3rd Kuala Lumpur International Conference on Biomedical Engineering 2006: Biomed 2006, 11-14 December 2006, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (IFMBE Proceedings (15))

the Kuala Lumpur International Conference On Biomedical Engineering (biomed 2006), Was Held From 11 To 14 December 2006 At The Palace Of The Golden Horses, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This International Conference Was Jointly Organised By The Department Of Biomedical Engineering, University Of Malaya, Malaysia; Department Of Biomedical Engineering, Inje University, Korea; And Malaysian Society Of Medical And Biological Engineering.the Papers Presented At Biomed 2006 Cover The Following Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Biological Effects Of Non-ionising Electromagnetic Fields, Biomaterials, Biomechanics, Biomedical Sensors, Biomedical Signal Analysis, Biotechnology, Clinical Engineering, Human Performance Engineering, Imaging, Medical Informatics, Medical Instruments And Devices, Physiological Modelling, Simulation, And Control, Prostheses And Artificial Organs, Regulations And Organisations, Rehabilitation Engineering, Telemedicine, Tissue Engineering, And Virtual Reality In Medicine. The Conference Program Included Invited Plenary Sessions By Joachim Nagel, The President Of Iupesm; Makoto Kikuchi, The President Of Ifmbe; John G. Webster From The University Of Wisconsin-madison, United States; Metin Akay From Arizona State University, United States; Marc Madou From University Of California, United States; And Yilin Cao From Shanghai’s 9 th People’s Hospital, China.the Conference Also Featured Pre-conference Tutorial Sessions. There Are Four Sessions Altogether, And The Topics Are Bioinstrumentation, By John G. Webster; Mems By Marc Madou; Biomedical Informatics And Neural Engineering By Metin Akay; And Biomedical Image Analysis By Bart Ter Haar Romeny. thanks Are Due To The Members Of The Organizing Committee For Their Support And Assistance In Ensuring A Successful Biomed 2006. Particular Thanks Go To Healthtronics, Without Whose Financial Support The Conference Could Not Have Been Successfully Organized. Contents......Page 8 Preface......Page 7 Dart-to-Heart Distance when Taser® Causes Ventricular Fibrillation in Pigs......Page 18 Advances and Challenges in Neural Engineering: Neurogenesis, Neurocontrol and Neurochips......Page 23 Nanotechnology Impact Towards Innovative Biomedical Engineering......Page 24 3-D Reconstruction of Nasopharyngeal Airways in Malaysian Subjects......Page 25 Fluid Micromixing Technology and Its Applications for Biological and Chemical Processes......Page 33 Implantable and Wearable Bionics......Page 38 Surface Modification of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Scaffolds for Enhanced Osteoconductivity......Page 39 Warping a Neuro-Anatomy Atlas on 3D MRI Data with Radial Basis Functions......Page 45 Ex vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy method for the diagnosis of human stomach cancer......Page 50 A Comparative Analysis of Zernike moments and Principal Component Analysis as Feature extractors for Face Recognition......Page 54 Application of Artificial Neural Network for Estimation of Fetal Weight......Page 59 Classification of Breast Lesions Using Artificial Neural Network......Page 62 Classification of Risk in Dengue Fever and Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever using Rule Based Expert System......Page 67 Comparison of MLP and Elman Neural Network for Blood Glucose Level Prediction in Type 1 Diabetics......Page 71 Electroglottographic Signal Acquisition and Neural Network based classification for pathology......Page 76 Expert System for Non-Invasive Classification of Total Cholesterol Level Using Bioelectrical Impedance......Page 80 Genetic Algorithm for Various Face Emotions Classification......Page 84 Hybrid Method for Digits Recognition using Fixed-Frame Scores and Derived Pitch......Page 89 Multiple neural networks for Human Face Recognition......Page 94 Recognition of Lower Limb Muscle EMG Patterns by using Neural Networks during the Postural Balance Control......Page 99 Biological Effects of EMF in Engineering Teaching Laboratories: A Review......Page 103 Theta Burst Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Can Modify Cortico-Muscular Coherence in Humans......Page 106 Cell Adhesion and Degradation Behaviors of Acetylated Chitosan Films......Page 111 Degradation of Magnesium Alloys in Biological Solutions and Reduced Phenotypic Expression of Endothelial Cell Grown on These Alloys......Page 115 Fabrication of 316L stainless steel parts by Injection Moulding for Biomedical Application using a Novel Binder......Page 119 Hardness Evaluation of Porous Hydroxyapatite Coating......Page 123 Hydroxyapatite Formation on Acrylic Acid-grafted Porous PLLA Scaffolds in Simulated Body Fluid......Page 126 Inhibitive Effect of Antibiotic-Loaded Beads to Cure Chronic Osteomyelitis in Developing Country: Hand-made vs Commercial Beads......Page 130 Nanostructure in Bone Apatite......Page 135 PCL Electrospun Sheet-Embedded Microporous PLGA Membrane For Effective Guided Bone Regeneration......Page 139 Physicochemical Properties and Biological Response of Titanium Surface Modified by Anodic Spark Deposition for Dental Implants......Page 143 Poly (lactic–co–glycolic acid) and hydroxyapatite composite films for cartilage reconstruction......Page 147 Silverfil: Its Physical Characterization......Page 151 Sinterability Of Hydroxyapatite Compacts Prepared By Cold Isostatic Pressing For Clinical Applications......Page 154 Standardization of Distance and Angulation of Light Curing Unit Tip Using Distometer......Page 158 Structural and conductivity studies in Ag-rich AgI-ZnI[sub(2)] solid solutions......Page 161 Synthesis and characterization of nanocrystalline hydroxyapatite powder via sol-gel method......Page 166 The effect of sample preparation and calcination temperature on the production of hydroxyapatite from bovine bone powders......Page 169 Topological Analysis of a Polymer Based Contraceptive Using Atomic Force Microscopy......Page 173 Rolling Ball Contact as a method for Testing Surface Fatigue of Resin Based Restorative Materials......Page 177 A Model of Impact Forces during Landing from a Jumping Smash Activity......Page 180 A New Modification of Adjustable standing Frame for children with Cerebral Palsy......Page 184 A Preliminary Study of Acceptable Load Carriage for Primary School Children......Page 188 A Preliminary Study of EMG Measurements on Biceps Brachii Muscles During Repetitive Task at Automotive Industry......Page 192 Analysis of Stress on Inflation of Balloon Catheter using Finite Element Method......Page 195 Design of an automated Rapid Maxillary Expansion (RME) appliance. A Preliminary Study......Page 199 Effect of Stress Relaxation on Layer Thickness of Articular Cartilage due to Dynamic Loadings......Page 202 Effects of Targets on Reaching Performance and Postural Balance during Standing in Persons with Left Cerebral Vascular Accidents......Page 206 Human Kicking Motion Using Efficient Forward Dynamics Simulation and Optimization......Page 209 Instrumented Shoes for Measuring Ground-Reaction Force of Persons with Stroke in Level Walking, Stair Ascending and Descending......Page 214 Kinematic Analysis of Speech Motor Control in Children with Cerebral Palsy......Page 218 Modeling and Simulation of Sit-to-Stand Exercise......Page 221 Motion Analysis in Dual-task on Patients with Mild Dementias......Page 225 Muscles activity of the Back and Hamstring during Trunk Flexion and Extension Task in Healthy and Low Back Pain Women......Page 228 Music therapy effect of music pillow for sleep – preliminary study......Page 232 Pneumatic Artificial Muscle in Biomedical Applications......Page 236 Prediction of Optimal Pillow Height by Anthropometric Parameters......Page 239 Stress and Strain Analysis of Anterior Cruciate Ligament for Arthroscopy Knee Reconstruction......Page 241 Biomedical Engineering Education and Training In Hong Kong: Recent Developments......Page 245 A quantitative study of post-biopsy radiofrequency cauterization......Page 249 A Study of Nodule Detection Using Opaque Object Filter......Page 253 An Automatic Cell Counting Method for a Microscopic Tissue Image from Breast Cancer......Page 258 Automatic Retrieval of Microscopic Blood Cells Images......Page 262 Boundary Enhancement For Echocardiogram Using Local Image Characteristics And Ratio Of Averages......Page 267 Contrast Enhancement of MRI Images......Page 272 Converting Data from the Lunar DPX-IQ Bone Densitometer for Interoperability......Page 276 Evaluation of Texture Analysis Techniques for Characterization of Multimode-Based Liver Images Using SGLCM and FOS......Page 279 Feature extraction in Medical Ultrasonic Image......Page 284 High Resolution Imaging of TGFβ3 Treated Human Keratinocyte via a Newly Developed Widefield Surface Plasmon Resonance Microscope......Page 288 Microwave Holographic Imaging Technique for Tumour Detection......Page 292 One-dimensional evaluation of a least-square polynomial fitting approach to estimate the pressure domain from velocity data obtained from medical images......Page 295 Quantification of Collagen Orientation in 3D Engineered Tissue......Page 299 Scale Space Texture Classification Using Combined Classifiers with Application to Ultrasound Tissue Characterization......Page 304 Spinal Curvature Determination from an X-Ray Image Using a Deformable Model......Page 308 Thresholding of Medical Images Using Minimum Cross Entropy......Page 313 Ultrasound monitoring of temperature change during interstitial laser thermotherapy of liver: an in vitro study......Page 317 Unsupervised Learning Technique for Skin Images Segmentation Using a Mixture of Beta Distributions......Page 321 A Fiber Optic Immunosensor for Rapid Bacteria Determination......Page 325 A review of MEMS drug delivery in medical application......Page 329 A Review on Design Parameters of Micro-Fluidic System......Page 333 Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis: Phase Angle - An Independent Predictive Health Marker and its Clinical Applications......Page 338 Estimation of heart rate variability from peripheral pulse wave using PPG sensor......Page 342 Nano-porous Polysilicon Fabrication for Micro Electro Mechanical System (MEMS) Drug Delivery Device......Page 346 Widefield Surface Plasmon Resonance Microscope: A Novel Biosensor Study of Cell Attachment to Micropatterned Substrates......Page 351 A Generic Algorithm for Detecting Obstructive Sleep Apnea Hyponea Events based on Oxygen Saturation......Page 355 A Measuring System for Coronary Pulse Wave Velocity......Page 359 A Simple Histogram Based Approach for Detection of Baseline and QRS of ECG......Page 362 A Software Based Approach for Detection of QRS Vector of ECG Signal......Page 365 Assessment of Steady-State Visual Evoked Potential for Brain Computer Communication......Page 369 Characterizing EOG signal from the Chaotic Point of View......Page 372 Classification of Electrocardiogram Signal using Multiresolution Wavelet Transform and Neural Network......Page 377 Comparison of different Montages on to EEG classification......Page 382 Complexity Analysis of Heart Beat Time series by Threshold based Symbolic Entropy......Page 386 Computer-based System to Assess Efficacy of Stuttering Therapy Techniques......Page 391 Development of an EEG amplifier for Brain-Computer-Interface......Page 395 Enhancement of Epileptic Seizure in EEG Signals using Novelty Filtering based on Neural Networks......Page 400 Feasibility of Fetal Photoplethysmography Signal Extraction using Adaptive Noise Cancelling......Page 404 Feasibility of Photoplethymographic Signal for Assessment of Autonomic Response using Heart Rate Variability Analysis......Page 408 FPGA Accelerator For Medical Image Compression System......Page 413 Frequency Modulation in EEG Signals......Page 417 Heart Sound Analysis Using MFCC and Time Frequency Distribution......Page 419 Limb Cardiovasculature System Identification Using Adaptive Filtering......Page 423 Modifying the Classic Template Matching Technique Using a Fuzzy Multi Agent to Have an Accurate P300 Detection......Page 427 Multi-resolution Analysis of Near Infrared Spectroscopic Data for Calibration and Prediction of Active Substances in Phosphate Buffer Solution......Page 432 Performance Evaluation of Coifman Wavelet for ECG Signal Denoising......Page 436 Photoplethysmographic Pulse Amplitude Response to Flow Mediated Dilation......Page 440 Reduction of Movement Artifacts in Photoplethysmograph Using SFLC (scaled Fourier linear combiner)......Page 444 Two-dimensional representation of spatial structure changes in brain bioelectric potential field......Page 448 Using Simple MLPs in Modular Architecture to Improve the P300 Detection Accuracy......Page 452 Wavelet based compression technique of Electro-oculogram signals......Page 457 Wireless Real-time Brain Mapping......Page 461 Aromatherapy: It's Effect on Brain Signal, Math Computation, Blood Pressure and Heart Rate......Page 464 On the Linearity/Non-linearity of Mental Activity EEG for Brain-Computer Interface Design......Page 468 Heart Rate Variability Characterization Using a Time-Frequency Based Instantaneous Frequency Estimation Technique......Page 472 Evaluation of ECG Compression via Optimal Bit Allocation on DCT Coefficients......Page 477 Bio-Composting Process Development by SSF for Utilization Agro-Industrial Wastes......Page 481 Biodegradation of 2-methoxyethanol under aerobic conditions by bacterial isolate Pseudomonas sp. strain VB......Page 486 Human pi class glutathione S-transferase: anticancer material and functional study......Page 493 Liquid State Bioconversion of Domestic Wastewater Sludge for Bioethanol Production......Page 496 Microbial Bioconversion of Palm Oil Mill Effluent to Citric Acid with Optimum Process Conditions......Page 500 Statistical Analysis in Complex-Valued Wavelet Detection of Acute Myocardial Ischemia in Rabbit......Page 505 Statistical Optimization of Process Conditions for Direct Bioconversion of Sewage Treatment Plant Sludge for Bioethanol Production......Page 509 Study for activation of human telomerase reverse transcriptase, as major component of cancer, expressed in E. coli......Page 513 Systematic Following of Telomerase during MRC5 Population Dubbling and Cell Senescence......Page 516 Analysis of Detecting the Malarial Parasite Infected Blood Images Using Statistical Based Approach......Page 519 Detecting the Vocal Disorder by Extracting the Pitch in the Phonetics of Indian Regional Marathi Language Numerical......Page 523 Malay Nose Tissue Measurements For Nose Reconstruction: A Preliminary Data Collection......Page 529 Quantification of Parkinsonian Rigidity: An Objective Evaluating Method......Page 533 Comparison of Different Classification Techniques Using WEKA for Breast Cancer......Page 537 Discovery the Relationship Between Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms and Alternative Splicing Events......Page 541 Selecting Informative Genes from Leukemia Gene Expression Data using a Hybrid Approach for Cancer Classification......Page 545 A High Efficiency Optical Power Transmitting System to a Rechargeable Lithium Battery for All Implantable Biomedical Devices......Page 550 A Portable Potentiostat for Electrochemical Sensors......Page 555 A Preliminary Case Study of Anal Retractor Usability in Anorectal Surgery......Page 560 Taxonomy of surrogate users for the development and evaluation of medical devices from the end users' perspective......Page 563 A Miniature Skin-Attached Hot Flash Recorder......Page 567 2D Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) Model of Blood Flow in the Left Ventricle (LV) of the Heart......Page 571 A Computer-based Surgery Planning and Simulation for the Prediction of 3D Postoperative Facial Soft Tissue using Finite Element Analysis......Page 575 Age-related Upper Limb Vascular System Windkessel Model using Photoplethysmography......Page 580 Computational Analysis of Asymmetric Arterial Stenosis with Applications of Fluid-Solid Interaction......Page 584 Computer based quantification of the mean Achilles tendon thickness in US-images – effect of tendinosis......Page 589 Finite Element Analysis of Cell-Material Interaction on Hydrated Soft Material of Cartilage......Page 593 Forward Simulation of Cardiac Excitation Propagation and ECG Patterns Using an Anisotropic Heart Model – a Toolbox......Page 598 Haptic Pulse Simulator Training Module for Disease Diagnosis......Page 602 In Vitro Modeling for Bioelectrical Impedance Measurement in Compartmental Syndrome......Page 605 Optical detection of ferromagnetic and fluorescently labeled microparticles, simulation of a magnetic trap......Page 608 Temperature Modeling of Therapeutic Ultrasound: A Preliminary Finding......Page 611 The Alcohol Detection Using Heart Rate Variability and Bioimpedance......Page 615 Visualizing Collaborative Time-Varying Scientific Datasets......Page 619 Development of a steerable cochlear implant electrode array......Page 624 An Automatic Lower Limb Training Machine for Monoplegia Patients......Page 628 An Intelligent Tilt Table for Paralytic Patients......Page 632 Application of a Novel Integrated Pointing Device Apparatus for People with Severe Disability......Page 635 Conceptual Design of an Isokinetic Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) Leg Stepping Trainer for Individuals with Neurological Disability......Page 639 Design of a Wireless Heart Rate Monitoring System for Rehabilitation Patients......Page 642 Development of Prosthetic Hand – A preliminary study......Page 645 EEG Based Brain Machine Interface for Rehabilitation: A Guided Tour......Page 649 Development of Articulation Training System with Speech Recognition Based Automatic Pronunciation Detection Mechanism......Page 654 Exercise Technology after Spinal Cord Injury: Functional Electrical Stimulation Leg Cycling......Page 657 Prosthetic Hand for the Brain-computer Interface System......Page 660 Quadraplegic Communicator for Spinal Cord Injury Patient......Page 664 Theoretical Determination of Lubrication Regimes in Two-Piece First Metatarsophalangeal Prostheses......Page 668 Design of Web-based Tele-ultrasound Consultation System over Digital Subscriber Lines......Page 673 Development of a Mobile Telemedicine System with Multi Communication Links for Urban and Rural Areas in Indonesia......Page 677 Managing and Organizing Plant Identification Keys for Easy Retrieval......Page 681 Weight Control and Conversations in an Online Health-Community on Overweight......Page 685 Biodegradable composite of poly ε-caprolactone/hydroxyapatite 3-D scaffolds for bone tissue engineering......Page 689 Biodegradable Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering Fabricated by Surface Selective Laser Sintering......Page 693 Characterization of Collagen/PEO 600K for Tissue Engineering Scaffold......Page 697 Effect of TGF-β and β-Estradiol on Extracellular Matrix Secretion in Articular Chondrocyte Culture......Page 701 Human Adipose Precursor Cells Seeded on Hyaluronic Scaffolds: a Pilot Clinical Trial......Page 705 Hybrid nanofiber scaffolds of polyurethane and poly(ethylene oxide) using dual-electrospinning for vascular tissue engineering......Page 709 In Vitro Augmentation of Collagen Matrix Formation - Applications in Tissue Engineering......Page 713 Repair of Rabbit Focal Articular Cartilage Defects with Autologous Chondrocytes Embedded in Alginate......Page 717 C......Page 721 I......Page 722 M......Page 723 R......Page 724 T......Page 725 Z......Page 726 C......Page 727 E......Page 728 I......Page 729 N......Page 730 R......Page 731 V......Page 732 Z......Page 733 The Kuala Lumpur International Conference on Biomedical Engineering (Biomed 2006) was held from 11 to 14 December 2006 at the Palace of the Golden Horses, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This international conference was jointly organised by the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Malaya, Malaysia; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Inje University, Korea; and Malaysian Society of Medical and Biological Engineering. The papers presented at Biomed 2006 cover the following areas: artificial intelligence, biological effects of non-ionising electromagnetic fields, biomaterials, biomechanics, biomedical sensors, biomedical signal analysis, biotechnology, clinical engineering, human performance engineering, imaging, medical informatics, medical instruments and devices, physiological modelling, simulation, and control, prostheses and artificial organs, regulations and organisations, rehabilitation engineering, telemedicine, tissue engineering, and virtual reality in medicine. The Kuala Lumpur International Conference on Biomedical Engineering (BioMed 2006) was held in December 2006 at the Palace of the Golden Horses, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The papers presented at BioMed 2006, and published here, cover such topics as Artificial Intelligence, Biological effects of non-ionising electromagnetic fields, Biomaterials, Biomechanics, Biomedical Sensors, Biomedical Signal Analysis, Biotechnology, Clinical Engineering, Human performance engineering, Imaging, Medical Informatics, Medical Instruments and Devices, and many more.