Conference Programme

MEDICON 2010 – 27-30 May | Chalkidiki| Greece

 

Thur, May 27

 

Fri, May 28

 

Sat, May 29

 

Sun, May 30

   

 

 

 

8.15 - 8.45

Registration

8.15 - 8.45

Registration

   

8.45 -  9.30

Plenary Session II

8.45 - 9.30

Plenary Session IV

8.45 - 9.30

Plenary Session VI
9.30 - 11.00

Opening Ceremony

9.30 - 11.00

General Track 4
Med Imaging 2
Clin Engin 1

9.30 - 11.00

General Track 6
BME-MP-CE  EDU
BME Journals/Conferences
10.30- 15.15

Registration

11.00 - 11.30

Coffee Break

11.00 - 11.30

Coffee Break

11.00 - 11.30

Coffee Break

11.30 - 13.00

Med Instrum 2
BioSignal Pro 2
e-Health 1

11.30 - 13.00

BioSignal Pro 3
Med Imaging 3
Clin Engin 2

11.30 - 13.00

Women In Engineering
13.00 - 13.30

Lunch Break

13.00 - 13.30

Lunch Break

13.00 - 13.30

Closing Ceremony
13.30 - 14.15

Poster Session I

13.30 - 14.15

Poster Session II

 

Mount Athos Trip

14.15 - 15.00

Plenary Session III

14.15 - 15.00

Plenary Session V

15.15 - 15.45

Opening

15.00 - 16.30

WEB Applications
General Track 2
Med Imaging 1

15.00 - 16.30

General Track 5
BioSignal Pro 4
Med Instrum  4

15.45 - 16.30

Plenary Session I

16.30 - 17.00

Coffee Break

17.00 - 18.30

General Track 1                     
Med Instrum  1
BioSignal Pro 1

16.30 - 17.00

Coffee Break

16.30 - 17.00

Coffee Break

17.00 - 18.30

General Track 3
Med Instrum  3
e-Health 2

17.00 - 18.30

General Track - ESBME
BioSignal Pro 5

EDU

18.30 - 19.30

ELEBIT GENERAL ASSEMBLY

18.30 - 19.30

MEETING THE EDITOR

18.30 - 19.00

 
19.00 - 20.00 Welcome Reception

19.30 – 20.00

 

19.30 - 20.00

 

20.00

 

 

 

20.00

 

Greek Dinner

20.00

 

Farewell Dinner

 


Plenary Session I  Chair: Nicolas Pallikarakis
Thursday, May 27, 15:15-15:45
Clinical applications of speech Technology
Mark S Hawley
Univeristy of Sheffield, UK
Conference Room Olympic Hall

 


General Track I Co-chairs: Costas Pappas, Mario Medvedec
Thursday, May 27 17:00-18:30
Numerical Investigations of the Strain-Adaptive Bone Remodeling in the Prosthetic Pelvis
Anas Bouguecha, Islam Elgaly, Christina Stukenborg-Colsman, Matthias Lerch, Ingo Nolte, Patrick Wefstaedt and Bernd-Arno Behrens
Conference Room TERPSIHORI
Patellofemoral contact during simulated weight bearing squat movement: A cadaveric study
Jan quintelier, matthieu de beule, peter verdonk, fredrik almqvist, patrick de baets and Annemieke van Haver
Conference Room TERPSIHORI
Incorporating Electroporation-related Conductivity Changes into Models for the Calculation of the Electric Field Distribution in Tissue
Igor Lackovic, Ratko Magjarevic and Damijan Miklavcic.
Conference Room TERPSIHORI
Anthropometric measurements and model evaluation of mass-inertial parameters of the human upper and lower extremities
Gergana Nikolova.
Conference Room TERPSIHORI
Validation of a Person Specific 1-D Model Of the Systemic Arterial Tree
Philippe Reymond, Yvette Bohraus, Fabienne Perren, Francois Lazeyras and Nikos Stergiopulos.
Conference Room TERPSIHORI
Numerical analysis of a Novel method for temperature gradient measurement in the vicinity of warm inflamed atherosclerotic plaques
Ze'ev Aronis, Lior Rosen, Rami Haj-Ali and Shmuel Einav.
Conference Room TERPSIHORI
Performance Evaluation of a Grid-based Heart Simulator
Ricardo Campos, Micael Xavier, Marcelo Lobosco and Rodrigo Santos.
Conference Room TERPSIHORIl


Medical Devices & Instrumentation I  Co-chairs: Krysztof Penkala, Panayiotis Kyriacou
Thursday, May 27 17:00-18:30
A modular architecture of a computer-operated olfactometer for universal use 
Antonios Komnidis, Evdokimos Konstantinidis, Ioannis Stylianou, Manousos A. Klados, Anestis Kalfas and Panagiotis Bamidis.
Conference Room THALIA
Vectorial magnetoencephalographic measurements for the estimation of radial dipolar activity in the human somatosensory system
Jens Haueisen, Katrin Fleissig, Daniel Strohmeier, Ralph Huonker, Mario Liehr and Otto W. Witte. 
 Conference Room THALIA
Wireless Power and Data Transmission for Robotic Endoscopic Capsules        
Riccardo Carta, Jef Thone and Robert Puers.
Conference Room THALIA
Ulcer Detection in Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Images Using Bidimensional Nonlinear Analysis    
Vasileios Charisis, Alexandra Tsiligiri, Leontios Hadjileontiadis, Crhistos Liatsos, Christos Mavrogiannis and George Sergiadis.
Conference Room THALIA
Arterial Pulse Transit Time Dependence on Applied Pressure
Kristjan Pilt, Meigas Kalju, Margus Viigimaa, Rain Kattai, Deniss Karai and Juri Kaik.
Conference Room THALIA
Influence of an Artificial Valve Type on the Flow in the Ventricular Assist Device
Damian Obidowski, Przemyslaw Klosinski, Piotr Reorowicz and Krzysztof Jozwik.
Conference Room THALIA
The development of a portable multi-purpose medical Data Acquisition System
N. Nikolaidis. DatAssist–
Conference Room THALIA


Biomedical Signal Processing I Co-chairs: Robert Allen, Dimitris Koutsouris
Thursday, May 27 17:00-18:30
Event-Related Synchronization/Desynchronization for Evaluating Cortical Response Detection Induced by Dynamic Visual Stimuli
Paulo Jose G. Da Silva, Antonio F. C. Infantosi and Jurandir Nadal.        
Conference Room ERATO
The Epsilon-Skew-Normal dictionary for the decomposition of single- and multichannel biomedical recordings using Matching Pursuit algorithms
Daniel Strohmeier, Andreas Halbleib, Maciej Gratkowski and Jens Haueisen.         
 Conference Room ERATO
Spike Sorting based on Dominant-Sets clustering
Dimitrios A. Adamos, Nikolaos A. Laskaris, Efstratios K. Kosmidis and George Theophilidis.
Conference Room ERATO
Simples Coherence vs Multiple Coherence: a somatosensory evoked response detection investigation
Danilo B. Melges, Antonio Mauricio F. L. Miranda de Sa and Antonio Fernando Catelli Infantosi.     
Conference Room ERATO
Can echolocation provide clues to improvements in medical ultrasound or hearing aids?     Suyeon Kim, Dragana Nikolic, Alicia Costalago Meruelo and Robert Allen.
Conference Room ERATO
On the Empirical Mode Decomposition Performance in White Gaussian Noise Biomedical SignalsAlexandros Karagiannis and Philip Constantinou.    
Conference Room ERATO
Principal Components Clustering Through a Variance-Defined Metric
Joao Carlos G D Costa, Danilo B Melges, Renan Moritz V R Almeida and Antonio Fernando C Infantosi.
Conference Room ERATO
Graph Analysis on Functional Connectivity Networks during an Emotional Paradigm
Chrysa Lithari, Manousos A. Klados and Panos D. Bamidis.
Conference Room ERATO



Plenary Session II  Chair: Nicolaos Dobros
Friday, May 28 8:45-9:30
Global Aspects and Developments in Biomedical Engineering  applied to Health and Life Care: Pushes and Pulls
Gunter Rau
Helmholtz-Institute for Biomedical Engineering, RWTH-Aachen University, Germany                

Conference Room Olympic Hall



Opening Ceremony  
Friday, May 28 9:30-11:00
Welcome addresses from:
Co-chairs of MEDICON 2010
Rector of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Dean of Medical School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
President of IFMBE

Conference Opening:
Minister of Health and Welfare

Conference Room Olympic Hall



Medical Devices & Instrumentation II  Co-chairs: Marek Penhaker, Martin Cerny
Friday, May 28 11:30-13:00
Electrical properties of teeth regarding the electric vitality testing
Tihomir Marjanovic, Zoran Stare and Miro Ranilovic.
Conference Room THALIA
The Role of Viscous Damping on Quality of Haptic Interaction in Upper Limb Rehabilitation Robot: A Simulation Study
Jakob Oblak, Imre Cikajlo, Thierry Keller, Joel Perry, Jan Veneman and Zlatko Matjacic.
 Conference Room THALIA
Stiffness of a small tissue phantom measured by a tactile resonance sensor
Ville Jalkanen, Britt M. Andersson and Olof A. Lindahl.
Conference Room THALIA
Voice controlled neuroprosthesis system
Danut Constantin Irimia, Marian Silviu Poboroniuc, Marius Ciprian Stefan and Gheorghe Livint.
Conference Room THALIA
Reliable Hysteroscopy Color Imaging 
Ioannis Constantinou, Vasilis Tanos, Marios Neofytou and Constantinos Pattichis.
Conference Room THALIA
Neuroimaging of emotional activation: Issues on Experimental Methodology, Analysis and Statistics
Charalampos Styliadis, Christos Papadelis and Panagiotis Bamidis.
Conference Room THALIA



Biomedical Signal Processing II Co-chairs: Olof Lindahl, Christodoulos Christodoulou
Friday, May 28 11:30-13:00
Effects of electrochemotherapy on microcirculatory vasomotion in tumors
Tomaz Jarm, Blaz Cugmas and Maja Cemazar.
Conference Room TERPSIHORI
A Kurtosis-based Automatic System using Naive Bayesian Classifier to Identify ICA Components contaminated by EOG or ECG Artifacts
Manousos A. Klados, Charalampos Bratsas, Christos Frantzidis, Christos Papadelis and Panagiotis Bamidis. 
 Conference Room TERPSIHORI
Ontology for Modeling Interaction in Ambient Assisted Living Environments
Juan B. Mocholi, Pilar Sala, Carlos Fernandez-Llatas and Juan C. Naranjo.
Conference Room TERPSIHORI
The combination of cardiovascular and pulmonary dynamics in a hierarchical system of physiological models
Jorn Kretschmer, Alexander Wahl, Johannes Arntz, Bettina Sabban and Knut Moller. 
Conference Room TERPSIHORI
Simulation of biomechanical experiments in OpenSim
Ioannis Symeonidis, Gueven Kavadarli, Erich Schuller and Steffen Peldschus.
Conference Room TERPSIHORI



eHealth I Co-chairs: Efthyvoulos Kyriakou, Pantelis Angelidis
Friday, May 28 11:30-13:00
Generating and transmitting ambulatory electronic medical prescriptions
Marc Nyssen, Koen Thomeer and Ronald Buyl.
Conference Room ERATO
Estimating Pre-term Birth Using a Hybrid Pattern Classification System
Monique Frize and Nicole Yu.
Conference Room ERATO
Design and Implementation of a Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) System for Healthcare Applications
George Gregoriou, Anastasis Polycarpou, Antonis Dimitriou, Aggelos Bletsas, John Sahalos, Loizos Papaloizou and Panayiotis Polycarpou. 
Conference Room ERATO
Prevention and Management of Risk Conditions of Elderly People through the Home Environment Monitoring    
Laura Pastor-Sanz, Maria De Las Mercedes Fernandez, Maria Fernanda Cabrera-Umpierrez, Maria Teresa Arredondo and Evangelos Bekiaris.
Conference Room ERATO
Adoption and Sophistication of Clinical Information Systems in Greek Public Hospitals: Results from a National Web-based Survey
Spyros Kitsiou, V Manthou, M Vlachopoulou and A Markos. 
Conference Room ERATO
A framework for user centred design implementation of personalized health application
Dario Salvi, Ignacio Peinado, Sergio Salvi and Maria Teresa Arredondo.
Conference Room ERATO

Poster Session I
Friday, May 28 13:30-14:15
Robotic system for training of grasping and reaching
J. Podobnik and M. Munih
Conference Room MELITON HALL I
Collagen gel as cell extracellular environment to study gene electrotransfer
S. Haberl, D. Miklavcic and M. Pavlin
Conference Room MELITON HALL I
The Influence of Seat Pan and Trunk Inclination on Muscles Activity During Sitting on Forward Inclined Seats
A. Mastalerz, I. Palczewska
Conference Room MELITON HALL I
Radiation Exposure in Routine Practice with PET/CT and Automatic Infusion System – Practical experience report
P. Tomse and A. Bicek
Conference Room MELITON HALL I
A Pilot study for Development of Shoulder Proprioception Training System using Virtual Reality for Patients with Stroke: The Effect of Manipulated Visual Feedback
S.W. Cho, J.H. Ku, Y.J. Kang, K.H. Lee, J.Y. Song, H.J. Kim, I.Y. Kim and S.I. Kim
Conference Room MELITON HALL I
Computer Modeling to Study the Dynamic Response of the Temperature Control Loop in RF Cardiac Ablation
J. Alba, M. Trujillo, R. Blasco, E. J. Berjano
Conference Room MELITON HALL I
Mechanical Properties of Long Bone Shaft in Bending
S. M. Rajaai1, K. PourAkbar Saffar and N. JamilPour
Conference Room MELITON HALL I
Active Behavior of Peripheral Nerves during Magnetic Stimulation
M. Cretu, R. Ciupa and L. Darabant
Conference Room MELITON HALL I
Preparations’ methodology for the introduction of Information Systems in Hospitals
J. Sarivougioukas A. Vagelatos and Ch. Kalamara
Conference Room MELITON HALL I
An Echocardiographic Study for Assessing the Indices of Arterial and Ventricular Stiffness
V. Manoliu, C.M. Stanescu, K. Branidou A. Dan, I. Daha, C. Baicus, C. Adam and A.Gh. Dan
Conference Room MELITON HALL I
Estimation of linear parametric distortions and motions in the frequency domain
D. S. Alexiadis and G. D. Sergiadis
Conference Room MELITON HALL I
Ex Vivo and In Vivo Regulation of Arginase in Response to Wall Shear Stress
R.F. da Silva, V.C. Olivon, D. Segers, R. de Crom, R. Krams, N. Stergiopulos
Conference Room MELITON HALL I
Process choreography for Interaction simulation in Ambient Assisted Living environments
C. Fernandez-Llatas, J.B. Mocholi, C. Sanchez, P. Sala and J.C. Naranjo
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Measuring Device for Determination of Forearm Force
P. Hlavo J. Krejsa, M. Zezula
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The Functionality Control of Horizontal Agitators for Blood Bags
Z. Vasickova, M. Penhaker and M. Darebnikova
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Mullins effect in human aorta described with limiting extensibility evolution
L. Horny, E. Gultova, H. Chlup, R. Sedlacek, J. Kronek, J. Vesely and R. Zitny
Conference Room MELITON HALL I
A distribution of collagen fiber orientations in aortic histological section
L. Horny, J. Kronek, H. Chlup, R. Zitny and M. Hulan
Conference Room MELITON HALL I
An innovative approach using polyhedra for right ventricular volume calculation in right catheterization
P. Toumpaniaris, I. Skalkidis, S. Markatis and D. Koutsouris
Conference Room MELITON HALL I
Integrated services for the elderly: An ambient assisted living solution against cognitive deterioration with physical activity
V. Moumtzi, C. Wills and A. Koumpis
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Oscillations in subthalamic nucleus measured by multi electrode arrays
J. Stegenga, T. Heida
Conference Room MELITON HALL I
Suitable polymer pipe to modelling the coronary veins
Romola Laczko, Tibor Balazs, Eszter Bognar
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Satisfaction Survey of Greek Inpatients with Brain Cancer
G.K. Matis, O.I. Chrysou, N. Lyratzopoulos, K. Kontogiannidis, T.A. Birbilis
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End stage renal disease patients’ projections using Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulation
A.Rodina, K. Bliznakova, N. Pallikarakis
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Influence of Bioimplant Surface Electrical Potential on Osteoblast Behavior and Bone Tissue Formation
Yu. Dekhtyar, I. Khlusov , N. Polyaka, R. Sammons and F. Tyulkin
Conference Room MELITON HALL I
Nano-Sized Drug Carrier for Cancer Therapy: Dose-Toxicity Relationship of PEG-PCL-PEG Polymeric Micelle on ICR Mice
J.L. Jiang, N.V. Cuong, S.C. Jwo and M.F. Hsieh
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“Internet of Things”, an RFID – IPv6 scenario in a Healthcare Environment
H. Tsirbas, K. Giokas and D. Koutsouris
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Graphical Development System Design for Creating the FPGA-based Applications in Biomedicine
V. Kasik, M. Stankus
Conference Room MELITON HALL I
Development of software toll for quantitative gait assessment in Parkinsonian patients with and without Mild Cognitive Impairment
L. Iuppariello, R. Tranfaglia, M. Amboni, L. Lista and M.Sansone
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Tensile Stress Analysis of the Ceramic Head Endoprosthesis with different Micro Shape Deviations of the Contact Areas
V. Fuis and M. Koukal
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Modelling of Cancer Dynamics and Comparison of Methods for Survival Time Estimation
Tomas Zdrazil, Jiri Holcik
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Implications of data quality problems within hospital administrative databases
Alberto Freitas1, 2, Tiago Silva-Costa1, 2, Bernardo Marques1, 2 and Altamiro Costa-Pereira1, 2
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European Postgraduate Program on Biomedical Engineering - From Evaluation to Continuous Improvement
V.P. Griva , N.E. Pallikarakis
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Active Contours without Edges Applied to Breast Lesions on Ultrasound
W. Gomez, A. F. C. Infantosi, L. Leija , W. C. A. Pereira
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Automatic identification of trabecular bone fracture
S. Tassani, P.A. Asvestas, G.K. Matsopoulos, and F. Baruffaldi
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A Visualization System to Improve the Surgical Performance during a Laparoscopic Procedure
L.T. De Paolis, M. Pulimeno and G. Aloisio
Conference Room MELITON HALL I
An Open Source and Free GUI Based Software Tool for Producing Annotations for 3-D Medical Images
E. Nyssen and W Jacquet
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The blood perfusion mapping in the human skin by photoplethysmography imaging
U. Rubins, R. Erts and V. Nikiforovs
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Fingerprint Matching with Self Organizing Maps
A.N. Ouzounoglou, T.L. Economopoulos, P.A. Asvestas and G.K. Matsopoulos
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A Novel Model for Monte Carlo Simulations of Performance Parameters of the Rodent Research PET (RRPET) Camera Based on NEMA NU-4 Standards
N. Zeraatkar, M.R. Ay, A.R. Kamali-Asl and H. Zaidi
Conference Room MELITON HALL I
Assessing the Potentiality of Average Grey-Level from Ultrasound B-Mode Images in Estimating Temperature Variations in Different Regions of Ex-Vivo Tissue
Cesar.A. Teixeira, A.V. Alvarenga, M.A. von Kruger and W.C.A. Pereira
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CT2MCNP: An Integrated Package for Constructing Patient-Specific Voxel-Based Phantoms for MCNP(X) Monte Carlo Code
A. Mehranian, M. R. Ay and H. Zaidi
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Noise reduction in fluoroscopic image sequences for joint kinematics analysis
T.Cerciello, P. Bifulco, M. Cesarelli, L. Paura, M. Romano, G. Pasquariello and R. Allen
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The Influence of Patient Miscentering on Patient Dose and Image Noise in Two Commercial CT Scanners
M.A. Habibzadeh, M.R. Ay, A.R. Kamali asl , H. Ghadiri and H. Zaidi
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A Study on Performance of a Digital Image Acquisition System in Mammography Diagnostic
D. Dimitric, G.Nisevic, Z. Boskovic1, A. Vasic
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An efficient Video-Synopsis technique for optical recordings with application to the analysis of rat barrel-cortex responses
V. Tsitlakidis 1, N.A. Laskaris 1, G.C. Koudounis2, E.K. Kosmidis3
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Preoperative Planning Software for Hip Replacement
M. Michalikova, L. Bednarcikova, T. Toth and J. Zivcak
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A new fluorescence image-processing method to visualize Ca2+-release and uptake Endoplasmatic Reticulum microdomains in cultured glia
J. Ion Titapiccolo1, F. Esposti2 ,A. Fanelli1, and M.G. Signorini1
Conference Room MELITON HALL I
Experimental Measurement of the Modulation Transfer Function (MTF) in Five Commercial CT Scanners
S.M. Akbari1,2, M.R. Ay2,3,4, A.R. Kamali asl1 , H. Ghadiri2,5 and H. Zaidi6,7
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Microcalcifications Segmentation Procedure Based on Morphological Operators and Histogram Filtering
M.A. Duarte, A.V. Alvarenga, C.M. Azevedo, A.F.C. Infantosi4, W.C.A. Pereira
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Segmentation of anatomical structures on chest radiographs
S. Juhasz, A. Horvath, L. Nikhazy, G. Horvath, A. Horvath
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Rest and action tremor in Parkinson’s disease – effects of Deep Brain Stimulation
T. Heida, E.C. Wentink
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Lung nodule detection on rib eliminated radiographs
G. Orban, A. Horvath and G. Horvath
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An improved algorithm for out-of-plane artifacts removal in digital tomosynthesis reconstructions
K. Bliznakova, Z. Bliznakov and N. Pallikarakis
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Magnetic resonance imaging characteristics of non-thermal irreversible electroporation in vegetable tissue
Mohammad Hjouj, Boris Rubinsky
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Superposition of activations of SWI and fMRI acquisitions of the motor cortex
M. Matos, M. Forjaz Secca, and M. Noseworthy
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Comparison of two Types of Collimators used in Thyroid Scintigraphy
J. Pawlus1, A. Stepien and M. Wasilewska-Radwanska
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Informational phenomenon’s in Ambient Intelligence
S.A. Dadunashvili
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Self-affinity in brain activity: relationship between fractal dimension and power-law beta exponent of EEG in sleeping newborns
M. Cusenza and A. Accardo
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Application Development in the Management of the Medical Equipment at a Hospital
I.G. Ntamposi, J. Liaskos , E.G.Paziou, B.A. Gkergkis
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Evaluation of the image quality of new MRI technologies
M. Sansone, L. Mirarchi, L. Scatto, R. Fazio, and M. Bracale
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Study of Left Ventricle Pressure-Volume Loops in Renal Stenosis Case Using Equivalent Electrical Circuit
M. Abdolrazaghi, M. Navidbakhsh and K.Hassani
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Parametric analysis of handwriting in school age children
A.Accardo, M.Genna, M.Borean and B.Saule
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Device of Accurate Reflex Plethysmograph
M. Prauzek, T. Peterek, O. Adamec and M. Penhaker
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On the Possibility of Delayed Fracture Healing Detection Using Ultrasound Axial Transmission: Numerical Simulations
C. B. Machado, W. C. A. Pereira, M. Talmant, F. Padilla, P. Laugier
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Use of Mobile Embedded Devices for Processing of Biomedical Signals
Dalibor Janckulik, Leona Motalova and Ondrej Krejcar
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Professional competency in clinical engineering
Y. David, William A. Hyman
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Complex analysis of the masticatory system function using different measurement techniques
W. Mickiewicz, J. Sawicki, K. Penkala and A. Biedka
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First-in-man application of left ventricular augmentation for treatment of Dilated Cardiomyopathy
B. Retzlaff, B. Voss, A. Will, R. Lange and R. Bauernschmitt
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Rheological and electrical properties of RBC suspensions in dextran 70. Changes in RBC morphology
N. Antonova, I. Ivanov, Y. Gluhcheva, E. Zvetkova
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Connectivity for the Indoor and Outdoor Elderly People Safety Management: An Example from our Current Project
M. Chan, E. Campo, W. Bourennane, D. Esteve
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Fluorescent Gold Nanoclusters Synthesis and Bioconjugation for Cellular Labeling
C. A. J. Lin, C. H. Lee, J. T. Hsieh, Hung-I Yeh and W. H. Chang
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An assessment of HRV during deep sleep. Comparison between healthy subjects and epileptic patients
S.N. Nikolopoulos, M.A. Valderrama, V. Navarro and M. LeVanQuyen
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Visuo-motor integration enhances coherent sources in the human brain
Papadelis C, Arfeller C, Erla S, Nollo G, Braun C
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Online Training of Healthcare Professional to enable Smoking Cessation
Stathis Th. Konstantinidis, Evdokimos Konstantinidis, Maria M. Nikolaidou, Afroditi K. Boutou, Nikos Havouzis, Panagiotis D. Bamidis, Paraskevi Argyropoulou
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A finite element method study of the current density distribution in a capacitive intrabody communication system
Z. Lucev, A. Korican and M. Cifrek
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Possibilities of Weighing Machine Adjustment for Purblind and Sightless People
V. Kasik, M. Stankus
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Low Cost Data Acquisition System for Biomedical Usage
M. Stankus, M. Penhaker, M. Cerny and V. Kasik
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Supervised and Unsupervised Finger Vein Segmentation in Infrared Images Using KNN and NNCA clustering algorithms
M. Vlachos and E. Dermatas
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Virtual experiments: May VCV impede circulation more than PCV in (virtual) patients in the lateral position?
T. Golczewski and M. Darowski
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Plenary Session III  Chair: Christos Schizas
Friday, May 28 14:15-15:00

Closed Loop: a Taxonomy Framework for Medical Procedures
Georgios Sakas
Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics (IGD), Darmstad, Germany

Conference Room TERPSIHORI

Web Applications  Co-chairs: Andriani Daskalaki, Iraklis Paraskakis
Friday, May 28 15:00-16:30
SOAP/WSDL-Based Web Services for Biomedicine: Demonstrating the Technique with the Cancer Resource Ahmed, Reha Yildiriman, Mathias Dunkel, Ralf Herwig and Robert Preissner.
Conference Room THALIA
System for Acquiring, Processing and Transmission EEG Data with Capabilities of Distributed EEG Data Processing George Maragos and Dimitris Kastaniotis. Conference Room THALIA
Haverkamp, J. Rentzsch. The Umbrella Database on Fever and Neutropenia in Children – Prototype for Internet-based Medical Data Management Matthias Faix, Daniela Augst, Hans Jurgen Laws, Arne Simon for the Umbrella Internet Data-base Network, Fritz. Conference Room THALIA
A research information system (RIS) for breast cancer genetics Brane Leskosek, Jure Dimec, Ksenija Gersak and Polonca Ferk. Conference Room THALIA
WeCare : Wireless Enhanced Healthcare Hande Ozgur Alemdar and Cem Ersoy. Conference Room THALIA
Using Social Semantic Web Technologies in Public Health: A Prototype Epidemiological Semantic Wiki Charalampos Bratsas, Alexia Tzalavra, Vassilios Vescoukis and Panagiotis Bamidis. Conference Room THALIA

General Track II  Co-chairs: Damijan Miklavcic, Radu Vasile Ciupa
Friday, May 28 15:00-16:30
Studying postural sway using wearable sensors: fall prediction.
Andrea Turcato and Stefano Ramat.
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Rapid Prototype Development for Studying Human Activity Athanasios Fevgas, Panagiota Tsompanopoulou and Spyridon Lalis. Conference Room TERPSIHORI
Automated estimation of 3D camera extrinsic parameters for the monitoring of physical activity of elderly patients
R Deklerck, Bart Jansen, X.L. Yao and J. Cornelis.
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A game-like interface for training seniors’ dynamic balance and coordination
Antonis Billis, Evdokimos Konstantinidis, Christos Mouzakidis, Magda Tsolaki, Costas Pappas and Panagiotis Bamidis.
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An Automated Method for Levodopa-Induced Dyskinesia Detection and Severity Classification Markos
G. Tsipouras, Alexandros Tzallas, George Rigas, Penny Bougia, Dimitrios Fotiadis and Spyros Konitsiotis.
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Development of a Simple and Cheap Device for Movement Analysis
Csanad Erdos, Gergo Farkas and Bela Pataki.
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Medical Imaging I  Co-chairs: Kristina Bliznakova, Silvia Erla
Friday, May 28 15:00-16:30
Measurement Methodology for Tempomandibular Joint Displacement Based on Focus Mutual Information Alignment of CBCT Images
Wolfgang Jacquet, Edgard Nyssen and Bart Vande Vannet.
Conference Room ERATO
Computer Aided Diagnosis of Diffuse Lung Disease in Multi-detector CT – Selecting 3D texture features
Ioannis Mariolis, Panayiotis Korfiatis, Christina Kalogeropoulou, Dimitrios Daoussis, Theodor Petsas and Lena Costaridou.
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Statistical Pre-Processing Method For Peripheral Quantitative Computed Tomography Images
Tomas Cervinka, Harri Sievanen, Markus Hannula and Jari Hyttinen.
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A Novel Approach for Implementation of Dual Energy Mapping Technique in CT-Based Attenuation Correction Using Single kVP Imaging: A Feasibility Study
Behnoosh Teimourian, Mohammad Reza Ay, Hossein Ghadiri, Mojtaba Shamsaei Zafarghandi and Habib Zaidi.
Conference Room ERATO
Computational Visualization of Tumor Virotherapy
Xuefeng Gao, Mark Tangney and Sabin Tabirca.
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Preoperative planning program tool in treatment of articular fractures: Process of segmentation procedure
Matevz Tomazevic, D Kreuh, A Kristan, V Puketa and M Cimerman.
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General Track III  Co-chairs: Jan Cornelis, Yuri Dekhtyar
Friday, May 28 17:00-18:30
Enhanced stem cells characteristic of fibroblastic mesenchymal cells from HHT patients
Giulia Silvani, Laura Benedetti, Nicola Crosetto, Carla Olivieri, Daniela Galli, Bruno Magnani, Giovanni Magenes and Gabriella Cusella De Angelis.
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Changes in electrocardiogram during intra-abdominal electrochemotherapy: A preliminary report
Barbara Mali, Tomaz Jarm, Eldar Gadzijev, Gregor Sersa and Damijan Miklavcic.
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Ventilation inhomogeneity in upright and supine position assessed by electrical impedance tomography
Zhanqi Zhao, Nikola Kiefer, Melinda Kuscar, Susanne Lang and Knut Moeller.
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Numerical Simulation In Magnetic Drug Targeting. Magnetic Field Source Optimization
Alin Dobre and Alexandru Morega.
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Improved Modeling of Lane Intensity Profiles on Gel Electrophoresis Images
Christos Maramis and Anastasios Delopoulos.
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A multilevel and multiscale approach for the prediction of oral cancer reoccurrence
Konstantinos Exarchos, Georgios Rigas, Yorgos Goletsis and Dimitrios I Fotiadis.
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Assessment of a patient-specific silicon model of the human arterial forearm
Koen Van Canneyt, Francesca Giudici, Patrick Segers and Pascal Verdonck.
 

Medical Devices & Instrumentation III  Co-chairs: Emil Valchinov, Christos Manolopoulos
Friday, May 28 17:00-18:30
Digital filter in hardware loop for on line ECG signal baseline wander reduction
Andrius Petrenas, Vaidotas Marozas, Saulius Daukantas and Arunas Lukosevicius.
Conference Room THALIA
WADEDA: A Wearable Affective Device with On-Chip Signal Processing Capabilities for measuring ElectroDermal Activity
Evdokimos Konstantinidis, Christos Frantzidis, Christos Papadelis, Costas Pappas and Panagiotis Bamidis.
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A wearable wireless ECG sensor: a design with a minimal number of parts
E.S. Valchinov and Nicolas Pallikarakis.
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Pre-clinical physiological data acquisition and testing of the IMAGE sensing device for exercise guidance and real-time monitoring of cardiovascular disease patients
Alexander Astaras, Athina Kokonozi, Emmanouil Michail,
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Novel TiN-based dry EEG electrodes: Influence of electrode shape and number on contact impedance and signal quality
Patrique Fiedler, Stephan Brodkorb, Carlos Fonseca, Filipe Vaz, Frank Zanow and Jens Haueisen.
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eHealth II  Co-chairs: Emil Contantinos Pattichis, Marc Nyssen
Friday, May 28 17:00-18:30
Multilevel Access Control in Hospital Information Systems
Vassilis Baldas, Kostas Giokas and Dimitrios Koutsouris.
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Managing Urinary Incontinence through Hand-held Real-time Decision Support Aid
Constantinos Koutsojannis, George Bakogiannis, Chrysa Lithari, Eman Alkholy Nabil and Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis.
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Renal Telemedicine and Telehealth – Where Do We Stand?
Eleni Kaldoudi and V Vargemezis.
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Reliability issues in Regional Health Networks
Stergiani Spyrou, Panagiotis Bamidis and Nicos Maglaveras.
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A System for Monitoring Children with Suspected Cardiac Arrhythmias – Technical Optimizations and Evaluation
Efthyvoulos Kyriacou, Constantinos Pattichis, Dimitris Hoplaros, Anastasis Kounoudes, Marios Milis and Antonis Jossif.
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Contributing for the creation of a European e-health space:
The NETC@RDS Project
G. Pangalos, S. Kortesis, I. Pagkalos
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Security and Reliability of Data Transmissions in Model Biotelemetric System
Marek Penhaker, Martin Stankus, Jan Kijonka and Petr Grygarek.
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Plenary Session IV  Chair: Ratko Magjarevic
Saturday, May 29 8:45-9:30

Clinical Engineering Competency and Certification
Yadin David
Biomedical Engineering Consultants LLC, Huston, Texas,USA

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General Track IV  Co-chairs: Radovan Stojanovic, Paul Dan Cristea
Saturday, May 29 9:30-11:000
The Volume Regulation and Accumulation of Synovial Fluid between Articular Plateaus of Knee Joints
Miroslav Petrtyl, Jana Danesova and Jaroslav Lisal.
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First Trimester Diagnosis of Trisomy-21 Using Artificial Neural Networks
Costas Neocleous, Kypros Nikolaides, Kleanthis Neokleous and Christos Schizas.
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Diagnosis of Asthma Severity Using Artificial Neural Networks
Eleni Chatzimichail, Alexandros Rigas, Emmanouil Paraskakis and Athanasios Chatzimichail.
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Using Grid Infrastructure for the Promotion of Biomedical Knowledge Mining
Aristotelis Chatziioannou, I Kanaris and Ilias Maglogiannis.
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Protein Surface Atom Neighborhood Functional Description
Paul Dan Cristea, Rodica Aurora Tuduce and Octavian Arsene.
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Diagnostic ECG Classification Using Artificial Neural Networks
A. Karlas, K. Papathoma, G. Tsiamis, A. Zafeiropoulos and Y.S. Chatzizisis.
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Medical Imaging II  Co-chairs: Theodoros Arvanitis, Eleni Kaldoudi
Saturday, May 29 9:30-11:000
Thermal Images of Electrically Stimulated Breast: a simulation study
H. Feza Carlak, Nevzat G. Gencer and Cengiz Besikci.
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Magnetic Resonance Current Density Imaging Using One Component of Magnetic Flux Density: An Experimental Study
Ali Ersoz and B. Murat Eyuboglu.
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Computer-aided detection of COPD using digital chest radiographs
Laszlo Nikhazy, Gabor Horvath, Akos Horvath and Veronika Muller.
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Localisation, registration and visualisation of MRS volumes of interest on MR Images
Yu sun, Nigel Davies, Kal Natarajan, Theodoros Arvanitis and Andrew Peet.
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Perfusion CT of the liver tumor: calibration method
Michela D'Anto, Mario Cesarelli, Paolo Bifulco, Maria Romano, Vincenzo Cerciello and Francesco Fiore.
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Registration of chest X-rays
Janos Csorba, Balazs Kormanyos and Bela Pataki.
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Clinical Engineering & Safety I  Co-chairs: Yadin David, Monique Frize
Saturday, May 29 9:30-11:000
Human Factors Engineering applied to Risk Management in the Use of Medical Equipment
Ana P. S. Silva, Rodrigo M. A. Almeida, Jose A. Ferreira and Antonio Gibertoni.
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Electromagnetic interferences (EMI) from active RFId on critical care equipment
Ernesto Iadanza, Fabrizio Dori, Roberto Miniati and Edvige Corrado.
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The Clinical Data Recorder: What Shall Be Monitored?
Leonardo Nascimento and Saide Calil.
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Clinical Engineering and Patient Safety: a forty year cycle
Monique Frize, Sabine Weyand and Kim Greenwood.
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NOVAMEDTECH, A THREE YEAR INNOVATION PROJECT
Nils-Erik Pettersson.
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Biomedical Signal Processing III  Co-chairs: Antonio Fernando Infantosi, Jens Haueisen
Saturday, May 29 11:30-13:000
Comparing sensorimotor cortex activation during actual and imaginary movement
Alkinoos Athanasiou, Chrysa Lithari, Ioannis Moulos, Konstantina Kalogianni, Emmanouil Chatzitheodorou and Panagiotis Bamidis.
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Studying Brain Visuo-Tactile Integration through Cross-Spectral Analysis of human MEG recordings
Silvia Erla, Christos Papadelis, Luca Faes, Christoph Braun and Giandomenico Nollo.
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On the Selection of Time Interval and Frequency Range of EEG Signal Preprocessing for P300 Brain-Computer Interfacing
Nikolay Manyakov, Nikolay Chumerin, Adrien Combaz and Marc Van Hulle.
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Investigating the EEG alpha band during kinesthetic and visual motor imagery of the spike volleyball movement
Marcus Vinicius Stecklow, Mauricio Cagy and Antonio Fernando Catelli Infantosi.
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Dynamics of Catch-up Saccades during Tracking of Two-dimensional Time-continuous Target Trajectory
Vincas Laurutis and Raimondas Zemblys.
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Medical Imaging III  Co-chairs: Igor Lackovic, Ilias Maglogiannis
Saturday, May 29 11:30-13:000
Corneal nerves segmentation and morphometric parameters quantification for early detection of diabetic neuropathy
Ana Ferreira, Antonio Morgado and Jose Silva.
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Statistical Texture Analysis of MRI Images to Classify Patients Affected by Multiple Sclerosis
Alberto Faro, Daniela Giordano, Concetto Spampinato and Manuela Pennisi.
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The role of geometry of the human carotid bifurcation in the formation and development of atherosclerotic plaque
Panagiotis Kalozoumis, Anestis Kalfas and A Giannoukas.
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New Approaches for Continuous Non Invasive Blood Pressure Monitoring
Petr Zurek, Martin Cerny, Michal Prauzek, Ondrej Krejcar and Marek Penhaker.
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A Web-based tool for the Automatic Segmentation of Cardiac MRI
Tarcisio de Paula, Marcelo Lobosco and Rodrigo dos Santos.
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Fully Automatic 3D Cardiac Tagged MRI using Multiple Source Non-Rigid Registration Techniques
Maria J. Ledesma-Carbayo, Andres Santos, Elliot R. McVeigh.
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Clinical Engineering & Safety II  Co-chairs: Jorge Saide Calil, Paolo Lago
Saturday, May 29 11:30-13:00
A web-based application for the evaluation of the healthcare management
Michele Bava, Daniel Zotti, Riccardo Zangrando and Mauro Delendi.
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From biomedical research to spin-off companies for the health care market
Olof Lindahl, Kerstin Ramser, Ronnie Lundstrom and Britt Andersson.
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Health Technology Assessment via Analytic Hierarchy Process. A case study: choosing the maintenance contract for a CT.
Leandro Pecchia, Luciano Mirarchi, Peter A. Bath and Bracale Marcello.
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Development of a system dynamics model for cost estimation for the implantation and revision of hip joint endoprosthesis
Jorg Schrottner and Arnold Herzog.
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Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in the treatment of novel influenza virus infection: a multicentric Hospital-Based Health Technology Assessment in Lombardy Region
Paolo Lago, Valloned Ilaria and Gianluca Zarola.
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MRI-induced heating on patients with Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators and Pacemaker: Role of Lead Structure
Eugenio Mattei, Giovanni Calcagnini, Michele Triventi, Federica Censi and Pietro Bartolini.
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Poster Session II 
Saturday, May 29 13:30-14:15
Comparison of Methods of Measurement of Head Position in Neurological Practice
P. Kutilek, J. Charfreitag, J. Hozman
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The nanoporous AlO material used for the enzyme entrapping in a glucose biosensor
C. Ravariu, E. Manea, F. Babarada, A. Popescu and C. Podaru
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Hand-held resonance sensor instrument for soft tissue stiffness measurements – a first study on biological tissue in vitro
V. Jalkanen, O.A. Lindahl
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Improved optical method for measuring concentration of uric acid removed during dialysis J. Jerotskaja,
F. Uhlin, M.Luman, K. Lauri and I. Fridolin
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Head Position Monitoring System
P. Cech, J. Dlouhy, M. Cizek, J. Rozman and I. Vicha
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Short range wireless link for data acquisition in medical equipment
N.M.Roman, S.Gergely, R.V. Ciupa, M.V.Pusca
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Corneal quantitative fluorometry – a Slit-lamp based platform
J. P. Domingues, Isa Branco and A. M. Morgado
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Automatic Detection of Patients’ Spontaneous Activity During Pressure Support Ventilation
G. Matrone, F. Mojoli, A. Orlando, A. Braschi and G. Magenes
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Determination of In Vivo Three-Dimensional Lower Limb Kinematics for Simulation of High-Flexion Squats
P.D. Wong, B. Callewaert, K. Desloovere, L. Labey, and B. Innocenti
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Evaluation of chronic diabetic wounds with the Near Infrared Wound Monitor
Michael Neidrauer, Leonid Zubkov, Michael S. Weingarten, Kambiz Pourrezaei, and Elisabeth S. Papazoglou
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Non-Contact UWB Radar Technology to Assess Tremor
G. Blumrosen, M. Uziel, B. Rubinsky and D. Porrat
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High frequency mechanical vibrations stimulate the bone matrix formation in hBMSCs (human Bone Marrow Stromal Cells)
D.Pre, G.Ceccarelli, M.G.Cusella De Angelis, and G.Magenes
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Mobispiro: A novel spirometer
Eleni J. Sakka, Pantelis Aggelidis and Markela Psimarnou
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Selected Problems Solving on hardware Platform of Biotelemetric System
Dalibor Janckulik, Leona Motalova and Ondrej Krejcar
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A computer program for the functional assessment of the rotational vestibulo-ocular re?ex (VOR)
A. Bohler, M. Mandala and S. Ramat
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New application for automatic hemifield damage identification in Humphrey Field Analyzer (HFA) Visual Fields.
A.Salonikiou, V. Kilintzis, A. Antoniadis and F. Topouzis
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The Effect of Mechano– and Magnetochemically Synthesized Magnetosensitive Nanocomplex and Electromagnetic Irradiation on Animal Tumor
V.E. Orel, A.V. Romanov, I.I. Dzyatkovska, M.O. Nikolov, Yu.G. Mel'nik, N.M. Dzyatkovska and I.B. Shchepotin
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Verification of Measuring System for Automation Intra – Abdominal Pressure Measurement
T. Toth, M. Michalikova, L. Bednarcikova, M. Petrik, and J. Zivcak
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Evolution in Bladder Pressure Measuring Implants Developed at
K.U.Leuven P. Jourand, J. Coosemans, and R. Puers
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Including the effect of the thermal wave in theoretical modeling for radiofrequency ablation
J.A. Lopez Molina, M.J. Rivera, M. Trujillo, V. Romero-Garcia and E.J. Berjano
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Textile Integrated Monitoring System for Breathing Rhythm of Infants
H. De Clercq, P. Jourand and R. Puers
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Comparison between VHDL-AMS and PSPICE modeling of ultrasound measurement system for biological medium
N. Aouzale, A. Chitnalah , H. Jakjoud , D. Kourtiche , M. Nadi
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Stimulation Parameter Testing and Verification During Pacing
Martin Augustynek, Marek Penhaker, Pavel Sazel, David Korpas
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Biosignal Monitoring and Processing for Management of Hypertension
A. Stan, R. Lupu, M. Ciorap and R. Ciorap
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Embedded Programmable Invasive Blood Pressure Simulator
J. Kijonka, M. Penhaker
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Numerical Models of an Artery with Different Stent Types
M. Brand, M. Ryvkin, S. Einav ,I. Avrahami4, J. Rosen5, M. Teodorescu6
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A macro-quality control of dual energy X-ray absorptiometry using whole dissection, ashing and computer tomography in pigs
A. Scafoglieri, S. Provyn, J. Tresignie, O. Louis, J.A. Wallace, J. De Mey and J.P. Clarys
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Use of Guidelines and Decision Support Systems within EHR Applications in Family Practice – Croatian Experience
D. Kralj, S. Tonkovic and M. Koncar
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Life Cycle of Developmement of Distributed Biomedical System for Home Care Agencies
Dalibor Janckulik, Leona Motalova and Ondrej Krejcar
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A New Concept of the Integrated Care Service for Unstable Diabetic Patients
P. Ladyzynski, P. Foltynski, J.M. Wojcic, K. Migalska-Musial, M. Molik, J. Krzymien, G. Rosinski, G. Opolski, K. Czajkowski4, M. Tracz, W. Karnafel
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TELEMON – An Embedded Wireless Monitoring and Alert System for Homecare
C. Rotariu, H. Costin, R. Ciobotariu, F. Adochiei, I. Amariutei and Gladiola Andruseac
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SHARE: A meeting point for the promotion of interoperability and best practices in eHealth sector
M. Ortega-Portillo, M.M. Fernandez-Rodriguez, M.F. Cabrera-Umpierrez, M.T. Arredondo, G. Carrozza
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Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology in e-Health - a sample application
R. Jagusz , J. Borkowski and K. Penkala
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Risk management process and CE marking of software as MD
Fabrizio Dori, Ernesto Iadanza, Roberto Miniati, Samuele Mattei.
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Subclavian steal syndrome. A computer model approach
C. Manopoulos, S. Tsangaris
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From Laparoscopic Surgery to -D Double Console Robot-Assisted Surgery
P. Lago, C. Lombardi and B. Dell’Anna
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Clinical Engineering and Clinical Dosimetry in Patients with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer Undergoing Thyroid Remnant Ablation with Radioiodine
M. Medvedec, D. Dodig
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Recognition and Identification of Red Blood Cell size using Angular Radial Transform and Neural Networks
G. Apostolopoulos, S. Tsinopoulos and E. Dermatas
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Correlations between longitudinal corneal apex displacement, head movements and pulsatile blood flow
M. Danielewska, H. Kasprzak and M. Kowalska
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The Analog Processing and Digital Recording of Electrophysiological Signals
F. Babarada, J. Arhip and C. Ravariu
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Parameter Selection in Approximate and Sample Entropy-Complexity of Acute and Chronic Stress Response
T. Loncar Turukalo, O. Sarenac, N.Japundzic-Zigon, and D. Bajic
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The importance of uterine contractions extraction in evaluation of the progress of labour by Calculating the Values of Sample Entropy from Uterine Electromyogram
J.Vrhovec, D. Rudel, A. Macek Lebar
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Simultaneous Pneumo- and Photoplethysmographic Recording of Oscillometric Envelopes Applying a Local Pad-Type Cuff on the Radial Artery
R. Raamat, K. Jagomagi, J. Talts and J. Kivastik
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Estimation of Mean Radial Blood Pressure in Critically Ill Patients
K. Jagomagi, J. Talts, P. Tahepold, R. Raamat and J. Kivastik
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Photoplethysmographic Assessment of the Pressure-Compliance Relationship for the Radial Artery
J. Talts, R. Raamat, K. Jagomagi and J. Kivastik
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High-Frequency Acoustic Properties of Cutaneous Cell Carcinomas In Vitro
L.I. Petrella, W.C.A. Pereira, P.R. Issa, H.A. Valle, C.J. Martins and J.C. Machado
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Gender-related Effects of Carbohydrate Ingestion and Hypoxia on Heart Rate Variability: Linear and Non-linear Analysis
T. Princi, M. Klemenc, P. Golja and A. Accardo
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On the analysis of dynamic lung mechanics separately in ins- and expiration
K. Moller, Z. Zhao, C. A. Stahl, and J. Guttmann
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Carotid stimulation during fMRI imaging: methodological and practical issues
G. Calcagnini, E. Mattei, M. Triventi, A. Delogu, A. Bassi, M. Bozzali, S. Strano4 and P. Bartolini
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Patient-specific seizure prediction using a multi-feature and multi-modal EEG-ECG classification
M. Valderrama, S. Nikolopoulos, C. Adam-, V. Navarro- and M. Le Van Quyen
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Clinical Validation of an Algorithm for Automatic Detection of Atrial Fibrillation from Single Lead ECG
M. Triventi, G. Calcagnini, F. Censi, E. Mattei, F. Mele and P. Bartolini
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Mental and Motor Task Classification by
LDA N.GURSEL OZMEN, L. GUMUSEL
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The human subthalamic nucleus – knowledge for the understanding of Parkinson’s disease
T. Heida and E. Marani
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Dissociated neurons from an extended rat subthalamic area - spontaneous activity and acetylcholine addition
T. Heida and E. Marani
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Nigro-subthalamic and nigro-trigeminal projections in the rat
E. Marani, N.E. Lazarov, T. Heida, K.G. Usunoff†
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Statistical Estimate on Indices Associated to Atherosclerosis Risk
C. M. Ipate, A. Machedon and M. Morega
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P-wave characteristics after external electrical cardioversion: predictive indexes of atrial fibrillation relapse
F. Censi, G. Calcagnini, M. Triventi, E. Mattei, P. Bartolini, I. Corazza, G. Boriani
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Study of Some EEG Signal Processing Methods for Detection of Epileptic Activity
D.Matei and R.Matei
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Continuous Wavelet Transformation of Pattern Electroretinogram (PERG) - a tool improving the test accuracy
K. Penkala
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An Interactive Tool for Customizing Clinical Transacranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Experiments
A. Faro, D. Giordano, I. Kavasidis, C. Pino, C. Spampinato, M.G. Cantone, G. Lanza and M. Pennisi
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Salient Regions Detection in Microscopic Kidney Biopsies Utilizing Image Analysis Techniques
Goudas T. , Doukas C. , Chatziioannou A. , Maglogiannis I.
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Study of Gait Angles and Posture in Physiotherapy by Cyclograms and AI
P. Kutilek, J. Charfreitag and O. Cakrt
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Accurate Methods for Manually Marking Retinal VesselWidths
Bashir Al-Diri, Andrew Hunter and David Steel
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Classification Of Image Prostate Cancer Using Combining Classifiers
S.Bouatmane , A.Bouridane and C.Tanougast
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Discrimination of epileptic pre-ictal states using feature based clustering on EEG
A. Tsimpiris, D. Kugiumtzis and P. G. Larsson
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Higher Order Brain Functions in Children studied by Near Infrared
Matthias Faix, C. Hoppe, Arne Simon, D. Augst, F. Haverkamp
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Mining Frequent Spatial Docking Patterns in Zinc Finger - DNA Complexes
Andrea Szaboova , Ondrej Kuzelka , Filip ? Zelezny and Jakub Tolar
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Comparison of methods for identification of oval contours on tomographic images with potential application in the image guided orthopedic surgery
Z. Kamarianakis , I. Buliev and N. Pallikarakis
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Slow Cortical Potentials regulation in epilepsy: a short account on the use of Brain Computer Interfaces as neuromodulation treatment
A. Athanasiou, A. Karlas, C. Lithari and P.D. Bamidis
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Modellig the Ca+ as Second Messenger in the Neuronal Cell Networks
C.M.Dabu
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IMAGEGRID: A Web interface aiming to medical data management at Grid Infrastructure exploiting Web Technologies
Y. Thermou, I. Kanaris, I. Maglogiannis
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Open Research Issues in Vision-Based Fall Detection Systems (FDS)
X. Kolovou, C. Doukas5, D. Vergados, I. Anagnostopoulos4, I. Maglogiannis
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Peripheral hemodynamic measurements using impedance pletismography
C. Corciova,R. Ciorap, D. Zaharia, D. Matei
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Classification of cancer cells based on Haralick’s Coefficients using Multi-spectral images
A. Chaddad, , C.Tanougast, A. Dandache, A. Bouridane, J. Charara and A. Al Houseini
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The Effect of Haemodialysis by Using On Line Paired Haimodifiltration (PHF) in Patients in an Intensice Care Unit (ICU)
Papadimitriou Menelaos, Patsialas Stavros, Papadimitriou Georgios, Sidiropoulou Maria
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Risk management process and CE marking of software as MD
Fabrizio Dori, Ernesto Iadanza, Roberto Miniati, Samuele Mattei.
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Extending the autism communication system with educational scenaria
Ecaterini Tzanavari, Evdokimos Konstantinidis, Panagiotis Bamidis, Magda Hitoglou-Antoniadou
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The Construction of Chimeric T-cell Receptor with Spacer Base of Modeling Study of VHH and MUC Interaction
Nazanin Pirooznia, Sadegh Hasannia, Majid Taghdir and Fatemeh Rahbarizade
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Plenary Session V Chair: Panagiotis Bamidis
Saturday, May 29 14:15-15:00
Affective Computing: Taking Clinical Research out of the Lab
Rana el Kaliouby
MIT Media Lab, USA
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General Track V Co-chairs: Kalju Meigas, Tomaz Jarm
Saturday, May 29 15:00-16:30
A Continuous-Time Dynamical Model for the Vestibular Nucleus
Adrian Korodi, Vlad Ceregan, Toma Leonida Dragomir and Alexandru Codrean.
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Fast optical signal in the prefrontal cortex correlates with EEG
Andrei Medvedev, Jana Kainerstorfer, Sergey Borisov and John VanMeter.
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A frequency synchronization study on the temporal and spatial evolution of emotional visual processing using wavelet entropy and IAPS picture collection
Christos Frantzidis, Costas Pappas and Panagiotis Bamidis.
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Frontal EEG Asymmetry and Affective States: A Multidimensional Directed Information Approach
P. Petrantonakis and Leontios Hadjileontiadis.
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Affective Learning: Empathetic Embodied Conversational Agents to Modulate Brain Oscillation.
Christos N. Moridis, Manousos A. Klados, Vasilis Terzis, Anastasios A. Economides, Vasilis E. Karabatakis, Anna Karlovasitou and Panagiotis D. Bamidis.
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De-noising of in vivo MR Spectra Using Wavelet and Lorentzian Lineshape Properties
Jie Hao, Nige P. Davies, Martin Wilson, Andrew C. Peet and Theodoros N. Arvanitis.
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General Track-ESBME Co-chairs: Christos Papadelis, Cristoph Braun
Saturday, May 29 15:00-16:30
Knowledge management applied to surgery using virtual reality
C. Suarez-Mejias, C. Parra, D. Derlinchan, A. Cabral, T. Gomez-Cia, P. Gacto-Sanchez, M. Perez-Lorente5 and J.M. De la Higuera6
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Robotics for psycho-affective service applied to children health
A.B. Naranjo Saucedo, C. Suarez Mejias, N. Nuno, E. Gonzalez , S. Finez, C. Parra and J.M. De la Higuera
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Towards Patient Self-management based on Personal Health Records and Microblogging Services
A.K. Triantafyllidis, V.G. Koutkias and N. Maglaveras
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Creation of three dimensional (3D) vector models of anatomical objects, applicable for electromagnetic studies
Ya. Mitev
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Alpha rhythm onset detector based on localized EEG sensor
T. Araujo, N. Nunes, S. Palma and H. Gamboa
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How to measure propagation velocity in cardiac tissue – a simulation study
A.C. Linnenbank, R. Coronel, J.M.T. de Bakker
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Biomedical Signal Processing IV Co-chairs: Christos Papadelis, Cristoph Braun
Saturday, May 29 15:00-16:30
Wavelet phase synchronization between EHGs at different uterine sites: comparison of pregnancy and labor contractions
Mahmoud Hassan, Asgeir Alexandersson, Jeremy Terrien, Brynjar Karlsson and Catherine Marque.
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MORFEAS: A Non-Invasive System for automated Sleep Apnea Detection utilizing Snore Sound Analysis
Charalampos Doukas, Theodoros Petsatodis and Ilias Maglogiannis.
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Non-linear modeling of cerebral autoregulation using cascade models
Natalia Angarita-Jaimes, David Simpson and Oliver Dewhirst.
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AM-FM Texture Image Analysis in Multiple Sclerosis Brain White Matter Lesions
Christos Loizou, Victor Murray, Marios Pattichis, Marios Pantziaris, Ionannis Seimenis and Constantinos Pattichis.
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Comparison of AM-FM Features with Standard Features for the Classification of Surface Electromyographic Signals
Christodoulos Christodoulou, Prodromos Kaplanis, Victor Murray, Marios Pattichis and Constantinos Pattichis.
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Fusion of Biomedical and Physical Data for Assessment of Human Performance in High Speed Marine Craft
Dragana Nikolic, Richard Collier and Robert Allen.
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Medical Devices & Instrumentation IV Co-chairs: Alexandros Astaras, Mario Sansone
Saturday, May 29 15:00-16:30
Magnetic Marker Monitoring: A novel approach for magnetic marker design
Sebastian Biller, Daniel Baumgarten and Jens Haueisen.
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Novel catheters for in vivo research and pharmaceutical trials providing direct access to extracellular space of target tissues
Manfred Bodenlenz, Christian Hoefferer.
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A new stimulation technique for electrophysiological color vision testing
Michal Zaleski and Krzysztof Penkala.
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A Laboratory Scale Facility for the Parametric Characterization of the Intraocular Pressure of the Human Eye
Alexandra Michailidou, Panagiota Chatzi, Panagiotis Kalozoumis, Maria Pappa, Anestis Kalfas, Ioannis Tsiafis, Evdokimos Konstantinidis and Panagiotis Bamidis.
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A New Fibre Optic Pulse Oximeter Probe for Monitoring Splanchnic Organ Arterial Blood Oxygen Saturation
Michelle Hickey, Neil Samuels, Nilesh Randive, Richard Langford and Panayiotis Kyriacou.
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A New Optical Method for Measuring Creatinine Concentration During Dialysis
Ivo Fridolin, Jana Jerotskaja, Kai Lauri, Fredrik Uhlin and Merike Luman.
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Biomedical Signal Processing V Co-chairs: Leontios Hadjileontiadis, Ioanna Chouvarda
Saturday, May 29 17:00-18:30
Random Forest-Based Classification of Heart Rate Variability Signals by Using Combinations of Linear and Nonlinear Features
Alan Jovic and Nikola Bogunovic.
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Signal Peptide Prediction in Single Transmembrane Proteins
Ioanna Avramidou, Ilias Kitsas and Leontios Hadjileontiadis.
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Measure of Similarity of ECG Cycles
Akos Jobbagy and Akos Nagy.
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Correlation between fractal behavior of HRV and neurohormonal and functional indexes in chronic heart failure
Gianni D'Addio, Mario Cesarelli, Maria Romano, Agostino Accardo, Graziamaria Corbi, Roberto Maestri, Maria Teresa La Rovere, Paolo Bifulco, Nicola Ferrara and Franco Rengo.
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Validation of MRS metabolic markers in the classification of brain gliomas and their correlation to energy metabolis
Michail Kounelakis, Michail Zervakis, Geert Postma, Lutgarde Buydens, Arend Heerschap and Xenofon Kotsiakis.
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Directed coupling measures for interhemisheric information flow from epileptic EEG
A. Papana, D. Kugiumtzis, P.G. Larsson.
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Education Co-chairs: Vassiliki Manthou, Daniela Giordano
Saturday, May 29 17:00-18:30
Geotagged Repurposed Educational Content through mEducator Social Network Enhances Biomedical Engineering Education
Stathis Th. Konstantinidis, Nikolas Dovrolis, Eleni Kaldoudi and Panagiotis Bamidis.
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Tools based eLearning Platform to Support the Development and Repurposing of Educational Material
Teodor Stefanut, Mircea Marginean and Dorian Gorgan.
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Design and development of a pilot on line electronic OSCE station for use in medical education
Eleni Dafli, Panagiotis Bamidis, Costas Pappas and Nikolaos Dombros.
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MORMED: Towards a multilingual social networking platform facilitating Medicine 2.0
Eleni Kargioti, Dimitrios Kourtesis, Dimitris Bibikas, Iraklis Paraskakis and Ulrich Boes.
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A Feasible Teaching Tool fo Physiological Measurment.
Radovan Stojanovic, Dejan Karadaglic, Bogdan Asanin and Olga Chizhova.
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Repurposing Serious Games in Health Care Education
Aristidis Protopsaltis, David Panzoli, Ian Dunwell and Sara de Freitas.
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EMITEL e-Encyclopaedia of Medical Physics – project development and future
Slavik Tabakov, Peter Smith, Franco Milano, Sven-Erik Strand, Cornelius Lewis and Magdalena Stoeva.
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General Tracking – ESBME Co-chairs: Zhivko Bliznakov, Charalambos Bratsas
Saturday, May 29 17:00-18:30
Knowledge management applied to surgery using virtual reality
C. Suarez-Mejias, C. Parra, D. Derlinchan, A. Cabral, T. Gomez-Cia, P. Gacto-Sanchez, M. Perez-Lorente and J.M. De la Higuera.
Conference RoomTHALIA
Robotics for psycho-affective service applied to children health
A.B. Naranjo Saucedo, C. Suarez Mejias, N. Nuno, E. Gonzalez , S. Finez, C. Parra and J.M. De la Higuera.
Conference RoomTHALIA
Towards Patient Self-management based on Personal Health Records and Microblogging Services
A.K. Triantafyllidis, V.G. Koutkias and N. Maglaveras.
Conference RoomTHALIA
Creation of three dimensional (3 D) vector models of anatomical objects, applicable for electromagnetic studies
Ya. Mitev
Conference RoomTHALIA
Alpha rhythm onset detector based on localized EEG sensor
T. Araujo, N. Nunes, S. Palma and H. Gamboa.
Conference RoomTHALIA
How to measure propagation velocity in cardiac tissue – a simulation study
A.C. Linnenbank, R. Coronel, J.M.T. de Bakker.
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Meeting The Editor Co-chairs: Jos Spaan, Shankar M. Krishnan
Saturday, May 29 18:30-19:30

Jos Spaan: Writing and quality assessment of papers in Biomedical Engineering.

Shankar M. Krishnan: The publication burden on a young department of
Biomedical Engineering

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Plenary Session VI Chair: Dimitris Koutsouris
Sunday, May 30 8:45-9:30
Towards a patient-specific vascular access for hemodialysis patients
Pascal Verdonck
Institute Biomedical Technology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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General Track VI Co-chairs: Mario Forjaz Secca, Acos Jobbagy
Sunday, May 30 9:30-11:00
High frequency vibration (HFV) induces muscle hypertrophy in newborn mice and enhances primary myoblasts fusion in satellite cells
Gabriele Ceccarelli, Laura Benedetti, Deborah Pre, Daniela Galli, Luigi Vercesi, Giovanni Magenes and Gabriella Cusella De Angelis.
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Electrospinning Poly(o-methoxyaniline) Nanofibers for Tissue Engineering Applications
Wen-tyng Li.
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Surface Characterization of Collagen Films by Atomic Force Microscopy
Andreas Stylianou, Stylianos Kontomaris, Maria Kyriazi and Dido Yova.
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Rheological and electrical properties of RBC suspensions in dextran 70. Changes in RBC morphology
Nadia Antonova, Ivan Ivanov, Iordanka Gluhcheva and Elisaveta Tzvetkova.
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The role of electrically stimulated endocytosis in gene electrotransfer
Mojca Pavlin, Masa Kanduser, Gorazd Pucihar and Damijan Miklavcic.
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Differentiation of human bone marrow stromal cells onto gelatin cryogel scaffolds
Lorenzo Fassina, Enrica Saino, Livia Visai, Maria Antonia Avanzini, Maria Gabriella Cusella De Angelis, Francesco Benazzo, Sandra Van Vlierberghe, Peter Dubruel and Giovanni Magenes.
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BME Education Co-chairs: Nikolas Pallikarakis, Slavik Tabakov
Sunday, May 30 9:30-11:00
Accreditation of Medical Physics and Medical Engineering Programmes in the UK
Slavik Tabakov, David Parker, Fernando Schlindwein and Andrew Nisbet.
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Quality Assurance in Biomedical Engineering COOP-Educational Training Program: Planning, Implementation and Analysis
Ahmad Alhamwi, Manal Farrag and Tarek Elsarnagawy.
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A European Biomedical Engineering Postgraduate Program - From Evaluation to Continuous Improvement
Vicky Griva and Nicolas Pallikarakis.
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BME Education Program Following the Expectations from the Industry, Health Care and Science
Piotr Augustyniak, Ryszard Tadeusiewicz and Marta Wasilewska-Radwanska.
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Review of the Biomedical Engineering education programs in Europe within the framework of TEMPUS IV, CRH-BME project
Bliznakov Zhivko and Nicolas Pallikarakis.
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BME Journals/Conferences
Sunday, May 30 9:30-11:00
Panelists:
Robert Allan Ricardo Armentano Panagiotis Bamidis Costas Pattichis
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Women In Engineering
Sunday, May 30 9:30-11:00
Facilitator
Prof. Monique Frize

Panelists
Prof. Maria Siebes and Prof. Eleni Kaldoudi
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