New challenges on bioinspired applications : 4th International Work-Conference on the Interplay Between Natural and Artificial Computation, IWINAC 2011, La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain, May 30 - June 3, 2011 : proceedings, part II

The two volumes, LNCS 6686 resp. LNCS 6687, constitute the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Work-Conference on the Interplay between Natural and Artificial Computation, IWINAC 2011, held in La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain, in May/June 2011. The 108 revised full papers presented in LNCS 6686 resp. LNCS 6687 were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The first part, LNCS 6686, entitled "Foundations on Natural and Artificial Computation", includes all the contributions mainly related to the methodological, conceptual, formal, and experimental developments in the fields of neurophysiology and cognitive science. The second part, LNCS 6687, entitled "New Challenges on Bioinspired Applications", contains the papers related to bioinspired programming strategies and all the contributions related to the computational solutions to engineering problems in different application domains, specially Health applications, including the CYTED ``Artificial and Natural Computation for Health'' (CANS) research network papers. Front Matter....Pages - Neuromorphic Detection of Vowel Representation Spaces....Pages 1-11 Speaker Recognition Based on a Bio-inspired Auditory Model: Influence of Its Components, Sound Pressure and Noise Level....Pages 12-24 Inner-Hair Cells Parameterized-Hardware Implementation for Personalized Auditory Nerve Stimulation....Pages 25-32 Semiautomatic Segmentation of the Medial Temporal Lobe Anatomical Structures....Pages 33-40 Analysis of Spect Brain Images Using Wilcoxon and Relative Entropy Criteria and Quadratic Multivariate Classifiers for the Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease....Pages 41-48 MRI Brain Image Segmentation with Supervised SOM and Probability-Based Clustering Method....Pages 49-58 Effective Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease by Means of Distance Metric Learning and Random Forest....Pages 59-67 Distance Metric Learning as Feature Reduction Technique for the Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis....Pages 68-76 Brain Status Data Analysis by Sliding EMD....Pages 77-86 A Quantitative Study on Acupuncture Effects for Fighting Migraine Using SPECT Images....Pages 87-95 High Resolution Segmentation of CSF on Phase Contrast MRI....Pages 96-103 Exploration of LICA Detections in Resting State fMRI....Pages 104-111 FreeSurfer Automatic Brain Segmentation Adaptation to Medial Temporal Lobe Structures: Volumetric Assessment and Diagnosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment....Pages 112-119 Alzheimer Disease Classification on Diffusion Weighted Imaging Features....Pages 120-127 Future Applications with Diffusion Tensor Imaging....Pages 128-135 Monitoring Neurological Disease in Phonation....Pages 136-147 Group Formation for Minimizing Bullying Probability. A Proposal Based on Genetic Algorithms....Pages 148-156 A Speaker Recognition System Based on an Auditory Model and Neural Nets: Performance at Different Levels of Sound Pressure and of Gaussian White Noise....Pages 157-166 Automatic Detection of Hypernasality in Children....Pages 167-174 Characterization of Focal Seizures in Scalp Electroencephalograms Based on Energy of Signal and Time-Frequency Analysis....Pages 175-184 An Optimized Framework to Model Vertebrate Retinas....Pages 185-194 An Expandable Hardware Platform for Implementation of CNN-Based Applications....Pages 195-204 Classification of Welding Defects in Radiographic Images Using an Adaptive-Network-Based Fuzzy System....Pages 205-214 Reinforcement Learning Techniques for the Control of WasteWater Treatment Plants....Pages 215-222 Genetic Programming for Prediction of Water Flow and Transport of Solids in a Basin....Pages 223-232 Comparing Elastic Alignment Algorithms for the Off-Line Signature Verification Problem....Pages 233-242 A Fuzzy Cognitive Maps Modeling, Learning and Simulation Framework for Studying Complex System....Pages 243-256 Study of Strength Tests with Computer Vision Techniques....Pages 257-266 Scaling Effects in Crossmodal Improvement of Visual Perception....Pages 267-274 Pattern Recognition Using a Recurrent Neural Network Inspired on the Olfactory Bulb....Pages 275-285 Experiments on Lattice Independent Component Analysis for Face Recognition....Pages 286-294 A Hyperheuristic Approach for Dynamic Enumeration Strategy Selection in Constraint Satisfaction....Pages 295-304 Genetic Algorithm for Job-Shop Scheduling with Operators....Pages 305-314 Bio-inspired System in Automatic Speaker Recognition....Pages 315-323 Independent Component Analysis: A Low-Complexity Technique....Pages 324-332 AdaBoost Face Detection on the GPU Using Haar-Like Features....Pages 333-342 Fuzzy ARTMAP Based Neural Networks on the GPU for High-Performance Pattern Recognition....Pages 343-352 Bio-inspired Color Image Segmentation on the GPU (BioSPCIS)....Pages 353-362 Simulating a Rock-Scissors-Paper Bacterial Game with a Discrete Cellular Automaton....Pages 363-370 Mobile Robot Localization through Identifying Spatial Relations from Detected Corners....Pages 371-380 Improving the Accuracy of a Two-Stage Algorithm in Evolutionary Product Unit Neural Networks for Classification by Means of Feature Selection....Pages 381-390 Knowledge Living on the Web (KLW)....Pages 391-399 Local Context Discrimination in Signature Neural Networks....Pages 400-408 Spider Recognition by Biometric Web Analysis....Pages 409-417 A Prediction Model to Diabetes Using Artificial Metaplasticity....Pages 418-425 Band Correction in Random Amplified Polymorphism DNA Images Using Hybrid Genetic Algorithms with Multilevel Thresholding....Pages 426-435 Discrimination of Epileptic Events Using EEG Rhythm Decomposition....Pages 436-444 Methodology for Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Detection by Means of Event-Related Potentials....Pages 445-453 Methodology for Epileptic Episode Detection Using Complexity-Based Features....Pages 454-462 Segmentation of the Carotid Artery in Ultrasound Images Using Neural Networks....Pages 463-471 Tools for Controlled Experiments and Calibration on Living Tissues Cultures....Pages 472-481 Back Matter....Pages - Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Work-Conference on the Interplay between Natural and Artificial Computation, IWINAC 2011, that was held in La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain. This title includes contributions that are mainly related to the methodological, conceptual, formal, and experimental developments. Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Work-Conference on the Interplay between Natural and Artificial Computation, IWINAC 2011, held in La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain, in May/June 2011.