Biomedical engineering systems and technologies : International Joint Conference, BIOSTEC 2009, Porto, Portugal, January 14-17, 2009 : revised selected papers

This book contains the best papers of the Second International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2009), organized by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information Control and Communi- tion (INSTICC), technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMB), IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CAS) and the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC), in cooperation with AAAI and ACM SIGART. 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. Front Matter....Pages - Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Computational Intelligence and Image Processing Methods for Applications in Skin Cancer Diagnosis....Pages 3-20 Affective Man-Machine Interface: Unveiling Human Emotions through Biosignals....Pages 21-47 Front Matter....Pages 49-49 On-Chip Biosensors Based on Microwave Detection for Cell Scale Investigations....Pages 51-63 Improvements of a Brain-Computer Interface Applied to a Robotic Wheelchair....Pages 64-73 Wavelet-Based and Morphological Analysis of the Global Flash Multifocal ERG for Open Angle Glaucoma Characterization....Pages 74-84 Biotin-Streptavidin Sensitive BioFETs and Their Properties....Pages 85-95 Improving Patient Safety with X-Ray and Anesthesia Machine Ventilator Synchronization: A Medical Device Interoperability Case Study....Pages 96-109 A Ceramic Microfluidic Device for Monitoring Complex Biochemical Reactive Systems....Pages 110-123 Knee Angle Estimation Algorithm for Myoelectric Control of Active Transfemoral Prostheses....Pages 124-135 Micro Droplet Transfer between Superhydrophobic Surfaces via a High Adhesive Superhydrophobic Surface....Pages 136-142 Front Matter....Pages 143-143 Study on Biodegradation Process of Polyethylene Glycol with Exponential Glowth of Microbial Population....Pages 145-157 Variable Down-Selection for Brain-Computer Interfaces....Pages 158-172 Effect of a Simulated Analogue Telephone Channel on the Performance of a Remote Automatic System for the Detection of Pathologies in Voice: Impact of Linear Distortions on Cepstrum-Based Assessment - Band Limitation, Frequency Response and Additive Noise....Pages 173-186 A Biologically-Inspired Visual Saliency Model to Test Different Strategies of Saccade Programming....Pages 187-199 Transition Detection for Brain Computer Interface Classification....Pages 200-210 Tuning Iris Recognition for Noisy Images....Pages 211-224 Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Macroscopic Features in Biological Materials....Pages 225-234 Wavelet Transform Analysis of the Power Spectrum of Centre of Pressure Signals to Detect the Critical Point Interval of Postural Control....Pages 235-244 Early Detection of Severe Apnoea through Voice Analysis and Automatic Speaker Recognition Techniques....Pages 245-257 Automatic Detection of Atrial Fibrillation for Mobile Devices....Pages 258-270 Front Matter....Pages 143-143 Speaker-Adaptive Speech Recognition Based on Surface Electromyography....Pages 271-285 Towards the Development of a Thyroid Ultrasound Biometric Scheme Based on Tissue Echo-morphological Features....Pages 286-298 Front Matter....Pages 299-299 Collecting, Analyzing, and Publishing Massive Data about the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy....Pages 301-313 BredeQuery: Coordinate-Based Meta-analytic Search of Neuroscientific Literature from the SPM Environment....Pages 314-324 Simulation of ECG Repolarization Phase with Improved Model of Cell Action Potentials....Pages 325-332 Advances in Computer-Based Autoantibodies Analysis....Pages 333-346 Support Vector Machine Diagnosis of Acute Abdominal Pain....Pages 347-355 Near Field Communication and Health: Turning a Mobile Phone into an Interactive Multipurpose Assistant in Healthcare Scenarios....Pages 356-368 Electronic Health Records: An Enhanced Security Paradigm to Preserve Patient’s Privacy....Pages 369-380 Augmented Feedback System to Support Physical Therapy of Non-specific Low Back Pain....Pages 381-393 Multi-analytical Approaches Informing the Risk of Sepsis....Pages 394-406 Back Matter....Pages - 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. Contains the papers of the Second International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2009), held in Porto, Portugal, in January 2009. This title focuses on the aspects related to electronics and mechanical engineering.