Biomedical engineering systems and technologies : 4th International Joint Conference, BIOSTEC 2011, Rome, Italy, January 26-29, 2011, Revised selected papers

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 4th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2011, held in Rome, Italy, in January 2011. The 27 revised full papers presented together with one invited lecture were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 538 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics and are organized in four general topical sections on biomedical electronics and devices; bioinformatics models, methods and algorithms; bio-inspired systems and signal processing; health informatics. Front Matter....Pages - Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Informatics-Driven Infectious Disease Research....Pages 3-11 Front Matter....Pages 13-13 A Simple and Low Cost Device for Automatically Supervising Urine Output of Critical Patients....Pages 15-30 Photoplethysmogram Processing Using an Adaptive Single Frequency Phase Vocoder Algorithm....Pages 31-42 A Configurable Integrated Circuit for Biomedical Signal Acquisition....Pages 43-56 Movement Disorder Assessment and Attenuation Techniques for Removal of Tremor....Pages 57-73 A New Approach for Diagnostic Investigation of Total Hip Replacement Loosening....Pages 74-79 Wearable Monitoring Unit for Swimming Performance Analysis....Pages 80-93 Front Matter....Pages 95-95 3D Protein Surface Segmentation through Mathematical Morphology....Pages 97-109 Simple Tool for Semi-automated Evaluation of Yeast Colony Images....Pages 110-125 Reconstructing Gapless Ancestral Metabolic Networks....Pages 126-140 Discretized Kinetic Models for Abductive Reasoning in Systems Biology....Pages 141-154 Quasi-Steady State Approximations and Multistability in the Double Phosphorylation-Dephosphorylation Cycle....Pages 155-172 Improving Latent Semantic Analysis of Biomedical Literature Integrating UMLS Metathesaurus and Biomedical Pathways Databases....Pages 173-187 Front Matter....Pages 189-189 Towards a Patient-Specific Model of Lung Volume Using Absolute Electrical Impedance Tomography (aEIT)....Pages 191-204 Auditory Processing Inspired Robust Feature Enhancement for Speech Recognition....Pages 205-218 A Robust and Efficient Spatio-Temporal Feature Selection for Interpretation of EEG Single Trials....Pages 219-232 Time Series Clustering Algorithm for Two-Modes Cyclic Biosignals....Pages 233-245 Non-contact Pulse Wave Velocity Assessment Using Optical Methods....Pages 246-257 Fractal-Based Brain State Recognition from EEG in Human Computer Interaction....Pages 258-272 Understanding Cerebral Activations during the Observation of Marketing Stimuli: A Neuroelectrical Perspective....Pages 273-281 Front Matter....Pages 283-283 Semantic-Based Conformance Checking of Computer Interpretable Medical Guidelines....Pages 285-300 REST-Style Architecture and the Development of Mobile Health Care Solutions....Pages 301-311 Biomedical Literature Retrieval Based on Patient Information....Pages 312-323 Evaluating Information Security Effectiveness with Health Professionals....Pages 324-334 Using Social Network Analysis to Study the Knowledge Sharing Patterns of Health Professionals Using Web 2.0 Tools....Pages 335-352 A Semantic-Based Platform for Medical Image Storage and Sharing Using the Grid....Pages 353-364 Securing the Access to Electronic Health Records on Mobile Phones....Pages 365-379 Similarity Grouping of Human Sleep Recordings Using EEG and ECG....Pages 380-394 Back Matter....Pages -