Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies [electronic resource] : International Joint Conference, BIOSTEC 2008 Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, January 28-31, 2008 Revised Selected Papers / edited by Ana Fred, Joaquim Filipe, Hugo Gamboa.

Invited Papers -- Using the Web and ICT to Enable Persons with Disabilities -- Hybrid Brains Biology, Technology Merger -- From the Bench to the Bedside: The Role of Semantic Web and Translational Medicine for Enabling the Next Generation Healthcare Enterprise -- I: BIODEVICES -- Active Annuloplasty System for Mitral Valve Insufficiency -- Towards a Probabilistic Manipulator Robots Workspace Governed by a BCI -- New Soft Tissue Implants Using Organic Elastomers -- Computer Aids for Visual Neuroprosthetic Devices -- Tissue-Viability Monitoring Using an Oxygen-Tension Sensor -- Towards a Morse Code-Based Non-invasive Thought-to-Speech Converter -- Neurophysiologic and Cardiac Signals Simulator Based on Microconverter -- Multipolar Electrode and Preamplifier Design for ENG-Signal Acquisition -- II: BIOSIGNALS -- On a Chirplet Transform Based Method for Co-channel Voice Separation -- Extraction of Capillary Non-perfusion from Fundus Fluorescein Angiogram -- Content-Based Retrieval of Medical Images with Elongated Structures -- Cardiovascular Response Identification Based on Nonlinear Support Vector Regression -- Vessel Cross-Sectional Diameter Measurement on Color Retinal Image -- Automatic Detection of Laryngeal Pathology on Sustained Vowels Using Short-Term Cepstral Parameters: Analysis of Performance and Theoretical Justification -- MM-Correction: Meta-analysis-Based Multiple Hypotheses Correction in Omic Studies -- A Supervised Wavelet Transform Algorithm for R Spike Detection in Noisy ECGs -- Four-Channel Biosignal Analysis and Feature Extraction for Automatic Emotion Recognition -- Fast, Accurate and Precise Mid-Sagittal Plane Location in 3D MR Images of the Brain -- Facing Polychotomies through Classification by Decomposition: Applications in the Bio-medical Domain -- Automatic Speech Recognition Based on Electromyographic Biosignals -- A Multiphase Approach to MRI Shoulder Images Classification -- Human-Like Rule Optimization for Continuous Domains -- Automated Discrimination of Pathological Regions in Tissue Images: Unsupervised Clustering vs. Supervised SVM Classification -- ECoG Based Brain Computer Interface with Subset Selection -- III: HEALTHINF -- THE-MUSS: Mobile U-Health Service System -- Scalable Medical Image Understanding by Fusing Cross-Modal Object Recognition with Formal Domain Semantics -- Human Factors Affecting the Patients Acceptance of Wireless Biomedical Sensors -- The Policy Debate on Pseudonymous Health Registers in Norway -- Application of Process Mining in Healthcare A Case Study in a Dutch Hospital -- Breast Contour Detection with Stable Paths -- Formal Verification of an Agent-Based Support System for Medicine Intake -- Efficient Privacy-Enhancing Techniques for Medical Databases -- Authentication Architecture for Region-Wide e-Health System with Smartcards and a PKI -- Understanding the Effects of Sampling on Healthcare Risk Modeling for the Prediction of Future High-Cost Patients -- MEDLINE Abstracts Classification Based on Noun Phrases Extraction -- Representing and Reasoning with Temporal Constraints in Clinical Trials Using Semantic Technologies -- Gesture Therapy: A Vision-Based System for Arm Rehabilitation after Stroke.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2008, held in Funchal, Portugal, in January 2008. The 65 revised full papers and 189 revised short papers together with 86 poster presentations presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 494 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on biodevices, biosignals as well as healthinf.

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