Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXVIII

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2. Bioinformatics for Healthcare and Diseases

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Complexity of Some Pattern Problems in the Logical Analysis of Large Genomic Data Sets

      • Giuseppe Lancia, Paolo Serafini

      Pages 3-12

   3. Development of a Handheld Side-Stream Breath Analyser for Point of Care Metabolic Rate Measurement

      • T. A. Vincent, A. Wilson, J. G. Hattersley, M. J. Chappell, J. W. Gardner

      Pages 13-21

   4. Confluence of Genes Related to the Combined Etiology DOISm (Diabetes, Obesity, Inflammation and Metabolic Syndrome) in Dissecting Nutritional Phenotypes

      • Ana Paula Moreira Bezerra, Samara Cardoso Silva-Santiago, José Francisco Diogo Da Silva Jr., Emanuel Diego S. Penha, Monalisa M. Silveira, Myrna S. Ramos et al.

      Pages 22-37

   5. Studying the Herd Immunity Effect of the Varicella Vaccine in the Community of Valencia, Spain

      • A. Díez-Gandía, R. -J. Villanueva, J. -A. Moraño, L. Acedo, J. Mollar, J. Díez-Domingo

      Pages 38-46

   6. Angel: Towards a Multi-level Method for the Analysis of Variants in Individual Genomes

      • Ginés Almagro-Hernández, Francisco García-Sánchez, María Eugenia de la Morena-Barrio, Javier Corral, Jesualdo Tomás Fernández-Breis

      Pages 47-58

   7. Transcriptome-Based Identification of a Seed Olive Legumin (11S Globulin). Characterization of Subunits, 3D Modelling and Molecular Assessment of Allergenicity

      • Adoración Zafra, José Carlos Jimenez-Lopez, Rosario Carmona, Gonzalo Claros, Juan de Dios Alché

      Pages 59-70

   8. A Feature Selection Scheme for Accurate Identification of Alzheimer’s Disease

      • Hao Shen, Wen Zhang, Peng Chen, Jun Zhang, Aiqin Fang, Bing Wang

      Pages 71-81

   9. HYDROWEB, an Online Tool for the Calculation of Hydrodynamic Properties of Macromolecules

      • Horacio Pérez-Sánchez, Jorge Peña-García, Helena den-Haan, Ricardo Rodríguez-Schmidt, José P. Cerón-Carrasco, Adriano N. Raposo et al.

      Pages 82-90

   10. The Use of the Miyazawa-Jernigan Residue Contact Potential in Analyses of Molecular Interaction and Recognition with Complementary Peptides

       • Nikola Štambuk, Paško Konjevoda, Zoran Manojlović, Renata Novak Kujundžić

       Pages 91-102

   11. Comparative Analysis of microRNA-Target Gene Interaction Prediction Algorithms - The Attempt to Compare the Results of Three Algorithms

       • Anna Krawczyk, Joanna Polańska

       Pages 103-112

   12. A Novel Divisive iK-Means Algorithm with Region-Driven Feature Selection as a Tool for Automated Detection of Tumour Heterogeneity in MALDI IMS Experiments

       • Grzegorz Mrukwa, Grzegorz Drazek, Monika Pietrowska, Piotr Widlak, Joanna Polanska

       Pages 113-124

   13. Multigene P-value Integration Based on SNPs Investigation for Seeking Radiosensitivity Signatures

       • Joanna Zyla, Christophe Badie, Ghazi Alsbeih, Joanna Polanska

       Pages 125-134

   14. Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition Regulatory Network-Based Feature Selection in Lung Cancer Prognosis Prediction

       • Borong Shao, Tim Conrad

       Pages 135-146

3. Biomedical Image Analysis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147

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   2. Tracking a Real Liver Using a Virtual Liver and an Experimental Evaluation with Kinect v2

      • Hiroshi Noborio, Kaoru Watanabe, Masahiro Yagi, Yasuhiro Ida, Shigeki Nankaku, Katsuhiko Onishi et al.

      Pages 149-162

   3. Thermal Imaging-Based Muscular Activity in the Biomechanical Study of Surgeons

      • Ramon Sancibrian, Maria C. Gutierrez-Diez, Carlos Redondo-Figuero, Esther G. Sarabia, Maria A. Benito-Gonzalez, Jose C. Manuel-Palazuelos

      Pages 163-174

   4. FCM-Based Method for MRI Segmentation of Anatomical Structure

      • Pinti Antonio

      Pages 175-183

   5. An Automated Tensorial Classification Procedure for Left Ventricular Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

      • Santiago Sanz-Estébanez, Javier Royuela-del-Val, Susana  Merino-Caviedes, Ana Revilla-Orodea, Teresa Sevilla, Lucilio  Cordero-Grande et al.

      Pages 184-195

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, IWBBIO 2016, held in Granada, Spain, in April 2016.

The 69 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 286 submissions. The scope of the conference spans the following areas: bioinformatics for healthcare and diseases; biomedical image analysis; biomedical signal analysis; computational systems for modeling biological processes; eHealth; tools for next generation sequencing data analysis; assistive technology for people with neuromotor disorders; fundamentals of biological dynamics and maximization of the information extraction from the experiments in the biological systems; high performance computing in bioinformatics, computational biology and computational chemistry; human behavior monitoring, analysis and understanding; pattern recognition and machine learning in the -omics sciences; and resources for bioinformatics.

• bioinformatics
• biomedical engineering
• biomedicine
• computational biology
• computational genomics
• computational proteomics
• data mining
• e-health
• feature selection
• Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
• healthcare information systems
• health informatics
• high-performance computing
• image processing
• life sciences
• machine learning
• medical informatics
• metabolomics
• metabonomics
• mobile computing

• Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain

  Francisco Ortuño, Ignacio Rojas

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