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13th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering

ICBME 2008, 3-6 December 2008, Singapore

  • Multidisciplinary Studies of Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Biological Sciences and its Application to Solve Medical Problems
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: IFMBE Proceedings (IFMBE, volume 23)

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Table of contents (571 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-LI
  2. Bioinformatics; Biomedical Imaging; Biomedical instrumentation; Biosignal Processing; Digital Medicine; Neural Systems Engineering

    1. New Architecture For NN Based Image Compression For Optimized Power, Area And Speed

      • K. Venkata Ramanaiah, Cyril Prasanna Raj, K. Lal Kishore
      Pages 13-17
    2. Automatic Extraction of Blood Vessels, Bifurcations and End Points in the Retinal Vascular Tree

      • Edoardo Ardizzone, Roberto Pirrone, Orazio Gambino, Francesco Scaturro
      Pages 22-26
    3. Recent Developments in Optimizing Optical Tools for Air Bubble Detection in Medical Devices Used in Fluid Transport

      • S. Ravichandran, R. Shanthini, R. R. Nur Naadhirah, W. Yikai, J. Deviga, M. Prema et al.
      Pages 27-30
    4. General Purpose Adaptive Biosignal Acquisition System Combining FPGA and FPAA

      • Pedro Antonio Mou, Chang Hao Chen, Sio Hang Pun, Peng Un Mak, Mang I. Vai
      Pages 31-34
    5. SQUID Biomagnetometer Systems for Non-invasive Investigation of Spinal Cord Dysfunction

      • Y. Adachi, J. Kawai, M. Miyamoto, G. Uehara, S. Kawabata, M. Tomori et al.
      Pages 39-42
    6. Automatic Sleep Stage Determination by Conditional Probability: Optimized Expert Knowledge-based Multi-Valued Decision Making

      • Bei Wang, Takenao Sugi, Fusae Kawana, Xingyu Wang, Masatoshi Nakamuara
      Pages 47-50
    7. A Study on the Relation between Stability of EEG and Respiration

      • Young-Sear Kim, Se-Kee Kil, Heung-Ho Choi, Young-Bae Park, Tai-Sung Hur, Hong-Ki Min
      Pages 51-54
    8. The Feature-Based Microscopic Image Segmentation for Thyroid Tissue

      • Y. T. Chen, M. W. Lee, C. J. Hou, S. J. Chen, Y. C. Tsai, T. H. Hsu
      Pages 55-59
    9. High Performance EEG Analysis for Brain Interface

      • D. S. Bormane, S. T. Patil, D. T. Ingole, Alka Mahajan
      Pages 69-72

About this book

th On behalf of the organizing committee of the 13 International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, I extend our w- mest welcome to you. This series of conference began in 1983 and is jointly organized by the YLL School of Medicine and Faculty of Engineering of the National University of Singapore and the Biomedical Engineering Society (Singapore). First of all, I want to thank Mr Lim Chuan Poh, Chairman A*STAR who kindly agreed to be our Guest of Honour to give th the Opening Address amidst his busy schedule. I am delighted to report that the 13 ICBME has more than 600 participants from 40 countries. We have received very high quality papers and inevitably we had to turndown some papers. We have invited very prominent speakers and each one is an authority in their field of expertise. I am grateful to each one of them for setting aside their valuable time to participate in this conference. For the first time, the Biomedical Engineering Society (USA) will be sponsoring two symposia, ie “Drug Delivery S- tems” and “Systems Biology and Computational Bioengineering”. I am thankful to Prof Tom Skalak for his leadership in this initiative. I would also like to acknowledge the contribution of Prof Takami Yamaguchi for organizing the NUS-Tohoku’s Global COE workshop within this conference. Thanks also to Prof Fritz Bodem for organizing the symposium, “Space Flight Bioengineering”. This year’s conference proceedings will be published by Springer as an IFMBE Proceedings Series.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Division of Bioengineering & Department of Mechanical Engineering Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore

    Chwee Teck Lim

  • Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, YLL School of Medicine & Division of Bioengineering, Faculty of Engineering & NUS Tissue Engineering Program, Life Sciences Institute, Singapore

    James C. H. Goh

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: 13th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering

  • Book Subtitle: ICBME 2008, 3-6 December 2008, Singapore

  • Editors: Chwee Teck Lim, James C. H. Goh

  • Series Title: IFMBE Proceedings

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92841-6

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-92840-9Published: 11 February 2009

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-92841-6Published: 15 March 2009

  • Series ISSN: 1680-0737

  • Series E-ISSN: 1433-9277

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: CLIII, 2303

  • Topics: Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering

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Softcover Book USD 329.99
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