BIOSTEC 2008: Funchal, Madeira, Portugal

Invited Papers

• Albert Cook:
  Using the Web and ICT to Enable Persons with Disabilities. 3-18
  
• Kevin Warwick:
  Hybrid Brains - Biology, Technology Merger. 19-34
  
• Vipul Kashyap:
  From the Bench to the Bedside: The Role of Semantic Web and Translational Medicine for Enabling the Next Generation Healthcare Enterprise. 35-56
  

BIODEVICES

• Andrés Díaz Lantada, Pilar Lafont Morgado, Ignacio Rada Martínez, Antonio Jiménez Ramos, José Luis Hernández Riesco, Héctor Lorenzo-Yustos, Julio Muñoz García:
  Active Annuloplasty System for Mitral Valve Insufficiency. 59-72
  
• Fernando Alfredo Auat Cheeín, Fernando di Sciascio, Teodiano Freire Bastos Filho, Ricardo O. Carelli:
  Towards a Probabilistic Manipulator Robot's Workspace Governed by a BCI. 73-84
  
• David N. Ku:
  New Soft Tissue Implants Using Organic Elastomers. 85-95
  
• Samuel F. Romero, Christian A. Morillas, Juan Pedro Cobos, Francisco J. Pelayo, Alberto Prieto, Eduardo Fernández:
  Computer Aids for Visual Neuroprosthetic Devices. 96-108
  
• Dafina Tanase, Niels Komen, Arie Draaijer, Gert-Jan Kleinrensink, Johannes Jeekel, Johan F. Lange, Paddy J. French:
  Tissue-Viability Monitoring Using an Oxygen-Tension Sensor. 109-122
  
• Nicoletta Nicolaou, Julius Georgiou:
  Towards a Morse Code-Based Non-invasive Thought-to-Speech Converter. 123-135
  
• Maurício Campelo Tavares, Carlos Mendes Richter, Tiago Rockembach Oliveira, Raimes Moraes:
  Neurophysiologic and Cardiac Signals Simulator Based on Microconverter. 136-147
  
• Fabien Soulier, Lionel Gouyet, Guy Cathébras, Serge Bernard, David Guiraud, Yves Bertrand:
  Multipolar Electrode and Preamplifier Design for ENG-Signal Acquisition. 148-159
  

BIOSIGNALS

• Benjamín Dugnol Álvarez, Carlos Fernández García, Gonzalo Galiano Casas, Julián Velasco Valdés:
  On a Chirplet Transform Based Method for Co-channel Voice Separation. 163-175
  
• Jayanthi Sivaswamy, Amit Agarwal, Mayank Chawla, Alka Rani, Taraprasad Das:
  Extraction of Capillary Non-perfusion from Fundus Fluorescein Angiogram. 176-188
  
• Alexei Manso Correa Machado, Christiano Augusto Caldas Teixeira:
  Content-Based Retrieval of Medical Images with Elongated Structures. 189-201
  
• Lu Wang, Steven W. Su, Gregory S. H. Chan, Branko G. Celler, Teddy M. Cheng, Andrey V. Savkin:
  Cardiovascular Response Identification Based on Nonlinear Support Vector Regression. 202-213
  
• Alauddin Bhuiyan, Baikunth Nath, Joselíto J. Chua, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao:
  Vessel Cross-Sectional Diameter Measurement on Color Retinal Image. 214-227
  
• Rubén Fraile, Juan Ignacio Godino-Llorente, Nicolás Sáenz-Lechón, Víctor Osma-Ruiz, Pedro Gómez Vilda:
  Automatic Detection of Laryngeal Pathology on Sustained Vowels Using Short-Term Cepstral Parameters: Analysis of Performance and Theoretical Justification. 228-241
  
• Christine Nardini, Lei Wang, Hesen Peng, Luca Benini, Michael D. Kuo:
  MM-Correction: Meta-analysis-Based Multiple Hypotheses Correction in Omic Studies. 242-255
  
• Gael de Lannoy, Arnaud de Decker, Michel Verleysen:
  A Supervised Wavelet Transform Algorithm for R Spike Detection in Noisy ECGs. 256-264
  
• Jonghwa Kim, Elisabeth André:
  Four-Channel Biosignal Analysis and Feature Extraction for Automatic Emotion Recognition. 265-277
  
• Felipe P. G. Bergo, Alexandre X. Falcão, Clarissa L. Yasuda, Guilherme C. S. Ruppert:
  Fast, Accurate and Precise Mid-Sagittal Plane Location in 3D MR Images of the Brain. 278-290
  
• Paolo Soda:
  Facing Polychotomies through Classification by Decomposition: Applications in the Bio-medical Domain. 291-304
  
• Szu-Chen Stan Jou, Tanja Schultz:
  Automatic Speech Recognition Based on Electromyographic Biosignals. 305-320
  
• Gabriela Pérez, Juan Francisco Garamendi, Raquel Montes Diez, Emanuele Schiavi:
  A Multiphase Approach to MRI Shoulder Images Classification. 321-329
  
• Fedja Hadzic, Tharam S. Dillon:
  Human-Like Rule Optimization for Continuous Domains. 330-343
  
• Santa Di Cataldo, Elisa Ficarra, Enrico Macii:
  Automated Discrimination of Pathological Regions in Tissue Images: Unsupervised Clustering vs. Supervised SVM Classification. 344-356
  
• Nuri F. Ince, Fikri Goksu, Ahmed H. Tewfik:
  ECoG Based Brain Computer Interface with Subset Selection. 357-374
  

HEALTHINF

• Dongsoo Han, Sungjoon Park, Minkyu Lee:
  THE-MUSS: Mobile U-Health Service System. 377-389
  
• Manuel Möller, Michael Sintek, Paul Buitelaar, Saikat Mukherjee, Xiang Sean Zhou, Joerg Freund:
  Scalable Medical Image Understanding by Fusing Cross-Modal Object Recognition with Formal Domain Semantics. 390-401
  
• Rune Fensli, Egil Boisen:
  Human Factors Affecting the Patient's Acceptance of Wireless Biomedical Sensors. 402-412
  
• Herbjørn Andresen:
  The Policy Debate on Pseudonymous Health Registers in Norway. 413-424
  
• R. S. Mans, Helen Schonenberg, Minseok Song, Wil M. P. van der Aalst, Piet J. M. Bakker:
  Application of Process Mining in Healthcare - A Case Study in a Dutch Hospital. 425-438
  
• Jaime S. Cardoso, Ricardo Sousa, Luís Filipe Teixeira, Maria J. Cardoso:
  Breast Contour Detection with Stable Paths. 439-452
  
• Mark Hoogendoorn, Michel C. A. Klein, Zulfiqar A. Memon, Jan Treur:
  Formal Verification of an Agent-Based Support System for Medicine Intake. 453-466
  
• Peter Schartner, Martin Schaffer:
  Efficient Privacy-Enhancing Techniques for Medical Databases. 467-478
  
• André Zúquete, Helder Gomes, João Paulo da Silva Cunha:
  Authentication Architecture for Region-Wide e-Health System with Smartcards and a PKI. 479-492
  
• Sai T. Moturu, Huan Liu, William G. Johnson:
  Understanding the Effects of Sampling on Healthcare Risk Modeling for the Prediction of Future High-Cost Patients. 493-506
  
• Fernando Ruiz-Rico, José Luis Vicedo González, María-Consuelo Rubio-Sánchez:
  MEDLINE Abstracts Classification Based on Noun Phrases Extraction. 507-519
  
• Ravi D. Shankar, Susana B. Martins, Martin J. O'Connor, David B. Parrish, Amar K. Das:
  Representing and Reasoning with Temporal Constraints in Clinical Trials Using Semantic Technologies. 520-530
  
• Luis Enrique Sucar, Gildardo Azcárate, Ron S. Leder, David J. Reinkensmeyer, Jorge Hernández, Israel Sanchez, Pedro Saucedo:
  Gesture Therapy: A Vision-Based System for Arm Rehabilitation after Stroke. 531-540