Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies

1. Front Matter

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2. Invited Papers

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Using the Web and ICT to Enable Persons with Disabilities

      • Albert M. Cook

      Pages 3-18

   3. Hybrid Brains – Biology, Technology Merger

      • Kevin Warwick

      Pages 19-34

   4. From the Bench to the Bedside: The Role of Semantic Web and Translational Medicine for Enabling the Next Generation Healthcare Enterprise

      • Vipul Kashyap

      Pages 35-56

3. Part I: BIODEVICES

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57

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   2. Active Annuloplasty System for Mitral Valve Insufficiency

      • Andrés Díaz Lantada, Pilar Lafont, Ignacio Rada, Antonio Jiménez, José Luis Hernández, Héctor Lorenzo-Yustos et al.

      Pages 59-72

   3. Towards a Probabilistic Manipulator Robot’s Workspace Governed by a BCI

      • Fernando A. Auat Cheeín, Fernando di Sciascio, Teodiano Freire Bastos Filho, Ricardo Carelli

      Pages 73-84

   4. New Soft Tissue Implants Using Organic Elastomers

      • David N. Ku

      Pages 85-95

   5. Computer Aids for Visual Neuroprosthetic Devices

      • Samuel Romero, Christian Morillas, Juan Pedro Cobos, Francisco Pelayo, Alberto Prieto, Eduardo Fernández

      Pages 96-108

   6. Tissue-Viability Monitoring Using an Oxygen-Tension Sensor

      • Dafina Tanase, Niels Komen, Arie Draaijer, Gert-Jan Kleinrensink, Johannes Jeekel, Johan F. Lange et al.

      Pages 109-122

   7. Towards a Morse Code-Based Non-invasive Thought-to-Speech Converter

      • Nicoletta Nicolaou, Julius Georgiou

      Pages 123-135

   8. Neurophysiologic and Cardiac Signals Simulator Based on Microconverter

      • Maurício C. Tavares, Carlos M. Richter, Tiago R. Oliveira, Raimes Moraes

      Pages 136-147

   9. Multipolar Electrode and Preamplifier Design for ENG-Signal Acquisition

      • Fabien Soulier, Lionel Gouyet, Guy Cathébras, Serge Bernard, David Guiraud, Yves Bertrand

      Pages 148-159

4. Part II: BIOSIGNALS

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-161

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   2. On a Chirplet Transform Based Method for Co-channel Voice Separation

      • B. Dugnol, C. Fernández, G. Galiano, J. Velasco

      Pages 163-175

   3. Extraction of Capillary Non-perfusion from Fundus Fluorescein Angiogram

      • Jayanthi Sivaswamy, Amit Agarwal, Mayank Chawla, Alka Rani, Taraprasad Das

      Pages 176-188

   4. Content-Based Retrieval of Medical Images with Elongated Structures

      • Alexei Manso Correa Machado, Christiano Augusto Caldas Teixeira

      Pages 189-201

   5. Cardiovascular Response Identification Based on Nonlinear Support Vector Regression

      • Lu Wang, Steven W. Su, Gregory S. H. Chan, Branko G. Celler, Teddy M. Cheng, Andrey V. Savkin

      Pages 202-213

   6. Vessel Cross-Sectional Diameter Measurement on Color Retinal Image

      • Alauddin Bhuiyan, Baikunth Nath, Joey Chua, Ramamohanarao Kotagiri

      Pages 214-227

This book contains the best papers of the First International Joint Conference on B- medical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2008), organized by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information Control and Communication (INSTICC), technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Bi- ogy Society (EMB), ACM SIGART and the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC), in cooperation with AAAI. The purpose of the International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering S- tems and Technologies is to bring together researchers and practitioners, including engineers, biologists, health professionals and informatics/computer scientists, int- ested in both theoretical advances and applications of information systems, artificial intelligence, signal processing, electronics and other engineering tools in knowledge areas related to biology and medicine. BIOSTEC is composed of three co-located conferences; each specializes in one of the aforementioned main knowledge areas, namely: • BIODEVICES (International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and - vices) focuses on aspects related to electronics and mechanical engineering, - pecially equipment and materials inspired from biological systems and/or - dressing biological requirements. Monitoring devices, instrumentation sensors and systems, biorobotics, micro-nanotechnologies and biomaterials are some of the technologies addressed at this conference.

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• Semantic Web
• artificial intelligence
• biology
• electronics
• emotion recognition
• information systems
• medicine
• modeling
• optimization
• robot
• signal processing
• speech recognition
• verification

• IST - Instituto Superior Técnico, Instituto de Telecomunicaçöes, Lisbon, Portugal

  Ana Fred

• Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal – INSTICC, Departament of Systems and Informatics, Rua do Vale de Chaves - Estefanilha, Setúbal, Portugal

  Joaquim Filipe

• Institute of Telecommunications, Lisboa, Portugal

  Hugo Gamboa

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