Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies: 6th International Joint Conference, BIOSTEC 2013, Barcelona, Spain, February 11-14, 2013, Revised Selected Papers

✍ Scribed by Mireya Fernández-Chimeno, Pedro L. Fernandes, Sergio Alvarez, Deborah Stacey, Jordi Solé-Casals, Ana Fred, Hugo Gamboa (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 442
• Series: Communications in Computer and Information Science 452
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2013, held in Barcelona, Spain, in February 2013. The 28 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 392 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 I-XXI
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
A 2nd Order CMOS Sigma-Delta Modulator Design Suitable for Low-Power Biosensor Applications....Pages 3-12
Monitoring Drivers’ Ventilation Using an Electrical Bioimpedance System: Tests in a Controlled Environment....Pages 13-25
Opened-Ring Electrode Array for Enhanced Non-invasive Monitoring of Bioelectrical Signals: Application to Surface EEnG Recording....Pages 26-40
Development and Application of a Portable Device for Cutaneous Thermal Sensitivity Assessment: Characterizing the Neuropathic Pain Following Spinal Cord Injury....Pages 41-53
Pine Decay Assessment by Means of Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy....Pages 54-73
Gold Standard Generation Using Electrooculogram Signal for Drowsiness Detection in Simulator Conditions....Pages 74-88
Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma for Endodontic Treatment....Pages 89-97
Characterization of an Acoustic Based Device for Local Arterial Stiffness Assessment....Pages 98-114
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Texture Classification of Proteins Using Support Vector Machines and Bio-inspired Metaheuristics....Pages 117-130
Formal Analysis of Gene Networks Using Network Motifs....Pages 131-146
Word Match Counts Between Markovian Biological Sequences....Pages 147-161
Systematic Analysis of Homologous Tandem Repeat Family in the Human Genome....Pages 162-175
A Preliminary Analysis on HEp-2 Pattern Classification: Evaluating Strategies Based on Support Vector Machines and Subclass Discriminant Analysis....Pages 176-190
Predicting Protein Localization Using a Domain Adaptation Approach....Pages 191-206
Optimization of Cost Sensitive Models to Improve Prediction of Molecular Functions....Pages 207-222
Front Matter....Pages 223-223
Dynamic Changes of Nasal Airflow Resistance During Provocation with Birch Pollen Allergen....Pages 225-239
Identification of Athletes During Walking and Jogging Based on Gait and Electrocardiographic Patterns....Pages 240-257
Statistical Modeling of Atrioventricular Nodal Function During Atrial Fibrillation Focusing on the Refractory Period Estimation....Pages 258-268
Clinical Test for Validation of a New Optical Probe for Hemodynamic Parameters Assessment....Pages 269-283
Influence of Iris Template Aging on Recognition Reliability....Pages 284-299
Front Matter....Pages 223-223
Application of Electrode Arrays for Artifact Removal in an Electromyographic Silent Speech Interface....Pages 300-312
Stable EEG Features for Biometric Recognition in Resting State Conditions....Pages 313-330
Front Matter....Pages 331-331
TEBRA: Automatic Task Assistance for Persons with Cognitive Disabilities in Brushing Teeth....Pages 333-353
Integration of Smart Home Health Data in the Clinical Decision Making Process....Pages 354-366
Supporting Contextualisation of ABAC Attributes Through a Generic XACML Request Handling Mechanism....Pages 367-377
Modality Preference in Multimodal Interaction for Elderly Persons....Pages 378-393
Centralised Electronic Health Records Research Across Health Organisation Types....Pages 394-406
Improving Partograph Training and Use in Kenya Using the Partopen Digital Pen System....Pages 407-422
Back Matter....Pages 423-424

✦ Subjects

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