on the world market. Despite the fact that the rising cost of health care, partly resulting from the new emerging technological applications, forms the most serious and urgent problem for many governments today, another important concern is that of patient safety and user protection, issues that should never be compromised and expelled from the Biomedical Engineering research practice agenda.

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Preface 6
Organization 7
Table of Contents 12
Biosignal Processing 12
Quantitative Analysis of Two-Dimensional Catch-Up Saccades Executed to the Target Jumps in the Time-Continuous Trajectory 30
INTRODUCTION 30
AIM AND TASKS OF THE WORK 31
METHOD 31
EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS 31
CONCLUSIONS 33
REFERENCES 33
Spike Sorting based on Dominant-Sets clustering 34
INTRODUCTION 34
METHOD 35
RESULTS 36
CONCLUSIONS 37
REFERENCES 37
Differentiation of human bone marrow stromal cells onto gelatin cryogel scaffolds 38
INTRODUCTION 38
MATERIALS ANDMETHODS 38
RESULTS 40
DISCUSSION 40
REFERENCES 41
Simples Coherence vs. Multiple Coherence: A Somatosensory Evoked Response Detection Investigation 42
INTRODUCTION 42
MATERIAL AND METHODS 42
RESULTS 43
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS 45
REFERENCES 45
Measure of Similarity of ECG Cycles 46
INTRODUCTION 46
MATERILAS AND METHODS 46
DISCUSSION 48
CONCLUSION 49
REFERENCES 49
Wavelet phase synchronization between EHGs at different uterine sites: comparison of pregnancy and labor contractions 50
INTRODUCTION 50
MATERIALS AND METHODS 50
DISCUSSION 53
CONCLUSION 53
REFERENCES 53
Dynamic Generation of Physiological Model Systems 54
INTRODUCTION 54
METHODS 54
RESULTS 56
CONCLUSIONS 57
REFERENCES 57
Random Forest-Based Classification of Heart Rate Variability Signals by Using Combinations of Linear and Nonlinear Features 58
INTRODUCTION 58
METHODS AND MATERIAL 58
RESULTS 60
DISCUSSION 61
CONCLUSION 61
REFERENCES 61
Validation of MRS metabolic markers in the classification of brain gliomas and their correlation to energy metabolism 62
INTRODUCTION 62
MATERIALS AND METHODS 63
RESULTS 63
DISCUSSION 64
CONCLUSIONS 65
REFERENCES 65
Event-Related Synchronization/Desynchronization for Evaluating Cortical Response Detection Induced by Dynamic Visual Stimuli 66
INTRODUCTION 66
MATERIALS AND METHODS 66
RESULTS 68
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION 69
REFERENCES 69
Investigating the EEG Alpha Band during Kinesthetic and Visual Motor Imagery of the Spike Volleyball Movement 70
INTRODUCTION 70
MATERIAL AND MEHOTDS 70
RESULTS 72
DISCUSSION 72
CONCLUSIONS 73
REFERENCES 73
Principal Components Clustering through a Variance-Defined Metric 74
INTRODUCTION 74
BACKGROUND 74
MATERIALS AND METHODS 75
RESULTS 76
DISCUSSION 77
REFERENCES 77
A Kurtosis-Based Automatic System Using Naïve Bayesian Classifier to Identify ICA Components Contaminated by EOG or ECG Artifacts 78
INTRODUCTION 78
MATERIALS AND METHODS 79
RESULTS 80
CONCLUSSIONS AND DISCUSSION 81
REFERENCES 81
Correlation between Fractal Behavior of HRV and Neurohormonal and Functional Indexes in Chronic Heart Failure 82
INTRODUCTION 82
MATERIALS AND METHODS 83
RESULTS 84
CONCLUSIONS 84
REFERENCES 85
On the Selection of Time Interval and Frequency Range of EEG Signal Preprocessing for P300 Brain-Computer Interfacing 86
INTRODUCTION 86
METHODS 86
RESULTS 88
CONCLUSION 89
REFERENCES 89
Development of a Simple and Cheap Device for Movement Analysis 90
INTRODUCTION 90
SYSTEM DESCRIPTION 91
RESULTS 92
DISCUSSION 93
REFERENCES 93
Signal Peptide Prediction in Single Transmembrane Proteins Using the Continuous Wavelet Transform 94
INTRODUCTION 94
MATERIALS AND METHODS 94
RESULTS 96
DISCUSSION 96
CONCLUSIONS 97
REFERENCES 97
Comparison of AM-FM Features with Standard Features for the Classification of Surface Electromyographic Signals 98
INTRODUCTION 98
MATERIAL AND DATA ACQUISITION 98
FEATURE EXTRACTION 99
CLASSIFICATION 99
RESULTS 100
CONCLUDING REMARKS 101
REFERENCES 101
Studying Brain Visuo-Tactile Integration through Cross-Spectral Analysis of Human MEG Recordings 102
INTRODUCTION 102
MATERIALS AND METHODS 102
RESULTS 104
DISCUSSION 104
CONCLUSIONS 105
REFERENCES 105
Patient-specific seizure prediction using a multi-feature and multi-modal EEG-ECG classification 106
INTRODUCTION 106
MATERIALS AND METHODS 107
RESULTS 107
DISCUSSION 108
CONCLUSIONS 109
REFERENCES 109
Horizontal Directionality Characteristics of the Bat Head-Related Transfer Function 110
INTRODUCTION 110
METHODOLOGY 110
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 112
CONCLUSION 113
REFERENCES 113
Assessment of Human Performance during High-Speed Marine Craft Transit 114
INTRODUCTION 114
METHOD DESCRIPTION 114
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 116
CONCLUSIONS 117
REFERENCES 117
Effects of Electrochemotherapy on Microcirculatory Vasomotion in Tumors 118
INTRODUCTION 118
MATERIALS AND METHODS 118
RESULTS 120
DISCUSSION WITH CONCLUSIONS 120
REFERENCES 121
Non-linear modeling of cerebral autoregulation using cascade models 122
INTRODUCTION 122
METHODS 123
RESULTS 124
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS 125
REFERENCES 125
The Epsilon-Skew-Normal dictionary for the decomposition of single- and multichannel biomedical recordings using Matching Pursuit algorithms 126
INTRODUCTION 126
MATERIALS AND METHODS 126
RESULTS 128
DISCUSSION 129
CONCLUSION 129
REFERENCES 129
On the Empirical Mode Decomposition Performance in White Gaussian Noise Biomedical Signals 130
INTRODUCTION 130
EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION 131
METHODOLOGY 131
EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS 132
CONCLUSIONS 134
REFERENCES 134
Simulation of Biomechanical Experiments in OpenSim 136
INTRODUCTION 136
EXPERIMENT 136
SIMULATION 137
CONCLUSIONS 138
REFERENCES 139
Comparing Sensorimotor Cortex Activation during Actual and Imaginary Movement 140
INTRODUCTION 140
METHODOLOGY 140
RESULTS 141
DISCUSSION 142
FUTURE WORK 142
REFERENCES 142
Graph Analysis on Functional Connectivity Networks during an Emotional Paradigm 144
INTRODUCTION 144
METHODS 144
RESULTS 145
DISCUSSION 146
REFERENCES 147
MORFEAS: A Non-Invasive System for automated Sleep Apnea Detection utilizing Snore Sound Analysis 148
INTRODUCTION 148
RELATED WORK & BACKGROUND INFORMATION
PROPOSED SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE 150
MOBILE HARDWARE SPECIFICATIONS 150
SNORE DETECTION & APNEA INDICATION
DISCUSION 151
REFERENCES 151
Improved Optical Method for Measuring Concentration of Uric Acid Removed during Dialysis 153
INTRODUCTION 153
MATERIALS AND METHODS 154
RESULTS 155
DISCUSSION 155
CONCLUSIONS 156
REFERENCES 156
Correlations between Longitudinal Corneal Apex Displacement, Head Movements and Pulsatile Blood Flow 157
INTRODUCTION 157
MATERIALS AND METHOD 157
RESULTS 158
CONCLUSIONS 160
REFERENCES 160
THE ANALOG PROCESSING AND DIGITAL RECORDING OF ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS 161
THE ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS AQUIRING 161
THE ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS PROCESSING 161
THE ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS RECORDING 163
CONCLUSIONS 163
REFERENCES 163
Parameter Selection in Approximate and Sample Entropy-Complexity of Acute and Chronic Stress Response 165
INTRODUCTION 165
MATERIALS AND METHODS 165
RESULTS 167
CONCLUSIONS 168
REFERENCES 168
The Importance of Uterine Contractions Extraction in Evaluation of the Progress of Labour by Calculating the Values of Sample Entropy from Uterine Electromyogram 169
INTRODUCTION 169
METHODS 169
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 170
CONCLUSIONS 172
REFERENCES 172
Simultaneous Pneumo- and Photoplethysmographic Recording of Oscillometric Envelopes Applying a Local Pad-Type Cuff on the Radial Artery 173
INTRODUCTION 173
METHODS AND MATERIALS 173
RESULTS 174
DISCUSSION 175
CONCLUSIONS 176
REFERENCES 176
Estimation of Mean Radial Blood Pressure in Critically Ill Patients 177
INTRODUCTION 177
METHODS 177
RESULTS 178
DISCUSSION 179
CONCLUSIONS 179
REFERENCES 180
Photoplethysmographic Assessment of the Pressure-Compliance Relationship for the Radial Artery 181
INTRODUCTION 181
METHODS 181
RESULTS 182
DISCUSSION 183
CONCLUSIONS 184
REFERENCES 184
High Frequency Acoustic Properties for Cutaneous Cell Carcinomas In Vitro 185
INTRODUCTION 185
MATERIAL AND METHODS 186
RESULTS 187
DISCUSSION 187
REFERENCES 188
Gender-related Effects of Carbohydrate Ingestion and Hypoxia on Heart Rate Variability: Linear and Non-linear Analysis 189
INTRODUCTION 189
MATERIAL AND METHODS 189
RESULTS 191
DISCUSSION 191
CONCLUSIONS 192
REFERENCES 192
On the analysis of dynamic lung mechanics separately in ins- and expiration 193
INTRODUCTION 193
MATERIALS AND METHODS 193
RESULTS 195
DISCUSSION 196
CONCLUSION 196
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 196
REFERENCES 196
Clinical Validation of an Algorithm for Automatic Detection of Atrial Fibrillation from Single Lead ECG 197
INTRODUCTION 197
METHODS 197
RESULTS 199
CONCLUSIONS 199
REFERENCES 200
Mental and Motor Task Classification by LDA 201
INTRODUCTION 201
MATERIALS AND METHOD 201
CONCLUSIONS 203
REFERENCES 204
The human subthalamic nucleus – knowledge for the understanding of Parkinson’s disease 205
INTRODUCTION 205
CYTOLOGY 205
COMPARATIVE ANATOMY 206
DEVELOPMENT OF THE SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS 206
TOPOGRAPHY OF THE SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS 206
CONNECTIONS OF THE SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS 207
REFERENCES 207
Dissociated neurons from an extended rat subthalamic area - spontaneous activity and acetylcholine addition 209
INTRODUCTION 209
METHODS AND MATERIALS 210
RESULTS 210
DISCUSSION 211
REFERENCES 211
Nigro-subthalamic and nigro-trigeminal projections in the rat 213
INTRODUCTION 213
MATERIALS AND METHODS 213
RESULTS 213
DISCUSSION 216
REFERENCES 216
Statistical Estimate on Indices Associated to Atherosclerosis Risk 217
INTRODUCTION 217
MATERIAL AND METHODS 218
RESULTS 219
CONCLUSIONS 220
REFERENCES 220
Study of Some EEG Signal Processing Methods for Detection of Epileptic Activity 221
INTRODUCTION 221
ANALYSIS OF SOME SIGNAL PROCESSING METHODS FOR DETECTING EPILEPTIC BRAIN ACTIVITY 221
CONCLUSIONS 224
REFERENCES 224
Continuous Wavelet Transformation of Pattern Electroretinogram (PERG) - a tool improving the test accuracy 225
INTRODUCTION 225
MATERIALS AND METHODS 226
RESULTS 226
CONCLUSIONS 228
REFERENCES 228
An Interactive Tool for Customizing Clinical Transacranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Experiments 229
INTRODUCTION 229
TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION 230
THE PROPOSED SYSTEM 230
SYSTEM TESTING 231
CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE WORK 232
REFERENCES 232
Medical Imaging 15
Measurement Methodology for Tempomandibular Joint Displacement Based on Focus Mutual Information Alignment of CBCT Images 233
INTRODUCTION 233
MATERIAL AND METHODS 235
RESULTS 235
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS 235
REFERENCES 236
Computer Aided Diagnosis of Diffuse Lung Disease in Multi-detector CT – Selecting 3D Texture Features 237
INTRODUCTION 237
MATERIALS AND METHODS 237
RESULTS 239
DISCUSSION 240
CONCLUSIONS 240
REFERENCES 240
Statistical Pre-processing Method for Peripheral Quantitative Computed Tomography Images 241
INTRODUCTION 241
MATERIALS AND METHODS 241
RESULTS 243
DISCUSSION 243
REFERENCES 244
Security and Reliability of Data Transmissions in Biotelemetric System 245
INTRODUCTION 245
CONCEPT OF BIOTELEMETRIC SYSTEM 245
KEY HARDWARE COMPONENTS OF CERBERUS ELEMENT 246
DATA FLOWS IN BIOTELEMETRIC SYSTEM 247
STATIONARY DATA ACQUIRING UNIT ITEMS 247
SECURITY AND RELIABILITY OF BIOTELEMETRIC SYSTEM 247
CONCLUSIONS 248
REFERENCES 248
A Novel Approach for Implementation of Dual Energy Mapping Technique in CT-Based Attenuation Correction Using Single kVP Imaging: A Feasibility Study 249
INTRODUCTION 249
MATERIALS AND METHODS 249
CONCLUSION 252
REFERENCES 252
Computational Visualization of Tumor Virotherapy 253
INTRODUCTION 253
MODELING 254
VISUALIZATION AND RESULT 255
CONCLUSION 256
REFERENCES 256
New Approaches for Continuous Non Invasive Blood Pressure Monitoring 257
INTRODUCTION 257
DEVELOPED SYSTEMS 257
DISCUSSION 259
CONCLUSION 259
REFERENCES 260
Wireless Power and Data Transmission for Robotic Endoscopic Capsules 261
INTRODUCTION 261
SYSTEM DESIGN 262
EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS 263
CONCLUSION 264
REFERENCES 264
Ulcer Detection in Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Images Using Bidimensional Nonlinear Analysis 265
INTRODUCTION 265
MATERIALS AND METHODS 265
RESULTS 267
DISCUSSION 268
CONCLUSIONS 268
REFERENCES 268
Pre-clinical physiological data acquisition and testing of the IMAGE sensing device for exercise guidance and real-time monitoring of cardiovascular disease patients 269
INTRODUCTION 269
METHODOLOGY 270
RESULTS 271
CONCLUSIONS & FURTHER WORK
REFERENCES 272
Thermal Images of Electrically Stimulated Breast: a simulation study 273
INTRODUCTION 273
RESULTS 276
CONCLUSIONS 276
REFERENCES 276
Magnetic Resonance Current Density Imaging Using One Component of Magnetic Flux Density: An Experimental Study 277
INTRODUCTION 277
METHOD 277
RESULTS 279
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION 280
REFERENCES 280
Computer-Aided Detection of COPD Using Digital Chest Radiographs 281
INTRODUCTION 281
MATERIALS AND METHODS 282
RESULTS 284
CONCLUSIONS 284
REFERENCES 284
Localisation, Registration and Visualisation of MRS Volumes of Interest on MR Images 285
INTRODUCTION 285
METHOD AND EXPERIMENT 285
CONCLUSIONS 288
REFERENCES 288
Magnetic Marker Monitoring: A novel approach for magnetic marker design 289
INTRODUCTION 289
MATERIALS AND METHODS 290
RESULTS 291
DISCUSSION 291
CONCLUSION 291
REFERENCES 292
Corneal nerves segmentation and morphometric parameters quantification for early detection of diabetic neuropathy 293
INTRODUCTION 293
MATERIALS AND METHODS 293
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 294
REFERENCES 296
Novel catheters for in vivo research and pharmaceutical trials providing direct access to extracellular space of target tissues 297
INTRODUCTION 297
MATERIALS AND METHODS 298
RESULTS 299
CONCLUSIONS AND OUTLOOK 299
REFERENCES 300
Statistical Texture Analysis of MRI Images to Classify Patients Affected by Multiple Sclerosis 301
INTRODUCTION 301
MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING AND DATA ACQUISITION METHOD 302
THE PROPOSED SYSTEM 302
EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS 304
CONCLUDING REMARKS AND FUTURE WORK 304
REFERENCES 304
WADEDA: A Wearable Affective Device with On-Chip Signal Processing Capabilities for Measuring ElectroDermal Activity 305
INTRODUCTION 305
MATERIALS AND METHODS 306
RESULTS 307
DISCUSSION 308
REFERENCES 308
A Modular Architecture of a Computer-Operated Olfactometer for Universal Use 309
INTRODUCTION 309
PREVIOUS WORK 310
MATERIALS AND METHODS 310
DISCUSSION 311
CONCLUSION 312
REFERENCES 312
The role of geometry of the human carotid bifurcation in the formation and development of atherosclerotic plaque 313
INTRODUCTION 313
METHODS 313
RESULTS 314
DISCUSSION 315
CONCLUSIONS 316
REFERENCES 316
A wearable wireless ECG sensor: a design with a minimal number of parts 317
INTRODUCTION 317
DESCRIPTION 317
RESULTS 319
CONCLUSIONS 320
REFERENCES 320
Active Contours without Edges Applied to Breast Lesions on Ultrasound 321
INTRODUCTION 321
METHODOLOGY 321
RESULTS 323
DISCUSSIONS 324
CONCLUSIONS 324
REFERENCES 324
Automatic identification of trabecular bone fracture 325
INTRODUCTION 325
MATERIALS AND METHODS 325
RESULTS 327
CONCLUSIONS 327
REFERENCES 328
Visualization System to Improve Surgical Performance during a Laparoscopic Procedure 329
INTRODUCTION 329
THE USED TECHNOLOGY 330
3D MODEL AND TRACKING 330
THE DEVELOPED APPLICATION 331
CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE WORK 332
REFERENCES 332
The blood perfusion mapping in the human skin by photoplethysmography imaging 333
INTRODUCTION 333
METHODS 333
RESULTS 334
CONCLUSIONS 335
REFERENCES 335
Fingerprint Matching with Self Organizing Maps 336
INTRODUCTION 336
METHODOLOGY 336
RESULTS 338
REFERENCES 339
A Novel Model for Monte Carlo Simulation of Performance Parameters of the Rodent Research PET (RRPET) Camera Based on NEMA NU-4 Standards 340
INTRODUCTION 340
METHOD 341
RESULTS 342
CONCLUSION AND DISCUSSION 343
REFERENCES 343
Is the Average Gray-Level from Ultrasound B-Mode Images Able to Estimate Temperature Variations in Ex-Vivo Tissue? 344
INTRODUCTION 344
EXPERIMENTAL SETUP 345
METHODS 345
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 346
CONCLUSIONS 347
REFERENCES 347
CT2MCNP: An Integrated Package for Constructing Patient-Specific Voxel-Based Phantoms Dedicated for MCNP(X) Monte Carlo Code 348
INTRODUCTION 348
MCNP MONTE CARLO CODE 348
DICOM STANDARD 349
IMAGE MANIPULATION FEATURES 349
MCNP INPUT GENERATION 349
CONCLUSIONS 351
REFERENCES 351
Noise reduction in fluoroscopic image sequences for joint kinematics analysis 352
INTRODUCTION 352
METHODS 353
RESULTS 354
CONCLUSIONS 355
REFERENCES 355
The Influence of Patient Miscentering on Patient Dose and Image Noise in Two Commercial ct Scanners 356
INTRODUCTION 356
MATHERIALS AND METHODS 356
RESULTS 358
DISCUSSION 358
CONCLUSIONS 359
REFERENCES 359
A Study on Performance of a Digital Image Acquisition System in Mammography Diagnostic 360
INTRODUCTION 360
TESTED SYSTEM AND MEASUREMENT EQUIPMENT 360
QUALITY OF DOSE OUTPUT 361
IMAGE QUALITY 361
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION 363
REFERENCES 363
An efficient Video-Synopsis technique for optical recordings with application to the analysis of rat barrel-cortex responses 364
INTRODUCTION 364
EXPERIMENTAL DATA 365
THE METHOD 365
RESULTS 366
CONCLUSIONS 367
REFERENCES 367
Preoperative Planning Software for Hip Replacement 368
INTRODUCTION 368
ANATOMY AND MORFOLOGY OF HIP JOINT 368
TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS 369
DIGITALIZATION OF THE PRE-OPERATIVE PLANNING BY COXAM SOFTWARE 370
CONCLUSIONS 371
REFERENCES 371
Entropy: a way to quantify complexity in calcium dynamics 372
INTRODUCTION 372
MATERIALS AND METHODS 372
RESULTS 373
DISCUSSION 373
CONCLUSIONS 375
A new fluorescence image-processing method to visualize Ca2+-release and uptake Endoplasmatic Reticulum microdomains in cultured glia 376
INTRODUCTION 376
MATERIALS AND METHODS 376
RESULTS 378
DISCUSSION 378
CONCLUSIONS 379
REFERENCES 379
Experimental Measurement of Modulation Transfer Function (MTF) in Five Commercial CT Scanners 380
INTRODUCTION 380
MATERIAL AND METHODS 380
CONCLUSIONS 381
REFERENCES 383
Microcalcifications Segmentation Procedure Based on Morphological Operators and Histogram Filtering 384
INTRODUCTION 384
MATERIALS AND METHODS 385
RESULTS 386
DISCUSSION 386
CONCLUSION 386
REFERENCES 387
Segmentation of Anatomical Structures on Chest Radiographs 388
INTRODUCTION 388
LUNG CONTOUR DETECTION 388
BONE DETECTION 389
CONCLUSIONS 391
REFERENCES 391
Lung Nodule Detection on Rib Eliminated Radiographs 392
INTRODUCTION 392
MATERIALS AND METHODS 392
RESULTS 394
DISCUSSION 395
CONCLUSIONS 395
REFERENCES 395
An improved algorithm for out-of-plane artifacts removal in digital tomosynthesis reconstructions 396
INTRODUCTION 396
MATERIALS AND METHODS 396
RESULTS 398
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS 399
REFERENCES 399
Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Irreversible Electroporation in Tubers 400
INTRODUCTION 400
MATERIALS AND METHODS 401
RESULTS 401
DISCUSSION 401
CONCLUSION 403
REFERENCES 403
Superposition of activations of SWI and fMRI acquisitions of the motor cortex 405
INTRODUCTION 405
MATERIALS AND RESULTS 405
RESULTS 406
CONCLUSIONS 407
REFERENCES 407
Medical Devices and Instrumentation 18
A New Optical Method for Measuring Creatinine Concentration During Dialysis. 408
INTRODUCTION 408
PATIENTS 408
MATERIALS AND METHODS 409
RESULTS 409
DISCUSSION 410
CONCLUSIONS 411
REFERENCES 411
The Role of Viscous Damping on Quality of Haptic Interaction in Upper Limb Rehabilitation Robot: A Simulation Study 412
INTRODUCTION 412
DIFFERENT MODES OF OPERATION 412
ACTUATION 413
RESULTS OF SIMULATION STUDY 414
DISCUSSION 415
REFERENCES 415
A New Fibre Optic Pulse Oximeter Probe for Monitoring Splanchnic Organ Arterial Blood Oxygen Saturation 416
INTRODUCTION 416
METHODS 416
RESULTS 417
CONCLUSIONS 419
REFERENCES 419
Electrical properties of teeth regarding the electric vitality testing 420
INTRODUCTION 420
MATERIALS AND METHODS 420
RESULTS 421
DISCUSSION 422
CONCLUSIONS 423
REFERENCES 423
Stiffness of a small tissue phantom measured by a tactile resonance sensor 424
INTRODUCTION 424
MATERIAL AND METHODS 425
RESULTS 425
DISCUSSION 426
CONCLUSIONS 426
REFERENCES 426
Vectorial magnetoencephalographic measurements for the estimation of radial dipolar activity in the human somatosensory system 428
INTRODUCTION 428
METHODS 428
RESULTS 429
CONCLUSIONS 430
REFERENCES 430
Registration of Chest X-Rays 431
INTRODUCTION 431
ALGORITHM STRUCTURE 431
TEST RESULTS 434
CONCLUSIONS 434
REFERENCES 434
Arterial Pulse Transit Time Dependence on Applied Pressure 435
INTRODUCTION 435
METHODS 435
RESULTS 436
CONCLUSIONS 438
REFERENCES 438
Influence of an Artificial Valve Type on the Flow in the Ventricular Assist Device 439
INTRODUCTION 439
NUMERICAL EXPERIMENT 439
CONCLUSIONS 442
REFERENCES 442
A New Stimulation Technique for Electrophysiological Color Vision Testing 443
INTRODUCTION 443
MATERIALS AND METHODS 443
RESULTS 445
DISCUSSION 446
CONCLUSIONS 446
REFERENCES 446
Novel TiN-based dry EEG electrodes: Influence of electrode shape and number on contact impedance and signal quality 447
INTRODUCTION 447
MATERIALS AND METHODS 448
RESULTS 449
DISCUSSION 450
CONCLUSION 450
REFERENCES 450
A finite element method study of the current density distribution in a capacitive intrabody communication system 451
INTRODUCTION 451
MODELING 451
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 452
CONCLUSIONS 454
REFERENCES 454
Voice Controlled Neuroprosthesis System 455
INTRODUCTION 455
MATERIAL AND METHODS 455
RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS 457
REFERENCES 458
Preoperative Planning Program Tool in Treatment of Articular Fractures: Process of Segmentation Procedure 459
INTRODUCTION 459
MATERIALS AND METHODS 460
RESULTS 460
CONCLUSION 462
REFERENCES 462
Neuroimaging of emotional activation: Issues on Experimental Methodology, Analysis and Statistics 463
INTRODUCTION 463
METHODS AND RESULTS 464
CONCLUSION 466
REFERENCES 466
Using Grid Infrastructure for the Promotion of Biomedical Knowledge Mining 467
INTRODUCTION 467
A DISTRIBUTED BIOIFORMATIC COMPUTING PARADIGM 467
CONCLUSIONS 469
REFERENCES 470
A Laboratory Scale Facility for the Parametric Characterization of the Intraocular Pressure of the Human Eye 471
INTRODUCTION 471
MATERIALS & METHODS
DISCUSSION 473
CONCLUSIONS 474
REFERENCES 474
AM-FM Texture Image Analysis in Multiple Sclerosis Brain White Matter Lesions 475
INTRODUCTION 475
MATERIALS AND METHODS 475
RESULTS 477
CONCLUDING REMARKS 477
REFERENCES 478
Reliable Hysteroscopy Color Imaging 479
INTRODUCTION 479
METHODOLOGY 479
RESULTS 480
CONCLUDING REMARKS 482
REFERENCES 482
Comparison of Methods of Measurement of Head Position in Neurological Practice 484
INTRODUCTION 484
METHODS 484
RESULTS 486
CONCLUSIONS 487
REFERENCES 487
The Nanopous $Al_{2}O_{3}$ Material Used for the Enzyme Entrapping in a Glucose Biosensor 488
INTRODUCTION 488
THE KEYS TECHNOLOGICAL STEPS FOR THE BIOSENSOR 488
THE $AL_{2}O_{3}$ NANOSTRUCTURED LAYER PROCESSING 489
TESTS RESULTS 490
CONCLUSIONS 490
REFERENCES 491
Hand-held resonance sensor instrument for soft tissue stiffness measurements – a first study on biological tissue {/it in vitro} 492
INTRODUCTION 492
MATERIAL AND METHODS 493
RESULTS 494
DISCUSSION 494
CONCLUSIONS 494
REFERENCES 495
Head Position Monitoring System 496
INTRODUCTION 496
PRINCIPLE OF MEASUREMENT 496
MEASUREMENT SYSTEM HARDWARE 497
SOFTWARE APPLICATION 498
CONCLUSIONS 499
REFERENCES 499
Short range wireless link for data acquisition in medical equipment 500
INTRODUCTION 500
DESCRIPTION OF THE SYSTEM 500
CONCLUSIONS 503
REFERENCES 503
Corneal Quantitative Fluorometry – A Slit-Lamp Based Platform 504
INTRODUCTION 504
MATERIALS AND METHODS 505
RESULTS 505
REFERENCES 507
Automatic Detection of Patients’ Spontaneous Activity During Pressure Support Ventilation 508
INTRODUCTION 508
MATERIALS AND METHODS 508
RESULTS 510
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS 511
REFERENCES 511
Determination of In Vivo Three-Dimensional Lower Limb Kinematics for Simulation of High-Flexion Squats 512
INTRODUCTION 512
MATERIALS AND METHODS 512
RESULTS 513
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS 515
REFERENCES 515
Evaluation of chronic diabetic wounds with the Near Infrared Wound Monitor 516
INTRODUCTION 516
METHODS 516
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 517
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 518
REFERENCES 518
Non-contact UWB Radar Technology to Assess Tremor 519
INTRODUCTION 519
SYSTEM AND METHODS 520
EXPIREMENTAL SETUP 521
RESULTS 521
CONCLUSIONS 522
REFERENCES 522
High frequency mechanical vibrations stimulate the bone matrix formation in hBMSCs (human Bone Marrow Stromal Cells) 523
INTRODUCTION 523
MATERIALS AND METHODS 523
RESULTS 524
DISCUSSION 525
CONCLUSIONS 526
REFERENCES 526
Mobispiro: A Novel Spirometer 527
INTRODUCTION 527
MOBISPIRO 528
CONCLUSIONS 530
REFERENCES 530
A computer program for the functional assessment of the rotational vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) 531
INTRODUCTION 531
METHOD 532
PERFORMANCE & VERIFICATION
REPORTS AND RESULTS 534
DISCUSSION 534
REFERENCES 534
New Application for Automatic Hemifield Damage Identification in Humphrey Field Analyzer (HFA) Visual Fields 535
INTRODUCTION 535
METHODS 536
CONCLUSIONS 538
REFERENCES 538
The Effect of Mechano– and Magnetochemically Synthesized Magnetosensitive Nanocomplex and Electromagnetic Irradiation on Animal Tumor 539
INTRODUCTION 539
MATERIALS AND METHODS 539
RESULT AND DISCUSSION. 540
CONCLUSION 540
REFERENCES 540
Verification of Measuring System for Automation Intra – Abdominal Pressure Measurement 542
INTRODUCTION 542
BASIC THERMS 542
VERIFICATION OF MEASURING SYSTEM 543
CONCLUSION 544
REFERENCES 544
Evolution in Bladder Pressure Measuring Implants Developed at K.U.Leuven 546
INTRODUCTION 546
DEVELOPMENTS IN UROLOGICAL TOOLS 546
MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS 548
CONCLUSION 549
REFERENCES 549
Including the effect of the thermal wave in theoretical modeling for radiofrequency ablation 550
INTRODUCTION 550
ANALITYCAL APPROACH 550
NUMERICAL APPROACH 551
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 552
CONCLUSION 553
REFERENCES 553
Textile Integrated Monitoring System for Breathing Rhythm of Infants 554
INTRODUCTION 554
ACCELEROMETER-BASED ESTIMATION OF RESPIRATORY ACTIVITY 554
A POLYVALENT ARCHITECTURE 557
CONCLUSION 557
REFERENCES 557
Comparison between VHDL-AMS and PSPICE modeling of ultrasound measurement system for biological medium 558
INTRODUCTION 558
TRANSDUCER MODELLING 558
ULTRASOUND PULSE-ECHO SYSTEM 559
VHDL-AMS MODELLING OF THE EXPERIMENTAL SETUP 559
RESULTS 560
CONCLUSIONS 561
REFERENCES 561
Stimulation Parameter Testing and Verification during Pacing 562
INTRODUCTION 562
MATHERIALS AND METHODS 562
CONCLUSIONS 564
REFERENCES 564
Biosignal Monitoring and Processing for Management of Hypertension 566
INTRODUCTION 566
MATERIALS AND METHODS 566
RESULTS 567
CONCLUSIONS 568
REFERENCES 568
Design and Development of an Electrophysiological Signal Acquisition System: A technological aid for research, teaching and clinical application 570
INTRODUCTION 570
METHODOLOGY 571
RESULTS 572
CONCLUSIONS 573
REFERENCES 573
Numerical Models of an Artery with Different Stent Types 574
INTRODUCTION 574
MODELS OF A STENT INSERTED INTO A HOMOGENOUS ARTERY WITH LINEAR ELASTIC MATERIAL PROPERTIES 574
MODELS OF A STENT INSERTED INTO A BI LAYERED ARTERY WITH HYPER ELASTIC MATERIAL PROPERTIES 576
EMPLOYING THE SUGGESTED 2D MODEL FOR DIFFERENT STENT TYPES 576
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 577
REFERENCES 577
A macro-quality field control of dual energy X-ray absorptiometry with anatomical, chemical and computed tomographical variables 578
INTRODUCTION 578
METHODS AND PROCEDURES 578
RESULTS 579
DISCUSSION 580
CONCLUSIONS 582
REFERENCES 582
Digital filter in hardware loop for on line ECG signal baseline wander reduction 583
INTRODUCTION 583
METHOD 583
REZULTS 585
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS 586
REFERENCES 586
Biomedical Measurements and Modeling 21
Assessment of a Patient-Specific Silicon Model of the Human Arterial Forearm 587
INTRODUCTION 587
MATERIAL AND METHODS 588
RESULTS 590
CONCLUSIONS 590
REFERENCES 590
Numerical Investigations of the Strain-Adaptive Bone Remodeling in the Prosthetic Pelvis 591
INTRODUCTION 591
MATERIALS AND METHODS 591
RESULTS 593
CONCLUSIONS 594
REFERENCES 594
Development of a System Dynamics Model for Cost Estimation for the Implantation and Revision of Hip Joint Endoprosthesis 595
INTRODUCTION 595
METHODS AND MATERIAL 596
RESULTS 597
CONCLUSIONS 597
REFERENCES 597
The Volume Regulation and Accumulation of Synovial Fluid between Articular Plateaus of Knee Joints 599
INTRODUCTION 599
CONTENTS 599
CONCLUSIONS 602
REFERENCES 602
Anthropometric Measurements and Model Evaluation of Mass-Inertial Parameters of the Human Upper and Lower Extremities 603
INTRODUCTION 603
METHODS 603
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 605
REFERENCES 606
Validation of a Person Specific 1-D Model of the Systemic Arterial Tree 607
INTRODUCTION 607
METHODS 607
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 608
CONCLUSIONS 608
REFERENCES 608
First Trimester Diagnosis of Trisomy-21 Using Artificial Neural Networks 609
INTRODUCTION 609
DATA 610
NEURAL PREDICTOR 610
RESULTS 611
CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE WORK 611
REFERENCES 611
Numerical Analysis of a Novel Method for Temperature Gradient Measurement in the Vicinity of Warm Inflamed Atherosclerotic Plaques 613
INTRODUCTION 613
METHODS 614
RESULTS 614
DISCUSSION 615
CONCLUSIONS 616
REFERENCES 616
A multilevel and multiscale approach for the prediction of oral cancer reoccurrence 617
INTRODUCTION 617
MATERIALS AND METHODS 618
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS 620
REFERENCES 620
An Automated Method for Levodopa-Induced Dyskinesia Detection and Severity Classification 621
INTRODUCTION 621
MATTERIALS AND METHODS 622
RESULTS 623
DISCUSION 624
REFERENCES 624
Electrospinning Poly($o$-methoxyaniline) Nanofibers for Tissue Engineering Applications 625
INTRODUCTION 625
MATERIALS AND METHODS 625
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 627
CONCLUSIONS 627
REFERENCES 628
Diagnosis of Asthma Severity Using Artificial Neural Networks 629
INTRODUCTION 629
MATERIALS AND METHODS 629
EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS 631
CONCLUSION 632
REFERENCES 632
Enhanced stem cells characteristic of fibroblastic mesenchymal cells from HHT patients 633
INTRODUCTION 633
MATERIALS AND METHODS 633
RESULTS 635
CONCLUSIONS 636
REFERENCES 636
High frequency vibration (HFV) induces muscle hypertrophy in newborn mice and enhances primary myoblasts fusion in satellite cells 637
INTRODUCTION 637
MATERIALS AND METHODS 638
RESULTS 639
DISCUSSION 639
REFERENCES 640
Surface Characterization of Collagen Films by Atomic Force Microscopy 641
INTRODUCTION 641
MATERIALS AND METHODS 642
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 642
CONCLUSIONS 644
REFERENCES 644
Changes in Electrocardiogram during Intra-Abdominal Electrochemotherapy: A Preliminary Report 645
INTRODUCTION 645
MATERIALS AND METHODS 646
RESULTS 647
DISCUSSION 647
CONCLUSIONS 648
REFERENCES 648
Studying postural sway using wearable sensors: fall prediction. 649
INTRODUCTION 649
MATERIALS AND METHODS 649
RESULTS 651
CONCLUSIONS 652
REFERENCES 652
From Biomedical Research to Spin-Off Companies for the Health Care Market 653
INTRODUCTION 653
METHODS 654
RESULTS 654
DISCUSSION 654
CONCLUSION 655
REFERENCES 655
A Continuous-Time Dynamical Model for the Vestibular Nucleus 656
INTRODUCTION 656
THE STRUCTURE OF THE GENERAL MODEL 656
THE GENETIC ALGORITHM 657
RESULTS 659
CONCLUSIONS 659
REFERENCES 659
Fast optical signal in the prefrontal cortex correlates with EEG 660
INTRODUCTION 660
MATERIALS AND METHODS 660
RESULTS 661
DISCUSSION 662
REFERENCES 663
Using Social Semantic Web Technologies in Public Health: A Prototype Epidemiological Semantic Wiki 664
INTRODUCTION 664
DESCRIBING THE APPROACH 665
THE ONTOLOGY USED 665
EXAMPLE TEST CASE 666
CONCLUSIONS 667
REFERENCES 667
Patellofemoral Contact during Simulated Weight Bearing Squat Movement: A Cadaveric Study 668
INTRODUCTION 668
MATERIALS AND METHOD 668
RESULTS 669
DISCUSSION 670
CONCLUSIONS 671
REFERENCES 671
Rapid Prototype Development for Studying Human Activity 672
INTRODUCTION 672
PLATFORM DESIGN 672
HARDWARE INFRASTRUCTURE 673
MODA 673
PLATFORM EVALUATION 674
CONCLUSIONS 675
REFERENCES 675
Rheological and Electrical Properties of RBC Suspensions in Dextran 70. Changes in RBC Morphology 676
INTRODUCTION 676
MATERIALS AND METHODS 676
RESULTS 677
DISCUSSION 678
CONCLUSIONS 679
REFERENCES 679
Numerical Simulation In Magnetic Drug Targeting. Magnetic Field Source Optimization. 680
INTRODUCTION 680
THE MATHEMATICAL MODEL 680
NUMERICAL MODEL 681
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 681
CONCLUSIONS 683
REFERENCES 683
Ontology for Modeling Interaction in Ambient Assisted Living Environments 684
INTRODUCTION 684
MATERIALS AND METHODS 684
RESULTS 685
CONCLUSIONS 687
REFERENCES 687
Protein Surface Atom Neighborhood Functional Description 688
INTRODUCTION 688
DEFINITION OF LOCAL SURFACE PARAMETERS 688
SURFACE ATOM NEIGHBORHOOD DESCRIPTION 688
RESULTS 690
CONCLUSIONS 691
REFERENCES 691
Performance evaluation of a grid-based Heart Simulator 692
INTRODUCTION 692
HEART SIMULATOR 692
EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS 694
CONCLUSION 695
REFERENCES 695
A Web-Based Tool for the Automatic Segmentation of Cardiac MRI 696
INTRODUCTION 696
SNAKES METHOD 696
ARCHITECTURE AND SERVICES 697
FUTURE WORK 698
CONCLUSION 698
REFERENCES 699
Improved Modeling of Lane Intensity Profiles on Gel Electrophoresis Images 700
INTRODUCTION 700
PROBLEM STATEMENT 700
PROPOSED METHODOLOGIES 701
EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS 702
DISCUSSION 703
CONCLUSION 703
REFERENCES 703
Affective Learning: Empathetic Embodied Conversational Agents to Modulate Brain Oscillations 704
INTRODUCTION 704
MATERIALS AND METHODS 704
RESULTS 706
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS 706
REFERENCES 707
The Role of Electrically Stimulated Endocytosis in Gene Electrotransfer 708
INTRODUCTION 708
MATERIALS AND METHODS 709
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 709
CONCLUSIONS 710
REFERENCES 711
A Frequency Synchronization Study on the Temporal and Spatial Evolution of Emotional Visual Processing Using Wavelet Entropy and IAPS Picture Collection 712
INTRODUCTION 712
MATERIALS AND METHODS 713
RESULTS 714
DISCUSSION 714
REFERENCES 715
Frontal EEG Asymmetry and Affective States: A Multidimensional Directed Information Approach 716
INTRODUCTION 716
MATERIALS AND METHODS 716
RESULTS 718
DISCUSSION 719
CONCLUSIONS 719
REFERENCES 719
A Game-Like Interface for Training Seniors’ Dynamic Balance and Coordination 720
INTRODUCTION 720
EXERGAMING AND FITNESS 720
GAME ACCESSIBILITY GUIDELINES 721
BALANCE GAME IMPLEMENTATION 721
CONCLUSIONS AND DISCUSSION 723
REFERENCES 723
Incorporating Electroporation-related Conductivity Changes into Models for theCalculation of the Electric Field Distribution in Tissue 724
INTRODUCTION 724
MATERIALS AND METHODS 724
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 725
CONCLUSIONS 727
REFERENCES 727
Automated Estimation of 3D Camera Extrinsic Parameters for the Monitoring of Physical Activity of Elderly Patients 728
INTRODUCTION AND STATE OF THE ART 728
METHOD 729
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 730
FUTURE WORK 730
CONCLUSION 730
REFERENCES 731
Robotic system for training of grasping and reaching 732
INTRODUCTION 732
METHODS 732
RESULTS 734
DISCUSSION 734
CONCLUSION 735
REFERENCES 735
Recognition and Identification of Red Blood Cell Size Using Angular Radial Transform and Neural Networks 736
INTRODUCTION 736
ESTIMATION OF RBC SIZE 737
EXPERIMENTS – IMAGE DATABASE 738
CONCLUSIONS 739
REFERENCES 739
Collagen Gel as Cell Extracellular Environment to Study Gene Electrotransfer 740
INTRODUCTION 740
MATERIALS AND METHODS 740
RESULTS 741
DISCUSSION 742
CONCLUSION 742
REFERENCES 743
The Influence of Seat Pan and Trunk Inclination on Muscles Activity during Sitting on Forward Inclined Seats 744
INTRODUCTION 744
METHODS 744
RESULTS AND ANALYSIS 745
DISCUSSION 747
REFERENCES 747
Radiation Exposure in Routine Practice with PET/CT and Automatic Infusion System – Practical experience report 748
INTRODUCTION 748
MATERIALS AND METHODS 748
RESULTS 749
CONCLUSIONS 750
REFERENCES 750
A Pilot Study for Development of Shoulder Proprioception Training System Using Virtual Reality for Patients with Stroke: The Effect of Manipulated Visual Feedback 751
INTRODUCTION 751
METHOD 752
RESULTS 752
DISSCUSION AND CONCLUSIONS 752
REFERENCES 752
Computer Modeling to Study the Dynamic Response of the Temperature Control Loop in RF Cardiac Ablation 754
INTRODUCTION 754
METODS 754
RESULTS 756
CONCLUSIONS 757
REFERENCES 757
Mechanical Properties of Long Bone Shaft in Bending 758
INTRODUCTION 758
MATERIALS AND METHOD 758
RESULTS 760
DISCUSSION 760
CONCLUSIONS 760
REFERENCES 761
Active Behavior of Peripheral Nerves during Magnetic Stimulation 762
INTRODUCTION 762
THEORETICAL BACKGROUND 762
RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS 764
CONCLUSIONS 765
REFERENCES 765
Preparations’ methodology for the introduction of Information Systems in Hospitals 766
INTRODUCTION 766
A BRIEF LITERATURE REVIEW 767
METHODOLOGICAL STRATEGY AND PROPOSED PREPARATION STEPS 767
THE IMPACT OF MISSING THE PREPARATION 768
CONCLUSIONS 769
REFERENCES 769
Supervised and Unsupervised Finger Vein Segmentation in Infrared Images Using KNN and NNCA Clustering Algorithms 770
INTRODUCTION 770
ALGORITHM OVERVIEW 771
EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS 773
CONCLUSIONS 773
REFERENCES 773
An Echocardiographic Study for Assessment the Indices of Arterial and Ventricular Stiffness 774
INTRODUCTION 774
MATERIAL AND METHODS 774
RESULTS 776
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS 777
REFERENCES 777
Estimation of linear parametric distortions and motions in the frequency domain 778
INTRODUCTION 778
THEORETICAL BACKGROUND 778
THE PROPOSED METHODOLOGY 779
CONCLUSION 781
REFERENCES 781
Ex Vivo and In Vivo Regulation of Arginase in Response to Wall Shear Stress 782
INTRODUCTION 782
MATERIAL AND METHODS 782
RESULTS 783
DISCUSSION 783
CONCLUSIONS 784
REFERENCES 784
Process choreography for Interaction simulation in Ambient Assisted Living environments 786
INTRODUCTION 786
MATERIALS AND METHODS 787
RESULTS 788
CONCLUSION 788
REFERENCES 789
Measuring Device for Determination of Forearm Force 790
INTRODUCTION 790
DESIGN OF MEASURING DEVICE 790
RESULTS 792
CONCLUSION 792
REFERENCES 792
Subclavian Steal Syndrome – A Computer Model Approach 793
INTRODUCTION 793
MATERIALS AND METHODS 793
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 795
CONCLUSIONS 796
REFERENCES 796
Mullins effect in human aorta described with limiting extensibility evolution 797
INTRODUCTION 797
METHODS 798
MODEL 799
RESULTS 799
CONCLUSIONS 800
REFERENCES 800
A distribution of collagen fiber orientations in aortic histological section 801
INTRODUCTION 801
METHODS 802
RLS ALGHORITHM 802
RESULTS 802
CONCLUSIONS 804
REFERENCES 804
An Innovative Approach for Right Ventricular Volume Calculation during Right Catheterization 805
INTRODUCTION 805
ARCHITECTURE 805
METHODOLOGY 806
DISCUSSION 807
REFERENCES 808
Service composition to support ambient assisted living solutions for the elderly 809
INTRODUCTION 809
THE ELDERLY NEEDS 809
THE CURRENT SOLUTIONS 809
THE DEVICE LIMITATIONS 810
THE PROPOSED SOLUTION 811
CONCLUSIONS 812
REFERENCES 812
Oscillations in subthalamic nucleus measured by multi electrode arrays 813
INTRODUCTION 813
METHODS 814
RESULTS 816
DISCUSSION 816
REFERENCES 816
Suitable polymer pipe to modelling the coronary veins 817
INTRODUCTION 817
METHODS 817
CONCLUSIONS 820
REFERENCES 820
Satisfaction Survey of Greek Inpatients with Brain Cancer 821
INTRODUCTION 821
MATERIALS AND METHODS 821
RESULTS 822
DISCUSSION 823
CONCLUSION 824
REFERENCES 824
End stage renal disease patients’ projections using Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulation 825
INTRODUCTION 825
METHODS 825
RESULTS 827
DISCUSSION 828
REFERENCES 828
Influence of Bioimplant Surface Electrical Potential on Osteoblast Behavior and Bone Tissue Formation 829
INTRODUCTION 829
METHODS AND MATERIALS 829
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 830
CONCLUSIONS 831
REFERENCES 832
Nano-Sized Drug Carrier for Cancer Therapy: Dose-Toxicity Relationship of PEG PCL-PEG Polymeric Micelle on ICR Mice 833
INTRODUCTION 833
MATERIALS AND METHODS 833
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 834
CONCLUSIONS 835
REFERENCES 836
“Internet of Things”, an RFID – IPv6 Scenario in a Healthcare Environment 837
INTRODUCTION 837
RELATED WORKS 838
RFID-IPV6 NETWORK CONFIGURATION 839
RFID-IPV6 NETWORKING SCENARIO IN HEALTHCARE 840
CONCLUSION 840
REFERENCES 840
Development of software tool for quantitative gait assessment in Parkinsonian patients with and without Mild Cognitive Impairment 841
INTRODUCTION 841
MATERIALS AND METHODS 841
RESULTS 842
CONCLUSIONS 843
REFERENCES 843
Tensile Stress Analysis of the Ceramic Head Endoprosthesis with different Micro Shape Deviations of the Contact Areas 844
INTRODUCTION 844
METHODS 844
RESULTS 846
CONCLUSIONS 847
REFERENCES 847
Modelling of Cancer Dynamics and Comparison of Methods for Survival Time Estimation 848
INTRODUCTION 848
MATERIALS AND METHODS 848
RESULTS 850
DISCUSSION 851
CONCLUSION 851
REFERENCES 851
Implications of Data Quality Problems within Hospital Administrative Databases 852
INTRODUCTION 852
EXAMPLES AND IMPLICATIONS OF DATA QUALITY PROBLEMS IN HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATIVE DATA 853
CONCLUSIONS 855
REFERENCES 855
Can the EEG Indicate the FiO2 Flow of a Mechanical Ventilator in ICU Patients with Respiratory Failure? 856
INTRODUCTION 856
MATERIALS AND METHODS 857
RESULTS 858
CONCLUSIONS AND DISCUSSION 859
REFERENCES 859
A European Biomedical Engineering Postgraduate Program – From Evaluation to Continuous Improvement 860
INTRODUCTION 860
APPROACH 861
RESULTS 862
CONCLUSIONS 863
REFERENCES 863
Web Based Medical Applications and Telemedicine 26
SOAP/WSDL-Based Web Services for Biomedicine: Demonstrating the Technique with the CancerResource 864
WEB SERVICES IN BIOMEDICINE 864
TECHNOLOGY 865
USE CASE: CANCERRESOURCE 865
CONCLUSION 867
REFERENCES 867
A Web-Based Application for the Evaluation of the Healthcare Management 868
INTRODUCTION 868
DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT 868
THE PROGRAM STRUCTURE 869
IMPLEMENTATION 870
FUNCTIONING AND IT SECURITY ISSUES 871
CONCLUSIONS 871
REFERENCES 871
A System for Acquiring, Transmitting and Distributed EEG Data Processing 872
INTRODUCTION 872
SYSTEM DESCRIPTION 872
INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS (ICA) FOR EEG DATA 873
THE EXPERIMENT DATA COLLECTION PROCEDURE 874
CONCLUSIONS 875
REFERENCES 875
The Umbrella Database on Fever and Neutropenia in Children – Prototype for Internet-Based Medical Data Management 876
INTRODUCTION 876
MATERIALS AND METHODS 877
RESULTS 878
DISCUSSION 879
CONCLUSIONS 879
REFERENCES 879
A research information system (RIS) for breast cancer genetics 880
INTRODUCTION 880
SYSTEM DESCRIPTION 880
CONCLUSION 883
REFERENCES 883
WeCare: Wireless Enhanced Healthcare 884
INTRODUCTION 884
WECARE SYSTEM DESIGN 884
WECARE ARCHITECTURE 885
WECARE SYSTEM COMPONENTS 885
CONCLUSIONS 887
REFERENCES 887
The Functionality Control of Horizontal Agitators for Blood Bags 888
INTRODUCTION 888
METHODS 889
TESTS AND RESULTS 890
CONCLUSIONS 891
REFERENCES 891
Experimental Hardware Solutions of Biotelemetric System 892
EMBEDDED DEVICES 892
TABLET 892
„DONGLE PARSER“ 893
PURPOSE-BUILT ECG 893
GETTING DATA FROM THE DEVICE 894
CONCLUSIONS 895
REFERENCES 895
Modern Tools for Design and Implementation of Mobile Biomedical System for Home Care Agencies 896
INTRODUCTION 896
ANALYSIS AND PROPOSAL OF THE SYSTEM 896
TESTING OF DEVELOPED SYSTEM 898
CONCLUSIONS 899
REFERENCES 899
Application of Embedded System for Sightless with Diabetes 900
INTRODUCTION 900
MATERIALS AND METHODS 900
RESULTS 902
CONCLUSIONS 902
REFERENCES 903
TELEMON – An Embedded Wireless Monitoring and Alert System for Homecare 904
INTRODUCTION 904
MATERIALS AND METHODS 904
RESULTS 906
CONCLUSIONS 907
REFERENCES 907
Graphical Development System Design for Creating the FPGA-based Applications in Biomedicine 908
INTRODUCTION 908
FRAMEWORK AS IDE TOOL 908
FLEXIBLE GRAPHICAL DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM DESIGN 909
NETLIST COMPILER DESIGN 909
CONCLUSIONS 910
REFERENCES 910
Low Cost Data Acquisition System for Biomedical Usage 912
INTRODUCTION 912
CONCEPT OF DATA AQUISITION DEVICE 912
DATA CONVERSION PART OF DEVICE 912
POWER SUPPLY AND GALVANIC SEPARATION 913
CONTROL PART OF DEVICE 913
COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL 913
CONCLUSIONS 913
REFERENCES 914
Embedded Programmable Invasive Blood Pressure Simulator 915
INTRODUCTION 915
MATERIALS AND METHODS 915
RESULTS 918
CONCLUSIONS 918
REFERENCES 918
e-Health 27
Generating and Transmitting Ambulatory Electronic Medical Prescriptions 919
INTRODUCTION 919
SET-UP 919
TECHNICAL SOLUTION 919
DISCUSSION 921
CONCLUSION 921
REFERENCES 921
Estimating Pre-term Birth Using a Hybrid Pattern Classification System 922
INTRODUCTION 922
METHODOLOGY 923
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 924
CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORK 924
REFERENCES 925
Design and Implementation of a Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) System for Healthcare Applications 926
INTRODUCTION 926
SYSTEM EQUIPMENT 927
DESIGN APPROACH AND RESULTS 928
CONCLUSIONS 929
REFERENCES 929
Reliability Issues in Regional Health Networks 930
INTRODUCTION 930
RELIABILITY IN HEALTH CARE DOMAIN 930
CONCLUSIONS 932
REFERENCES 932
Prevention and Management of Risk Conditions of Elderly People through the Home Environment Monitoring 934
INTRODUCTION 934
METHODS 935
RESULTS 936
CONCLUSIONS 936
REFERENCES 937
Multilevel Access Control in Hospital Information Systems 938
INTRODUCTION 938
RELATED WORK 938
THE DESCRIPTION OF THE MEDICAL ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEM 939
CONCLUSION 941
REFERENCES 941
Managing Urinary Incontinence through Hand-held Real-time Decision Support Aid 942
INTRODUCTION 942
MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE MODELING 943
e-URIN ARCHITECTURE 944
IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES 945
PRELIMINARY EVALUATION RESULTS 947
CONCLUSIONS AND RELATED WORK 947
REFERENCES 948
Renal Telemedicine and Telehealth – Where Do We Stand? 949
INTRODUCTION 949
CURRENT STATE OF THE ART 950
PROBLEMS AND REQUIREMENTS CURRENTLY UNMET 950
PROGRESS BEYOND THE STATE OF THE ART 951
REFERENCES 952
A System for Monitoring Children with Suspected Cardiac Arrhythmias – Technical Optimizations and Evaluation 953
INTRODUCTION 953
METHODOLOGY 954
RESULTS 955
CONCLUSIONS 956
REFERENCES 956
Use of Guidelines and Decision Support Systems within EHR Applications in Family Practice – Croatian Experience 957
INTRODUCTION 957
METHODS 957
RESULTS 958
DISCUSSION 959
CONCLUSIONS 960
REFERENCES 960
A New Concept of the Integrated Care Service for Unstable Diabetic Patients 961
INTRODUCTION 961
MODEL CENTER FOR DIABETES TREATMENT 961
CONCLUSIONS 962
REFERENCES 962
SHARE: A Meeting Point for the Promotion of Interoperability and Best Practices in eHealth Sector 964
INTRODUCTION 964
METHODS 964
RESULTS 965
CONCLUSIONS 966
REFERENCES 967
Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology in e-Health - a sample application 968
INTRODUCTION 968
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF LTE 968
SAMPLE APPLICATION 969
CONCLUSIONS 971
REFERENCES 971
BME Education 28
EMITEL e-Encyclopaedia of Medical Physics – Project Development and Future 972
INTRODUCTION 972
EMITEL PROJECT INITIAL PARTNERS AND PHASES 972
EMITEL ENCYCLOPAEDIA AND DICTIONARY 972
EMITEL FUTURE DEVELOPMENT 973
ACKNOWLEDGMENT 973
REFERENCES 973
BME Education Program Following the Expectations from the Industry, Health Care and Science 974
INTRODUCTION 974
ORGANIZATION OF THE TEACHING PROGRAM 974
RESULTS OF PROPOSED TEACHING APPROACH 976
CONCLUSIONS 977
REFERENCES 977
Quality Assurance in Biomedical Engineering COOP-Educational Training Program: Planning, Implementation and Analysis 978
INTRODUCTION 978
NCAAA FRAMEWORK 979
METHODE 979
RESULTS 980
DISCUSSION 980
CONCLUSION 981
REFERENCES 981
Accreditation of Medical Physics and Medical Engineering Programmes in the UK 982
INTRODUCTION 982
INTERNAL UNIVERSITY ACCREDITATION 982
EXTERNAL (IPEM) ACCREDITATION 982
CONCLUSION 983
REFERENCES 983
Tools based eLearning Platform to Support the Development and Repurposing of Educational Material 984
INTRODUCTION 984
RELATED WORKS 984
ELEARNING PLATFORM ARCHITECTURE 985
TOOLS 986
CASE STUDY: CREATE MEDICAL TEACHING RESOURCE 987
REFERENCES 987
A FEASIBLE TEACHING TOOL FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT 988
INTRODUCTION 988
METHODOLOGY 988
EXAMPLES 990
CONCLUSIONS 991
REFERENCES 991
Repurposing Serious Games in Health Care Education 992
INTRODUCTION 992
THE FRAMEWORK 992
THE REPURPOSING CONTEXTS 993
THE CASE STUDIES 993
CONCLUSIONS 995
REFERENCES 995
Geotagged Repurposed Educational Content through mEducator Social Network Enhances Biomedical Engineering Education 996
INTRODUCTION 996
SETTING THE SCENE 996
CONTENT REPURPOSING IN MEDUCATOR SOCIAL NETWORK 998
MAP AS A REPRESENTATION TOOL FOR REPURPOSED EDUCATIONAL OBJECTS AND CURRICULUM DIFFERENCIAL INDICATOR 998
CONCLUSIONS 999
REFERENCES 999
MORMED: Towards a multilingual social networking platform facilitating Medicine 2.0 1000
INTRODUCTION 1000
WEB 2.0 INHEALTH 1000
THE MORMED SOLUTION 1001
CONCLUSIONS 1003
REFERENCES 1003
Design and Development of a Pilot on Line Electronic OSCE Station for Use in Medical Education 1004
INTRODUCTION 1004
RESULTS 1006
CONCLUSIONS 1006
REFERENCES 1007
Review of the Biomedical Engineering Education Programs in Europe within the Framework of TEMPUS IV, CRH-BME Project 1008
INTRODUCTION 1008
MATERIALS AND METHODS 1009
RESULTS 1011
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS 1011
REFERENCES 1011
Virtual Experiments: May VCV Impede Circulation More than PCV in (Virtual) Patients in the Lateral Position? 1012
INTRODUCTION 1012
METHODS 1013
RESULTS 1013
DISCUSSION 1014
CONCLUSIONS 1015
REFERENCES 1015
Clinical Engineering 29
Human Factors Engineering Applied to Risk Management in the Use of Medical Equipment 1016
METHODS 1017
RESULTS 1018
DISCUSSION 1019
CONCLUSIONS 1019
REFERENCES 1019
Electromagnetic Interferences (EMI) from Active RFId on Critical Care Equipment 1020
INTRODUCTION 1020
MATHRIALS AND METHODS 1020
RESULTS 1022
CONCLUSIONS 1022
REFERENCES 1022
The Clinical Data Recorder: What Shall Be Monitored? 1024
INTRODUCTION 1024
MATERIALS AND METHODS 1024
RESULTS 1025
DISCUSSION 1025
CONCLUSIONS 1026
REFERENCES 1026
Clinical Engineering and Patient Safety: a forty year cycle 1028
INTRODUCTION 1028
PATIENT SAFETY THEN AND NOW 1029
CONCLUSION 1031
REFERENCES 1031
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in the Treatment of Novel Influenza Virus Infection: A Multicentric Hospital-Based Health Technology Assessment in Lombardy Region 1032
INTRODUCTION 1032
MATERIALS AND METHODS 1032
CONCLUSIONS 1035
REFERENCES 1035
MRI-induced heating on patients with Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators and Pacemaker: Role of Lead Structure 1036
INTRODUCTION 1036
MATERIALS AND METHODS 1036
RESULTS 1037
CONCLUSIONS 1039
REFERENCES 1039
Adoption and Sophistication of Clinical Information Systems in Greek Public Hospitals: Results from a National Web-based Survey 1040
INTRODUCTION 1040
METHODS 1041
RESULTS 1041
CONCLUSIONS 1043
REFERENCES 1043
Risk Management Process and CE Marking of Software as MD 1046
INTRODUCTION 1046
THE METHOD 1046
CONCLUSIONS 1049
REFERENCES 1049
From Laparoscopic Surgery to 3-D Double Console Robot-Assisted Surgery 1050
INTRODUCTION 1050
LAPAROSCOPIC TECHNOLOGY IN SURGERY 1051
ROBOT-ASSISTED SURGERY 1051
THE INSTALLATION OF DA VINCI ROBOT IN SAN MATTEO POLYCLINIC HOSPITAL IN PAVIA 1052
CONCLUSIONS 1053
REFERENCES 1053
Clinical Engineering and Clinical Dosimetry in Patients with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer Undergoing Thyroid Remnant Ablation with Radioiodine-131 1054
INTRODUCTION 1054
MATERIALS AND METHODS 1055
RESULTS 1056
DISCUSSION 1057
CONCLUSIONS 1057
REFERENCES 1057
Author Index 1058

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.5.2010
• Reihe/Serie: IFMBE Proceedings
• Reihe/Serie: IFMBE Proceedings
• Zusatzinfo: 1000 p. 943 illus.
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Maschinenbau
• Schlagworte: Bioinstrumentation and Medical Imaging • Biomaterial • Biomechanics • Biomechanics and Biomaterials • biomedical engineering • Clinical and Rehabilitation Engineering • Clinical Engineering • Imaging • Medical Devices • Medical Informatics • Medical radiation physics
• ISBN-10: 3-642-13039-9 / 3642130399
• ISBN-13: 978-3-642-13039-7 / 9783642130397