Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies: 5th International Joint Conference, BIOSTEC 2012, Vilamoura, Portugal, February 1-4, 2012, Revised Selected Papers

✍ Scribed by Giovanna Sansoni, Franco Docchio (auth.), Joaquim Gabriel, Jan Schier, Sabine Van Huffel, Emmanuel Conchon, Carlos Correia, Ana Fred, Hugo Gamboa (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 422
• Series: Communications in Computer and Information Science 357
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2012, held in Vilamoura, Portugal, in February 2012. The 26 revised full papers presented together with one invited lecture were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 522 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics and are organized in four general topical sections on biomedical electronics and devices; bioinformatics models, methods and algorithms; bio-inspired systems and signal processing; health informatics.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Biomedical 2D and 3D Imaging: State of Art and Future Perspectives....Pages 3-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Dry and Water-Based EEG Electrodes in SSVEP-Based BCI Applications....Pages 23-40
Nitrite Biosensing Using Cytochrome C Nitrite Reductase: Towards a Disposable Strip Electrode....Pages 41-50
A Real-Time and Portable Bionic Eye Simulator....Pages 51-67
Pathogen Detection Using Magnetoelastic Biosentinels....Pages 68-79
Multi-source Harvesting Systems for Electric Energy Generation on Smart Hip Prostheses....Pages 80-96
An Integrated Portable Device for the Hand Functional Assessment in the Clinical Practice....Pages 97-110
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Forests of Latent Tree Models to Decipher Genotype-Phenotype Associations....Pages 113-134
Laser Doppler Flowmeters Prototypes: Monte Carlo Simulations Validation Paired with Measurements....Pages 135-149
Simulation of Prokaryotic Genome Evolution Subjected to Mutational Pressures Associated with DNA Replication....Pages 150-161
Single Tandem Halving by Block Interchange....Pages 162-174
Fast RNA Secondary Structure Prediction Using Fuzzy Stochastic Models....Pages 175-194
A Vaccination Strategy Based on a State Feedback Control Law for Linearizing SEIR Epidemic Models....Pages 195-209
Medical Imaging as a Bone Quality Determinant and Strength Indicator of the Femoral Neck....Pages 210-221
Parallel GPGPU Evaluation of Small Angle X-Ray Scattering Profiles in a Markov Chain Monte Carlo Framework....Pages 222-235
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
Assessment of Gait Symmetry and Gait Normality Using Inertial Sensors: In-Lab and In-Situ Evaluation....Pages 239-254
MRI TV-Rician Denoising....Pages 255-268
Applying ICA in EEG: Choice of the Window Length and of the Decorrelation Method....Pages 269-286
Electrical Impedance Properties of Deep Brain Stimulation Electrodes during Long-Term In-Vivo Stimulation in the Parkinson Model of the Rat....Pages 287-297
Comparison between Thermal and Visible Facial Features on a Verification Approach....Pages 298-308
Front Matter....Pages 309-309
Multiparameter Sleep Monitoring Using a Depth Camera....Pages 311-325
Integration of a Heart Rate Prediction Model into a Personal Health Record to Support the Telerehabilitation Training of Cardiopulmonary Patients....Pages 326-338
Exploiting Cloud-Based Personal Health Information Systems in Practicing Patient Centered Care Model....Pages 339-352
Online Social Networks Flu Trend Tracker: A Novel Sensory Approach to Predict Flu Trends....Pages 353-368
Clustering of Human Sleep Recordings Using a Quantile Representation of Stage Bout Durations....Pages 369-384
Touch and Speech: Multimodal Interaction for Elderly Persons....Pages 385-400
Data Integration Solution for Organ-Specific Studies: An Application for Oral Biology....Pages 401-412
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Health Informatics; Computational Biology/Bioinformatics; Biomedical Engineering; Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery