Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies

1. Front Matter

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2. Invited Speaker

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Informatics-Driven Infectious Disease Research

      • Bruno Sobral, Chunhong Mao, Maulik Shukla, Dan Sullivan, Chengdong Zhang

      Pages 3-11

3. Part I: Biomedical Electronics and Devices

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. A Simple and Low Cost Device for Automatically Supervising Urine Output of Critical Patients

      • Abraham Otero, Francisco Palacios, Andrey Apalkov, Roemi Fernández

      Pages 15-30

   3. Photoplethysmogram Processing Using an Adaptive Single Frequency Phase Vocoder Algorithm

      • Walter Karlen, Chris Petersen, Jennifer Gow, J. Mark Ansermino, Guy Dumont

      Pages 31-42

   4. A Configurable Integrated Circuit for Biomedical Signal Acquisition

      • Jakob M. Tomasik, Wjatscheslaw Galjan, Kristian M. Hafkemeyer, Dietmar Schroeder, Wolfgang H. Krautschneider

      Pages 43-56

   5. Movement Disorder Assessment and Attenuation Techniques for Removal of Tremor

      • Wesley Teskey, Mohamed Elhabiby, Naser El-Sheimy

      Pages 57-73

   6. A New Approach for Diagnostic Investigation of Total Hip Replacement Loosening

      • Catherine Ruther, Ulrich Timm, Andreas Fritsche, Hartmut Ewald, Wolfram Mittelmeier, Rainer Bader et al.

      Pages 74-79

   7. Wearable Monitoring Unit for Swimming Performance Analysis

      • Ana S. Silva, Antonio J. Salazar, Carla M. Borges, Miguel V. Correia

      Pages 80-93

4. Part II: Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95

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   2. 3D Protein Surface Segmentation through Mathematical Morphology

      • Virginio Cantoni, Riccardo Gatti, Luca Lombardi

      Pages 97-109

   3. Simple Tool for Semi-automated Evaluation of Yeast Colony Images

      • Jan Schier, Bohumil Kovář

      Pages 110-125

   4. Reconstructing Gapless Ancestral Metabolic Networks

      • Esa Pitkänen, Mikko Arvas, Juho Rousu

      Pages 126-140

   5. Discretized Kinetic Models for Abductive Reasoning in Systems Biology

      • Gabriel Synnaeve, Katsumi Inoue, Andrei Doncescu, Hidetomo Nabeshima, Yoshitaka Kameya, Masakazu Ishihata et al.

      Pages 141-154

   6. Quasi-Steady State Approximations and Multistability in the Double Phosphorylation-Dephosphorylation Cycle

      • Guido Dell’Acqua, Alberto Maria Bersani

      Pages 155-172

   7. Improving Latent Semantic Analysis of Biomedical Literature Integrating UMLS Metathesaurus and Biomedical Pathways Databases

      • Francesco Abate, Elisa Ficarra, Andrea Acquaviva, Enrico Macii

      Pages 173-187

5. Part III: Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189

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   2. Towards a Patient-Specific Model of Lung Volume Using Absolute Electrical Impedance Tomography (aEIT)

      • Suzani Mohamad Samuri, George Panoutsos, Mahdi Mahfouf, G. H. Mills, M. Denaï, B. H. Brown

      Pages 191-204

   3. Auditory Processing Inspired Robust Feature Enhancement for Speech Recognition

      • Hari Krishna Maganti, Marco Matassoni

      Pages 205-218

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.

• data-driven modeling
• diagnostic investigation
• information security
• non-invasive monitoring
• social network analysis
• algorithm analysis and problem complexity

• IST - Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

  Ana Fred

• Departament of Systems and Informatics, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal – INSTICC, Setúbal, Portugal

  Joaquim Filipe

• Institute of Telecommunications, Lisboa, Portugal

  Hugo Gamboa

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