Biomedical Informatics and Technology

1. Front Matter

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2. Physiological Signals and Nonlinear Dynamics

   1. Quantitative Comparison between Approximate Entropy and Spectral Measures in Evaluating Wakefulness State Using EEG Signals

      • Maen Alaraj, Tadanori Fukami

      Pages 1-9

   2. Bioradiolocation: Methods and Applications

      • Lesya Anishchenko, Maksim Alekhin, Sergey Ivashov, Maxim Ryzhii

      Pages 10-28

   3. Identification of Mental Disorders by Hidden Markov Modeling of Photoplethysmograms

      • Ying Chen, Mayumi Oyama-Higa, Tuan D. Pham

      Pages 29-39

   4. Finger Plethysmograms Analysis of Emotional Labor for the Elderly

      • Yoko Hirohashi, Sang-jae Lee

      Pages 40-52

   5. Development of the System which Carries Out the Self-check of the Mental Condition Using the Nonlinear Analysis of the Plethysmogram

      • Mayumi Oyama-Higa, Tiejun Miao, Shigeki Takada

      Pages 53-66

   6. Modeling of Heartbeat Dynamics with a System of Coupled Nonlinear Oscillators

      • Elena Ryzhii, Maxim Ryzhii

      Pages 67-75

   7. Universal Multi-complexity Measures for Physiological State Quantification in Intelligent Diagnostics and Monitoring Systems

      • Olga Senyukova, Valeriy Gavrishchaka, Mark Koepke

      Pages 76-90

3. Optimization of Biomedical Devices

   1. A Simple and Low Cost Micromixer for Laminar Blood Mixing: Design, Optimization, and Analysis

      • Nhut Tran-Minh, Frank Karlsen, Tao Dong, Hai Le-The

      Pages 91-104

   2. Analytical and Numerical Approaches for Optimization Design of MEMS Based SU-8 Microneedles

      • Nhut Tran-Minh, Hoa Le-Thanh, Frank Karlsen

      Pages 105-114

4. Medical Image Analysis

   1. Attenuation Correction during Image Reconstruction

      • Shahla Ahmadi, Dariush Sardari, Hossein Rajabi, Farshid Babapour, Marzieh Rahmatpour

      Pages 115-126

   2. Development of Software for Data Analysis and Image Reconstruction in Small Animal PET

      • Shahla Ahmadi, Maryam Ghorbani, Dariush Sardari

      Pages 127-137

   3. Liver Segmentation Based on Reaction-Diffusion Evolution and Chan-Vese Model in 4DCT

      • Walita Narkbuakaew, Hiroshi Nagahashi, Kota Aoki, Yoshiki Kubota

      Pages 138-149

   4. Correlation of Diffusion Tensor Imaging Indices with MMSE Score in Alzheimer Patients: A Sub-anatomic Region Based Study on ADNI Database

      • Ravindra B. Patil, Swaminathan Ramakrishnan

      Pages 150-160

   5. Segmentation of Breast Tissues in Infrared Images Using Modified Phase Based Level Sets

      • Suganthi Salem Srinivasan, Ramakrishnan Swaminathan

      Pages 161-174

5. Recognition and Machine Learning in Biology, Medicine, and Health

   1. Selection of Wavelet Transform and Neural Network Parameters for Classification of Breathing Patterns of Bio-radiolocation Signals

      • Maksim Alekhin, Lesya Anishchenko, Alexander Tataraidze, Sergey Ivashov, Lyudmila Korostovtseva, Yurii Sviryaev et al.

      Pages 175-178

   2. Mining Standardized Semantic Interoperable Electronic Healthcare Records

      • Shivani Batra, Shelly Sachdeva, Pulkit Mehndiratta, Hem Jyotsana Parashar

      Pages 179-193

   3. Psychomime Classification Using Similarity Measures and Fuzzy c-Means

      • Yoshiaki Kurosawa, Toshiyuki Takezawa, Tuan D. Pham

      Pages 194-206

   4. Anatomical Object Detection in Fetal Ultrasound: Computer-Expert Agreements

      • Bahbibi Rahmatullah, J. Alison Noble

      Pages 207-218

   5. Towards Nature-Inspired Modularization of Artificial Neural Networks via Static and Dynamic Weights

      • Alfons Schuster, Daniel Berrar

      Pages 219-234

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Biomedical Informatics and Technology, ACBIT 2013, held in Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, in September 2013. The ??? revised full papers presented together with 14 keynotes and invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. The papers address important problems in medicine, biology and health using image analysis, computer vision, pattern analysis and classification, information visualization, signal processing, control theory, information theory, statistical analysis, information fusion, numerical analysis, fractals and chaos, optimization, simulation and modeling, parallel computing, computational intelligence methods, machine learning, data mining, decision support systems, database integration and management, cognitive modeling, and applied linguistics.

• EEG Signals
• health informatics
• image processing
• neural networks
• signal processing

• Aizu Research Cluster for Medical Engineering and Informatics Research Center for Advanced Information Science and Technology, The University of Aizu, Aizuwakamatsu, Japan

  Tuan D. Pham

• Department of Cancer Biology, Division of Mathematical Oncology, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

  Kazuhisha Ichikawa

• Chaos Technology Research Lab, Otsu-shi, Japan

  Mayumi Oyama-Higa

• Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, The Free University of Brussels, Laarbeeklaan, Belgium

  Danny Coomans

• Department of Computer Science, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany

  Xiaoyi Jiang

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