Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering

1. Front Matter

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2. Bioinformatics for Healthcare and Diseases

   1. A Segmentation-Free Model for Heart Sound Feature Extraction

      • Hai-Yang Wang, Guang-Pei Li, Bin-Bin Fu, Hao-Dong Yao, Ming-Chui Dong

      Pages 1-7

   2. A Semantic Layer for Unifying and Exploring Biomedical Document Curation Results

      • Pedro Sernadela, Pedro Lopes, David Campos, Sérgio Matos, José Luís Oliveira

      Pages 8-17

   3. Blind and Visually Impaired Students Can Perform Computer-Aided Molecular Design with an Assistive Molecular Fabricator

      • Valère Lounnas, Henry B. Wedler, Timothy Newman, Jon Black, Gert Vriend

      Pages 18-29

   4. Characterization of Pneumonia Incidence Supported by a Business Intelligence System

      • Maribel Yasmina Santos, Vera Leite, António Carvalheira, Artur Teles de Araújo, Jorge Cruz

      Pages 30-41

   5. Are Wildfires and Pneumonia Spatially and Temporally Related?

      • Maribel Yasmina Santos, Vera Leite, António Carvalheira, Artur Teles de Araújo, Jorge Cruz

      Pages 42-53

   6. Health Technology Assessment Models Utilized in the Chronic Care Management

      • Ondřej Gajdoš, Ivana Juřičková, Radka Otawova

      Pages 54-65

   7. Prediction of Human Gene - Phenotype Associations by Exploiting the Hierarchical Structure of the Human Phenotype Ontology

      • Giorgio Valentini, Sebastian Köhler, Matteo Re, Marco Notaro, Peter N. Robinson

      Pages 66-77

   8. Mortality Prediction with Lactate and Lactate Dehydrogenase

      • Yasemin Zeynep Engin, Kemal Turhan, Aslı Yazağan, Asım Örem

      Pages 78-84

   9. Intellectual Property Protection for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

      • Dennis Fernandez, Antonia Maninang, Shumpei Kobayashi, Shashank Bhatia, Carina Kraatz

      Pages 85-95

   10. Lupin Allergy: Uncovering Structural Features and Epitopes of β-conglutin Proteins in Lupinus Angustifolius L. with a Focus on Cross-allergenic Reactivity to Peanut and Other Legumes

       • José C. Jimenez-Lopez, Elena Lima-Cabello, Su Melser, Rhonda C. Foley, Karam B. Singh, Alché Juan D.

       Pages 96-107

3. Biomedical Engineering

   1. Artificial Neural Networks in Acute Coronary Syndrome Screening

      • M. Rosário Martins, Teresa Mendes, José M. Grańeda, Rodrigo Gusmão, Henrique Vicente, José Neves

      Pages 108-119

   2. A Flexible Denormalization Technique for Data Analysis above a Deeply-Structured Relational Database: Biomedical Applications

      • Stanislav Štefanič, Matej Lexa

      Pages 120-133

   3. Multilayer Clustering: Biomarker Driven Segmentation of Alzheimer’s Disease Patient Population

      • Dragan Gamberger, Bernard Ženko, Alexis Mitelpunkt, Nada Lavrač

      Pages 134-145

   4. Entropy Analysis of Atrial Activity Morphology to Study Atrial Fibrillation Recurrences after Ablation Procedure

      • Raquel Cervigón, Javier Moreno, Francisco Castells

      Pages 146-154

   5. Portable Low-Cost Heart Attack Detection System Using ZigBee Wireless Technology

      • Khaled Sayed Ahmed, Shereen M. El-Metwally

      Pages 155-162

   6. Cost-Effectiveness Studies on Medical Devices: Application in Cardiology

      • Radka Otawova, Vojtech Kamensky, Pavla Hasenohrlova, Vladimir Rogalewicz

      Pages 163-174

4. Biomedical Image Analysis

   1. Preliminary Research on Combination of Exponential Wavelet and FISTA for CS-MRI

      • Yudong Zhang, Shuihua Wang, Genlin Ji, Zhengchao Dong, Jie Yan

      Pages 175-182

   2. Accurate Microscopic Red Blood Cell Image Enhancement and Segmentation

      • Syed Hamad Shirazi, Arif Iqbal Umar, Nuhman Ul Haq, Saeeda Naz, Muhammad Imran Razzak

      Pages 183-192

   3. A Hyperanalytic Wavelet Based Denoising Technique for Ultrasound Images

      • Cristina Stolojescu-Crisan

      Pages 193-200

The two volume set LNCS 9043 and 9044 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, IWBBIO 2015, held in Granada, Spain in April 2015. The 134 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 268 submissions. The scope of the conference spans the following areas: bioinformatics for healthcare and diseases, biomedical engineering, biomedical image analysis, biomedical signal analysis, computational genomics, computational proteomics, computational systems for modelling biological processes, eHealth, next generation sequencing and sequence analysis, quantitative and systems pharmacology, Hidden Markov Model (HMM) for biological sequence modeling, advances in computational intelligence for bioinformatics and biomedicine, tools for next generation sequencing data analysis, dynamics networks in system medicine, interdisciplinary puzzles of measurements in biological systems, biological networks, high performance computing in bioinformatics, computational biology and computational chemistry, advances in drug discovery and ambient intelligence for bio emotional computing.

• Bioinformatics
• Biomedical engineering
• Biomedicine
• Computational Biology
• Computational Genomics
• Computational Proteomics
• Health care information systems
• Health informatics
• Healthcare
• Image analysis
• Image processing
• Life and medical sciences
• Machine learning
• Medical technologies
• Metabolomics
• Metabonomics
• Recognition of genes and regulatory elements
• Signal processing
• Systems biology
• e-health

• Dpto. de Arquitectura y Tecnología de Computadores (ATC)., E.T.S. de Ingenierías en Informática y Telecomunicación. CITIC-UGR, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain

  Francisco Ortuño

• E.T.S. Ingenierías Informática y de Telecomunicación , , Dpto. Arquitectura y Tecnología de Computadores, CITIC-UGR, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain

  Ignacio Rojas

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