5th Kuala Lumpur International Conference on Biomedical Engineering 2011: BIOMED 2011, 20-23 June 2011, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (IFMBE Proceedings, 35)

Annotation The Biomed 2011 brought together academicians and practitioners in engineering and medicine in this ever progressing field. This volume presents the proceedings of this international conference which was hold in conjunction with the 8th Asian Pacific Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering (APCMBE 2011) on the 20th to the 23rd of June 2011 at Berjaya Times Square Hotel, Kuala Lumpur. The topics covered in the conference proceedings include: Artificial organs, bioengineering education, bionanotechnology, biosignal processing, bioinformatics, biomaterials, biomechanics, biomedical imaging, biomedical instrumentation, BioMEMS, clinical engineering, prosthetics Front Matter....Pages - Cardiovascular Modeling: Physiological Concepts and Simulation....Pages 1-1 Effect of Pain Perception on the Heartbeat Evoked Potential....Pages 2-2 In-vivo Cartilage Mechano-Biology: How to Make Progress in Osteoarthritis Research....Pages 3-6 Sensors and Instrumentation to Meet Clinical Needs....Pages 7-7 Tissues Injuries from Epidermal Loadings in Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Wheeled Mobility....Pages 8-8 Computer Aided Surgery for Minimally Invasive Therapy....Pages 9-9 Role of Mechanical Loading in the Aetiology of Deep Tissue Injury....Pages 10-10 Tissue Engineering Approaches to the Treatment of Spinal Disorders....Pages 11-11 Study of the Optimal Circuit Using Simultaneous Apheresis with Hemodialysis....Pages 12-15 Biomedical Engineering Education under European Union Support....Pages 16-19 OBE Implementation and Design of Continual Quality Improvement (CQI) for Accreditation of Biomedical Engineering Program University of Malaya....Pages 20-24 Ocular Lens Microcirculation Model, A Web-Based Bioengineering Educational Tool....Pages 25-28 Analysis of Skin Color of Malaysian People....Pages 29-32 Comparison of Spectrometer, Camera, and Scanner Reproduction of Skin Color....Pages 33-36 Context and Implications of Blood Angiogenin Level Findings in Healthy and Breast Cancer Females of Malaysia....Pages 37-39 Detection of Acute Leukaemia Cells Using Variety of Features and Neural Networks....Pages 40-46 A Novel Phantom for Accurate Performance Assessment of Bone Mineral Measurement Techniques: DEXA and QCT....Pages 47-50 Calcination Effects on the Sinterability of Hydroxyapatite Bioceramics....Pages 51-54 Chitin Fiber Reinforced Silver Sulfate Doped Chitosan as Antimicrobial Coating....Pages 55-59 Effects of Joule Heating on Electrophoretic Mobility of Titanium Dioxide (TiO 2 ), Escherichia Coli and Staphylococcus Aureus (Live and Dead)....Pages 60-68 Electrochromic Property of Sol-Gel Derived TiO 2 Thin Film for pH Sensor....Pages 69-72 Failure Analysis of Retrieved UHMWPE Tibial Insert in Total Knee Replacement....Pages 73-79 Influence of Magnesium Doping in Hydroxyapatite Bioceramics Sintered by Short Holding Time....Pages 80-83 In-vitro Biocompatibility of Folate-Decorated Star-Shaped Copolymeric Micelle for Targeted Drug Delivery....Pages 84-87 Mercury (II) Removal Using CNTS Grown on GACs....Pages 88-91 Optical Properties Effect of Cadmium Sulfide Quantum Dots Towards Conjugation Process....Pages 92-96 Synthesis of Hydroxyapatite through Dry Mechanochemical Method and Its Conversion to Dense Bodies: Preliminary Result....Pages 97-101 The Effect of Ball Milling Hours in the Synthesizing Nano-Crystalline Forsterite via Solid-State Reaction....Pages 102-104 The Effect of Titanium Dioxide to the Bacterial Growth on Lysogeny Broth Agar....Pages 105-107 Thermal Analysis on Hydroxyapatite Synthesis through Mechanochemical Method....Pages 108-111 Continuous Passive Ankle Motion Device for Patient Undergoing Tibial Distraction Osteogenesis....Pages 112-115 Musculoskeletal Model of Hip Fracture for Safety Assurance of Reduction Path in Robot-assisted Fracture Reduction....Pages 116-120 Speed Based Surface EMG Classification Using Fuzzy Logic for Prosthetic Hand Control....Pages 121-124 Activity of Upper Body Muscles during Bowing and Prostration Tasks in Healthy Subjects....Pages 125-129 Analysis of the Effect of Mechanical Properties on Stress Induced in Tibia....Pages 130-133 Comparative Studies of the Optimal Airflow Waveforms and Ventilation Settings under Respiratory Mechanical Loadings....Pages 134-138 Development of Inexpensive Motion Analysis System–Preliminary Findings....Pages 139-142 Diabetic Foot Syndrome-3-D Pressure Pattern Analysis as Compared with Normal Subjects....Pages 143-147 Effects of Arterial Longitudinal Tension on Pulsatile Axial Blood Flow....Pages 148-150 Effect of Extracellular Matrix on Smooth Muscle Cell Phenotype and Migration....Pages 151-152 Effects of the Wrist Angle on the Performance and Perceived Discomfort in a Long Lasting Handwriting Task....Pages 153-156 Estimation of Muscle Force with EMG Signals Using Hammerstein-Wiener Model....Pages 157-160 Hip 3D Joint Mechanics Analysis of Normal and Obese Individuals’ Gait....Pages 161-166 Impact Load and Mechanical Respond of Tibiofemoral Joint....Pages 167-169 Investigation of Lung Lethargy Deformation Using Finite Element Method....Pages 170-174 Knee Energy Absorption in Full Extension Landing Using Finite Element Analysis....Pages 175-178 Knee Joint Stress Analysis in Standing....Pages 179-181 Mechanical Behavior of in-situ Chondrocyte at Different Loading Rates: A Finite Element Study....Pages 182-186 Posture and EMG Evaluation of Assist Functions of Full-Body Suits....Pages 187-189 Posture Control and Muscle Activation in Spinal Stabilization Exercise....Pages 190-192 Preliminary Findings on Anthropometric Data of 19-25 Year Old Malaysian University Students....Pages 193-196 Quantification of Patellar Tendon Reflex by Motion Analysis....Pages 197-199 Quantitative Analysis of the Human Ankle Viscoelastic Behavior at Different Gait Speeds....Pages 200-202 Response of the Human Spinal Column to Loading and Its Time Dependent Characteristics....Pages 203-206 Shoulder’s Modeling via Kane’s Method: Determination of Torques in Smash Activity....Pages 207-209 Simulation of Brittle Damage for Fracture Process of Endodontically Treated Tooth....Pages 210-214 Stress Distribution Analysis on Semi Constrained Elbow Prosthesis during Flexion and Extension Motion....Pages 215-218 Stress Distribution of Dental Posts by Finite Element Analysis....Pages 219-221 Temporal Characteristics of the Final Delivery Phase and Its Relation to Tenpin Bowling Performance....Pages 222-224 The Biomechanics Analysis for Dynamic Hip Screw on Osteoporotic and Unstable Femoral Fracture....Pages 225-228 Hemodynamic Activities of Motor Cortex Related to Jaw and Arm Muscles Determined by Near Infrared Spectroscopy....Pages 229-232 Time-Dependent EMG Power Spectrum Parameters of Biceps Brachii during Cyclic Dynamic Contraction....Pages 233-236 Transcutaneous Viscoelastic Properties of Brain through Cranial Defects....Pages 237-240 Two Practical Strategies for Developing Resultant Muscle Torque Production Using Elastic Resistance Device....Pages 241-244 A Novel Body Temperature Measuring and Data Transmitting System Using Bio - Sensors and Real-Time Transmission Technique....Pages 245-248 A Quantitative Study of Gastric Activity on Feeding Low and High Viscosity Meals....Pages 249-252 A Study of Extremely Low Frequency Electromagnetic Field (ELF EMF) Exposure Levels at Multi Storey Apartment....Pages 253-257 Accuracy Improvement for Low Perfusion Pulse Oximetry....Pages 258-261 Application of a Manometric Technique to Verify Nasogastric Tube Placement in Intubated, Mechanically Ventilated Patients....Pages 262-265 Assessment of Diabetics with Various Degrees of Autonomic Neuropathy Based on Cross-Approximate Entropy....Pages 266-269 Automated Diagnosis of Melanoma Based on Nonlinear Complexity Features....Pages 270-274 Bowel Ischemia Monitoring Using Rapid Sampling Microdialysis Biosensor System....Pages 275-278 Changes in Cortical Blood Oxygenation Responding to Arithmetical Tasks and Measured by Near-Infrared Spectroscopy....Pages 279-282 Color Coded Heart Rate Monitoring System Using ANT+....Pages 283-286 Control Brain Machine Interface for a Power Wheelchair....Pages 287-291 Design and Development of Microcontroller Based ECG Simulator....Pages 292-295 Development of CW CO 2 Laser Percussion Technique....Pages 296-299 Electric Field Measurement for Biomedical Application Using GNU Radio....Pages 300-304 EZ430-Chronos Watch as a Wireless Health Monitoring Device....Pages 305-307 Face Detection for Drivers’ Drowsiness Using Computer Vision....Pages 308-311 Histological Study to Estimate Risks of Radon Inhalation Dose on a Lung Cancer: In vivo ....Pages 312-314 Influence of Hair Color on Photodynamic Dose Activation in PDT for Scalp Diseases....Pages 315-319 Measurement and Diagnosis Assessment of Plethysmographycal Record....Pages 320-323 Measurement of Available Chlorine in Electrolyzed Water Using Electrical Conductivity....Pages 324-327 Measuring the Depth of Sleep by Near Infrared Spectroscopy and Polysomnography....Pages 328-331 Multi-frequency Microwave Radiometer System for Measuring Deep Brain Temperature in New Born Infants....Pages 332-335 Number of Pulses of rTMS Affects the Inter-reversal Time of Perceptual Reversal....Pages 336-339 Permittivity of Urine between Benign and Malignant Breast Tumour....Pages 340-343 Problems and Solution When Developing Intermittent Pneumatic Compression....Pages 344-347 Pulse Oximetry Color Coded Heart Rate Monitoring System Using ZigBee....Pages 348-351 Study of Electromagnetic Field Radiation on the Human Muscle Activity....Pages 352-355 The pH Sensitivity of the Polarization Capacitance on Stainless-Steel Electrodes....Pages 356-358 Ultrasound Dosimetery Using Microbubbles....Pages 359-362 Visualization of Measured Data for Wireless Devices BluesenseAD....Pages 363-366 Voltammetric Approach for In-vivo Detecting Dopamine Level of Rat’s Brain....Pages 367-370 Wearable ECG Recorder with Acceleration Sensors for Measuring Daily Stress....Pages 371-374 Wireless Sensor Network for Flexible pH Array Sensor....Pages 375-379 Application of Gold Nanoparticles for Enhanced Photo-Thermal Therapy of Urothelial Carcinoma....Pages 380-383 Nanobiosensor for the Detection and Quantification of Specific DNA Sequences in Degraded Biological Samples....Pages 384-387 Polysilicon Nanogap Formation Using Size Expansion Technique for Biosensor Application....Pages 388-392 A Modified Beer-Lambert Model of Skin Diffuse Reflectance for the Determination of Melanin Pigments....Pages 393-397 A Review of ECG Peaks Detection and Classification....Pages 398-402 An Image Approach Model of RBC Flow in Microcirculation....Pages 403-406 An Image-Based Anatomical Network Model and Modelling of Circulation of Mouse Retinal Vasculature....Pages 407-410 Analysis of Normal and Atherosclerotic Blood Vessels Using 2D Finite Element Models....Pages 411-414 Comparative Analysis of Preprocessing Techniques for Quantification of Heart Rate Variability....Pages 415-419 Detection of Influence of Stimuli or Sevices on the Physical Condition and Satisfaction with Unconscious Response Reflecting Activities of Autonomic Nervous System....Pages 420-423 Determination of Reflectance Optical Sensor Array Configuration Using 3-Layer Tissue Model and Monte Carlo Simulation....Pages 424-427 Effects of ECM Degradation Rate, Adhesion, and Drag on Cell Migration in 3D....Pages 428-431 Finite Element Analysis of Different Ferrule Heights of Endodontically Treated Tooth....Pages 432-435 How to Predict the Fractures Initiation Locus in Human Vertebrae Using Quantitative Computed Tomography(QCT) Based Finite Element Method?....Pages 436-438 Influence of Cancellous Bone Existence in Human Lumbar Spine: A Finite Element Analysis....Pages 439-442 Laser Speckle Contrast Imaging for Perfusion Monitoring in Burn Tissue Phantoms....Pages 443-446 Microdosimetry Modeling Technique for Spherical Cell....Pages 447-449 Recurrent Breast Cancer with Proportional Homogeneous Poisson Process....Pages 450-457 Simulation of the Effects of Electric and Magnetic Loadings on Internal Bone Remodeling....Pages 458-462 Study of Hematocrit in Relation with Age and Gender Using Low Power Helium - Neon Laser Irradiation....Pages 463-466 Three-Dimensional Fluid-Structure Interaction Modeling of Expiratory Flow in the Pharyngeal Airway....Pages 467-471 A Hybrid Trial to Trial Wavelet Coherence and Novelty Detection Scheme for a Fast and Clear Notification of Habituation: An Objective Uncomfortable Loudness Level Measure....Pages 472-475 Application of Data Mining on Polynomial Based Approach for ECG Biometric....Pages 476-479 Brain Waves after Short duration Exercise Induced by Wooden Tooth Brush as a Physical Agent - A Pilot Study....Pages 480-483 Change Point Detection of EEG Signals Based on Particle Swarm Optimization....Pages 484-487 Comparative Analysis of the Optimal Performance Evaluation for Motor Imagery Based EEG-Brain Computer Interface....Pages 488-491 Comparison of Influences on P300 Latency in the Case of Stimulating Supramarginal Gyrus and Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex by rTMS....Pages 492-495 Cortical Connectivity during Isometric Contraction with Concurrent Visual Processing by Partial Directed Coherence....Pages 496-499 Cross Evaluation for Characteristics of Motor Imagery Using Neuro-feedback Based EEG-Brain Computer Interface....Pages 500-502 EEG Artifact Signals Tracking and Filtering in Real Time for Command Control Application....Pages 503-506 EEG Patterns for Driving Wireless Control Robot....Pages 507-510 Effects of Physical Fatigue onto Brain Rhythms....Pages 511-515 Evaluation of Motor Imagery Using Combined Cue Based EEG-Brain Computer Interface....Pages 516-518 Fitting and Eliminating to the TMS Induced Artifact on the Measured EEG by the Equivalent Circuit Simulation Improved Performance....Pages 519-522 Gender Identification by Using Fundamental and Formant Frequency for Malay Children....Pages 523-526 Improving Low Pass Filtered Speech Intelligibility Using Nonlinear Frequency Compression with Cepstrum and Spectral Envelope Transformation....Pages 527-531 Long-Term Heart Rate Variability Assessment....Pages 532-535 Neural Network Classifier for Hand Motion Detection from EMG Signal....Pages 536-541 Performance Comparison between Mutative and Constriction PSO in Optimizing MFCC for the Classification of Hypothyroid Infant Cry....Pages 542-547 Periodic Lateralized Epileptiform Discharges (PLEDs) in Post Traumatic Epileptic Patient— Magnetoencephalographic (MEG) Study....Pages 548-551 Premonitory Symptom of Septic Shock in Heart Rate Variability....Pages 552-555 Review of Electromyographic Control Systems Based on Pattern Recognition....Pages 556-559 Speaker Verification Using Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM)....Pages 560-564 Speaker-Independent Vowel Recognition for Malay Children Using Time-Delay Neural Network....Pages 565-568 Feasibility of Using the Wavelet-Phase Stability in the Objective Quantification of Neural Correlates of Auditory Selective Attention....Pages 569-573 Sharing the Medical Resource: The Feasibility and Benefit of Global Medical Instruments Support and Service....Pages 574-577 Hybrid Capillary-Flap Valve for Vapor Control in Point-of-Care Microfluidic CD....Pages 578-581 Semi-automated Dielectrophoretic Cell Characterisation Module for Lab-on-Chip Applications....Pages 582-586 A Preliminary Study of Compression Efficiency and Noise Robustness of Orthogonal Moments on Medical X-Ray Images....Pages 587-590 Activities of Oxy-Hb and DeOxy-Hb on Motor Imaging and Motor Execution by Near-Infrared Spectroscopy....Pages 591-595 An Overview: Segmentation Method for Blood Cell Disorders....Pages 596-599 Assessment of Ischemic Stroke Rat Using Near Infrared Spectroscopy....Pages 600-603 Brain Lesion Segmentation of Diffusion-Weighted MRI Using Thresholding Technique....Pages 604-610 Characterization of Renal Stones from Ultrasound Images Using Nonseparable Quincunx Wavelet Transform....Pages 611-616 Cluster Approach for Auto Segmentation of Blast in Acute Leukimia Blood Slide Images....Pages 617-622 Comparison of the Basal Ganglia Volumetry between SWI and T1WI in Normal Human Brain....Pages 623-626 Computer-Aided Diagnosis System for Pancreatic Tumor Detection in Ultrasound Images....Pages 627-630 Detection of Gastrointestinal Disease in Endoscope Imaging System....Pages 631-634 Digital Image Analysis of Chronic Ulcers Tissues....Pages 635-638 Early Ischemic Stroke Detection through Image Colorization Graphical User Interface....Pages 639-642 Evaluation of the Effects of Chang’s Attenuation Correction Technique on Simlar Transverse Views of Cold and Hot Regions in Tc-99m SPECT: A Phantom Study....Pages 643-649 Efficiency of Enhanced Distance Active Contour (EDAC) for Microcalcifications Segmentation....Pages 650-654 Estimating Retinal Vessel Diameter Change from the Vessel Cross-Section....Pages 655-658 Face-Central Incisor Morphometric Relation in Malays and Chinese....Pages 659-662 Fingertip Synchrotron Radiation Angiography for Prediction of Diabetic Microangiopathy....Pages 663-666 Hybrid Multilayered Perceptron Network Trained by Modified Recursive Prediction Error-Extreme Learning Machine for Tuberculosis Bacilli Detection....Pages 667-673 Intelligent Spatial Based Breast Cancer Recognition and Signal Enhancement System in Magnetic Resonance Images....Pages 674-677 Investigating the Mozart Effect on Brain Function by Using Near Infrared Spectroscopy....Pages 678-681 Latex Glove Protein Estimation Using Maximum Minimum Area Variation....Pages 682-685 Measurement of the Area and Diameter of Human Pupil Using Matlab....Pages 686-689 Medical Image Pixel Extraction via Block Positioning Subtraction Technique for Motion Analysis....Pages 690-693 Monte Carlo Characterization of Scattered Radiation Profile in Volumetric 64 Slice CT Using GATE....Pages 694-697 Multi-Modality Medical Images Feature Analysis....Pages 698-703 Parametric Dictionary Design Using Genetic Algorithm for Biomedical Image De-noising Application....Pages 704-707 Quantification of Inter-crystal Scattering and Parallax Effect in Pixelated High Resolution Small Animal Gamma Camera: A Monte Carlo Study....Pages 708-711 Quantitative Assessment of the Influence of Crystal Material and Size on the Inter Crystal Scattering and Penetration Effect in Pixilated Dual Head Small Animal PET Scanner....Pages 712-715 Rapid Calibration of 3D Freehand Ultrasound for Vessel Intervention....Pages 716-719 Segmentation of Tumor in Digital Mammograms Using Wavelet Transform Modulus Maxima on a Low Cost Parallel Computing System....Pages 720-723 The Correlation Analyses between fMRI and Psychophysical Results Contribute to Certify the Activated Area for Motion-Defined Pattern Perception....Pages 724-727 A New Method for Measuring Pistoning in Lower Limb Prosthetic....Pages 728-731 Ambulatory Function Monitor for Amputees....Pages 732-734 Anthromorphic Design Methodology for Multifingered Arm Prosthesis....Pages 735-738 Approximation Technique for Prosthetic Design Using Numerical Foot Profiling....Pages 739-742 Comparison Study of the Transradial Prosthetics and Body Powered Prosthetics Using Pressure Distribution Approach....Pages 743-746 Effect of Position in Fixed Screw on Prosthetic Temporomandibular Joint....Pages 747-749 Evaluation of EMG Feature Extraction for Movement Control of Upper Limb Prostheses Based on Class Separation Index....Pages 750-754 Modeling and Fabrication of Articulate Patellar....Pages 755-757 Pistoning Measurement in Lower Limb Prostheses – A Literature Review....Pages 758-761 Prosthetics and Orthotics Services in the Rehabilitation Clinics of University Malaya Medical Centre....Pages 762-764 Prosthetic Foot Design: The Significance of the Normalized Ground Reaction Force....Pages 765-768 A Survey on Welfare Equipment Using Information Technologies in Korea and Japan....Pages 769-772 Biomechanical Analysis on the Effect of Bone Graft of the Wrist after Arthroplasty....Pages 773-777 Can Walking with Orthosis Decrease Bone Osteoporosis in Paraplegic Subjects?....Pages 778-780 Design and Development of Arm Rehabilitation Monitoring Device....Pages 781-784 Development of Artificial Hand Gripper for Rehabilitation Process....Pages 785-788 Motor Control in Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder–Fitts’ Paradigm Test....Pages 789-792 Quantitative Analysis of Conductive Fabric Sensor Used for a Method Evaluating Rehabilitation Status....Pages 793-796 Study on Posture Homeostasis – One Hour Pilot Experiment....Pages 797-800 The Development of Muscle Training System Using the Electromyogram and Interactive Game for Physical Rehabilitation....Pages 801-804 A Preliminary Study on Magnetic Fields Effects on Stem Cell Differentiation....Pages 805-810 A Preliminary Study on Possibility of Improving Animal Cell Growth....Pages 811-814 Dynamic Behaviour of Human Bone Marrow Derived-Mesenchymal Stem Cells on Uniaxial Cyclical Stretched Substrate – A Preliminary Study....Pages 815-818 Effect of Herbal Extracts on Rat Bone Marrow Stromal Cells (BMSCs) Derived Osteoblast–Preliminary Result....Pages 819-822 Fabrication and In-vivo Evaluation of BCP Scaffolds....Pages 823-826 Fabrication of Porous Ceramic Scaffolds via Polymeric Sponge Method Using Sol-Gel Derived Strontium Doped Hydroxyapatite Powder....Pages 827-830 Hydrogel Scaffolds: Advanced Materials for Soft Tissue Re-growth....Pages 831-835 Process Optimization to Improve the Processing of Poly (DL-lactide-co-glycolide) into 3D Tissue Engineering Scaffolds....Pages 836-840 The Fabrication of Human Amniotic Membrane Based Hydrogel for Cartilage Tissue Engineering Applications: A Preliminary Study....Pages 841-844 Artificial Oxygen Carriers (Hemoglobin-Vesicles) as a Transfusion Alternative and for Oxygen Therapeutics....Pages 845-848 Enzymatic Synthesis of Soybean Oil Based-Fatty Amides....Pages 849-853 Rat Model of Healing the Skin Wounds and Joint Inflammations by Recombinant Human Angiogenin, Erythropoietin and Tumor Necrosis Factor- α ....Pages 854-857 Back Matter....Pages -