2010 Annual International

Conference of the IEEE

Engineering in Medicine
and Biology Society

(EMBC 2010)

Buenos Aires, Argentina

31 August – 4 September 2010

Pages 1-564

IEEE Catalog Number: CFP10EMB-PRT

ISBN: 978-1-4244-4123-5

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 Program in Chronological Order

* Author Name – Corresponding Author ● * Following Paper Title – Paper not Available

Wednesday, 1 September 2010

WeA01: 09:15-10:45 Libertador A

1.1.1 Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Analysis (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 WeA01.1
Adaptive Extraction of Emotion-Related EEG Segments Using Multidimensional Directed Information
in Time-Frequency Domain ............................................................................................................................................. 1-4
Petrantonakis, Panagiotis* (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki); Hadjileontiadis, Leontios (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki)

09:30-09:45 WeA01.2
Wavelet Based Motion Artifact Removal for Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy .............................................. 5-8
Molavi, behnam (Univ. of British Columbia); Dumont, Guy* (Univ. of British Columbia)

09:45-10:00 WeA01.3
Reconstruction of High Frame Rate Sequences in Biomechanical Related Areas ................................................. 9-12
Costa, Monica (Polytechnic Inst. of Castelo Branco, Portugal); Soares, Salviano (Univ. of Trás-os-Montes & Alto
Douro); Barroso, João* (Knowledge Engineering & Decision Support Research Group/UTAD, Portugal)

10:15-10:30 WeA01.5
Evolution of Phase Synchronization of the Two Frequency Components of the Electrohysterogram
(EHG): Application to the Detection of Human Labor .............................................................................................. 17-20
Terrien, Jeremy* (Reykjavik Univ.); Hassan, Mahmoud (UTC-France); Alexandersson, Asgeir (Faculty of
Medicine, Univ. of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland); Marque, Catherine (Univ. of Tech. of Compiegne);
Karlsson, Brynjar (Reykjavik Univ.)

10:30-10:45 WeA01.6
High Resolution 3D Cardiac Perfusion Imaging Using Compartment-Based k-t PCA ......................................... 21-24
Vitanis, Viton* (Univ. & ETH Zurich); Manka, Robert (Univ. & ETH Zurich);
Boesiger, Peter (Univ. & ETH Zurich); Kozerke, Sebastian (Univ. & ETH Zurich)

WeA02: 09:15-10:45 Libertador B

2.2.4 Elastography Imaging (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 WeA02.1
An Image Based Vibration Sensor for Soft Tissue Modal Analysis in a Digital Image Elasto
Tomography (DIET) System ........................................................................................................................................ 25-28
Feng, Sheng (Univ. of Canterbury); Lotz, Thomas* (Univ. of Canterbury); Chase, J. Geoffrey (Univ. of Canterbury);
Hann, Christopher E (Univ. of Canterbury)

09:30-09:45 WeA02.2
In Vivo Measurement of the Complex Shear Modulus of Rat Mammary Tumors Using
Shear Wave Imaging Techniques ............................................................................................................................... 29-32
Wang, Yue (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Orescanin, Marko (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign);
Insana, Michael F.* (Univ. of Illinois)
09:45-10:00 WeA02.3
Motion Estimation Using the Monogenic Signal Applied to Ultrasound Elastography ........................................ 33-36
Maltaverne, Tanguy (Creatis-Lrmn); Delachartre, Philippe (INSA-Lyon); Basarab, Adrian* (Univ. de Toulouse)

10:00-10:15 WeA02.4
Feasibility of a Transient Elastography Technique for In Vitro Arterial Elasticity Assessment .......................... 37-40
Brum, Javier (Facultad de Ciencias, Univ. de la República); Balay, Guillermo (Inst. de Física, Facultad de
Ciencias, Univ. de la República (Montevideo, Uruguay)); Bia, Daniel (School of Medicine, Republic Univ.);
Armentano, Ricardo Luis (Favaloro Univ.); Negreira, Carlos* (Inst. de Física, Facultad de Ciencias,
Univ. dela República (Montevideo, Uruguay))

10:15-10:30 WeA02.5
In-Vivo Clinical Validation of Cardiac Deformation and Strain Measurements from 4D Ultrasound .................. 41-44
Po, Ming Jack (Columbia Univ.); Lorsakul, Auranuch* (Columbia Univ.); Duan, Qi (NYU School of Medicine);
Yeroushalmi, Kevin (Columbia Univ.); Oe, Yukiko (Columbia Univ. Medical Center); Hyodo, Eiichi (Columbia
Univ. Medical Center); Homma, Shunichi (Columbia Univ.); Laine, Andrew F. (Columbia Univ.)

10:30-10:45 WeA02.6
Lamb Wave Shearwave Dispersion Ultrasound Vibrometry (SDUV) Validation Study ......................................... 45-48
Nenadic, Ivan* (Mayo Clinic College of Medicine); Mitchell, Scott (Mayo Clinic);
Urban, Matthew (Mayo Clinic College of Medicine); Greenleaf, James (Mayo Clinic)

WeA03: 09:15-10:45 Libertador C

2.3.2 Optical and Fluorescence Microscopy (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 WeA03.1
Learning Cellular Texture Features in Microscopic Cancer Cell Images for Automated Cell-Detection ............ 49-52
Kazmar, Tomas* (Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Austria)

09:30-09:45 WeA03.2
3D OCT Eye Movement Correction Based on Particle Filtering .............................................................................. 53-56
Xu, Juan* (Univ. of Pittsburgh, UPMC Eye Center); Ishikawa, Hiroshi (Univ. of Pittsburgh School of Medicine);
Wollstein, Gadi (Univ. of Pittsburgh School of Medicine); Schuman, Joel S. (Univ. of Pittsburgh School of Medicine)

09:45-10:00 WeA03.3
Microfabricated Endoscopic Probe Integrated MEMS Micromirror for
Optical Coherence Tomography Bioimaging ............................................................................................................ 57-60
Wang, Ming-Fang* (Inst. of Microelectronics, Singapore); Xu, Yingshun (IME, Singapore); Prem, C.S. (IME,
Singapore); Chen, Wei Sheng (IME, Singapore); Xie, Jin (IME, Singapore); Mu, Xiaojing (NUS, Singapore);
Tan, Chee Wei (IME, Singapore); Yu, Aibin (IME, Singapore); Feng, Hanhua (IME, Singapore)

10:00-10:15 WeA03.4
An Uniform, Raytracing-Based Imaging Model for Rigid and Fiber-Optic Endoscopy ........................................ 61-67
Rupp, Stephan (Fraunhofer Inst. (IIS)); Steckhan, Dirk Gunnar* (Fraunhofer IIS)

10:15-10:30 WeA03.5
Identification of Intracellular Calcium Dynamics in Stimulated Cardiomyocytes ................................................. 68-71
Vallmitjana, Alex (Automatic Control Dept., Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya); Barriga, Montserrat (Catalan Inst. of
Cardiovascular Sciences); Nenadic, Zoran (UC Irvine); Llach, Anna (Cardiovascular Research Center CSIC-ICCC
& Cardiology Dept., Hospital de Sant Pau); Alvarez-Lacalle, Enric (Applied Physics Dept., Univ. Politecnica de
Catalunya); Hove-Madsen, Leif (Cardiovascular Research Center from the Spanish Natl. Research Council
(CSIC)); Benitez, Raul* (Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya)

10:30-10:45 WeA03.6
A Quadratic Programming Approach for the Mosaicing of Virtual Slides That Incorporates the
Positioning Accuracy of the Microscope Stage ........................................................................................................ 72-77
Steckhan, Dirk Gunnar* (Fraunhofer IIS); Paulus, Dietrich (Computational Visualistics, Univ. Koblenz, Germany)
WeA04: 09:15-10:45 Retiro A
9.4.1 Patient Monitoring Devices and Techniques (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 WeA04.1
An ECG Ambulatory System with Mobile Embedded Architecture for ST-Segment Analysis ............................ 78-81
Miranda-Cid, Alejandro (CINVESTAV); Alvarado-Serrano, Carlos* (CINVESTAV)

09:30-09:45 WeA04.2
Smart Phone As a Tool for Measuring Anticipatory Postural Adjustments in Healthy Subjects, a Step
More towards a Personalized Healthcare .................................................................................................................. 82-85
Martinez Mendez, Rigoberto* (Chiba Univ.); Tamura, Toshiyo (Chiba Univ.); Sekine, Masaki (Chiba Univ.)

09:45-10:00 WeA04.3
Motor Function Assessment Using Wearable Inertial Sensors .............................................................................. 86-89
Parnandi, Avinash Rao (Univ. of Southern California); Wade, Eric* (Univ. of Southern California);
Mataric, Maja (Univ. of Southern California)

10:00-10:15 WeA04.4
Configurable Portable/Ambulatory Instrument for the Analysis of the Coordination between
Respiration and Swallowing ....................................................................................................................................... 90-93
Esteves, Guilherme (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro); Silva Junior, Evert* (Univ. do Estado do Rio de
Janeiro); Nunes, Luiz (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro); Greco, Catiuscia (Univ. do Estado do Rio de
Janeiro); Melo, Pedro Lopes (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)

10:15-10:30 WeA04.5
Evaluation of a CE Approved Ambulatory Patient Monitoring Device in a General Medical Ward ..................... 94-97
Catherwood, Philip* (Univ. of Ulster); Donnelly, Nicola (Intelesens); McCullough, Ian (Intelesens);
Francey, Jonathan (Intelesens); Harper, Roy (NHS); Anderson, John McCune (Univ. of Ulster);
McLaughlin, James (Univ. of Ulster)

10:30-10:45 WeA04.6
An EMG-Based System for Continuous Monitoring of Clinical Efficacy of Parkinson’s Disease Treatments ........ 98-101
Askari, Sina* (California State Univ. Los Angeles); Zhang, Mo (California State Univ., Los Angeles);
Won, Deborah (California State Univ., Los Angeles)

WeA06: 09:15-10:45 Retiro C

1.3.1 Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis of Biomedical Signals (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 WeA06.1
Detecting Nonlinear Causal Interactions between Dynamical Systems by Non-Uniform
Embedding of Multiple Time Series ....................................................................................................................... 102-105
Faes, Luca* (Univ. of Trento); Nollo, Giandomenico (Univ. of Trento); Erla, Silvia (Univ. of Trento);
Papadelis, Christos (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki); Braun, Christoph (Univ. of Tübingen);
Porta, Alberto (Univ. degli Studi di Milano)

09:30-09:45 WeA06.2
Methodology for Multifractal Analysis of Heart Rate Variability: From LF/HF Ratio to Wavelet Leaders ...... 106-109
Abry, Patrice* (ENS Lyon, CNRS); Wendt, Herwig (Purdue Univ.); Jaffard, Stephane (Univ. Paris XII);
Helgason, Hannes (ens-lyon); Goncalves, Paulo (ENS-Lyon); Pereira, Edmundo (ENS Lyon);
Gharib, Claude (Hospices Civils de Lyon Univ. Lyon I); Gaucherand, Pascal (Hospices Civils de
Lyon Univ. Lyon I); Doret, Muriel (Hospices Civils de Lyon Univ. Lyon I)

09:45-10:00 WeA06.3
Wavelet Leader Based Multifractal Analysis of Heart Rate Variability During Myocardial Ischaemia ............ 110-113
Leonarduzzi, Roberto Fabio* (Univ. Nacional de Entre Ríos); Schlotthauer, Gaston (Univ. Nacional de
Entre Ríos); Torres, Maria E. (Univ. Nacional de Entre Rios)

10:00-10:15 WeA06.4
Real-Time Feedback of Dynamic Cardiac Repolarization Properties ................................................................. 114-117
Western, David* (Univ. College London); Taggart, Peter (Univ. College London);
Hanson, Ben Mark (Univ. College London, UK)
10:15-10:30 WeA06.5
Optimized Assessment of Atrial Fibrillation Organization through Suitable
Parameters of Sample Entropy ............................................................................................................................... 118-121
Alcaraz Martinez, Raul (Univ. of Castilla-La Mancha); Abásolo, Daniel (Univ. of Valladolid);
Hornero, Roberto (Univ. of Valladolid); Rieta, J. J.* (Univ. Politecnica de Valencia)

10:30-10:45 WeA06.6
Enhancement of Atrial Fibrillation Electrical Cardioversion Procedures through Non-Invasive
Organization Estimation .......................................................................................................................................... 122-125
Alcaraz Martinez, Raul (Univ. of Castilla-La Mancha); Hornero, Fernando (General Univ. Hospital of Valencia);
Rieta, J. J.* (Univ. Politecnica de Valencia)

WeA07: 09:15-10:45 Martin Fierro 1

8.5.1 Neuroprosthetic Control (Non-Invasive) (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 WeA07.1
Towards Natural Non-Invasive Hand Neuroprostheses for Daily Living ........................................................... 126-129
Tavella, Michele* (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne); Leeb, Robert (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale
de Lausanne); Rupp, Rüdiger (Heidelberg Univ.); Millán, José del R. (Swiss Federal Inst. of Tech., Lausanne)

09:30-09:45 WeA07.2
Connectivity Mapping of the Human ECoG During a Motor Task with a
Time-Varying Dynamic Bayesian Network ............................................................................................................ 130-133
Zhang, Huaijian (Zhejiang Univ.); Benz, Heather* (Johns Hopkins Univ.); Bezerianos, Anastasios (Univ. of
Patras); Acharya, Soumyadipta (Johns Hopkins Univ.); Crone, Nathan E. (Johns Hopkins Univ., School of
Medicine); Maybhate, Anil (Johns Hopkins Univ.); Zheng, Xiaoxiang (Zhejiang Univ.);
Thakor, Nitish (Johns Hopkins Univ.)

09:45-10:00 WeA07.3
Combining ENG and EEG Integrated Analysis for Better Sensitivity and Specificity of
Neuroprosthesis Operations ................................................................................................................................... 134-137
Rossini, Luca* (Univ. Campus Biomedico of Rome); Rossini, Paolo Maria (Campus Biomedico Univ.)

10:00-10:15 WeA07.4
Combining Computer and Human Vision into a BCI: Can the Whole Be Greater
Than the Sum of Its Parts? ...................................................................................................................................... 138-141
Pohlmeyer, Eric* (Columbia Univ.); Jangraw, David (Columbia Univ.); Wang, Jun (Columbia Univ.);
Chang, Shih-Fu (Columbia Univ.); Sajda, Paul (Columbia Univ.)

10:15-10:30 WeA07.5
Decoding Speed of Imagined Hand Movement from EEG ................................................................................... 142-145
Yuan, Han* (Univ. of Minnesota); Perdoni, Christopher (Univ. of Minnesota); He, Bin (Univ. of Minnesota)

10:30-10:45 WeA07.6
On the Road to a Neuroprosthetic Hand: A Novel Hand Grasp Orthosis Based on
Functional Electrical Stimulation ........................................................................................................................... 146-149
Leeb, Robert* (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne); Gubler, Miguel (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de
Lausanne); Tavella, Michele (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne); Miller, Heather (Ecole
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne); Millán, José del R. (Swiss Federal Inst. of Tech., Lausanne)

WeA08: 09:15-10:45 Martin Fierro 2

1.8.2 Connectivity, Directionality and Causality (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 WeA08.1
Network Dynamics of the Epileptic Brain at Rest ................................................................................................. 150-153
Stamoulis, Catherine* (Harvard Medical School); Gruber, Lawrence (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center);
Chang, Bernard (Harvard Medical School/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center)

09:30-09:45 WeA08.2
The Central Oscillatory Network of Essential Tremor .......................................................................................... 154-157
Muthuraman, Muthuraman* (Christian Albrechts Univ.); Heute, Ulrich (Christian Albrechts Univ. Kiel);
Deuschl, Gunther (Christian Albrechts Univ. kiel); Raethjen, Jan (Christian Albrechts Univ. of Kiel)
09:45-10:00 WeA08.3
Demand Driven Deep Brain Stimulation: Regimes and Autoregressive Hidden Markov Implementation ..... 158-161
Brittain, John-Stuart* (Univ. of Oxford); Smith, Penny J Probert (Univ. of Oxford); Aziz, Tipu Z (Univ. of Oxford)

10:00-10:15 WeA08.4
Detecting Causal Interdependence in Simulated Neural Signals Based on
Pairwise and Multivariate Analysis ........................................................................................................................ 162-165
Yang, Chunfeng* (Univ. de Rennes 1); Le Bouquin Jeannes, Regine (INSERM U642 – Univ. de Rennes 1);
Faucon, Gerard (INSERM U642 – Univ. de Rennes 1); Wendling, Fabrice (INSERM – Univ. de Rennes 1)

10:15-10:30 WeA08.5
Stochastic Resonance in Connectivity between Both Auditory Areas Obtained by Auditory Stimuli ........... 166-169
Tanaka, Keita* (Tokyo Denki Univ.); Nemoto, Iku (Tokyo Denki Univ.); Kawakatsu, Masaki (Tokyo Denki Univ.);
Uchikawa, Yoshinori (Tokyo Denki Univ.)

10:30-10:45 WeA08.6
Two Dimensional Spatial Coherence of the Natural Vibrations of the Biceps Brachii Muscle
Generated During Voluntary Contractions ............................................................................................................ 170-173
Archer, Akibi* (Georgia Inst. of Tech.); Sabra, Karim G. (Georgia Inst. of Tech.)

WeA09: 09:15-10:45 Ombu A

3.1.5 Acoustic Sensors and Systems (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 WeA09.1
Signal Quality Classification for an Ambulatory Monitoring System ................................................................. 174-177
Fu, Yongji* (Sharp Laboratories of America)

09:30-09:45 WeA09.2
Validation of a Transit Time Blood Flow Meter Used for Coronary Bypass Surgery ........................................ 178-181
Ortega Palacios, Rocío* (Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Inst. Politécnico Nacional);
Moreno, Eduardo (ICIMAF); Leija, Lorenzo (Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Inst. Politecnico
Nacional); Vera, Arturo (Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Inst. Politecnico Nacional)

09:45-10:00 WeA09.3
A New Apparatus for Analysis of Viscoelastic Fluids by Ultrasound Radiation Force .................................... 182-185
Almeida, Thiago Wellington Joazeiro (Univ. de São Paulo); Kamimura, Hermes Arytto (Univ. de São Paulo);
Carneiro, Antonio Adilton Oliveira* (Univ. de São Paulo)

10:00-10:15 WeA09.4
Ultrasonic Array of Thick Film Transducers for Biological Tissue Characterization ....................................... 186-189
Gwirc, Sergio N.* (Inst. Nacional de Tecnología Industrial); Mariño, Néstor R. (Inst. Nacional de Tecnología
Industrial); Negreira, Carlos (Inst. de Física, Facultad de Ciencias, Univ. dela República (Montevideo, Uruguay))

10:15-10:30 WeA09.5
A Low-Power High-Performance Accelerometer ASIC for High-End Medical Motion Sensing ....................... 190-193
Bernal, Olivier D. (Univ. of Toulouse INP-LOSE); Choe, Kunil (Yale Univ., Connectict, USA); Gopalakrishnan,
Pradeep K. (RV-VLSI Design Center, Bangalore, India); Cheng, Hsiu-Yu* (Inst. of Microelectronics, Agency of
Science,Tech. and Research, Singapore); Krishna, Kotlanka R. (Inst. of Microelectronics, Agency of Science,
Tech. and Research, Singapore); Nuttman, David (Physical Logic, Bnei Brak, Isarel); Axelrod, Noel (Physical
Logic, Bnei Brak, Isarel); Je, Minkyu (Inst. of Microelectronics, Agency of Science, Tech. & Research, Singapore)

10:30-10:45 WeA09.6
An Experimental Measurement Complex for Probable Estimation of Arterial Stiffness .................................. 194-197
Pilt, Kristjan* (Technical Univ. of Tallinn); Meigas, Kalju (Tallinn Univ. of Tech.); Viigimaa, Margus (Technomedicum
of the Tallinn Instututre of Tech.); Temitski, Kristina (Tallinn Univ. of Tech.); Kaik, Jüri (Tallinn Univ. of Tech.)
WeA10: 09:15-10:45 Ombu B
10.4.1 Ambient Assisted Living and Smart Homes I (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 WeA10.1
Ambient Assisted Nutritional Advisor for Elderly People Living at Home ........................................................ 198-203
Lázaro, Juan Pablo* (Inst. ITACA); Fides, Alvaro (Inst. ITACA); Navarro, Ana (Inst. ITACA);
Guillen, Sergio (Inst. Itaca Valencia, Spain)

09:30-09:45 WeA10.2
A Subject State Detection Approach to Determine Rest-Activity Patterns Using Load Cells ......................... 204-207
Adami, Adriana Miorelli (Univ. of Caxias do Sul); Adami, Andre* (Univ. de Caxias do Sul);
Schwarz, Gilmar (Univ. de Caxias do Sul); Beattie, Zachary Todd (Oregon Health & Science Univ.);
Hayes, Tamara (Oregon Health & Science Univ.)

09:45-10:00 WeA10.3
Information and Assistance Bubbles to Help Elderly People in Public Environments .................................... 208-211
Traver, Vicente (Inst. ITACA); Huertas, Sandra* (Inst. ITACA); Lázaro, Juan Pablo (Inst. ITACA);
Guillen, Sergio (Inst. Itaca Valencia, Spain)

10:00-10:15 WeA10.4
Virtual Worlds to Enhance Ambient-Assisted Living ........................................................................................... 212-215
Cascado, Daniel (Univ. of Seville); Romero, Salvador Jesús (Univ. de Sevilla); Hors Fraile, Santiago (Univ. de
Sevilla); Brasero, Angel (Univ. of Seville); Fernandez-Luque, Luis* (Northern Research Inst. Tromsø (Norut));
Sevillano, Jose Luis (Univ. de Sevilla)

10:15-10:30 WeA10.5
Home Healthcare Settop-Box for Senior Chronic Care Using ISO/IEEE 11073 PHD Standard ........................ 216-219
Lim, Joon-Ho* (Electronics & Telecom Research Inst); Park, Chan-Yong (Electronics & Telecommunications
Research Inst.); Park, Soo-Jun (Electr & Telecomm Research Inst)

10:30-10:45 WeA10.6
Automatic Characterization and Detection of Behavioral Patterns Using Linear Predictive
Coding of Accelerometer Sensor Dataterns ......................................................................................................... 220-223
Min, Cheol-Hong* (Univ. of Minnesota); Tewfik, Ahmed (Univ. of Minnesota)

WeA11: 09:15-10:45 Poncho

4.1.5 Physiological Modeling: Spatially Realistic Models (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 WeA11.1
Vulnerability for Reentry in a Three Dimensional Model of Human Atria: A Simulation Study ....................... 224-227
Tobon, Catalina* (Univ. Politecnica de Valencia); Ruiz, Carlos (Univ. de Caldas); Rodriguez, Jose Felix
(Univ. de Zaragoza); Hornero, Fernando (General Univ. Hospital of Valencia); Ferrero, José M (Univ.
Politécnica de Valencia (I3BH)); Saiz, Javier (I3BH-UPV)

09:30-09:45 WeA11.2
Limitations of the Homogenized Cardiac Monodomain Model for the Case of
Low Gap Junctional Coupling ................................................................................................................................ 228-231
Mendonça Costa, Caroline* (Federal Univ. of Juiz de Fora);
Weber dos Santos, Rodrigo (Univ. Federal de Juiz de Fora)

09:45-10:00 WeA11.3
Non Lineal Respiratory Systems Mechanics Simulation of Acute Respiratory Distress
Syndrome During Mechanical Ventilation ............................................................................................................. 232-234
Madorno, Matias* (MBMed); Rodriguez, Pablo (CEMIC)

10:00-10:15 WeA11.4
Is Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus More Than a Mechanical Disruption to CSF Flow? ................................. 235-238
Tully, Brett* (Univ. of Oxford); Byrne, James (Univ. of Oxford); Ventikos, Yiannis (Univ. of Oxford)
10:15-10:30 WeA11.5
A Reduced Order Finite Element Algorithm for Surgical Simulation ................................................................. 239-242
Taylor, Zeike Amos* (The Univ. of Queensland); Ourselin, Sebastien (Univ. College London);
Crozier, Stuart (The Univ. of Queensland)

10:30-10:45 WeA11.6
An Anatomically Realistic 3D Model of Atrial Propagation Based on Experimentally
Recorded Action Potentials .................................................................................................................................... 243-246
Al Abed, Amr* (Univ. of New South Wales); Guo, Tianruo (Univ. of New South Wales);
Lovell, Nigel H (Univ. of New South Wales); Dokos, Socrates (Univ. of New South Wales)

WeA12: 09:15-10:45 Rio de Plata

7.1.1 Tissue Engineering/Biomanufacturing/Scaffold Design/Medical Devices (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 WeA12.1
Use of a Gelatin Cryogel as Biomaterial Scaffold in the Differentiation Process of
Human Bone Marrow Stromal Cells ....................................................................................................................... 247-250
Fassina, Lorenzo (Univ. of Pavia); Saino, Enrica (Univ. of Pavia); Visai, Livia (Univ. of Pavia);
Avanzini, Maria Antonietta (Oncoematologia Pediatrica, IRCCS San Matteo di Pavia, Italy);
Cusella De Angelis, Maria Gabriella (Univ. of Pavia); Benazzo, Francesco (Univ. of Pavia);
Van Vlierberghe, Sandra (Univ. of Ghent, Belgium); Dubruel, Peter (Polymer Chemistry & Biomaterials
Research Group, Univ. of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium); Magenes, Giovanni* (Univ. of Pavia)

09:30-09:45 WeA12.2
Viscoelastic Behaviour of a Small Calibre Vascular Graft Made from a POSS-Nanocomposite ..................... 251-254
Ahmed, Maqsood* (Univ. College London); Seifalian, Alexander (Univ. College London);
Hamilton, George (Univ. College London)

09:45-10:00 WeA12.3
Textile-Templated Electrospun Anisotropic Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine ...... 255-258
Senel-Ayaz, Hatice Gozde* (Drexel Univ.); Perets, Anat (Drexel Univ.); Govindaraj, Muthu (Philadelphia Univ.);
Brookstein, David (Philadelphia Univ.); Lelkes, Peter (Drexel Univ.)

10:00-10:15 WeA12.4
Post-Bioprinting Processing Methods to Improve Cell Viability and Pattern Fidelity in
Heterogeneous Tissue Test Systems .................................................................................................................... 259-262
Pepper, Matthew* (Clemson Univ.); Burg, Karen (Clemson Univ.); Burg, Timothy (Clemson Univ.);
Groff, Richard E (Clemson Univ.); Parzel, Cheryl (Clemson Univ.); Booth, Brian (Clemson Univ.);
Mattimore, Justin (Clemson Univ.)

10:15-10:30 WeA12.5
Analysis of Biomaterial Latex-Derived Flow Mechanical Controller .................................................................. 263-267
M. C. Paula, Patricia* (Univ. of Brasilia); S. F. R. Rodrigues, Suelia (UnB-Gama Faculty, Univ. of Brasília); da
Rocha, Adson F. (Univ. of Brasilia); Brasil, Lourdes (Faculdade UnB Gama); Silva, Rita (Faculdade UnB Gama)

WeA13: 09:15-10:45 Gomez Losada

5.10.1 Sleep and Breathing (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 WeA13.1
Employment of a Healthgrid for Evaluation and Development of Polysomnographic
Biosignal Processing Methods ............................................................................................................................... 268-271
Krefting, Dagmar* (Charité – Univ. Berlin); Loose, Helena (Charité – Univ. Berlin);
Penzel, Thomas (Charite Univ. Hospital)

09:30-09:45 WeA13.2
Automatic Breath Phase Detection Using Only Tracheal Sounds ...................................................................... 272-275
Huq, Saiful* (Univ. of Manitoba); Moussavi, Zahra (Univ. of Manitoba)
09:45-10:00 WeA13.3
Cardiovascular and Respiratory Dynamics in Patients with Sleep Apnea ........................................................ 276-279
Penzel, Thomas* (Charite Univ. Hospital); Wessel, Niels (Humboldt-Univ. zu Berlin); Riedl, Maik (Univ.
Potsdam); Kantelhardt, Jan (Univ. Halle, Inst. of Physics); Glos, Martin (Charite-Univ. Berlin);
Fietze, Ingo (Charite-Univ. Berlin)

10:00-10:15 WeA13.4
Visualization and Clustering of Sleep States in a Frequency Domain Feature Space ..................................... 280-283
Vivaldi, Ennio A.* (Facultad de Medicina, Univ.); Bassi, Alejandro (Univ. de Chile); Diaz, Javier (Univ. de Chile);
Duque, Natalia (Univ. de Chile)

10:15-10:30 WeA13.5
Detection of Airway Occlusion in Simulated Obstructive Sleep Apnea/Hypopnea Using
Ultrasound: An in Vitro Study ................................................................................................................................. 284-287
Al-Abed, Mohammad* (Univ. of Texas at Arlington); Antich, Peter (Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
in Dallas); Watenpaugh, Donald (Sleep Consultants Inc.); Behbehani, Khosrow (Univ. of Texas at Arlington)

10:30-10:45 WeA13.6
The Natural History of the Sleep and Respiratory Engineering Track at EMBC 1988 to 2010 ......................... 288-291
Leder, Ron (Univ. Nacional Autonoma de Mexico); Schlotthauer, Gaston (Univ. Nacional de Entre Ríos);
Penzel, Thomas (Charite Univ. Hospital); Jané, Raimon* (Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya)

WeA14: 09:15-10:45 Auditorium

3.3.2 Bioinstrumentation: Sensors, Micro, Nano and Wearable Technologies (Mini Symposium)

09:15-09:30 WeA14.1
Lab-On-A-Chip for the Isolation and Characterization of Circulating Tumor Cells .......................................... 292-294
Stakenborg, Tim* (IMEC); Liu, Chengxun (IMEC); Henry, Olivier (Univ. Rovira i Virgili); O’Sullivan, Ciara (Univ.
Rovira i Virgili); Fermér, Christian (Fujirebio Diagnostics); Röser, Tina (Inst. für Mikrotechnik Mainz GmbH);
Ritzi, Marion (IMM); Hauch, Siegfried (AdnaGen AG); Borgen, Elin (Natl. Norwegian Radium Hospital);
Laddach, Nadja (MRC Holland); Lagae, Liesbet (IMEC)

09:30-09:45 WeA14.2
Converging Micro-Nano-Bio Technologies towards Integrated In-Vitro Testing Systems: Current
Activities and Future Challenges under the EU-Information and Communication Technologies Program ...... 295-297
Lymberis, Andreas* (European Commission)

09:45-10:00 WeA14.3
Monolithically Integrated Biosensors Based on Frequency-Resolved Mach-Zehnder
Interferometers for Multi-Analyte Determinations ................................................................................................ 298-301
Petrou, Panagiota* (NCSR “Demokritos”); Kitsara, Maria (NCSR “Demokritos”); Makarona, Eleni (NCSR
“Demokritos”); Raptis, Ioannis (NCSR “Demokritos”); Kakabakos, Sotirios (NCSR “Demokritos”); Stoffer, Remco
(PhoeniX BV); Jobst, Gerhard (Jobst Technologies GmbH); Misiakos, Kostas (NCSRD Demokritos)

10:00-10:15 WeA14.4
Development of a Toxin Screening Multi-Parameter On-Line Biochip System ................................................. 302-304
Moore, Eric James* (Tyndall Natl. Inst.)

10:15-10:30 WeA14.5
Microfluidic and Transducer Technologies for Lab on a Chip Applications ..................................................... 305-307
Hill, Daniel* (KTH); Sandström, Niklas (KTH); Gylfason, Kristinn (KTH); Carlborg, Fredrik (KTH); Karlsson,
Mikael (KTH); Haraldsson, Tommy (KTH); Sohlström, Hans (KTH-Royal Inst. of Tech.); Russom, Aman (KTH);
Stemme, Göran (Royal Inst. of Tech. (KTH)); Claes, Tom (Ghent Univ.); Bienstman, Peter (Ghent Univ.);
Kazmierczak, Andrzej (Multitel); Dortu, Fabian (Multitel); Bañuls Polo, Maria José (Technical Univ. of Valencia);
Maquieira Catala, Ángel (Technical Univ. of Valencia); Kresbach, Gerhard (Zeptosens); Vivien, Laurent (Univ.
Paris-Sud); Popplewell, Jon (Farfield); Ronan, Gerry (Farfield); Angulo Barrios, Carlos (Technical Univ. of
Madrid); van der Wijngaart, Wouter (KTH)
WeBPo01: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn
11.2.2 Education and Ethics (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo01.1
Humanitarian Engineering: Democratizing Science and Technology ................................................................ 308-311
Natero, Rodrigo Nicolas* (Favaloro Univ.); Flores Pereyra, Facundo (Favaloro Univ.);
Armentano, Ricardo Luis (Favaloro Univ.)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo01.2
Group of R&D on Biomedical Engineering: Its Development and Results ........................................................ 312-315
Yabar Escribanel, Leopoldo Félix* (Univ. Tecnológica del Perú); Torres Lázaro, Miguel (Univ. Nacional Mayor
de San Marcos); Huamaní, Robinson (Univ. Tecnológica del Perú)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo01.3
The Educational Value of Teaching Biomedical Engineering History ................................................................ 316-318
Leder, Ron* (Univ. Nacional Autonoma de Mexico); Requena Carrion, Jesus (Univ. Rey Juan Carlos);
Beebe, Marc (IEEE); Geselowitz, Michael (Rutgers Univ.)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo01.4
From the Foundation Act to the Corporate Culture of a BME Teaching Institute ............................................. 319-322
Augustyniak, Ewa (AGH Univ. of Science & Tech., Krakow, Poland);
Augustyniak, Piotr* (AGH Univ. of Science & Tech)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo01.5
BME Education Program and Research Activities at the National Autonomous
University of Mexico (UNAM) .................................................................................................................................. 323-326
Gomez-Gonzalez, Juan* (Univ. Nacional Autonoma de Mexico);
Vega-Gonzalez, Arturo (Univ Nacional Autónoma de México)

WeBPo02: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

10.6.3 Wireless Biomedical and Health Technologies,
Body Sensor Networks, RFID in Health I (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo02.1
A GPU-Based Calculation Using the Three-Dimensional FDTD Method for Electromagnetic Field Analysis ..... 327-330
Nagaoka, Tomoaki* (Natl. Inst. Info & Comm Tech); Watanabe, Soichi (Nat’l Inst of Information & Comms Tech)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo02.2
INSIGHT: RFID and Bluetooth Enabled Automated Space for the Blind and Visually Impaired ..................... 331-334
Ganz, Aura (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst); Gandhi, Siddhesh* (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst);
Wilson, Carole (Executive Office of Health & Human Services)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo02.3
Development of Automatic Operated Blood Sampling System for Portable Type
Self-Monitoring Blood Glucose Device .................................................................................................................. 335-338
Nakamachi, Eiji* (Doshisha Univ.)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo02.4
Classifying Human Motion Quality for Knee Osteoarthritis Using Accelerometers ......................................... 339-343
Taylor, Portia* (Carnegie Mellon Univ.); Almeida, Gustavo J.M. (Univ. of Pittsburgh);
Hodgins, Jessica (Carnegie Mellon Univ.); Kanade, Takeo (Carnegie Mellon Univ.)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo02.5
Intelligent Medicine Case System with Distributed RFID Readers ..................................................................... 344-347
Suzuki, Takuo* (Univ. of Tsukuba); Oyama, Yuya (Univ. of Tsukuba); Nakauchi, Yasushi (Univ. of Tsukuba)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo02.6
A Receiver Diversity Technique for Ensuring High Reliability of Wireless Vital Data Gathering in
Hospital Rooms ........................................................................................................................................................ 348-351
Hara, Shinsuke (Osaka City Univ.); Sugano, Hiroto* (Osaka City Univ.); Inoue, Tadayuki (Osaka City Univ.);
Tsujioka, Tetsuo (Osaka City Univ.); Nakajima, Shigeyoshi (Osaka City Univ.); Nakamura, Hajime (Osaka City
Univ.); Takeuchi, Kazuhide (Osaka City Univ.)
10:45-12:15 WeBPo02.7
RFID in Healthcare Environment: Electromagnetic Compatibility Regulatory Issues ...................................... 352-355
Censi, Federica* (Italian Natl. Inst. of Health); Calcagnini, Giovanni (Italian Natl. Inst. of Health);
Mattei, Eugenio (Italian Natl. Inst. of Health); Triventi, Michele (Italian Natl. Inst. of Health);
Bartolini, Pietro (Italian Natl. Inst. of Health)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo02.8
Design of Packet Erasure Mitigation Technique Using a Digital Fountain Code for
Wearable Body Area Networks ............................................................................................................................... 356-359
Takizawa, Kenichi* (NICT); Hamaguchi, kiyoshi (Natl. Inst. of Information & Communications Tech.)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo02.9
Performance Analysis of a Proposed Tightly-Coupled Medical Instrument
Network Based on CAN Protocol ........................................................................................................................... 360-364
Mujumdar, Shantanu (Univ. of Houston); Thongpithoonrat, Pongnarin (Univ. of Houston);
Gurkan, Deniz* (Univ. of Houston); McKneely, Paul (MediCAN Systems); Chapman, Frank (Ashford
Technical Software, Inc.); Merchant, Fatima (Univ. of Houston)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo02.10
Clip-On Wireless Wearable Microwave Sensor for Ambulatory Cardiac Monitoring ........................................ 365-369
Fletcher, Richard Ribon* (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.); Kulkarni, Sarang (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo02.11
Performance Evaluation of Wearable Wireless Body Area Networks During Walking Motions in
444.5 MHz and 2450 MHz ......................................................................................................................................... 370-373
Takizawa, Kenichi (NICT); Watanabe, Katsuhiro (Meiji Univ.); Kumazawa, Masaki (Meiji Univ.);
Hamada, Yusuke (Meiji Univ.); Ikegami, Tetsushi* (Meiji Univ.); Hamaguchi, kiyoshi (Natl. Inst. of
Information & CommunicationsTech.)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo02.12
Design and Realization of a Wireless Sensor Gateway for Health Monitoring .................................................. 374-377
Becher, Kai (Fraunhofer IBMT); Figueiredo, Celso* (Univ. of Minho); Mühle, Clemens (Fraunhofer IBMT);
Ruff, Roman (Fraunhofer Inst. für Biomedizinische Technik); Mendes, Paulo M. (Univ. of Minho);
Hoffmann, Klaus-Peter (Fraunhofer Inst.)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo02.13
Multilayer Limb Quasi-Static Electromagnetic Modeling with Experiments for Galvanic Coupling Type IBC ...... 378-381
Pun, Sio Hang* (Univ. of Macau); Gao, Yue Ming (Fu zhou Univ.); Mou, Pedro Antonio (Univ. of Macau);
Mak, Peng Un (Univ. of Macau); Vai, Mang I. (Univ. of Macau); du, min (523 Gongye Road, Fuzhou Univ.,
Fuzhou, Fujian, 350002,P.R. CHINA)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo02.14
A Headband for Classifying Human Postures ...................................................................................................... 382-385
Aloqlah, Mohammed* (Case Western Reserve Univ.); Lahiji, Rosa (Case Western Reserve Univ.);
Loparo, Kenneth (Case Western Reserve Univ.); Mehregany, Mehran (Case Western Reserve Univ.)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo02.15
DIORAMA: Dynamic Information Collection and Resource Tracking Architecture .......................................... 386-389
Ganz, Aura* (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst); Yu, Xunyi (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst);
Schafer, James (Umass Amherst)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo02.16
Development of a Zigbee Platform for Bioinstrumentation ................................................................................. 390-393
Cifuentes, Carlos* (Escuela Colombiana de Carreras Industriales); Gentiletti, Gerardo Gabriel (Univ. Nacional
de Entre Rios); Suarez Baron, Marco Javier (Escuela Colombiana de Carreras Industriales-ECCI);
Rodríguez Cheu, Luis Eduardo (Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo02.17
Faux-Floor Development System for Personnel Detection Using Signal Scavenging Sensors ...................... 394-397
Shriniwar, Uday (Univ.); Tyrer, Harry* (Univ. of Missouri – Columbia);
Neelgund, Rohan (Univ. of Missouri, Columbia)
WeBPo03: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn
9.7.2 Clinical Engineering Poster (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo03.1
Validation of the Forced Oscillation Technique in the Diagnostic of Respiratory Changes in
Patients with Silicosis ............................................................................................................................................. 398-401
Sá, Paula* (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro); Faria, Alvaro Camilo Dias (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro);
Lopes, Agnaldo (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro); Jansen, José (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro);
Melo, Pedro Lopes (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo03.2
Study to Prevent the Density of Microcapsules from Diffusing in Blood Vessel by
Local Acoustic Radiation Force ............................................................................................................................. 402-405
Masuda, Kohji* (Tokyo Univ. A&T); Watarai, Nobuyuki (Tokyo Univ of A&T); Nakamoto, Ryusuke (Tokyo Univ.
A&T); Miyamoto, Yoshitaka (Nagoya Univ.); Kim, Keri (The Univ. of Tokyo); Chiba, Toshio (Natl. Center for
Child Health & Development)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo03.4
Learning Curves of the X Ray Innovated Process in the Imaging Department of the National Institute
of Respiratory Diseases, Mexico ............................................................................................................................ 406-409
Garcia-Flores, Silvia Eugenia (Univ. Autonoma Metropolitana – Iztapalapa); García-Porres, Julieta (UAM –
Iztapalapa); Ortiz-Posadas, Martha* (Univ. Autónoma Metropolitana)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo03.5
Risk Analysis for Intraoperative Liver Surgery ..................................................................................................... 410-413
Schwaiger, Johannes* (Technical Univ. of Munich); Markert, Mathias (Technical Univ. Munich);
Lueth, Tim (Technical Univ. of Munich)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo03.6
Decision Process Model to the Health Technology Incorporation ..................................................................... 414-417
Assis Santos, Francisco* (Univ. Federal de Santa Catarina); Garcia, Renato (Univ. Federal de Santa Catarina)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo03.7
Clinical Engineering and Risk Management in Healthcare Technological Process
Using Architecture Framework ............................................................................................................................... 418-421
Signori, Marcos Roberto* (Biomedical Engineering Inst., Fedaral Univ. ofSanta Catarina, Brazil);
Garcia, Renato (Univ. Federal de Santa Catarina)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo03.8
Automatic Detection of Tic Activity in the Tourette Syndrome ........................................................................... 422-425
Bernabei, Michel (Politecnico di Milano); Andreoni, Giuseppe (Politecnico di Milano); Mendez, Martin Oswaldo
(Univ. Autonoma de San Luis Potosi); Piccini, Luca (Politecnico di Milano); Aletti, Federico* (Politecnico di
Milano); Sassi, Marco (Dept. of Neurosurgery, IRCCS Galeazzi, Milan, Italy); Porta, Mauro (IRCCS Galeazzi);
Servello, Domenico (IRCCS Galeazzi); Preatoni, Ezio (Politecnico di Milano)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo03.9
Adaptive Multi-Infusion Decision Support System for Multivariable Circulatory
Management of Critically Ill Patients ..................................................................................................................... 426-429
Mason, David Glen* (Univ. of Queensland); Bancroft, Jayne (Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland);
Fraser, John F. (Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo03.10
Intelligent Shunt Agent for Gradual Shunt Removal ............................................................................................ 430-433
Al-Zubi, Nayel* (Univ. of Liverpool); Alkharabsheh, Abdel Rahman (Univ. of Liverpool);
Momani, Lina (Univ. of Liverpool); Al-Nuaimy, Waleed (Univ. of Liverpool)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo03.11
A Physiological Model for Extracorporeal Oxygenation Controller Design ...................................................... 434-437
Walter, Marian* (RWTH Aachen Univ.); Weyer, Sören (RWTH Aachen); Stollenwerk, Andre (RWTH Aachen);
Kopp, Rüdger (UK Aachen); Arens, Jutta (RWTH Aachen); Leonhardt, Steffen (RWTH Aachen Univ.)
10:45-12:15 WeBPo03.12
Image-Based Red Cell Counting for Wild Animals Blood .................................................................................... 438-441
Mauricio, Claudio Roberto Marquetto* (Unioeste – Western Parana State Univ., Brazil); Schneider, Fabio Kurt
(Federal Univ. of Tech. Parana); Correa, Leonilda dos Santos (Laboratorio Ambiental – ITAIPU Binacional, Brazil)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo03.13
Computer Aided Surgery for Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy: Clinical Requirement
Analysis and System Design .................................................................................................................................. 442-445
Oliveira-Santos, Thiago* (ISTB – Inst. for Surgical Tech. & Biomechanics); Peterhans, Matthias (Univ. of Bern);
Roth, Beat (Urology Dept., Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland); Reyes, Mauricio (MEM Research Center, Univ.
Bern); Nolte, Lutz-Peter (Univ. of Bern); Thalmann, George N. (Urology Dept., Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland);
Weber, Stefan (Univ. of Bern)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo03.14
Modeling of Ubiquitous Technology Integration Process in Health Services ................................................... 446-449
Cruz Castañeda, William Alberto* (Biomedical Engineering Inst. – Federal Univ. of Santa Catarina, Brazil);
Garcia, Renato (Univ. Federal de Santa Catarina)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo03.15
Improvement of the Health Technology Management Process of the Public Health Services in
Morelos Using the Six Sigma Methodology .......................................................................................................... 450-453
Becerril Alquicira, Adriana (Univ. Autónoma Metropolitana);
Ortiz-Posadas, Martha* (Univ. Autónoma Metropolitana)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo03.16
Medical Software Management: A Failure Analysis Approach for Maintenance and Safety Plan .................. 454-457
Miniati, Roberto (Univ. di Firenze); Dori, Fabrizio (Univ. di Firenze); Iadanza, Ernesto* (Univ. degli Studi di
Firenze); Fregonara Medici, Mario (Azienda Ospedaliero Univ. Careggi)

WeBPo04: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

8.1.3 Assitive, Prosthetics and Orthotocs (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo04.1
Freespace Estimation in an Autonomous Wheelchair Using a Stereoscopic Camera System ....................... 458-461
Nguyen, Thanh Hai (Post & Telecommunication Inst. of Tech., HCM City);
Vo, Kiet Tuan* (The Univ. of New South Wales)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo04.2
Voluntary Motion Support Control of Robot Suit HAL Triggered by Bioelectrical Signal for Hemiplegia ..... 462-466
Kawamoto, Hiroaki* (Univ. of Tsukuba); Stefan, Taal (Univ. of Tsukuba); Hafid, Niniss (CYBERDYNE Inc.);
Hayashi, Tomohiro (Univ. of Tsukuba); Kamibayashi, Kiyotaka (Univ. of Tsukuba); Eguchi, Kiyoshi (Univ. of
Tsukuba); Sankai, Yoshiyuki (Univ. of Tsukuba)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo04.3
Cable-Driven Elastic Parallel Humanoid Head with Face Tracking for Autism Spectrum
Disorder Interventions ............................................................................................................................................. 467-470
Su, Hao (Worcester Polytechnic Inst.); Dickstein-Fischer, Laurie (Northeastern Univ.);
Harrington, Kevin (WPI); Fu, Qiushi* (Arizona State Univ.); Lu, Weina (Worcester Polytechnic Inst.);
Fischer, Gregory (Worcester Polytechnic Inst.)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo04.4
Assisted Navigation Based on Shared-Control, Using Discrete and Sparse Human-Machine Interfaces ..... 471-474
Lopes, Ana* (Inst. Politécnico de Tomar); Nunes, Urbano (Univ. of Coimbra)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo04.5
Treadmill Motor Current Based Real-Time Estimation of Anteroposterior Force During Gait ........................ 475-478
Nakashima, Yasutaka* (Waseda Univ.); Ohki, Eiichi (Waseda Univ.); Ando, Takeshi (Waseda Univ.);
Kobayashi, Yo (Waseda Univ.); Fujie, Masakatsu G. (Waseda Univ.)
10:45-12:15 WeBPo04.6
Preliminary Design of a Simple Passive Toe Exercise Apparatus with a Flexible Metal Hydride
Actuator for Pressure Ulcer Prevention ................................................................................................................ 479-482
Ino, Shuichi* (Natl. Inst. of Advanced Industrial ScienceandTech.); Sato, Mitsuru (Showa Univ.);
Hosono, Minako (the Univ. of Tokyo); Nakajima, Sawako (The Univ. of Tokyo);
Yamashita, Kazuhiko (Tokyo Healthcare Univ.); Izumi, Takashi (Tokai Univ.)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo04.7
Feasibility of a Hybrid-FES System for Gait Restoration in Paraplegics ........................................................... 483-486
Quintero, Hugo A.* (Vanderbilt Univ.); Goldfarb, Michael (Vanderbilt Univ.)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo04.8
Portable and Attachable Tele-Echography Robot System: FASTele .................................................................. 487-490
Ito, Keiichiro* (Waseda Univ.); Sugano, Shigeki (Waseda Univ.); Iwata, Hiroyasu (Waseda Univ.)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo04.9
Algorithms for Target Prediction for Computer Users with Athetosis ............................................................... 491-494
Peral Rodríguez, Sergio (Univ. of Valladolid); Ding, Dan (Univ. of Pittsburgh);
Riviere, Cameron N* (Carnegie Mellon Univ.)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo04.10
Stiffness and Position Control of a Prosthetic Wrist by means of an EMG Interface ....................................... 495-498
Rao, Shodhan (Univ. of Twente); Carloni, Raffaella (Univ. of Twente); Stramigioli, Stefano* (Univ. of Twente)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo04.11
Bio-Inspired Mechanical Design of a Tendon-Driven Dexterous Prosthetic Hand ........................................... 499-502
Controzzi, Marco (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna); Cipriani, Christian* (Scuola Superiore Sant’anna);
Jehenne, Beryl (Univ. of Tech. of Compiègne); Donati, Marco (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna);
Carrozza, Maria Chiara (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo04.12
Autonomous Assistance Navigation for Robotic Wheelchairs in Confined Spaces ........................................ 503-506
Auat Cheein, Fernando A.* (Natl. Univ. of San Juan); De La Cruz, Celso (Univ. Federal do Espírito Santo);
Bastos, Teodiano (Univ. Federal do Espírito Santo); Carelli, Ricardo (Inst. de Automatica, Natl. Univ. of San Juan)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo04.13
Using “Stall Detection” as an Auxiliary Mechanism for Sensing Obstacles and
Hand Grasping in Arm Prosthesis ......................................................................................................................... 507-510
Moreno, Démian* (Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Superiores del Inst. Politécnico Nacional);
Ramírez-García, Alfredo (Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN);
Leija, Lorenzo (Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Inst. Politecnico Nacional);
Muñoz, Roberto (Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN); Vera, Arturo (Centro de
Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados delInst. Politecnico Nacional); Toledo Peral, Cinthya (Centro de
Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo04.14
Stumble Detection and Classification for an Intelligent Transfemoral Prosthesis ........................................... 511-514
Lawson, Brian* (Vanderbilt Univ.); Varol, Huseyin Atakan (Vanderbilt Univ.); Sup, Frank (Vanderbilt Univ.);
Goldfarb, Michael (Vanderbilt Univ.)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo04.15
Biomechanical Conceptual Design of a Passive Transfemoral Prosthesis ....................................................... 515-518
Unal, Ramazan* (Univ. of Twente); Carloni, Raffaella (Univ. of Twente); Hekman, Edsko (Univ. of Twente);
Stramigioli, Stefano (Univ. of Twente); Koopman, Bart (Univ. of Twente)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo04.16
A Biomechanical Model for the Development of Myoelectric Hand Prosthesis Control Systems .................. 519-523
Peerdeman, Bart* (Univ. of Twente); Boere, Daphne (Roessingh Research & Development); Kallenberg, Laura
(Roessingh Research & Development); Stramigioli, Stefano (Univ. of Twente); Misra, Sarthak (Univ. of Twente)
WeBPo05: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn
1.7.5 Modeling of Therapeutic and Diagnostic Systems (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo05.1
An Empirical Model of End-Tidal CO2 Response to Minute Ventilation ............................................................ 524-527
Hahn, Jin-Oh* (Univ. of British Columbia); Shrawane, Prasad (The Univ. of British Columbia);
Dumont, Guy (Univ. of British Columbia); Ansermino, J. Mark (British Columbia’s Children’s Hospital)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo05.2
Basic Study of Brain Injury Mechanism ................................................................................................................ 528-531
Saito, Satoshi* (Meiji Univ.); Kato, Kazuo (Meiji Univ.); Kurosawa, Yusuke (Meiji Univ.); Shindo, Yasuhiro (Meiji Univ.)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo05.3
Thermal Injury Models for Optical Treatment of Biological Tissues: A Comparative Study ........................... 532-535
Fanjul-Vélez, Félix (Univ. of Cantabria); Ortega-Quijano, Noé (Univ. of Cantabria);
Salas-García, Irene (Univ. of Cantabria); Arce-Diego, José L.* (Univ. of Cantabria)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo05.4
Application of Tikhonov and MTSVD Methods to Unfold Experimental X-Ray Spectra in the
Radiodiagnostic Energy Range .............................................................................................................................. 536-539
Querol, Andrea (Polytechnic Univ. of Valencia); Gallardo, Sergio* (Univ. Politecnica de Valencia);
Rodenas Diago, Jose (Polytechnic Univ. of Valencia); Verdu, Gumersindo (Polytechnic Univ. of Valencia)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo05.5
Towards Improved Sedation Control in Critically Ill Patients ............................................................................. 540-543
Greenfield, Kathryn* (Canterbury District Health Board); Dove, Richard (Canterbury District Health Board);
Shaw, Geoffrey M (Christchurch Hospital); Robinson, Garry (Canterbury District Health Board)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo05.6
Monitor-Decoupled Pharmacodymamics of Propofol in Children Using State
Entropy As the Clinical End Point .......................................................................................................................... 544-547
Khosravi, Sara (Univ. of British Columbia); Hahn, Jin-Oh (Univ. of British Columbia);
Dosani, Maryam (BC Children’s Hospital); Dumont, Guy* (Univ. of British Columbia);
Ansermino, J. Mark (British Columbia’s Children’s Hospital)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo05.7
Circuit Analysis Justifies a Reduced Mead’s Model of Human Respiratory Impedance for Impulse
Oscillometry Data ..................................................................................................................................................... 548-552
Ramos-Rocha, Carlos (Univ. of Texas at El Paso); Nazeran, Homayoun* (The Univ. of Texas at El Paso);
Goldman, Michael David (Univ. of California Los Angeles); Diong, Bill (Texas Christian Univ.)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo05.8
Viability of the Inner Retina in a Novel Mouse Model of Retinitis Pigmentosa ................................................. 553-556
O’Brien, Emily* (Univ. of Melbourne, Natl. ICT Australia); Fletcher, Erica Lucy (The Univ. of Melbourne);
Meffin, Hamish (Natl. ICT Australia); Burkitt, Anthony Neville (The Univ. of Melbourne);
Grayden, David B. (The Univ. of Melbourne); Greferath, Ursula (The Univ. of Melbourne)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo05.9
SAR Analysis of a Re-Entrant Resonant Cavity Applicator for Brain Tumor Hyperthermia Treatment
with a 3-D Anatomical Human Head Model ........................................................................................................... 557-560
Suzuki, Masataka* (Meiji Univ.); Kato, Kazuo (Meiji Univ.); Mimoto, Naoki (Meiji Univ.); Shindo, Yasuhiro (Meiji Univ.)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo05.10
Theoretical Simulation of the Dual-Heat-Flux Method in Deep Body Temperature Measurements ................ 561-564
Huang, Ming* (Univ. of Aizu); Chen, Wenxi (Univ. of Aizu)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo05.11
Computation Electrical Variables Induced by Magnetic Stimulation in 3D Thigh Model ................................. 565-568
Moncada, Maria Elena* (Inst. Tecnológico Metropolitano); Sarmiento, Consuelo (Fundación Clínica
Valle del Lili); Martinez, Alfredo (Univ. del Valle)
10:45-12:15 WeBPo05.12
Computational Tool for Modeling and Simulation of Mechanically Ventilated Patients .................................. 569-572
Hernandez, Alher Mauricio (Univ. of Antioquia); Mañanas, Miquel Angel (Technical Univ. of Catalonia (UPC));
Serna Higuita, Leidy Yanet* (Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya)

WeBPo06: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

1.2.8 Biomedical Modeling and Simulation I (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo06.1
Respiratory Impedance and Corresponding Phase-Constancy in the 7.5 to 247.5 Hz Frequency
Interval for Healthy Subjects ................................................................................................................................... 573-576
Ionescu, Clara-Mihaela* (Ghent Univ.); Orban, Istvan (Technical Univ. of Cluj Napoca, Romania);
De Keyser, Robin (Ghent Univ.)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo06.2
Electron Influence on the Reconstruction of a Linac 6 MeV Photon Spectra by Unfolding Methods ............ 577-580
Juste, Belen (Polytechnic Univ. of Valencia); Miró, Rafael (Polytechnic Univ. of Valencia);
Verdú, Gumersindo* (Polytechnic Univ. of Valencia); Díez, Sergio (Hospital Clínic de València);
Campayo, Juan Manuel (Hospital Clínic de València)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo06.3
Modeling of Electromagnetic Stimulation of the Human Brain ........................................................................... 581-584
Lazutkin, Dmitry* (Ilmenau Univ. of Tech.); Husar, Peter (Ilmenau Univ. of Tech.)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo06.4
Multispectral Acoustic Investigation of a Thyroid Geometrical Model .............................................................. 585-588
Gavriloaia, Gheorghe* (Univ. of Pitesti); Gavriloaia, Mariuca-Roxana (Medical & Pharmaceutical Univ. of Bucharest)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo06.5
Predictive Modeling of Glucose Metabolism using Free-Living Data of Type 1 Diabetic Patients ................. 589-592
Georga, Eleni I.* (Univ. of Ioannina); Protopappas, Vasilios C. (Univ. of Patras);
Fotiadis, Dimitrios I. (Univ. of Ioannina)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo06.6
An Automated Online Positioning System and Simulation Environment for Multi-Electrodes in
Extracellular Recordings ......................................................................................................................................... 593-597
Franke, Felix* (Technische Univ. Berlin); Natora, Michal (TU Berlin); Meier, Philipp (Technische Univ. Berlin);
Hagen, Espen (Norwegian Univ. of Life Sciences); Pettersen, Klas H. (Norwegian Univ. of Life Sciences);
Linden, Henrik (Norwegian Univ. of Life Sciences); Einevoll, Gaute (Norwegian Univ. of Life Sciences);
Obermayer, Klaus (Technische Univ. Berlin)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo06.7
Is Pulse Transit Time a Good Indicator of Blood Pressure Changes During Short Physical
Exercise in a Young Population? ........................................................................................................................... 598-601
Proença, Jorge (Univ. of Coimbra); Muehlsteff, Jens (Philips); Aubert, Xavier (Philips Research Laboratories
Europe, Aachen, Germany); de Carvalho, Paulo* (Univ. of Coimbra)

WeBPo07: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

1.2.12 Signal Processing in Physiological Systems I (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo07.1
Automatic Wavelet Detrending Benefits to the Analysis of Cardiac Signals Acquired in a
Moving Wheelchair .................................................................................................................................................. 602-605
Pinheiro, Eduardo* (Inst. de Telecomunicações); Postolache, Octavian (Inst. de Telecomunicações);
Girão, Pedro (Inst. de Telecomunicações, & Inst. Superior Técnico, Technical Univ. of Lisbon)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo07.2
Comparison of Systolic Time Interval Measurement Modalities for Portable Devices .................................... 606-609
de Carvalho, Paulo (Univ. of Coimbra); Paiva, Rui Pedro* (Univ. of Coimbra); Couceiro, Ricardo (Univ. of
Coimbra); Henriques, Jorge (Univ. of Coimbra); Antunes, Manual (Univ. of Coimbra); Quintal, Isabel (Centro
Hospitalar de Coimbra); Muehlsteff, Jens (Philips); Aubert, Xavier (Philips Research Laboratories Europe,
Aachen, Germany)
10:45-12:15 WeBPo07.3
On the Use of Augmented Reality Techniques in Learning and Interpretation of Cardiologic Data .............. 610-613
Lamounier Jr., Edgard* (Federal Univ. of Uberlandia); Buccioli, Arthur (Minas Gerais State Univ.);
Cardoso, Alexandre (Federal Univ. of Uberlandia); Soares, Alcimar (Federal Univ. of Uberlandia);
Andrade, Adriano (Federal Univ. of Ubelandia)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo07.4
EEG Compression Using JPEG2000: How Much Loss Is Too Much? ................................................................ 614-617
Higgins, Garry* (NUI, Galway); Faul, Stephen (Univ. College Cork); McEvoy, Robert (Univ. College Cork);
McGinley, Brian (Natl. Univ. of Ireland Galway); Glavin, Martin (Natl. Univ. of Ireland); Marnane, Liam (Univ.
College Cork); Jones, Edward (Natl. Univ. of Ireland Galway)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo07.5
Electrocardiographic T-Wave Peak-To-End Interval for Hypoglycemia Detection ........................................... 618-621
Nuryani, Nuryani* (Univ. of Tech. Sydney); Ling, Steve (Univ. of Tech. Sydney);
Nguyen, Hung T. (Univ. of Tech., Sydney)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo07.6
Classifier of Intestinal Contractile Activity Degree Based on Internal Electroenterogram Recording ........... 622-625
Guimera-Tomas, Josep (I3BH, Univ. Politécnica deValencia); Ye Lin, Yiyao* (Univ. Politécnica de Valencia);
Garcia-Casado, Javier (Univ. Politécnica de Valencia); Prats-Boluda, Gema (I3BH, Univ. Politécnica de Valencia)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo07.7
Mechanomyographic Response During FES in Healthy and Paraplegic Subjects ........................................... 626-629
Krueger-Beck, Eddy* (Federal Technological Univ. of Paraná); Scheeren, Eduardo Mendonça (Federal
Technological Univ. of Paraná); Nogueira-Neto, Guilherme (State Univ. of Campinas); Button, Vera Lúcia da
Silveira Nantes (State Univ. of Campinas); Nohama, Percy (Univ. Tecnológica Federal do Paraná)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo07.8
Real Time Breathing Rate Estimation from a Non Contact Biosensor ............................................................... 630-633
Shouldice, Redmond* (BiancaMed Ltd); Heneghan, Conor (BiancaMed); Petres, Gabor (Propix);
Zaffaroni, Alberto Antonio (Biancamed Ltd); Boyle, Patricia (St Vincents Private Hospital);
Mc Nicholas, Walter (St. Vincent’s Univ. Hospital); de Chazal, Philip (BiancaMed Ltd)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo07.9
The Effect of Lossy ECG Compression on QRS and HRV Feature Extraction .................................................. 634-637
Twomey, Niall* (Univ. College Cork); Walsh, Noel (Natl. Univ. of Ireland Galway); McGinley, Brian (Natl. Univ. of
Ireland Galway); Doyle, Orla Margaret (Univ. College Cork); Glavin, Martin (Natl. Univ. of Ireland);
Jones, Edward (Natl. Univ. of Ireland Galway); Marnane, Liam (Univ. College Cork)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo07.10
R-Point Detection for Noise Affected ECG Recording through Signal Segmentation ...................................... 638-641
Galeano, Massimiliano (Univ. of Messina); Calisto, Andrea* (Univ. of Messina); Bramanti, Alessia (Univ. of
Messina); Serrano, Salvatore (Univ. of Messina); Campobello, Giuseppe (Univ. of Messina);
Azzerboni, Bruno (Univ. of Messina)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo07.11
Improving Phase Congruency for EEG Data Reduction ...................................................................................... 642-645
Logesparan, Lojini* (Imperial College London); Rodriguez-Villegas, Esther (Imperial College London)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo07.12
Standard Filter Approximations for Low Power Continuous Wavelet Transforms ........................................... 646-649
Casson, Alexander James* (Imperial College London); Rodriguez-Villegas, Esther (Imperial College London)
WeBPo08: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn
3.4.1 Biological Sensors (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo08.1
A 8.9-ENOB 2.5-µW 150-KS/s Non-Binary Redundant Successive Approximation ADC in
0.18-µm CMOS for Bio-Implanted Devices ............................................................................................................ 650-653
Chan, Kok Lim (Inst. of Microelectronics, A*STAR (Agency of Science), Tech. & Research, Singapore);
Lee, Andreas Astuti (Inst. of Microelectronics, A*STAR (Agency of Science), Tech. & Research, Singapore);
Yuan, Xiaojun (ICS Lab, Inst. of Microelectronics); Krishna, Kotlanka R. (Inst. of Microelectronics, Agency of
Science, Tech. and Research, Singapore); Je, Minkyu* (Inst. of Microelectronics, A*STAR (Agency of
Science, Tech. & Research))

10:45-12:15 WeBPo08.2
A Novel RF-Based Propagation Model with Tissue Absorption for Location of the GI Tract .......................... 654-657
Wang, Lujia* (Shenzhen Inst.ofAdvancedIntegrationTech.,ChineseAcademy of Science); Liu, Li (Shenzhen Inst.
of AdvancedIntegrationTech.,Chinese Academy of Sciences); Hu, Chao (Shenzhen Inst. of Advanced Tech.);
Meng, Max Q.-H. (The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo08.3
Touch-Less Heartbeat Detection and Measurement-Based Cardiopulmonary Modeling ................................ 658-661
Obeid, Dany* (IETR – INSA de Rennes); Sadek, Sawsan (Lebanese Univ.); Zaharia, Gheorghe (IETR-INSA de
Rennes); El Zein, Ghaïs (IETR – INSA de Rennes)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo08.4
Bandwidth Tunable Amplifier for Recording Biopotential Signals ..................................................................... 662-665
Hwang, Sungkil (Tufts Univ.); Aninakwa, Kofi (Tufts Univ.); Sonkusale, Sameer* (Tufts Univ.)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo08.5
Bio-Recognition Capability of Streptomyces Sp. M7 Evaluated in Adverse Conditions for
Use As a Biological Transducer in a Lindane Biosensor .................................................................................... 666-669
López Rodriguez, Maria Lorena* (Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Univ. Nacional deCórdoba);
Madrid, Rossana Elena (Univ. Nacional de Tucumán); Felice, Carmelo José (Univ. Nacional de Tucumán);
Giacomelli, Carla E. (INFIQC, Facultad de CienciasQuímicas, Univ. Nacionalde Tucumán)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo08.6
Novel Sensing Materials for Breath Analysis Devices ......................................................................................... 670-673
Lo Schiavo, Sandra (Dept. of Inorganic Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry & Physical Chemistry, Univ. of
Messina); Livoti, Letizia (Dept. of Inorganic Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry & Physical Chemistry, Univ. of
Messina); Calisto, Andrea (Univ. of Messina); Bramanti, Alessia* (Univ. of Messina); Latino, Mariangela (Dept.
of Chemical Science & Technologies, Univ. of Rome Tor Vergata); Donato, Nicola (Univ. of Messina – Faculty
of Engineering); Neri, Giovanni (Dept. of Industrial Chemistry & Materials Engineering, Univ. of Messina)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo08.7
Diagnosis of Foot-And-Mouth Disease by Electrochemical Enzyme-Linked Immunoassay ........................... 674-676
Longinotti, Gloria (INTI); Lloret, Paulina (INTI); Ybarra, Gabriel (INTI); Fraigi, Liliana* (INTI);
Fraigi, Liliana (INTI); Malatto, Laura (INTI); Tropea, Salvador E. (INTI); Roberti, Mariano (INTI)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo08.8
Smart Hydrogel Based Microsensing Platform for Continuous Glucose Monitoring ....................................... 677-679
Tathireddy, Prashant* (Univ. of Utah); Avula, Mahender (Univ. of Utah); Lin, Genyao (Univ. of Utah);
Hao, Seung Hei (Univ. of Utah); Guenther, Margarita (Technische Univ. Dresden);
Volker, Schulz (Technische Univ. Dresden); Gerlach, Gerald (Technische Univ. Dresden);
Magda, Jules (Univ. of Utah); Solzbacher, Florian (Univ. of Utah)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo08.9
LPV Control of Glucose for Diabetes Type I ......................................................................................................... 680-683
Sánchez-Peña, Ricardo S.* (CONICET & ITBA); Ghersin, Alejandro Simon (ITBA)
WeBPo09: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn
3.12.3 Body Sensor Networks and Telemetric Systems (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo09.1
Quantifying Show Jumping Horse Rider Expertise Using IMUs ......................................................................... 684-687
Patterson, Matt (CLARITY Centre for Sensor Web Technologies); Doyle, Julie (CLARITY Centre for Sensor
Web Technologies); Cahill, Emma (Univ. College Dublin); Caulfield, Brian* (UCD);
McCarhyPersson, Ulrik (Univ. College Dublin)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo09.2
Miniaturized Antennas for Link between Binaural Hearing Aids ........................................................................ 688-691
Chandra, Rohit* (Lunds Univ.); Johansson, Anders (Lund Univ.)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo09.3
Wireless Power Delivery for Wearable Sensors and Implants in Body Sensor Networks ............................... 692-695
Zhang, Fei (Univ. of Pittsburgh); Hackworth, Steven A. (Univ. of Pittsburgh); Liu, Xiaoyu (Univ. of Pittsburgh);
Li, Chengliu (Univ. of Pittsburgh); Sun, Mingui* (Univ. of Pittsburgh)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo09.4
Utilizing Electromagnetic Shielding Textiles in Wireless Body Area Networks ................................................ 696-699
Sung, Grace Hui-Hsia* (Natl. Inst. of Information & CommunicationsTech.); Aoyagi, Takahiro (Natl. Inst. of
Information & Communications Tech.); Hernandez, Macro (Natl. Inst. of Information & CommunicationsTech.);
Hamaguchi, kiyoshi (Natl. Inst. of Information & CommunicationsTech.); kohno, Ryuji (NICT)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo09.5
Wireless Powered Electronic Sensors for Biological Applications .................................................................... 700-703
Heer, Rudolf* (Austrian Inst. of Tech.); Wissenwasser, Jürgen (AIT Austrian Inst. of Tech.);
Milnera, Marcus (Austrian Inst. of Tech.); Farmer, Letizia (Seibersdorf Labor GmbH);
Höpfner, Christine (Seibersdorf Labor GmbH); Vellekoop, Michael (Vienna Univ. of Tech.)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo09.6
Low Power Wireless Acquisition Module for Wearable Health Monitoring Systems ....................................... 704-707
Figueiredo, Celso* (Univ. of Minho); Becher, Kai (Fraunhofer IBMT); Hoffmann, Klaus-Peter (Fraunhofer Inst.);
Mendes, Paulo M. (Univ. of Minho)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo09.7
Time Reversal Microwave Breast Imaging for Contrast-Enhanced Tumor Classification ............................... 708-711
Kosmas, Panagiotis* (Kings College London); Laranjeira, Simao (King’s College London); Dixon, Johnny (Kings
College London); Li, Xiaodong (Kings College London); Chen, Yifan (Univ. of Greenwich)

WeBPo10: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

4.1.6 Physiological Modeling: System Models (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo10.1
A Biomechanical Model of Spiculated Tumours under Mammographic Compressions .................................. 712-715
Wessel, Carolina* (Univ. of Oxford); Schnabel, Julia (Univ. of Oxford); Brady, Michael (Univ. of Oxford)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo10.2
Effects of Needle Placement Inaccuracies in Hepatic Radiofrequency Tumor Ablation ................................. 716-721
Khlebnikov, Rostislav* (Graz Univ. of Tech.); Muehl, Judith (Technical Univ. of Graz)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo10.3
A Computational Model of the Primary Auditory Neuron Activity ...................................................................... 722-725
Michel, Christophe (INSERM U583); Nouvian, Regis (CNRS); Azevedo-Coste, Christine (DEMAR INRIA/LIRMM);
Puel, Jean-Luc (INSERM-U583, Univ. Montpellier1); Bourien, Jerome* (Inserm U583 / Univ. Montpellier 1)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo10.4
Quantitative Analysis of Tumor Vascular Structure after Drug Treatment ........................................................ 726-729
Wang, Po (Univ. of Oxford); Kelly, Catherine (Univ. of Oxford); Harvey, Ann K.* (Oxford Univ.);
Qayum, Naseer (Univ. of Oxford); Muschel, Ruth (Univ. of Oxford); Brady, Michael (Univ. of Oxford)
10:45-12:15 WeBPo10.5
Reduction of a Linear Complex Model for Respiratory System During Airflow Interruption .......................... 730-733
Jabłoński, Ireneusz* (Wroclaw Univ. of Tech.); Mroczka, Janusz (Wroclaw Univ. of Tech.)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo10.6
Comparison of SAR in Realistic Fetus Models of Two Fetal Positions Exposed to Electromagnetic
Wave from Business Portable Radio Close to Maternal Abdomen .................................................................... 734-737
Akimoto, Shimpei* (Chiba Univ.); Nagaoka, Tomoaki (Natl. Inst. Info & Comm Tech); Saito, Kazuyuki (Chiba
Univ.); Watanabe, Soichi (Nat’l Inst of Information & Comms Tech); Takahashi, Masaharu (Chiba Univ.);
Ito, Koichi (Chiba Univ.)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo10.7
Cardiac Valve Annulus Manual Segmentation Using Computer Assisted Visual Feedback in
Three-Dimensional Image Data .............................................................................................................................. 738-741
Casero, Ramón* (Univ. of Oxford); Burton, Rebecca (Univ. of Oxford); Quinn, T. Alexander (Univ. of Oxford);
Bollensdorff, Christian (Univ. of Oxford); Hales, Patrick (Univ. of Oxford); Schneider, Jurgen E. (Univ. of
Oxford); Kohl, Peter (Univ. of Oxford); Grau, Vicente (Univ. of Oxford)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo10.8
A Control Theoretic Approach to Venom Immunotherapy with State Jumps ................................................... 742-745
Chang, H.J.* (Imperial College London); Astolfi, Alessandro (Imperial College London & Univ. of Rome)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo10.9
Modeling Bacterial Clearance Using Stochastic-Differential Equations ............................................................ 746-751
Jeremic, Aleksandar* (McMaster Univ.); Atalla, Ashraf (Voith Turbo Inc)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo10.10
Multiscale Systems Modeling of the Tetralogy of Fallot ...................................................................................... 752-755
Summers, Ronald* (Loughborough Univ.); Abdulla, Tariq (Loughborough Univ.); Imms, Ryan (Loughborough
Univ.); Schleich, Jean-Marc (Hospital Pontchaillou); Carrault, Guy (Univ. de Rennes 1); Hernández, Alfredo I
(Univ. of Rennes 1 & INSERM U642); Houyel, Lucille (Marie-Lannelonge Hospital)

WeBPo11: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

4.1.8 Algorithms and Tools for Bioinformatics and Simulation (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo11.1
SVM-Based Spectral Matching for Metabolite Identification ............................................................................... 756-759
Zhou, Bin (Virginia Polytechnic Inst. & State Univ.); Cheema, Amrita (Georgetown Univ.);
Ressom, Habtom* (Georgetown Univ.)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo11.2
Shock-Induced Arrhythmogenesis in the Human Heart: A Computational Modelling Study .......................... 760-763
Bernabeu, Miguel Oscar* (Univ. of Oxford); Wallman, Mikael (Univ. of Oxford); Rodriguez, Blanca (Oxford Univ.)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo11.3
Designing Antimicrobial Peptides with Weighted Finite-State Transducers ..................................................... 764-767
Whelan, Christopher* (Oregon Health & Science Univ.); Roark, Brian (Oregon Health & Science Univ.);
Sonmez, Kemal (Oregon Health & Science Univ.)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo11.4
Evolutionary Computation for the Design of a Stochastic Switch for Synthetic Genetic Circuits ................. 768-774
Hallinan, Jennifer* (Newcastle Univ.); Misirli, Goksel (Newcastle Univ.); Wipat, Anil (Newcastle Univ.)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo11.5
X-Chromosome Linked Recessive Diseases Model ............................................................................................. 775-778
Del Vecchio, Carmen* (Univ. degli studi del Sannio); Bencivenni, Dimer (Univ. degli studi del Sannio);
Durante Mangoni, Emanuele (Seconda Univ. degli Studi di Napoli)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo11.6
Flexible Modeling for Anatomically-Based Cardiac Conduction System Construction ................................... 779-782
Romero, Daniel (Univ. Pompeu Fabra); Zimmerman, Viviana (Univ. Nacional del Comahue); Sebastian, Rafael
(Univ. of Valencia); Frangi, Alejandro (Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona); Frangi, Alejandro* (Univ. Pompeu Fabra)
WeBPo12: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn
4.4.1 Biological Network Modeling (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo12.1
Unraveling the Conundrum of Seemingly Discordant Protein-Protein Interaction Datasets .......................... 783-786
Gupta, Shobhit (DoD BioTech. High Performance Computing Software Applications Inst.); Wallqvist, Anders (DoD
BioTech. High Performance Software Applications Inst.); Bondugula, Rajkumar (DoD BioTech. High Performance
Computing Software Applications Inst.); Ivanic, Joseph (DoD BioTech. High Performance Computing Software
Applications Inst.); Reifman, Jaques* (U.S. Army Medical Research)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo12.2
Paired-Pulse Stimulation at Glutamatergic Synapses – Pre and Postsynaptic Components ......................... 787-790
Bouteiller, Jean-Marie Charles* (Univ. of Southern California); Allam, Sushmita (Univ. of Southern California);
Greget, Renaud (Rhenovia Pharma); Ambert, Nicolas (Rhenovia Pharma); Hu, Eric (Univ. of Southern
California); Bischoff, Serge (Rhenovia Pharma); Baudry, Michel (Univ. of Southern California);
Berger, Theodore (Univ. of Southern California)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo12.3
Predicting the Target Genes of Intronic MicroRNAs Using Large-Scale Gene Expression Data .................... 791-794
Radfar, Hossein* (Univ. of Toronto); Wong, Willy (Univ. of Toronto); Morris, Quaid (Univ. of Toronto)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo12.4
Identification of Gene Regulatory Networks from Time Course Gene Expression Data .................................. 795-798
Wu, FangXiang* (Univ. of Saskatchewan); Liu, LiZhi (Univ. of Saskatchewan);
Xia, ZhongHang (Western Kentucky Univ.)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo12.5
Inference of an in Situ Epidermal Intracellular Signaling Cascade .................................................................... 799-802
Cursons, Joseph* (Univ. of Auckland); Hurley, Daniel (Univ. of Auckland); Angel, Catherine E. (Univ. of
Auckland); Dunbar, Rod (Univ. of Auckland); Crampin, Edmund (Univ. of Auckland);
Jacobs, Marc D (The Univ. of Auckland)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo12.6
Graph Theory-Based Measures As Predictors of Gene Morbidity ...................................................................... 803-806
Massanet-Vila, Raimon (Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya); Caminal, Pere (Technical Univ. of Catalonia (UPC));
Perera, Alexandre* (Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo12.7
Extracting Very Simple Diagnostic Rules from Microarray Data ........................................................................ 807-810
Wang, Lipo* (Nanyang Technological Univ.); Chu, Feng (Nanyang Technological Univ.)

WeBPo13: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

7.3.1 Biomaterials/Drug Delivery (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo13.1
Platforms for Controlled Release of Antibacterial Agents Facilitated by Plasma Polymerization .................. 811-814
Vasilev, Krasimir* (Univ. of South Australia)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo13.2
Development of Conductive Polymer with Carbon Nanotubes for Regenerative Medicine Applications ...... 815-818
Antoniadou, Eleni* (Univ. College of London); Cousins, Brian (Medical School,Univ. College of London);
Seifalian, Alexander (Univ. College London)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo13.3
Spontaneous Patterning Obtained by Evaporation of Human Elastin-Like Polypeptide Solutions ................ 819-822
Bandiera, Antonella* (Univ. di Trieste); Urbani, Ranieri (Univ. di Trieste, Dpt. Life Sciences);
Sist, Paola (Univ. di Trieste, Dpt. Life Sciences)
10:45-12:15 WeBPo13.4
Osteogenic Differentiation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells Could Be Enhanced by Strontium ........................... 823-826
Yang, Fan* (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen Inst. of AdvancedTech. Chinese Academy of Sciences);
Tu, Jie (Chinese Academy of Sciences,ShenzhenInst.ofAdvancedTech.); Yang, Dazhi (Nanomedical Tech.
Center, Shenzhen Inst. ofAdvanced Tech., Chinese Academy of Sciences); Wang, Liping (Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Shenzhen Inst. of Advanced Tech.); Cai, lintao (Nanomedical Tech. Center, Shenzhen Inst. of
Advanced Tech., Chinese Academy of Sciences)

WeBPo14: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

7.4.1 Biomaterials/Cell Mechanics (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo14.1
Cell Sheet Stiffness Sensing without Taking Out from Culture Liquid .............................................................. 827-830
Uchida, Ryohei* (Osaka Univ.); Tanaka, Nobuyuki (Osaka Univ.); Higashimori, Mitsuru (Osaka Univ.);
Tadakuma, Kenjiro (Osaka Univ.); Kaneko, Makoto (Osaka Univ.); Kondo, Makoto (Waseda Univ.);
Yamato, Masayuki (Tokyo Women’s Medical Univ.)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo14.2
The Nucleus As a Central Structure in Defining the Mechanical Properties of Stem Cells ............................. 831-834
Ribeiro, Alexandre* (Carnegie Mellon Univ.); Dahl, Kris Noel (Carnegie Mellon Univ.)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo14.3
Review of Studies on Modulating Enzyme Activity by Low Intensity Electromagnetic Radiation .................. 835-838
Vojisavljevic, Vuk (RMIT Univ.); Pirogova, Elena (RMIT Univ.); Cosic, Irena* (RMIT Univ.)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo14.4
A Biomimetic Three-Layered Compartmented Scaffold for Vascular Tissue Engineering .............................. 839-842
Rainer, Alberto* (Univ. Campus Bio-Medico of Rome); Centola, Matteo (Univ. Campus Bio-Medico of Rome);
Spadaccio, Cristiano (Univ. Campus Bio-Medico of Rome); De Porcellinis, Stefano (Biomatica srl);
Abbruzzese, Franca (Univ. Campus Bio-Medico of Rome); Genovese, Jorge A (Univ. Campus
Bio-Medico of Rome); Trombetta, Marcella (Univ. Campus Bio-Medico of Rome)

10:45-12:15 WeBPo14.5
A G-CSF Functionalized PLLA Scaffold for Wound Repair: An in Vitro Preliminary Study ............................. 843-846
Spadaccio, Cristiano (Univ. Campus Bio-Medico of Rome); Rainer, Alberto* (Univ. Campus Bio-Medico of
Rome); De Porcellinis, Stefano (Biomatica srl); Centola, Matteo (Univ. Campus Bio-Medico of Rome);
Chello, Massimo (Univ. Campus Bio-Medico of Rome); De Marco, Federico (Regina Elena Inst. – Dept. of
Virology); Trombetta, Marcella (Univ. Campus Bio-Medico of Rome); Genovese, Jorge A (Univ.
Campus Bio-Medico of Rome)

WeC01: 14:30-16:00 Libertador A

1.1.2 Time Frequency Analysis of Biosignals (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 WeC01.1
Spectral Analysis of Single-Channel Airflow and Oxygen Saturation Recordings in
Obstructive Sleep Apnea Detection ....................................................................................................................... 847-850
Álvarez, Daniel* (Univ. of Valladolid, CIF: Q4718001C); Gutierrez, Gonzalo Cesar (Univ. of Valladolid);
Marcos, J. Victor (Univ. of Valladolid, CIF: Q4718001C); del Campo, Félix (Hospital del Río Hortega);
Hornero, Roberto (Univ. of Valladolid)

14:45-15:00 WeC01.2
Evaluation of Feature Extraction Techniques on Event-Related Potentials for Detection of
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder ................................................................................................................ 851-854
Castro-Cabrera, Paola (Univ. Nacional de Colombia Sede Manizales); Gomez-García, Jorge (Univ. Nacional de
Colombia Sede Manizales); Restrepo, Francia (Univ. Autónoma de Manizales); Moscoso, Oscar (Univ.
Autónoma de Manizales); Castellanos-Dominguez, Germán* (Univ. Nacional de Colombia)

15:00-15:15 WeC01.3
Analysis of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Signals with Data-Based Autocorrelation Wavelets ......... 855-858
Schuck Junior, Adalberto* (UFRGS Federal Univ. of RGS); Lemke, Christina (UCL, SC – Phys – FYMA);
Suvichakorn, Aimamorn (Univ. Catholique de Louvain); Antoine, Jean-Pierre (Univ. catholique de Louvain)
15:15-15:30 WeC01.4
Respiration-Induced Changes in Ear Photoplethysmography Relates to Relative Blood
Volume During Hemodialysis ................................................................................................................................. 859-862
Javed, Faizan* (Univ. of New South Wales); Chan, Gregory S H (The Univ. of New South Wales);
Savkin, Andrey (Univ. of New South Wales); Middleton, Paul MacConachie (Univ. of New South Wales);
Mackie, James (Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney); Lovell, Nigel H (Univ. of New South Wales)

15:30-15:45 WeC01.5
Real-Time Automatic Switching between Noise Suppression Algorithms for
Deployment in Cochlear Implants .......................................................................................................................... 863-866
Gopalakrishna, Vanishree* (Univ. of Texas at Dallas); Kehtarnavaz, Nasser (Univ. of Texas at Dallas);
Loizou, Philipos (Univ. of Texas at Dallas); Panahi, Issa (Univ. of Texas at Dallas)

15:45-16:00 WeC01.6
A Real-Time Weighted-Eigenvector MUSIC Method for Time-Frequency Analysis of
Electrogastrogram Slow Wave ............................................................................................................................... 867-870
Qin, Shujia* (Shenyang Inst. of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences); Miao, Lei (State Key Lab of Robotics,
Shenyang Inst. ofAutomation, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Xi, Ning (Michigan State Univ.); Wang, Yuechao
(Shenyang Inst. of Automation, Chinese Academy ofSciences); Yang, Chunmin (Air Force General Hospital)

WeC02: 14:30-16:00 Libertador B

2.1.1 MR-Specific Image Reconstruction (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 WeC02.1
High-Resolution Cardiac MRI Using Partially Separable Functions and Weighted
Spatial Smoothness Regularization ....................................................................................................................... 871-874
Christodoulou, Anthony* (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Brinegar, Cornelius (Univ of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign); Haldar, Justin (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Zhang, Haosen (Pittsburgh NMR Center for
Biomedical Research); Wu, Yijen L. (Carnegie Mellon Univ.); Foley, Lesley (Carnegie Mellon Univ.);
Hitchens, T. Kevin (Carnegie Mellon Univ.); Ye, Qing (Carnegie Mellon Univ.); Ho, Chien (Carnegie
Mellon Univ.); Liang, Zhi-Pei (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

14:45-15:00 WeC02.2
Improved Compressed Sensing MRI with Multi-Channel Data Using Reweighted L1 Minimization ............... 875-878
Chang, Ching-Hua (Texas A&M Univ.); Ji, Jim Xiuquan* (Texas A&M Univ.)

15:00-15:15 WeC02.3
Non-Iterative Relative Bias Correction for 3D Reconstruction of in Utero Fetal Brain MR Imaging ............... 879-882
Kim, Kio* (UCSF); Habas, Piotr A. (Univ. of California San Francisco); Rajagopalan, Vidya (UCSF);
Scott, Julia (UCSF); Corbett-Detig, James (UCSF); Rousseau, François (CNRS – LSIIT); Glenn, Orit (UCSF);
Barkovich, James (UCSF); Studholme, Colin (Univ. of California San Francisco)

15:15-15:30 WeC02.4
Correction of Field Inhomogeneity Effects on Limited K-Space MRSI Data Using Anatomical Constraints .... 883-886
Peng, Xi* (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Nguyen, Hien (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign);
Haldar, Justin (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Hernando, Diego (Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign);
Liang, Zhi-Pei (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

15:30-15:45 WeC02.5
Study of the Magnetic Interaction of a 4-Coil Array and Copper Shielding with a
PET/MRI Using the Finite-Element Method ........................................................................................................... 887-888
Rodriguez, Alfredo O* (UAM, Iztapalapa); Solis-Najera, Sergio E. (UAM-Iztapalapa);
Tomasi, Dardo (Natl. Inst. of Health)

WeC03: 14:30-16:00 Libertador C

3.1.1 Sensors and Systems (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 WeC03.1
Monitoring Voltage-Sensitive Membrane Impedance Change Using Radio Frequency Interrogation ........... 889-894
Dharia, Sameera* (Univ. of Utah); Rabbitt, Richard (Univ. of Utah)
14:45-15:00 WeC03.2
Microphone Array Based Novel Infant Deafness Detector .................................................................................. 895-898
Agnihotri, Chinmayee* (Siemens Corporate Research & Tech. – India); Subramani, Thiyagarajan (Siemens
Corporate Research & Tech. – India); Kalyansundar, Archana (Siemens Corporate Research & Tech. – India)

15:00-15:15 WeC03.3
Pilot Study of Longitudinal Ultrasonic Sensor for Dynamic Volumetric Assessment of
Gastroesophageal Reflux ........................................................................................................................................ 899-902
Gao, Xuexin (Univ. of Calgary); Sadowski, Dan (Univ. of Alberta); Mintchev, Martin* (Univ. of Calgary)

15:15-15:30 WeC03.4
Design and Fabrication of Piezoelectric Microactuators Based on β-Poly(vinylidene Fluoride)
Films for Microfluidic Applications ........................................................................................................................ 903-906
Cardoso, Vanessa (Univ. of Minho); Correia, Ramiro (Univ. of Minho); Rocha, Jose (Univ. of Minho);
Lanceros-Méndez, Senentxu (Univ. of Minho); Minas, Graca* (Univ. of Minho)

15:30-15:45 WeC03.5
MRI Compatibility of Microfabricated Magnetic Actuators for Implantable Catheters:
Mechanical Evaluations ........................................................................................................................................... 907-910
Lee, Hyowon* (UCLA); Xu, Qing (UCLA); Ephrati, Jeremy (UCLA); Bergsneider, Marvin (Univ. of California,
Los Angeles); Judy, Jack (UCLA)

15:45-16:00 WeC03.6
Detection of Respiratory Waveform During Bathing Using Non-Contact Electrodes ...................................... 911-914
Nakajima, Kazuki* (Univ. of Toyama); Sekine, Katsuhisa (Kanazawa Univ.); Yamazaki, Katsuya (Univ. of
Toyama); Tampo, Atsushi (Univ. of Toyama); Omote, Yuuichirou (Kanazawa Univ.); Fukunaga, Hiroshi (The
Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc.); Yagi, Yasuko (The Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc.); Ishizu, Kyoji (The Kansai
Electric Power Co., Inc.); Nakajima, Masanori (The Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc.); Tobe, Kazuyuki (Univ. of
Toyama); Kobayashi, Masashi (Univ. of Toyama); Sasaki, Kazuo (Univ. of Toyama)

WeC04: 14:30-16:00 Retiro A

9.4.2 Instrumentation (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 WeC04.1
Development of a Point-Of-Care Device for the Quantification of Bilirubin in Cerebral Spinal Fluid ............. 915-918
Beyette Jr., Fred R* (Univ. of Cincinnati); Booher, Blaine (Xanthostat Diagnostics Inc.); Drennan, James
(Xanthostat Diagnostics Inc.); Carraher, Lee (Xanthostat Diagnostics Inc.); Butler, Josh (Univ. of Cincinnati);
Bowman, Peggy (Univ. of Cincinnati); Clark, Joseph F (Univ. of Cincinnati); Wilsey, Philip (Univ. of Cincinnati)

14:45-15:00 WeC04.2
Instrumentation for the Analysis of Airflow Limitation by the Negative Expiratory Pressure Technique ..... 919-922
Teixeira, Illene (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro); Nunes, Luiz* (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro);
Melo, Pedro Lopes (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)

15:00-15:15 WeC04.3
Instrumentation for Bedside Analysis of Swallowing Disorders ........................................................................ 923-926
Greco, Catiuscia (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro); Nunes, Luiz* (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro);
Melo, Pedro Lopes (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)

15:15-15:30 WeC04.4
A Contact-Free Respiration Monitor for Smart Bed and Ambulatory Monitoring Applications ...................... 927-930
Hart, Adam* (McGill Univ.); Tallevi, Kevin (Univ. Health Network); Wickland, David (The Centre for Global eHealth
Innovation); Kearney, Robert Edward (McGill Univ.); Cafazzo, Joseph (Univ. Health Network)

15:30-15:45 WeC04.5
A Portable Device for the Clinical Assessment of Upper Limb Motion and Muscle Synergies ....................... 931-934
Murgia, Alessio* (Maastricht Univ.); Kerkhofs, Vincent (Maastricht Univ.); Savelberg, Hans (Maastricht Univ.);
Meijer, Kenneth (NUTRIM School of Nutrition, Toxicology & Metabolism, Maastricht Univ. Medical Centre)

15:45-16:00 WeC04.6
“A Window on Tissue” – Using Facial Orientation to Control Endoscopic Views of Tissue Depth ............... 935-938
Wachs, Juan Pablo* (Purdue Univ.); Vujjeni, Kausheek (Purdue Univ.); Matson, Eric (Purdue Univ.);
Adams, Stephen (Purdue Univ.)
WeC06: 14:30-16:00 Retiro C
1.3.2 Empirical Mode Decomposition in Biosignal Analysis (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 WeC06.1
Online Heart Rate Estimation in Unstable Ballistocardiographic Records ....................................................... 939-942
Pinheiro, Eduardo* (Inst. de Telecomunicações); Postolache, Octavian (Inst. de Telecomunicações);
Girão, Pedro (Inst. de Telecomunicações, & Inst. Superior Técnico, Technical Univ. of Lisbon)

14:45-15:00 WeC06.2
Enhancement of Laplacian EEnG from Humans by Means of an EMD-Based Method .................................... 943-946
Garcia-Casado, Javier (Univ. Politécnica de Valencia); Ye Lin, Yiyao (Univ. Politécnica de Valencia);
Prats-Boluda, Gema* (I3BH, Univ. Politécnica de Valencia); Guimera-Tomas, Josep (I3BH, Univ.
Politécnica deValencia); Alberola-Rubio, Jose (I3BH, Univ. Politécnica de Valencia)

15:00-15:15 WeC06.3
Application of the Empirical Mode Decomposition in the Study of Murmurs from
Arterio-Venous Fistula Stenosis ............................................................................................................................. 947-950
Vásquez, Pablo* (Lund Univ.); Munguia M., Marco (Natl. Univ. of Engineering);
Mandersson, Bengt (Lund Univ.); Mattsson, Elisabeth (Skane Univ. Hospital)

15:15-15:30 WeC06.4
Multiparametric Detection of Epileptic Seizures Using Empirical Mode Decomposition of EEG Records ....... 951-954
OROSCO, LORENA* (Univ. Nacional de San Juan); Garces, M Agustina (Univ. Nacional de San Juan);
Laciar, Eric (Univ. Nacional de San Juan)

15:45-16:00 WeC06.6
Artifact Reduction Based on Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) in
Photoplethysmography for Pulse Rate Detection ................................................................................................ 959-962
Wang, Qian (Shenzhen Inst. ofAdvancedTech.,Shenzhen,P.R.China); Yang, Ping (Univ. of British Columbia);
Zhang, Yuan-Ting* (The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong)

WeC07: 14:30-16:00 Martin Fierro 1

8.3.1 Surgical Robotics – Image-Guided Robotized Surgery (Mini Symposium)

14:30-14:45 WeC07.1
An Ingestible Wireless Capsule for Treatment of Obesity ................................................................................... 963-966
Kencana, Andy Prima (Nanyang Technological Univ.); Rasouli, Mahdi (Nanyang Technological Univ.);
Huynh, Van An (Nanyang Technological Univ.); Ting, Eng Kiat (Nanyang Technological Univ.);
Lai, Joshua Chong Yue (Nanyang Technological Univ.); Nguyen, Duc Quang Huy (Nanyang Technological
Univ.); Tan, Su-Lim (Nanyang Technological Univ.); Wong, Kai-Juan (Nanyang Technological Univ.);
Phee, Louis* (Nanyang Technological Univ.)

14:45-15:00 WeC07.2
Motion Generation of Robotic Surgical Tasks: Learning from Expert Demonstrations ................................... 967-970
Reiley, Carol* (Johns Hopkins Univ.); Plaku, Erion (Johns Hopkins Univ.); Hager, Gregory D (Johns Hopkins Univ.)

15:00-15:15 WeC07.3
Robotic-Surgical Instrument Wrist Pose Estimation ........................................................................................... 971-974
Fabel, Stephan (Univ. of Hawaii); Baek, Kyungim (Univ. of Hawaii-Manoa);
Berkelman, Peter* (Univ. of Hawaii-Manoa)

15:15-15:30 WeC07.4
Virtual Environment to Evaluate Multimodal Feedback Strategies for Augmented
Navigation of the Visually Impaired ....................................................................................................................... 975-978
Hara, Masayuki* (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne); Shokur, Solaiman (EPFL); Yamamoto, Akio (The
Univ. of Tokyo); Higuchi, Toshiro (The Univ. of Tokyo); Gassert, Roger (ETH Zurich); Bleuler, Hannes (EPFL)
15:30-15:45 WeC07.5
Design of a Surgical Robot with Dynamic Vision Control for Single Port Endoscopic Surgery ..................... 979-983
Kobayashi, Yo* (Waseda Univ.); Tomono, Yu (Waseda Univ.); Sekiguchi, Yuta (Waseda Univ.);
Watanabe, Hiroki (Waseda Univ.); Toyoda, Kazutaka (Waseda Univ.); Konishi, Kozo (Kyusyu Univ. Hospital);
Hashizume, Makoto (Kyushu Univ.); Fujie, Masakatsu G. (Waseda Univ.)

15:45-16:00 WeC07.6
Stochastic Approach to Error Estimation for Image-Guided Robotic Systems ................................................ 984-987
Haidegger, Tamas* (Budapest Univ. of Tech. & Economics); Gyori, Sandor (Budapest Univ. of Tech. & Economics);
Benyo, Balazs Istvan (Szechenyi Istvan Univ.); Benyo, Zoltan (Budapest Univ of Tech & Economics)

WeC08: 14:30-16:00 Martin Fierro 2

1.7.3 SVM’s Applied to Biosignal Analysis (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 WeC08.1
Weighted LS-SVM for Function Estimation Applied to Artifact Removal in Bio-Signal Processing ............... 988-991
Caicedo Dorado, Alexander* (Katolieke Univ. Leuven); Van Huffel, Sabine (Katholieke Univ. Leuven)

14:45-15:00 WeC08.2
Support Vector Machine Classification of Multi-Channel EEG Traces: A New Tool to
Analyze the Brain Response to Morphine Treatment .......................................................................................... 992-995
Graversen, Carina* (Aalborg Hospital, Mech-Sense, Dept. of Gastroenterology); Drewes, Asbjørn Mohr
(Aalborg Hospital, Mech-Sense, Dept. of Gastroenterology); Farina, Dario (Aalborg Univ.)

15:00-15:15 WeC08.3
Non-Invasive Intracranial Pressure Estimation Using Support Vector Machine ............................................... 996-999
Chacón, Max (Univ. de Santiago de Chile, USACH.); Pardo, Carlos* (Informatics Dept. of Univ. de
Santiago de Chile (USACH)); Puppo, Corina (Emergency Dept., Univ. de la República School of
Medicine, Montevideo, Uruguay); Curilem, Millaray (Univ. de La Frontera);
Landerretche, Jean (Medicine Faculty of Univ. de Santiago de Chile)

15:15-15:30 WeC08.4
Automatic Error Detection in the Clinical Measurement of Gastric Impedance Spectra ............................. 1000-1003
Godinez Garcia, Maria de Montserrat* (Univ. Autonoma Metropolitana); Yanez-Suarez, Oscar (Univ.
Autonoma Metropolitana); Sacristan, Emilio (Univ. Autónoma Metropolitana)

15:30-15:45 WeC08.5
Detection of Periods of Food Intake Using Support Vector Machines ........................................................... 1004-1007
Lopez-Meyer, Paulo (Clarkson Univ.); Schuckers, Stephanie (Clarkson Univ.);
Makeyev, Oleksandr (Clarkson Univ.); Sazonov, Edward* (Univ. of Alabama)

15:45-16:00 WeC08.6
A Comprehensive Motor Symptom Monitoring and Management System: The Bradykinesia Case .......... 1008-1011
Cancela, Jorge* (Univ. Politécnica de Madrid); Pansera, Mario (Univ. Politecnica de Madrid); Arredondo, María
Teresa (Technical Univ. of Madrid); Estrada, Juan Jacobo (Polytechnic Univ. of Madrid); Pastorino, Matteo (Univ.
Politecnica de Madrid); Pastor, Laura (Univ. Politécnica de Madrid); Villalar, Juan Luis (Technical Univ. of Madrid)

WeC09: 14:30-16:00 Ombu A

3.2.1 Optical and Photonic Sensors and Systems (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 WeC09.1
On-Chip Integrated Lensless Microscopy Module for Optical Monitoring of
Adherent Growing Mammalian Cells ................................................................................................................. 1012-1015
LI, Wei (Fraunhofer Inst. for Biomedical Engineering); Knoll, Thorsten (Fraunhofer Inst. for Biomedical
Engineering); Thielecke, Hagen* (Fraunhofer Inst. for Biomedical Engineering)

14:45-15:00 WeC09.2
OFSETH: A Breathing Motions Monitoring System for Patients under MRI .................................................. 1016-1019
De jonckheere, Julien* (CHRU de Lille); Jeanne, Mathieu (CHRU de Lille); Narbonneau, François (Multitel);
Paquet, Bernard (Centexbel); Kinet, Damien (Multitel); Logier, Regis (CHRU de Lille)
15:00-15:15 WeC09.3
Preliminary Assessment of Abdominal Organ Perfusion Utilizing a Fiber Optic
Photoplethysmographic Sensor ......................................................................................................................... 1020-1023
Hickey, Michelle (City Univ.); Samuels, Neal (St Bartholomew’s Hospital); Randive, Nilesh (St Bartholomew’s
Hospital); Langford, Richard (St Bartholomew’s Hospital); Kyriacou, Panayiotis* (City Univ.)

15:15-15:30 WeC09.4
Evaluation of a Multimode Photoplethysmographic Sensor During Cuff-Induced Hypoperfusion ............ 1024-1027
Muhammad, Shafique (City Univ. London); Phillips, Justin (City Univ.); Kyriacou, Panayiotis* (City Univ.)

15:30-15:45 WeC09.5
Bacterial Biofilm Disruption Using Laser Generated Shockwaves ................................................................ 1028-1032
Taylor, Zachary* (UCLA); Navarro, Artemio (UCLA); Kealey, Colin (UCLA); Beenhouwer, David (UCLA);
Haake, David (UCLA); Grundfest, Warren S. (UCLA); Gupta, Vijay (UCLA)

15:45-16:00 WeC09.6
High-Efficiency Optical Systems for Interrogation of Dermally-Implanted Sensors .................................... 1033-1036
Long, Ruiqi (Texas A&M Univ.); McShane, Mike* (Texas A&M Univ.)

WeC10: 14:30-16:00 Ombu B

10.2.1 eHealth, mHealth, telehealth I (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 WeC10.1
Mobile Healthcare Information Management Utilizing Cloud Computing and Android OS ......................... 1037-1040
Doukas, Charalampos* (Univ. of the Aegean); Pliakas, Thomas (Univ. of the Aegean);
Maglogiannis, Ilias (Univ. of Central Greece)

14:45-15:00 WeC10.2
e_Disease Management. A system for the Management of the Chronic Conditions .................................... 1041-1044
Guillen, Sergio* (Inst. Itaca Valencia, Spain); Meneu, Teresa (Polytechnic Univ. of Valencia); Serafin, Riccardo
(TSB Soluciones Tecnologicas para la Salud y Bienestar); Arredondo, María Teresa (Technical Univ. of Madrid);
Castellano, Elena (Tecnologías para la Salud y el Bienestar SA); Valdivieso, Bernardo (Hospital Univ. La Fe)

15:00-15:15 WeC10.3
An Overview of Recent End-To-End Wireless Medical Video Telemedicine Systems Using 3G ................. 1045-1048
Panayides, Andreas (Univ. of Cyprus); Pattichis, Constantinos* (Univ. of Cyprus); Pattichis, Marios (Univ. of
New Mexico,); Schizas, Christos (Univ. of Cyprus); Spanias, Andreas (Arizona State Univ.);
Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos (Frederick Univ. Cyprus)

15:15-15:30 WeC10.4
Integration of Heterogeneous Biomedical Sensors into an ISO/IEEE 11073 Compliant Application ......... 1049-1052
Fioravanti, Alessio* (Technical Univ. of Madrid); Fico, Giuseppe (Technical Univ. of Madrid);
Arredondo, María Teresa (Technical Univ. of Madrid); Salvi, Dario (Technical Univ. of Madrid);
Villalar, Juan Luis (Technical Univ. of Madrid)

15:30-15:45 WeC10.5
Personalized Health Applications in the Web 2.0: The Emergence of a New Approach .............................. 1053-1056
Fernandez-Luque, Luis* (Northern Research Inst. Tromsø (Norut)); Karlsen, Randi (Univ. of Tromso); Krogstad,
Trine (Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care & Telemedicine (NST), Univ. Hospital of North Norway); Burkow,
Tatjana M. (Univ. Hospital of North-Norway); Vognild, Lars K. (Northern Research Inst. Tromsø (Norut))

15:45-16:00 WeC10.6
Innovation in Health Care Technology: Is It Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?
Ehealth Gives the Answer ................................................................................................................................... 1057-1060
Colas, Javier* (Medtronic Iberica); Guillen, Alejandra (Medtronic Spain)
WeC11: 14:30-16:00 Poncho
4.6.1 Biological and Medical Data Mining (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 WeC11.1
Transcription Factor Activity Inference Based on Particle Swarm Optimization and Fast Network
Component Analysis ........................................................................................................................................... 1061-1064
Chen, Wei* (Univ. of Hong Kong); Chang, Chunqi (The Univ. of Hong Kong); Hung, Y.S. (The Univ. of Hong Kong)

14:45-15:00 WeC11.2
Finding Discriminative Subtypes of Aggressive Brain Tumours Using
Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy .................................................................................................................. 1065-1068
Colas, Fabrice* (Univ. of California Los Angeles); Kok, Joost N. (Leiden Univ.);
Vellido, Alfredo (Dept. de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informatics, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya)

15:00-15:15 WeC11.3
How Many Clusters to Report: A Recursive Heuristic ..................................................................................... 1069-1072
Carlis, John* (Univ. of Minnesota); Bruso, Kelsey (Univ. of Minnesota / Unisys Corp.)

15:15-15:30 WeC11.4
PSS-SQL: Protein Secondary Structure – Structured Query Language ........................................................ 1073-1076
Mrozek, Dariusz* (Silesian Univ. ofTech.); Małysiak-Mrozek, Bożena (Inst. of Informatics, Silesian Univ. of
Tech., Gliwice, Poland); Kozielski, Stanislaw (Inst. of Informatics, Silesian Univ. of Tech., Gliwice, Poland)

15:30-15:45 WeC11.5
Fast Orthogonal Search for Genetic Feature Selection ................................................................................... 1077-1080
Nahlawi, Layan* (Queen’s Univ.); Mousavi, Parvin (Queen’s Univ.)

15:45-16:00 WeC11.6
A Knowledge Engineering Approach to Recognizing and Extracting Sequences of
Nucleic Acids from Scientific Literature ............................................................................................................ 1081-1084
García-Remesal, Miguel* (Univ. Politécnica de); Maojo, Víctor (School of Computer Science. Univ. Politécnica de
Madrid); Crespo, José (School of Computer Science. Univ. Politécnica de Madrid)

WeC13: 14:30-16:00 Gomez Losada

11.1.1 Societal Impact (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 WeC13.1
Design of a Pulse Oximeter for Price Sensitive Emerging Markets ................................................................ 1085-1088
Jones, Zach* (Economedics Inc.); Woods, Eric (Economedics Inc.); Nielson, Dennis (UCSF Children’s
Hospital); Mahadevan, S.V. (Stanford Univ. School of Medicine)

14:45-15:00 WeC13.2
Development of a Microbicide-Releasing Diaphragm As an HIV Prevention Strategy ................................. 1089-1092
Major, Ian* (Queen’s Univ. Belfast)

15:00-15:15 WeC13.3
Low-Cost, Portable Optical Imaging Systems for Cancer Diagnosis ............................................................. 1093-1096
Pierce, Mark* (Rice Univ.); Richards-Kortum, Rebecca (Rice Univ.)

15:15-15:30 WeC13.4
Non-Instrumented Nucleic Acid Amplification (NINA): Instrument-Free Molecular Malaria
Diagnostics for Low-Resource Settings ............................................................................................................ 1097-1099
LaBarre, Paul* (PATH)

15:30-15:45 WeC13.5
Designing an Early Stage Prototype of a Neonatal Incubator for Poor Settings: Lessons Learned .......... 1100-1103
Olson, Kristian (CIMIT, MGH); Caldwell, Aya* (CIMIT, MGH)

15:45-16:00 WeC13.6
The R Value of Global Health (Conserving Energy to Save Lives) ................................................................. 1104-1107
McCormick, Bruce* (Savsu Technologies); Koenig, Danial (Savsu Technologies)
WeC14: 14:30-16:00 Auditorium
11.3.2 Student Session: Tips on Effective Presentation Design and Delivery (Mini Symposium)

14:30-14:45 WeC14.1
Tips on Effective Presentation Design and Delivery ........................................................................................ 1108-1108
James, Christopher (Univ. of Warwick); Linte, Cristian A.* (Robarts Research Inst.)

WeDPo01: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

10.5.4 Data Mining and Signal Processing in Health IT (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo01.1
Computer-Mediated Emotional Regulation: Detection of Emotional Changes Using
Non-Parametric Cumulative Sum ....................................................................................................................... 1109-1112
Leon, Enrique* (Fatronik-Tecnalia); Montalban, Iraitz (Fatronik – Tecnalia);
Schlatter, Sarah (Univ. of Rhode Island); Dorronsoro, Inigo (Fatronik)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo01.2
Wireless Remote Monitoring of Atrial Fibrillation Using Reconstructed 12-Lead ECGs ............................. 1113-1118
Vukajlovic, Dejan (Dedinje Cardiovascular Inst., Belgrade, Serbia); Bojovic, Bosko (NewCardio, Inc);
Ljupco, Hadzievski (NewCardio, Inc); George, Samuel (NewCardio, Inc); Gussak, Ihor (NewCardio, Inc);
Panescu, Dorin* (NewCardio, Inc.)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo01.3
Extracting Footfalls from Voxel Data ................................................................................................................. 1119-1122
Stone, Erik* (Univ. of Missouri); Anderson, Derek (Univ. of Missouri); Skubic, Marjorie (Univ. of Missouri);
Keller, James M (Univ. of Missouri)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo01.4
DiseaseAtlas: Multi-Facet Visual Analytics for Online Disease Articles ........................................................ 1123-1126
Sun, Jimeng* (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center); Gotz, David (IBM);
Cao, Nan (Hong Kong Univ of Science & Tech.)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo01.5
Compressive Sensing: From “Compressing While Sampling” to “Compressing and
Securing While Sampling” .................................................................................................................................. 1127-1130
Rodriguez-Villegas, Esther* (Imperial College London); Abdulghani, Amir (Imperial College London)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo01.6
Detection of Premature Ventricular Beats in ECG Records Using Bayesian Networks
Involving the P-Wave and Fusion of Results .................................................................................................... 1131-1134
Oliveira, Lorena Sophia Campos* (Federal Univ. of Espirito Santo); Andreao, Rodrigo (Federal Inst. of Espirito
Santo); Sarcinelli-Filho, Mario (Federal Univ. of Espirito Santo)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo01.7
Similarity Retrieval of Cardiac Reports ............................................................................................................. 1135-1141
Syeda-Mahmood, Tanveer* (IBM Almaden Research Center)

WeDPo02: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

10.5.5 Decision Support Methods I (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo02.1
Robust Channel Identification Scheme: Solving Permutation Indeterminacy of ICA for
Artifacts Removal from ECG ............................................................................................................................... 1142-1145
Acharyya, Amit* (Univ. of Southampton); Maharatna, Koushik (Univ. of Southampton);
Al-Hashimi, Bashir M (Univ. of Southampton); Mondal, Sayanta (Imagination Tech.)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo02.2
Sound Event Detection in Remote Health Care – Small Learning Datasets and Over
Constrained Gaussian Mixture Models .............................................................................................................. 1146-1149
Montalvao, Jugurta (Univ. of Sergipe, São Cristovao); Istrate, Dan* (ESIGETEL);
Boudy, Jerome (it-sudparis); Mouba, Joan (ESIGETEL)
16:00-17:30 WeDPo02.3
Telemedicine Enabled Remote Critical Care Ventilator ................................................................................... 1150-1153
Seifert, Gregory John (Advanced Medical Electronics); Hedin, Daniel* (Advanced Medical Electronics);
Dahlstrom, Robert (Advanced Medical Electronics); Havey, Gary (Advanced Medical Electronics Corp.)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo02.4
RESPLA: A Decision Support Framework for Emergency Resource Planning ............................................ 1154-1157
Inampudi, Venkata Srihari* (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst); Ganz, Aura (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo02.5
ANTEROCOD: Actuarial Survival Curves Applied to Medical Coding Support for Chronic Diseases ....... 1158-1161
Lecornu, Laurent* (GET ENST Bretagne); Le Guillou, Clara (Univ. Hospital); Le Saux, Frederic (Telecom
Bretagne); Hubert, Matthieu (CHRU Brest); Puentes, John (TELECOM Bretagne – INSERM);
Cauvin, Jean-Michel (Univ. Hospital (CHU))

16:00-17:30 WeDPo02.6
Automatic Decision Using Dirty Databases: Application to Prostate Cancer Diagnosis ............................. 1162-1165
Marin, Oscar R. (Univ. of Alicante); Ruiz Fernandez, Daniel* (Univ. of Alicante); Soriano Paya, Antonio (Univ. of
Alicante); Delgado, Francisco J. (General Hospital of Elche)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo02.7
An Expert System for Hydrocephalus Patient Feedback ................................................................................. 1166-1169
Alkharabsheh, Abdel Rahman* (Univ. of Liverpool); Momani, Lina (Univ. of Liverpool); Al-Zubi, Nayel (Univ. of
Liverpool); Al-Nuaimy, Waleed (Univ. of Liverpool)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo02.8
A Method for Clinical and Physiological Event Stream Processing ............................................................... 1170-1173
Kamaleswaran, Rishikesan* (Univ. of Ontario Inst. of Tech.); McGregor, Carolyn (Univ of Ontario Inst of Tech.);
Eklund, J. Mikael (Univ. of Ontario Inst. of Tech)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo02.9
Fuzzy Cognitive Maps for Medical Decision Support – A Paradigm from Obstetrics .................................. 1174-1177
Stylios, Chrysostomos* (TEI of Epirus); Georgopoulos, Voula (Technological Educal Inst of Patras)

WeDPo03: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

9.4.3 Patient Monitoring Devices and Techniques Poster (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo03.1
Real-Time Sleep Quality Assessment Using Single-Lead ECG and Multi-Stage SVM Classifier ................ 1178-1181
Bsoul, Majdi (Alcatel-Lucent); Minn, Hlaing (Univ. of Texas at Dallas); Nourani, Mehrdad (Univ. of Texas at
Dallas); Gupta, Gopal (Univ. of Texas Dallas); Tamil, Lakshman* (Univ. of Texas at Dallas)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo03.2
A Portable Self-Sensing Rheometer for Investigation and Therapy of Swallowing Disorders .................... 1182-1185
O’Leary, Mark Terence (Univ. College London); Hanson, Ben Mark* (Univ. College London, UK)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo03.3
Electronic Temperature Monitoring During the Decompression Surgery of the Facial Nerve .................... 1186-1189
M. C. Paula, Patricia* (Univ. of Brasilia); S. F. R. Rodrigues, Suelia (UnB-Gama Faculty, Univ. of Brasília);
Altoe, Mirella Lorrainy (Univ. of Brasília); Larissa S. dos Santos, Larissa (Univ. of Brasilia – UnB – Brazil);
da Rocha, Adson F. (Univ. of Brasilia)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo03.4
Intraoperative Multichannel Audio-Visual Information Recording and Automatic Surgical
Phase and Incident Detection ............................................................................................................................. 1190-1193
Suzuki, Takashi* (Tokyo Women’s Medical Univ.); Sakurai, Yasuo (Tokyo Women’s Medical Univ.);
Yoshimitsu, Kitaro (Tokyo Women’s Medical Univ.); Nambu, Kyojiro (Tokyo Women’s Medical Univ.);
Muragaki, Yoshihiro (Tokyo Women’s Medical Univ.); Iseki, Hiroshi (Tokyo Women’s Medical Univ.)
16:00-17:30 WeDPo03.5
PhysioDoloris: A Monitoring Device for Analgesia / Nociception Balance Evaluation
Using Heart Rate Variability Analysis ................................................................................................................ 1194-1197
Logier, Regis* (CHRU de Lille); Jeanne, Mathieu (CHRU de Lille); De jonckheere, Julien (CHRU de Lille);
Dassonneville, Alain (CHRU de Lille); Tavernier, Benoit (CHRU de Lille)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo03.6
Determining Levels of Arousal Using Electrocardiography: A Study of HRV During
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation .................................................................................................................... 1198-1201
Goldie, Jessica* (Univ. of Ontario Inst. of Tech.); McGregor, Carolyn (Univ of Ontario Inst of Tech.);
Murphy, Bernadette (Univ. of Ontario Inst. of Tech.)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo03.7
Technological Platform for Biomechanical Analysis of Static and Dynamic Tests of
Upper and Lower Limbs ...................................................................................................................................... 1202-1205
Rodrigo, Alvarado (UPIBI-IPN); Chairez Oria, Isaac* (UPIBI-IPN); Garcia, Alejandro (CINVESTAV-IPN);
Alberto, Luviano (CINVESTAV-IPN); Adriana, Rivera (UPIBI-IPN); Rodriguez, Alberto (UPIBI-IPN);
Rodriguez, Neftali (UPIBI-IPN)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo03.8
Method to Observe Hemodynamic and Metabolic Changes During Hemodiafiltration
Therapy with Exercise ......................................................................................................................................... 1206-1209
Cadena, Miguel* (Univ. Autonoma Metropolitana); Azpiroz-leehan, Joaquin (Univ. Autonoma Metropolitana)

WeDPo04: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

9.1.2 Instrumentation Poster (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo04.1
Fluorescence and Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy for Early Cancer Detection Using a
New Strategy towards the Development of a Miniaturized System ................................................................ 1210-1213
Ferreira, Debora (Univ. of Minho); Coutinho, Paulo (Univ. do Minho); Castanheira, Elisabete M. S. (Univ. do
Minho); Correia, Higino (Univ. of Minho); Minas, Graca* (Univ. of Minho)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo04.2
A New Drip Infusion Solution Monitoring System with a Free-Flow Detection Function ............................. 1214-1217
Ogawa, Hidekuni* (Hiroshima Inst. of Tech.); Maki, Hiromichi (Hiroshima Inst. of Tech.); Tsukamoto, Sosuke
(Hiroshima Inst. of Tech.); Yonezawa, Yoshiharu (Hiroshima Inst. of Tech.); Amano, Hikaru (Hiroshima Inst. of
Tech.); Caldwell, Morton (Caldwell Biomedical Electronics)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo04.3
Microwave Tomographic Imaging for Osteoporosis Screening ..................................................................... 1218-1221
Zhou, Tian* (Dartmouth College); Meaney, Paul (Dartmouth College); Pallone, Matthew (Dartmouth College);
Geimer, Shireen (Dartmouth College); Paulsen, Keith (Dartmouth College)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo04.4
Proportional Mechanical Ventilation through PWM Driven On/off Solenoid Valve ....................................... 1222-1225
Sardellitti, Irene* (italian Inst. of Tech.); Cecchini, Stefano (Univ. Campus Bio-Medico of Rome);
Silvestri, Sergio (Univ. Campus Bio-Medico); Caldwell, Darwin G. (Italian Inst. of Tech.)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo04.5
A Blood Pressure Monitor with Robust Noise Reduction System under
Linear Cuff Inflation and Deflation ..................................................................................................................... 1226-1229
Usuda, Takashi* (Nihon Kohden Corp.); Kobayashi, Naoki (Nihon Kohden Corp.); Takeda, Sunao (Tokyo Univ.
of Engineering); Kotake, Yoshifumi (Toho Univ. School of Medicine)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo04.6
Design and Analysis of an Actuated Endoscopic Grasper for Manipulation of Large Body Organs ......... 1230-1233
Mirbagheri, Alireza* (Sharif Univ. of Tech.); Farahmand, Farzam (Sharif Univ. of Tech.)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo04.7
Comparison of Manual Steering and Steering Via Joystick of a Flexible Rhino Endoscope ...................... 1234-1237
Eckl, Richard* (Technische Univ. Muenchen); Strauss, Gero (Univ. of Leipzig); Hofer, Mathias (Univ.);
Dietz, Andreas (Univ. of Leipzig); Lueth, Tim (Technical Univ. of Munich)
16:00-17:30 WeDPo04.8
A Design of RF Stimulator Which Is Similar to Temperature Distribution by
Moxibustion (Preliminary Study) ........................................................................................................................ 1238-1241
Myoung, Hyoun Seok (YONSEI Univ.); Park, Jin Sung (Yonsei Univ.); Cho, Sung Pil (Yonsei Univ.);
Lee, Jeon (Daegu Haany Univ.); Choi, Ho Seon (Daewon Univ. College); Lee, Kyoung Joung* (Yonsei Univ.)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo04.9
A Fully Automatic Calibration Framework for Navigated Ultrasound Imaging ............................................. 1242-1245
Peterhans, Matthias (Univ. of Bern); Anderegg, Sylvain (Univ. of Bern); Gaillard, Philippe (Univ. of Bern);
Oliveira-Santos, Thiago* (ISTB – Inst. for Surgical Tech. & Biomechanics); Weber, Stefan (Univ. of Bern)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo04.10
Design of a Medical and Laboratory Equipment Management Program for the
New Standards Certification Achievement in Mexico ...................................................................................... 1246-1249
Franco Clark, Dulce Maria* (Univ. Iberoamericana); Pimentel-Aguilar, Ana Bertha (INER: Inst. Nacional de
Enfermedades Respiratorias); Rodriguez Vera, Ricardo Noe (Inst. Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo04.11
Capacitive Driven-Right-Leg Grounding in Indirect-Contact ECG Measurement ......................................... 1250-1253
Lim, Yong Gyu* (Sangji Univ.); Chung, Gih Sung (Seoul Natl. Univ.); Park, Kwang S. (Seoul Natl. Univ.)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo04.12
Optimized Surgical Tool for Pectus Bar Extraction ......................................................................................... 1254-1257
Rechowicz, Krzysztof (Old Dominion Univ.); McKenzie, Frederic (Rick) D.* (Old Dominion Univ.);
Bawab, Sebastian (Old Dominion Univ.); Obermeyer, Robert (Children’s Hospital of teh King’s Daughters)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo04.13
Acupoint Stimulation Device Using Focused Ultrasound ............................................................................... 1258-1261
Tsuruoka, Noriko* (Tohoku Univ.); Watanabe, Masashi (Tohoku Univ.); Seki, Takashi (Tohoku Univ.);
Matsunaga, Tadao (Tohoku Univ.); Haga, Yoichi (Tohoku Univ.)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo04.14
Effectiveness of LLLT Associated to Acupuncture in Peripheral Artery Disease ........................................ 1262-1265
Cunha Gontijo, Rodrigo* (IP&D, UNIVAP); Kátia Kalligaris, Kátia Rodrigues Kalligaris (Federal Univ. of
Pernambuco); Salvador, Marcos (Univ. of Campinas); Zângaro, Renato A (Camilo Castelo Branco Univ.)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo04.15
Multi-Organ Effects of Conducted Electrical Weapons (CEW) – A Review ................................................... 1266-1270
Biria, Mazda (Univ. of Kansas Hospital); Bommana, Sudha Rani (Univ. of Kansas Hospitals);
Kroll, Mark (Univ. of Minnesota); Lakkireddy, Dhanunjaya* (Univ. of Kansas Hospitals)

WeDPo05: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

8.1.4 Rehabilitation Robotics I (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo05.1
Hiding Robot Inertia Using Resonance ............................................................................................................. 1271-1274
Vallery, Heike* (ETH & Univ. Zurich); Duschau-Wicke, Alexander (ETH & Univ. Zurich);
Riener, Robert (ETH & Univ. Zurich)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo05.2
A Novel Variable Stiffness Actuator: Minimizing the Energy Requirements for the Stiffness Regulation .... 1275-1278
Tsagarakis, Nikos* (Italian Inst. of Tech.)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo05.3
Soft Artificial Tactile Sensors for the Measurement of Human-Robot Interaction in the
Rehabilitation of the Lower Limb ....................................................................................................................... 1279-1282
De Rossi, Stefano Marco Maria* (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna); Vitiello, Nicola (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna);
Lenzi, Tommaso (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna); Ronsse, Renaud (EPFL); Koopman, Bram (Univ. of Twente);
Persichetti, Alessandro (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna); Giovacchini, Francesco (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna);
Vecchi, Fabrizio (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna); Ijspeert, Auke (EPFL); van der Kooij, Herman (Univ. of Twente);
Carrozza, Maria Chiara (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna)
16:00-17:30 WeDPo05.4
A Wearable Ergonomic Gaze-Tracker for Infants ............................................................................................. 1283-1286
Guglielmelli, Eugenio (Campus Bio-Medico Univ.); Chersi, Fabian (CNR);
Zollo, Loredana* (Campus Bio-Medico Univ.)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo05.5
On the Control of the MIT-Skywalker ................................................................................................................. 1287-1291
Artemiadis, Panagiotis* (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.); Krebs, Hermano Igo (MIT)

WeDPo06: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

6.9.4 Gait and Daily Activities (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo06.1
Human Characterization and Emotion Characterization from Gait ................................................................ 1292-1295
Venture, Gentiane* (Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture & Tech.)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo06.2
Adaptive Estimation of Temporal Gait Parameters Using Body-Worn Gyroscopes ..................................... 1296-1299
Greene, Barry R.* (Intel); McGrath, Denise (Univ. College Dublin); O’ Neill, Ross (Natl. Univ. of Ireland
Maynooth); O’Donovan, Karol (Intel Corp.); Burns, Adrian (Intel); Caulfield, Brian (UCD)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo06.3
A Single Gyroscope Method for Spatial Gait Analysis .................................................................................... 1300-1303
Doheny, Emer (Intel); Greene, Barry R.* (Intel); Foran, Tim (St.James’s Hospital)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo06.4
A PDF-Based Classification of Gait Cadence Patterns in Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis ... 1304-1307
Wu, Yunfeng* (Xiamen Univ.); NG, Sin Chun (The Open Univ. of Hong Kong)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo06.5
Domo-Grip: Functional Evaluation and Rehabilitation Using Grip Force ...................................................... 1308-1311
Hewson, David J* (Univ. de technologie de Troyes); Li, Ke (Shandong Univ.); Frerejean, Alexis (AECRTS);
Hogrel, Jean-Yves (Inst. de Myologie); Duchêne, Jacques (UTT)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo06.6
Extension Assist Control for Individuals with Cervical Cord Injury Using Motion
Assist Robot for Upper Limb .............................................................................................................................. 1312-1315
Watanabe, Tatsuya (Gifu Univ.); Yano, Kenichi* (Gifu Univ.)

WeDPo07: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

1.2.9 Biomedical Modeling and Simulation II (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo07.1
Towards Smart Prosthetic Hand: Adaptive Probability Based Skeletan Muscle Fatigue Model ................. 1316-1319
Kumar, Parmod* (Idaho State Univ.); Sebastian, Anish (Idaho State Univ.); Potluri, Chandra Sekhar (Idaho
State Univ.); Urfer, Alex (Idaho State Univ.); Schoen, Marco P. (Idaho State Univ.);
Naidu, D Subbaram (Idaho State Univ.)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo07.2
Experimental Analysis for the Contribution of Tooth Vibration to Production of
Sibilant /s/ ~ Measurement of Sound and Vibration ~ ...................................................................................... 1320-1323
Nakamura, Masanori* (Osaka Univ.); Nozaki, Kazunori (Osaka Univ.); Nagamune, Kazuya (Osaka Univ.);
Takimoto, Haruka (Osaka Univ.); Fujigaki, Motoharu (Wakayama Univ.); Wada, Shigeo (Osaka Univ.)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo07.3
Post-Prandial Plasma Glucose Prediction in Type I Diabetes Based on Impulse Response Models ......... 1324-1327
Ståhl, Fredrik* (Lund Univ.); Johansson, Rolf (Lund Univ.)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo07.4
Dynamic Modeling of EMG-Force Relationship Using Parallel Cascade Identification ............................... 1328-1331
hashemi, Javad* (Queen’s Univ.); Hashtrudi-Zaad, Keyvan (Queen’s Univ.); Morin, Evelyn (Queen’s Univ.);
Mousavi, Parvin (Queen’s Univ.)
16:00-17:30 WeDPo07.5
Phase Velocity Analysis of Acoustic Propagation in Trabecular Bone ......................................................... 1332-1335
Villarreal, Alejandro (Univ. Autonoma Metropolitana Izt);
Medina, Lucia* (Dept. de Fisica, Facultad de Ciencias, Univ.)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo07.6
Modeling of Medical Care with Stochastic Petri Nets ...................................................................................... 1336-1339
Maia, Cicilia* (UERN & FMC); R.M.A. Sizilio, Gláucia (UFRN); L. Martin, Daniel (UFRN); dos Santos, Keylly E.A.
(UFRN); Valentim, Ricardo Alexsandro de Medeiros (Federal Univ of Rio Grande do Norte);
Araújo, Bruno G. de (IFRN); Dantas de Melo, Jorge (UFRN); D. Dória Neto, Adrião (UFRN);
Guerreiro, Ana Maria G. (Federal Univ. of Rio Grande do Norte)

WeDPo08: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

1.2.11 Signal Processing in Physiological Systems II (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo08.1
Localization of Spontaneous Magnetoencephalographic Activity of Neonates and Fetuses Using
Independent Component and Hilbert Phase Analysis ..................................................................................... 1344-1347
Vairavan, Srinivasan* (Univ. of Arkansas at Little Rock); Eswaran, Hari (Univ of Arkansas for Medical Sci);
Preissl, Hubert (Univ. of Tübingen); Wilson, James (Univ. of Arkansas at Little Rock); Haddad, Naim (UAMS);
Lowery, Curtis (Univ. of Arkansas for Medical Sciences); Govindan, Rathinaswamy (UAMS)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo08.2
The Behavior of Action Potential Conduction Velocity on Isokinetic Knee Extension Tests ...................... 1348-1351
Schwartz, Fabiano* (Univ. of Brasilia); Nascimento, Francisco A. de O. (Univ. of Brasilia);
Bottaro, Martim (Univ. of Brasilia); Souza Celes, Rodrigo (Univ. of Brasilia)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo08.3
SigMate: A MATLAB-Based Neuronal Signal Processing Tool ....................................................................... 1352-1355
Mahmud, Mufti* (Univ. of Padova); Girardi, Stefano (NeuroChip Laboratory, Univ. of Padova);
Maschietto, Marta (NeuroChip Laboratory, Univ. of Padova); Bertoldo, Alessandra (Univ. of Padova);
Vassanelli, Stefano (NeuroChip Laboratory, Univ. of Padova)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo08.4
Signal Processing System to Quantify Bilirubin in the Jaundice Clinical Model Spectra ........................... 1356-1359
Alla, Suresh Kumar* (Univ. of Cincinnati); Huddle, Adam (Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Univ. of Cincinnati);
Clark, Joseph F (Univ. of Cincinnati); Beyette Jr., Fred R (Univ. of Cincinnati)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo08.5
Hybrid EEG-EOG Brain-Computer Interface System for Practical Machine Control .................................... 1360-1363
Punsawad, Yunyong (Mahidol Univ.); Wongsawat, Yodchanan* (Mahidol Univ.);
Parnichkun, Manukid (Asian Inst. of Tech.)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo08.6
Fourier and Wavelet Spectral Analysis of EMG Signals in Supramaximal
Constant Load Dynamic Exercise ...................................................................................................................... 1364-1367
Camata, Thiago* (Univ. Estadual de Londrina); Dantas, José Luiz (Univ. Estadual de Londrina); Abrão, Taufik
(Univ. Estadual de Londrina); Brunetto, Maria Angélica de Olivieira Camargo (Univ. Estadual de Londrina);
Moraes, Antônio Carlos de (Univ. de Campinas); Altimari, Leandro Ricardo (Univ. Estadual de Londrina)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo08.7
Dynamic Characteristics between the Subjective Score of Motion Sickness
Discomfort and Video Global Motion ................................................................................................................. 1368-1369
Tanaka, Akira* (Fukushima Univ.); Sugita, Norihiro (Tohoku Univ.); Yoshizawa, Makoto (Tohoku Univ.);
Abe, Makoto (Tohoku Univ.); Yambe, Tomoyuki (Tohoku Univ)
16:00-17:30 WeDPo08.8
Predicting the Neurodevelopmental Outcome in Newborns with Hypoxic-Ischaemic Injury ...................... 1370-1373
Doyle, Orla Margaret* (Univ. College Cork); Temko, Andriy (Univ. College Cork);
Murray, Deirdre (Univ. College Cork); Lightbody, Gordon (Univ. College Cork);
Marnane, Liam (Univ. College Cork); Boylan, Geraldine (Univ. College Cork)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo08.9
Comparison of Speech Processing Strategies for the Design of an Ultra Low-Power Analog Bionic Ear ..... 1374-1377
Sawigun, Chutham (Delft Univ. of Tech.); Ngamkham, Wannaya* (Delft Univ. of Tech.); Serdijn, Wouter A.
(Delft Univ. of Tech.)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo08.10
Optimal FES Parameters Based on Mechanomyographic Efficiency Index .................................................. 1378-1381
Krueger-Beck, Eddy* (Federal Technological Univ. of Paraná); Scheeren, Eduardo Mendonça (Federal
Technological Univ. of Paraná); Nogueira-Neto, Guilherme (State Univ. of Campinas); Button, Vera Lúcia da
Silveira Nantes (State Univ. of Campinas); Nohama, Percy (Univ. Tecnológica Federal do Paraná)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo08.11
Real-Time Detection of Auditory Steady-State Responses ............................................................................. 1382-1385
Cheah, Lam Aun* (Univ. of Hull); Hou, Ming (Univ.)

WeDPo09: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

1.7.4 Neural Networks in Biosignal Processing and Classification I (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo09.1
Classification of Cardiac Arrhythmias Using Competitive Networks ............................................................. 1386-1389
Maia, Cicilia* (UERN & FMC); R. M. A. Sizilio, Gláucia (UFRN); L. Martin, Daniel (UFRN); dos Santos, Keylly E.A.
(UFRN); Valentim, Ricardo Alexsandro de Medeiros (Federal Univ of Rio Grande do Norte);
Araújo, Bruno G. de (IFRN); Dantas de Melo, Jorge (UFRN); D. Dória Neto, Adrião (UFRN);
Guerreiro, Ana Maria G. (Federal Univ. of Rio Grande do Norte)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo09.2
A Single Tri-Axial Accelerometer-Based Real-Time Personal Life Log System Capable of
Activity Classification and Exercise Information Generation ......................................................................... 1390-1393
Lee, Myong-Woo* (Kyung-Hee Univ.); Khan, Adil Mehmood (Kyung Hee Univ.); Kim, Ji-Hwan (Kyunghee
Univ.); Cho, Young-Sun (Kyung Hee Univ.); Kim, Tae-Seong (Kyung Hee Univ.)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo09.3
Automatic Identification of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Based on Forced
Oscillation Measurements and Artificial Neural Networks .............................................................................. 1394-1397
Amaral, Jorge (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro); Faria, Alvaro Camilo Dias* (Univ. do Estado do Rio de
Janeiro); Lopes, Agnaldo (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro); Jansen, José (Univ. do Estado do Rio de
Janeiro); Melo, Pedro Lopes (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo09.4
Affinity-matrix representation of spike train activities in the early visual pathway ...................................... 1398-1400
Fontes, Cássio (Univ. Federal de Minas Gerais); Turchetti-Maia, Ana Luiza (Univ. Federal de Minas Gerais);
Baron, Jerôme (Univ. Federal de Minas Gerais); Braga, Antônio* (Univ. Federal de Minas Gerais)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo09.5
State Classification of Heart Rate Variability by an Artificial Neural Network in Frequency Domain ......... 1401-1404
Yasumoto, Yutaka (Hosei Univ.); Shoji, Yagi (Hosei Univ.); Yana, Kazuo* (Hosei Univ.);
Nozawa, Masaki (Hosei Univ.); Ono, Takuya (Nippon Medical School)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo09.6
An Automatic Detector of Drowsiness Based on Spectral Analysis and Wavelet
Decomposition of EEG Records ......................................................................................................................... 1405-1408
Garces, M Agustina* (Univ. Nacional de San Juan); Laciar, Eric (Univ. Nacional de San Juan)
16:00-17:30 WeDPo09.7
Assessment of Human Instantaneous Arterial Diameter Using B-Mode Ultrasound Imaging and
Artificial Neural Networks: Determination of Wall Mechanical Properties .................................................... 1409-1412
Pessana, Franco* (FICEN, Favaloro Univ.); Venialgo, Esteban (UTN); Rubstein, Jonathan Alejandro (UTN –
FRBA); Furfaro, Alejandro (Electronic Dept., Buenos Aires Regional Faculty, Natl. Technological Univ.)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo09.8
Human Gait Classification after Lower Limb Fracture Using Artificial Neural Networks and Principal
Component Analysis ........................................................................................................................................... 1413-1416
Lozano-Ortiz, Carlos Alirio (Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro); Muniz, Adriane Mara de Souza* (Physical
Education Collage of Brazilian Army); Nadal, Jurandir (Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo09.9
Optimization of MFCC Parameters Using Particle Swarm Optimization for Diagnosis of
Infant Hypothyroidism Using Multi-Layer Perceptrons ................................................................................... 1417-1420
Lee, Khuan Y.* (Univ. Teknologi Mara); Zabidi, Azlee (Univ. Teknologi Mara); Mansor, Wahidah (Univ.
Teknologi Mara); Mohd Yassin, Ahmad Ihsan (Univ. Teknologi Mara); Sahak, Rohilah (Univ. Teknologi Mara)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo09.10
Bio-Signal Analysis System Design with Support Vector Machines Based on
Cloud Computing Service Architecture ............................................................................................................. 1421-1424
Shen, Chia-Ping* (Natl. Taiwan Univ.); Chen, Wei-Hsin (Graduate Inst. of Biomedical Electronics &
Bioinformatics, Natl. Taiwan Univ.); Chen, Jia-Ming (Inst. of Computer Science & Engineering, College of
Computer Science Natl. Chiao Tung Univ.); Hsu, Kai-Ping (Natl. Taiwan Univ.); Lin, Jeng-Wei (Tunghai Univ.);
Chiu, Ming-Jang (Dept. of Nerology, Natl. Taiwan Univ. Hospital, No.7); Lai, Feipei (Natl. Taiwan Univ.)

WeDPo10: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

3.11.3 Wearable Technology (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo10.1
Radiation Characterization of an Intra-Oral Wireless Device at Multiple ISM Bands:
433 MHz, 915 MHz, and 2.42 GHz ........................................................................................................................ 1425-1428
Huo, Xueliang* (Georgia Inst. of Tech.); Jow, Uei-Ming (Georgia Inst. of Tech.);
Ghovanloo, Maysam (Georgia Inst. of Tech.)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo10.2
Objective Evaluation of Stress with the Blind by the Monitoring of Autonomic
Nervous System Activity ..................................................................................................................................... 1429-1432
Massot, Bertrand* (INSA Lyon); Baltenneck, Nicolas (S.I.S. Dept., Inst. of Psyschology, EA4129 Univ. of Lyon);
Gehin, Claudine (INSA Lyon); Dittmar, Andre (INSA Lyon); McAdams, Eric (Univ. of Ulster)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo10.3
Glass-Type Wireless PPG Measuring System .................................................................................................. 1433-1436
Lee, Eun Mi* (Chungbuk Natl. Univ.); Shin, Ji-Yun (Chungbuk Natl. Univ.); Hong, Joo Hyun (Chungbuk Natl.
Univ.); Cha, Eun Jong (Chungbuk Natl. Univ.); Lee, Tae Soo (Chungbuk Natl. Univ.)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo10.4
Measuring the Attenuation Characteristics of Biological Tissues Enabling for
Low Power in Vivo RF Transmission ................................................................................................................. 1437-1440
Laqua, Daniel* (Ilmenau Univ. of Tech.); Just, Thomas (Ilmenau Univ. of Tech.)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo10.5
System-Level Design Trade-Offs for Truly Wearable Wireless Medical Devices .......................................... 1441-1444
Chen, Guangwei (Imperial College London); Rodriguez-Villegas, Esther* (Imperial College London)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo10.6
Clutter Isolation and Cardiac Monitoring Using Harmonic Doppler Radar with
Heterodyne Receiver and Passive RF Tags ...................................................................................................... 1445-1448
Singh, Aditya* (Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa); Lubecke, Victor (Univ. of Hawaii Manoa)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo10.7
Insole Sensor System for Real-Time Detection of Biped Slip ......................................................................... 1449-1452
Lincoln, Lucas* (Univ. of Utah); Bamberg, Stacy J Morris (Univ. of Utah)
WeDPo11: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn
4.1.3 Model Identification and Parameter Estimation (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo11.1
Model-Based Optimal Immunization for Antibody Production in Birds ......................................................... 1453-1456
Olarte, Andres* (Univ. Nacional de Colombia); Clavijo, Carlos (Univ. Nacional de Colombia);
Diaz, Hernando (Univ. Nacional de Colombia)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo11.2
Phenomenological Modeling of Cell-To-Cell and Beat-To-Beat Variability in
Isolated Guinea Pig Ventricular Myocytes ........................................................................................................ 1457-1460
Walmsley, John* (Univ. of Oxford); Mirams, Gary (Univ. of Oxford); Bahoshy, Maya (Univ. of Oxford);
Bollensdorff, Christian (Univ. of Oxford); Rodriguez, Blanca (Oxford Univ.); Burrage, Kevin (Univ. of Oxford)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo11.3
Stochastic Modeling of the Neuronal Activity in the Thalamus of Essential Tremor Patient ...................... 1461-1464
Basu, Ishita* (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago); Tuninetti, Daniela (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago);
Graupe, Daniel (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago); Slavin, Konstantin (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo11.4
A Generic Ionic Model of Cardiac Action Potentials ........................................................................................ 1465-1468
Guo, Tianruo* (Univ. of New South Wales); Al Abed, Amr (Univ. of New South Wales); Lovell, Nigel H (Univ. of
New South Wales); Dokos, Socrates (Univ. of New South Wales)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo11.5
Simulation of Late Gadolinium Enhancement Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Studies ................................. 1469-1472
Tobon-Gomez, Catalina* (Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona); Sukno, Federico M (CIBER-BBN; CISTIB, Univ.
Pompeu Fabra); Butakoff, Constantine (Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona); Huguet, Marina (Cetir Sant Jordi;
CIBER-BBN, Barcelona, Spain); Frangi, Alejandro (Univ. Pompeu Fabra)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo11.6
Airway and Tissue Loading in Postinterrupter Response of the Respiratory System –
An Identification Algorithm Construction ......................................................................................................... 1473-1476
Jabłoński, Ireneusz* (Wroclaw Univ. of Tech.); Mroczka, Janusz (Wroclaw Univ. of Tech.)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo11.7
Parameter Estimation Method for Improper Fractional Models and Its Application to
Molecular Biological Systems ............................................................................................................................ 1477-1480
Tian, LiPing (Beijing Wuzi Univ.); Liu, LiZhi (Univ. of Saskatchewan); Wu, FangXiang* (Univ. of Saskatchewan)

WeDPo12: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

4.1.7 Software Tools for Physiological and Network Modeling (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo12.1
MML Toolkit and Work Flow Overview: Creating Temporo-Spatial Heart Models from CellML .................. 1481-1484
Chang, David (Univ. of New South Wales); Dokos, Socrates* (Univ. of New South Wales);
Lovell, Nigel H (Univ. of New South Wales)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo12.2
Design of a Framework for Modeling, Integration and Simulation of Physiological Models ....................... 1485-1489
Erson, E. Zeynep* (Case Western Reserve Univ.); Cavusoglu, M. Cenk (Case Western Reserve Univ.)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo12.3
ART-ML – A Novel XML Format for the Biological Procedures Modeling and the
Representation of Blood Flow Simulation ......................................................................................................... 1490-1493
Karvounis, Evaggelos* (Univ. of Ioannina); Tsakanikas, Vasilis D. (Univ. of Ioannina);
Fotiou, Evangelos (d.d. Synergy Hellas); Fotiadis, Dimitrios I. (Univ. of Ioannina)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo12.4
WebPK, a Web-Based Tool for Custom Pharmacokinetic Simulation ............................................................ 1494-1497
Srimani, Jaydeep* (Georgia Inst. of Tech.); Moffitt, Richard A. (Georgia Inst. of Tech.);
Wang, May Dongmei (Georgia Tech & Emory Univ.)
16:00-17:30 WeDPo12.5
A Global Sensitivity Tool for Cardiac Cell Modeling: Application to Ionic Current Balance and
Hypertrophic Signaling ........................................................................................................................................ 1498-1502
Sher, Anna (Univ. of Oxford); Cooling, Michael (Univ. of Auckland); Bethwaite, Blair (Monash Univ.);
Tan, Jefferson (Monash Univ.); Peachey, Tom (Monash Univ.); Enticott, Colin (Monash Univ.);
Garic, Slavisa (Monash Univ.); Gavaghan, David (Univ. of Oxford); Noble, Denis (Univ. of Oxford);
Abramson, David (Monash Univ.); Crampin, Edmund* (Univ. of Auckland)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo12.6
A Simple yet Effective Data Integration Approach to Tree-Based Microarray Data Classification ............. 1503-1506
Liu, Lin (Univ. of South Australia); Li, Yi (Univ. of South Australia); Liu, Bing* (Univ. of South Australia);
Li, Jiuyong (Univ. of South Australia)

WeDPo13: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

6.1.6 Neural Microsystems and Interface Engineering I (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo13.1
Effects of Tms Coil Geometry on Stimulation Specificity ............................................................................... 1507-1510
Talebinejad Mohammadi, Mehran* (McGill Univ.); Musallam, Sam (Caltech)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo13.2
Functional Regeneration of Severed Peripheral Nerve Using an Implantable Electrical Stimulator .......... 1511-1514
Lee, Tae Hyung* (Seoul Natl. Univ.); Pan, Hui (Seoul Natl. Univ.); Kim, In Sook (Seoul Natl. Univ.);
Hwang, Soon Jung (Seoul Natl. Univ.); Kim, Sung June (Seoul Natl. Univ.)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo13.3
Modeling of Microcavity Electrodes for Medical Implants ............................................................................... 1515-1518
Ansari, Umar* (Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia); Dokos, Socrates (Univ. of New South Wales);
Lovell, Nigel H (Univ. of New South Wales); Suaning, Gregg (The Univ. of New South Wales)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo13.4
A High-Voltage, High-Current CMOS Pulse Generator ASIC for Deep Brain Stimulation ............................ 1519-1522
Laotaveerungrueng, Noppasit* (Case Western Reserve Univ.); Lahiji, Rosa (Case Western Reserve Univ.);
Garverick, Steven (Case Western Reserve Univ.); Mehregany, Mehran (Case Western Reserve Univ.)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo13.5
Design and Experiment of a Neural Signal Detection using a FES Driving System ..................................... 1523-1526
Huang, Zonghao (Southeast Univ.); Wang, Zhigong* (Southeast Univ.); Lü, Xiaoying (Southeast Univ.);
Li, Wenyuan (Southeast Univ.); Shen, Xiaoyan (Southeast Univ.); Zhao, Xintai (Southeast Univ.);
Xie, Shushan (Southeast Univ.); Pan, Haixian (Southeast Univ.); Zhu, Cunliang (Southeast Univ.)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo13.6
Preliminary Investigations on Laminin Coatings for Flexible Polyimide/platinum
Thin Films for PNS Applications ........................................................................................................................ 1527-1530
Bossi, Silvia* (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna); Benvenuto, Antonella (Campus Biomedico Univ.);
Di Pino, Giovanni (campus Biomedico Univ.); Boretius, Tim (Univ. of Freiburg); Guglielmelli, Eugenio (Campus
Bio-Medico Univ.); Stieglitz, Thomas (Univ. of Freiburg); Navarro, Xavier (Univ. Autònoma de Barcelona);
Micera, Silvestro (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo13.7
Optimizing the Diameter of Holes for Flexible Regeneration Microelectrode ............................................... 1531-1534
Gojo, Riho* (The Univ. of Tokyo); Saito, Harukazu (Natl. Hospital Organization Murayama Medical
Center,JAPAN); Suzuki, Takafumi (The Univ. of Tokyo); Mabuchi, Kunihiko (The Univ. of Tokyo)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo13.8
Recognition and Inhibition of Dorsal Horn Nociceptive Signals within a Closed-Loop System ................. 1535-1538
Farajidavar, Aydin (The Univ. of Texas at Arlington); Hagains, Christopher (The Univ. of Texas at Arlington);
Peng, Yuan (The Univ. of Texas at Arlington); Behbehani, Khosrow* (Univ. of Texas at Arlington);
Chiao, Jung-chih (The Univ. of Texas at Arlington)
16:00-17:30 WeDPo13.9
Restoring Basal Ganglia in Parkinson’s Disease to Normal Via Multi-Input Phase
Shifted Deep Brain Stimulation .......................................................................................................................... 1539-1542
Agarwal, Rahul* (Johns Hopkins Univ.); Sarma, Sridevi V. (Johns Hopkins Univ.)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo13.10
ODEs Model of Foreign Body Reaction Around Peripheral Nerve Implanted Electrode .............................. 1543-1546
Di Pino, Giovanni (campus Biomedico Univ.); Formica, Domenico* (Campus Bio-Medico Univ.);
Lonini, Luca (Frankfurt Inst. for Advanced Studies, Goethe Univ.); Accoto, Dino (Campus Bio-Medico Univ.);
Benvenuto, Antonella (Campus Biomedico Univ.); Micera, Silvestro (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna);
Rossini, Paolo Maria (Campus Biomedico Univ.); Guglielmelli, Eugenio (Campus Bio-Medico Univ.)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo13.11
Dual-Monitor Deterministic Hardware for Visual Stimuli Generation in Neuroscience Experiments ......... 1547-1549
Gazziro, Mario* (Univ. of Sao Paulo); Almeida, Lirio (Univ. de Sao Paulo)

WeDPo14: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

6.1.5 Neural Microsystems and Interface Engineering II (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo14.1
Remote Tactile Sensing Glove-Based System .................................................................................................. 1550-1554
Culjat, Martin O.* (UCLA); Son, Ji (UCLA); Fan, Richard (UCLA); Wottawa, Christopher (UCLA);
Bisley, James W. (UCLA); Grundfest, Warren S. (UCLA); Dutson, Erik P. (UCLA)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo14.2
A Multi-Channel Low-Power System-On-Chip for Single-Unit Recording and Narrowband
Wireless Transmission of Neural Signal ........................................................................................................... 1555-1560
Bonfanti, Andrea (Politecnico di Milano); Ceravolo, Maria (Politecnico di Milano); Zambra, Guido* (Politecnico di
Milano); Gusmeroli, Riccardo (Politecnico di Milano – IU.NET); S. Spinelli, Alessandro (Politecnico di Milano –
IU.NET); Lacaita, Andrea Leonardo (Politecnico di Milano); Angotzi, Gian Nicola (IIT, Genova); Baranauskas,
Gytis (Italian Inst. of Tech.); Fadiga, Luciano (Univ. degli Studi di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italia)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo14.3
A High-Speed Circuit Architecture for IR-UWB Transmission of Fast-Scan Cyclic
Voltammetry in 0.35 µm CMOS ........................................................................................................................... 1561-1564
Zamani, Hamidreza (Case Western Reserve Univ.); Mohseni, Pedram* (Case Western Reserve Univ.)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo14.4
Wireless Channel Characterization for Mm-Size Neural Implants .................................................................. 1565-1568
Mark, Michael* (Univ. of California, Berkeley); Björninen, Toni (Tampere Univ. of Tech.);
Chen, Yuhui David (Univ. of California, Berkeley); Venkatraman, Subramaniam (Univ. of California, Berkeley);
Ukkonen, Leena (Tampere Univ. of Tech.); Sydänheimo, Lauri (Tampere Univ. of Tech.);
Carmena, Jose M. (Univ. of California, Berkeley); Rabaey, Jan M. (Univ. of California, Berkeley)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo14.5
An Implantable VLSI Architecture for Real Time Spike Sorting in Cortically
Controlled Brain Machine Interfaces ................................................................................................................. 1569-1572
Aghagolzadeh, Mehdi* (Michigan State Univ.); Zhang, Fei (Univ. of Pittsburgh); Oweiss, Karim (Michigan State Univ.)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo14.6
A Low-Power Self-Biased Neural Amplifier for Implantable EEG Recording System ICs ............................ 1573-1576
Kim, Jungsuk* (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo14.7
A Device for Vacuum Drying, Inert Gas Backfilling and Solder Sealing of Hermetic Implant Packages .... 1577-1580
Schuettler, Martin* (Univ. of Freiburg); Hügle, Matthias (Univ. of Freiburg); Ordonez, Juan Sebastian (Univ. of
Freiburg); Wilde, Jürgen (Univ. of Freiburg); Stieglitz, Thomas (Univ. of Freiburg)
16:00-17:30 WeDPo14.8
A High-Performance Transcutaneous Battery Charger for Medical Implants ............................................... 1581-1584
Artan, Nabi Sertac* (Polytechnic Inst. of New York Univ.); Vanjani, Hitesh (Polytechnic Inst. of New York Univ.);
Vashist, Gurudath Narasimha Rao (Polytechnic Inst. of New York Univ.); Fu, Zhen (Polytechnic Inst. of New
York Univ.); Bhakthavatsala, Santosh (Polytechnic Inst. of New York Univ.); Ludvig, Nandor (Comprehensive
Epilepsy Center, New York Univ. School of Medicine); Medveczky, Geza (Comprehensive Epilepsy Center,
New York Univ. School of Medicine); Chao, Jonathan (Polytechnic Inst. of New York Univ.)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo14.9
Fabrication and Test of a Hermetic Miniature Implant Package with 360 Electrical Feedthroughs ............ 1585-1588
Schuettler, Martin* (Univ. of Freiburg); Ordonez, Juan Sebastian (Univ. of Freiburg);
Silva Santisteban, Tomas (Univ. of Freiburg); Schatz, Andreas (Univ. of Freiburg);
Wilde, Jürgen (Univ. of Freiburg); Stieglitz, Thomas (Univ. of Freiburg)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo14.10
Adaptive Control of 2-Wheeled Balancing Robot by Cerebellar Neuronal Network Model ......................... 1589-1592
Tanaka, Yoshiyuki (Chubu Univ.); Ohata, Yohei (Chubu Univ.); Kawamoto, Tomohiro (Bosch Corp.);
Hirata, Yutaka* (Chubu Univ., College of Eng)

16:00-17:30 WeDPo14.11
Simulation of a Conductive Shield Plate for the Focalization of Transcranial Magnetic
Stimulation in the Rat .......................................................................................................................................... 1593-1596
Gasca, Fernando* (Univ. of Lübeck); Richter, Lars (Univ. of Luebeck);
Schweikard, Achim (Univ. of Luebeck, Germany)

WeE04: 17:30-19:00 Retiro A

9.1.1 Ablation Therapies (Oral Session)

17:30-17:45 WeE04.1
Thermal Heating of a Retinal Prosthesis: Thermal Model and In-Vitro Study ............................................... 1597-1600
Opie, Nicholas Lachlan* (NICTA); Burkitt, Anthony Neville (The Univ. of Melbourne);
Meffin, Hamish (Natl. ICT Australia); Grayden, David B. (The Univ. of Melbourne)

17:45-18:00 WeE04.2
MR-Compatible RF Ablation System for Online Treatment Monitoring Using MR Thermometry ............... 1601-1604
Will, Karl (Otto-von-Guericke Univ., Magdeburg); Krug, Johannes* (Otto-von-Guericke Univ., Magdeburg);
Jungnickel, Kerstin (Dept. of Radiology, Otto-von-Guericke-Univ. of Magdeburg); Fischbach, Frank (Dept. of
Radiology, Otto-von-Guericke-Univ. of Magdeburg); Ricke, Jens (Dept. of Radiology, Otto-von-Guericke-Univ.
of Magdeburg); Rose, Georg (Otto-von-Guericke Univ., Magdeburg); Omar, Abbas (Dept. of Signal Processing
& Communications, Otto-von-Guericke-Univ. of Magdeburg)

18:00-18:15 WeE04.3
Mathematical Modeling of Impedance Controlled Radiofrequency Tumor
Ablation and Ex-Vivo Validation ......................................................................................................................... 1605-1608
Haemmerich, Dieter* (Medical Univ. of South Carolina)

18:15-18:30 WeE04.4
Initial Human Feasibility Study of DC Ablation As a Treatment for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: 6
Month Follow-Up Data ......................................................................................................................................... 1609-1613
Cabezas, Juan (Univ. de Chile); Storme, Oscar (Univ. de Chile); Fruland, Benjamin (Ionix Medical, Inc.);
Kroll, Kai* (Ionix Medical, Inc.); Larson, Thayne (Inst. of Medical Research)

18:30-18:45 WeE04.5
Development of Selective Laser Treatment Techniques Using Mid-Infrared Tunable
Nanosecond Pulsed Laser .................................................................................................................................. 1614-1617
Ishii, Katsunori* (Osaka Univ.); Saiki, Masayuki (Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Univ.);
Hazama, Hisanao (Osaka Univ.); Awazu, Kunio (Osaka Univ.)
18:45-19:00 WeE04.6
The Laser Driven Short-Term Heating Balloon Catheter: Relation between the Chronic Neointimal
Hyperplasia Formation and Thermal Damage to Arterial Smooth Muscle Cells ........................................... 1618-1621
Shimazaki, Natsumi* (Keio Univ.); Kunio, Mie (Keio Univ.); Hayashi, Tomoaki (Keio Univ.); Igami, Yuka (Keio
Univ.); Arai, Tsunenori (Keio Univ.); Sakurada, Masami (Tokorozawa Heart Center)

WeE05: 17:30-19:00 Retiro B

1.5.1 Biomedical Applications of Principal Component Analysis and
Independent Component Analysis (Oral Session)

17:30-17:45 WeE05.1
Point Process Time-Frequency Analysis of Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia under
Altered Respiration Dynamics ............................................................................................................................ 1622-1625
Kodituwakku, Sandun* (RSISE, Australian Natl. Univ.); Lazar, Sara (Harvard Medical School);
Indic, Premananda (Univ. of Massachusetts Medical School); Brown, Emery N (MGH-Harvard Medical
School-MIT); Barbieri, Riccardo (MGH-Harvard Medical School-MIT)

17:45-18:00 WeE05.2
Time-Varying Analysis of Autonomic Control in Response to Spontaneous Sighs in Sickle Cell Anemia ... 1626-1629
Sangkatumvong, Suvimol* (Univ. of Southern California); Coates, Thomas (Childrens Hospital Los Angeles,
USC Keck School of Medicine); Wood, John (Childrens Hospital Los Angeles); Meiselman, Herbert (Keck
School of Medicine, Univ. of Southern California); Kato, Roberta (Childrens Hospital Los Angeles);
Detterich, Jon (Childrens Hospital Los Angeles); Bush, Adam (Childrens Hospital Los Angeles);
Khoo, Michael (Univ. of Southern California)

18:00-18:15 WeE05.3
Dynamic Assessment of Spontaneous Baroreflex Sensitivity by Means of Time – Frequency
Analysis Using Either RR or Pulse Interval Variability .................................................................................... 1630-1633
Orini, Michele* (Univ. of Zaragoza); Mainardi, Luca (Politecnico di Milano); Gil, Eduardo (Zaragoza Univ. &
CIBER-BBN); Laguna, Pablo (Zaragoza Univ. & CIBER-BBN); Bailon, Raquel (Univ. of Zaragoza)

18:15-18:30 WeE05.4
Analysis of Heart Rate Variability Dynamics During Propofol and Dexmedetomidine Anesthesia ............ 1634-1637
Tarvainen, Mika* (Univ. of Eastern Finland); Georgiadis, Stefanos (Univ. of Kuopio); Lipponen, Jukka (Univ. of
Eastern Finland); Laitio, Timo (Turku Univ. Hospital); Karjalainen, Pasi, A (Univ. of Eastern Finland); Scheinin,
Harry (Turku Univ. Hospital); Kaskinoro, Kimmo (Turku Univ. Hospital)

18:30-18:45 WeE05.5
Slow Neuronal Oscillations in the Resting Brain vs Task Execution:
A BSS Investigation of EEG Recordings ........................................................................................................... 1638-1641
Demanuele, Charmaine* (Univ. of Southampton); James, Christopher (Univ. of Warwick)

18:45-19:00 WeE05.6
EEG–EMG Coherence Estimated Using Time-Varying Autoregressive Models in Movement-Activated
Myoclonus in Patients with Progressive Myoclonic Epilepsies ...................................................................... 1642-1645
Panzica, Ferruccio* (Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico C. Besta Milano, Italy); Varotto, Giulia
(Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico C. Besta, viaCeloria11, Milano, Italy); Canafoglia, Laura (Fondazione
IRCCS Istituto Neurologico C. Besta, via Celoria 11, Milano, Italy); Rossi Sebastiano, Davide (Fondazione
IRCCS Istituto Neurologico C. Besta, via Celoria 11, Milano, Italy); Visani, Elisa (Fondazione IRCCS Istituto
Neurologico C. Besta, viaCeloria11, Milano, Italy); Franceschetti, Silvana (Fondazione IRCCS Istituto
Neurologico C. Besta, via Celoria 11, Milano, Italy)

WeE06: 17:30-19:00 Retiro C

1.3.3 Multivariate Signal Processing (Oral Session)

17:30-17:45 WeE06.1
The Impact of Expertise on Brain Computer Interface Based Salient Image Retrieval ................................ 1646-1649
Yazdani, Ashkan* (EPFL); Vesin, Jean-Marc (EPFL); Izzo, Dario (ESA); Ampatzis, Christos (ESA);
Ebrahimi, Touradj (EPFL)
17:45-18:00 WeE06.2
Application of Multivariate Emprical Mode Decomposition for Seizure Detection in EEG Signals ............ 1650-1653
Rehman, Naveed* (Imperial College London); Xia, Yili (Imperial College London);
Mandic, Danilo (Imperial College)

18:00-18:15 WeE06.3
Shrinkage Approach for EEG Covariance Matrix Estimation .......................................................................... 1654-1657
Beltrachini, Leandro* (Univ. Nacional de La Plata); von Ellenrieder, Nicolas (Univ. Nacional de La Plata);
Muravchik, Carlos (Univ. Nacional de La Plata)

18:15-18:30 WeE06.4
Multichannel Surface Electromyography Classification Based on Muscular Synergy ................................ 1658-1661
Lopez, Natalia M* (Univ. Nacional de San Juan); Orosco, Eugenio (Univ. Nacional de San Juan);
di Sciascio, Fernando (Univ. Nacional de San Juan)

18:30-18:45 WeE06.5
Multiple Coherence vs Multiple Component Synchrony Measure for
Somatosensory Evoked Response Detection ................................................................................................... 1662-1665
Melges, Danilo* (Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro); Miranda de Sá, Antonio Mauricio (Federal Univ. of Rio de
Janeiro); Infantosi, Antonio Fernando (Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro)

18:45-19:00 WeE06.6
Analysis of Propagation of Multi-Channel EEG in the Test of Sustained Attention ..................................... 1666-1669
Nan, Yan* (The Univ. of Hong Kong,Hong Kong); Sheng, Hengsong (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ.)

WeE07: 17:30-19:00 Martin Fierro 1

8.5.2 Neuroprosthetic Control (Invasive Approaches) (Oral Session)

17:30-17:45 WeE07.1
Decoder Remapping to Counteract Neuron Loss in Brain-Machine Interfaces ............................................ 1670-1673
Héliot, Rodolphe (CEA – LETI MINATEC); Venkatraman, Subramaniam (Univ. of California, Berkeley);
Carmena, Jose M.* (Univ. of California, Berkeley)

17:45-18:00 WeE07.2
Altering Function in Cortical Networks by Short-Latency, Paired Stimulation ............................................. 1674-1677
Miller, Lee* (Northwestern Univ.); Rebesco, James (Northwestern Univ.)

18:00-18:15 WeE07.3
Finite Element and Biophysics Modelling of Intraneural Transversal Electrodes:
Influence of Active Site Shape ............................................................................................................................ 1678-1681
Raspopovic, Stanisa (scuola Superiore Sant’Anna); Capogrosso, Marco (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna);
Navarro, Xavier (Univ. Autònoma de Barcelona); Micera, Silvestro* (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna)

18:15-18:30 WeE07.4
Extracting an Evaluative Feedback from the Brain for Adaptation of Motor Neuroprosthetic Decoders .. 1682-1685
Mahmoudi, Babak (Univ. of Florida); Principe, Jose (Univ. of Florida); Sanchez, Justin C.* (Univ. of Florida)

18:30-18:45 WeE07.5
Comparison of Force and Power Generation Patterns and Their Predictions under
Different External Dynamic Environments ........................................................................................................ 1686-1690
Chhatbar, Pratik Yashvant (SUNY Downstate Medical Center);
Francis, Joseph Thachil* (SUNY Downstate Medical Center)

18:45-19:00 WeE07.6
Reconfigurable Embedded System Architecture for Next-Generation Neural Signal Processing .............. 1691-1694
Balasubramanian, Karthikeyan (Temple Univ.); Obeid, Iyad* (Temple Univ.)
WeE08: 17:30-19:00 Martin Fierro 2
1.8.1 Interactions, Coupling and Synchronizations (Oral Session)

17:30-17:45 WeE08.1
Altered Interactions of Heart Rate and Blood Pressure During Normal and Abnormal Pregnancy ............ 1695-1698
Voss, Andreas* (Univ. of Applied Sciences Jena); Seeck, Andrea (Univ. of Applied Sciences Jena, Dept.
Medical Engineering & BioTech.); Baumert, Mathias (The Univ. of Adelaide)

17:45-18:00 WeE08.2
An Identifiable Model to Assess Frequency-Domain Granger Causality in the Presence of
Significant Instantaneous Interactions .............................................................................................................. 1699-1702
Faes, Luca* (Univ. of Trento); Erla, Silvia (Univ. of Trento); Tranquillini, Enzo (Neurology Divisio,
S.Chiara Hospital, Trento, Italy); Orrico, Daniele (Neurology Division, S.Chiara Hospital, Trento);
Nollo, Giandomenico (Univ. of Trento)

18:00-18:15 WeE08.3
The Sequence Technique Revised: Additional Concepts on the Assessment of Spontaneous
Baroreflex Function ............................................................................................................................................. 1703-1705
Di Rienzo, Marco* (Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi); Castiglioni, Paolo (Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi
ONLUS); Parati, Gianfranco (Univ. degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)

18:15-18:30 WeE08.4
Time-Variant Analysis of Linear and Non-Linear Phase Couplings of and between Frequency
Components of EEG Burst Patterns in Full-Term Newborns .......................................................................... 1706-1709
Wacker, Matthias* (Friedrich Schiller Univ.); Putsche, Peter (Friedrich Schiller Univ.);
Witte, Herbert (Friedrich Schiller Univ.)

18:30-18:45 WeE08.5
Measures of Connectivity Among the Different Brain Areas During an Attention Task .............................. 1710-1713
Bianchi, Anna Maria* (Politecnico di Milano)

18:45-19:00 WeE08.6
Coherence and Imaginary Part of Coherency Identifies Cortico-Muscular and
Cortico-Thalamic Coupling ................................................................................................................................. 1714-1717
Sander-Thömmes, Tilmann H.* (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt)

WeE09: 17:30-19:00 Ombu A

6.2.4 Estimation of Brain Functional Connectivity (Oral Session)

17:30-17:45 WeE09.1
Asymptotic Behavior of Generalized Partial Directed Coherence .................................................................. 1718-1721
Brito, Carlos Stein Naves de (Univ. of Sao Paulo); Baccala, Luiz Antonio (Escola Politecnica);
Takahashi, Daniel Yasumasa (Univ. of São Paulo); Sameshima, Koichi* (Univ. de Sao Paulo,
Faculdade de Medicina)

17:45-18:00 WeE09.2
Information Processing in Brain and Dynamic Patterns of Transmission .................................................... 1722-1725
Cieslak-Blinowska, Katarzyna (Warsaw Univ.); Kaminski, Maciej* (Warsaw Univ.); Kaminski, Jan (Nencki Inst.
of Experimental Biology, Dept. of Neurophysiology, Warsaw, Poland); Brzezicka, Aneta (Warsaw School of
Social Sciences & Humanities, Warsaw, Poland)

18:00-18:15 WeE09.3
Frequency Domain Connectivity: An Information Theoretic Perspective ..................................................... 1726-1729
Baccala, Luiz Antonio* (Escola Politecnica); Sameshima, Koichi (Univ. de Sao Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina);
Takahashi, Daniel Yasumasa (Univ. of São Paulo)

18:15-18:30 WeE09.4
Functional Connectivity Networks in the Autistic and Healthy Brain Assessed Using Granger Causality ... 1730-1733
Pollonini, Luca (Univ. of Houston); Patidar, Udit (Univ. of Houston); Situ, Ning (Univ. of Houston);
Rezaie, Roozbeh (Univ. of Texas Medical School); Papanicolaou, Andrew (Univ. of Texas Medical School);
Zouridakis, George* (Univ. of Houston)
18:30-18:45 WeE09.5
Imaging the Social Brain: Multi-Subjects EEG Recordings During the “Chicken’s Game” ......................... 1734-1737
Astolfi, Laura* (Univ. of Rome); Babiloni, Fabio (Univ. of Rome); He, Bin (Univ. of Minnesota);
De Vico Fallani, Fabrizio (Univ. La Sapienza); Vecchiato, Giovanni (Univ. of Rome Sapienza)

18:45-19:00 WeE09.6
Large-Scale Cortical Networks Estimated from Scalp EEG Signals During Performance of
Goal-Directed Motor Tasks ................................................................................................................................. 1738-1741
De Vico Fallani, Fabrizio (Univ. La Sapienza); Astolfi, Laura (Univ. of Rome);
Zouridakis, George (Univ. of Houston); Babiloni, Fabio* (Univ. of Rome)

WeE10: 17:30-19:00 Ombu B

10.8.1 Emerging IT for Efficient/Low-Cost Healthcare Delivery (Oral Session)

17:30-17:45 WeE10.1
Technology Enabled Assessment and Intervention Protocols in a Community and
Home Care Setting for Independent Living ....................................................................................................... 1742-1745
Caulfield, Brian* (UCD)

17:45-18:00 WeE10.2
Just Enough Measurement: A Proposed Paradigm for Designing Medical Instrumentation ...................... 1746-1750
Bamberg, Stacy J Morris* (Univ. of Utah); Dyer, Philip (Univ of Utah); Lincoln, Lucas (Univ. of Utah);
Yang, Linfang (Univ. of Utah)

18:00-18:15 WeE10.3
Upper Extremity Rehabilitation of Children with Cerebral Palsy Using Accelerometer
Feedback on a Multitouch Display ..................................................................................................................... 1751-1754
Dunne, Alan (NUI Galway); Do-Lenh, Son (Swiss Federal Inst. of Tech. Lausanne (EPFL)); O’Laighin, Gearoid
(Natl. Univ. of Ireland Galway); Shen, Chia (Harvard Univ.); Bonato, Paolo* (Harvard Medical School)

18:15-18:30 WeE10.4
Health Informatics for Low-Cost and High-Quality Health Care ..................................................................... 1755-1758
Poon, Carmen CY* (The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong); Gu, Wenbo (The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong);
Zhang, Yuan-Ting (The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong)

18:30-18:45 WeE10.5
Digital Divide: Use of Electronic Personal Health Record by Different Population Groups ........................ 1759-1762
Kim, Eung-Hun (Univ. of Washington); Kim, Yongmin* (Univ. of Washington)

18:45-19:00 WeE10.6
Wearable Sensors: Opportunities and Challenges for Low-Cost Health Care .............................................. 1763-1766
Fletcher, Richard Ribon* (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.); Poh, Ming-Zher (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.);
Eydgahi, Hoda (MIT)

WeE11: 17:30-19:00 Poncho

4.4.2 Novel Applications of Bioinformatics Algorithms (Oral Session)

17:30-17:45 WeE11.1
High Performance and Resource Efficient Biological Sequence Alignment ................................................. 1767-1770
Hasan, Laiq* (TU Delft); Al-Ars, Zaid (TU Delft); Taouil, Mottaqiallah (TU Delft)

17:45-18:00 WeE11.2
Low-Coupled Parallel Strategy for Monte Carlo Radiation Dose Calculation ............................................... 1771-1774
Massa, José María* (UNICEN); Doorn, Jorge Horacio (UNICEN); Wainschenker, Sergio Rubén (UNICEN)

18:00-18:15 WeE11.3
Non-Parametric Kernel Density Estimation for the Prediction of Neoadjuvant
Chemotherapy Outcomes ................................................................................................................................... 1775-1778
Wanderley, Maria Fernanda* (Univ. Federal de Minas Gerais); Braga, Antônio (Univ. Federal de Minas Gerais);
Mendes, Eduardo Mazoni Andrade Marçal (Univ. Federal de Minas Gerais); Natowicz, René (Univ. Paris-Est,
ESIEE-Paris); Rouzier, Roman (Hôpital Tenon, Service de gynécologie)
18:15-18:30 WeE11.4
SNP Analysis of Rac1 for Personalized Ligand Interaction ............................................................................ 1779-1782
Maggi, Norbert (Univ. of Genoa); Arrigo, Patrizio (CNR Genova); Ruggiero, Carmelina* (Univ. of Genova)

18:30-18:45 WeE11.5
Exons and Introns Characterization in Nucleic Acid Sequences by Time-Frequency Analysis ................. 1783-1786
Melia, Umberto Sergio Pio (Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya); Claria, Francesc (Lleida Univ.); Gallardo-Chacón,
Joan-Josep (CIBER Bioengineering, Biomaterials, & Nanomedicin); Caminal, Pere (Technical Univ. of
Catalonia (UPC)); Perera, Alexandre (Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya); Vallverdu, Montserrat* (Univ.
Politècnica de Catalunya)

WeE12: 17:30-19:00 Rio de Plata

6.8.4 Minisymposium on Impaired Attention: Drowsiness and Microsleeps (Mini Symposium)

17:30-17:45 WeE12.1
Monitoring of Drowsiness and Microsleep ........................................................................................................ 1787-1787
Golz, Martin* (Univ. of Applied Sciences Schmalkalden); Sommer, David (Univ. of Applied Sciences Schmalkalden)

17:45-18:00 WeE12.2
Lapses of Responsiveness: Characteristics, Detection, and Underlying Mechanisms ............................... 1788-1791
Jones, Richard D.* (Van der Veer Inst.); Poudel, Govinda (Univ. of Otago); Innes, Carrie R. H. (Canterbury District
Health Board); Davidson, Paul Robert (Van der Veer Inst.); Peiris, Malik T. R. (Univ. of Canterbury);
Malla, Amol (Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Ltd); Signal, T. L. (Massey Univ.); Carroll, G. J. (Christchurch
Hospital); Watts, Richard (Univ. of Canterbury); Bones, P. J. (Univ. of Canterbury)

18:00-18:15 WeE12.3
Arousing Feedback Rectifies Lapse in Performance and Corresponding EEG Power Spectrum .............. 1792-1795
Jung, Tzyy-Ping* (Univ. of California San Diego); Huang, Kuan-Chih (Natl. Chiao-Tung Univ.);
Chuang, Chun-Hsiang (Natl. Chiao-Tung Univ.); Chen, Chien-Ann (Natl. Chiao-Tung Univ.); Ko, Li-Wei (Natl.
Chiao-Tung Univ.); Chiu, Tzai-Wen (Natl. Chiao-Tung Univ.); Lin, Chin-Teng (Natl. Chiao-Tung Univ.)

WeE13: 17:30-19:00 Gomez Losada

6.2.1 Microelectrode Technology (Oral Session)

17:30-17:45 WeE13.1
A Transparent Electrode Array for Simultaneous Cortical Potential Recording and
Intrinsic Signal Optical Imaging ......................................................................................................................... 1796-1799
Stieglitz, Thomas* (Univ. of Freiburg); Huang, Wenqi (Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia);
Chen, Spencer Chin-Yu (Univ. of New South Wales); Morley, John William (Univ. of Western Sydney);
Lovell, Nigel H (Univ. of New South Wales); Suaning, Gregg (The Univ. of New South Wales)

17:45-18:00 WeE13.2
Intrafascicular Thin-Film Multichannel Electrodes for Sensory Feed-Back:
Evidences on a Human Amputee ....................................................................................................................... 1800-1803
Benvenuto, Antonella* (Campus Biomedico Univ.); Raspopovic, Stanisa (scuola Superiore Sant’Anna);
Hoffmann, Klaus-Peter (Fraunhofer Inst.); Carpaneto, Jacopo (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna); Cavallo, Giuseppe
(Campus Bio-Medico Univ.); Di Pino, Giovanni (campus Biomedico Univ.); Guglielmelli, Eugenio (Campus Bio-
Medico Univ.); Rossini, Luca (Univ. Campus Biomedico of Rome); Rossini, Paolo Maria (Campus Biomedico
Univ.); Tombini, Mario (Campus Bio-Medico Univ.); Micera, Silvestro (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna)

18:00-18:15 WeE13.3
A Modular 256-Channel Micro Electrode Array Platform for in Vitro and in
Vivo Neural Stimulation and Recording: BioMEA™ ......................................................................................... 1804-1807
Charvet, Guillaume* (CEA Grenoble); Billoint, Olivier (CEA-LETI); Gharbi, Sadok (CEA/LETI/MINATEC);
Heuschkel, Marc (Ayanda Biosystems SA); Georges, Cedric (Bio-Logic SAS); Kauffmann, Thierry (Bio-Logic
SAS); Pellissier, Aymeric (Bio-Logic SAS); Yvert, Blaise (CNRS & Univ. Bordeaux 1and2);
Guillemaud, Regis (CEA Léti MINATEC)

18:15-18:30 WeE13.4
3D Microprobes for Deep Brain Stimulation and Recording ........................................................................... 1808-1811
A. Fomani, Arash* (Univ. of Waterloo); Moradi, Maryam (Univ. of Waterloo); Assaf, Souhile (Medtrode Inc.);
Mansour, Raafat (Univ. of Waterloo)
18:30-18:45 WeE13.5
Tuning Electrode Impedance for the Electrical Recording of Biopotentials ................................................. 1812-1815
Fontes, Marcelo (Catholic Univ. of Leuven); Op de Beeck, Maaike* (IMEC); Van Hoof, Chris (IMEC);
Neves, Herc (imec)

18:45-19:00 WeE13.6
An Implantable Integrated Low-Power Amplifier-Microelectrode Array for Brain-Machine Interfaces ....... 1816-1819
Patrick, Erin (Univ. of Florida); Sankar, Viswanath (Univ. of Florida); Rowe, William (Univ. of Florida);
Sanchez, Justin C.* (Univ. of Florida); Nishida, Toshikazu (Univ. of Florida)

Thursday, 2 September 2010

ThA01: 09:15-10:45 Libertador A

1.2.1 Advances in Signal and Image Processing and Computational
Intelligence Methods in the Post-Genome Era (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 ThA01.1
Predicting a Protein’s Melting Temperature from Its Amino Acid Sequence ................................................ 1820-1823
Seker, Huseyin* (Bio-Health Informatics Research Group)

09:30-09:45 ThA01.2
An Analysis of Sequence Alignment: Heuristic Algorithms ............................................................................ 1824-1827
Bucak, Ihsan Omur* (Fatih Univ.); Uslan, Volkan (Fatih Univ.)

09:45-10:00 ThA01.3
Clustering-Based Spot Segmentation of cDNA Microarray Images ............................................................... 1828-1831
Uslan, Volkan (Fatih Univ.); Bucak, Ihsan Omur* (Fatih Univ.)

10:00-10:15 ThA01.4
A Comparative Study for Characterisation and Prediction of Tissue-Specific DNA Methylation of
CpG Islands in Chromosomes 6, 20 and 22 ...................................................................................................... 1832-1835
Ali, Isse (De Monfort Univ.); Seker, Huseyin* (Bio-Health Informatics Research Group)

10:15-10:30 ThA01.5
A Signal Processing-Based Bioinformatics Approach to Assessing Drug Resistance:
Human Immunodeficiency Virus As a Case Study ........................................................................................... 1836-1839
Nwankwo, Norbert Ikechukwu (De Montfort Univ.); Seker, Huseyin* (Bio-Health Informatics Research Group)

10:30-10:45 ThA01.6
Denoising Embolic Doppler Ultrasound Signals Using Dual Tree Complex Discrete Wavelet Transform .... 1840-1843
Serbes, Gorkem (Bahcesehir Univ.); AYDIN, Nizamettin* (Yildiz Technical Univ.)

ThA03: 09:15-10:45 Libertador C

3.1.3 Mechanical Sensors and Systems (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 ThA03.1
Portable Digital Esophageal Stethoscope System ........................................................................................... 1844-1847
Shin, Ji-Yun* (Chungbuk Natl. Univ.); Lim, Seung Won (Chungbuk Natl. Univ.); Cha, Eun Jong (Chungbuk
Natl. Univ.); Lee, Tae Soo (Chungbuk Natl. Univ.)

09:30-09:45 ThA03.2
Integrating Optical Fiber Force Sensors into Microforceps for ORL Microsurgery ...................................... 1848-1851
Bell, Brett* (Univ. Bern); Stankowski, Stefan (Berner Fachhochschule Biel); Moser, Benjamin (Berner
Fachhochschule Biel); Oliva, Vidina (Inst. of Surgical Tech. & Biomechanics, Univ. Bern);
Stieger, Christof (Inselspital Univ. of Berne); Nolte, Lutz-Peter (Univ. of Bern);
Caversaccio, Marco (Insel Spital, Univ. Bern); Weber, Stefan (Univ. of Bern)
09:45-10:00 ThA03.3
A Gel Filled Intravaginal Transducer for Extended Measurements of Intra-Abdominal Pressure .............. 1852-1855
Coleman, Tanner (Univ. of Utah); Hsu, Yvonne (Univ. of Utah); Nygaard, Ingrid (Univ. of Utah);
Raynes, John (Raynes Engineering, Inc.); Gordon, Kevin (Summit Medical Products, Inc);
Kumathe, Mridula (Univ. of Utah); Hitchcock, Robert* (Univ. of Utah)

10:00-10:15 ThA03.4
An Insole Sensor for Recording Weight Bearing Behavior During Tibial Fracture Rehabilitation ............. 1856-1859
North, Kylee (Univ. of Utah); Maass, Sean (Univ. of Utah); Hitchcock, Robert* (Univ. of Utah)

10:15-10:30 ThA03.5
Stress Development, Heat Production and Dynamic Modulus of Rat Isolated Cardiac
Trabeculae Revealed in a Flow-Through Micromechanocalorimeter ............................................................. 1860-1863
Taberner, Andrew* (The Univ. of Auckland); Han, June-Chiew (The Univ. of Auckland); Kirton, Robert (The
Univ. of Auckland); Loiselle, Denis (The Univ. of Auckland); Nielsen, Poul (The Univ. of Auckland)

10:30-10:45 ThA03.6
Feasibility Study of a Smart Pen for Autonomous Detection of Concentration Lapses During Reading .. 1864-1867
DePrenger, Michael (George Mason Univ.); Shao, Yu (George Mason Univ.); Lu, Fiona (George Mason Univ.);
Fleming, Nick (George Mason Univ.); Sikdar, Siddhartha* (George Mason Univ.)

ThA04: 09:15-10:45 Retiro A

9.3.1 Image-Guided Therapies (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 ThA04.1
Fast and Accurate Calibration of an X-Ray Imager to an Electromagnetic Tracking System for
Interventional Cardiac Procedures .................................................................................................................... 1868-1873
Lang, Andrew (Philips Research North America); Stanton, Douglas (Philips Research North America);
Parthasarathy, Vijay (Philips Research North America); Jain, Ameet* (Philips Research)

09:30-09:45 ThA04.2
Catheter Steering Using a Magnetic Resonance Imaging System ................................................................. 1874-1877
Lalande, Viviane* (Ecole polytechnique de Montréal); Gosselin, Frédérick P. (Ecole polytechnique de Montréal);
Martel, Sylvain (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal)

09:45-10:00 ThA04.3
Simulation and Experimental Validation of Resonant Electric Markers Used for Medical Device
Tracking in Magnetic Resonance Imaging ........................................................................................................ 1878-1881
Krug, Johannes* (Otto-von-Guericke Univ., Magdeburg); Will, Karl (Otto-von-Guericke Univ., Magdeburg);
Rose, Georg (Otto-von-Guericke Univ., Magdeburg)

10:00-10:15 ThA04.4
MiMed Liver: A Planning System for Liver Surgery ......................................................................................... 1882-1885
Shevchenko, Nikita* (Technische Univ. Muenchen); Seidl, Bernhard (Technische Univ. Muenchen); Schwaiger,
Johannes (Technical Univ. of Munich); Markert, Mathias (Technical Univ. Munich); Lueth, Tim (Technical Univ.
of Munich)

10:15-10:30 ThA04.5
Real-Time Cannula Navigation in Biological Tissue with High Temporal and Spatial Resolution
Based on Impedance Spectroscopy .................................................................................................................. 1886-1889
Trebbels, Dennis* (HSG-IMIT); Jugl, Michael (HSG-IMIT); Zengerle, Roland (Hahn-Schickard-Inst. für
Mikro- und Informationstechnik – HSG-IMIT)

10:30-10:45 ThA04.6
Tagging Module for Lesion Localization in Capsule Endoscopy ................................................................... 1890-1893
Jayakrishnan, Chandrappan* (Inst. of Microelectronics (IME), A-STAR Singapore); Vaidyanathan, Kripesh (Inst.
of Microlectronics); Lim, Ruiqi (Inst. of Microelectronics, IME (Singapore)); Su, Nandar (Inst. of Microelectronics,
IME (Singapore)); Tang, Shao Qiang (Inst. of Microelectronics, IME (Singapore))
ThA05: 09:15-10:45 Retiro B
1.5.2 Advanced Methods of Principal Component Analysis and
Independent Component Analysis (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 ThA05.1
An Extension of the Canonical Correlation Analysis to the Case of Multiple
Observations of Two Groups of Variables ........................................................................................................ 1894-1897
Phlypo, Ronald* (INPG/CNRS UMR 5216); Congedo, Marco (cnrs)

09:30-09:45 ThA05.2
Space-Time Independent Component Analysis: The Definitive BSS Technique to Use in
Biomedical Signal Processing? .......................................................................................................................... 1898-1901
James, Christopher* (Univ. of Warwick); Demanuele, Charmaine (Univ. of Southampton)

09:45-10:00 ThA05.3
On Joint Diagonalization of Cumulant Matrices for Independent Component Analysis of
MRS and EEG Signals ......................................................................................................................................... 1902-1905
Albera, Laurent* (Univ. de Rennes 1 & INSERM); Kachenoura, Amar (Univ. de Rennes1 & INSERM);
Wendling, Fabrice (INSERM – Univ. de Rennes 1); Senhadji, Lotfi (Univ. de Rennes 1 & INSERM);
Merlet, Isabelle (INSERM – Univ. de Rennes 1)

10:00-10:15 ThA05.4
Weighted-PCA for Unsupervised Analysis of Cardiac Arrhythmias ............................................................... 1906-1909
Rodríguez-Sotelo, Jose-Luis (Univ. Nacional de Colombia sede Manizales); Delgado, Edilson* (Inst.
Tecnológico Metropolitano); Peluffo-Ordóñez, Diego Hernán (Natl. Univ., Colombia – Manizales); Cuesta-Frau,
David (Politechnic Univ. of Valencia); Castellanos-Dominguez, Germán (Univ. Nacional de Colombia)

10:15-10:30 ThA05.5
Foetal PQRST Extraction from ECG Recordings Using Cyclostationarity-Based Source
Separation Method ............................................................................................................................................... 1910-1913
Haritopoulos, Michel* (Inst. PRISME); Capdessus, Cécile (Inst. PRISME); Nandi, Asoke K (The Univ. of Liverpool)

10:30-10:45 ThA05.6
Spatiotemporal ICA Applied to Retinotopic Fmri Data ..................................................................................... 1914-1917
Keck, Ingo* (Univ. of Regensburg); Fischer, Volker (Univ. of Regensburg); Tome, Ana Maria (Univ. de Aveiro);
Lang, Elmar W. (Univ. of Regensburg)

ThA06: 09:15-10:45 Retiro C

1.4.3 Biomedical Signal Classification I (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 ThA06.1
Arrhythmia Detection and Classification Using Morphological and Dynamic Features of ECG Signals ... 1918-1921
Ye, Can* (Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon Univ.); Coimbra, Miguel (Inst. de
Telecomunicações / Univ. do Porto); Bhagavatula, Vijayakumar (Dept. of Electrical & Computer
Engineering, Carnegie Mellon Univ.)

09:30-09:45 ThA06.2
A Fast Critical Arrhythmic ECG Waveform Identification Method Using Cross-Correlation and
Multiple Template Matching ................................................................................................................................ 1922-1925
Chin, Fook Joo (RMIT Univ. ( Melboure campus) , Australia); Fang, Qiang (RMIT Univ.);
Zhang, Tao (Suzhou Inst. of Biomedical Engineering & Tech.); Cosic, Irena* (RMIT Univ.)

09:45-10:00 ThA06.3
Applying Machine Learning to Detect Individual Heart Beats in Ballistocardiograms ................................. 1926-1929
Brueser, Christoph* (RWTH Aachen Univ.); Stadlthanner, Kurt (Philips Research Europe Laboratories);
Brauers, Andreas (Philips Research Europe Laboratories); Leonhardt, Steffen (RWTH Aachen Univ.)
10:00-10:15 ThA06.4
Classification of Low Systemic Vascular Resistance Using Photoplethysmogram and
Routine Cardiovascular Measurements ............................................................................................................ 1930-1933
Lee, Qim Yi* (The Univ. of New South Wales); Chan, Gregory S H (The Univ. of New South Wales);
Redmond, Stephen James (Univ. of New South Wales); Middleton, Paul MacConachie (Univ. of New South
Wales); Steel, Elizabeth (Prince of Wales Hospital Sydney); Malouf, Philip (Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney);
Critoph, Christopher (Prince of Wales Hospital); Flynn, Gordon (Prince of Wales Hospital);
O’lone, Emma (Prince of Wales Hospital); Lovell, Nigel H (Univ. of New South Wales)

10:15-10:30 ThA06.5
Exploiting the Ambiguity Domain for Non-Stationary Biomedical Signal Classification ............................. 1934-1937
Sugavaneswaran, Lakshmi* (Ryerson Univ.); Umapathy, Karthikeyan (Ryerson Univ.);
Krishnan, Sridhar (Ryerson Univ.)

10:30-10:45 ThA06.6
Impact of Movement on Cardiorespiratory Coordination in Conscious Rats ............................................... 1938-1941
Kabir, Muammar Muhammad* (The Univ. of Adelaide); Nalivaiko, Eugene (Univ. of Newcastle);
Abbott, Derek (The Univ. of Adelaide); Baumert, Mathias (The Univ. of Adelaide)

ThA07: 09:15-10:45 Martin Fierro 1

8.3.2 Robotics Inside the Body (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 ThA07.1
Microrobotic Navigable Entities for Magnetic Resonance Targeting ............................................................. 1942-1945
Martel, Sylvain* (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal)

09:30-09:45 ThA07.2
Toward Tetherless Insufflation of the GI Tract ................................................................................................. 1946-1949
Webster, Robert* (Vanderbilt Univ., Dept. of Mechanical Engineering);
Menciassi, Arianna (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna)

09:45-10:00 ThA07.3
Optimal Trajectory for a Microrobot Navigating in Blood Vessels ................................................................. 1950-1953
Arcese, Laurent* (Univ. d’Orléans); Cherry, Ali (Univ. d’Orléans); Fruchard, Matthieu (Univ. d’Orléans);
Ferreira, Antoine (ENSI de Bourges)

10:00-10:15 ThA07.4
From Miniature to Nano Robots for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications ............................................ 1954-1957
Menciassi, Arianna (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna); Sinibaldi, Edoardo* (Italian Inst. of Tech.);
Pensabene, Virginia (Italian Inst. of Tech.); Dario, Paolo (IIT Italian Inst. of Tech.)

10:15-10:30 ThA07.5
Oxygen Sensing Using Microrobots .................................................................................................................. 1958-1961
Ergeneman, Olgac* (ETH Zurich); Chatzipirpiridis, George (ETH Zürich); Gelderblom, Femke B. (ETH Zürich);
Pokki, Juho Anton Ilmari (ETH Zürich); Pané Vidal, Salvador (ETH Zürich); Marin-SuarezdelToro, Marta (Univ.
of Granada); Fernandez Sanchez, Jorge Fernando (Univ. of Granada); Sotiriou, Georgios A. (Particle Tech.
Laboratory, Inst. of Process Engineering, Dept. of Mechanical & Process Engineering, ETH Zurich);
Nelson, Bradley (ETH Zurich)

10:30-10:45 ThA07.6
Electromagnetic Actuation Methods for Intravascular Locomotive Microrobot ........................................... 1962-1965
Cha, Kyoungrae (Chonnam Natl. Univ.); Jeong, Semi (Chonnam Natl. Univ.); Choi, Jongho (Chonnam Natl.
Univ.); Qin, Lulu (Chonnam Natl. Univ.); Li, Jie (Chonnam Natl. Univ.); Park, Jongoh (Chonnam Natl. Univ.);
Park, Sukho* (Chonnam Natl. Univ.)
ThA08: 09:15-10:45 Martin Fierro 2
2.10.1 Optical Molecular Imaging (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 ThA08.1
Sparsity-Promoting Fluorescence Molecular Tomography with Iteratively Reweighted Regularization ... 1966-1969
Han, Dong (Inst. of Automation,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing, China); Zhang, Bo (Sino-Dutch
Biomedical & Information Engineering School of Northeastern Univ., Shenyang, China); Gao, Qiujuan (Medical
Image Processing Group, Inst. of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China);
Liu, Kai (Inst. of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Tian, Jie* (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

09:30-09:45 ThA08.2
Multimodal Optical Imaging for Simultaneous In-Vivo Morphological and Biochemical
Characterization of Oral Epithelial Cancer ........................................................................................................ 1970-1973
Jo, Javier Antonio* (Texas A&M Univ.); Applegate, Brian (Texas A&M Univ.)

09:45-10:00 ThA08.3
Skin Lesion Segmentation Using an Improved Snake Model ......................................................................... 1974-1977
Zhou, Huiyu (Queen’s Univ. Belfast); Schaefer, Gerald* (Loughborough Univ.); Celebi, M. Emre (Louisiana
State Univ in Shreveport); Iyatomi, Hitoshi (Hosei Univ.); Liu, Tangwei (Guangxi Medical Univ.); Lin, Faquan
(Guangxi Medical Univ.)

10:00-10:15 ThA08.4
Imaging Microvascular Flow Characteristics Using Laser Speckle Contrast Imaging ................................. 1978-1981
Rege, Abhishek* (Johns Hopkins Univ.); Murari, Kartikeya (Johns Hopkins Univ.); Li, Nan (Johns Hopkins
Univ.); Thakor, Nitish (Johns Hopkins Univ.)

10:15-10:30 ThA08.5
Probabilistic Independent Component Analysis for Laser Speckle Contrast Images Reveals
in Vivo Multi – Component Vascular Responses to Forepaw Stimulation .................................................... 1982-1985
Li, Nan* (Johns Hopkins Univ.); Pelled, Galit (Kennedey Krieger Inst., & Radiology Dept., Johns Hopkins Univ.);
Thakor, Nitish (Johns Hopkins Univ.)

10:30-10:45 ThA08.6
In Vivo Sarcomere Imaging and Fiber Tension Measurements ...................................................................... 1986-1989
Wu, Yi-Ning (Rehab. Inst. of Chicago); Ren, Yupeng* (Rehab. Inst. of Chicago);
Zhang, Liqun (Northwestern Univ.)

ThA09: 09:15-10:45 Ombu A

5.2.1 Ventricular Fibrillation (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 ThA09.1
A Novel Mechanism for Electrical Currents Inducing Ventricular Fibrillation:
The Three-Fold Way to Fibrillation ..................................................................................................................... 1990-1996
Kroll, Mark* (Univ. of Minnesota); Panescu, Dorin (NewCardio, Inc.); Hinz, Andrew (TASER Intl.); Lakkireddy,
Dhanunjaya (Univ. of Kansas Hospitals)

09:30-09:45 ThA09.2
Control of Action Potential Duration Alternans in Canine Ventricular Tissue .............................................. 1997-2000
Kanu, Uche (Weill Cornell Medical College); Iravanian, Shahriar (Emory Univ.); Gilmour, Robert (Cornell Univ.);
Christini, David* (Weill Cornell Medical College)

09:45-10:00 ThA09.3
Wavelet-Based Markers of Ventricular Fibrillation in Optimizing Human Cardiac Resuscitation ............... 2001-2004
Hosseyndoust Foomany, Farbod (Ryerson Univ.); Umapathy, Karthikeyan* (Ryerson Univ.); Sugavaneswaran,
Lakshmi (Ryerson Univ.); Krishnan, Sridhar (Ryerson Univ.); Masse, Stephane (THCFM Lab, Toronto General
Hospital); Farid, Talha (THCFM Lab, Toronto General Hospital); Nair, Krishnakumar (THFCFM Laboratory,
Toronto General Hosp.); Dorian, Paul (St. Michael’s Hospital); Nanthakumar, Kumaraswamy (THCFM Lab,
Toronto General Hospital)
10:00-10:15 ThA09.4
Influences of Sites and Protocols on Inducing Ventricular Fibrillation: A Computer Simulation Study .... 2005-2008
Zheng, Yi (Fudan Univ. & Univ. of Aizu); Wei, Daming (Univ. of Aizu); Fang, Zuxiang (Fudan Univ.);
Zhu, Xin* (the Univ. of Aizu)

10:15-10:30 ThA09.5
Prediction of Ventricular Fibrillation Based on the ST-Segment Deviation: Allometric Model ................... 2009-2012
Arini, Pedro David (CONICET); Valentinuzzi, Max E.* (Univ. de Buenos Aires)

10:30-10:45 ThA09.6
Distinguishing between Ventricular Tachycardia and Ventricular Fibrillation from
Compressed ECG Signal in Wireless Body Sensor Networks ........................................................................ 2013-2016
Ibaida, Ayman* (RMIT Univ.); Khalil, Ibrahim (RMIT Univ.)

ThA10: 09:15-10:45 Ombu B

10.6.1 Body Sensor Networks, Issues and Applications (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 ThA10.1
Power Optimization in Body Sensor Networks: The Case of an Autonomous Wireless
EMG Sensor Powered by PV-Cells ..................................................................................................................... 2017-2020
Penders, Julien* (imec / Holst Centre); Pop, Valer (IMEC/Holst Centre); Caballero, Luis (HolstCentre);
van de Molengraft, Jef (Holst Centre); Vullers, Ruud (imec/Holst Centre); van Schaijk, Rob (imec / Holst
Centre); Van Hoof, Chris (IMEC)

09:30-09:45 ThA10.2
Advances in Wearable Technology and Its Medical Applications .................................................................. 2021-2024
Bonato, Paolo* (Harvard Medical School)

09:45-10:00 ThA10.3
Energy Efficient On-Sensor Processing in Body Sensor Networks ............................................................... 2025-2029
Marnane, Liam* (Univ. College Cork); Faul, Stephen (Univ. College Cork); Bleakley, Chris (Univ. College
Dublin); Conway, Richard (Univ. of Limerick); Jones, Edward (Natl. Univ. of Ireland Galway); Popovici, Emanuel
(Univ. College Cork); de la Guia Solaz, Manuel (Univ. of Limerick); Morgan, Fearghal (Natl. Univ. of Ireland,
Galway); Patel, Kunjan (CASL, Univ. College Dublin)

10:00-10:15 ThA10.4
Clinical Tests and Evaluations of a Wireless ECG Sensor for Realization of
Ubiquitous Health Care Systems ....................................................................................................................... 2030-2033
Sugano, Hiroto* (Osaka City Univ.); Tsujioka, Tetsuo (Osaka City Univ.); Inoue, Tadayuki (Osaka City Univ.);
Nakajima, Shigeyoshi (Osaka City Univ.); Hara, Shinsuke (Osaka City Univ.); Nakamura, Hajime (Osaka City
Univ.); Takeuchi, Kazuhide (Osaka City Univ.)

10:15-10:30 ThA10.5
A Fast Key Generation Method to Secure Body Sensor Networks for Health Applications ........................ 2034-2036
zhang, guanghe (Inst. of Computing Tech., ChineseAcademyofSciences); Poon, Carmen CY* (The Chinese
Univ. of Hong Kong); Zhang, Yuan-Ting (The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong)

10:30-10:45 ThA10.6
FIREGUIDE: Firefighter Guide and Tracker ....................................................................................................... 2037-2040
Gandhi, Siddhesh* (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst); Ganz, Aura (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst)

ThA11: 09:15-10:45 Poncho

6.4.2 Brain Stimulation (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 ThA11.1
Changes in Frequency of Seizure-Like Events in Stimulated Cortical Slices ............................................... 2041-2044
Mason, Jonathan (Freedom High School); Voss, Logan James (Univ. of Auckland); Jacobson, Gregory Michael
(Univ. of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand); Elbohouty, Maher (Waikato); Sleigh, Jamie (Univ. of Auckland);
Steyn-Ross, Moira (School of Engineering, Univ. of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand); Steyn-Ross, Alistair
(School of Engineering, Univ. of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand); Peixoto, Nathalia* (George Mason Univ.)
09:30-09:45 ThA11.2
Regional Electric Field Induced by Electroconvulsive Therapy: A Finite Element Simulation Study ........ 2045-2048
Lee, Won Hee* (Columbia Univ.); Deng, Zhi-De (Columbia Univ.); Kim, Tae-Seong (Kyung Hee Univ.);
Laine, Andrew (Columbia Univ.); Lisanby, Sarah (Columbia Univ. / New York State Psychiatric Inst.);
Peterchev, Angel V (Columbia Univ.)

09:45-10:00 ThA11.3
Electroconvulsive Therapy in the Presence of Deep Brain Stimulation Implants: Electric Field Effects ... 2049-2052
Deng, Zhi-De* (Columbia Univ.); Hardesty, David (Columbia Univ.); Lisanby, Sarah (Columbia Univ. / New York
State Psychiatric Inst.); Peterchev, Angel V (Columbia Univ.)

10:00-10:15 ThA11.4
Reduced Spatial Focality of Electrical Field in Tdcs with Ring Electrodes Due to Tissue Anisotropy ...... 2053-2056
Suh, Hyun Sang (Kyung Hee Univ.); Lee, Won Hee (Columbia Univ.); Cho, Young-Sun* (Kyung Hee Univ.);
Kim, Ji-Hwan (Kyunghee Univ.); Kim, Tae-Seong (Kyung Hee Univ.)

10:15-10:30 ThA11.5
Micro vs Macro Electrode DBS Stimulation: A Dosimetric Study ................................................................... 2057-2060
Maggio, Fernando (ICEMB@La Sapienza Univ. Rome); Pasciuto, Tina (Univ. La Sapienza); Paffi, Alessandra
(ICEmB@La Sapienza Univ Rome); Apollonio, Francesca (ICEmB@La Sapienza Univ Rome); Parazzini, Marta
(CNR); Ravazzani, Paolo (CNR); D’Inzeo, Guglielmo (ICEmB@”La Sapienza” Univ. of Rome); Liberti, Micaela*
(ICEMB@La Sapienza Univ Rome)

ThA12: 09:15-10:45 Rio de Plata

6.3.1 Modeling of Neural Stimulation (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 ThA12.1
Steering Deep Brain Stimulation Fields Using a High Resolution Electrode Array ...................................... 2061-2064
Toader, Emil* (Philips Research); Decré, Michel (Philips Research); Martens, Hubert (Philips Research)

09:30-09:45 ThA12.2
Modeling the Motor Striatum under Deep Brain Stimulation in Normal and MPTP Conditions .................. 2065-2068
santaniello, sabato* (Johns Hopkins Univ.); Gale, John (Cleveland Clinic); Montgomery, Erwin (Univ. of
Alabama at Birmingham); Sarma, Sridevi V. (Johns Hopkins Univ.)

09:45-10:00 ThA12.3
A Computational Model of Direct Brain Stimulation by Electroconvulsive Therapy .................................... 2069-2072
Bai, Siwei* (Univ. of New South Wales); Loo, Colleen (School of Psychiatry, Univ. of New South Wales
); Dokos, Socrates (Univ. of New South Wales)

10:00-10:15 ThA12.4
Modeling the Electric Field Induced in a High Resolution Realistic Head Model During
Transcranial Current Stimulation ....................................................................................................................... 2073-2076
Salvador, Ricardo* (Univ. of Lisbon); Mekonnen, Abeye (Inst. of Biophysics & Biomedical Engineering, Univ. of
Lisbon); Ruffini, Giulio (Starlab Barcelona SL); Miranda, Pedro (Faculty of Science, Univ. of Lisbon)

10:15-10:30 ThA12.5
A Continuum Model of the Retinal Network and Its Response to Electrical Stimulation ............................. 2077-2080
Yin, Shijie* (Univ. of New South Wales); Lovell, Nigel H (Univ. of New South Wales); Suaning, Gregg (The Univ.
of New South Wales); Dokos, Socrates (Univ. of New South Wales)

10:30-10:45 ThA12.6
Modeling the Effects of Deep Brain Stimulation on Sensorimotor Cortex in
Normal and MPTP Conditions ............................................................................................................................. 2081-2084
santaniello, sabato* (Johns Hopkins Univ.); Gale, John (Cleveland Clinic); Montgomery, Erwin (Univ. of
Alabama at Birmingham); Sarma, Sridevi V. (Johns Hopkins Univ.)
ThA13: 09:15-10:45 Gomez Losada
8.4.1 Haptics (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 ThA13.1
Vibrotactile Guidance for Trajectory Following in Computer Aided Surgery ................................................ 2085-2088
Bluteau, Jeremy* (Laboratoire TIMC – i3D LIG laboratory – LPNC laboratory); Dubois, Marie-dominique (CHU
Saint Etienne, Hôpital Nord, 42000 Saint Etienne, France); Coquillart, Sabine (i3D LIG laboratory – INRIA);
Gentaz, Edouard (LPNC laboratory – Grenoble Univ. – CNRS); Payan, Yohan (Laboratoire TIMC-IMAG)

09:30-09:45 ThA13.2
Relative to Direct Haptic Feedback, Remote Vibrotactile Feedback Improves but
Slows Object Manipulation ................................................................................................................................. 2089-2092
Stepp, Cara* (Univ. of Washington); Matsuoka, Yoky (Univ. of Washington)

09:45-10:00 ThA13.3
Effect of Force Feedback from Each DOF on the Motion Accuracy of a Surgical Tool in
Performing a Robot-Assisted Tracing Task ...................................................................................................... 2093-2096
Samad, Manar D. (Univ. of Calgary); Hu, Yaoping* (The Univ. of Calgary); Sutherland, Garnette (Univ. of Calgary)

10:00-10:15 ThA13.4
Learning Kinematic Mappings in Laparoscopic Surgery ................................................................................ 2097-2102
Huang, Felix* (Rehab. Inst. of Chicago); Patton, James (Jim) (Rehab Inst. of Chicago & U. of Illinois
at Chicago); Mussa-Ivaldi, Ferdinando (Rehab. Inst. of Chicago); Pugh, Carla (Dept. of Surgery, Northwestern
Univ.)

10:15-10:30 ThA13.5
Preliminary Evaluation of Podotactile Feedback in Sighted and Blind Users ............................................... 2103-2106
Velazquez, Ramiro* (Univ. Panamericana); Bazan, Omar (Univ. Panamericana)

10:30-10:45 ThA13.6
A Portable Ebook Reader for the Blind .............................................................................................................. 2107-2110
Velazquez, Ramiro* (Univ. Panamericana); Hernandez, Hermes (Univ. Panamericana);
Preza, Enrique (Univ. Panamericana)

ThBPo01: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

10.4.3 Ambient Assisted Living and Smart Homes II (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo01.1
Inkjet Printed Arrays of Pressure Sensors Based on All-Organic Field Effect Transistors ......................... 2111-2114
Cosseddu, Piero (Univ. of Cagliari); Bonfiglio, Annalisa (Univ. of Cagliari); Neelgund, Rohan (Univ. of Missouri,
Columbia); Tyrer, Harry* (Univ. of Missouri – Columbia)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo01.2
Software Simulation of Unobtrusive Falls Detection at Night-Time Using Passive
Infrared and Pressure Mat Sensors ................................................................................................................... 2115-2118
Ariani, Arni* (Univ. of New South Wales); Redmond, Stephen James (Univ. of New South Wales);
Chang, David (Univ. of New South Wales); Lovell, Nigel H (Univ. of New South Wales)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo01.3
Monitoring Pulse and Respiration with a Non-Invasive Hydraulic Bed Sensor ............................................ 2119-2123
Heise, David* (Univ. of Missouri); Skubic, Marjorie (Univ. of Missouri)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo01.4
Personalized Building-Embedded and Wearable Monitoring Infrastructures with
Mediated Data Transfer ....................................................................................................................................... 2124-2127
Augustyniak, Piotr* (AGH Univ. of Science & Tech)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo01.5
Alert Management for Home Healthcare Based on Home Automation Analysis .......................................... 2128-2131
Truong, Thi Bich Thanh* (European Univ. of Britany France); de Lamotte, Florent (Univ. de Bretagne Sud);
Diguet, Jean-Philippe (CNRS); SAID, Farida (Univ. de Bretagne Sud)
10:45-12:15 ThBPo01.6
ART – A New Concept for an Activity Recorder and Transceiver ................................................................... 2132-2135
D’Angelo, Lorenzo Tancredi* (Technische Univ. Muenchen); Czabke, Axel (TU Muenchen);
Somlai, Ian (Technical Univ. Munich, Germany); Niazmand, Khalil (Technische Univ. München);
Lueth, Tim (Technical Univ. of Munich)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo01.7
Minimal Hardware Bluetooth Tracking for Long-Term At-Home Elder Supervision ..................................... 2136-2140
Kelly, Damian* (Natl. Univ of Ireland, Maynooth); McLoone, Sean F. (Natl. Univ of Ireland, Maynooth);
Farrell, Ronan (Natl. Univ. of Ireland Maynooth)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo01.8
Towards Automated Assistance for Operating Home Medical Devices ........................................................ 2141-2146
gao, zan (Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommunications); Detyniecki, Marcin (CNRS & UMPC –Univ. Pierre et
Marie Curie); Chen, Ming-yu (CMU); Wu, Wen (Siemens Corporate Research, a division of Siemens Corp.);
Hauptmann, Alexander (Carnegie Mellon Univ.); Wactlar, Howard* (Carnegie Mellon Univ.)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo01.9
A Method for Estimating Rest-Activity Patterns Using Simple Pyroelectric Motion Sensors ..................... 2147-2150
Hayes, Tamara (Oregon Health & Science Univ.); Riley, Thomas (Oregon Health & Science Univ.);
Pavel, Michael* (Oregon Health & Science Univ.); Kaye, Jeffrey A. (Oregon Health & Science Univ.)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo01.10
Measuring Nightly Activity, Body Weight and Body Weight Change Rate with a Sensor Equipped Bed .. 2151-2154
Schrempf, Andreas* (Upper Austria Univ. of Applied Sciences, School of Applied Health & Social Sciences);
Schossleitner, Gerold (Upper Austria Univ. of Applied Sciences, School of Applied Health & Social Sciences,
Dept. of Medical Engineering); Blaha, Armin (Spantec)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo01.11
Ambient Assisted Living: A Methodological Approach ................................................................................... 2155-2158
Estudillo-Valderrama, Miguel Ángel* (Biomedical Engineering Group, Univ. of Seville); Roa, Laura M. (Univ. of
Seville); Reina-Tosina, Javier (Univ. of Seville); Roman, Isabel (Univ. of Seville)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo01.12
Evaluation and Analysis of Multimodal Sensors for Developing in and Around the
Bed Patient Monitoring System .......................................................................................................................... 2159-2162
Aung Aung, Phyo Wai (Inst. for Infocomm Research); Huang, Weimin (Inst. for Infocomm Research, Agency for
Science Tech. & Research); Foo, Siang Fook Victor (Inst. for Infocomm Research); Biswas, Jit (Inst. for
Infocomm Research); Phua, Jiliang Eugene* (Inst. for Infocomm Research); Hsia, Chi-Chun (Industrial Tech.
Research Inst.); Liou, Koujuch (Industrial Tech. Research Inst.)

ThBPo02: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

10.2.3 eHealth, mHealth, telehealth II (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo02.1
Reducing Hardware Risks in the Development of Telematic Rescue Assistance Systems:
A Methodology ..................................................................................................................................................... 2163-2166
Müller, Matthias* (RWTH Aachen Univ., Germany); Loijens, Patrick (Dept. of Information Mgmt. in Mechanical
Engineering at RWTH Aachen Univ., Germany); Schilberg, Daniel (Dept. of Information Mgmt. in Mechanical
Engineering at RWTH Aachen Univ., Germany); Jeschke, Sabina (RWTH Aachen Univ., Germany)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo02.2
On Search Guide Phrase Compilation for Recommending Home Medical Products ................................... 2167-2171
Luo, Gang* (IBM)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo02.3
Internal Validation of a Telemedical System for Monitoring Patients with Chronic Respiratory Diseases ..... 2172-2175
Jabłoński, Ireneusz (Wroclaw Univ. of Tech.); Głomb, Grzegorz (Wroclaw Univ. of Tech.); Guszkowski, Tomasz
(Wroclaw Univ. of Tech.); Kasprzak, Bogdan (Wroclaw Univ. of Tech.); Pękala, Janusz (Wroclaw Univ. of
Tech.); Polak, Adam (Wroclaw Univ. of Tech.); Stępień, Andrzej (Wroclaw Univ. of Tech.);
Swierczyński, Zbigniew (Wroclaw Univ. of Tech.); Mroczka, Janusz* (Wroclaw Univ. of Tech.)
10:45-12:15 ThBPo02.4
Vital Signs Remote Monitoring through Multipoint Videoconferencing ........................................................ 2176-2179
Valente, Augusto Cavalcante (Univ. de Brasília); Pereira, Debora (Univ. de Brasilia); Almeida, Eduardo (Univ.
de Brasilia); Matsunaga, Raphael (Univ. de Brasilia); dos Santos, Icaro* (Univ. of Brasilia)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo02.5
A Multipoint Videoconference-Based Telemedicine System for Electrocardiogram Monitoring ................ 2180-2183
Matsunaga, Raphael (Univ. de Brasilia); Almeida, Eduardo (Univ. de Brasilia); Pereira, Debora (Univ. de
Brasilia); Valente, Augusto Cavalcante (Univ. de Brasília); dos Santos, Icaro* (Univ. of Brasilia)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo02.6
Improving the Management of Chronic Diseases Using Web-Based Technologies:
An Application in Hemophilia Care .................................................................................................................... 2184-2187
Teixeira, Leonor* (Aveiro Univ.); Saavedra, Vasco (Aveiro Univ.); Ferreira, Carlos Manuel Santos (Aveiro
Univ.); Sousa Santos, Beatriz (Aveiro Univ.)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo02.7
A System for Intelligent Home Care ECG Upload and Priorisation ................................................................ 2188-2191
D’Angelo, Lorenzo Tancredi* (Technische Univ. Muenchen); Tarita, Eugeniu (Biosigna GmbH); Zywietz, Tosja
(Rosenberger Hochfrequenztechnik GmbH & Co. KG); Lueth, Tim (Technical Univ. of Munich)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo02.8
Interoperable and Standard E-Health Solution Over Bluetooth ...................................................................... 2192-2195
Martinez Ruiz, Ignacio* (Univ. of Zaragoza); del Valle, Pilar (Univ. of Zaragoza); Muñoz, Pilar (Univ. of
Zaragoza); Trigo, Jesus (Univ. of Zaragoza); Escayola, Javier (Univ. of Zaragoza); Martinez-Espronceda,
Miguel (Public Univ. of Navarra); Muñoz, Adolfo (Health Inst. “Carlos III” – ISCIII); Serrano, Luis (Public Univ. of
Navarra); Garcia Moros, Jose (Univ. of Zaragoza)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo02.9
A Wireless Blood Pressure Monitoring System for Personal Health Management ...................................... 2196-2199
Li, Wun-Jin (Natl. Taiwan Univ. of Science & Tech.); Luo, Yuan-Long (Natl. Taiwan Univ. of Science & Tech.);
Chang, Yao-Shun (Natl. Taiwan Univ. of Science & Tech.); Lin, Yuan-Hsiang* (Natl. Taiwan Univ. of
Science & Tech.)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo02.10
AngelCare Mobile System: Homecare Patient Monitoring Using Bluetooth and GPRS ............................... 2200-2203
Ribeiro, Anna Giselle* (Univ. Federal do Rio Grande do Norte); Maitelli, André (Univ. Federal do Rio Grande do
Norte); Valentim, Ricardo Alexsandro de Medeiros (Federal Univ of Rio Grande do Norte); Guerreiro, Ana Maria
G. (Federal Univ. of Rio Grande do Norte); Brandão, Gláucio Bezerra (Federal Univ. of Rio Grande do Norte)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo02.11
GIS and Spatial Analysis for Costs and Services Optimization in Neurological Telemedicine ................... 2204-2207
Bramanti, Alessia* (Univ. of Messina); Bonanno, Lilla (IRCCS – Centro Neurolesi “Bonino Pulejo”);
Celona, Alessandro (IRCCS – Centro Neurolesi “Bonino Pulejo”); Bertuccio, Saul (IRCCS – Centro Neurolesi
“Bonino Pulejo”); Calisto, Andrea (Univ. of Messina); Lanzafame, Pietro (IRCCS – Centro Neurolesi “Bonino
Pulejo”); Bramanti, Placido (IRCCS – Centro Neurolesi “Bonino Pulejo”)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo02.12
Mobile Communications for Monitoring Heart Disease and Diabetes ........................................................... 2208-2210
Mulvaney, David* (Loughborough Univ.); Woodward, Bryan (Loughborough Univ.); Datta, Sekharjit
(Loughborough Univ.); Harvey, Paul Dennis (Loughborough Univ.); Vyas, Anoop Lal (Indian Inst. of Tech.
Delhi); Thakker, Bhaskar (Indian Inst. of Tech. Delhi); Farooq, Omar (Aligarh Muslim Univ.)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo02.13
Feasibility of Congestive Heart Failure Telemanagement Using a Wii-Based Telecare Platform ............... 2211-2214
Finkelstein, Joseph (Johns Hopkins Univ.); Wood, Jeffrey* (Johns Hopkins Univ.);
Cha, Eunme (Johns Hopkins Univ.)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo02.14
Wireless Remote Monitoring of Myocardial Ischemia Using Reconstructed 12-Lead ECGs ....................... 2215-2220
Vukcevic, Vladan (Clinical Center of Serbia); Panescu, Dorin* (NewCardio, Inc.); Bojovic, Bosko (NewCardio,
Inc); George, Samuel (NewCardio, Inc); Gussak, Ihor (NewCardio, Inc); Stankovic, Ivana (Clinical Center of
Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia); Giga, Vojislav (Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia)
10:45-12:15 ThBPo02.15
A Healthy Lifestyle Coaching-Persuasive Application for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes ........................... 2221-2224
Fico, Giuseppe* (Technical Univ. of Madrid); Fioravanti, Alessio (Technical Univ. of Madrid); Arredondo, María
Teresa (Technical Univ. of Madrid); Ardigo, Diego (Univ. of Parma); Guillen, Alejandra (Medtronic Spain)

ThBPo03: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

10.4.2 Ambient Assisted Living and Fall Detection (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo03.1
Body Sway Measurement for Fall Risk Assessment Using Inexpensive Webcams ..................................... 2225-2229
Wang, Fang* (Univ. of Missouri); Skubic, Marjorie (Univ. of Missouri); Abbott, Carmen (Univ. of Missouri);
Keller, James M (Univ. of Missouri)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo03.2
Behaviour Monitoring of the Elderly by Trajectories Analysis ....................................................................... 2230-2233
Campo, Eric* (Univ. de Toulouse; UPS, INSA, INP, ISAE; UTM ; LAAS); Chan, Marie (LAAS-CNRS);
Bourennane, Walid (Univ. de Toulouse ; UPS, INSA, INP, ISAE; LAAS); Esteve, Daniel (LAAS-CNRS)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo03.3
Automatic Segmentation of Triaxial Accelerometry Signals for Falls Risk Estimation ............................... 2234-2237
Redmond, Stephen James* (Univ. of New South Wales); Scalzi, Maria Elena (Politecnico di Milano);
Narayanan, Michael Ravi (Univ. of New South Wales); Lord, Stephen (Univ. of New South Wales);
Cerutti, Sergio (Politecnico di Milano); Lovell, Nigel H (Univ. of New South Wales)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo03.4
Diagnosing Health Problems from Gait Patterns of Elderly ............................................................................ 2238-2241
Pogorelc, Bogdan* (Jožef Stefan Inst.); Gams, Matjaž (Jozef Stefan Inst.)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo03.5
Acoustic Fall Detection Using a Circular Microphone Array ........................................................................... 2242-2245
Li, Yun (Univ. of Missouri); Zeng, Zhiling (Univ. of Missouri); Popescu, Mihail* (Univ. of Missouri);
Ho, K.C. (Univ. of Missouri)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo03.6
A System for Ubiquitous Fall Monitoring at Home Via a Wireless Sensor Network ..................................... 2246-2249
Zapata, Juan* (Univ. Politecnica de Cartagena)

ThBPo04: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

8.1.5 Theraputic Robotics (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo04.1
Skill Generalization Relevant to Robotic Neuro-Rehabilitation ...................................................................... 2250-2254
Bansal, Deivya (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, Rehabilitaiton Inst.of Chicago); Kenyon, Robert (Univ. of Illinois at
Chicago); Patton, James (Jim)* (Rehab Inst. of Chicago & U. of Illinois at Chicago)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo04.2
Integrated versus Isolated Training of the Hemiparetic Upper Extremity in
Haptically Rendered Virtual Environments ....................................................................................................... 2255-2258
Qiu, Qinyin* (NJIT); Fluet, Gerard (UMDNJ); saleh, soha (NJIT); Lafond, Ian (New Jersey Inst. of Tech.);
Merians, Alma (UMDNJ); Adamovich, Sergei (NJIT)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo04.3
Tracking Training Evolution: Patient with Upper Limb Amputation above the Elbow ................................. 2259-2262
Toledo Peral, Cinthya (Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN); Leija, Lorenzo (Centro de
Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Inst. Politecnico Nacional); Muñoz, Roberto (Centro de
Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN); Vera, Arturo* (Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios
Avanzados delInst. Politecnico Nacional)
10:45-12:15 ThBPo04.4
Model Based Control of a Rehabilitation Robot for Lower Extremities ......................................................... 2263-2266
Xie, Xiao (Chinese Academy of Sciences); Hou, Zeng-Guang* (Inst. of Automation, Chinese Academy of
Sciences); Li, Pengfeng (Inst. of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Ji, Cheng (Chinese Academy of
Sciences); Zhang, Feng (Chinese Academy of Sciences); Tan, Min (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo04.5
Evaluation of Leg Joint Trajectories While Carrying Out Passive Manipulation by NEUROBike ............... 2267-2270
Coscia, Martina (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna); Galardi, Giuseppe (Fondazione Istituto San Raffaele/G. Giglio,
Contrada Pierapollastra, 90015, Cefalù (PA), Italy); Monaco, Vito (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa);
Bagnato, Sergio (Fondazione Istituto San Raffaele/G. Giglio, Contrada Pierapollastra, 90015, Cefalù (PA),
Italy); Micera, Silvestro* (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo04.6
Enhancing Robotic Gait Training Via Augmented Feedback .......................................................................... 2271-2274
Patritti, Ben (Harvard Medical School); Sicari, Monica (Harvard Medical School); Deming, Lynn (Harvard
Medical School); Romaguera, Fernanda (Harvard Medical School); Pelliccio, Marlena (Harvard Medical
School); Benedetti, Maria Grazia (Univ. di Bologna); Nimec, Donna (Harvard Medical School);
Bonato, Paolo* (Harvard Medical School)

ThBPo05: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

8.3.5 Robotic and Image-Guided Surgery (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo05.1
Evaluation in Vitro of a Treatment Planning Algorithm for an Epicardial Crawling Robot .......................... 2275-2278
Goyette, Brina (Carnegie Mellon Univ.); Becker, Brian C.* (Carnegie Mellon Univ.); Zenati, Marco (Harvard
Medical School); Riviere, Cameron N (Carnegie Mellon Univ.)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo05.2
Disposable Endoscope Tip Actuation Design and Robotic Platform ............................................................. 2279-2282
Chen, Yi* (MIT); Tanaka, Shigehiko (MIT); Hunter, Ian (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo05.3
Towards Direct Head Navigation for Robot-Guided Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Using 3D Laserscans: Idea, Setup and Feasibility ........................................................................................... 2283-2286
Richter, Lars* (Univ. of Luebeck); Bruder, Ralf (Univ. of Luebeck); Schlaefer, Alexander (Univ. of Luebeck);
Schweikard, Achim (Univ. of Luebeck, Germany)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo05.4
On the Controllability of Dynamic Model-Based Needle Insertion in Soft Tissue ......................................... 2287-2291
Haddadi, Amir (Queen’s Univ.); Goksel, Orcun (Univ. of British Columbia); Salcudean, Septimiu E. (Univ. of
British Columbia); Hashtrudi-Zaad, Keyvan* (Queen’s Univ.)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo05.5
A Compact Dynamic Force Model for Needle-Tissue Interaction ................................................................... 2292-2295
Asadian, Ali* (Univ. of Western Ontario (UWO)); Kermani, Mehrdad R. (Univ. of Western Ontario);
Patel, Rajni (London Health Sciences Centre)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo05.6
Accuracy Study of a New Assistance System under the Application of
Navigated Control® for Manual Milling on a Head Phantom ........................................................................... 2296-2299
Shi, Jiaxi* (Technical Univ. Munich); Stenzel, Roland (Technical Univ. of Munich); Wenger, Thomas (Technical
Univ. Munich & ERGOSURG GmbH); Lueth, Tim (Technical Univ. of Munich)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo05.7
Real-Time Determination of Skull Thickness for a Manually-Navigated Synergistic Trepanation Tool ..... 2300-2303
Korff, Alexander* (RWTH Aachen Univ.); Follmann, Axel (RWTH Aachen Univ.); Winter, Lukas (Max Delbrück
Center for Molecular Medicine); de la Fuente, Matias (RWTH Aachen Univ.); Schmieder, Kirsten (Ruprecht-
Karls-Univ. of Heidelberg, Neurosurgery Dept. of the Medical Faculty Mannheim); Radermacher, Klaus (RWTH
Aachen Univ., Chair of Medical Engineering)
10:45-12:15 ThBPo05.8
Evaluation of a Synergistically Controlled Semiautomatic Trepanation System for Neurosurgery ........... 2304-2307
Follmann, Axel* (RWTH Aachen Univ.); Korff, Alexander (RWTH Aachen Univ.); Schmieder, Kirsten (Ruprecht-
Karls-Univ. of Heidelberg, Neurosurgery Dept. of the Medical Faculty Mannheim); Radermacher, Klaus (RWTH
Aachen Univ., Chair of Medical Engineering); Fuertjes, Tobias (RWTH Aachen Univ.); Lauer, Wolfgang (RWTH
Aachen Univ.); Kunze, Sandra (Univ. of Heidelberg, Neurosurgery Dept. of the Medical Faculty Mannheim)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo05.9
Pilot Study on Verification of Effectiveness on Operability of Assistance System for
Robotic Tele-Surgery Using Simulation ............................................................................................................ 2308-2312
Kawamura, Kazuya* (Waseda Univ.); Kobayashi, Yo (Waseda Univ.); Fujie, Masakatsu G. (Waseda Univ.)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo05.10
How Accurate Is Accurate Enough? a Brief Overview on Accuracy Considerations in
Image-Guided Cardiac Interventions ................................................................................................................. 2313-2316
Linte, Cristian A.* (Robarts Research Inst.); Moore, John (Robarts Research Inst.);
Peters, Terry (Robarts Research Inst.)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo05.11
First Neuronavigation Experiences in Uruguay ................................................................................................ 2317-2320
Carbajal, Guillermo (Facultad de Ingeniería – UdelaR); Gómez, Alvaro* (Facultad de Ingeniería – UdelaR);
Pereyra, Gabriela (Facultad de Ingeniería – UdelaR); Lima, Ramiro (Facultad de Medicina – UdelaR);
Preciozzi, Javier (Facultad de Ingeniería – UdelaR); Vázquez, Luis (Facultad de Ingeniería – UdelaR);
Villar, Alvaro (Centro Regional de Neurocirugía de Tacuarembó)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo05.12
3D Localization of Ferromagnetic Probes for Small Animal Neurosurgery ................................................... 2321-2324
Heinig, Maximilian* (Univ. of Luebeck); Schlaefer, Alexander (Univ. of Luebeck);
Schweikard, Achim (Univ. of Luebeck, Germany)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo05.13
Automated Detection of Fiducial Screws from CT/DVT Volume Data for Image-Guided ENT Surgery ...... 2325-2328
Zheng, Guoyan* (Univ. of Bern); Gerber, Nicolas (Univ. of Bern); Widmer, Daniel (Univ. of Bern);
Stieger, Christof (Univ. of Bern); Caversaccio, Marco (Insel Spital, Univ. Bern); Nolte, Lutz-Peter (Univ. of Bern);
Weber, Stefan (Univ. of Bern)

ThBPo06: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

1.2.10 Signal Processing in Physiological Systems III (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo06.1
Automatic Detector of High Frequency Oscillations for Human Recordings with Macroelectrodes .......... 2329-2333
Zelmann, Rina* (McGill Univ., Montreal Neurological Inst.); Mari, Francesco (Montreal Neurological Inst.);
Jacobs, Julia (Montreal Neurological Inst.); Zijlmans, Maeike (Montreal Neurological Inst.);
Chander, Rahul (McGill Univ.); Gotman, Jean (McGill Univ.)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo06.2
An Automatic Multi-Lead Electrocardiogram Segmentation Algorithm Based on
Abrupt Change Detection .................................................................................................................................... 2334-2337
Illanes-Manriquez, Alfredo* (Univ. Austral de Chile)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo06.3
Electromyographic Assessment of Muscle Fatigue During Isometric Vibration
Training at Varying Frequencies ........................................................................................................................ 2338-2341
Mischi, Massimo* (Eindhoven Univ. of Tech.); Rabotti, Chiara (Eindhoven Univ. of Tech.);
Cardinale, Marco (British Olympic Association)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo06.4
Statistical Characterization of Actigraphy Data During Sleep and Wakefulness States .............................. 2342-2345
Adamec, Ondrej (VSB Technical Univ. of Ostrava); Domingues, Alexandre* (Inst. Superior Técnico);
Paiva, Teresa (Inst. Superior Técnico); Sanches, J. Miguel (Inst. for Systems & Robotics, NIF)
10:45-12:15 ThBPo06.5
GNL-HybELS: An Algorithm to Classify and Identify VOR Responses Simultaneously .............................. 2346-2349
Ghoreyshi, Atiyeh* (McGill Univ.); Galiana, Henrietta L. (McGill Univ.)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo06.6
Benzodiazepine Administration Effect on EEG Fractal Dimension: Results and Causalities ..................... 2350-2353
Michail, Emmanouil (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki); Chouvarda, Ioanna (Aristotle Univ.);
Maglaveras, Nikolaos* (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo06.7
Implementation of a Real-Time Algorithm for Maternal and Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring in a
Digital Signal Controller Platform ....................................................................................................................... 2354-2357
Arias-Ortega, Ronald* (Univ. Autónoma Metropolitana); Gaitan-Gonzalez, Mercedes (Univ. Autonoma
Metropolitana); Yanez-Suarez, Oscar (Univ. Autonoma Metropolitana)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo06.8
Development of a Multimodal Monitoring Platform for Medical Research .................................................... 2358-2361
Gomez, Hector* (Univ. de la Republica, Uruguay); Camacho, Jorge (Spanish Natl. Research Council (CSIC));
Yelicich, Bernardo (Laboratorio de Acústica Ultrasonora, Inst. de Física – Facultad de Ciencias, Univ. de la
República, Uruguay); Moraes, Leandro (Intensive Care Unit, Hospital de Clinicas, Univ. de la República School
of Medicine, Montevideo, Uruguay); Biestro, Alberto (Intensive Care Unit, Hospital de Clinicas, Univ. de la
República School of Medicine, Montevideo, Uruguay); Puppo, Corina (Emergency Dept., Univ. de la República
School of Medicine, Montevideo, Uruguay)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo06.9
Estimation of Ankle Joint Angle from Peroneal and Tibial Electroneurograms Based on
Muscle Spindle Model .......................................................................................................................................... 2362-2366
Lin, Chou-Ching* (Natl. Cheng Kung Univ.); Ju, Ming-Shung (Natl. Cheng Kung Unversity);
Chan, Ching-Chao (Natl. Cheng Kung Univ.)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo06.10
Influence of Rotary Blood Pumps Over Preload Recruitable Stroke Work .................................................... 2367-2370
Sugai, Telma Keiko* (Tohoku Univ.); Yoshizawa, Makoto (Tohoku Univ.); Tanaka, Akira (Fukushima Univ.);
Shiraishi, Yasuyuki (Tohoku Univ.); Yambe, Tomoyuki (Tohoku Univ); Baba, Atsushi (Tohoku Univ.)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo06.11
Destructive Power Dynamics of Alpha-Theta Oscillations Via Spike and Wave in CA3 .............................. 2371-2374
Dong, Guoya (Hebei Univ. of Tech.); Chen, Xiaogang (Hebei Univ. of Tech.); Li, Wenwen (Hebei Univ. of
Tech.); Cheng, Zhishuang* (Hebei Univ. of Tech.); Ge, Manling (Hebei Univ. of Tech.)

ThBPo07: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

1.3.5 Nonlinear Analysis of Biomedical Signals II (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo07.1
Nonlinear, Multiple-Input Modeling of Cerebral Autoregulation Using Volterra Kernel Estimation ............ 2375-2378
Kouchakpour, Hesam* (Southampton Univ.); Simpson, David Martin (Univ. of Southampton);
Allen, Robert (Univ. of Southampton)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo07.2
Regularity Analysis of the MEG Background Activity in Alzheimer’s
Disease Using Approximate Entropy ................................................................................................................. 2379-2382
Gomez, Carlos* (Univ. of Valladolid, CIF: Q4718001C); Abásolo, Daniel (Univ. of Valladolid); Poza, Jesús
(Univ. of Valladolid); Fernandez, Alberto (Univ. Complutense de Madrid); Hornero, Roberto (Univ. of Valladolid)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo07.3
Characterization of Activity Epochs in Actimetric Registries for Infantile Colic Diagnosis:
Identification and Feature Extraction Based on Wavelets and Symbolic Dynamics .................................... 2383-2386
Martín-Martínez, Diego (Univ. of Valladolid); Casaseca-de-la-Higuera, Pablo* (Univ. de Valladolid);
Vegas-Sanchez-Ferrero, Gonzalo (Univ. de Valladolid); Cordero-Grande, Lucilio (Univ. de Valladolid);
Andrés-de-Llano, Jesús María (Univ. of Valladolid); Garmendia-Leiza, José Ramón (Univ. of Valladolid);
Ardura-Fernández, Julio (Univ. of Valladolid)
10:45-12:15 ThBPo07.4
Nonlinearity of EHG Signals Used to Distinguish Active Labor from Normal Pregnancy Contractions .... 2387-2390
Hassan, Mahmoud* (UTC-France); Terrien, Jeremy (Reykjavik Univ.); Alexandersson, Asgeir (Faculty of
Medicine, Univ. of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland); Marque, Catherine (Univ. of Tech. of Compiegne);
Karlsson, Brynjar (Reykjavik Univ.)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo07.5
A State Space Based Approach in Non-Linear Hemodynamic Response Modeling with fMRI Data .......... 2391-2394
Hettiarachchi, Imali Thanuja* (Deakin Univ.); Pathirana, Pubudu N. (Deakin Univ.);
Brotchie, Peter (Geelong Hospital)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo07.6
Comparison of Median Filter and Discrete Dyadic Wavelet Transform for
Noise Cancellation in Electrocardiogram .......................................................................................................... 2395-2398
Lin, Wanhua (Shenzhen Inst. ofAdvancedTech.,ChineseAcademyofSciences); Wong, Mico Yee Man (The
Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong); Pu, Lina (Chinese Academy of Sciences); Zhang, Yuan-Ting* (The Chinese
Univ. of Hong Kong)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo07.7
Correntropy-Based Nonlinearity Test Applied to Patients with Chronic Heart Failure ................................ 2399-2402
Garde, Ainara* (Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya); Sornmo, Leif (Lund Univ.); Jané, Raimon (Univ. Politècnica de
Catalunya); Giraldo, Beatriz (Univ. Poiltècnica de Catalunya)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo07.8
Wavelet Based Time Series Forecast with Application to Acute Hypotensive Episodes Prediction .......... 2403-2406
Rocha, Teresa* (Inst Superior de Eng de Coimbra); Paredes, Simão (Inst. Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra);
de Carvalho, Paulo (Univ. of Coimbra); Henriques, Jorge (Univ. of Coimbra); Harris, Matthew (Philips Research)

ThBPo08: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

1.2.7 Signal Processing in Physiological Systems IV (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo08.1
Using the Lomb Periodogram for Non-Contact Estimation of Respiration Rates ........................................ 2407-2410
Vasu, Vishalini* (Queen’s Univ. Belfast); Fox, Niall (BiancaMed); Heneghan, Conor (BiancaMed);
Sezer, Sakir (Queen’s Univ. Belfast)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo08.2
Automated Levodopa-Induced Dyskinesia Assessment ................................................................................. 2411-2414
Tsipouras, Markos G. (Univ. of Ioannina); Tzallas, Alexandros* (Univ. of Ioannina); Rigas, Georgios (Univ. of
Ioannina); Bougia, Panagiota (Univ. of Ioannina); Fotiadis, Dimitrios I. (Univ. of Ioannina); Konitsiotis, Spiros
(Medical School, Univ. of Ioannina)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo08.3
Localized Fatigue Effects on Quiet Standing Control by Fractional Brownian Motion ................................ 2415-2418
Mello, Roger Gomes Tavares* (Naval School, Brazilian Navy); Oliveira, Liliam Fernandes de (Federal Univ. of
Rio de Janeiro); Nadal, Jurandir (Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo08.4
An Alternative Approach in Muscle Fatigue Evaluation from the Surface EMG Signal ............................... 2419-2422
Cavalcanti Garcia, Marco Antonio* (Núcleo de Estudos do Movimento Humano (NEMoH) – EEFD/UFRJ);
Yamasaki Catunda, João Marcos (Laboratório de Instrumentação Biomédica – PEB/COPPE/UFRJ); Lemos,
Thiago (Laboratório de Neurobiologia II – IBCCF/CCS/UFRJ); Fernandes de Oliveira, Liliam (Laboratório de
Biomecânica Muscular (LABMUSC) – EEFD/UFRJ); Imbiriba, Luis aureliano (Núcleo de Estudos do Movimento
Humano (NEMoH) – EEFD/UFRJ); Souza, Marcio N. (Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo08.5
Real-Time Low-Energy Fall Detection Algorithm with a Programmable Truncated MAC ............................ 2423-2426
de la Guia Solaz, Manuel* (Univ. of Limerick); Bourke, Alan (Univ. of Limerick); Conway, Richard (Univ. of
Limerick); Nelson, John (Univ. of Limerick); O’Laighin, Gearoid (Natl. Univ. of Ireland Galway)
10:45-12:15 ThBPo08.6
Novel Delta Zero Crossing Regression Features for Gait Pattern Classification ......................................... 2427-2430
Ibrahim, Ronny Kurniawan* (Univ. of New South Wales); Sethu, Vidhyasaharan (Univ. of New South Wales);
Ambikairajah, E (Univ. of New South Wales)

ThBPo09: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

1.4.6 Biomedical Signal Classification III (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo09.1
Automatic Seizure Detection: Going from sEEG to iEEG ................................................................................ 2431-2434
Henriksen, Jonas (Technical Univ. of Denmark); Remvig, Line Sofie* (HypoSafe A/S); Madsen, Rasmus Elsborg
(HypoSafe A/S); Conradsen, Isa (Technical Univ. of Denmark); Kjaer, Troels Wesenberg (RigsHospitalet);
Thomsen, Carsten Eckhart (Univ. of Copenhagen); Sorensen, Helge (Technical Univ. of Denmark)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo09.2
Morphological Descriptors for Automatic Detection of Epileptiform Events ................................................ 2435-2438
Boos, Christine Fredel* (Inst. of Biomedical Engineering – UFSC); Pereira, Maria do Carmo Vitarelli (Faculdade
de Medicina do Vale do Aço (FAMEVAÇO)); Argoud, Fernada Isabel Marques (Dept. de Eletrônica – IFSC);
Azevedo, Fernando Mendes (Inst. of Biomedical Engineering – UFSC)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo09.3
Vigilance Detection Based on Sparse Representation of EEG ....................................................................... 2439-2442
Yu, Hongbin* (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.); Lu, Hongtao (MOE-Microsoft Laboratory for Intelligent Computing &
Intelligent Systems, & the Dept. of Computer Science & Engineeri); Ouyang, Tian (Dept. of Computer Science
& Engineering,Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.); Liu, Hongjun (Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering,Shanghai
Jiao Tong Univ.); Lu, Bao-Liang (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo09.4
Ambulatory REACT: Real-Time Seizure Detection with a DSP Microprocessor ........................................... 2443-2446
McEvoy, Robert* (Univ. College Cork); Faul, Stephen (Univ. College Cork); Marnane, Liam (Univ. College Cork)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo09.5
Assisted Diagnosis of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder through EEG Bandpower
Clustering with Self-Organizing Maps ............................................................................................................... 2447-2450
Alba Sánchez, Federico* (Univ. Autónoma Metropolitana); Yanez-Suarez, Oscar (Univ. Autonoma
Metropolitana); Brust-Carmona, Hector (Inst. Nacional de Rehabilitacion)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo09.6
On the Use of Virtual and Augmented Reality for Upper Limb Prostheses Training and Simulation ......... 2451-2454
Lamounier Jr., Edgard* (Federal Univ. of Uberlandia); Nogueira, Kenedy (Federal Univ. of Uberlandia);
Cardoso, Alexandre (Federal Univ. of Uberlandia); Andrade, Adriano (Federal Univ. of Ubelandia);
Soares, Alcimar (Federal Univ. of Uberlandia)

ThBPo10: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

5.10.3 Respiratory Engineering (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo10.1
Physical Modeling of Low-Frequency Sound Propagation through Human Thoracic Tissue ..................... 2455-2458
Pandia, Keya* (Stanford Univ.); Vijayraghavan, Karthik (Stanford Univ.); Kovacs, Gregory T.A. (Stanford Univ.);
Giovangrandi, Laurent (Stanford Univ.)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo10.2
Wakefulness Estimation Only Using Ballistocardiogram: Nonintrusive Method for Sleep Monitoring ..... 2459-2462
Chung, Gih Sung* (Seoul Natl. Univ.); Lim, Yong Gyu (Sangji Univ.); Jeong, Do-Un (Seoul Natl. Univ. Hospital);
Park, Kwang S. (Seoul Natl. Univ.)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo10.3
Approximate Entropy As a Measure of the Airflow Pattern Complexity in Asthma ...................................... 2463-2466
Veiga, Juliana (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro); Faria, Renan (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro);
Esteves, Guilherme (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro); Lopes, Agnaldo (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro);
Jansen, José (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro); Melo, Pedro Lopes* (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)
10:45-12:15 ThBPo10.4
Electrical Circuit Models of the Human Respiratory System Reflect Small Airway Impairment
Measured by Impulse Oscillation (IOS) ............................................................................................................. 2467-2472
Goldman, Michael David (Univ. of California Los Angeles); Nazeran, Homayoun* (The Univ. of Texas at El
Paso); Ramos-Rocha, Carlos (Univ. of Texas at El Paso); Hafezi, Nazila (The Univ. of Texas at El Paso);
Meraz, Erika (Univ. of Texas at El Paso); Diong, Bill (Texas Christian Univ.)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo10.5
One-Dimensional Computational Model of Pulse Wave Propagation in the Human Bronchial Tree .......... 2473-2476
Clavica, Francesco (Brunel Univ.); Alastruey, Jordi (Imperial College London); Borlotti, Alessandra* (Brunel
Univ., London, UK); Sherwin, Spencer (Imperial college London); Khir, Ashraf (Brunel Univ.)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo10.6
Mechanical Analysis of an Oscillatory Positive Expiratory Pressure Device Used in
Respiratory Rehabilitation .................................................................................................................................. 2477-2480
Alves, Carlos* (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro); Nunes, Luiz (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro);
Melo, Pedro Lopes (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo10.7
Evaluation of Pulmonary Rehabilitation after Lung Resection through Opto-Electronic Plethysmography .. 2481-2484
Bastianini, Flavia (Univ. Campus Bio-Medico of Rome); Silvestri, Sergio (Univ. Campus Bio-Medico);
Schena, Emiliano (Univ. of Rome Campus Bio-Medico); Cecchini, Stefano* (Univ. Campus Bio-Medico of
Rome); Sterzi, Silvia (Campus Bio-medico Univ.)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo10.8
Spectral Analysis of the RR Series and the Respiratory Flow Signal on Patients in Weaning Process .... 2485-2488
Arcentales, Andrés (Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya); Giraldo, Beatriz* (Univ. Poiltècnica de Catalunya);
Caminal, Pere (Technical Univ. of Catalonia (UPC)); Benito, Salvador (Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau);
Diaz, Ivan (Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo10.9
Online Estimation of Respiratory Mechanics in Non-Invasive Pressure Support Ventilation:
A Bench Model Study .......................................................................................................................................... 2489-2492
Mulqueeny, Qestra Camille* (Univ. of New South Wales); Lovell, Nigel H (Univ. of New South Wales);
Redmond, Stephen James (Univ. of New South Wales)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo10.10
Noninvasive Measurement of Inspiratory Muscle Performance by Means of Diaphragm Muscle
Mechanomyographic Signals in COPD Patients During an Incremental Load Respiratory Test ................ 2493-2496
Torres, Abel* (Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya); Sarlabous, Leonardo (Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC));
Fiz Fernandez, José Antonio (Navarra Hospital); Gea, Joaquim (IMIM- Hospital del Mar, UPF, CIBERES);
Martínez-Llorens, Juana M. (IMIM- Hospital del Mar, UPF, CIBERES); Morera Prat, Jose (Hospital Univ.
Germans Trias i Pujol); Jané, Raimon (Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo10.11
A Wearable Respiratory Biofeedback System Based on Body Sensor Networks ........................................ 2497-2500
Liu, Guan-Zheng (ShenzhenInst.ofAdvancedTech.ChineseAcademyofSciences,Shenzhen,China); Huang,
Bangyu (Shenzhen Inst. of Advanced Tech.); Mei, Zhan-Yong (Shenzhen Inst. of Advanced Tech. Chinese
Academyof Sciences); guo, Yan-wei (Shenzhen Inst. of Advanced Tech. Chinese Academyof Sciences); Wang,
Lei* (Shenzhen Inst. of Advanced Tech. Chinese Academyof Sciences, Shenzhen, China)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo10.12
Development of a Cardiorespiratory Monitoring System Based on Pressure Change of Aircushion ........ 2501-2504
Kim, Joohan (College of Health Science, Yonsei Univ.); Cho, Sung Pil (Yonsei Univ.); Shin, Jae-Yeon (Yonsei
Univ.); Park, Ho Dong (MEZOO Co.); Choi, Hyun Seok (Yonsei Univ.); Lee, Kyoung Joung* (Yonsei Univ.)
ThBPo11: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn
5.1.3 Cardiovascular Engineering (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo11.1
Cerebral Autoregulation in the Vertebral and Middle Cerebral Arteries During Combined
Head Upright Tilt and Lower Body Negative Pressure in Healthy Humans ................................................... 2505-2508
Deegan, Brian Michael Thomas (Natl. Univ. of Ireland, Galway); Kennedy, Cian (Univ. Hospital Galway);
Lyons, Declan (Mid-Western Regional Hospital, Limerick); O’Laighin, Gearoid* (Natl. Univ. of Ireland Galway);
Serrador, Jorge Manuel (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo11.2
Influence of Tear Configuration on False and True Lumen Haemodynamics in Type B Aortic Dissection .... 2509-2512
Rudenick, Paula Andrea* (Univ. Pompeu Fabra); Bordone, Maurizio (Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya);
Bijnens, Bart Hendrik (ICREA-Univ. Pompeu Fabra); Soudah, Eduardo (Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya);
Oñate, Eugenio (Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya); Garcia-Dorado, David (Univ. Hospital Vall d’Hebron);
Evangelista, Arturo (Univ. Hospital Vall d’Hebron)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo11.3
Development of Miniaturized Mass-Flow Meter for an Axial Flow Blood Pump Using a Curved Cannula .... 2513-2516
Kosaka, Ryo* (Natl. Inst. of Advanced Industrial Science & Tech. (AIST)); Nishida, Masahiro (Natl. Inst. of
Advanced Industrial Science & Tech. (AIST)); Maruyama, Osamu (Natl. Inst. of Advanced Industrial Science &
Tech. (AIST)); Yamane, Takashi (Natl. Inst. of Advanced Industrial Science & Tech. (AIST))

10:45-12:15 ThBPo11.4
In Vivo Validation of Pulsatile Flow and Differential Pressure Estimation Models in a
Left Ventricular Assist Device ............................................................................................................................ 2517-2520
Zhang, Xintao (Univ. of New South Wales); Alomari, Abdul-Hakeem H* (Univ. of New South Wales);
Savkin, Andrey (Univ. of New South Wales); Ayre, Peter Joseph (Ventracor Ltd); Lim, Einly (Univ. of New
South Wales); Salamonsen, Robert F (Alfred Hospital); Rosenfeldt, Franklin L. (Alfred Hospital);
Lovell, Nigel H (Univ. of New South Wales)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo11.5
Improvement of Artery Radii Determination With Single Ultra Sound Channel Hardware and
In Vitro Artificial Heart System ........................................................................................................................... 2521-2524
Balay, Guillermo (Inst. de Física, Facultad de Ciencias, Univ. de la República (Montevideo, Uruguay));
Brum, Javier (Facultad de Ciencias, Univ. de la República); Bia, Daniel (School of Medicine, Republic Univ.);
Armentano, Ricardo Luis (Favaloro Univ.); Negreira, Carlos* (Inst. de Física, Facultad de Ciencias, Univ. dela
República (Montevideo, Uruguay))

10:45-12:15 ThBPo11.6
Real Time Conductance Catheter System Based on FPGA ............................................................................ 2525-2528
Gómez López, María de los Angeles (Electrical, Electronic & Computational Engineering Dept.-FACET-Univ.
Nacional de Tucumán); Olivera, Juan Manuel (Bioengineering Dept.-Facet-Univ. Nacional de Tucuman);
Herrera, Myriam Cristina* (Univ Nacional de Tucumán)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo11.7
Heart Rate and Blood Pressure Variability Effects As a Result of Oxygen and Nitrous
Oxide Administration in the Anesthetized Mouse ............................................................................................ 2529-2532
Constantinides, Christakis* (Assistant Professor, Univ. of Cyprus); Mean, Richard (Dept. of Mechanical
Engineering, Univ. of Cyprus); Janssen, Ben (Maastricht Univ.)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo11.8
Non-Invasive Assessment of Atherosclerotic Plaques Effects on the Segment-To-Segment
Human Carotid Visco-Elasticity and Filtering ................................................................................................... 2533-2536
Bia, Daniel (School of Medicine, Republic Univ.); Pessana, Franco* (FICEN, Favaloro Univ.); Forcada, Pedro
(Hospital Austral, Buenos Aires, Argentina); Zócalo, Yanina (School of Medicine, Republic Univ.);
Armentano, Ricardo Luis (Favaloro Univ.)
10:45-12:15 ThBPo11.9
Conduction Abnormalities in the Right Ventricular Outflow Tract in Brugada Syndrome Detected by
Body Surface Potential Mapping ........................................................................................................................ 2537-2540
Guillem, Maria S.* (Univ. Politecnica de Valencia); Climent, Andreu M. (Univ. Politecnica de Valencia);
Millet, Jose (Univ. Politecnica de Valencia); Berné, Paola (Hospital Clínic de Barcelona); Ramos, Rafael (Inst.
Català de Salut, Girona); Brugada, Josep (Hospital Clínic de Barcelona); Brugada, Ramon (Univ. de Girona)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo11.10
A 2D-Computer Model of Atrial Tissue Based on Histographs Describes the Electro-Anatomical
Impact of Microstructure on Endocardiac Potentials and Electric Near Fields ............................................ 2541-2544
Campos, Fernando O. (Medical Univ. of Graz); Wiener, Thomas (Medical Univ. of Graz);
Prassl, Anton J. (Medical Univ. of Graz); Ahammer, Helmut (Medical Univ. of Graz);
Plank, Gernot (Medical Univ. of Graz); Weber dos Santos, Rodrigo* (Univ. Federal de Juiz de Fora);
Sánchez-Quintana, Damián (Univ. de Extremadura); Hofer, Ernst (Medical Univ. Graz)

ThBPo12: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

5.8.1 Cardiovascular Signal Processing (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo12.1
Cardiac Output Assessment Using Oxygen Consumption Estimated from the
Left Ventricular Pressure-Volume Area ............................................................................................................. 2545-2548
Negroni, Jorge* (Favaloro Univ.); Lascano, Elena (Favaloro Univ.); Bertolotti, Alejandro (Favaloro Foundation
U/niversity Hospital); Gómez, Carmen (Favaloro Foundation Univ. Hospital); Rodríguez-Correa, Carlos
(Favaloro Foundation Univ. Hospital); Favaloro, Roberto (Favaloro Foundation Univ. Hospital)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo12.2
Seasonal Chaotic Features of Pulse Rate in a Healthy Subject and a Patient after Coronary Stenting ..... 2549-2552
Chen, Ying* (Univ. of Aizu); Chen, Wenxi (Univ. of Aizu)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo12.3
Modeling of Human Heart Rate Response During Walking, Cycling and Rowing ........................................ 2553-2556
Baig, Dur-e-Zehra (Univ. of New south wales, Australia); Su, Hao (Univ. of New South Wales);
Cheng, Teddy Man Lai (The Univ. of New South Wales); Savkin, Andrey* (Univ. of New South Wales);
Su, Steven Weidong (Univ. of Tech., Sydney); Celler, Branko George (Univ. of New South Wales)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo12.4
Heart and Respiratory Rate Detection on a Bathroom Scale Based on the
Ballistocardiogram and the Continuous Wavelet Transform .......................................................................... 2557-2560
Gilaberte, Sonia (Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya); Gómez-Clapers, Joan (Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya);
Casanella, Ramon* (Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya); Pallas-Areny, Ramon (Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo12.5
Analysis of QRS Loop in the Vectorcardiogram of Patients with Chagas’ Disease ..................................... 2561-2564
Correa, Raúl* (Univ. Nacional de San Juan (San Juan-Argentina)); Laciar, Eric (Univ. Nacional de San Juan);
Arini, Pedro David (CONICET); Jané, Raimon (Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo12.6
A New ECG Biomarker for Drug Toxicity: A Combined Signal Processing and
Computational Modeling Study .......................................................................................................................... 2565-2568
Jie, Xiao* (Oxford Univ.); Rodriguez, Blanca (Oxford Univ.); Pueyo, Esther (Univ. of Zaragoza)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo12.7
Fast Tracking of a Given Heart Rate Profile in Treadmill Exercise ................................................................. 2569-2572
WENG, Kaili* (UTS); Turk, Basil (Univ. of Tech., Sydney); Dolores, Louis (Univ. of Tech., Sydney);
Nguyen, Tuan Nghia (Univ. of Tech., Sydney); Celler, Branko George (Univ. of New South Wales);
Su, Steven Weidong (Univ. of Tech., Sydney); Nguyen, Hung T. (Univ. of Tech., Sydney)
10:45-12:15 ThBPo12.8
Reproducibility of Heart Rate Turbulence Indexes in Heart Failure Patients ................................................ 2573-2576
D’Addio, Gianni* (S. Maugeri Foundation); Cesarelli, Mario (Dept. of Biomedical, Electronic & Telecommunication
Engineering, Univ. “Federico II”, Naples, Italy.); Corbi, Graziamaria (Univ. of Molise); Romano, Maria (Dept. of
Biomedical, Electronic & Telecommunication Engineering, Univ. “Federico II”, Naples, Italy.); Furgi, Giuseppe
(S. Maugeri Foundation); Ferrara, Nicola (S. Maugeri Foundation); Rengo, Franco (S. Maugeri Foundation)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo12.9
A Miniature On-Chip Multi-Functional ECG Signal Processor with 30 µW Ultra-Low Power Consumption ... 2577-2580
Liu, Xin* (ICS Lab, Inst. of Microelectronics, Singapore); Zheng, Yuanjin (ICS Lab, Inst. of Microelectronics);
Phyu, Myint Wai (ICS Lab, Inst. of Microelectronics, Singapore); Zhao, Bin (ICS Lab, Inst. of Microelectronics,
Singapore); Je, Minkyu (Inst. of Microelectronics, Agency of Science, Tech. & Research, Singapore); Yuan,
Xiaojun (ICS Lab, Inst. of Microelectronics)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo12.10
Derive Right Precordial Leads at Higher Intercostal Spaces from 12-Lead System for
Diagnosis of Brugada Syndrome ....................................................................................................................... 2581-2584
Zhu, Xin* (the Univ. of Aizu); Wei, Daming (Univ. of Aizu);
Okazaki, Osamu (Natl. Center for Global Health & Medicine)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo12.11
Modal Analysis of Ultrasound Radiation Force Generated Shear Waves on Arteries .................................. 2585-2588
Bernal, Miguel* (Mayo Clinic College of Medicine); Nenadic, Ivan (Mayo Clinic College of Medicine);
Urban, Matthew (Mayo Clinic College of Medicine); Greenleaf, James (Mayo Clinic)

ThBPo13: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

5.6.2 Cardiovascular Modeling and Simulation (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo13.1
Flow Model with Vessel Tree for Segmentation and Registration with Color Doppler Ultrasound and CT .... 2589-2593
Winter, Christian* (Fraunhofer IIS); Bergen, Tobias (Fraunhofer Inst for Integrated Circuits);
Krueger, Sophie (Stadtkrankenhaus Schwabach); Lell, Michael (Univ. Erlangen)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo13.2
Using PIV to Determine Relative Pressures in a Stenotic Phantom under Steady Flow Based on the
Pressure-Poisson Equation ................................................................................................................................ 2594-2597
Khodarahmi, Iman (Univ. of Louisville); Shakeri, Mostafa (Univ. of Louisville); Sharp, Keith (Univ. of Louisville);
Amini, Amir* (Univ. of Louisville)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo13.3
Spectral Models for 1D Blood Flow Simulations .............................................................................................. 2598-2601
Tamburrelli, Vincenzopio* (Univ. Campus Bio-Medico of Rome); Ferranti, Francesco (Ghent Univ., Dept. of
Information Tech. (INTEC)); Antonini, Giulio (Univ. degli Studi dell’Aquila); Cristina, Saverio (Univ. Campus Bio-
Medico of Rome); Dhaene, Tom (Ghent Univ., Dept. of Information Tech. (INTEC)); Knockaert, Luc (Ghent
Univ., Dept. of Information Tech. (INTEC))

10:45-12:15 ThBPo13.4
Evaluation of Model-Independent Deconvolution Techniques to Estimate Blood Perfusion ...................... 2602-2607
Kind, Taco* (VU Univ. Medical Center); Houtzager, Ivo (Delft Univ. of Tech.); Faes, Theo (VU Univ. Medical
Center); Hofman, Mark (VU Univ. Medical Center)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo13.5
Automatic Reconstruction of Activation and Velocity Maps from Electro-Anatomic Data by
Radial Basis Functions ........................................................................................................................................ 2608-2611
Masè, Michela* (Univ. of Trento); Ravelli, Flavia (Univ. of Trento)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo13.6
Dynamic Modeling of the Vascular System in the State-Space ...................................................................... 2612-2615
Monzon, Jorge E.* (Univ. Nacional del Nordeste); Pisarello, Maria Ines (Univ. Nacional del Nordeste);
Alvarez Picaza, Carlos (Univ. Nacional del Nordeste); Veglia, Julian Ignacio (Univ. Nacional del Nordeste)
10:45-12:15 ThBPo13.7
Numerical Investigation of the Hemodynamics in Anatomically Realistic Lateral Cerebral Aneurysms ... 2616-2621
Valencia, Alvaro* (Univ. de Chile); Munizaga, Julio (Univ. de chile); Rivera, Rodrigo (Inst. de Neurocirugia
ASENJO); Bravo, Eduardo (Inst. de Neurocirugia ASENJO)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo13.8
Comparison of Steady-State and Transient Blood Flow Simulations of Intracranial Aneurysms .............. 2622-2625
Geers, Adrianus Johannes* (Univ. Pompeu Fabra & CIBER-BBN); Larrabide, Ignacio (Networking Research
Center on Bioengineering, Biomaterials & Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN), Univ. Pompeu Fabra); Morales, Hernan
G. (CISTIB – Univ. Pompeu Fabra & CIBER-BBN, Barcelona, Spain); Frangi, Alejandro (Univ. Pompeu Fabra)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo13.9
Computed Wall Stress May Predict the Growth of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm ......................................... 2626-2629
Li, Zhi-Yong* (Southeast Univ.)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo13.10
Changes in Wall Viscosity and Filtering As Determinant of Carotid and Femoral Atherosclerotic
Plaque Vulnerability: Theoretical Analysis ....................................................................................................... 2630-2633
Bia, Daniel* (School of Medicine, Republic Univ.); Brum, Javier (Facultad de Ciencias, Univ. de la República);
Pessana, Franco Martin (Favaloro Univ.); Zócalo, Yanina (School of Medicine, Republic Univ.); Balay,
Guillermo (Inst. de Física, Facultad de Ciencias, Univ. de la República (Montevideo, Uruguay)); Negreira,
Carlos (Inst. de Física, Facultad de Ciencias, Univ. dela República (Montevideo, Uruguay)); Armentano,
Ricardo Luis (Favaloro Univ.)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo13.11
Linear and Nonlinear Viscoelastic Modeling of Ovine Aortic Biomechanical Properties under
in Vivo and Ex Vivo Conditions .......................................................................................................................... 2634-2637
Valdez-Jasso, Daniela (North Carolina State Univ.); Bia, Daniel (School of Medicine, Republic Univ.); Haider,
Mansoor (North Carolina State Univ.); Zócalo, Yanina (School of Medicine, Republic Univ.); Armentano,
Ricardo Luis* (Favaloro Univ.); Olufsen, Mette (North Carolina State Univ.)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo13.12
Distribution of Active Fiber Stress at the Beginning of Ejection Depends on Left-Ventricular Shape ....... 2638-2641
Choi, Hon Fai* (KULeuven); D’hooge, Jan (KULeuven); Rademakers, Frank E (KULeuven);
Claus, Piet (Catholic Univ. Leuven)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo13.13
3D Mesh Based Wall Thickness Measurement: Identification of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy Phenotypes ... 2642-2645
Tobon-Gomez, Catalina* (Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona); Butakoff, Constantine (Univ. Pompeu Fabra,
Barcelona); Yushkevich, Paul (Penn Image Computing & Science Laboratory (PICSL), Dept. of Radiology,
Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA); Huguet, Marina (Cetir Sant Jordi; CIBER-BBN, Barcelona, Spain);
Frangi, Alejandro (Univ. Pompeu Fabra)

ThBPo14: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

5.3.1 Cardiac Electrophysiology (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo14.1
Functional Model of Dual AV Nodal Pathway Physiology ............................................................................... 2646-2649
Climent, Andreu M.* (Univ. Politecnica de Valencia); Guillem, Maria S. (Univ. Politecnica de Valencia); Zhang,
Youhua (Dept. of Molecular Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio); Millet, Jose (Univ. Politecnica de
Valencia); Mazgalev, Todor N. (Dept. of Molecular Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo14.2
Spiral Wave Induced Numerically Using Electrical Stimulation and Comparison with
Experimental Results ........................................................................................................................................... 2650-2653
Xu, Binbin (Univ. de Bourgogne, FRANCE); Jacquir, Sabir (LE2I UMR CNRS 5158, Univ. de Bourgogne);
Laurent, Gabriel (LE2I UMR CNRS 5158, Univ. de Bourgogne, France); Bilbault, Jean-Marie (LE2I UMR CNRS
5158, Univ. de Bourgogne, France); Binczak, Stéphane* (LE2I UMR CNRS 5158 Univ. de Bourgogne)
10:45-12:15 ThBPo14.3
Long-Term Biatrial Recordings in Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation ............................................................... 2654-2657
Masè, Michela* (Univ. of Trento); Graffigna, Angelo (Division of Cardiac Surgery, S.Chiara Hospital, Trento);
Sinelli, Stefano (Division of Cardiac Surgery, S.Chiara Hospital, Trento); Pallaoro, Gloria (Division of Cardiac
Surgery, S.Chiara Hospital, Trento); Nollo, Giandomenico (Univ. of Trento); Ravelli, Flavia (Univ. of Trento)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo14.4
A Novel Biophysically-Detailed Mathematical Model of Rabbit Purkinje Cell Electrophysiology ............... 2658-2661
Corrias, Alberto* (Oxford Univ.); Rodriguez, Blanca (Oxford Univ.)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo14.5
Exploring the Parameter Space of a Rabbit Ventricular Action Potential Model to Investigate the
Effect of Variation on Action Potential and Calcium Transients ..................................................................... 2662-2665
Gemmell, Philip* (Univ. of Oxford); Burrage, Kevin (Univ. of Oxford); Rodriguez, Blanca (Oxford Univ.);
Quinn, T. Alexander (Univ. of Oxford)

10:45-12:15 ThBPo14.6
Automatic Code Generation for Solvers of Cardiac Cellular Membrane Dynamics in GPUs ...................... 2666-2669
Amorim, Ronan M. (Federal Univ. of Juiz de Fora); Rocha, Bernardo M.* (Natl. Laboratory of Scientific
Computing (LNCC)); Campos, Fernando O. (Medical Univ. of Graz);
Weber dos Santos, Rodrigo (Univ. Federal de Juiz de Fora)

ThC01: 14:30-16:00 Libertador A

6.4.3 Brain-Computer/Machine Interface I (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 ThC01.1
Real-Time Recognition of Feedback Error-Related Potentials During a Time-Estimation Task ................. 2670-2673
Lopez-Larraz, Eduardo* (Univ. of Zaragoza); Iturrate, Iñaki (Zaragoza Univ.); Montesano, Luis (Univ. de
Zaragoza); Minguez, Javier (Zaragoza Univ.)

14:45-15:00 ThC01.2
Parallel Field Programmable Gate Array Particle Filtering Architecture for Real-Time
Neural Signal Processing .................................................................................................................................... 2674-2677
Mountney, John (Temple Univ.); Silage, Dennis (Electrical & Computer Engineering Temple Univ.);
Obeid, Iyad* (Temple Univ.)

15:00-15:15 ThC01.3
Application of System Identification Methods for Decoding Imagined Single-Joint
Movements in an Individual with High Tetraplegia ........................................................................................... 2678-2681
Ajiboye, Abidemi Bolu* (Cleveland VA Medical Center); Hochberg, Leigh (VA / Brown U. / Harvard Med.
School); Donoghue, John (Brown Univ.); Kirsch, Robert (Case Western Reserve Univ.)

15:15-15:30 ThC01.4
Corticostriatal Dynamics During Learning and Performance of a Neuroprosthetic Task ........................... 2682-2685
Koralek, Aaron (UC Berkeley); Long, John D. (Univ. of California, Berkeley); Costa, Rui (Champalimaud
Neuroscience Programme, Inst. Gulbenkiande Ciência); Carmena, Jose M.* (Univ. of California, Berkeley)

15:30-15:45 ThC01.5
A Novel Brain-Computer Interface based on the Rapid Serial Visual Presentation Paradigm .................... 2686-2689
Acqualagna, Laura* (Univ. degli Studi di Genova); Treder, Matthias Sebastian (Berlin Inst. of Tech.);
Schreuder, Evert-Jan Martijn (Berlin Inst. of Tech.); Blankertz, Benjamin (Berlin Inst. of Tech.)

15:45-16:00 ThC01.6
Using ERPs for Assessing the (Sub)Conscious Perception of Noise ............................................................ 2690-2693
Porbadnigk, Anne Kerstin* (Berlin Inst. of Tech.); Antons, Jan-Niklas (Telekom Laboratories); Blankertz, Benjamin
(Berlin Inst. of Tech.); Treder, Matthias Sebastian (Berlin Inst. of Tech.); Schleicher, Robert (Telekom
Laboratories); Möller, Sebastian (Telekom Laboratories); Curio, Gabriel (Charité – Univ. Medicine Berlin)
ThC02: 14:30-16:00 Libertador B
2.1.2 Diffusion-Tensor and Diffusion-Spectrum Imaging (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 ThC02.1
A Pointwise Correspondence Based DT-MRI Fiber Similarity Measure ......................................................... 2694-2697
Berkiten, Sema (Bogazici Univ.); Acar, Burak* (Bogazici Univ.)

14:45-15:00 ThC02.2
Robust ODF Smoothing for Accurate Estimation of Fiber Orientation .......................................................... 2698-2701
Beladi, Somaieh* (Deakin Univ.); Pathirana, Pubudu N. (Deakin Univ.); Brotchie, Peter (Geelong Hospital)

15:00-15:15 ThC02.3
Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Rician Distributed Data in Analytical Q-Ball Imaging ........................ 2702-2705
Beladi, Somaieh* (Deakin Univ.); Pathirana, Pubudu N. (Deakin Univ.); Brotchie, Peter (Geelong Hospital)

15:15-15:30 ThC02.4
Incorporating Independent Component Analysis to Q-Ball Imaging for Diffusion Orientation
Distribution Reconstruction ................................................................................................................................ 2706-2709
Jing, Min* (Univ. of Ulster); McGinnity, T. Martin (Univ. of Ulster); Coleman, Sonya (Univ. of Ulster);
Zhang, Haizhong (Univ. of Ulster)

15:30-15:45 ThC02.5
A New Model for Diffusion Weighted MRI: Complete Fourier Direct MRI ...................................................... 2710-2713
Ozcan, Alpay* (Washington Univ. in Saint Louis)

15:45-16:00 ThC02.6
Use of Shannon Information in Treatment of High Resolution Diffusion MRI ............................................... 2714-2717
Lori, Nicolas* (Faculty of Medicine, Univ. of Coimbra, Portugal); Santos, Carlos (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Coimbra)

ThC03: 14:30-16:00 Libertador C

3.1.4 Biological and Chemical Sensors (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 ThC03.1
An Integrated, Low Noise Patch-Clamp Amplifier for Biological Nanopore Applications ........................... 2718-2721
Wang, Gang (Univ. of CA, Santa Cruz); Dunbar, William B.* (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz)

14:45-15:00 ThC03.2
Carbon Nanotube Electrodes for Electrochemiluminescence Biosensors ................................................... 2722-2725
Sanginario, Alessandro (Politecnico di Torino); Demarchi, Danilo* (Politecnico di Torino);
Civera, Pierluigi (Politecnico di Torino); Giorcelli, Mauro (Politecnico di Torino);
Castellino, Micaela (Politecnico di Torino); Tagliaferro, Alberto (Politecnico di Torino)

15:00-15:15 ThC03.3
A Novel 16k Micro-Nail CMOS-Chip for In-Vitro Single-Cell Recording, Stimulation and
Impedance Measurements .................................................................................................................................. 2726-2729
Huys, Roeland* (IMEC); Braeken, Dries (IMEC); Wouters, Jan (IMEC); Loo, Josine (IMEC); Severi, Simone
(IMEC); Vleugels, Franks (IMEC); Bartic, Carmen (IMEC); Borghs, Gustaaf (IMEC); Eberle, Wolfgang (imec)

15:15-15:30 ThC03.4
Impedimetric Biosignal Analysis and Quantification in a Real-Time Biosensor System ............................. 2730-2734
Messing, Dean S.* (Sharp Laboratories of America); Ghindilis, Andrey (Sharp Laboratories of America);
Schwarzkopf, Kevin (Sharp Laboratories of America)

15:30-15:45 ThC03.5
Towards a Closed-Loop System for Stimulation and Recording: An in Vitro
Approach with Embryonic Cardiomyocytes ..................................................................................................... 2735-2738
Nguyen, Thi Kim Thoa* (Imec); Braeken, Dries (IMEC); Musa, Silke (IMEC); Krylychkina, Olga (IMEC);
Bartic, Carmen (IMEC); Gielen, Georges (ESAT, KULeuven); Eberle, Wolfgang (imec)
ThC04: 14:30-16:00 Retiro A
9.2.1 Thermal, Electroporation and Photodynamic Therapies (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 ThC04.1
Photodynamic Effects on Basal Cell Carcinoma with Topical Photosensitizer ............................................ 2739-2742
Salas-García, Irene (Univ. of Cantabria); Fanjul-Vélez, Félix (Univ. of Cantabria); Ortega-Quijano, Noé (Univ. of
Cantabria); Arce-Diego, José L.* (Univ. of Cantabria)

14:45-15:00 ThC04.2
Non-Thermal Irreversible Electroporation for Deep Intracranial Disorders ................................................... 2743-2746
Garcia, Paulo, A.* (Virginia Tech – Wake Forest Univ.); Neal, II, Robert E. (Virginia Polytechnic Inst. &
State Univ.); Rossmeisl, Jr., John H. (Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine);
Davalos, Rafael (Virginia Tech)

15:00-15:15 ThC04.3
A Study Using Irreversible Electroporation to Treat Large, Irregular Tumors in a Canine Patient ............. 2747-2750
Neal, II, Robert E.* (Virginia Polytechnic Inst. & State Univ.); Garcia, Paulo, A. (Virginia Tech – Wake Forest
Univ.); Rossmeisl, Jr., John H. (Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine);
Davalos, Rafael (Virginia Tech)

15:15-15:30 ThC04.4
Ferrimagnetic Nanoparticles Enhance Microwave Heating for Tumor Hyperthermia Therapy ................... 2751-2754
Pearce, John Anthony* (Univ. of Texas at Austin); Cook, Jason (The Univ. of Texas at Austin);
Emelianov, Stanislav (Univ. of Texas at Austin)

15:30-15:45 ThC04.5
Practical Evaluations on Heating Characteristics of Thin Microwave Antenna for
Intracavitary Thermal Therapy ............................................................................................................................ 2755-2758
Saito, Kazuyuki* (Chiba Univ.); Tsubouchi, Kousuke (Chiba Univ.); Takahashi, Masaharu (Chiba Univ.);
Ito, Koichi (Chiba Univ.)

15:45-16:00 ThC04.6
Basic Study of Charring Detection at the Laser Catheter-Tip Using Back Scattering Light
Measurement During Therapeutic Laser Irradiation in Blood ......................................................................... 2759-2761
Takahashi, Mei* (Keio Univ.); Ito, Arisa (Keio Univ.); Kajihara, Takuro (Keio Univ.); Matsuo, Hiroki (Keio Univ.);
Arai, Tsunenori (Keio Univ.)

ThC05: 14:30-16:00 Retiro B

1.4.7 Biomedical Signal Classification II (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 ThC05.1
Nonlinear Dynamic Analyses of Single Hippocampal Neurons before and after Long-Term Potentiation ... 2762-2765
Lu, Ude* (Univ. of Southern California); Song, Dong (Univ. of Southern California);
Berger, Theodore (Univ. of Southern California)

14:45-15:00 ThC05.2
Surface EMG Classification During Dynamic Contractions for Multifunction Transradial Prostheses ...... 2766-2769
Lorrain, Thomas* (Aalborg Univ.); Jiang, Ning (Aalborg Univ.); Farina, Dario (Aalborg Univ.)

15:00-15:15 ThC05.3
Nonlinear Dynamic Modeling of Impaired Voice ............................................................................................... 2770-2773
Dibazar, Alireza* (Univ. of Southern Claifornia)

15:15-15:30 ThC05.4
Comparison of Artificial Neural Networks an Support Vector Machines for Feature Selection in
Electrogastrography Signal Processing ............................................................................................................ 2774-2777
Curilem, Millaray (Univ. de La Frontera); Chacón, Max (Univ. de Santiago de Chile, USACH.);
Acuña, Gonzalo (Univ. de Santiago de Chile, USACH.); Ulloa, Sebastian (Univ. de La Frontera);
Pardo, Carlos* (Informatics Dept. of Univ. de Santiago de Chile (USACH)); Defilippi, Carlos (Clinical
Hospital, Univ. de Chile.); Madrid, Ana María (Clinical Hospital, Univ. de Chile.)
15:30-15:45 ThC05.5
A Graph Based Algorithm for Postures Estimation Based on Accelerometers Data ................................... 2778-2781
Jallon, Pierre* (CEA Grenoble)

15:45-16:00 ThC05.6
Assessment of Waist-Worn Tri-Axial Accelerometer Based Fall-Detection Algorithms Using
Continuous Unsupervised Activities ................................................................................................................. 2782-2785
Bourke, Alan* (Univ. of Limerick); van de Ven, Pepijn (Univ. of Limerick); Gamble, Mary (Univ. of Limerick);
O’Connor, Raymond (Univ. of Limerick); Murphy, Kieran (Univ. of Limerick); Bogan, Elizabeth (Cois Abhann
Primary Care Team, Mid-Western Health Board, Limerick); McQuade, Eamonn (Univ. of Limerick); Finucane,
Paul (Univ. of Limerick); O’Laighin, Gearoid (Natl. Univ. of Ireland Galway); Nelson, John (Univ. of Limerick)

ThC06: 14:30-16:00 Retiro C

1.3.4 Nonlinear Analysis of Biomedical Signals I (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 ThC06.1
Analysis of Human Tremor in Patients with Parkinson Disease Using Entropy
Measures of Signal Complexity .......................................................................................................................... 2786-2789
Gil, Lucia (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro); Pereira, Thiago (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro);
Schuindt, Flávio (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro); Faria, Alvaro Camilo Dias (Univ. do Estado do Rio de
Janeiro); Melo, Pedro Lopes* (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)

14:45-15:00 ThC06.2
Entropy of the EEG in Transition to Burst Suppression in Deep Anesthesia: Surrogate Analysis ............ 2790-2793
Anier, Andres (ELIKO Competence Centre); Lipping, Tarmo* (Tampere Univ. of Tech.); Jäntti, Ville (Seinäjoki
Central Hospital & Tampere Univ. of Tech.); Puumala, Pasi (Tampere Univ. Hospital);
Huotari, Ari-Matti (Oulu Univ. Hospital)

15:00-15:15 ThC06.3
Graph Analysis of Neuronal Interactions for the Error-Related Negativity ................................................... 2794-2797
Bolanos, Marcos* (Michigan State Univ.); Aviyente, Selin (Michigan State Univ.);
Bernat, Edward (Univ. of Minnesota)

15:15-15:30 ThC06.4
Characterization of Neurologic Injury Using Novel Morphological Analysis of
Somatosensory Evoked Potentials .................................................................................................................... 2798-2801
Madhok, Jai (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine); Iyer, Shrivats (Johns Hopkins Univ.); Thakor, Nitish* (Johns
Hopkins Univ.); Maybhate, Anil (Johns Hopkins Univ.)

15:30-15:45 ThC06.5
Complexity Analysis of the Uterine Electromyography ................................................................................... 2802-2805
Moslem, Bassam* (Univ. Libanaise/Univ. de Technologie Compiègne); Khalil, Mohamad (Lebanese Univ.,
Doctoral School for Sciences and Tech., Azm Center for Research in BioTech.); Marque, Catherine (Univ. of
Tech. of Compiegne); Diab, Mohamad (Univ. of Tech. of Compiegne)

15:45-16:00 ThC06.6
Band-Phase-Randomized Surrogate Data Reveal High-Frequency Chaos in Heart Rate Variability .......... 2806-2809
Li, Cheng (Fudan Univ.); Ding, Guang-Hong (Fudan Univ.); Wu, Guoqiang (Fudan Univ.);
Poon, Chi-Sang* (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.)

ThC07: 14:30-16:00 Martin Fierro 1

2.9.5 Reading the Brain: Decoding Neural Systems (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 ThC07.1
Finding Stationary Brain Sources in EEG Data ................................................................................................ 2810-2813
von Bünau, Paul* (TU Berlin); Meinecke, Frank (TU Berlin); Scholler, Simon (Fraunhofer FIRST);
Müller, Klaus-Robert (Berlin Inst. of Tech.)

14:45-15:00 ThC07.2
Simultaneous Estimation of Cortical Activity During Social Interactions by Using EEG Hyperscannings .... 2814-2817
Astolfi, Laura* (Univ. of Rome); Babiloni, Fabio (Univ. of Rome); Vecchiato, Giovanni (Univ. of Rome Sapienza);
De Vico Fallani, Fabrizio (Univ. La Sapienza); He, Bin (Univ. of Minnesota)
15:00-15:15 ThC07.3
Neurophysiology of Perceived Confidence ....................................................................................................... 2818-2821
Graziano, Martin (Laboratory of Integrative Neuroscience, Faculty of Exact & Natural Science, Univ. of Buenos
Aires, Argentina); Parra, Lucas (City College of New York); Sigman, Mariano* (Univ. of Buenos Aires)

15:15-15:30 ThC07.4
Decoding State Transitions in Hippocampal Oscillatory Activity in Mice ..................................................... 2822-2824
Akay, Metin* (Univ. of Houston)

15:30-15:45 ThC07.5
Movement Decoding from Noninvasive Neural Signals .................................................................................. 2825-2828
Contreras-Vidal, José* (Univ. of Maryland); Bradberry, Trent (Univ. of Maryland);
Agashe, Harshavardhan (Univ. of Maryland-College Park)

ThC08: 14:30-16:00 Martin Fierro 2

2.10.2 Contrast-Enhanced Imaging (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 ThC08.1
Compressed-Sensing Dynamic MR Imaging with Partially Known Support ................................................. 2829-2832
Liang, Dong (Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee); Ying, Leslie* (Univ. of Wisconsin)

14:45-15:00 ThC08.2
First-Pass Perfusion Cardiac MRI Using the Partially Separable Functions
Model with Generalized Support ........................................................................................................................ 2833-2836
Brinegar, Cornelius (Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Zhang, Haosen (Pittsburgh NMR Center for
Biomedical Research); Wu, Yijen L. (Carnegie Mellon Univ.); Foley, Lesley (Carnegie Mellon Univ.);
Hitchens, T. Kevin (Carnegie Mellon Univ.); Ye, Qing (Carnegie Mellon Univ.); Ho, Chien (Carnegie
Mellon Univ.); Liang, Zhi-Pei* (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

15:00-15:15 ThC08.3
Quantification of DCE-MRI: Pharmacokinetic Parameter Ratio between TOI and RR in
Reference Region Model ..................................................................................................................................... 2837-2840
Lee, Joonsang* (The Univ. of Georgia); Zhao, Qun (Univ. of Georgia)

15:15-15:30 ThC08.4
Automated Intracranial Aneurysm Isolation and Quantification ..................................................................... 2841-2844
Larrabide, Ignacio* (Networking Research Center on Bioengineering, Biomaterials & Nanomedicine (CIBER-
BBN), Univ. Pompeu Fabra); Cruz-villa, Maria-Cruz (Univ. Pompeu Fabra); Cardenes, Ruben (Univ. Pompeu
Fabra, Barcelona); Pozo, Jose Maria (Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona); Hose, David R. (Univ. of Sheffield);
Frangi, Alejandro (Univ. Pompeu Fabra)

ThC09: 14:30-16:00 Ombu A

5.1.2 Cardiovascular Dynamics (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 ThC09.1
Pulse Transit Time Variability Analysis in an Animal Model of Endotoxic Shock ........................................ 2849-2852
Tang, Collin Howe Hing (Univ. of New South Wales); Chan, Gregory S H (The Univ. of New South Wales);
Middleton, Paul MacConachie (Univ. of New South Wales); Cave, Grant (Univ. of Otago); Harvey, Martyn
(Waikato Hospital); Javed, Faizan (Univ. of New South Wales); Savkin, Andrey* (Univ. of New South Wales);
Lovell, Nigel H (Univ. of New South Wales)

14:45-15:00 ThC09.2
A Novel Continuous Cardiac Output Monitor Based on Pulse Wave Transit Time ...................................... 2853-2856
Sugo, Yoshihiro* (NIHON KOHDEN); Ukawa, Teiji (NIHON KOHDEN); Takeda, Sunao (Tokyo Univ. of
Engineering); Ishihara, Hironori (Dept. of Anesthesiology, Hirosaki Univ., Graduate School of Medicine);
Kazama, Tomiei (Dept. of Anesthesiology, Natl. Defense Medical College); Takeda, Junzo (Dept. of
Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, Keio Univ.)
15:00-15:15 ThC09.3
A Comparison between Local Wave Speed in the Carotid and Femoral Arteries in
Healthy Humans: Application of a New Method ............................................................................................... 2857-2860
Borlotti, Alessandra* (Brunel Univ., London, UK); Vermeersch, Sebastian (Univ. Gent); Rietzschel, Ernst R.
(Ghent Univ. Hospital); Segers, Patrick (Ghent Univ.); Khir, Ashraf (Brunel Univ.)

15:15-15:30 ThC09.4
Validity of a New Method to Estimate Mean Arterial Pressure at Brachial Level .......................................... 2861-2864
Graf, Sebastián* (Favaloro Univ.); Craiem, Damian (Favaloro Univ.); Armentano, Ricardo Luis (Favaloro Univ.)

15:30-15:45 ThC09.5
Levels and Rates of Change in Carotid-Radial Pulse Wave Velocity Associated with Reactive
Hyperaemia: Analysis of the Dependence on Transient Ischemia Length .................................................... 2865-2868
Torrado, Juan (School of Medicine, Republic Univ.); Farro, Ignacio (Dept. de Fisiología, Facultad de Medicina,
Univ. de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay); Bia, Daniel* (School of Medicine, Republic Univ.);
Zócalo, Yanina (School of Medicine, Republic Univ.); Valls, Gabriela (School of Medicine, Republic Univ.);
Valero, Matías (Favaloro Univ., Buenos Aires, Argentina); Salvucci, Fernando (Univ. Favaloro);
Armentano, Ricardo Luis (Favaloro Univ.)

15:45-16:00 ThC09.6
How to Quantitatively Synthesize Dynamic Changes in Arterial Pressure from Baroreflexly
Modulated Ventricular and Arterial Properties ................................................................................................. 2869-2871
Sakamoto, Takafumi* (Kyushu Univ.); Murayama, Yoshinori (Kyushu Univ.); Tobushi, Tomoyuki (Kyushu Univ.);
sakamoto, kazuo (Kyushu Univ.); Tanaka, Atsushi (Kyushu Univ. Graduate School of Medical Sciences,
Japan); Sunagawa, Kenji (Kyushu Univ.)

ThC10: 14:30-16:00 Ombu B

10.5.1 Knowledge Management, Data Mining, GIS, Knowledge Discovery (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 ThC10.1
Cardiovascular Risk and Status Assessment ................................................................................................... 2872-2876
Paredes, Simão* (Inst. Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra); Rocha, Teresa (Inst Superior de Eng de Coimbra);
de Carvalho, Paulo (Univ. of Coimbra); Henriques, Jorge (Univ. of Coimbra); Harris, Matthew (Philips
Research); Morais, João (Hospital de Santo André, Leiria)

14:45-15:00 ThC10.2
Effect of ECG Quality Measures on Piecewise-Linear Trend Detection for
Telehealth Decision Support Systems ............................................................................................................... 2877-2880
Xie, Yang* (The Univ. of New South Wales); Redmond, Stephen James (Univ. of New South Wales);
Basilakis, Jim (Univ. of NSW); Lovell, Nigel H (Univ. of New South Wales)

15:00-15:15 ThC10.3
E-Health towards Ecumenical Framework for Personalized Medicine Via Decision Support System ....... 2881-2885
Kouris, Ioannis (School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Natl. Technical Univ. of Athens);
Tsirmpas, Charalampos (School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Natl. Technical Univ. of Athens);
Mougiakakou, Stavroula (Univ. of Bern); Iliopoulou, Dimitra (Natl. Technical Univ. of Athens);
Koutsouris, Dimitrios* (Natl. Technical Univ. of Athens (NTUA)

15:15-15:30 ThC10.4
Discovery and Use of Efficient Biomarkers for Objective Disease State Assessment in
Alzheimer’s Disease ............................................................................................................................................ 2886-2889
van Gils, Mark* (VTT Tech Research Centre of Finland); Koikkalainen, Juha (VTT Technical Research Centre
of Finland); Mattila, Jussi Jaakko Olavi (VTT); Herukka, Sanna-Kaisa (Univ. of Eastern Finland);
Lötjönen, Jyrki (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland); Soininen, Hilkka (Kuopio Univ. Hospital)

15:30-15:45 ThC10.5
An Intelligent System for Classification of Patients Suffering from Chronic Diseases ............................... 2890-2893
Bellos, Christos (FORTH BRI Foundation for Research & Tech. – Hellas, Biomedical Research);
Papadopoulos, Athanasios* (Foundation for Research & Tech. – Hellas, Biomedical Research, Ioannina
Greece); Fotiadis, Dimitrios I. (Univ. of Ioannina); Rosso, Roberto (Tesan S.p.A.)
15:45-16:00 ThC10.6
Decision-Making System for Orthodontic Treatment Planning Based on
Direct Implementation of Expertise Knowledge ............................................................................................... 2894-2897
Yagi, Masakazu* (Osaka Univ.); Ohno, Hiroko (Osaka Univ.); Takada, Kenji (Osaka Univ.)

ThC11: 14:30-16:00 Poncho

6.5.1 Brain Functional Imaging I (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 ThC11.1
Influence of Source Separation and Montage on Ictal Source Localization .................................................. 2898-2901
Koessler, Laurent* (Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy (CRAN), Nancy-Univ., CNRS & Centre
Hospitalier Univ. de Nancy, Servic); Salido-Ruiz, Ricardo (CRAN, Nancy Univ.); Ranta, Radu (Nancy-Univ.);
Louis-Dorr, Valerie (Nancy-Univ.); Gavaret, Martine (Laboratoire de Neurophysiologie et Neuropsychologie,
Aix Marseille Univ. , INSERM); Maillard, Louis (Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy (CRAN),
Nancy-Univ., CNRS & Centre Hospitalier Univ. de Nancy, Servic)

14:45-15:00 ThC11.2
Neuropolitics: EEG Spectral Maps Related to a Political Vote Based on the
First Impression of the Candidate’s Face .......................................................................................................... 2902-2905
Vecchiato, Giovanni (Univ. of Rome Sapienza); Astolfi, Laura (Univ. of Rome); Babiloni, Fabio* (Univ. of Rome)

15:00-15:15 ThC11.3
Three-Fold Cross-Validation of Parkinsonian Brain Patterns ......................................................................... 2906-2909
Spetsieris, Phoebe* (Center for Neurosciences, Feinstein Inst. for Medical Research); Dhawan, Vijay (Center
for Neurosciences, Feinstein Inst. for MedicalResearch); Eidelberg, David (Center for Neurosciences,
Feinstein Inst. for Medical Research)

15:15-15:30 ThC11.4
A Kullback-Leibler Methodology for HRF Estimation in Fmri Data ................................................................ 2910-2913
Seghouane, Abd-krim* (Natl. ICT Australia)

15:30-15:45 ThC11.5
Estimation of Dynamic Neural Activity Using a Kalman Filter Approach Based on Physiological Models .. 2914-2917
Giraldo, Eduardo* (Univ. Tecnologica de Pereira); den Dekker, Arnold J. (Delft Univ. of Tech.);
Castellanos-Dominguez, Germán (Univ. Nacional de Colombia)

15:45-16:00 ThC11.6
Hemodynamic Correlates of Visuomotor Motor Adaptation by Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy .. 2918-2921
Gentili, Rodolphe* (Univ. of Maryland); Hadavi, Cyrus (Univ. of Maryland); Ayaz, Hasan (Drexel Univ.);
Shewokis, Patricia A (Drexel Univ.); Contreras-Vidal, José (Univ. of Maryland)

ThC12: 14:30-16:00 Rio de Plata

6.4.1 Neural Stimulation Technology (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 ThC12.1
Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulator with Controllable Pulse Parameters (cTMS) ......................... 2922-2926
Peterchev, Angel V* (Columbia Univ.); Murphy, David (Columbia Univ.); Lisanby, Sarah (Columbia Univ. /
New York State Psychiatric Inst.)

14:45-15:00 ThC12.2
Towards a Switched-Capacitor Based Stimulator for Efficient Deep-Brain Stimulation .............................. 2927-2930
Vidal, Jose (Georgia Inst. of Tech.); Ghovanloo, Maysam* (Georgia Inst. of Tech.)

15:00-15:15 ThC12.3
An Architecture for a Universal Neural Stimulator with Almost Arbitrary Current Waveform .................... 2931-2934
Noorsal, Emilia* (Ulm Univ.); Ortmanns, Maurits (Univ. of Ulm)

15:15-15:30 ThC12.4
A Neurophotonic Device for Stimulation and Recording of Neural Microcircuits ........................................ 2935-2938
Wang, Jing (Brown Univ.); Borton, David (Brown Univ.); Zhang, Jiayi (Brown Univ.); Burwell, Rebecca (Brown
Univ.); Nurmikko, Arto* (Brown Univ.)
15:30-15:45 ThC12.5
VLSI Implementation of a Template Subtraction Algorithm for Real-Time Stimulus Artifact Rejection ..... 2939-2942
Limnuson, Kanokwan (Case Western Reserve Univ.); Lu, Hui (Case Western Reserve Univ.);
Chiel, Hillel (Case Western Reserve Univ.); Mohseni, Pedram* (Case Western Reserve Univ.)

15:45-16:00 ThC12.6
Using Reciprocal Derivative Chronopotentiometry As a Technique to Determine Safe Charge
Injection Limits of Electrodes Used for Neural Stimulation ............................................................................ 2943-2946
Musa, Silke* (IMEC); Prodanov, Dimiter (IMEC); Loo, Josine (IMEC); Eberle, Wolfgang (imec);
Bartic, Carmen (IMEC); Nuttin, Bart (KU Leuven); Borghs, Gustaaf (IMEC)

ThC13: 14:30-16:00 Gomez Losada

11.2.1 Education (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 ThC13.1
Pedagogical Issues for Effective Teaching of Biosignal Processing and Analysis ..................................... 2947-2950
Sandham, William* (Scotsig); Hamilton, David (Univ. of Strathclyde)

14:45-15:00 ThC13.2
Learning by Gaming – Evaluation of an Online Game for Children ................................................................ 2951-2954
Lazareck, Lisa Joanna* (City Univ. London (UK)); Farrell, David (City Univ. London); Kostkova, Patty (CeRC,
City Univ. London); Lecky, Donna (Health Protection Agency, UK); McNulty, Cliodna (Health Protection Agency,
UK); Weerasinghe, Dasun (City Univ. London)

15:00-15:15 ThC13.3
Collaboration for Cooperative Work Experience Programs in Biomedical Engineering Education ........... 2955-2958
Krishnan, Shankar Muthu* (Wentworth Inst. of Tech.)

15:15-15:30 ThC13.4
Challenges of the Biomedical Engineering Education in Europe ................................................................... 2959-2962
Magjarevic, Ratko* (Univ. of Zagreb)

15:30-15:45 ThC13.5
Assessment of Moral Judgment of BME and Other Health Sciences Students ............................................ 2963-2966
Monzon, Jorge E.* (Univ. Nacional del Nordeste); Ariasgago, Olga Leonor (Univ. Nacional del Nordeste);
Monzon-Wyngaard, Alvaro (Univ. Nacional del Nordeste)

15:45-16:00 ThC13.6
Updating the Biomedical Engineering Curriculum: Inclusion of Health Technology Assessment Subjects .. 2967-2970
Martinez-Licona, Fabiola (Univ. Autonoma Metropolitana); Urbina-Medal, E. Gerardo (Univ. Autonoma
Metropolitana); Azpiroz-leehan, Joaquin* (Univ. Autonoma Metropolitana)

ThDPo01: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

11.1.2 Design and Intellectual Property (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo01.1
Design and Construction of a Real Simulator for Calibrating Lung Servo-Ventilators ................................ 2971-2974
Avendano, Guillermo* (Univ. of Valparaiso, Fac. De Ciencias, Ing. Biomedica); Toncio, Felipe Alejandro (Univ. de
Valparaíso, Facultad de Ciencias); Fuentes, Pablo Esteban (Univ. of Valparaiso, Fac. de Ciencias, Ing. Biomedica)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo01.2
Headset Bluetooth and Cell Phone Based Continuous Central Body Temperature Measurement System .... 2975-2978
Sanches, J. Miguel* (Inst. for Systems & Robotics, NIF); Pereira, Bruno (Inst. Superior Técnico);
Paiva, Teresa (Inst. Superior Técnico)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo01.3
Patents on Diagnostic Methods in Europe under the European Patent Convention (EPC) ......................... 2979-2981
Barba, Michelangelo* (European Patent Office)
ThDPo02: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn
9.2.3 Rehabilitation and Prosthetic Devices Poster (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo02.1
Performance of Insole in Reducing Plantar Pressure on Diabetic Patients in the
Early Stages of the Disease ................................................................................................................................ 2982-2985
Zequera Diaz, Martha Lucia* (Pontificia Univ. Javeriana); Solomonidis, Stephanos (Bioengineering
Unit Strathclyde Univ.)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo02.2
Dynamic Modeling and Experimental Results for a Head Tilt Response ....................................................... 2986-2989
Geisinger, Dario* (Laboratory of Otoneurology); Ferreira, Enrique D. (Univ. Catolica del Uruguay);
Suarez, Alejo (Laboratory of Otoneurology); Suarez, Hamlet (Laboratory of Otoneurology)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo02.3
Active Metabolic Weight Estimation Using Bioimpedance, Indirect
Calorimetry and the Clino-Ortho Maneuver ...................................................................................................... 2990-2992
Cadena, Miguel* (Univ. Autonoma Metropolitana); Azpiroz-leehan, Joaquin (Univ. Autonoma Metropolitana)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo02.4
An Evaluation of Passive Mechanical Properties of Spastic Muscles in Hemiparetic Stroke Survivors ... 2993-2996
Chardon, Matthieu* (Rehab. Inst. of Chicago); Suresh, Nina (Rehab. Inst. of Chicago);
Rymer, William Zev (Northwest. & Rehab Inst of Chicago)

ThDPo03: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

2.3.3 Optical Imaging I (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo03.1
Global Solution of the Finite Element Shape-From-Shading Model with a
Bioluminescent Molecular Imaging Application ............................................................................................... 2997-3000
Zhong, Jianghong (Inst. of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Tian, Jie* (Chinese Academy of Sciences);
Yang, Xin (Inst. of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Qin, Chenghu (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo03.2
Multimodal Multidimensional Imaging for Visual System Status Assessment ............................................. 3001-3004
Sliesoraityte, Ieva* (Univ. of Tuebingen)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo03.3
Anomalous Diffusion of Kv2.1 Channels Observed by Single Molecule Tracking in Live Cells ................. 3005-3008
Weigel, Aubrey (Colorado State Univ.); Tamkun, Michael (Colorado State Univ.);
Krapf, Diego* (Colorado State Univ.)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo03.4
An Efficient Global Inexact Newton Method Regularized by a Dynamic Sparse Term for
in Vivo Tomographic Bioluminescence Imaging .............................................................................................. 3009-3012
Liu, Kai (Inst. of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Tian, Jie* (Chinese Academy of Sciences);
Yang, Xin (Inst. of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Qin, Chenghu (Chinese Academy of Sciences);
Zhu, Shouping (Inst. of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Han, Dong (Inst. of Automation,Chinese
Academy of Sciences,Beijing, China); Ma, Xibo (Inst. of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo03.5
Automatic Detection of Schwalbe’s Line in the Anterior Chamber Angle of the
Eye Using HD-OCT Images ................................................................................................................................. 3013-3016
Tian, Jing* (Nanyang Technological Univ.); Marziliano, Pina (Nanyang Technological Univ.);
Wong, Hon-Tym (Tan Tock Seng Hospital)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo03.6
Time-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography System with Integrated Delay Line for
Surgical Guidance Applications ......................................................................................................................... 3017-3020
Geljon, Max* (Delft Univ. of Tech.); Margallo-Balbás, Eduardo (TU Delft); Pandraud, Gregory (TU Delft);
Wicaksono, Dedy (Delft Univ. of Tech.); French, Patrick J. (TU Delft)
16:00-17:30 ThDPo03.7
Terahertz Sensing of Corneal Hydration ........................................................................................................... 3021-3024
Singh, Rahul* (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara); Tewari, Priyamvada (UCLA); Bourges, Jean Louis (Paris
Descartes Univ., APHP, Hotel-Dieu Hospital, Paris); Hubschman, Jean Pierre (UCLA); Bennett, David (UCLA);
Taylor, Zachary (UCLA); Lee, Hua (UCSB); Brown, Elliott (Wright State); Grundfest, Warren S. (UCLA);
Culjat, Martin O. (UCLA)

ThDPo04: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

2.3.4 Optical Imaging II (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo04.1
Early Detection of Disease-Oriented State from Hyperspectral Tongue Images with Principal
Component Analysis and Vector Rotation ........................................................................................................ 3025-3028
Yamamoto, Satoshi* (Chiba Univ.); Tsumura, Norimichi (Chiba Univ.); Ogawa-Ochiai, Keiko (Chiba Univ.
Hospital); Nakaguchi, Toshiya (Chiba Univ.); Kasahara, Yuji (Chiba Univ.); Miyake, Yoichi (CFME, Chiba Univ.);
Namiki, Takao (Chiba Univ.)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo04.2
Comparative Analysis of Various Brain Imaging Techniques ......................................................................... 3029-3032
Agnihotri, Prashant (Univ. of North Dakota); Fazel-Rezai, Reza* (Univ. of North Dakota);
Kaabouch, Naima (Univ. of North Dakota)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo04.3
An Optical-Parameters-Free Method for Locating Light Source in Deep Tissue .......................................... 3033-3036
Quan, Qinghua (Shenzhen Inst. of Advanced Tech.); zheng, zhen* (IBHE, Siat); Wang, Lei (Shenzhen Inst. of
Advanced Tech. Chinese Academyof Sciences, Shenzhen, China)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo04.4
Corneal Graft Detection for Descemet’s Stripping Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty
Using Optical Coherence Tomography ............................................................................................................. 3037-3040
Lee, Beng Hai* (Inst. for Infocomm Research); Liu, Jiang (Inst for Infocomm Resrch, A STAR); Tan, Zehao
(Inst. for Infocomm Research); Heng, Eugene (Natl. Univ. of Singapore); Cheng, Jun (Inst. for Infocomm
Research, Agency for Science, Tech. & Research); Tan, Ngan Meng (A*STAR, Inst. for Infocomm Research);
Wong, Damon (Inst. for Infocomm Research); Trucco, Emanuele (Univ. of Dundee); Mehta, Jodhbir (Singapore
Eye Research Inst.); Wong, Tien Yin (Natl. Univ. of Singapore)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo04.5
Evaluation of Autofocus Functions of Conventional Sputum Smear Microscopy for Tuberculosis .......... 3041-3044
Kimura Junior, Almir (Federal Univ. of Amazonas); Costa, Marly G. F. (Federal Univ. of Amazonas – UFAM);
Costa Filho, Cicero F. F.* (Fundacao de Apoio Inst Rio Solimoes); Fujimoto, Luciana (Inst. Nacional de
Pesquisas da Amazonia)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo04.6
Towards a Versatile Automated Cell-Detection System for Science and Diagnostics ................................. 3045-3048
Heindl, Andreas (Medical Univ. of Vienna); Dekan, Sabine (Medical Univ. of Vienna);
Ellinger, Isabella* (Medical Univ. of Vienna); Seewald, Alexander (Seewald Solutions)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo04.7
In Vivo Imaging of Retinal Gliosis: A Platform for Diagnosis of PD and Screening of Anti-PD Compounds ... 3049-3052
Kumarasamy, Saravana Kumar* (Inst. of Bioengineering & NanoTech.); Ho, Gideon (Inst. of
Bioengineering & NanoTech.); Zhang, Yugen (Inst. of Bioengineering & NanoTech.);
Zhuo, Lang (Inst. of Bioengineering & NanoTech.)

ThDPo05: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

2.3.5 Bioimaging I (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo05.1
Probing Sepsis and Sepsis-Like Conditions Using Untargeted SPIO Nanoparticles ................................... 3053-3056
Wong, Richard (Cornell Univ.); Wang, Yi* (Cornell Univ.)
16:00-17:30 ThDPo05.3
New Reconstruction Method of Magnetoacoustic Tomography with Magnetic Induction .......................... 3061-3064
zhang, yang* (Electrical Engineering Inst. of Chinese AcademyofSciences); Liu, Guoqiang (Chinese Acamedy
of Sciences); Wenjing, He (Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Science)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo05.4
ORIGA-Light : An Online Retinal Fundus Image Database for Glaucoma Analysis and Research ............ 3065-3068
Zhang, Zhuo* (A*STAR); Yin, Fengshou (Inst. for Infocomm Research); Liu, Jiang (Inst for Infocomm Resrch,
A STAR); Wong, Damon (Inst. for Infocomm Research); Tan, Ngan Meng (A*STAR, Inst. for Infocomm
Research); Lee, Beng Hai (Inst. for Infocomm Research); Cheng, Jun (Inst. for Infocomm Research, Agency
for Science, Tech. & Research); Wong, Tien Yin (Natl. Univ. of Singapore)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo05.5
Content Based Medical Image Retrieval Based on BEMD: Optimization of a Similarity Metric .................. 3069-3072
jai andaloussi, said* (Telecom Bretagne); Lamard, Mathieu (Univ. de Bretagne Occidentale);
Cazuguel, Guy (Inst. Telecom/Telecom Bretagne); Tairi, Hamid (Faculty of sciences Dhar El Mahraz Fez);
Meknassi, Mohamed (Faculty of science Dhar El Mhraz Fez); Cochener, Béatrice (CHU Morvan);
Roux, Christian (TELECOM Bretagne – INSERM)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo05.6
Automatic Detection of Luminal Borders in IVUS Images by Magnitude-Phase
Histograms of Complex Brushlet Coefficients ................................................................................................. 3073-3076
Katouzian, Amin (Columbia Univ.); Angelini, Elsa (Ecole Nat. Superieure des Telecom);
Laine, Andrew* (Columbia Univ.)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo05.7
In vitro evaluation of surface based non-invasive breast cancer screening with
Digital Image based Elasto Tomography (DIET) ............................................................................................... 3077-3080
Lotz, Thomas* (Univ. of Canterbury); Simpson, Paul D (Univ. of Canterbury); Stocker, Daniel (Univ. of
Canterbury); Hann, Christopher E (Univ. of Canterbury); Chase, J. Geoffrey (Univ. of Canterbury)

ThDPo06: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

2.3.6 Bioimaging II (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo06.1
Dijkstra’s Algorithm Applied to 3d Skeletonization of the Brain Vascular Tree:
Evaluation and Application to Symbolic Description ...................................................................................... 3081-3084
Verscheure, Leslie* (INSERM U703 ; Univ Lille Nord de France; LAGIS FRE CNRS3303);
Peyrodie, Laurent (HEI); Makni, Nasr (Inserm U703, Lagis CNRS FRE 3303);
Betrouni, Nacim (INSERM); Vermandel, Maximilien (Univ. de Lille)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo06.2
Multiple Kernel Learning for Classification of Diffuse Lung Disease Using HRCT Lung Images ............... 3085-3088
Vo, Kiet Tuan* (The Univ. of New South Wales); Sowmya, Arcot (Univ. of New South Wales)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo06.3
Preliminary Monte Carlo Study of 18F-FDG SPECT Imaging with LaBr3:
Ce Crystal-Based Gamma Cameras ................................................................................................................... 3089-3092
Alzimami, Khalid* (King Saud Univ.)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo06.4
Dental Implant Examination Based on the Log-Polar Matching of the Maxillary
Radiograph Images in the Anisotropic Scale Space ........................................................................................ 3093-3096
Cyganek, Boguslaw* (AGH Univ. of Science & Tech.); Malisz, Piotr (X-R-A-Y, Krakow, Poland)
16:00-17:30 ThDPo06.5
Segmentation of Small Animal PET/CT Mouse Brain Scans Using an MRI-Based 3D
Digital Atlas: Application in a Neuroinflammation Mouse Model ................................................................... 3097-3100
Delzescaux, Thierry* (Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique); Lebenberg, Jessica (Commissariat à l’Energie
Atomique); Raguet, Hugo (Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique); Hantraye, Philippe (Commissariat à l’Energie
Atomique); Souedet, Nicolas (Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique); Grégoire, Marie-Claude (Australian Nuclear
Science & Tech. Organisation)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo06.6
Towards Respiration Management in Radiation Treatment of Lung Tumors: Transferring
Regions of Interest from Planning CT to Kilovoltage X-Ray Images .............................................................. 3101-3104
Ataer-Cansizoglu, Esra* (Northeastern Univ.); Bas, Erhan (Northeastern Univ.); Yousuf, Muhammad Ali (Univ.
of Maryland); You, Sheng (Northeastern Univ.); D’Souza, Warren (Univ. of Maryland School of Medicine);
Erdogmus, Deniz (Oregon Health & Science Univ.)

ThDPo07: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

2.5.4 Electrical Impedance Imaging Techniques I (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo07.1
MEFS – MIND Electrical Impedance Tomography Forward Solver ................................................................. 3105-3108
Yang, Fei (Univ. of Minnesota); Zhang, Jie (Medical School, Univ. of Minnesota);
Patterson, Robert P.* (Univ. of Minnesota)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo07.2
A Comparison between Compressed Sensing Algorithms in Electrical Impedance Tomography ............. 3109-3112
Nasehi Tehrani, Joubin* (The Univ. of Sydney); Jin, Craig (The Univ. of Sydney); McEwan, Alistair (The Univ. of
Sydney); van Schaik, André (The Univ. of Sydney)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo07.3
Finite Element TMS Modeling Toolbox for Realistic Simulation ..................................................................... 3113-3116
Cho, Young-Sun* (Kyung Hee Univ.); Suh, Hyun Sang (Kyung Hee Univ.); Lee, Won Hee (Columbia Univ.);
Kim, Tae-Seong (Kyung Hee Univ.)

ThDPo08: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

2.7.4 Image Segmentation I (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo08.1
Automatic Segmentation of the Spinal Cord and the Dural Sac in Lumbar MR Images
Using Gradient Vector Flow Field ...................................................................................................................... 3117-3120
Koh, Jaehan* (Univ. at Buffalo (SUNY)); Kim, Taehyong (Univ. at Buffalo, The State Univ. of New York);
Chaudhary, Vipin (Wayne State Univ.); dhillon, gurmeet (Proscan Imaging Buffalo)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo08.3
Segmenting Echocardiography Images Using B-Spline Snake and Active Ellipse Model .......................... 3125-3128
Marsousi, Mahdi (K.N. Toosi Univ. of Tech.); Alirezaie, Javad* (Ryerson Univ., Univ of Waterloo);
Ahmadian, Alireza (Tehran Univ. of Medical Sciences); Kocharian, Armen (Tehran Univ. of Medical Science)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo08.4
Vessel Network Detection Using Contour Evolution and Color Components .............................................. 3129-3132
Ushizima, Daniela* (Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Laboratory); Medeiros, Fátima N.S. (Federal Univ. of Ceara)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo08.5
Coronary Artery Segmentation Using Geometric Moments Based Tracking and Snake-Driven Refinement .. 3133-3137
Zhang, Yong* (IBM Almaden Research Center)
16:00-17:30 ThDPo08.6
Impact of Tear Location on Hemodynamics in a Type B Aortic Dissection Investigated with
Computational Fluid Dynamics .......................................................................................................................... 3138-3141
Karmonik, Christof* (The Methodist Hospital Neurological Inst); Bismuth, Jean (The Methodist Hospital
DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center); Redel, Thomas (Siemens AG Healthcare Sector); Anaya-Ayala, Javier
(The Methodist Hospital); Davies, Mark (The Methodist Hospital Heart & Vascular Center); Shah, Dipan
(The Methodist Hospital); Lumsden, Alan (The Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo08.7
Automatic Tip Selection for Microtubule Dynamics Quantification ............................................................... 3142-3145
Malavé, Mario* (Georgia Inst. of Tech.); Zhao, Xuran (Georgia Inst. of Tech.); Kong, Koon Yin (Georgia Inst. of
Tech.); Marcus, Adam I (Emory Univ.); Wang, May Dongmei (Georgia Tech & Emory Univ.)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo08.8
A Fully Automatic Algorithm for Segmentation of the Breasts in DCE-MR Images ..................................... 3146-3149
Giannini, Valentina* (Politecnico of Turin); Vignati, Anna (FPRC-IRCC); Morra, Lia (im3d S.p.A.);
Brizzi, Davide (Ospedale Evangelico Valdese, Centro di Senologia Diagnostico); Bert, Alberto (im3d S.p.A.);
Sardanelli, Francesco (Univ. di Milano, Dipartimento di scienze mediche e chirurgiche; Unità di Radiologia,
IRCCS Policlinico San Donato); Regge, Daniele (Istitute for Cancer research & Treatment)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo08.9
Brain Lesion Detection in MRI with Fuzzy and Geostatistical Models ........................................................... 3150-3153
Pham, Tuan D.* (Univ. of New South Wales)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo08.10
An Improved Cylindrical FDTD Method and Its Application to Field-Tissue Interaction Study in MRI ....... 3154-3157
Chi, Jieru (Qingdao Univ.); Liu, Feng (The Univ. of Queensland); Xia, Ling (Zhejiang Univ.); Shao, Ting Ting
(Zhejiang Univ.); Mason, David Glen* (Univ. of Queensland); Crozier, Stuart (The Univ. of Queensland)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo08.11
Pectoral Muscle Detection in Mammograms Based on the Shortest Path with Endpoints Learnt by SVMs .. 3158-3161
Domingues, Inês* (Univ. do Porto, Faculdade de Engenharia); Cardoso, Jaime S. (INESC Porto, Faculdade de
Engenharia, Univ. do Porto); Amaral, Igor (INESC Porto); Moreira, Ines (Centro de Mama – Hospital S. João,
Porto); Almeida Passarinho, Pedro Miguel (Emílio de Azevedo Campos, SA); Santa Comba, Joao (Emilio de
Azevedo Campos, SA); Cruz-Correia, Ricardo João (CINTESIS – Centre for Research in Health Technologies
& Information Systems); Cardoso, Maria João (Porto Faculty of Medicine)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo08.12
Segmentation of Airways in Lungs Using Projections in 3-D CT Angiography Images ............................... 3162-3165
Babin, Danilo* (Ghent Univ.)

ThDPo09: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

2.4.1 X-Ray Imaging Applications – Breast, Lung,
Abdominal, Dental, Thoracic (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo09.1
Classification of Clusters of Microcalcifications in Digital Breast Tomosynthesis ...................................... 3166-3169
Ho, Pui Shan (Candy)* (Univ. of Oxford); Brady, Michael (Univ. of Oxford); Schnabel, Julia (Univ. of Oxford);
Tromans, Christopher (Univ. of Oxford)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo09.2
Automatic Colon Polyp Flagging Via Geometric and Texture Features ......................................................... 3170-3173
Fiori, Marcelo* (Univ. de la República – Uruguay); Musé, Pablo (Univ. de la República);
Aguirre, Sergio (Echopixel); Sapiro, Guillermo (Univ. of Minnesota)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo09.3
Analysis of Image Quality Parameter of Conventional and Dental Radiographic Digital Images ............... 3174-3177
Mayo, Patricia (Univ. Politecnica de Valencia); Rodenas, Francisco (Univ. Politecnica de Valencia);
Verdu, Gumersindo (Polytechnic Univ. of Valencia); Campayo, Juan Manuel (Hospital Clínic de València);
Gallardo, Sergio* (Univ. Politecnica de Valencia)
16:00-17:30 ThDPo09.4
Anisotropic Diffusion Tensor Applied to Temporal Mammograms: An Application to
Breast Cancer Risk Assessment ........................................................................................................................ 3178-3181
Karemore, Gopal* (Univ. of Copenhagen); Brandt, Sami (Nordic Bioscience A/S);
Nielsen, Mads (Univ. of Copenhagen, Denmark)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo09.5
Application of Fractal Analysis to Mammography ........................................................................................... 3182-3185
Raguso, Grazia (Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Bari); Ancona, Antonietta (“San Paolo” Hospital of Bari);
Chieppa, Loredana (Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Bari); L’Abbate, Samuela* (Univ. of Bari, Italy);
Pepe, Maria Luisa (Dept. of Radiology, Univ. Hospital – Policlinico of Bari); Mangieri, Fabio (“San Paolo”
Hospital of Bari); De Palo, Miriam (Dept. of Mathematics of Bari); Rangayyan, Raj (Univ. of Calgary)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo09.6
A Model-Based Reconstruction Method for 3-D Rotational Coronary Angiography .................................... 3186-3189
Xie, Lizhe (Southeast Univ.); Hu, Yining* (Southeast Univ.); Nunes, Jean Claude (Univ. de Rennes);
Bellanger, Jean-Jacques (LTSI-INSERM U642); Luo, Limin (Univ. of Southeast);
Toumoulin, Christine (Univ. de Rennes I)

ThDPo10: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

8.2.1 Biomemitic Robotics (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo10.1
Insertion Experiments of a Biologically Inspired Microtextured and Multi-Part Probe
Based on Reciprocal Motion ............................................................................................................................... 3190-3193
Parittotokkaporn, Tassanai* (Imperial College London); Frasson, Luca (Imperial College London);
Schneider, Andreas (STFC – Rutherford Appleton Laboratory); Davies, Brian (Imperial College London);
Degenaar, Patrick (Imperial College London); Rodriguez y Baena, Ferdinando (Imperial College London)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo10.2
Incremental Learning Control of the DLR-HIT-Hand II During Interaction Tasks .......................................... 3194-3197
Alessio, Alessi (Univ. Campus Bio-Medico di Roma); De Falco, Rosanna (Univ. Campus Bio-Medico of Rome);
Zollo, Loredana* (Campus Bio-Medico Univ.); Lonini, Luca (Frankfurt Inst. for Advanced Studies, Goethe Univ.);
Guglielmelli, Eugenio (Campus Bio-Medico Univ.)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo10.3
Detailed Finite Element Simulations of Probe Insertion into Solid Elastic Material Using a Cohesive
Zone Approach ..................................................................................................................................................... 3198-3201
Oldfield, Matthew* (Imperial College London); Dini, Daniele (Imperial College London);
Rodriguez y Baena, Ferdinando (Imperial College London)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo10.4
Development and Validation of a Numerical Model for Cross-Section Optimization of a
Multi-Part Probe for Soft Tissue Intervention ................................................................................................... 3202-3205
Frasson, Luca* (Imperial College London); Neubert, Julius (RWTH Aachen Univ.); Reina, Saverio (Imperial
College London); Oldfield, Matthew (Imperial College London); Davies, Brian (Imperial College London);
Rodriguez y Baena, Ferdinando (Imperial College London)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo10.5
Anticipatory Visual Perception As a Bio-Inspired Mechanism Underlying Robot Locomotion .................. 3206-3209
Barrera, Alejandra* (Mexico’s Autonomous Inst. of Tech.); Laschi, Cecilia (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo10.6
A Portable Device to Represent Different Views to Both Eyes ....................................................................... 3210-3213
Mizuno, Fumio* (Tohoku Inst. of Tech.); Hayasaka, Tomoaki (Tohoku Univ.); Yamaguchi, Takami (Tohoku Univ.)
ThDPo12: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn
9.1.3 Ablation Therapies Poster (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo12.1
Analytical Validation of COMSOL Multiphysics for Theoretical Models of Radiofrequency
Ablation Including the Hyperbolic Bioheat Transfer Equation ....................................................................... 3214-3217
López Molina, Juan A. (Univ. Politécnica de Valencia); Rivera, Maria José (Univ. Politécnica de Valencia);
Trujillo, Macarena (Univ. Politécnica de Valencia); García-Romero, Vicente (Univ. Politécnica de Valencia);
Berjano, Enrique* (Polytechnic Univ. of Valencia)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo12.2
Fluence of Thulium Laser System in Skin Ablation ......................................................................................... 3218-3221
Bilici, Temel* (Boğaziçi Univ.); Tabakoglu, Ozgur (Boğaziçi Univ.); Kalaycioglu, Hamit (Bilkent Univ.);
Kurt, Adnan (Teknofil Ltd. Şti.); Sennaroglu, Alphan (Koç Univ.); Gulsoy, Murat (Boğaziçi Univ.)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo12.3
Temperature Dependence of Thermal Conductivity of Liver Based on Various Experiments and a
Numerical Simulation for RF Ablation ............................................................................................................... 3222-3228
Watanabe, Hiroki* (Waseda Univ.); Yamazaki, Nozomu (Waseda Univ.); Kobayashi, Yo (Waseda Univ.);
Miyashita, Tomoyuki (Waseda Univ.); Hashizume, Makoto (Kyushu Univ.); Fujie, Masakatsu G. (Waseda Univ.)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo12.4
Design and Construction of a Hyperthermia System with Improved Interaction of
Magnetic Induction-Heating ................................................................................................................................ 3229-3232
Huang, Chi-Fang* (Tatung Univ.); Lin, Xi-Zhang (Natl. Cheng Kung Univ.); Lo, Wei-Hung (Tatung Univ.)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo12.5
Heating Properties of Coaxial Needle Applicator Made of SMA for Hyperthermia Treatments ................... 3233-3236
Nakane, Kazuya* (Meiji Univ.); Kato, Kazuo (Meiji Univ.); Mimoto, Naoki (Meiji Univ.); Shindo, Yasuhiro (Meiji Univ.)

ThDPo13: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

4.9.1 Modeling and Simulation of the Cell (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo13.1
Effects of Late Sodium Current Enhancement During LQT-Related Arrhythmias. A Simulation Study .... 3237-3240
Cardona, Karen (Inst. InterUniv. de Investigación enBioingeniería y Tecnología Orientada al Ser Humano);
Trenor, Beatriz* (Univ. Politécnica de Valencia (I3BH)); Rajamani, Sridharan (Gilead Sciences, Palo Alto. CA.);
Romero, Lucia (Univ. Politécnica de Valencia (I3BH)); Ferrero, José M (Univ. Politécnica de Valencia (I3BH));
Saiz, Javier (I3BH-UPV)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo13.2
Simulations of Transport Regime in Electrodeposition in Different Viscosity Scenarios ........................... 3241-3244
Gutman Grinbank, Sebastian* (Univ. de Buenos Aires); Soba, Alejandro (Univ. de Barcelona);
González, Graciela Alicia (Univ. de Buenos Aires); Díaz Constanzo, Guadalupe (Univ. de Buenos Aires);
Bogo, Horacio Alejandro (Univ. de Buenos Aires); Marshall, Guillermo (Univ. de Buenos Aires)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo13.3
Sex and Age Related Differences in Drug Induced QT Prolongation by Dofetilide under
Reduced Repolarization Reserve in Simulated Ventricular Cells ................................................................... 3245-3248
Gonzalez, Rodolfo* (Univ. Politecnica de Valencia); Gomis-Tena, Julio (Univ. Politecnica de Valencia);
Corrias, Alberto (Oxford Univ.); Ferrero, José M (Univ. Politécnica de Valencia (I3BH));
Rodriguez, Blanca (Oxford Univ.); Saiz, Javier (I3BH-UPV)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo13.4
Comparison of Complex Fractionated Atrial Electrograms at Cellular Scale Using
Numerical and Experimental Models ................................................................................................................. 3249-3252
Navoret, Nicolas (Le2i CNRS UMR 5158 Univ. of Burgundy); Xu, Binbin (Univ. de Bourgogne, FRANCE);
Jacquir, Sabir* (LE2I UMR CNRS 5158, Univ. de Bourgogne); Binczak, Stéphane (LE2I UMR CNRS 5158
Univ. de Bourgogne)
16:00-17:30 ThDPo13.5
Human and Rabbit Inter-Species Comparison of Ionic Mechanisms of Arrhythmic Risk:
A Simulation Study .............................................................................................................................................. 3253-3256
Romero, Lucia (Univ. Politécnica de Valencia (I3BH)); Carbonell, Beatriz (Univ. Politécnica de Valencia (I3BH));
Trenor, Beatriz (Univ. Politécnica de Valencia (I3BH)); Rodriguez, Blanca (Oxford Univ.);
Saiz, Javier (I3BH-UPV); Ferrero, José M* (Univ. Politécnica de Valencia (I3BH))

16:00-17:30 ThDPo13.6
Stochastic Modelling of Cardiac Cell Structure ................................................................................................ 3257-3260
Theakston, Elizabeth Sarah* (Univ. of Auckland); Walker, Cameron Graham (Univ. of Auckland); O’Sullivan,
Michael Justin (The Univ. of Auckland, New Zealand); Rajagopal, Vijayaraghavan (Univ. of Auckland)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo13.7
From in Vitro to in Silico and Back Again: Using Biological and Mathematical Synergy to
Decipher Breast Cancer Cell Motility ................................................................................................................. 3261-3264
Rosenthal, Devin* (Univ. of Michigan); Iyer, Harish (Univ. of Michigan); Escudero, Silvia (Univ. of Michigan);
Ventura, Alejandra (Univ. of Michigan); Arruda, Ellen (Univ. of Michigan); Garikipati, Krishna (Univ. of Michigan);
Merajver, Sofia (Univ. of Michigan)

ThDPo14: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

1.4.11 EEG I (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo14.1
Moving Dipoles Method Detects Displacement in N2 and P3 Generation in
Diffuse Axonal Injury Patients ............................................................................................................................ 3265-3268
Molteni, Erika* (Politecnico di Milano); Gatti, Eleonora (Politecnico di Milano – Dipartimento di Bioingegneria);
Bianchi, Anna Maria (Politecnico di Milano); Cerutti, Sergio (Politecnico di Milano)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo14.2
Seizure Onset Detection Based on a Uni or Multi-Modal Intelligent Seizure
Acquisition (UISA/MISA) System ........................................................................................................................ 3269-3272
Conradsen, Isa* (Technical Univ. of Denmark); Beniczky, Sandor (Danish Epilepsy Centre);
Wolf, Peter (Danish Epilepsy Centre); Henriksen, Jonas (Technical Univ. of Denmark);
Sams, Thomas (Technical Univ. of Denmark); Sorensen, Helge (Technical Univ. of Denmark)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo14.3
Automatic Sleep Staging Based on Ballistocardiographic Signals Recorded through Bed Sensors ........ 3273-3276
Migliorini, Matteo* (Politecnico di Milano); Bianchi, Anna Maria (Politecnico di Milano); Nisticò, Domenico
(Politecnico di Milano); Kortelainen, Juha Matti (VTT); Arce-Santana, Edgar (Facultad de Ciencias);
Cerutti, Sergio (Politecnico di Milano); Mendez, Martin Oswaldo (Univ. Autonoma de San Luis Potosi)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo14.4
Automatic Epileptic Seizure Onset Detection Using Matching Pursuit: A Case Study ................................ 3277-3280
Sorensen, Thomas L.* (Technical Univ. of Denmark); Olsen, Ulrich L. (Technical Univ. of Denmark);
Conradsen, Isa (Technical Univ. of Denmark); Henriksen, Jonas (Technical Univ. of Denmark);
Kjaer, Troels Wesenberg (RigsHospitalet); Thomsen, Carsten Eckhart (Univ. of Copenhagen);
Sorensen, Helge (Technical Univ. of Denmark)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo14.5
Speech Recognition Features for EEG Signal Description in Detection of Neonatal Seizures ................... 3281-3284
Temko, Andriy* (Univ. College Cork); Marnane, Liam (Univ. College Cork); Lightbody, Gordon (Univ. College
Cork); Boylan, Geraldine (Univ. College Cork)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo14.6
Feature Subset Selection for Age-Related Changes in EEG and EMG During Motor Tasks ....................... 3285-3288
Johnson, Ashley* (Georgia Inst. of Tech.); Vachtsevanos, George (Georgia Inst. of Tech.);
Shinohara, Minoru (Georgia Inst. of Tech.)
16:00-17:30 ThDPo14.7
Genetic Feature Selection to Optimally Detect P300 in Brain Computer Interfaces ..................................... 3289-3292
Atum, Yanina (Univ. Nacional de Entre Ríos); Gareis, Iván Emilio* (Univ. Nacional de Entre Ríos);
Gentiletti, Gerardo Gabriel (Univ. Nacional de Entre Rios); Acevedo, Rubén Carlos (Univ. Nacional
de Entre Ríos); Rufiner, Hugo Leonardo (Univ. Nacional de Entre Ríos)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo14.8
An Information Transmission Measure for the Analysis of Effective Connectivity among Cortical Neurons .. 3293-3296
Law, Andrew* (Univ. of Rochester); Sharma, Gaurav (Univ. of Rochester); Schieber, Marc (Univ. of Rochester)

16:00-17:30 ThDPo14.10
Fuzzy Rule-Based Seizure Prediction Based on Correlation Dimension Changes in Intracranial EEG ..... 3301-3304
Rabbi, Ahmed Fazle (Univ. of North Dakota); Aarabi, Ardalan (Univ. of Manitoba);
Fazel-Rezai, Reza* (Univ. of North Dakota)

ThE02: 17:30-19:00 Libertador B

2.1.3 Parallel MRI (Oral Session)

17:30-17:45 ThE02.1
GPU Accelerated FDTD Solver and Its Application in MRI .............................................................................. 3305-3308
Chi, Jieru (Qingdao Univ.); Liu, Feng (The Univ. of Queensland); Jin, Jin (Univ. of Queensland, Australia);
Mason, David Glen* (Univ. of Queensland); Crozier, Stuart (The Univ. of Queensland)

17:45-18:00 ThE02.2
Phase Unwrapping Using Region-Based Markov Random Field Model ........................................................ 3309-3312
Dong, Ying (Texas A&M Univ.); Ji, Jim Xiuquan* (Texas A&M Univ.)

18:00-18:15 ThE02.3
Coil Reduction in Parallel Excitation with Large Array .................................................................................... 3313-3316
Feng, Shuo (Texas A&M Univ.); Ji, Jim Xiuquan* (Texas A&M Univ.)

18:15-18:30 ThE02.4
DWI Acquisition Schemes and Diffusion Tensor Estimation: A Simulation-Based Study ........................... 3317-3320
Aja-Fernandez, Santiago* (Univ. de Valladolid); Tristan-Vega, Antonio (Univ. de Valladolid);
Casaseca-de-la-Higuera, Pablo (Univ. de Valladolid)

18:30-18:45 ThE02.5
High-Performance 3D Compressive Sensing MRI Reconstruction ................................................................ 3321-3324
Kim, Daehyun* (Intel Corp.); Trzasko, Joshua (Mayo Clinic); Smelyanskiy, Mikhail (Intel Corp.);
Haider, Clifton (Mayo Clinic); Manduca, Armando (Mayo Clinic); Dubey, Pradeep (Intel Corp.)

18:45-19:00 ThE02.6
Cross-Sampled GRAPPA for Parallel MRI ......................................................................................................... 3325-3328
Wang, Haifeng (Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee); Liang, Dong (Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee); King, Kevin (GE
Healthcare); Nagarsekar, Gajanan (Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee); Ying, Leslie* (Univ. of Wisconsin)

ThE03: 17:30-19:00 Libertador C

6.4.4 Brain-Computer/Machine Interface II (Oral Session)

17:30-17:45 ThE03.1
Cognitively Driven Brain Machine Control Using Neural Signals in the Parietal Reach Region ................. 3329-3332
Hwang, Eun Jung* (California Inst. of Tech.); Anderson, Richard A. (Caltech)

17:45-18:00 ThE03.2
Incremental SSVEP Analysis for BCI Implementation ..................................................................................... 3333-3336
Müller, Sandra Mara Torres* (Federal Univ. of Espirito Santo); Bastos, Teodiano (Univ. Federal do Espírito
Santo); Sarcinelli-Filho, Mario (Federal Univ. of Espirito Santo)
18:00-18:15 ThE03.3
BCI-Mediated FES Suppression of Pathological Tremor ................................................................................. 3337-3340
Rocon, Eduardo (CSIC); Gallego, Juan Alvaro* (Bioengineering Group, Consejo Superior de
Investigaciones Científicas CSIC); Pons, Jose Luis (Inst. de Automática Industrial- Consejo
Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)

18:15-18:30 ThE03.4
Online Performance Evaluation of Motor Imagery BCI with Augmented-Reality Virtual Hand Feedback ..... 3341-3344
Chin, Zheng Yang* (Inst. for Infocomm Research); Ang, Kai Keng (Inst. for Infocomm Research);
Wang, Chuanchu (Inst. for Infocomm Research); Guan, Cuntai (Inst. for Infocomm Research)

18:45-19:00 ThE03.6
Motor Imagery Task Discrimination Using Wide-Band Frequency Spectra with Slepian Tapers ............... 3349-3352
Kamrunnahar, Mst (Kamrun)* (The Pennsylvania State Univ.); Geronimo, Andrew (The Pennsylvania
State Univ.); Schiff, Steven (Pennsylvania State Univ.)

ThE04: 17:30-19:00 Retiro A

9.2.2 Rehabilitation and Prosthetic Devices (Oral Session)

17:30-17:45 ThE04.1
Characterization of Gait Abnormalities in Parkinson’s Disease Using a Wireless Inertial Sensor System ... 3353-3356
Tien, Iris* (Univ. of California, Berkeley); Glaser, Steven (Univ. of California, Berkeley);
Aminoff, Michael (Univ. of California, San Francisco)

17:45-18:00 ThE04.2
Using Rapid Prototyping Molds to Create Patient Specific Polymethylmethacrylate
Implants in Cranioplasty ..................................................................................................................................... 3357-3360
Gerber, Nicolas* (Univ. of Bern); Stieglitz, Lennart (Neuro Surgery Dept., Inselspital Bern);
Peterhans, Matthias (Univ. of Bern); Nolte, Lutz-Peter (Univ. of Bern); Raabe, Andreas (Neuro
Surgery Dept., Inselspital Bern); Weber, Stefan (Univ. of Bern)

18:00-18:15 ThE04.3
Inductive Tongue Control of Powered Wheelchairs ......................................................................................... 3361-3364
Lund, Morten Enemark* (Aalborg Univ.); Caltenco, Hector Alejandro (Aalborg Univ.); Johansen, Daniel (Aalborg
Univ.); Lontis, Eugen Romulus (TKS A/S); Andreasen Struijk, Lotte N. S. (Aalborg Univ.); Bentsen, Bo (Center
for Sensory Motor Interaction, Aalborg Univ.); Christensen, Henrik Vie (CISS, Aalborg Univ.)

18:15-18:30 ThE04.4
Clinical Evaluation of Wireless Inductive Tongue Computer Interface for Control of
Computers and Assistive Devices ..................................................................................................................... 3365-3368
Lontis, Eugen Romulus* (TKS A/S); Lund, Morten Enemark (Aalborg Univ.); Christensen, Henrik Vie (CISS,
Aalborg Univ.); Bentsen, Bo (Center for Sensory Motor Interaction, Aalborg Univ.); Gaihede, Michael (Aalborg
Hospital, Dept. of Otorhinolaryngology & Head & Neck Surgery); Caltenco, Hector Alejandro (Aalborg Univ.);
Andreasen Struijk, Lotte N. S. (Aalborg Univ.)

18:30-18:45 ThE04.5
Evaluation of a Mobile Electrode for Electrical Stimulation of the Perineal Muscle ..................................... 3369-3372
da Silveira Bianchi Perez, Fabiana* (Univ. de Brasilia); Barbosa da Cruz, Cleyciany (Faculdade Padrao);
Araujo Soares, Fabiano (Univ. of Brasília – UnB); Carvalho, Joao Luiz Azevedo de (Univ. of Brasília);
da Rocha, Adson F. (Univ. of Brasilia)

18:45-19:00 ThE04.6
Evaluation Method for the Proficiency Level of an Operating Myoelectric Hand using EMG Signals ........ 3373-3376
Kita, Kahori* (ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories); Kato, Ryu (The Univ. of Tokyo);
Yokoi, Hiroshi (Univ. of Tokyo)
ThE05: 17:30-19:00 Retiro B
6.5.3 Optical Techniques for Imaging and Perturbing Neural Activity in Vivo (Mini Symposium)

17:30-17:45 ThE05.1
Optical Tools to Produce and Study Small Strokes in Animal Models .......................................................... 3377-3378
Schaffer, Chris* (Cornell Univ.)

17:45-18:00 ThE05.2
Imaging Optically Induced Neural Activity in the Brain ................................................................................... 3379-3381
Mahadevan-Jansen, Anita* (Vanderbilt Univ.)

ThE06: 17:30-19:00 Retiro C

2.6.3 Parametric Image Reconstruction (Oral Session)

17:30-17:45 ThE06.1
Label-Free High-Resolution Imaging of Live Cells with Deconvolved
Spatial Light Interference Microscopy ............................................................................................................... 3382-3385
Haldar, Justin* (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Wang, Zhuo (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign);
Popescu, Gabriel (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Liang, Zhi-Pei (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

17:45-18:00 ThE06.2
3-D Flow Characterization and Shear Stress in a Stenosed Carotid Artery Bifurcation Model
Using Stereoscopic PIV Technique .................................................................................................................... 3386-3389
Kefayati, Sarah* (Univ. of Western Ontario); Poepping, Tamie (Univ. of Western Ontario)

18:00-18:15 ThE06.3
PSF Model-Based Reconstruction with Sparsity Constraint: Algorithm and Application to
Real-Time Cardiac MRI ........................................................................................................................................ 3390-3393
Zhao, Bo* (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Haldar, Justin (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign);
Liang, Zhi-Pei (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

18:15-18:30 ThE06.4
Denoising in Fluorescence Microscopy Using Compressed Sensing with Multiple
Reconstructions and Non-Local Merging .......................................................................................................... 3394-3397
Marim, Marcio* (Inst. Pasteur – Télécom ParisTech); Angelini, Elsa (Ecole Nat. Superieure des Telecom);
Olivo-Marin, Jean-Christophe (Inst. Pasteur)

18:30-18:45 ThE06.5
Microwave Tomography in the Context of Complex Breast Cancer Imaging ................................................ 3398-3401
Meaney, Paul (Dartmouth College); Fanning, Margaret (Dartmouth College); di Florio-Alexander, Roberta
(Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center); Kaufman, Peter (Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center);
Geimer, Shireen (Dartmouth College); Zhou, Tian* (Dartmouth College); Paulsen, Keith (Dartmouth College)

18:45-19:00 ThE06.6
Avoiding Local Optima of the Joint Entropy Prior in Limited View Tomography
Using a Multiresolution Scheme ......................................................................................................................... 3402-3405
Van de Sompel, Dominique (Univ. of Oxford); Ho, Pui Shan (Candy)* (Univ. of Oxford);
Brady, Michael (Univ. of Oxford)

ThE07: 17:30-19:00 Martin Fierro 1

8.1.1 Rehabilitation Robotics II (Oral Session)

17:30-17:45 ThE07.1
An Intention Driven Hand Functions Task Training Robotic System ............................................................. 3406-3409
Tong, Kai Yu, Raymond* (The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.); Ho, Sze Kit (The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.);
Pang, M.K. (The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.); Hu, Xiaoling (The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.); Tam, Wing
Kin (the Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.); Fung, Kai Lok (The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.); Wei, Xi-jun (The
Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.); Chen, P. N. (The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.); Chen, Mo (Zhejiang Univ.)
17:45-18:00 ThE07.2
Abnormal Adaptation in Children Affected by Cerebral Palsy to
Robot Generated Dynamic Environment ........................................................................................................... 3410-3413
Masia, Lorenzo* (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia); Frascarelli, Flaminia (Pediatric Hospital Bambino Gesù);
Morasso, Pietro (Univ. of Genova); Di Rosa, Giuseppe (Pediatric Hospital Bambino Gesù);
Petrarca, Maurizio (Pediatric Hospital Bambino Gesù); Castelli, Enrico (Pediatric Hospital Bambino Gesù);
Cappa, Paolo (Univ. La Sapienza)

18:00-18:15 ThE07.3
Design and Development of “biomechatronic Gym” for Early Detection of
Neurological Disorders in Infants ...................................................................................................................... 3414-3417
Cecchi, Francesca* (Scuola Superiore S.Anna); Serio, Stefano Marco (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna);
Del Maestro, Martina (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna); Laschi, Cecilia (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna);
Sgandurra, Giuseppina (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna); Cioni, Giovanni (Stella Maris Scientific Inst.);
Dario, Paolo (IIT Italian Inst. of Tech.)

18:15-18:30 ThE07.4
Are Cutaneous Reflexes from the Foot Preserved in Passive Walking in a DGO? ....................................... 3418-3421
Duysens, Jacques* (KU-Leuven, FABER, Belgium); Bastiaanse, Catharina Maria (Dept. of Extracorporeal
Circulation, Amphia Hospital Breda, Breda, the Netherlands); Dietz, Volker (Univ. Hospital Balgrist); Engelsman,
Bouwina (Kuleuven); Jansen, Karen (Katholieke Univ. Leuven); Jonkers, Ilse (Katholieke Univ. Leuven)

18:30-18:45 ThE07.5
Feasibility of Dynamic Entrainment with Ankle Mechanical Perturbation to Treat Locomotor Deficit ....... 3422-3425
Ahn, Jooeun* (MIT); Hogan, Neville (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.)

18:45-19:00 ThE07.6
In Vivo Measurement of Human Knee and Hip Dynamics Using MIMO System Identification .................... 3426-3429
Koopman, Bram* (Univ. of Twente); van Asseldonk, Edwin H.F. (Univ. of Twente);
van der Kooij, Herman (Univ. of Twente)

ThE08: 17:30-19:00 Martin Fierro 2

3.11.4 Towards Future Truly Wearable Medical Devices:
From Application to ASIC (Mini Symposium)

17:30-17:45 ThE08.1
An Introduction to Future Truly Wearable Medical Devices – From Application to ASIC ............................ 3430-3431
Casson, Alexander James (Imperial College London); Logesparan, Lojini* (Imperial College London);
Rodriguez-Villegas, Esther (Imperial College London)

17:45-18:00 ThE08.2
Energy Harvesting for Human Wearable and Implantable Bio-Sensors ........................................................ 3432-3436
Mitcheson, Paul* (Imperial College)

18:00-18:15 ThE08.3
Design Considerations on Ultra-Low-Power Wireless Transmitters for Wearable Medical Devices .......... 3437-3438
Manstretta, Danilo* (Univ. of Pavia)

18:15-18:30 ThE08.4
Low Power Signal Processing Electronics for Wearable Medical Devices ................................................... 3439-3440
Casson, Alexander James* (Imperial College London); Rodriguez-Villegas, Esther (Imperial College London)

18:30-18:45 ThE08.5
Wireless EEG Systems: Increasing Functionality, Decreasing Power ........................................................... 3441-3441
Penders, Julien* (imec / Holst Centre); Yazicioglu, Refet Firat (IMEC); van de Molengraft, Jef (Holst Centre);
Torfs, Tom (IMEC); Patki, Shrishail (Holst Center/IMEC-NL); Brown, Lindsay (Stichting IMEC Nederland);
Van Hoof, Chris (IMEC)
ThE09: 17:30-19:00 Ombu A
5.6.1 Cardiovascular Modeling (Oral Session)

17:30-17:45 ThE09.1
P-Wave Characteristics after Electrical External Cardioversion: Predictive Indexes of Relapse ............... 3442-3445
Censi, Federica* (Italian Natl. Inst. of Health); Calcagnini, Giovanni (Italian Natl. Inst. of Health); Triventi, Michele
(Italian Natl. Inst. of Health); Mattei, Eugenio (Italian Natl. Inst. of Health); Bartolini, Pietro (Italian Natl. Inst. of
Health); Corazza, Ivan (Univ. of Bologna); Boriani, Giuseppe (Univ. of Bologna)

17:45-18:00 ThE09.2
Development of Artificial Bionic Baroreflex System ........................................................................................ 3446-3448
Sunagawa, Kenji* (Kyushu Univ.); Sugimachi, Masaru (Natl Cardio Center Research Inst)

18:00-18:15 ThE09.3
RR-SAP Causality in Heart Transplant Recipients ........................................................................................... 3449-3452
Porta, Alberto* (Univ. degli Studi di Milano); Magagnin, Valentina (Istituto Ortopedico IRCCS Galeazzi);
Bassani, Tito (Politecnico di Milano); Tobaldini, Eleonora (Univ. degli Studi di Milano); Montano, Nicola (Univ.
degli Studi di Milano); Van de Borne, Philippe (Hôpital Erasme)

18:15-18:30 ThE09.4
Monitoring Aortic Stiffness in the Presence of Measurement Artifact Based on an Arterial Tube Model ..... 3453-3456
Xu, Da (Michigan State Univ.); Zhang, Guanqun (Michigan State Univ.); Olivier, Bari (Michigan State Univ.);
Mukkamala, Ramakrishna* (Michigan State Univ.)

18:30-18:45 ThE09.5
Assessment of Gravitational Stress on Heart Rate Variability During Maneuvers on
High Performance Jet Flights ............................................................................................................................. 3457-3459
Di Rienzo, Marco* (Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi); Castiglioni, Paolo (Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi
ONLUS); Meriggi, Paolo (Fondazione Don Gnocchi); Rizzo, Francesco (Fondazione Don C. Gnocchi ONLUS);
Cacopardo, Salvatore (Aerospace Medicine Dept. – Flight Test Center, Italian Air Force, Pratica di Mare, Rome,
Italy); Guadagno, AntonGiulio (Aerospace Medicine Dept. – Flight Test Center, Italian Air Force, Pratica di
Mare, Rome, Italy)

18:45-19:00 ThE09.6
Identification of Sources of Low Frequency Variability of Arterial Blood Pressure:
Cardiac Output Acts As a Buffer and Not As a Source .................................................................................... 3460-3462
Aletti, Federico* (Politecnico di Milano); Chen, Xiaoxiao (Michigan State Univ.); Sala-Mercado, Javier (Wayne
State Univ. School of Medicine); Hammond, Robert (Wayne State Univ. School of Medicine); O’Leary, Donal
(Wayne State Univ. School of Medicine); Cerutti, Sergio (Politecnico di Milano); Baselli, Giuseppe (Politecnico
di Milano); Mukkamala, Ramakrishna (Michigan State Univ.)

ThE10: 17:30-19:00 Ombu B

10.3.1 Image Management and Analysis Systems (Oral Session)

17:30-17:45 ThE10.1
Dcm-Ar: a Fast Flash-based Web-PACS Viewer for Displaying Large DICOM Images ................................ 3463-3466
Arguiñarena, Emanuel Julio Cesar* (Doths Engineering S.A.); Macchi, Jose Eduardo (Tsavo Group S.R.L.);
Escobar, Pedro Pablo (Univ. Nacional del Centro de la Provincia (UNICEN)); del Fresno, Mariana (PLADEMA –
Univ. Nacional del Centro de la Provincia (UNICEN)); Massa, José María (UNICEN); Santiago, Martin Alejo
(IFAS – Univ. Nacional del Centro de la Provincia (UNICEN))

17:45-18:00 ThE10.2
Grid Infrastructures for Developing Mammography CAD Systems ................................................................ 3467-3470
Ramos-Pollan, Raul* (CETA-CIEMAT); Franco Valiente, José Miguel (CETA-CIEMAT); Sevilla, Jorge (CETA-
CIEMAT); Guevara López, Miguel Angel (Univ. of Porto); Gonzalez de Posada, Naimy (INEGI); Loureiro,
Joanna (Faculty of Medicine, Univ. of Porto); Ramos, Isabel (Faculty of Medicine, Univ. of Porto)

18:00-18:15 ThE10.3
Performance Analysis of Medical Video Streaming Over Mobile WiMAX ...................................................... 3471-3474
Alinejad, Ali* (Kingston Univ.); Istepanian, Robert (Kingston Univ. London); Philip, Nada (Kingston Univ.)
18:15-18:30 ThE10.4
Regulatory Compliance Requirements for an Open Source Electronic Image Trial Management System ..... 3475-3478
Rhodes, Colin (VirtualScopics Inc.); Moore, Steve (Washington Univ. School of Medicine); Clark, Ken
(Washington Univ. School of Medicine); Maffitt, David (Washington Univ. School of Medicine); Perry, John
(Private Consultant); Handzel, Toni (VirtualScopics Inc.); Prior, Fred* (Washington Univ. School of Medicine)

18:30-18:45 ThE10.5
Low-Complexity Video Encoding Method for Wireless Image Transmission in Capsule Endoscope ........ 3479-3482
Takizawa, Kenichi* (NICT); Hamaguchi, kiyoshi (Natl. Inst. of Information & Communications Tech.)

18:45-19:00 ThE10.6
Novel Joint Source-Channel Coding for Wireless Transmission of Radiography Images .......................... 3483-3486
Watanabe, Katsuhiro (Meiji Univ.); Takizawa, Kenichi (NICT); Ikegami, Tetsushi* (Meiji Univ.)

ThE11: 17:30-19:00 Poncho

3.1.2 Bioelectric Sensing Methods (Oral Session)

17:30-17:45 ThE11.1
Microphonics in Biopotential Measurements with Capacitive Electrodes .................................................... 3487-3490
Luna-Lozano, Pablo* (Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya); Pallas-Areny, Ramon (Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya)

17:45-18:00 ThE11.2
A 64-Channel Readout ASIC for Nanowire Biosensor Array with Electrical Calibration Scheme ............... 3491-3494
Chai, Kevin T. C.* (IME); Choe, Kunil (Yale Univ., Connectict, USA); Bernal, Olivier D. (Univ. of Toulouse INP-
LOSE); Gopalakrishnan, Pradeep K. (RV-VLSI Design Center, Bangalore, India); Zhang, Guo Jun (Inst. of
Microelectronics, A*STAR (Agency for Science,Tech. & Research), Singapore); Kang, Tae goo (Inst. of
Microelectronics, A*STAR (Agency for Science, Tech. & Research), Singapore); Je, Minkyu (Inst. of
Microelectronics, Agency of Science, Tech. & Research, Singapore)

18:00-18:15 ThE11.3
Cole Parameter Estimation from Electrical Bioconductance Spectroscopy Measurements ....................... 3495-3498
Seoane, Fernando* (Univ. of Borås); Buendia, Ruben (Univ. of Alcala); Gil Pita, Roberto (Univ. of Alcala)

18:15-18:30 ThE11.4
Surface Acoustic Wave Resonators As Novel Tools for Multiparametric Blood Analysis .......................... 3499-3502
Guhr, Glen* (IFW Dresden); Brünig, Raimund (IFW Dresden); Schmidt, Hagen (IFW Dresden);
Weihnacht, Manfred (IFW Dresden); Siegert, Gabriele (Inst. for Clinical Chemistry & Laboratory Medicine);
Gehrisch, Siegmund (Inst. for Clinical Chemistry & Laboratory Medicine)

18:30-18:45 ThE11.5
Flexible PDMS -Based Dry Electrodes for Electro-Optic Acquisition of
ECG Signals in Wearable Devices ...................................................................................................................... 3503-3506
Fernandes, Mariana S.* (Univ. of Minho); Mendes, Paulo M. (Univ. of Minho); Correia, Higino (Univ. of Minho);
Ram, Rajeev J. (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.); Lee, Kevin S. (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.)

18:45-19:00 ThE11.6
High-K Dielectric Fabrication Process to Minimize Mobile Ionic Penetration ............................................... 3507-3510
Parent, David* (San Jose State Univ.); Davis, Janet (EE SJSU); Basham, Eric (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz)

ThE12: 17:30-19:00 Rio de Plata

6.2.5 EMG Processing (Oral Session)

17:30-17:45 ThE12.1
Synergy Matrices to Extract Fluid Wrist Motion Intents Via Surface Electromyography ............................. 3511-3514
Choi, Changmok (KAIST); Kim, Jung* (Korea Advanced Inst. of Science & Tech.)

17:45-18:00 ThE12.2
Myoelectric Control of a Powered Knee Prosthesis for Volitional Movement
During Non-Weight-Bearing Activities ............................................................................................................... 3515-3518
Ha, Kevin H.* (Vanderbilt Univ.); Varol, Huseyin Atakan (Vanderbilt Univ.); Goldfarb, Michael (Vanderbilt Univ.)
18:00-18:15 ThE12.3
Principal Components of Frequency Domain Electromyograms for Muscular Fatigue Analysis ............... 3519-3522
Jesus, Igor Ramathur (Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro); Mello, Roger Gomes Tavares (Naval School, Brazilian
Navy); Nadal, Jurandir* (Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro)

18:15-18:30 ThE12.4
Torque Prediction Using Stimulus Evoked EMG and Its Identification for Different
Muscle Fatigue States in SCI Subjects .............................................................................................................. 3523-3526
Zhang, Qin* (Univ. of Montpellier 2); Hayashibe, Mitsuhiro (INRIA); Papaiordanidou, Maria (Univ. of Montpellier 1,
France); Fraisse, Philippe (Univ. of Montpellier 2, France); Fattal, Charles (PROPARA); Guiraud, David (INRIA)

18:30-18:45 ThE12.5
Filterbank Spectral Estimators for the Analysis of Surface EMG Signals During Isometric Contractions .... 3527-3530
Alty, Steve (King’s College London); Georgakis, Apostolos* (King’s College London)

18:45-19:00 ThE12.6
Recognition of Forearm Muscle Activity by Continuous Classification of
Multi-Site Mechanomyogram Signals ................................................................................................................ 3531-3534
Alves, Natasha* (Univ. of Toronto); Chau, Tom (Univ. of Toronto)

ThE13: 17:30-19:00 Gomez Losada

8.6.1 Sub-Cellular, Cellular, Tissue Level Mechanics (Oral Session)

17:30-17:45 ThE13.1
BEM Simulations of Rayleigh Wave Propagation in Media with Microstructural Effects:
Application to Long Bones ................................................................................................................................. 3535-3538
Papacharalampopoulos, Alexios (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics, Univ. of Patras, Greece);
Vavva, Maria* (Dept. of Material Science & Engineering, Univ. of Ioannina, Greece); Protopappas, Vasilios C.
(Univ. of Patras); Polyzos, Demosthenes (Univ. of Patras); Fotiadis, Dimitrios I. (Univ. of Ioannina)

17:45-18:00 ThE13.2
Low-Power Circuits Design for the Wireless Force Measurement System of the Total Knee Arthroplasty .... 3539-3542
Chen, Hong* (Tsinghua Univ.); Liu, Ming (Tsinghua Univ.); Jia, Chen (Tsinghua Univ.); Zhang, Chun (Dept. of
Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, P. R. China, 100084); Wang, Zhihua (Tsinghua Univ.);
Wan, Weiyi (Imeth Tsinghua Univ.)

18:00-18:15 ThE13.3
Role of Substrate Microstructure on Osteogenic Differentiation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells ................... 3543-3545
Jabbari, Esmaiel* (Univ. of South Carolina)

18:15-18:30 ThE13.4
Fabrication and Characterization of Tough Elastomeric Fibrous Scaffolds for
Tissue Engineering Applications ....................................................................................................................... 3546-3548
Sant, Shilpa (Harvard Medical School); Khademhosseini, Ali* (Harvard-MIT)

ThE14: 17:30-19:00 Auditorium

5.1.4 The Pressure-Volume Relationship (Mini Symposium)

17:30-17:45 ThE14.1
Implantable Hemodynamic Monitors: Can Be Conductance Catheter System
Successfully Implemented? ................................................................................................................................ 3549-3552
Herrera, Myriam Cristina* (Univ Nacional de Tucumán); Olivera, Juan Manuel (Bioengineering Dept.-Facet-
Univ. Nacional de Tucuman); Gómez López, María de los Angeles (Electrical, Electronic & Computational
Engineering Dept.-FACET-Univ. Nacional de Tucumán)

17:45-18:00 ThE14.2
Physiological Significance of Pressure-Volume Relationship: A Load-Independent
Index and a Determinant of Pump Function ...................................................................................................... 3553-3553
Sugimachi, Masaru* (Natl Cardio Center Research Inst); Sunagawa, Kenji (Kyushu Univ.); Uemura, Kazunori
(Natl. Cardio. Center Research Inst); Shishido, Toshiaki (Natl. Cardiovascular Center Research Inst.)
18:00-18:15 ThE14.3
The Pressure-Volume Relationship of the Heart: Past, Present and Future ................................................. 3554-3555
Sunagawa, Kenji* (Kyushu Univ.)

18:15-18:30 ThE14.4
Accuracy Considerations in Catheter Based Estimation of Left Ventricular Volume .................................. 3556-3558
Pearce, John Anthony* (Univ. of Texas at Austin); Porterfield, John (Univ. of Texas – Austin); Larson, Erik (The
Univ. of Texas at Austin); Valvano, Jonathan (Univ. of Texas at Austin); Feldman, Marc D. (Univ. of Texas
Health Science Center at San Antonio)

Friday, 3 September 2010

FrA01: 09:15-10:45 Libertador A

1.2.2 Cardiorespiratory Signal Processing and Modeling for
Clinical Patient Monitoring: Non-Invasive Applications (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 FrA01.1
Robust Pulse Wave Velocity Estimation by Application of System Identification to
Proximal and Distal Arterial Waveforms ............................................................................................................ 3559-3562
Xu, Da (Michigan State Univ.); Ryan, Kathy (US Army Inst. of Surgical Research); Rickards, Caroline (Univ. of
Texas at San Antonio); Zhang, Guanqun (Michigan State Univ.); Convertino, Victor (U.S. Army Inst. of Surgical
Research); Mukkamala, Ramakrishna* (Michigan State Univ.)

09:30-09:45 FrA01.2
Psychophysiological Signals Associated with Affective States ..................................................................... 3563-3566
Mauri, Maurizio* (IULM Univ. of Milan); Magagnin, Valentina (Istituto Ortopedico IRCCS Galeazzi);
Cipresso, Pietro (Applied Tech. for Neuro-Psychology Lab, IstitutoAuxologico Italiano & IULM Univ. of Milan);
Mainardi, Luca (Politecnico di Milano); Brown, Emery N (MGH-Harvard Medical School-MIT);
Cerutti, Sergio (Politecnico di Milano); Villamira, Marco Alessandro (IULM Univ. of Milan);
Barbieri, Riccardo (MGH-Harvard Medical School-MIT)

09:45-10:00 FrA01.3
A Differential Autoregressive Modeling Approach within a Point Process Framework for
Non-Stationary Heartbeat Intervals Analysis .................................................................................................... 3567-3570
Chen, Zhe (Harvard Medical School/MIT); Purdon, Patrick L (Massachussetts General Hospital);
Brown, Emery N (MGH-Harvard Medical School-MIT); Barbieri, Riccardo* (MGH-Harvard Medical School-MIT)

10:00-10:15 FrA01.4
Assessing the Severity and Improving the Understanding of Sleep-Related Breathing
Disorders in Heart Failure Patients .................................................................................................................... 3571-3574
Pinna, Gian Domenico* (S. Maugeri Foundation, IRCCS); La Rovere, Maria Teresa (S. Maugeri Foundation,
IRCCS); Robbi, Elena (S. Maugeri Foundation, IRCCS); Maestri, Roberto (S. Maugeri Foundation, IRCCS)

10:15-10:30 FrA01.5
Respiration Effect on Single and Multi Lead ECG Delineation Strategies ..................................................... 3575-3578
Noriega Alemán, Maikel* (Zaragoza Univ. & CIBER-BBN); Martínez, Juan Pablo (Univ. of Zaragoza);
Laguna, Pablo (Zaragoza Univ. & CIBER-BBN); Romero Pérez, Daniel (Zaragoza Univ. & CIBER-BBN);
Almeida, Rute (CIBER de Biogenieria, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina)

10:30-10:45 FrA01.6
Time-Varying Spectral Analysis for Comparison of HRV and PPG Variability During Tilt Table Test ........ 3579-3582
Gil, Eduardo* (Zaragoza Univ. & CIBER-BBN); Orini, Michele (Univ. of Zaragoza); Bailon, Raquel (Univ. of
Zaragoza); Vergara, Jose Maria (Miguel Servet Children Hospital); Mainardi, Luca (Politecnico di Milano);
Laguna, Pablo (Zaragoza Univ. & CIBER-BBN)
FrA02: 09:15-10:45 Libertador B
5.1.5 Targeting the Arterial Wall: Hypertension, Diabetes, Atherosclerotic
Plaques, Cryografts and Endothelial Dysfunction (Mini Symposium)

09:15-09:30 FrA02.1
Non Invasive Vascular Evaluation and Subclinical Atherosclerosis: A New Perspective to
Evaluate Cardiovascular Risk ............................................................................................................................. 3583-3583
Forcada, Pedro* (Hospital Austral, Buenos Aires, Argentina)

09:30-09:45 FrA02.2
Arterial Evaluation in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus ................................................................................................ 3584-3584
Christen, Alejandra Inés* (Favaloro Foundation Univ. Hospital)

09:45-10:00 FrA02.3
Response of Human Coronary Arteries at Different Mechanical Conditions ................................................ 3585-3588
Atienza, Jose* (Technical Univ. of Madrid)

10:00-10:15 FrA02.4
The Evolution of Tissue Engineered Vascular Grafts: From Research to Clinical Practice ........................ 3589-3589
McAllister, Todd* (Cytograft Inc, USA)

10:15-10:30 FrA02.5
Post-Implant Evaluation of the Anastomotic Biomechanical Coupling between Human Native
Arteries and Arterial Cryografts Implanted in Lower-Limb Revascularization Procedures ......................... 3590-3590
Bia, Daniel* (School of Medicine, Republic Univ.)

FrA03: 09:15-10:45 Libertador C

3.11.1 Wearable Systems: From Enabling Technology to Applications (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 FrA03.1
High-Density EMG E-Textile Systems for the Control of Active Prostheses ................................................. 3591-3593
Farina, Dario* (Aalborg Univ.); Lorrain, Thomas (Aalborg Univ.); Negro, Francesco (Aalborg Univ.,
Aalborg, Denmark); Jiang, Ning (Aalborg Univ.)

09:30-09:45 FrA03.2
Fire Fighters and Rescuers Monitoring through Wearable Sensors: The ProeTEX Project ........................ 3594-3597
Magenes, Giovanni* (Univ. of Pavia); Curone, Davide (Univ. degli Studi di Pavia); Caldani, Laura (Smartex srl);
Secco, Emanuele Lindo (Eucentre)

09:45-10:00 FrA03.3
Towards a Smart Glove: Arousal Recognition Based on Textile Electrodermal Response ........................ 3598-3601
Lanata’, Antonio (Univ. of Pisa); Valenza, Gaetano (InterDept.al Research Center “E. Piaggio”, Univ. of Pisa);
Scilingo, Enzo Pasquale (Univ. of Pisa); De Rossi, Danilo* (Univ. of Pisa)

10:00-10:15 FrA03.4
PSYCHE: Personalised Monitoring Systems for Care in Mental Health ........................................................ 3602-3605
Paradiso, Rita* (Smartex srl); Bianchi, Anna Maria (Politecnico di Milano); Lau, King Tong (Dublin City Univ.);
Scilingo, Enzo Pasquale (Univ. of Pisa)

10:15-10:30 FrA03.5
Automatic Detection of Sleep Macrostructure Based on a Sensorized T-Shirt ............................................ 3606-3609
Bianchi, Anna Maria* (Politecnico di Milano); Mendez, Martin Oswaldo (Univ. Autonoma de San Luis Potosi)

FrA04: 09:15-10:45 Retiro A

2.4.3 X-Ray CT (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 FrA04.1
Improved Disparity Based Image Processing in 3D CT Subtractive Angiography ....................................... 3610-3613
Jan, Jiri* (Brno Univ. of Tech.); Malinsky, Milos (Brno Univ. of Tech.); Peter, Roman (Brno Univ. of Tech.);
Ourednicek, Petr (Philips Nederland)
09:30-09:45 FrA04.2
ECG Gated Reconstruction for 3-D Rotational Coronary Angiography ......................................................... 3614-3617
Hu, Yining* (Southeast Univ.); Xie, Lizhe (Southeast Univ.); Nunes, Jean Claude (Univ. de Rennes);
Bellanger, Jean-Jacques (LTSI-INSERM U642); Toumoulin, Christine (Univ. de Rennes I)

09:45-10:00 FrA04.3
Modeling of the Lung Nodules for Detection in LDCT Scans .......................................................................... 3618-3621
Farag, Amal (Univ. of Louisville); Elhabian, Shireen (Univ. of Louisville); Graham, James (Univ. of Louisville);
Farag, Aly A.* (Univ. of Louisville); Elshazly, Salwa (Univ. of Louisville); Falk, Robert (Jewish Hospital);
Mahdi, Hani (Ain Shams Univ.); Abdelmunim, Hossam (Ain Shams Univ.); Al-Ghaafary, Sahar (Ain Shams Univ.)

10:00-10:15 FrA04.4
Supersampling in PET. a Concept for Improvement of the Resolution of Positron Emission Tomography .. 3622-3625
Assentoft, Joergen Erik* (Aalborg Univ. Hospital); Andreasen, Arne (Inst. of Anatomy, Univ. of Aarhus,
Denmark); Thomsen, Jesper Skovhus (Univ. of Aarhus)

10:15-10:30 FrA04.5
New Reconstruction Algorithm, Distance Dependent Exact, with Reduced Statistical
Alpha Error, Dedicated to Emission Tomography with Large and Long Hole Collimator ............................ 3626-3629
Jeanguillaume, Christian* (Univ. d’Angers); Simonnet, Richard (Univ. d’Angers);
Rakotonirina, Hervé (CHU d’Angers); Loeb, Jean-Jacques (Univ. d’Angers)

10:30-10:45 FrA04.6
New Principles in Nuclear Medicine Imaging: A Full Aperture Stereoscopic Imaging Technique .............. 3630-3633
Strocovsky, Sergio Gerardo* (Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica); Otero, Dino (Univ. Tecnológica Nacional)

FrA05: 09:15-10:45 Retiro B

1.5.3 Principal Component Analysis (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 FrA05.1
A Real-Time Cardiac Surface Tracking System Using Subspace Clustering ................................................ 3634-3637
Singh, Vimal* (Univ. of Minnesota); Tewfik, Ahmed (Univ. of Minnesota);
Gowreesunker, B. Vikrham (Texas Instruments Inc.)

09:30-09:45 FrA05.2
Analysis of Intracranial Pressure Recordings: Comparison of PCA and Signal Averaging Based
Filtering Methods and Signal Period Estimation .............................................................................................. 3638-3641
Calisto, Andrea* (Univ. of Messina); Galeano, Massimiliano (Univ. of Messina); Bramanti, Alessia (Univ. of
Messina); Angileri, Flavio Filippo (Univ. of Messina); Campobello, Giuseppe (Univ. of Messina);
Serrano, Salvatore (Univ. of Messina); Azzerboni, Bruno (Univ. of Messina)

09:45-10:00 FrA05.3
Nonlinear Feature Extraction Using Kernel Principal Component Analysis with Non-Negative Pre-Image ... 3642-3645
Kallas, Maya (Univ. de Technologie de Troyes (France) & Univ. Libanaise (Lebanon)); Honeine, Paul* (IUniv.
de Technologie de Troyes); Richard, Cédric (Laboratoire Fizeau (UMR CNRS 6525), Observatoire de la Côte
d’Azur, Univ. de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France); Amoud, Hassan (Lebanese Univ.); Francis, Clovis (Laboratoire
d’analyse des systèmes (LASYS), Univ. Libanaise, Faculté de Génie 1, Liban)

10:00-10:15 FrA05.4
Optimum Principal Components for Spatial Filtering of EEG to
Detect Imaginary Movement by Coherence ...................................................................................................... 3646-3649
Zanotelli, Tiago (Univ. Federal de Minas Gerais); Tierra-Criollo, Carlos Julio (Univ. Federal de Minas Gerais);
Santos Filho, Sady Antonio* (Univ. Federal de Minas Gerais)

10:15-10:30 FrA05.5
Gait Initiation Evaluation after Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease: A 7-Year Follow-Up ...... 3650-3653
Muniz, Adriane Mara de Souza* (Physical Education Collage of Brazilian Army); Liu, Wen (Univ. of Kansas
Medical Center); Liu, Hongzeng (Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City); Lyons, Kelly E. (Univ. of Kansas Medical
Center); Pahwa, Rajesh (Univ. of Kansas Medical Center); Nadal, Jurandir (Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro)
10:30-10:45 FrA05.6
Acoustical Detection of Venous Stenosis in Hemodialysis Patients Using Principal Component Analysis .. 3654-3657
Munguia M., Marco* (Natl. Univ. of Engineering); Vásquez, Pablo (Lund Univ.);
Mattsson, Elisabeth (Skane Univ. Hospital); Mandersson, Bengt (Lund Univ.)

FrA06: 09:15-10:45 Retiro C

1.4.1 Signal Pattern Classification I (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 FrA06.1
Non-Negative Blind Source Separation Techniques for Tumor Tissue Typing Using HR-MAS Signals .... 3658-3661
Croitor Sava, Anca* (Katholieke Univ. Leuven, ESAT-SCD-Biomed); Sima, Diana (Katholieke Univ. Leuven);
Martinez-Bisbal, M Carmen (Univ. de Valencia); Celda, Bernardo (Univ. de Valencia
); Van Huffel, Sabine (Katholieke Univ. Leuven)

09:30-09:45 FrA06.2
Acoustical Screening for Obstructive Sleep Apnea During Wakefulness ..................................................... 3662-3665
Montazeripouragha, Amanallah* (Univ. of Manitoba); Moussavi, Zahra (Univ. of Manitoba)

09:45-10:00 FrA06.3
Unsupervised Classification of Respiratory Sound Signal into Snore/No-Snore Classes .......................... 3666-3669
Azarbarzin, Ali* (The Univ. of Manitoba); Moussavi, Zahra (Univ. of Manitoba)

10:00-10:15 FrA06.4
Acoustic Mapping of the Lung Based on Source Localization of
Adventitious Respiratory Sound Components ................................................................................................. 3670-3673
Sen, Ipek (Bogazici Univ.); Saraclar, Murat (Bogazici Univ.); Kahya, Yasemin P.* (Bogazici Univ.)

10:15-10:30 FrA06.5
Abnormal Pattern Detection in Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Images Using
Nonlinear Analysis in RGB Color Space ........................................................................................................... 3674-3677
Charisis, Vasileios* (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki); Hadjileontiadis, Leontios (Aristotle Univ. of
Thessaloniki); Liatsos, Christos (Athens Univ.); Mavrogiannis, Christos (Athens Univ.);
Sergiadis, George (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki)

10:30-10:45 FrA06.6
Classification of Elderly As Fallers and Non-Fallers Using Velocity of Centre of Pressure Displacement ..... 3678-3681
Hewson, David J* (Univ. de technologie de Troyes); Singh, Neeraj Kumar (INRIA Lorraine);
Snoussi, Hichem (UTT); Duchêne, Jacques (UTT)

FrA07: 09:15-10:45 Martin Fierro 1

8.1.2 Rehabilitation Robotics III (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 FrA07.1
Graph-Based Methodology for the Kinematic Synthesis of Wearable Assistive
Robots for the Lower Limbs ............................................................................................................................... 3682-3685
Sergi, Fabrizio* (Campus bio-Medico Univ.); Accoto, Dino (Campus Bio-Medico Univ.);
Tagliamonte, Nevio Luigi (Univ. Campus Bio-Medico di Roma); Carpino, Giorgio (Campus Bio-Medico Univ.);
Guglielmelli, Eugenio (Campus Bio-Medico Univ.)

09:30-09:45 FrA07.2
RUPERT Closed Loop Control Design ............................................................................................................... 3686-3689
Zhang, Hang (Arizona State Univ.); Balasubramanian, Sivakumar (Imperial College London);
Wei, Ruihua (Tongji Univ.); Austin, Hiroko (Arizona State Univ.); Buchanan, Sharon (Arizona State Univ.);
Herman, Richard (Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center); He, Jiping* (Arizona State Univ.)

09:45-10:00 FrA07.3
Gesture Therapy: A Vision-Based System for Upper Extremity Stroke Rehabilitation ................................ 3690-3693
Sucar, Luis Enrique (INAOE); Luis, Roger (INAOE); Leder, Ron* (Univ. Nacional Autonoma de Mexico);
Hernandez, Jorge (Inst. Nacional de Neurologia Y Neurocirugia Manuel Velasco Suarez);
Sanchez, Israel (INNN)
10:00-10:15 FrA07.4
A Portable Rehabilitation Device for the Hand ................................................................................................. 3694-3697
Iqbal, Jamshed* (Univ. of Genoa – Italian Inst. of Tech. (IIT)); Tsagarakis, Nikos (Italian Inst. of Tech.);
Fiorilla, Angelo Emanuele (Italian Inst. of Tech. (IIT), Univ. of Genoa); Caldwell, Darwin G. (Italian Inst. of Tech.)

10:15-10:30 FrA07.5
Stabilizing Unstable Object by Means of Kinematic Redundancy .................................................................. 3698-3702
Masia, Lorenzo* (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia); Squeri, Valentina (Univ. of Genova); Saha, Devjani (Rehab.
Inst. of Chicago); Burdet, Etienne (Imperial College London); Sandini, Giulio (Univ. of Genoa);
Morasso, Pietro (Univ. of Genova)

10:30-10:45 FrA07.6
A Prototype of a Novel Energy Efficient Variable Stiffness Actuator ............................................................. 3703-3706
Visser, Ludo C. (Univ. of Twente); Carloni, Raffaella (Univ. of Twente); Klijnstra, Feite (Univ. of Twente);
Stramigioli, Stefano* (Univ. of Twente)

FrA08: 09:15-10:45 Martin Fierro 2

2.8.1 Multimodal Image Fusion (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 FrA08.1
3D Handheld Laser Scanner Based Approach for Automatic Identification and
Localization of EEG Sensors .............................................................................................................................. 3707-3710
Koessler, Laurent* (Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy (CRAN), Nancy-Univ., CNRS & Centre
Hospitalier Univ. de Nancy, Servic); Cecchin, Thierry (Nancy-Univ.); Ternisien, Eric (Centre de Recherche en
Automatique de Nancy (CRAN), Nancy-Univ., CNRS); Maillard, Louis (Centre de Recherche en Automatique de
Nancy (CRAN), Nancy-Univ., CNRS & Centre Hospitalier Univ. de Nancy, Servic)

09:30-09:45 FrA08.2
A Non Rigid Registration and Deformation Algorithm for Ultrasound and MR Images to
Guide Prostate Cancer Therapies ...................................................................................................................... 3711-3714
Makni, Nasr* (Inserm U703, Lagis CNRS FRE 3303); Toumi, Ichrak (Inserm U703); Puech, Philippe (INSERM
U703); Issa, Mohamed (Inserm U703); Mordon, Serge (INSERM U703, Univ Lille Nord de France, Lille Univ.
Hospital); Betrouni, Nacim (INSERM)

09:45-10:00 FrA08.3
2D/3D Registration for X-Ray Guided Bronchoscopy Using Distance Map Classification .......................... 3715-3718
Xu, Di* (Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine); Xu, Sheng (Philips Research North America);
Herzka, Daniel (Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine); Yung, Rex (Pulmonary Oncology,
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine); Bergtholdt, Martin (Philips Research Europe, Hamburg);
Gutiérrez, Luis F. (Philips Healthcare); McVeigh, Elliot (Johns Hopkins Univ.)

10:00-10:15 FrA08.4
Registration Method for Displaying Electromagnetically Tracked Devices in Fluoroscopic Images ......... 3719-3722
Bisplinghoff, Stefan* (RWTH Aachen Univ.); de la Fuente, Matias (RWTH Aachen Univ.); Becker, Michael (Univ.
Hospital Aachen, Internal Medicine I); Radermacher, Klaus (RWTH Aachen Univ., Chair of Medical Engineering)

10:15-10:30 FrA08.5
Analysis of the Relationship between Interictal Electrical Source Imaging and PET Hypometabolism .... 3723-3726
Person, Christophe* (Nancy-Univ.); Koessler, Laurent (Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy
(CRAN), Nancy-Univ., CNRS & Centre Hospitalier Univ. de Nancy, Servic); Louis-Dorr, Valerie (Nancy-Univ.);
Wolf, Didier (Nancy-Univ.); Maillard, Louis (Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy (CRAN),
Nancy-Univ., CNRS & Centre Hospitalier Univ. de Nancy, Servic); Marie, Pierre-Yves (Centre
Hospitalier Univ. de Nancy, Service de Médecine Nucléaire)

10:30-10:45 FrA08.6
Medical Image Fusion Using the Convolution of Meridian Distributions ...................................................... 3727-3730
Agrawal, Mayank (Univ. of Bristol, UK); Tsakalides, Panagiotis (Univ. of Crete & FORTH-ICS);
Achim, Alin* (Univ. of Bristol)
FrA09: 09:15-10:45 Ombu A
3.6.2 Bio-Nano Technology (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 FrA09.1
Nanotechnology Based Targeted Drug Delivery .............................................................................................. 3731-3732
Ruggiero, Carmelina* (Univ. of Genova); Pastorino, Laura (Univ. of Genova);
Herrera Sandoval, Oscar Leonardo (Univ. of Genoa & Central Univ.)

09:30-09:45 FrA09.2
Effect of Sustained Release of Bone Morphogenetic Protein on Osteogenic
Expression of Mesenchymal Stem Cells ........................................................................................................... 3733-3735
Jabbari, Esmaiel* (Univ. of South Carolina)

09:45-10:00 FrA09.3
Effect of Fluorescent Tags on Translocation through Nanochannels ........................................................... 3736-3738
Goyal, Swati (Univ. of Texas at Arlington); Kim, Young-Tae (Univ. of Texas at Arlington);
Iqbal, Samir M* (Univ. of Texas at Arlington)

10:00-10:15 FrA09.4
Self-Assembly and Recrystallization of Bacterial S-Layer Proteins of Bacillus Sphaericus and
Bacillus Thuringiensis on Silicone, Mica and Quartz Crystal Supports ........................................................ 3739-3742
Habibi, Neda (Univ. of Genova); Caneva Soumetz, Federico (Univ. of Genova); Giulianelli, Massimo (Univ.
degli studi di Genova); Pastorino, Laura (Univ. of Genova); Herrera Sandoval, Oscar Leonardo (Univ. of
Genoa & Central Univ.); Sbrana, Francesca (Univ. of Genova, DIBE); Raiteri, Roberto (Univ. of Genova);
Ruggiero, Carmelina* (Univ. of Genova)

10:15-10:30 FrA09.5
Is a Single Cell Sensor Possible? ...................................................................................................................... 3743-3746
Halak, Basel* (Newcastle Univ.); Yakovlev, Alex (Newcastle Univ.); O’Neill, Anthony (Newcastle Univ.)

10:30-10:45 FrA09.6
Powering Biomedical Devices with Body Motion ............................................................................................. 3747-3750
Romero, Edwar* (Michigan Technological Univ.); Warrington, Robert O. (Michigan Technological Univ.);
Neuman, Michael (Michigan Technological Univ.)

FrA10: 09:15-10:45 Ombu B

10.6.2 Wireless Biomedical and Health Technologies, Body Sensor Networks, RFID in Health II (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 FrA10.1
In-Vitro Platform to Study Ultrasound As Source for Wireless Energy Transfer and
Communication for Implanted Medical Devices ............................................................................................... 3751-3754
Mazzilli, Francesco* (EPFL); Peisino, Michela (EPFL-STI-IMT-LPM); Mitouassiwou, Rostand (HEIG-VD);
Cotté, Benjamin (INSERM); Thoppay, Prakash (EPFL); Lafon, Cyril (INSERM); Favre, Patrick (HEIG-VD);
Meurville, Eric (EPFL); Dehollain, Catherine (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)

09:30-09:45 FrA10.2
Mass Casualty Incident Surveillance and Monitoring Using Identity Aware Video Analytics ..................... 3755-3758
Yu, Xunyi* (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst); Ganz, Aura (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst)

09:45-10:00 FrA10.3
SHIMMER™: An Extensible Platform for Physiological Signal Capture ........................................................ 3759-3762
Burns, Adrian (Intel); Doheny, Emer (Intel); Greene, Barry R.* (Intel); Foran, Tim (St.James’s Hospital); Leahy,
Dan (Univ. of Limerick); O’Donovan, Karol (Intel Corp.); McGrath, Michael James (Intel Ireland Ltd)

10:00-10:15 FrA10.4
Wireless Medical Sensor Measurements of Fatigue in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis ............................. 3763-3767
Yu, Fei* (The Univ. of Southern Denmark); Bilberg, Arne (The Univ. of Southern Denmark);
Stenager, Egon (The Univ. of Southern Denmark)
10:15-10:30 FrA10.5
RMAIS: RFID-Based Medication Adherence Intelligence System ................................................................... 3768-3771
McCall, Corey* (Univ. of Central Florida); Maynes, Branden (Univ. of Central Florida); Zou, Cliff (Univ. of Central
Florida); Zhang, Ning (Univ. of Central Florida)

10:30-10:45 FrA10.6
Wearable Shoe-Based Device for Rehabilitation of Stroke Patients .............................................................. 3772-3775
Edgar, S. Ryan* (Clarkson Univ.); Swyka, Timothy (Clarkson Univ.); Fulk, George (Clarkson Univ.);
Sazonov, Edward (Univ. of Alabama)

FrA11: 09:15-10:45 Poncho

5.1.1 Coronary Blood Flow Dynamics and Measurement (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 FrA11.1
Effect of the Valsalva Maneuver on Cardiac-Coronary Interaction Assessed by
Wave Intensity Analysis ...................................................................................................................................... 3776-3779
Rolandi, M. Cristina* (Academic Medical Center, Univ. of Amsterdam)

09:30-09:45 FrA11.2
Coronary Flow Reserve in Mice: Effects of Age, Coronary Disease, and Vascular Loading ....................... 3780-3783
Hartley, Craig J.* (Baylor College of Medicine); Reddy, Anilkumar K. (Baylor College of Medicine);
Michael, Lloyd H. (Baylor College of Medicine); Entman, Mark L. (Baylor College of Medicine);
Chintalagattu, Vishnu (MD Anderson Cancer Center); Khakoo, Aarif Y. (MD Anderson Cancer Center);
Taffet, George E. (Baylor College of Medicine)

09:45-10:00 FrA11.3
Noninvasive Transthoracic and Transesophageal Doppler Echocardiographic Measurements of
Human Coronary Blood Flow Velocity: In Vitro Flow Phantom Validation .................................................... 3784-3787
Greene, Ernest* (NMHU)

10:00-10:15 FrA11.4
A Patient-Specific Method for the Evaluation of Wall Shear Stress in Human Coronary Arteries .............. 3788-3791
Salvucci, Fernando* (Univ. Favaloro); Perazzo, Carlos (Favaloro Univ.); Gurfinkel, Enrique (Fundación
Favaloro); Armentano, Ricardo Luis (Favaloro Univ.); Barra, Juan (Favaloro Univ.)

10:15-10:30 FrA11.5
Mechanical Properties of Human Coronary Arteries ....................................................................................... 3792-3795
Claes, Els (Technical Univ. of Madrid (UPM)); Atienza, Jose* (Technical Univ. of Madrid);
Guinea, Gustavo (Technical Univ. of Madrid (UPM)); Rojo, Francisco (Technical Univ. of Madrid (UPM));
Bernal, Jose Manuel (Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla); Revuelta, J.M. (Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla);
Elices, Manuel (Technical Univ. of Madrid (UPM))

10:30-10:45 FrA11.6
Study of the Autonomic Response in Hemodialysis Patients with Different Fluid Overload Levels .......... 3796-3799
Ferrario, Manuela* (Politecnico di Milano); Moissl, Ulrich (Fresenius Medical Care, Deutschland, GmbH);
Garzotto, Francesco (Dep. Nephrology Dialysis & Transplantation, San Bortolo Hospital); Signorini, Maria G.
(Politecnico di Milano); Cruz, Dinna (Dep. Nephrology Dialysis & Transplantation, San BortoloHospital); Tetta,
Ciro ([email protected]); Ronco, Claudio (Dep. Nephrology Dialysis & Transplantation, San Bortolo
Hospital); Gatti, Emanuele (Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH); Cerutti, Sergio (Politecnico di Milano)

FrA12: 09:15-10:45 Rio de Plata

7.1.2 Cell Mechanics/Cell-Material Interfaces/Drug Delivery (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 FrA12.1
Poly(N-Isopropylacrylamide) Beads Synthesis with Nanoparticles Embedded for the
Implementation of Shrinkable Medical Microrobots for Biomedical Applications ........................................ 3800-3803
Lapointe, Jacinthe (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal); Martel, Sylvain* (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal)
09:30-09:45 FrA12.2
The Influence of Surface Properties of Plasma-Etched Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) on
Cell Growth and Morphology .............................................................................................................................. 3804-3807
Pennisi, Cristian Pablo* (Aalborg Univ.); Zachar, Vladimir (Aalborg Univ.); Gurevich, Leonid (Aalborg Univ.);
Patriciu, Andrei (Neurodan A/S); Struijk, Johannes (Aalborg Univ.)

09:45-10:00 FrA12.3
Geometric Order in Proliferating Epithelia: Impact of Rearrangements and Cleavage Plane Orientation .... 3808-3811
Naveed, Hammad (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago); Li, Yingzi (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago); Kachalo, Sema (Univ. of
Illinois at Chicago); Liang, Jie* (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago)

10:00-10:15 FrA12.4
Combinations of Hydrostatic Pressure and Shear Stress Influence Morphology and
Adhesion Molecules in Cultured Endothelial Cells .......................................................................................... 3812-3815
Nakadate, Hiromichi* (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.); Minamitani, Haruyuki (Keio Univ.);
Aomura, Shigeru (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.)

10:15-10:30 FrA12.5
Modeling the Effects of Nanoparticles on Neuronal Cells: From Ionic Channels to Network Dynamics ... 3816-3819
Busse, Michael* (Saarland Univ. Hospital); Kraegeloh, Annette (Leibniz – Inst. for New Materials, Saarbruecken,
Germany); Stevens, David (Dept. of Physiology at Saarland Univ. Hospital, Homburg, Germany);
Cavelius, Christian (Leibniz – Inst. for New Materials, Saarbruecken, Germany.); Rettig, Jens (Dept. of
Physiology at Saarland Univ. Hospital, Homburg, Germany); Arzt, Eduard (Leibniz – Inst. for New
Materials, Saarbruecken, Germany); Strauss, Daniel J. (Comp. Diagn. & Biocyb. Unit)

10:30-10:45 FrA12.6
The Development of a New Computational Model for the Electromechanics of the
Human Ventricular Myocyte ................................................................................................................................ 3820-3823
Oliveira, Bernardo Lino de* (Federal Univ. of Juiz de Fora); Sundnes, Joakim (Simula Research Laboratory);
Weber dos Santos, Rodrigo (Univ. Federal de Juiz de Fora)

FrA13: 09:15-10:45 Gomez Losada

11.1.4 Standards (Mini Symposium)

09:15-09:30 FrA13.1
Developing IEEE Medical Device Standards: A Case Study, Wearable Cuffless
Blood Pressure Measuring Devices ................................................................................................................... 3824-3824
Carey, Carole C.* (U.S. Food & Drug Administration); Zhang, Yuan-Ting (The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong)

FrA14: 09:15-10:45 Auditorium

6.1.7 Penetrating and Non-Penetrating Micro-Electrode Arrays in the
Treatment of Human Pathology (Mini Symposium)

09:15-09:30 FrA14.1
Mining Terabytes of Submillimeter-Resolution ECoG Datasets for Neurophysiologic Biomarkers ........... 3825-3826
Viventi, Jonathan (Univ. of Pennsylvania); Blanco, Justin (Univ. of Pennsylvania); Litt, Brian* (Univ. of Pennsylvania)

09:30-09:45 FrA14.2
Classification of spoken words using surface local field potentials .............................................................. 3827-3830
Greger, Bradley* (Univ. of Utah); Kellis, Spencer (Univ. of Utah); Miller, Kai J (Univ. of Washington);
Thomson, Kyle (Univ. of Utah); Brown, Richard (Univ. of Utah); House, Paul (Univ. of Utah)

09:45-10:00 FrA14.3
Activity Patterns in Ensembles of Single Neurons During Interictal, Pre-Ictal and Ictal States in Human
Focal Epilepsy ...................................................................................................................................................................... *
Truccolo, Wilson* (Brown Univ.); Donoghue, Jacob (Dept. of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital);
Keller, Corey J. (Dept. of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital); Cole, Andrew J. (Dept. of Neurology,
Massachusetts General Hospital,Harvard Medical School); Eskandar, Emad (Massachusetts General Hospital);
Madsen, Joseph (Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School); Anderson, William S. (Dept. of
Neurosurgery, Brigham & Women’s Hospital,Boston, MA); Hochberg, Leigh (VA / Brown U. / Harvard Med.
School); Cash, Sydney (Massachusetts General Hospital)
FrBPo01: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn
10.1.2 Personal Health Systems (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo01.1
Performance Assessment on Different Measurement Positions for Monitoring HR/RR During Sleep ....... 3831-3834
Liu, Zhaoqin* (Univ. of Aizu); Jiang, Linlin (Univ. of Aizu); Chen, Wenxi (Univ. of Aizu);
Nemoto, Tetsu (Univ. of Kanazawa)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo01.2
Multimodal Localization in the Context of a Medical Telemonitoring System .............................................. 3835-3838
Guettari, Toufik (it-sudparis); Paulo, Cavalcante (it-sudparis); Boudy, Jerome (it-sudparis); Medjahed, Hamid
(esigetel); Istrate, Dan* (ESIGETEL); Jean-Louis, Baldinger (it-sudparis); Imad, Belfeki (it-sudparis);
Opitz, Martin (AKG Acoustics GmbH); Maly-Parsy, Matthias (AKG)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo01.3
SAR Evaluations of Mobile Phone Close to a Pacemaker Implanted in Human Body ................................. 3839-3842
Watanabe, Ryohei* (Chiba Univ.); Saito, Kazuyuki (Chiba Univ.); Watanabe, Soichi (Nat’l Inst of Information &
Comms Tech); Takahashi, Masaharu (Chiba Univ.); Ito, Koichi (Chiba Univ.)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo01.4
A System to Promote Self Behaviors of Patients with Coronary Heart Disease ........................................... 3843-3846
Ottaviano, Manuel* (Technical Univ. of Madrid); Vera-Muñoz, Cecilia (Univ. Politécnica de Madrid (UPM));
Salvi, Dario (Technical Univ. of Madrid); Arredondo, María Teresa (Technical Univ. of Madrid)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo01.5
Implementation of an iPhone as a Wireless Accelerometer for Quantifying Gait Characteristics .............. 3847-3851
LeMoyne, Robert* (UCLA); Mastroianni, Timothy (Cognition Engineering); Cozza, Michael (Converge Robotics
Corp.); Coroian, Cristian (UCLA)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo01.6
From Pain to Stress Evaluation Using Heart Rate Variability Analysis:
Development of an Evaluation Platform ............................................................................................................ 3852-3855
De jonckheere, Julien (CHRU de Lille); Logier, Regis* (CHRU de Lille); Jounwaz, Reza (Inserm, Univ. of Lille 2,
Lille Univ. Hospital); Jeanne, Mathieu (CHRU de Lille)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo01.7
Promoting Interaction Amongst Autistic Adolescents Using Robots ............................................................ 3856-3859
Costa, Sandra* (Univ. of Minho); Santos, Cristina (Univ. of Minho); Soares, Filomena (Univ. of Minho);
Ferreira, Manuel Joao (Univ. of Minho); Moreira, Fatima (APPACDM)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo01.8
Processing of Wearable Sensor Data on the Cloud – A Step towards Scaling of
Continuous Monitoring of Health and Well-Being ............................................................................................ 3860-3863
Biswas, Jit (Inst. for Infocomm Research); Maniyeri, Jayachandran (Inst. for Infocomm Research);
Palit, Henry Novianus (A*STAR Inst. of High Performance Computing); Foo, Yong Siang (Inst. of High
Performance Computing); Gopalakrishnan, Kavitha (Inst. For Infocomm Research); Lau, Lik Seng (A*Star
Singapore); Shue, Louis (Inst. for Infocomm Research); Li, Xiaorong (Inst. of High Performance Computing,
Singapore); Phua, Jiliang Eugene* (Inst. for Infocomm Research)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo01.9
A Basic Study for Patch Type Ambulatory 3-Electrode ECG Monitoring System for the Analysis of
Acceleration Signal and the Limb Leads and Augmented Unipolar Limb Leads Signal .............................. 3864-3867
Jang, Yongwon* (Electronics & Telecom Research Inst.); Noh, Hyung Wook (Electronics & Telecommunications
Research Inst.); Lee, InBum (ETRI); Song, Yoonseon (Electronics & Telecom Research Inst);
Shin, Seungchul (ETRI); Lee, Sooyeul (Electronics & Telecom Research Inst)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo01.10
Biomedical Signals Monitoring Based in Mobile Computing .......................................................................... 3868-3871
Serigioli, Nilton* (UFABC); Reina Muñoz, Rodrigo (UFABC, Centro de Engenharia e Ciências Sociais)
10:45-12:15 FrBPo01.11
Modeling the Human Body Shape in Bioimpedance Vector Measurements ................................................. 3872-3874
Kim, Chul-Hyun* (Kyung Hee Univ.); Park, Jae Hyeon (Korea Natl. Sport Univ.); Kim, Hyeojin (Soonchunhyang
Univ.); Chung, Sochung (Konkuk Univ. Hospital); Park, Seung-Hun (Kyung Hee Univ.)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo01.12
iWander: An Android Application for Dementia Patients ................................................................................ 3875-3878
Sposaro, Frank* (Florida State Univ.); Danielson, Justin (Florida State Univ.); Tyson, Gary (Florida State Univ.)

FrBPo02: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

10.1.3 Health Information System Integration and
Electronic Health Records II (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo02.1
Mult-I/O – A Middleware Multi Input and Output for Access Devices:
A Case Study Applied the Biomedical Devices ................................................................................................ 3879-3882
Teixeira Lacerda, João Marcos* (Univ. Federal do Rio Grande do Norte); Guerreiro, Ana Maria G. (Federal
Univ. of Rio Grande do Norte); Valentim, Ricardo Alexsandro de Medeiros (Federal Univ of Rio Grande do
Norte); Bezerra, Heitor U. (Federal Univ. of Rio Grande do Norte); Brandão, Gláucio Bezerra (Federal Univ. of
Rio Grande do Norte); Ribeiro, Anna Giselle (Univ. Federal do Rio Grande do Norte); Maia, Cicilia (UERN &
FMC); Araújo, Bruno G. de (IFRN); Heliana Bezerra, Soares (UFRN)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo02.2
Differences in the Laboratory Parameters of Obese and Healthy Hungarian Children and
Their Use in Automatic Classification ............................................................................................................... 3883-3886
Ferenci, Tamas (Budapest Univ. of Tech. & Economics); Kovacs, Levente (Budapest Univ of Tech &
Economics); Almássy, Zsuzsanna (Dept. of Pediatrics, Heim Pál Children’s Hospital, Budapest, Hungary);
Szilagyi, Laszlo* (Budapest Univ of Tech & Economics); Benyo, Balazs Istvan (Szechenyi Istvan Univ.);
Benyo, Zoltan (Budapest Univ of Tech & Economics)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo02.3
Statewide Validation of a Patient Admissions Prediction Tool ....................................................................... 3887-3890
Boyle, Justin* (CSIRO ICT Centre); Le Padellec, Remy (Univ. of South Brittany, France);
Ireland, Derek (CSIRO ICT Centre)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo02.4
Embedding Patients Confidential Data in ECG Signal for Healthcare Information Systems ....................... 3891-3894
Ibaida, Ayman* (RMIT Univ.); Khalil, Ibrahim (RMIT Univ.); Al-Shammary, Dhiah (RMIT Univ.)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo02.5
A Pilot Study to Examine the Relationship of 3D Pain Drawings with Objective Measures in
Mobility Impaired People Suffering from Low Back-Pain ................................................................................ 3895-3898
Spyridonis, Fotios* (Brunel Univ.); Ghinea, Gheorghita (Brunel Univ.)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo02.6
Custom HL7 V3 Message Provider using Web Services Security Features .................................................. 3899-3902
Voos, Javier Alfredo* (U.T.N. Facultad Regional Córdoba); Riva, Guillermo Gaston (UTN – FRC (Univ. Tecnologica
Nacional – Facultad Regional Cordoba)); Zerbini, Carlos Alberto (Univ. Tecnologica Nacional, Grupo de Ingenieria
Clinica); Centeno, Carlos Augusto (Univ. Tecnologica Nacional – Facultad RegionalCordoba); Gonzalez, Eduardo
(UTN – FRC (Grupo Ingenieria Clinica, Univ. Tecnologica Nacional – Facultad Regional Cordoba))

10:45-12:15 FrBPo02.7
Web-Based Healthcare Hand Drawing Management System .......................................................................... 3903-3906
Hsieh, Sheau-Ling (Natl. Chiao Tung Univ.); Weng, Yung-Ching* (Natl. Taiwan Univ.); Chen, Chi-Huang (Natl.
Taiwan Univ.); Hsu, Kai-Ping (Natl. Taiwan Univ.); Lin, Jeng-Wei (Tunghai Univ.); Lai, Feipei (Natl. Taiwan Univ.)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo02.8
Secondary Use of EHR Data for Correlated Comorbidity Prevalence Estimate ............................................ 3907-3910
Stakic, Srdjan* (Advanced Systems Guild LLC)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo02.9
Standardization Proposal to Pharmaceutical Compounded Forms Elaboration – Information System .... 3911-3914
Moro, Claudia* (PUCPR – Pontifical Catholic Univ. of Parana); Okuyama, Sybelle (PUCPR)
10:45-12:15 FrBPo02.10
A New Paradigm for Telehealth Implementation .............................................................................................. 3915-3918
Dilmaghani, Reza* (King’s College London, Univ. of London)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo02.11
Building an Information Security Strategy for EHR: Guidelines for Assessing the Current Situation ....... 3919-3922
Mohammad, Yara* (Brunel Univ.); Stergioulas, Lampros (Brunel Univ.)

FrBPo03: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

8.7.2 Biomechanics (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo03.1
Young’s Modulus Measurement of the Porcine Ligamentum Flavum for Evaluating the
Deformation During Epidural Insertion .............................................................................................................. 3923-3925
Naemura, Kiyoshi* (Tokyo Univ. of Tech.)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo03.2
Finite Element Model of a Greater Trochanteric Reattachment System ........................................................ 3926-3929
Bourgeois, Yan* (École de Technologie Supérieure; Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur); Petit, Yvan (École de
Technologie Supérieure); Laflamme, Yves (Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo03.3
Finite Element Analysis of an Acetabular Trial Implant ................................................................................... 3930-3933
Levasseur, Annie (Imaging & Orthopaedic Research Laboratort); Petit, Yvan* (École de Technologie
Supérieure); Dansereau, Mathieu (École de technologie supérieure); Fernandes, Julio (Univ. of Montréal)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo03.4
The Shape of the Acetabular Cartilage Surface and Its Role in Hip Joint Contact Stress ........................... 3934-3937
Gu, Dong-Yun* (Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital); Dai, Kerong (Shanghai Second Medical Univ.);
Chen, Yazhu (Shanghai jiaotong Univ.); Hu, Fei (Shanghai Jiaotong Univ.)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo03.5
In Vitro Kinematic Measurements of the Patellar Tendon in Two Different Types of
Posterior-Stabilized Total Knee Arthroplasties ................................................................................................ 3938-3941
Zhu, Zhonglin (Tsinghua Univ.); Ding, Hui (Tsinghua Univ.); Dang, Xiao (Tsinghua Univ.); Tang, Jing (Beijing Ji
Shui Tan Hospital the 4th Medical College ofPeking Univ.); Zhou, Yixin (Beijing Ji Shui Tan Hospital the 4th
Medical College ofPeking Univ.); Wang, Guangzhi* (Tsinghua Univ.)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo03.6
Developing a 6-DOF Robot to Investigate Multi-Axis ACL Injuries under Valgus Loading
Coupled with Tibia Internal Rotation ................................................................................................................. 3942-3945
Ren, Yupeng (Rehab. Inst. of Chicago); Jacobs, Benjamin J. (Northwestern Univ.);
Zhang, Liqun* (Northwestern Univ.)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo03.7
Angle Estimation of Human Femora in a Three-Dimensional Virtual Environment ...................................... 3946-3949
Casciaro, Mariano Ezequiel* (Univ. Favaloro); Ritacco, Lucas E (Hospital Italiano); Milano, Federico (Univ. de
Buenos Aires, Univ. Tecnologica Nacional); Risk, Marcelo (Univ. de Buenos Aires); Craiem, Damian (Favaloro Univ.)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo03.8
Muscular Activity During Dynamic Squats in Patients with ACL Reconstruction ........................................ 3950-3953
Braidot, Ariel Andrés* (Univ. Nacional de Entre Ríos, Facultad de Ingeniería); Ceaglio, Sebastián Hipólito
(Facultad de Ingenieria, Univ. Nacional de Entre Ríos); Alberto, Federico Matías (Univ. Nacional de Entre
Ríos); Catalfamo, Paola Andrea Lucia (Univ. Nacional de Entre Ríos, Faculatad de Ingeniería)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo03.9
Evaluation of Fall and Fall Recovery in a Simulated Seismic Environment: A Pilot Study ......................... 3954-3957
Abu-Faraj, Ziad* (American Univ. of Science & Tech.); Akar, Hassan (American Univ. of Science & Tech.);
Assaf, Elie (American Univ. of Science & Tech.); Al-Qadiri, Mohamad (American Univ. of Science & Tech.);
Youssef, Elssy (American Univ. of Science & Tech.)
10:45-12:15 FrBPo03.10
A Single Camera Stereographic Imaging System for Tracking Upper Limb Motions ................................... 3958-3961
Eastwood-Sutherland, Caillin* (Univ. of Tasmania); Gale, Timothy John (Univ. of Tasmania)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo03.11
Bi-Planar Postural Stability Model: Fitting Model Parameters to Patient Data Automatically ..................... 3962-3965
Sovol, Andrew (Marquette Univ.); Bustamante Valles, Karla* (Marquette Univ.); Riedel, Susan (Marquette
Univ.); Harris, Gerald (Marquette Univ.)

FrBPo04: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

1.2.14 Signal Processing in Physiological Systems V (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo04.1
sBCI: Fast Detection of Steady-State Visual Evoked Potentials ..................................................................... 3966-3969
Valbuena, Diana* (Friedrich-Wilhelm-Bessel Inst.); Volosyak, Ivan (Univ. of Bremen); Graser, Axel (Univ. of Bremen)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo04.2
Investigation of Muscle Behavior During Different Functional Electrical Stimulation
Profiles Using Mechanomyography ................................................................................................................... 3970-3973
Scheeren, Eduardo Mendonça* (Federal Technological Univ. of Paraná); Nogueira-Neto, Guilherme (State
Univ. of Campinas); Krueger-Beck, Eddy (Federal Technological Univ. of Paraná); Button, Vera Lúcia da
Silveira Nantes (State Univ. of Campinas); Nohama, Percy (Univ. Tecnológica Federal do Paraná)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo04.3
A Fuzzy Logic-Based System for Anaesthesia Monitoring ............................................................................. 3974-3977
Mirza, Mansoor (Auckland Univ. of Tech.); GholamHosseini, Hamid* (Auckland Univ. of Tech.);
Harrison, Michael (Univ. of Auckland)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo04.4
Application of Crisp and Fuzzy Clustering Algorithms for Identification of Hidden Patterns from
Plethysmographic Observations on the Radial Pulse ..................................................................................... 3978-3981
Karamchandani, Sunil* (IIT Bombay); HD, Mustafa (IIT Bombay); Desai, Uday B (IIT Bombay);
Merchant, Shabbir (IIT Bombay); Jindal, G.D. (BARC, Mumbai)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo04.5
Characterization of Bone Tissue Using Microstrip Antennas ......................................................................... 3982-3985
Domingues Barros, Jannayna* (Federal Univ. of Rio Grande do Norte); Oliveira Júnior, José Josemar (Federal
Univ. of Rio Grande do Norte); Gonçalves da Silva, Sandro (Federal Univ. of Rio Grande do Norte)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo04.6
Clustering Evoked Potential Signals Using Subspace Methods .................................................................... 3986-3989
Tome, Ana Maria* (Univ. de Aveiro); Teixeira, Ana Rita (Univ. de Aveiro); Figueiredo, Nuno (Univ. de Aveiro);
Georgieva, Petia (Univ. de Aveiro); Santos, Isabel (Univ. de Aveiro); Lang, Elmar W. (Univ. of Regensburg)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo04.7
An Energy Ratio Based Measure for F-Wave Backfiring Rate Estimation ..................................................... 3990-3993
Kong, Xuan* (NEUROMetrix); Gozani, Shai (Neurometrix Inc)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo04.8
Evaluation of the Sleep Quality Based on Bed Sensor Signals: Time-Variant Analysis .............................. 3994-3997
Mendez, Martin Oswaldo* (Univ. Autonoma de San Luis Potosi); Migliorini, Matteo (Politecnico di Milano);
Kortelainen, Juha Matti (VTT); Nisticò, Domenico (Politecnico di Milano); Arce-Santana, Edgar (Facultad de
Ciencias); Cerutti, Sergio (Politecnico di Milano); Bianchi, Anna Maria (Politecnico di Milano)

FrBPo05: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

1.4.12 EEG II (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo05.1
Feature Analysis of Epileptic EEG Using Nonlinear Prediction Method ........................................................ 3998-4001
Meng, Qingfang* (Shandong Univ., PRChina)
10:45-12:15 FrBPo05.2
Quantifying Electrode Position Effects in EEG Data with Lempel-Ziv Complexity ....................................... 4002-4005
Costa, Ernane Jose Xavier* (Univ. of São Paulo); Tech, Adriano Rogerio Bruno (Univ. of São Paulo);
Céspedes Arce, Aldo Ivan (USP); Sousa Silva, Ana Carolina (Univ. de São Paulo)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo05.3
Diagnosis of Psychiatric Disorders Using EEG Data and Employing a Statistical Decision Model ........... 4006-4009
Khodayari-Rostamabad, Ahmad* (McMaster Univ.); Reilly, James (McMaster Univ.); Hasey, Gary (McMaster
Univ.); de Bruin, Hubert (McMaster Univ.); MacCrimmon, Duncan (McMaster Univ.)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo05.4
Reduction of Irrelevant and Redundant Data from TFRs for EEG Signal Classification .............................. 4010-4013
Avendaño-Valencia, Luis David (Univ. Nacional de Colombia); Martínez-Vargas, J.D. (Univ. Nacional de
Colombia); Giraldo, Eduardo* (Univ. Tecnologica de Pereira); Castellanos-Dominguez, Germán (Univ.
Nacional de Colombia)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo05.5
Consistent Sparse Representations of EEG ERP and ICA Components Based on
Wavelet and Chirplet Dictionaries ...................................................................................................................... 4014-4019
Qiu, Jun-Wei (Natl. Chiao Tung Univ.); Zao, John Kar-Kin* (Natl. Chiao Tung Univ.); Wang, Peng-Hua (Natl.
Taipei Univ.); Chou, Yu-Hsiang (Natl. Chiao Tung Univ.)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo05.6
Wavelet Transform and Cross-Correlation As Tools for Seizure Prediction ................................................. 4020-4023
Botero, Claudia Cristina* (Univ. de São Paulo); Fonoff, Eric Talamoni (Univ. de São Paulo);
Godoi, Antônio Carlos (Univ. de São Paulo); Ballester, Gerson (Univ. de São Paulo);
Ramírez-Fernández, Francisco Javier (Univ. de São Paulo)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo05.7
Rat’s Hippocampal Field Potentials Feature Extraction of Wake and Sleep Stages in Euclidean Space ...... 4024-4027
dos Santos, Vítor (Laboratório de Automação Hospitalar e Bioengenharia – Univ. Federal do Rio Grande do
Norte); Souza, Bryan da Costa* (Univ. Federal do Rio Grande do Norte); Belchior, Hindiael (Edmond & Lily
Safra – Intl. Inst. of Neuroscience of Natal); Duarte D. Neto, Adriao (Univ. Federal do Rio Grande do Norte)

FrBPo06: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

1.9.4 Nonstationary Processing of Biomedical Signals (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo06.1
Fractional Fourier-Based Filter for Denoising Elastograms ............................................................................ 4028-4031
SUBRAMANIAM, SUBA* (KING’S COLLEGE LONDON); Hon, Tsz Kin (King’s College of London);
Georgakis, Apostolos (KING’S COLLEGE LONDON); Papadakis, George (King’s College London)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo06.2
On Detecting Determinism and Nonlinearity in Microelectrode Recording: Signals Approach
Based on Non-Stationary Surrogate Data Methods ......................................................................................... 4032-4035
Guarin, Diego Luis* (Univ. Tecnologica de Pereira); Orozco, Alvaro (Univ. Tecnológica de Pereira);
Delgado, Edilson (Inst. tecnológico Metropolitano); Guijarro, Enrique (Polytechnic Univ. of Valencia)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo06.3
STFT-Based Denoising of Biomechanical Impact Signals .............................................................................. 4036-4039
Hon, Tsz Kin* (King’s College of London); Subramaniam, Suba (King’s College London);
Georgakis, Apostolos (King’s College London)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo06.4
Towards High Accuracy Classification of MER Signals for Target Localization in Parkinson’s Disease .. 4040-4043
Pinzon Morales, Ruben Dario* (Univ. Tecnologica de Pereira); Orozco, Alvaro (Univ. Tecnológica de Pereira);
Carmona Villada, Hans (Univ. tecnologica de Pereira); Castellanos-Dominguez, Germán (Univ.
Nacional de Colombia)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo06.5
Dynamic Speech Parameterization for Text-Independent Phone Segmentation .......................................... 4044-4047
Cherniz, Analía Soledad* (Facultad de Ingeniería. Univ. Nacional de Entre Ríos); Torres, Maria E. (Univ.
Nacional de Entre Rios); Rufiner, Hugo Leonardo (Univ. Nacional de Entre Ríos)
10:45-12:15 FrBPo06.6
Heart Rate Estimation on a Beat-To-Beat Basis Via Ballistocardiography – A Hybrid Approach ............... 4048-4051
Friedrich, David (Technical Univ. of Aachen (RWTH)); Aubert, Xavier* (Philips Research Laboratories Europe,
Aachen, GERMANY); Fuehr, Hartmut (Univ. of Tech., Aachen (RWTH)); Brauers, Andreas (Philips Research
Europe Laboratories)

FrBPo07: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

2.7.6 Image Segmentation III (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo07.1
Detection of Vertebral Plateaus in Lateral Lumbar Spinal X-Ray Images with Gabor Filters ...................... 4052-4055
Alvarez Ribeiro, Eduardo* (Univ. of São Paulo); Nogueira-Barbosa, Marcello (Univ. of Sao Paulo);
Rangayyan, Raj (Univ. of Calgary); Azevedo-Marques, Paulo Mazzoncini (Univ. of São Paulo)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo07.2
Biospeckle Image Stack Process Based on Artificial Neural Networks ......................................................... 4056-4059
Meschino, Gustavo Javier (Univ. Nacional de Mar del Plata); Murialdo, Silvia Elena (Univ. Nacional de Mar del
Plata); Passoni, Lucía Isabel* (Univ. Nacional de Mar del Plata); Rabal, Héctor (CIOP); Trivi, Marcelo (CIOP)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo07.3
Skull Segmentation in 3D Neonatal MRI Using Hybrid Hopfield Neural Network ......................................... 4060-4063
Daliri Fallah Abadi, Mahdi (K. N. Toosi Univ. of Tech.); Abrishami Moghaddam, Hamid (K. N. Toosi Univ. of
Tech.); Ghadimi, Sona* (Univ. de Picardie Jules Verne); Momeni, Maryam (K. N. Toosi Univ. of Tech.);
Harirchi, Farshad (K. N. Toosi Univ. of Tech.); Masoumeh, Giti (Tehran Univ. of Medical sciences)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo07.4
Spherical Vision Cameras in a Semi-Autonomous Wheelchair System ........................................................ 4064-4067
Nguyen, Jordan Son* (Univ. of Tehcnology, Sydney); Su, Steven Weidong (Univ. of Tech., Sydney);
Nguyen, Hung T. (Univ. of Tech., Sydney)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo07.5
Multimodal Method for Cell Membrane Extraction in Hepatic Histological Images ...................................... 4068-4071
Matsushita, Nobumitsu (Shibaura Inst. of Tech.); Takahashi, Masanobu* (Shibaura Inst. of Tech.);
Nakano, Masayuki (Tokyo Women’s Medical Univ.)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo07.6
Diffusion Tensor Driven Contour Closing for Cell Microinjection Targeting ................................................ 4072-4075
Becattini, Gabriele* (Italian Inst. of Tech.); Mattos, Leonardo (IIT – Italian Inst. of Tech.);
Caldwell, Darwin G. (Italian Inst. of Tech.)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo07.7
Study of Geometrical Uncertainty Stemming from Different Reconstruction Procedures on the
Flow Field for a Peripheral Bypass Graft ........................................................................................................... 4076-4079
Gambaruto, Alberto M* (CEMAT / Dept Mathematics, Inst. Superior Tecnico, UTL)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo07.8
Atlas-Based Segmentation of Brain Tumor Images Using a Markov Random Field-Based Tumor
Growth Model and Non-Rigid Registration ....................................................................................................... 4080-4083
Bauer, Stefan* (Univ. of Bern); Bardyn, Thibaut (Univ. of Bern); Büchler, Philippe (Univ. of Bern);
Reyes, Mauricio (MEM Research Center, Univ. Bern)

FrBPo08: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

2.7.9 Image Classification I (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo08.1
A Novel Detection Strategy for Abnormalities in WCE Video Clips ................................................................ 4084-4087
Zhao, Qian* (The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo08.2
Characterization of Border Structure Using Fractal Dimension in Melanomas ............................................ 4088-4091
Carbonetto, Sebastian Horacio (Univ. of Buenos Aires); Lew, Sergio Eduardo* (Univ. of Buenos Aires)
10:45-12:15 FrBPo08.3
Radiologist Model for Cardiac Rest Period Determination Based on Fuzzy Rule ........................................ 4092-4095
Arief, Zainal* (Nara Inst. of Science & Tech.); Sato, Tetsuo (Nara Inst of Science & Tech); Okada, Tomohisa
(Kyoto Univ. Graduate School of Medicine); Kuhara, Shigehide (Toshiba Medical Systems Corp., Otawara,
Japan); Kanao, Shotaro (Kyoto Univ. Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.); Togashi, Kaori (Kyoto Univ.
Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.); Minato, Kotaro (Nara Inst. of Science & Tech.)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo08.4
Closed Angle Glaucoma Detection in RetCam Images .................................................................................... 4096-4099
Cheng, Jun* (Inst. for Infocomm Research, Agency for Science, Tech. & Research); Liu, Jiang (Inst for
Infocomm Resrch, A STAR); Lee, Beng Hai (Inst. for Infocomm Research); Wong, Damon (Inst. for Infocomm
Research); Yin, Fengshou (Inst. for Infocomm Research); Aung, Tin (Singapore Eye Research Inst.);
Baskaran, Mani (Singapore Eye Research Inst.); Shamira, Perera (Singapore Eye Research Inst.);
Wong, Tien Yin (Natl. Univ. of Singapore)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo08.5
Towards Automatic Detection of Age-Related Macular Degeneration in Retinal Fundus Images .............. 4100-4103
Liang, Ziyang (I2R); Wong, Damon* (Inst. for Infocomm Research); Liu, Jiang (Inst for Infocomm Resrch, A
STAR); Chan, Kap Luk (Nanyang Technological Univ.); Wong, Tien Yin (Natl. Univ. of Singapore)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo08.6
Symbolic Learning Supporting Early Diagnosis of Melanoma ....................................................................... 4104-4107
Surowka, Grzegorz* (Jagiellonian Univ.)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo08.7
An Open Data Mining Framework for the Analysis of Medical Images: Application on Obstructive
Nephropathy Microscopy Images ...................................................................................................................... 4108-4111
Doukas, Charalampos* (Univ. of the Aegean); Goudas, Theodosis (Univ. of Central Greece);
Fischer, Simon (Rapid-I GmbH); Mierswa, Ingo (Rapid-I GmbH); Chatziioannou, Aristotelis (Natl.
Hellenic Research Foundation); Maglogiannis, Ilias (Univ. of Central Greece)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo08.8
Context-Based Interpolation of 3-D Medical Images ........................................................................................ 4112-4115
Alipour, Sahar* (McMaster Univ.); Wu, Xiaolin (McMaster Univ.); Shirani, Shahram (McMaster Univ.)

FrBPo09: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

6.2.6 Analysis of Neural Signals I (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo09.1
The FitzHugh-Nagumo Model: Firing Modes with Time-Varying Parameters and Parameter Estimation .. 4116-4119
Faghih, Rose T.* (MIT); Savla, Ketan (MIT); Dahleh, munther (MIT);
Brown, Emery N (MGH-Harvard Medical School-MIT)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo09.2
Application of a Null-Beamformer to Source Localisation in MEG Data of Deep Brain Stimulation .......... 4120-4123
Mohseni, Hamid* (Oxford Univ.)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo09.3
Predicting Lower Limb Muscular Activity During Standing and Squatting Using Spikes of Primary
Motor Cortical Neurons in Monkeys .................................................................................................................. 4124-4127
Zhang, Hang* (Arizona State Univ.); Ma, Chaolin (Arizona State Univ.); He, Jiping (Arizona State Univ.)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo09.4
Estimating Sparse Volterra Models Using Group L1-Regularization ............................................................. 4128-4131
Song, Dong* (Univ. of Southern California); Wang, Haonan (Colorado State Univ.);
Berger, Theodore (Univ. of Southern California)
10:45-12:15 FrBPo09.5
Nonlinear Analysis of Movement-Related Changes in Human Subthalamic Local Field Potentials ........... 4132-4135
Wei, Chun-Shu* (Natl. Chiao Tung Univ.); Tsai, Chon-Haw (China Medical Univ. Hospital); Chiou, Shang-Ming
(China Medical Univ. Hospital); Hseu, Yi-Ting (China Medical Univ. Hospital); Liu, Ta-Wei (Natl. Chiao Tung
Univ.); Lai, Hsin-Yi (Natl. Chiao Tung Univ.); Chien, Ting-Fang (Natl. Chiao Tung Univ.); Kuo, Yi-Hsuan (Natl.
Chiao Tung Univ.); Zhao, Wan-Ting (Natl. Hsin-Chu Univ. of Education); Tang, Yu-Shun (Natl. Chiao Tung
Univ.); Su, Sheng-Yuan (Natl. Chiao Tung Univ.); Chen, You-Yin (Natl. Chiao-Tung Univ.)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo09.6
Neuronal Functional Connectivity Dynamics in Cortex: An MSC-Based Analysis ....................................... 4136-4139
Li, Lin* (Univ. of FLorida); Park, Il (Univ. of Florida); Seth, Sohan (Univ. of Florida); Sanchez, Justin C. (Univ. of
Florida); Principe, Jose (Univ. of Florida)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo09.7
Analysis of Neural Interaction in Motor Cortex During Reach-To-Grasp Task Based on Dynamic
Bayesian Networks .............................................................................................................................................. 4140-4143
Sang, Dong* (Inst. of Automation,Chinese Academy of Sciences); lv, bin (Inst. of Automation,Chinese Academy
of Sciences); He, Huiguang (Inst. of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences); He, Jiping (Arizona State
Univ.); Wang, Feiyue (Inst. of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

FrBPo10: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

6.3.2 Brain Physiology and Modeling (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo10.1
System Identification of Local Field Potentials under Deep Brain Stimulation in a Healthy Primate ......... 4144-4147
Pedoto, Gilda* (Univ. of Sannio); santaniello, sabato (Johns Hopkins Univ.); Montgomery, Erwin (Univ. of
Alabama at Birmingham); Gale, John (Cleveland Clinic); Fiengo, Giovanni (Univ. of Sannio);
Glielmo, Luigi (Univ. of Sannio); Sarma, Sridevi V. (Johns Hopkins Univ.)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo10.2
Mirrored High Gamma Cortical Activity During Finger Tap Imitation ............................................................. 4148-4151
Qian, Tianyi* (Tsinghua Univ.); Hong, Bo (Tsinghua Univ.); Zhou, WenJing (Tsinghua Univ.);
Gao, Shangkai (Tsinghua Univ.)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo10.3
Point Process Models Show Temporal Dependencies of Basal Ganglia Nuclei
under Deep Brain Stimulation ............................................................................................................................. 4152-4155
Saxena, Shreya* (Johns Hopkins Univ.); Santaniello, Sabato (Johns Hopkins Univ.); Montgomery, Erwin (Univ.
of Alabama at Birmingham); Gale, John (Cleveland Clinic); Sarma, Sridevi V. (Johns Hopkins Univ.)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo10.4
A Biologically Plausible Model for Same/Different Discrimination ................................................................. 4156-4159
Rey, Hernan Gonzalo (Univ. of Buenos Aires); Gutnisky, Diego (Janelia Farm – Howard Hughes Medical Inst.);
Zanutto, Silvano* (Inst. de Ingeniería Biomédica FI-UBA; IBYME-CONICET)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo10.5
Real-Time Experiment Interface for Biological Control Applications ............................................................. 4160-4163
Lin, Risa (Georgia Inst. of Tech.); Bettencourt, Jonathan (Weill Cornell Medical College); White, John (Univ. of
Utah); Christini, David (Weill Cornell Medical College); Butera, Robert* (Georgia Inst. of Tech.)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo10.6
A Subthreshold aVLSI Implementation of the Izhikevich Simple Neuron Model .......................................... 4164-4167
Rangan, Venkat* (Qualcomm Inc.); Ghosh, Abhishek (UCLA); Aparin, Vladimir (Qualcomm Inc.);
Cauwenberghs, Gert (Univ. of California San Diego)
FrBPo11: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn
6.4.6 Brain-Computer Interface I (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo11.1
RatCar: A Vehicular Neuro-Robotic Platform for a Rat with a Sustaining Structure of the
Rat Body under the Vehicle ................................................................................................................................ 4168-4171
Fukayama, Osamu* (The Univ. of Tokyo); Suzuki, Takafumi (The Univ. of Tokyo);
Mabuchi, Kunihiko (The Univ. of Tokyo)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo11.2
In Search of More Robust Decoding Algorithms for Neural Prostheses, a Data Driven Approach ............ 4172-4175
Subasi, Erk* (Inst. of Neuroinformatics, Univ. / ETH Zurich); Townsend, Benjamin (Dept. of Microsystems
Engineering (IMTEK), Univ. of Freiburg); Scherberger, Hansjörg (German Primate Center)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo11.3
Towards a Brain Controlled Assistive Technology for Powered Mobility ..................................................... 4176-4180
Kaneswaran, Kelly* (Univ. of Limerick)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo11.4
Single Trial Recognition of Error-Related Potentials During Observation of Robot Operation .................. 4181-4184
Iturrate, Iñaki* (Zaragoza Univ.); Montesano, Luis (Univ. de Zaragoza); Minguez, Javier (Zaragoza Univ.)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo11.5
Two-Dimensional Auditory P300 Speller with Predictive Text System .......................................................... 4185-4188
Höhne, Johannes* (Berlin Inst. of Tech., Berlin, Germany); Schreuder, Evert-Jan Martijn (Berlin Inst. of Tech.);
Blankertz, Benjamin (Berlin Inst. of Tech.); Tangermann, Michael (Berlin Inst. of Tech.)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo11.6
Exploring Multiple Protocols for a Brain-Computer Interface Mouse ............................................................ 4189-4192
Salvaris, Mathew Savas* (Univ. of Essex); Cinel, Caterina (Univ. of Essex); Poli, Riccardo (Univ. of Essex);
Citi, Luca (MGH / Harvard Medical School); Sepulveda, Francisco (Univ. of Essex)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo11.7
A Versatile Hardware Platform for Brain Computer Interfaces ....................................................................... 4193-4196
García, Pablo Andrés (Facultad de Ingeniería. Univ. Nacional de La Plata); Haberman, Marcelo Alejandro (Univ.
Nacional de La Plata, Facultad de Ingeniería, Dept. de electrotecnia); Spinelli, Enrique* (CONICET – UNLP)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo11.8
A Low-Power, Wireless, 8-Channel EEG Monitoring Headset ......................................................................... 4197-4200
Brown, Lindsay* (Stichting IMEC Nederland); van de Molengraft, Jef (Holst Centre); Yazicioglu, Refet Firat
(IMEC); Torfs, Tom (IMEC); Penders, Julien (imec / Holst Centre); Van Hoof, Chris (IMEC)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo11.9
Toward BCI Wizard – Best BCI Approach for Each User ................................................................................. 4201-4204
Volosyak, Ivan* (Univ. of Bremen); Guger, Christoph (g.tec medical engineering GmbH);
Graser, Axel (Univ. of Bremen)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo11.10
A Hybrid BCI System for 2-D Asynchronous Cursor Control ......................................................................... 4205-4208
Li, Yuanqing* (South China Univ. of Tech.); Long, Jinyi (South China Univ. of Tech.,Chinese); Yu, Tianyou (South
China Univ. of Tech.,Chinese); Yu, Zhuliang (South China Univ. of Tech.,Chinese); Wang, Chuanchu (Inst. for
Infocomm Research); Zhang, Haihong (Inst. for Infocomm Research); Guan, Cuntai (Inst. for Infocomm Research)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo11.11
A Zero-Training Algorithm for EEG Single-Trial Classification Applied to a
Face Recognition ERP Experiment .................................................................................................................... 4209-4212
Lage, Agustin* (Cuban Neuroscience Center); Nieto, Juan (Australian Center for fiel Robotics, Univ. of
Sidney, Australia.); Quiñones, Ileana (Cuban Neuroscience Center); Martínez-Montes, Eduardo (Cuban
Neuroscience Center)
10:45-12:15 FrBPo11.12
Acquisition of Action Potentials with Ultra-Low Sampling Rates ................................................................... 4213-4216
Srinivasan, Lakshminarayan* (Private Citizen); Varshney, Lav R. (Private Citizen);
Kusuma, Julius (Private Citizen)

FrBPo12: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

6.4.7 Brain-Computer Interface II (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo12.1
A Study on EEG Quality in Physical Movements with Steady-State Visual Evoked Potentials .................. 4217-4220
Touyama, Hideaki* (Toyama Prefectural Univ.)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo12.2
BCI Control Using 4 Direction Spatial Visual Attention and Real-Time Fmri at 7T ....................................... 4221-4225
Andersson, Patrik* (Univ. Medical Center Utrecht); Ramsey, Nick (Univ. Medical Center Utrecht); Pluim, Josien
Petra Willemijn (Univ. Medical Center Utrecht); Viergever, Max A. (Univ. Medical Center Utrecht)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo12.3
Adaptation of Hybrid Human-Computer Interaction Systems Using EEG Error-Related Potentials .......... 4226-4229
Chavarriaga, Ricardo* (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne); Biasiucci, Andrea (École Polytechnique
Fédérale de Lausanne); Förster, Kilian (Wearable computing laboratory, ETHZ); Roggen, Daniel (Wearable
computing laboratory, ETHZ); Troster, Gerhard (ETH Zurich); Millán, José del R. (Swiss Federal
Inst. of Tech., Lausanne)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo12.4
A Novel Co-Locational and Concurrent Fnirs/eeg Measurement System: Design and Initial Results ....... 4230-4233
Leamy, Darren John* (Natl. Univ. of Ireland Maynooth); Ward, Tomas (NUI Maynooth)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo12.5
Post-Acute Stroke Patients Use a Brain-Computer Interface to Activate Electrical Stimulation ................ 4234-4237
Tan, Adrian Hock Guan* (Inst. for Infocomm Research); Kong, Keng He (Tan Tock Seng Hospital);
Shee, Chengyap (Nanyang Technological Univ.); Wang, Chuanchu (Inst. for Infocomm Research);
Guan, Cuntai (Inst. for Infocomm Research); Ang, Wei Tech (Nanyang Technological Univ.)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo12.6
Characteristics of Motor Imagery Based EEG-Brain Computer Interface Using
Combined Cue and Neuro-Feedback ................................................................................................................. 4238-4241
lee, youngbum* (Yonsei Univ.); Kim, Jinkwon (Yonsei Univ.); Lee, SangJoon (Yonsei Univ.);
Lee, Myoungho (Yonsei Univ.)

10:45-12:15 FrBPo12.7
Exploring Preprocessing Techniques in a Three-Class Brain-Computer Interface ...................................... 4242-4245
Barbosa, André Freitas* (Univ. Federal do Rio Grande do Norte); Souza, Bryan da Costa (Univ. Federal do Rio
Grande do Norte); Ferro, Dayara (UFRN); Pantoja, André (Univ. Federal Rio Grande do Norte);
Duarte D. Neto, Adriao (Univ. Federal do Rio Grande do Norte); Pereira, Antonio (Univ. Federal
Rio Grande do Norte); Guerreiro, Ana Maria G. (Federal Univ. of Rio Grande do Norte)

FrC01: 14:30-16:00 Libertador A

1.2.3 Biomedical Modeling and Simulation III (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 FrC01.1
Differential Stimulation of ON and OFF Retinal Ganglion Cells: A Modeling Study ..................................... 4246-4249
Kameneva, Tatiana* (NICTA, The Univ. of Melbourne); Meffin, Hamish (Natl. ICT Australia); Burkitt, Anthony
Neville (The Univ. of Melbourne)

14:45-15:00 FrC01.2
Statistical Modelling of Spike Libraries for Simulation of Extracellular Recordings in the Cerebellum .... 4250-4253
Thorbergsson, Palmi Thor* (Lund Univ.); Garwicz, Martin (Lund Univ.); Schouenborg, Jens (Lund Univ.);
Johansson, Anders (Lund Univ.)
15:00-15:15 FrC01.3
Energy Expenditure During Human Gait. I – An Optimized Model ................................................................. 4254-4257
Rodrigo, Silvia E.* (Medical Tech. Cabinet, Natl. Univ. of San Juan); García, Isabel (Univ. of Zaragoza,
Zaragoza, Spain.); Franco, Marian (School of Health Sciences, Univ. of Zaragoza, Spain); Alonso-Vazquez,
Ana (Group of Structural Mechanics & Materials Modelling, I3A, UZ, Spain.); Ambrosio, Jorge A. (Technical
Superior Inst., Technical Univ. of Lisbon, Portugal.)

15:15-15:30 FrC01.4
A sEMG Model with Experimentally Based Simulation Parameters ............................................................... 4258-4261
Wheeler, Katherine A.* (RMIT); Shimada, Hirokazu (Oita Natl. College of Tech.); Kant Kumar, Dinesh (RMIT Univ.)

15:30-15:45 FrC01.5
Two-Dimensional Estimation of the Electrohysterographic Conduction Velocity ........................................ 4262-4265
Rabotti, Chiara* (Eindhoven Univ. of Tech.); Mischi, Massimo (Eindhoven Univ. of Tech.)

15:45-16:00 FrC01.6
Real-Time Calculation of Knee Extension Moment and Its Evaluation .......................................................... 4266-4269
Nam, Yoon-Su (Kangwon Natl. Univ.); Kim, Seongnam* (Kangwon Natl. Univ.)

FrC02: 14:30-16:00 Libertador B

2.1.5 MR Neuroimaging (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 FrC02.1
Real Time BOLD Functional MRI Neuro-Feedback Affects Functional Connectivity ................................... 4270-4273
Horovitz, Silvina G* (NINDS – Natl. Inst. of Health); Berman, Brian D (NINDS – Natl. Inst. of Health);
Hallett, Mark (NINDS – Natl. Inst. of Health)

14:45-15:00 FrC02.2
Mapping Local Functional Connectivity Hubs in the Human Brain ................................................................ 4274-4277
Tomasi, Dardo* (Natl. Inst. of Health); Volkow, Nora (Natl. Inst. of Drug Abuse)

15:00-15:15 FrC02.3
PDE-Based Reconstruction of the Cerebral Cortex from MR Images ............................................................ 4278-4283
Osechinskiy, Sergey* (Univ. of California, Irvine); Kruggel, Frithjof (Univ. of California, Irvine)

15:15-15:30 FrC02.4
Bayesian Optimization of Perfusion and Transit Time Estimation in PASL-MRI .......................................... 4284-4287
Santos, Nuno (Siemens, S.A., Healthcare Sector / Inst. Superior Técnico); Sanches, J. Miguel (Inst. for Systems &
Robotics, NIF); Figueiredo, Patricia* (Inst. Superior Técnico / Inst. for Systems & Robotics)

15:30-15:45 FrC02.5
Shape Modeling of the Corpus Callosum .......................................................................................................... 4288-4291
Farag, Ahmed (Univ. of Louisville); Elhabian, Shireen (Univ. of Louisville); Abdelrahman, Mostafa (Univ. of
Louisville); Graham, James (Univ. of Louisville); Farag, Aly A.* (Univ. of Louisville); Chen, Dongqing (Univ. of
Louisville); Casanova, Manuel (Univ. of Louisville)

FrC04: 14:30-16:00 Retiro A

2.7.2 Image Denoising (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 FrC04.1
Denoising of LSFCM Images with Compensation for the Photoblinking/Photobleaching Effects ............. 4292-4295
Rodrigues, Isabel (Inst. for Systems & Robotics); Sanches, J. Miguel* (Inst. for Systems & Robotics, NIF)

14:45-15:00 FrC04.2
Local Image Enhancement for Fiducial Marker Detection in Electronic Portal Images of
Prostate Radiotherapy ......................................................................................................................................... 4296-4299
Bonneau, Patrick (Univ. of Victoria); Branzan Albu, Alexandra* (Univ. of Victoria);
Hilts, Michelle (BC Cancer Agency, Victoria, BC, Canada)
15:00-15:15 FrC04.3
Compton Scattered Imaging Based on the V-Line Radon Transform and
Its Medical Imaging Applications ....................................................................................................................... 4300-4303
Nguyen, Mai K. (Univ. of CERGY-PONTOISE); Regnier, Remi (Equipes Traitement de l’Information et
Systèmes); Truong, Tuong T.* (Univ. of Cergy-Pontoise); Zaidi, Habib (Geneva Univ. Hospital)

15:15-15:30 FrC04.4
Compressive Sensing for Ultrasound RF Echoes Using Alpha-Stable Distributions .................................. 4304-4307
Achim, Alin (Univ. of Bristol); Buxton, Benjamin Alan (Univ. of Bristol); Tzagkarakis, George (Univ. of Crete &
FORTH-ICS); Tsakalides, Panagiotis* (Univ. of Crete & FORTH-ICS)

15:30-15:45 FrC04.5
Fusion of Multiscale Wavelet-Based Fractal Analysis on Retina Image for Stroke Prediction ................... 4308-4311
Che Azemin, Mohd Zulfaezal (RMIT Univ.); Kant Kumar, Dinesh (RMIT Univ.);
Poosapadi Arjunan, Sridhar* (RMIT Univ.)

15:45-16:00 FrC04.6
Automatic Detection of Dining Plates for Image-Based Dietary Evaluation .................................................. 4312-4315
Nie, Jie* (Ocean Univ. of China); Wei, Zhiqiang (Ocean Univ. of China); Jia, Wenyan (Univ. of Pittsburgh);
Li, Lu (Beihang Univ.); Fernstrom, John D. (Univ. of Pittsburgh); Sclabassi, Robert (Univ. of Pittsburgh);
Sun, Mingui (Univ. of Pittsburgh)

FrC05: 14:30-16:00 Retiro B

1.6.1 Adaptive and Parametric Filtering (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 FrC05.1
Electromagnetic Source Imaging for Sparse Cortical Activation Patterns .................................................... 4316-4319
von Ellenrieder, Nicolas* (Univ. Nacional de La Plata); Hurtado, Martín (Univ. Nacional de La Plata);
Muravchik, Carlos (Univ. Nacional de La Plata)

14:45-15:00 FrC05.2
Analysis of Trial-By-Trial Variability in Stimulus-Evoked Neural Activity ..................................................... 4320-4322
Raman, Baranidharan* (Washington Univ.); Stopfer, Mark (Natl. Inst. of Health)

15:00-15:15 FrC05.3
Psychoacoustic Active Noise Control with ITU-R 468 Noise Weighting and Its Sound Quality Analysis ..... 4323-4326
Bao, Hua* (Univ. of Texas at Dallas); Panahi, Issa (Univ. of Texas at Dallas)

15:15-15:30 FrC05.4
Performance Enhancement of Adaptive Active Noise Control Systems for Fmri Machines ....................... 4327-4330
Kannan, Govind* (The Univ. of Texas at Dallas); Milani, Ali (Univ. of Texas at Dallas);
Panahi, Issa (Univ. of Texas at Dallas); Kehtarnavaz, Nasser (Univ. of Texas at Dallas)

15:30-15:45 FrC05.5
Improvements of Scale Fourier Linear Combiner for Impedance Cardiography Analysis .......................... 4331-4334
Dromer, Olivier (Univ. of Poitiers); Alata, Olivier* (Lab. XLIM-SIC, UMR CNRS 6172, Univ. of Poitiers);
Bernard, Olivier (Univ. of Poitiers)

FrC06: 14:30-16:00 Retiro C

6.4.5 Brain-Computer/Machine Interface III (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 FrC06.1
Optimal Set of EEG Electrodes for Rapid Serial Visual Presentation ............................................................ 4335-4338
Hild II, Kenneth* (Oregon Health & Science Univ.); Mathan, Santosh (Honeywell Laboratories);
Huang, Yonghong (Oregon Health & Science Univ.); Erdogmus, Deniz (Northeastern Univ.);
Pavel, Michael (Oregon Health & Science Univ.)
14:45-15:00 FrC06.2
Model Development, Testing and Experimentation in a CyberWorkstation for
Brain-Machine Interface Research ..................................................................................................................... 4339-4342
Rattanatamrong, Prapaporn* (Univ. of Florida); Raiturkar, Pooja (Univ. of Florida); Zhao, Ming (Florida Intl.
Univ.); Mahmoudi, Babak (Univ. of Florida); DiGiovanna, Jack (ETH Zurich); Principe, Jose (Univ. of Florida);
Figueiredo, Renato (Univ. of Florida); Sanchez, Justin C. (Univ. of Florida); Fortes, José (Univ. of Florida)

15:00-15:15 FrC06.3
Multimodal Fusion of Muscle and Brain Signals for a Hybrid-BCI ................................................................. 4343-4346
Leeb, Robert* (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne); Sagha, Hesam (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de
Lausanne); Chavarriaga, Ricardo (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne); Millán, José del R. (Swiss
Federal Inst. of Tech., Lausanne)

15:15-15:30 FrC06.4
Reconstructing Grasping Motions from High-Frequency Local Field Potentials in Primary Motor Cortex .... 4347-4350
Zhuang, Jun (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.); Truccolo, Wilson* (Brown Univ.);
Vargas-Irwin, Carlos (Brown Univ.); Donoghue, John (Brown Univ.)

15:30-15:45 FrC06.5
Common Spatial Pattern Patches – An Optimized Filter Ensemble for
Adaptive Brain-Computer Interfaces ................................................................................................................. 4351-4354
Sannelli, Claudia* (Berlin Inst. of Tech., BBCI Group); Vidaurre, Carmen (Berlin Inst. of Tech.);
Müller, Klaus-Robert (Berlin Inst. of Tech.); Blankertz, Benjamin (Berlin Inst. of Tech.)

FrC07: 14:30-16:00 Martin Fierro 1

8.3.3 Micro-Biorobotics (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 FrC07.1
MRI Visualization of a Single 15 µm Navigable Imaging Agent and Future Microrobot ............................... 4355-4358
Olamaei, Nina (École Polytechnique Montréal); Beaudoin, Gilles (Univ. de Montreal); Cheriet, Farida (Ecole
Polytechnique of Montreal); Martel, Sylvain* (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal)

14:45-15:00 FrC07.2
Tailoring the Drug Loading Capacity of Polypyrrole Films for Use in Intraocular Biomicrorobots ............ 4359-4362
Sivaraman, Kartik Mahadevan* (Multi Scale Robotics Lab, Inst. of Robotics & Intelligent Systems, ETH Zurich);
Bayrakceken, Kerem (ETH Zurich); Ergeneman, Olgac (ETH Zurich); Pané Vidal, Salvador (ETH Zürich);
Lühmann, Tessa (ETH Zürich, Dept. of Materials, Switzerland); Hall, Hreike (Cells & Biomaterials, Dept. of
Materials, ETH); Nelson, Bradley (ETH Zurich)

15:00-15:15 FrC07.3
Cell Micromanipulation with an Active Handheld Micromanipulator ............................................................. 4363-4366
Cuevas Tabares, Jaime (Univ. of Valladolid); MacLachlan, Robert A.* (Carnegie Mellon Univ.);
Ettensohn, Charles (Carnegie Mellon Univ.); Riviere, Cameron N (Carnegie Mellon Univ.)

15:15-15:30 FrC07.4
Effect of the Chain of Magnetosomes Embedded in Magnetotactic Bacteria and
Their Motility on Magnetic Resonance Imaging ................................................................................................ 4367-4370
Felfoul, Ouajdi (École polytechnique de Montréal); Mokrani, Nisryn* (Ecole Polytchnique de Montreal);
Mohammadi, Mahmood (École polytechnique de Montréal); Martel, Sylvain (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal)

15:30-15:45 FrC07.5
Magnetotactic Bacteria Penetration into Multicellular Tumor Spheroids for Targeted Therapy ................. 4371-4374
Mokrani, Nisryn* (Ecole Polytchnique de Montreal); Felfoul, Ouajdi (École polytechnique de Montréal);
Afkhami Zarreh, Fatemeh (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal); Mohammadi, Mahmood (École polytechnique de
Montréal); Aloyz, Raquel (McGill Univ., Lady Davis Inst. for MedicalReasearch, Cancer Segal Center of the
Jewish GeneralHospital); Batist, Gerald (McGill Univ., Lady Davis Inst. for Medical Reasearch, Cancer Segal
Center of the Jewish General Hospital); Martel, Sylvain (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal)

15:45-16:00 FrC07.6
A Locomotion Mechanism with External Magnetic Guidance for Active Capsule Endoscope ................... 4375-4378
Wang, Xiaona* (The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong); Meng, Max Q.-H. (The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong);
Chen, Xijun (The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong)
FrC08: 14:30-16:00 Martin Fierro 2
2.8.2 Deformable Image Registration I (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 FrC08.1
2D Mapping of Strongly Deformed Cell Nuclei Based on Contour Warping ................................................. 4379-4382
De Vylder, Jonas* (Ghent Univ.); Douterloigne, Koen (Ghent Univ.); Philips, Wilfried (Gent Univ.);
De Vos, Winnok (Ghent Univ.)

14:45-15:00 FrC08.2
Deformable Registration of Retinal Fluorescein Angiogram Sequences Using Vasculature Structures ... 4383-4386
Perez-Rovira, Adria* (Univ. of Dundee); Trucco, Emanuele (Univ. of Dundee); Wilson, Peter (Dept. of
Ophthalmology at Ninewells Hospital & Medical School, Dundee); Liu, Jiang (Inst for Infocomm Resrch, A STAR)

15:00-15:15 FrC08.3
Non-Rigid Registration of Breast Images Using Feature Points ..................................................................... 4387-4390
Zhang, Weiwei (Univ. of Oxford); Brady, Michael (Univ. of Oxford); Wessel, Carolina* (Univ. of Oxford);
Ho, Pui Shan (Candy) (Univ. of Oxford)

15:15-15:30 FrC08.4
Cephalometric Landmarks Identification Using Probabilistic Relaxation ..................................................... 4391-4394
Favaedi, Leila* (Imperial college); Petrou, Maria (Imperial College)

15:30-15:45 FrC08.5
2D/3D Reconstruction of a Scaled Lumbar Vertebral Model from a Single Fluoroscopic Image ................ 4395-4398
Zheng, Guoyan* (Univ. of Bern); Nolte, Lutz-Peter (Univ. of Bern); Ferguson, Stephen J. (Univ. of Bern)

15:45-16:00 FrC08.6
A New Representation of Intensity Atlas for GPU-Accelerated Instance Generation ................................... 4399-4402
Gong, Ren Hui* (Queen’s Univ.); Stewart, James (Queen’s Univ.); Abolmaesumi, Purang (UBC)

FrC09: 14:30-16:00 Ombu A

3.6.1 Wearable Sensors Principle and Technology (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 FrC09.1
Using Fitts’s Law for Evaluating Tongue Drive System As a Pointing Device for Computer Access ........ 4403-4406
Yousefi, Behnaz (Georgia Inst. of Tech.); Huo, Xueliang* (Georgia Inst. of Tech.);
Ghovanloo, Maysam (Georgia Inst. of Tech.)

14:45-15:00 FrC09.2
Early Results on Wrist Based Heart Rate Monitoring Using Mechanical Transducers ................................ 4407-4410
Buxi, Dilpreet* (IMEC, Holst Centre); Penders, Julien (imec / Holst Centre); Van Hoof, Chris (IMEC)

15:00-15:15 FrC09.3
Home Monitoring of Patients with Parkinson’s Disease Via Wearable Technology and a
Web-Based Application ....................................................................................................................................... 4411-4414
Patel, Shyamal (Harvard Medical School); Chen, Bor-rong (Harvard Univ.); Buckley, Thomas (Harvard Univ.);
Rednic, Ramona (Coventry Univ.); McClure, Doug (Partners Center for Connected Health); Tarsy, Daniel
(Harvard Medical School); Shih, Ludy (Harvard Medical School); Dy, Jennifer (Northeastern Univ.);
Welsh, Matt (Harvard Univ.); Bonato, Paolo* (Harvard Medical School)

15:15-15:30 FrC09.4
Continuous Monitoring of Electrodermal Activity During Epileptic Seizures Using a Wearable Sensor ... 4415-4418
Poh, Ming-Zher* (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.); Loddenkemper, Tobias (Children’s Hospital Boston); Swenson,
Nicholas (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.); Goyal, Shubhi (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.); Madsen, Joseph
(Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School); Picard, Rosalind (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.)

15:30-15:45 FrC09.5
Silicon Nanophotonic Devices for Integrated Lab-On-A-Chip Sensing ......................................................... 4419-4422
Momeni, Babak (Georgia Tech); Yegnanarayanan, Siva (Georgia Tech); Soltani, Mohammad (Georgia Tech);
Eftekhar, Ali A. (Georgia Tech); Shah Hosseini, Ehsan (Georgia Tech); Adibi, Ali* (Georgia Tech)
FrC10: 14:30-16:00 Ombu B
10.7.1 Health Information System Integration and Electronic Health Records I (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 FrC10.1
The Deployment of Information Systems and Information Technology in Field Hospitals ......................... 4423-4426
Crowe, Ian (Coventry Univ.); Naguib, Raouf* (Coventry Univ.)

14:45-15:00 FrC10.2
In a Hospital: An Electrical Safety and Information System ............................................................................ 4427-4430
Barbosa, Andréa* (Univ. Federal da Grande Dourados); Iaione, Fabio (Univ. Federal da Grande Dourados)

15:00-15:15 FrC10.3
Development of a Personal Electronic Health Record Card in the United Kingdom .................................... 4431-4435
Rybynok, Victor* (City Univ., London); Kyriacou, Panayiotis (City Univ.); Binnersley, Jackie (Coventry Univ.);
Woodcock, Andree (Coventry Univ.)

15:15-15:30 FrC10.4
Semantic Similarity Measure in Biomedical Domain Leverage Web Search Engine .................................... 4436-4439
Chen, Chi-Huang* (Natl. Taiwan Univ.); Hsieh, Sheau-Ling (Natl. Chiao Tung Univ.); Weng, Yung-Ching (Natl.
Taiwan Univ.); Chang, Wen-Yung (Natl. Chiao Tung Univ.); Lai, Feipei (Natl. Taiwan Univ.)

15:30-15:45 FrC10.5
A New XML-Aware Compression Technique for Improving Performance of Healthcare Information
Systems Over Hospital Networks ....................................................................................................................... 4440-4443
Al-Shammary, Dhiah (RMIT Univ.); Khalil, Ibrahim* (RMIT Univ.)

FrC11: 14:30-16:00 Poncho

6.1.3 Impaired Attention: Drowsiness and Microsleeps (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 FrC11.1
Estimation of Alertness Levels with Changes in Decibel Scale Wavelength of EEG During Dual-Task
Simulation of Auditory Sonar Target Detection ................................................................................................ 4444-4447
Poosapadi Arjunan, Sridhar* (RMIT Univ.); Kant Kumar, Dinesh (RMIT Univ.);
Jung, Tzyy-Ping (Univ. of California San Diego)

14:45-15:00 FrC11.2
Behavioural Microsleeps in Normally-Rested People ...................................................................................... 4448-4451
Innes, Carrie R. H.* (Canterbury District Health Board); Poudel, Govinda (Univ. of Otago);
Signal, T. L. (Massey Univ.); Jones, Richard D. (Van der Veer Inst.)

15:00-15:15 FrC11.3
The Relationship between Behavioural Microsleeps, Visuomotor Performance and EEG Theta ............... 4452-4455
Poudel, Govinda* (Univ. of Otago); Innes, Carrie R. H. (Canterbury District Health Board);
Bones, P. J. (Univ. of Canterbury); Jones, Richard D. (Van der Veer Inst.)

15:15-15:30 FrC11.4
Evaluation of PERCLOS Based Current Fatigue Monitoring Technologies .................................................. 4456-4459
Sommer, David* (Univ. of Applied Sciences Schmalkalden); Golz, Martin (Univ. of Applied Sciences Schmalkalden)

15:30-15:45 FrC11.5
Improving Classification Rates for Use in Fatigue Countermeasure Devices Using Brain Activity ........... 4460-4463
Tran, Yvonne (Univ. of Tech., Sydney); Craig, Ashley (Univ. of Tech., Sydney);
Wijesuriya, Nirupama (The Univ. of Sydney); Nguyen, Hung T.* (Univ. of Tech., Sydney)

15:45-16:00 FrC11.6
Wireless Physiological Monitoring and Ocular Tracking: 3D Calibration in a Fully-Immersive
Virtual Health Care Environment ........................................................................................................................ 4464-4467
Zhang, Lelin (UC San Diego); Chi, Yu (UCSD); Edelstein, Eve (UC San Diego); Schulze, Jurgen (UC San
Diego); Gramann, Klaus (UC San Diego); Velasquez, Alvaro (HMC Architects); Cauwenberghs, Gert* (Univ. of
California San Diego); Macagno, Eduardo (UC San Diego)
FrC12: 14:30-16:00 Rio De Plata
6.7.3 Neural Rehabilitation – Robotics (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 FrC12.1
Development of Body Weight Support Gait Training System Using Antagonistic
Bi-Articular Muscle Model ................................................................................................................................... 4468-4471
Shibata, Yoshiyuki* (Shibaura Inst. of Tech.); Shingo, Imai (Shibaura Inst. of Tech.); Nobutomo, Tatsuya
(Shibaura Inst. of Tech.); Miyoshi, Tasuku (Iwate Univ.); Yamamoto, Shin-ichiroh (Shibaura Inst. of Tech.)

14:45-15:00 FrC12.2
Bio Cooperative Robotic Platform for Motor Function Recovery of the Upper Limb after Stroke .............. 4472-4475
Rodriguez, Carlos* (Fundcion CARTIF); Fraile, Juan carlos (Fundacion CARTIF);
Rivera farina, Pedro (Fundacion CARTIF); Pérez Turiel, Javier (Valladolid Univ.)

15:00-15:15 FrC12.3
A Telepresence Robotic System Operated with a P300-Based Brain-Computer Interface: Initial Tests
with ALS Patients ................................................................................................................................................. 4476-4480
Escolano, Carlos* (Univ. of Zaragoza); Ramos Murguialday, Ander (Fatronik Tecnalia Germany/Inst. of
Medical Psychology & Behavioral Neurobiology); Matuz, Tamara (Inst. of Medical Psychology & Behavioral
Neurobiology); Birbaumer, Niels (Eberhard-Karls-Univ.); Minguez, Javier (Zaragoza Univ.)

15:15-15:30 FrC12.4
Efficacy of Robotic Rehabilitation of Ankle Impairments in Children with Cerebral Palsy ......................... 4481-4484
Wu, Yi-Ning (Rehab. Inst. of Chicago); Ren, Yupeng (Rehab. Inst. of Chicago); Hwang, Miriam (Korea Univ.
College of Medicine); Gaebler-Spira, Deborah (Northwestern Univ.); Zhang, Liqun* (Northwestern Univ.)

15:30-15:45 FrC12.5
Hand Function Recovery in Chronic Stroke with HEXORR Robotic Training: A Case Series ..................... 4485-4488
Godfrey, Sasha Blue* (Catholic Univ. of America); Schabowsky, Chris (Catholic Univ.); Holley, Rahsaan (Natl.
Rehabilitation Hospital); Lum, Peter (Natl. Rehabilitation Hospital, Catholic Univ. of America, Veteran Affairs)

15:45-16:00 FrC12.6
Gravity Compensation of an Upper Extremity Exoskeleton ............................................................................ 4489-4493
Moubarak, Salam* (INSA Lyon, Univ. de Lyon); Pham, Minh Tu (Inst. Natl. des Sciences Appliquées (INSA de
Lyon)); Moreau, Richard (INSA-Lyon); Redarce, Tanneguy (Inst. Natl. des Sciences Appliquées (INSA de Lyon))

FrC13: 14:30-16:00 Gomez Losada

6.9.1 Musculoskeletal Models for Understanding the
Neural Control of Unimpaired Movement (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 FrC13.1
Neuro-Mechanical Control Using Differential Stochastic Operators .............................................................. 4494-4497
Sanger, Terence David* (Univ. of Southern California)

14:45-15:00 FrC13.2
Modeling the Biomechanical Constraints on the Feedforward Control of Endpoint Stiffness ................... 4498-4501
Hu, Xiao (Northwestern Univ.); Murray, Wendy (Northwestern Univ.); Perreault, Eric* (Northwestern Univ.)

15:00-15:15 FrC13.3
Understanding Complex Muscles in the Rat Hindlimb: Activations and Actions ......................................... 4502-4505
Tresch, Matthew* (Northwestern Univ.)

15:15-15:30 FrC13.4
Towards a Neuronal Network Controller for Vertical Jumping from Different Initial Squat Depths ........... 4506-4509
Bobbert, Maarten* (VU Univ., Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

15:30-15:45 FrC13.5
Optimality in Neuromuscular Systems .............................................................................................................. 4510-4516
Theodorou, Evangelos (Univ. of Southern California); Valero-Cuevas, Francisco* (Univ. of Southern California)
15:45-16:00 FrC13.6
A Predictive Model of the Isometric Force Response of the Locust Extensor Muscle ................................ 4517-4520
Wilson, Emma Denise* (Univ. of Southampton); Rustighi, Emiliano (Univ. of Southampton);
Newland, Philip Leslie (Univ. of Southampton); Mace, Brian (Univ. of Southampton)

FrC14: 14:30-16:00 Auditorium

6.3.3 Advances in Neurocomputation (Mini Symposium)

14:30-14:45 FrC14.1
Mapping Visual Stimuli to Perceptual Decisions Via Sparse Decoding of Mesoscopic Neural Activity .... 4521-4521
Sajda, Paul* (Columbia Univ.)

14:45-15:00 FrC14.2
Assessment of Lower Extremity Motor Adaptation Via an Extension of the Force Field
Adaptation Paradigm ........................................................................................................................................... 4522-4525
Cajigas, Iahn (MIT); Goldsmith, Mary (Boston Univ.); Duschau-Wicke, Alexander (ETH & Univ. Zurich);
Riener, Robert (ETH & Univ. Zurich); Smith, Maurice (Johns Hopkins Univ.); Brown, Emery N (MGH-Harvard
Medical School-MIT); Bonato, Paolo* (Harvard Medical School)

15:00-15:15 FrC14.3
Prefrontal Cortex Deletion Affects the Dopaminergic Neural Firing Complexity in
Nicotine-Treated Ventral Tegmental Area ......................................................................................................... 4526-4529
Akay, Metin* (Univ. of Houston)

FrDPo01: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

10.8.2 Emerging Topics in Health Information
Technology and Telemedicine (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo01.1
A Domain Model of a Clinical Reading Center – Design and Implementation ............................................... 4530-4533
Lotz, Gunnar* (Univ. of Tuebingen); Peters, Tobias (STZ-eyetrial at the Centre for Ophthalmology, Univ.
ofTuebingen); Zrenner, Eberhart (Univ. of Tuebingen); Wilke, Robert (Univ. of New South Wales)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo01.2
TongueWise: Tongue-Computer Interface Software for People with Tetraplegia ......................................... 4534-4537
Caltenco, Hector Alejandro* (Aalborg Univ.); Andreasen Struijk, Lotte N. S. (Aalborg Univ.);
Breidegard, Björn (Certec – Division of Rehabilitation Engineering Research, Lund Univ., Sweden)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo01.3
Smartphone Based Face Recognition Tool for the Blind ................................................................................ 4538-4541
Kramer, Kevin (Advanced Medical Electronics Corp.); Hedin, Daniel* (Advanced Medical Electronics);
Rolkosky, David (Advanced Medical Electronics Corp.)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo01.4
User Inspection of National Taiwan University’s Telehealth Care System .................................................... 4542-4545
Wu, Pei Hsuan (Univ. of Victoria); Chen, Chi-Huang (Natl. Taiwan Univ.); Chen, Huai-Te (Natl. Taiwan Univ.);
Shu, Che-Hsuan (Natl. Taiwan Univ.); Lin, Feng-Sheng (Natl. Taiwan Univ.); Wang, Yi-Van (Natl. Taiwan
Univ.); Li, Hao-Jhun (Natl. Taiwan Univ.); Wu, Yuan-Ting (Natl. Taiwan Univ.); Lai, Feipei* (Natl. Taiwan Univ.)

FrDPo02: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

1.2.13 Signal Processing in Physiological Systems VI (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo02.1
The Effect of Wavelet-Based Filtering and Data Set Length on the Fractal Scaling of
Cardiorespiratory Variability ............................................................................................................................... 4546-4549
BuSha, Brett* (The College of New Jersey)
16:00-17:30 FrDPo02.2
Arterial Pressure and Diameter Waveforms Analysis by Means of Wavelet Transform:
Application to Artery De-Endothelization .......................................................................................................... 4550-4553
Zajarevich, Nicolas Mariano (CEILAP (CITEFA-CONICET)); Bia, Daniel (School of Medicine, Republic Univ.);
Pessana, Franco Martin (Favaloro Univ.); Codnia, J (Citefa); Armentano, Ricardo Luis* (Favaloro Univ.)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo02.3
Variable Optimisation of Medical Image Data by the Learning Bayesian Network Reasoning ................... 4554-4557
Orun, Ahmet (Univ. of Birmingham); Aydin, Nizamettin* (Yildiz Technical Univ.)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo02.4
Application of Frequency and Sample Entropy to Discriminate Long-Term Recordings of
Paroxysmal and Persistent Atrial Fibrillation ................................................................................................... 4558-4561
Alcaraz Martinez, Raul (Univ. of Castilla-La Mancha); Sandberg, Frida (Lund Univ.); Sornmo, Leif (Lund Univ.);
Rieta, J. J.* (Univ. Politecnica de Valencia)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo02.5
An Asynchronous BMI System for Online Single-Trial Detection of Movement Intention ........................... 4562-4565
Ibáñez, Jaime* (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas CSIC); Serrano, José Ignacio (Bioengineering
Group, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas CSIC); del Castillo, María Dolores (Bioengineering
Group, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas CSIC); Barrios, Luis J. (Bioengineering Group, Consejo
Superior de Investigaciones Científicas CSIC)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo02.6
Heart Murmur Classification with Feature Selection ........................................................................................ 4566-4569
Kumar, Dinesh (Univ. of Coimbra); de Carvalho, Paulo (Univ. of Coimbra); Antunes, Manual (Univ. of Coimbra);
Paiva, Rui Pedro* (Univ. of Coimbra); Henriques, Jorge (Univ. of Coimbra)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo02.7
Oscillations in the Evaluation of Fractal Dimension of RR Intervals Time Series ........................................ 4570-4573
Muñoz-Diosdado, Alejandro* (UPIBI-IPN); Gálvez-Coyt, Gonzalo (UPIBI, Inst. Politécnico Nacional MEXICO);
Perez Uribe, Brenda Magdalena (UPIBI-IPN)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo02.8
Improving Discriminality in Heart Rate Variability Analysis Using Simple Artifact and
Trend Removal Preprocessors ........................................................................................................................... 4574-4577
Lee, Ming-Yuan (Natl. Chung Cheng Univ.); Yu, Sung-Nien* (Natl. Chung Cheng Univ.)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo02.9
Computer-Aided Auscultation to Diagnose Renal Artery Stenosis ................................................................ 4578-4581
Lund, Morten Enemark* (Aalborg Univ.); Schmidt, Samuel Emil (Aalborg Univ.);
Struijk, Johannes (Aalborg Univ.); Buur, Tom (Aalborg Hospital)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo02.10
PPG Delineator for Real-Time Ubiquitous Applications .................................................................................. 4582-4585
Farooq, Umar* (Kyung Hee Univ.); Park, Jang Ho (Kyunghee Univ.); Park, Seung-Hun (Kyung Hee Univ.)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo02.11
A New Method for Automatic Delineation of ECG Fiducial Points Based on the Phasor Transform ......... 4586-4589
Martinez Rodrigo, Arturo (Univ. de Castilla-La Mancha); Alcaraz Martinez, Raul* (Univ. of Castilla-La Mancha);
Rieta, J. J. (Univ. Politecnica de Valencia)

FrDPo03: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

1.4.13 EMG (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo03.1
Application of Empirical Mode Decomposition and Teager Energy Operator to EEG Signals for
Mental Task Classification .................................................................................................................................. 4590-4593
Kaleem, Muhammad Farhat* (Ryerson Univ.)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo03.2
Measurement of distal EMG Signals using a Wearable Device for Reading Facial Expressions ................ 4594-4597
Gruebler, Anna* (Univ. of Tsukuba); Suzuki, Kenji (Univ. of Tsukuba)
16:00-17:30 FrDPo03.3
Reducing Electrocardiographic Artifacts from Electromyogram Signals with Independent
Component Analysis ........................................................................................................................................... 4598-4601
Costa Junior, José Dilermando (Biomedical Engineering Program – Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro);
Ferreira, Danton Diego (Federal Univ. of Lavras); Nadal, Jurandir (Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro);
Miranda de Sá, Antonio Mauricio* (Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo03.4
Merging PK/PD Information in a Minimally Parameterized Model of the NeuroMuscular Blockade ........... 4602-4605
Silva, Margarida M. (Faculdade de Ciências – Univ. do Porto); Almeida, Juliana (Faculdade de Ciências da
Univ. do Porto); Wigren, Torbjorn (Uppsala Univ.); Mendonça, Teresa* (Faculdade de Ciencias, Univ. do Porto)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo03.5
Tracking Whole Hand Kinematics Using Extended Kalman Filter .................................................................. 4606-4609
Fu, Qiushi* (Arizona State Univ.); Santello, Marco (Arizona State Univ.)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo03.6
Surface Electromyogram Signals Classification Based on Bispectrum ........................................................ 4610-4613
Orosco, Eugenio (Univ. Nacional de San Juan); Soria, Carlos (Univ. Nacional de San Juan);
Lopez, Natalia M* (Univ. Nacional de San Juan); di Sciascio, Fernando (Univ. Nacional de San Juan)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo03.7
Fractal Feature of sEMG from Flexor Digitorum Superficialis Muscle Correlated with
Levels of Contraction During Low-Level Finger Flexions ............................................................................... 4614-4617
Poosapadi Arjunan, Sridhar* (RMIT Univ.); Kant Kumar, Dinesh (RMIT Univ.);
Naik, Ganesh R (Royal Melbourne Univ. of Tech)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo03.8
Decrement of Uterine Myometrial Burst Duration As a Correlate to Active Labor:
A Hilbert Phase Approach ................................................................................................................................... 4618-4621
Govindan, Rathinaswamy* (UAMS); Vairavan, Srinivasan (Univ. of Arkansas at Little Rock);
Furdea, Adrian (Univ. of Tübingen); Murphy, Pamela (Univ. of Arkansas for Medical Sciences);
Preissl, Hubert (Univ. of Tübingen); Eswaran, Hari (Univ of Arkansas for Medical Sci)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo03.9
Fourier and Wavelet Spectral Analysis of EMG Signals in Maximal Constant Load Dynamic Exercise .... 4622-4625
Costa, Marcelo Vitor da (Univ. Estadual de Londrina); Pereira, Lucas Adriano (Univ. Estadual de Londrina);
Oliveira, Ricardo Santos (Univ. Estadual de Londrina); Pedro, Rafael Evangelista (Univ. Estadual de Londrina);
Camata, Thiago (Univ. Estadual de Londrina); Abrão, Taufik (Univ. Estadual de Londrina);
Brunetto, Maria Angélica de Olivieira Camargo (Univ. Estadual de Londrina);
Altimari, Leandro Ricardo* (Univ. Estadual de Londrina)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo03.10
Evaluation of a Game Controller Using Human Stiffness Estimated from Electromyogram ....................... 4626-4631
Watanabe, Masato* (Tokyo Inst. of Tech.); Yamamoto, Taisuke (Sony); Kambara, Hiroyuki (Tokyo Inst. of
Tech.); Koike, Yasuharu (Tokyo Inst. of Tech.)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo03.11
Wavelet Analysis for Support Vector Machine Classification of Motor Unit Action Potentials ................... 4632-4635
Dobrowolski, Andrzej P.* (Military Univ. of Tech.); Wierzbowski, Mariusz (Faculty of Electronics, Military Univ. of
Tech., Warsaw, Poland); Tomczykiewicz, Kazimierz (Military Inst. of Health Service)

FrDPo04: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

1.9.2 Data Mining and Signal Analysis (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo04.1
Spike Detection in Extracellular Recordings by Hybrid Blind Beamforming ................................................ 4636-4641
Natora, Michal* (TU Berlin); Franke, Felix (Technische Univ. Berlin); Obermayer, Klaus (Technische Univ. Berlin)
16:00-17:30 FrDPo04.2
Improving the Classification Rate of Labor vs. Normal Pregnancy Contractions by Using EHG
Multichannel Recordings .................................................................................................................................... 4642-4645
Hassan, Mahmoud* (UTC-France); Terrien, Jeremy (Reykjavik Univ.); Alexandersson, Asgeir (Faculty of
Medicine, Univ. of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland); Marque, Catherine (Univ. of Tech. of Compiegne);
Karlsson, Brynjar (Reykjavik Univ.)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo04.3
Partial Directed Coherence Estimated on Stereo-EEG Signals in Patients with Taylor’s Type Focal
Cortical Dysplasia ................................................................................................................................................ 4646-4649
Varotto, Giulia* (Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico C. Besta, viaCeloria11, Milano, Italy);
Franceschetti, Silvana (Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico C. Besta, via Celoria 11, Milano, Italy);
Spreafico, Roberto (Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico C. Besta, via Celoria 11, Milano, Italy);
Tassi, Laura (Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico C. Besta, via Celoria 11, Milano, Italy);
Panzica, Ferruccio (Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico C. Besta Milano, Italy)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo04.4
A Yarbus-Style Experiment to Determine Auditory Attention ......................................................................... 4650-4653
Kidmose, Preben (WIDEX); Rank, Mike Lind (Widex A/S); Ungstrup, Michael (Widex A/S); Looney, David*
(Imperial College London); Park, Cheolsoo (Imperial College London); Mandic, Danilo (Imperial College)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo04.5
Evaluation of an Alternative Definition for the Apnea-Hypopnea Index ........................................................ 4654-4657
Otero, Abraham* (San Pablo CEU); Félix Lamas, Paulo (Univ. of Santiago de Compostela); Rodriguez
Presedo, Jesus Maria (Univ. of Santiago de Compostela); Zamarrón, Carlos (Hospital Clínico Univ.)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo04.6
Automatic K-Complexes Detection in Sleep EEG Recordings Using Likelihood Thresholds ..................... 4658-4661
Devuyst, Stéphanie* (Faculté polytechnique de Mons); Dutoit, Thierry (Faculté polytechnique de Mons);
Stenuit, Patricia (CHU Vésale); Kerkhofs, Myriam (CHU Vésale)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo04.7
Evolved Fuzzy Reasoning Model for Hypoglycaemic Detection ..................................................................... 4662-4665
Ling, Steve (Univ. of Tech. Sydney); Nuryani, Nuryani* (Univ. of Tech. Sydney);
Nguyen, Hung T. (Univ. of Tech., Sydney)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo04.8
Trial Pruning for Classification of Single-Trial EEG Data During Motor Imagery ......................................... 4666-4669
Wang, Boyu* (Univ. of Macau); Wong, Chi Man (Univ. of Macau); Wan, Feng (Univ. of Macau)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo04.9
ECG Data-Acquisition and Classification System by Using Wavelet-Domain Hidden Markov Models ...... 4670-4673
Reis Gomes, Pedro Miguel Pinto* (Lusiada Univ.); Soares, Filomena (Univ. of Minho);
Correia, Higino (Univ. of Minho); Lima, Carlos Manuel Gregorio Santos (Univ. of Minho)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo04.10
A New Approach to Discriminative HMM Training for Pathological Voice Classification ............................ 4674-4677
Sarria-Paja, Milton Orlando (Inst. Tecnológico Metropolitano); Castellanos-Dominguez, Germán (Univ. Nacional
de Colombia); Delgado, Edilson* (Inst. Tecnológico Metropolitano)

FrDPo05: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

1.9.3 Data Mining in Biosignals (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo05.1
Spectral Spatio-Temporal Template Extraction from EEG Signals ................................................................ 4678-4682
Ostadabbas, Sarah* (Univ. of Texas at Dallas); Jafari, Roozbeh (Univ. of Texas at Dallas)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo05.2
Creating Symbolic Representations of Electroencephalographic Signals: An Investigation of
Alternate Methodologies on Intracranial Data .................................................................................................. 4683-4686
Balakrishnan, Guha* (Univ. of Michigan- Ann Arbor); Shoeb, Ali (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.); Syed, Zeeshan
(Univ. of Michigan)
16:00-17:30 FrDPo05.3
An Integrated Domain Specific Language for Post-Processing and Visualizing
Electrophysiological Signals in Java ................................................................................................................. 4687-4690
Strasser, Torsten* (Centre for Ophthalmology, Univ. of Tuebingen, Tuebingen); Peters, Tobias (STZ-eyetrial at
the Centre for Ophthalmology, Univ. ofTuebingen); Jägle, Herbert (Univ. Eye Clinic Regensburg);
Zrenner, Eberhart (Univ. of Tuebingen); Wilke, Robert (Univ. of New South Wales)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo05.4
Tunnel Morph Model for Time Frequency Bio-Signal Waveform Processing ............................................... 4691-4694
Zheng, Gang* (Tianjin Univ. of Tech.); Lian, Shi liu (Tianjin Univ. of Tech.); Mou, Shan ling (Tianjin Univ. of
Tech.); Qi, Jia (Tianjin Univ. of Tech.)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo05.5
Classification of Holter Registers by Dynamic Clustering Using Multi-Dimensional Particle
Swarm Optimization ............................................................................................................................................. 4695-4698
Kiranyaz, Serkan* (Tampere Univ. of Tech.); Ince, Turker (Izmir Univ. of Economics);
Pulkkinen, Jenni (Tampere Univ. of Tech.); Gabbouj, Moncef Gabbouj (Tampere Univ. of Tech.)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo05.6
Syllable-Based Speech Recognition Using EMG .............................................................................................. 4699-4702
Lopez-Larraz, Eduardo* (Univ. of Zaragoza); Martinez Mozos, Oscar (Univ. of Zaragoza);
Antelis, Javier M. (Univ. of Zaragoza); Minguez, Javier (Zaragoza Univ.)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo05.7
Shape Analysis and Clustering of Surface EMG Data ..................................................................................... 4703-4706
Boudaoud, Sofiane* (Univ. of Tech. of Compiègne (UTC)); Ayachi, Fouaz (UTC,Univ. de technologie de
compiègne); Marque, Catherine (Univ. of Tech. of Compiegne)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo05.8
Complex-Valued Spatial Filters for Task Discrimination ................................................................................. 4707-4710
Falzon, Owen* (Univ. of Malta); Camilleri, Kenneth Patrick (Univ. of Malta); Muscat, Joseph (Univ. of Malta)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo05.9
A New Multiclass Multivariate Group Comparison Test: Application to Drug Safety ................................... 4711-4714
Tohmé, Mireille (Clin Data Mgmt.); Lengellé, Régis* (Univ. of Tech. of Troyes); Freytag, Virginie (Clin Data Mgmt.)

FrDPo06: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

2.2.3 Ultrasound (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo06.1
An Alpha-Stable Model for Ultrasound Speckle Statistics in Skin ................................................................. 4715-4718
Pereyra, Marcelo A.* (Univ. of Toulouse–UMR CNRS 5505); Batatia, Hadj (Univ. of Toulouse–UMR CNRS 5505)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo06.2
Role of Fuzzy Pre-Classifier for High Performance Segmentation of
Longitudinal Carotid Ultrasound Images .......................................................................................................... 4719-4722
Molinari, Filippo* (Politecnico di Torino); Gaetano, Laura (Politecnico di Torino); Balestra, Gabriella (Politecnico
di Torino); Suri, Jasjit (Biomedical Technologies)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo06.3
Ultrasound Biomicroscopy for In Vivo Architectural Characterization of Gastrocnemius Muscle from Rats .. 4723-4726
Peixinho, Carolina Carneiro* (Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro); Resende, Célia M. C. (Federal Univ. of
Rio de Janeiro); Oliveira, Liliam Fernandes de (Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro);
Machado, Joao Carlos (Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo06.4
Automatic Localization and Segmentation of Colelithiasis Crystals in Ultrasound Images ....................... 4727-4730
Carvalho, Fabricio, F.* (Federal Univ. of Sergipe); Bensebaa, kamel (Federal Univ. of Sergipe)
16:00-17:30 FrDPo06.5
Automatic Segmentation of the Cerebellum of Fetuses on 3D Ultrasound Images, Using a
3D Point Distribution Model ................................................................................................................................ 4731-4734
Gutierrez Becker, Benjamin (CCADET, UNAM); Arambula Cosio, Fernando* (Univ. Nacional Autonoma de
Mexico); Guzman Huerta, Mario E (Natl. Inst. of Perinatal Medicine, Mexico); Benavides-Serralde,
Jesus Andres (Natl. Inst. of Perinatal Medicine, Mexico)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo06.6
Improvement of Speckle Noise Reduction Using Multi-Resolutional Coherence
Measurement in Ultrasound Image .................................................................................................................... 4735-4739
Kwon, Ju Won* (Korea Advanced Inst. of Science & Tech. (KAIST));
Ro, Yong Man (Korea Advanced Inst. of Science & Tech.)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo06.7
An Additive and Lossless Watermarking Method Based on Invariant Image Approximation and
Haar Wavelet Transform ...................................................................................................................................... 4740-4743
Pan, Wei (Telecom Bretagne); Coatrieux, Gouenou* (ENST Bretagne – Inserm); Cuppens, Nora (Telecom
Bretagne); Cuppens, Frédéric (Telecom Bretagne); Roux, Christian (TELECOM Bretagne – INSERM)

FrDPo07: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

2.7.5 Image Segmentation IV (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo07.1
Segmentation for Classification of Gastroenterology Images ........................................................................ 4744-4747
Coimbra, Miguel (Inst. de Telecomunicações / Univ. do Porto); Riaz, Farhan* (Univ. do Porto);
Areia, Miguel (Portuguese Inst. of Oncology); Areia, Miguel (Portuguese Oncology Inst. – Coimbra);
Ribeiro, Mario Dinis (Univ. do Porto)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo07.2
A Spectral K-Means Approach to Bright-Field Cell Image Segmentation ...................................................... 4748-4751
Bradbury, Laura (Univ. of Waterloo); Wan, Justin* (Univ. of Waterloo)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo07.3
Soft Thresholding for Medical Image Segmentation ........................................................................................ 4752-4755
Aja-Fernandez, Santiago* (Univ. de Valladolid); Vegas-Sanchez-Ferrero, Gonzalo (Univ. de Valladolid);
Martin-Fernandez, Miguel Angel (Univ. de Valladolid)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo07.4
Stery-Hand: A New Device to Support Hand Disinfection ............................................................................... 4756-4759
Szilagyi, Laszlo* (Budapest Univ of Tech & Economics); Lehotsky, Ákos (Dept. of Control Engineering &
Information Tech., Budapest Univ. of Tech. & Economics, Hungary); Nagy, Melinda (Budapest Univ. of Tech. &
Economics); Haidegger, Tamas (Budapest Univ. of Tech. & Economics); Benyo, Balazs Istvan (Szechenyi
Istvan Univ.); Benyo, Zoltan (Budapest Univ of Tech & Economics)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo07.5
Manual Measurement of Retinal Bifurcation Features ..................................................................................... 4760-4764
Al-Diri, Bashir (The Univ. of Lincoln); Hunter, Andrew* (Univ. of Lincoln); Steel, David (Sunderland Eye
Infirmary); Maged, Habib (Sunderland Eye Infirmary)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo07.6
Multi Scale and Slice-Based Approach for Automatic Spine Detection ......................................................... 4765-4768
Zhang, Yong* (IBM Almaden Research Center)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo07.7
Inter-Greedy Technique for Fusion of Different Carotid Segmentation Boundaries Leading to
High-Performance IMT Measurement ................................................................................................................ 4769-4772
Molinari, Filippo* (Politecnico di Torino); Zeng, Guang (Mayo Clinic); Suri, Jasjit (Biomedical Technologies)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo07.8
Morphological Segmentation for Sagittal Plane Image Analysis .................................................................... 4773-4776
Bezerra, Francisco Nivando (Inst. Federal de Educação Ciência e Tecnologia); Paula Jr, Ialis Cavalcante*
(Federal Univ. of Ceará); Medeiros, Fátima N.S. (Federal Univ. of Ceara); Ushizima, D M (Lawrence
Berkeley Natl. Lab); Cintra, Luis Henrique (Somma Physioterapy Center)
16:00-17:30 FrDPo07.9
Three Dimensional Template Matching Segmentation Method for Motile Cells in 3D+t Video Sequences .... 4777-4780
Pimentel, Jaime Arturo (Univ. Nacional Autónoma de México); Corkidi, Gabriel* (Inst. de Biotecnología, UNAM)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo07.11
Pectoral Muscle Detection in Mammograms Based on Polar Coordinates and the Shortest Path ............. 4781-4784
Cardoso, Jaime S. (INESC Porto, Faculdade de Engenharia, Univ. do Porto); Domingues, Inês* (Univ. do
Porto, Faculdade de Engenharia); Amaral, Igor (INESC Porto); Moreira, Ines (Centro de Mama – Hospital S.
João, Porto); Almeida Passarinho, Pedro Miguel (Emílio de Azevedo Campos, SA); Santa Comba, Joao (Emilio
de Azevedo Campos, SA); Cruz-Correia, Ricardo João (CINTESIS – Centre for Research in Health
Technologies & Information Systems); Cardoso, Maria João (Porto Faculty of Medicine)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo07.12
Airborne Asbestos Fibers Detection in Microscope Images Using Re-Initialization Free Active Contours .... 4785-4788
Theodosiou, Zenonas* (Cyprus Univ. of Tech.); Tsapatsoulis, Nicolas (Cyprus Univ. of Tech.); Bujak-Pietrek, Stella
(Nofer Inst. of Occupational Medicine); Szadkowska-Stanczyk, Irena (Nofer Inst. of Occupational Medicine)

FrDPo08: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

2.7.7 Image Segmentation V (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo08.1
Temporal Segmentation of Lung Region MR Image Sequences Using Hough Transform .......................... 4789-4792
Tavares, Renato Seiji (Escola Politecnica da Univ. de Sao Paulo); Sato, André Kubagawa (Escola Politecnica
da Univ. de Sao Paulo); Tsuzuki, Marcos de Sales Guerra* (Escola Politecnica da Univ. de Sao Paulo);
Gotoh, Toshiyuki (Yokohama Natl. Univ.); Kagei, Seiichiro (Yokohama Natl. Univ.);
Iwasawa, Tae (Kannagawa Cardiovascular & Respiratory Centre)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo08.2
An Improved Gradient Vector Flow Algorithm for Optic Disc Segmentation ................................................ 4793-4796
Zhou, Huiyu (Queen’s Univ. Belfast); Schaefer, Gerald* (Loughborough Univ.); Liu, Tangwei (Guangxi Medical
Univ.); Lin, Faquan (Guangxi Medical Univ.)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo08.3
Efficient Liver Surgery Planning in 3D Based on Functional Segment Classification and
Volumetric Information ........................................................................................................................................ 4797-4800
Debarba, Henrique G. (Univ. de Caxias do Sul e Univ. Federal do Rio Grande do Sul); Zanchet, Dinamar (Univ.
Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre); Fracaro, Daiane (Univ. de Caxias do Sul); Maciel, Anderson*
(Univ. de Caxias do Sul); Kalil, Antonio N. (Univ. Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo08.4
Detecting Tubular Structures Via Direct Vector Field Singularity Characterization ..................................... 4801-4804
Cabuk, Aytekin Durmus (Bogazici Univ.); Alpay, Erdenay (Bogazici Univ.); Acar, Burak* (Bogazici Univ.)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo08.5
Decoupled External Forces in a Predictor-Corrector Segmentation Scheme for
LV Contours in Tagged MR Images ................................................................................................................... 4805-4808
Garcia-Barnes, Jaume* (Computer Vision Center); Andaluz, Albert (Computer Vision Center);
Carreras, Francesc (Hospital de Sant Pau); Gil, Debora (Computer Vision Center)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo08.6
Improved Gradient Vector Flow for Robust Shape Estimation in Medical Imaging ...................................... 4809-4812
Nascimento, Jacinto* (Inst. Superior Técnico)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo08.7
Segmentation of Cell Clumps for Quantitative Analysis ................................................................................. 4813-4816
Li, Simon* (Univ. of Oxford); Buehnemann, Claudia (Univ. of Oxford); Hassan, Bass (Univ. of Oxford);
Noble, J Alison (Univ. of Oxford)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo08.8
Mixture Model-Based Approach for Optic Cup Segmentation ........................................................................ 4817-4820
Tan, Ngan Meng* (A*STAR, Inst. for Infocomm Research); Liu, Jiang (Inst for Infocomm Resrch, A STAR);
Wong, Damon (Inst. for Infocomm Research); Yin, Fengshou (Inst. for Infocomm Research);
Lim, Joo Hwee (Inst. for Infocomm Research); Wong, Tien Yin (Natl. Univ. of Singapore)
FrDPo09: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn
6.2.7 Analysis of Neural Signals II (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo09.1
A Machine Learning Based Method for Classification of Fractal Features of Forearm
Semg Using Twin Support Vector Machines ..................................................................................................... 4821-4824
Naik, Ganesh R* (Royal Melbourne Univ. of Tech); Poosapadi Arjunan, Sridhar (RMIT Univ.)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo09.2
Time Robust Movement Direction Decoding in Local Field Potentials Using Channel Ranking ................ 4825-4828
Tadipatri, Vijay Aditya* (Univ. of Minnesota); Tewfik, Ahmed (Univ. of Minnesota); Gowreesunker, B. Vikrham
(Texas Instruments Inc.); Ashe, James (Univ. of Minnesota); Pellizzer, Giuseppe (VA Medical Center);
Gupta, Rahul (Medtronic, Inc.)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo09.3
The Excitation Functional for Magnetic Stimulation of Fibers ........................................................................ 4829-4833
Suarez-Bagnasco, Diego* (School of Medicine, CLAEH, Punta del Este – Uruguay); Armentano, Ricardo Luis
(Favaloro Univ.); Suarez-Antola, Roberto (Catholic Univ. of Uruguay)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo09.4
Assessment of Nonlinear Interactions in Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) Elicited by Stimuli
Presented at Short Inter-Stimulus Intervals ...................................................................................................... 4834-4837
Mitsis, Georgios D.* (Univ. of Cyprus); Iannetti, Gian Domenico (Univ. College London)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo09.5
The Minimum Interval for Confident Spike Sorting: A Sequential Decision Method .................................... 4838-4841
Hebert, Paul* (California Inst. of Tech.); Burdick, Joel W. (Caltech)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo09.6
Study of Neuronal Networks Development from In-Vitro Recordings:
A Granger Causality Based Approach ............................................................................................................... 4842-4845
Lamanna, Jacopo (Politecnico di Milano); Esposti, Federico (Politecnico di Milano);
Signorini, Maria G.* (Politecnico di Milano)

FrDPo10: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

6.6.1 Neuromuscular Systems I (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo10.1
Improvement in Off-Axis Neuromuscular Control through Pivoting Elliptical Training:
Implication for Knee Injury Prevention .............................................................................................................. 4846-4849
Lee, Song Joo* (Northwestern Univ., Rehab. Inst. of Chicago); Ren, Yupeng (Rehab. Inst. of Chicago);
Geiger, François (RIC); Chang, Alison (Northwestern Univ., Dept. of Physical Therapy & Human
Movement Sciences); Press, Joel (Rehab. Inst. of Chicago); Zhang, Liqun (Northwestern Univ.)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo10.2
Robust Outlier Detection in High-Density Surface Electromyographic Signals ........................................... 4850-4853
Marateb, Hamid Reza (Laboratorio di Ingegneria del Sistema Neuromusculare (LISiN), Dipartimento di
Elettronica, Politencnico diTorino); Rojas, Mónica* (Technical Univ. of Catalonia); Mañanas, Miquel Angel
(Technical Univ. of Catalonia (UPC)); Merletti, Roberto (Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politencnico di Torino)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo10.3
Controlling Swing Foot Center of Mass and Toe Trajectory to Minimize Tripping Risk .............................. 4854-4857
Nagano, Hanatsu (Victoria Univ.); Begg, Rezaul* (Victoria Univ.); Sparrow, William (Victoria Univ.)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo10.4
Energy Expenditure During Human Gait. II – Role of Muscle Groups ............................................................ 4858-4861
Rodrigo, Silvia E.* (Medical Tech. Cabinet, Natl. Univ. of San Juan); García, Isabel (Univ. of Zaragoza,
Zaragoza, Spain.); Franco, Marian (School of Health Sciences, Univ. of Zaragoza, Spain); Alonso-Vazquez,
Ana (Group of Structural Mechanics & Materials Modelling, I3A, UZ, Spain.); Ambrosio, Jorge A. (Technical
Superior Inst., Technical Univ. of Lisbon, Portugal.)
16:00-17:30 FrDPo10.5
Fasciated Nerve-Muscle Explants for in Vitro Comparison of Magnetic and Electrical
Neuromuscular Stimulation ................................................................................................................................ 4862-4865
Goetz, Stefan* (TU Muenchen); Helling, Florian (TU Muenchen); Emrich, Daniela (LMU Muenchen);
Weyh, Thomas (TU Muenchen); Herzog, Hans-Georg (TU Muenchen)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo10.6
Dynamic Simulation of Perturbation Responses in a Closed-Loop Virtual Arm Model ............................... 4866-4869
Du, Yu Fan (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.); He, Xin (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.); Lan, Ning* (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo10.7
An EMG-Driven Musculoskeletal Model for the Estimation of Biomechanical Parameters of Wrist Flexors .... 4870-4873
Colacino, Francesco Maria* (Univ. of Southampton); Rustighi, Emiliano (Univ. of Southampton);
Mace, Brian (Univ. of Southampton)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo10.8
Evaluation of Motor Unit Placement Algorithms for EMG Simulation ............................................................ 4874-4877
Hamilton-Wright, Andrew* (Mount Allison Univ.); Navallas, Javier (Univ. Publica de Navarra);
Stashuk, Daniel William (Univ. of Waterloo)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo10.9
Discrimination of EMG and Acceleration Measurements between Patients with Parkinson’s
Disease and Healthy Persons ............................................................................................................................. 4878-4881
Rissanen, Saara Mirjami (Univ. of Eastern Finland); Kankaanpää, Markku Juhani (Kuopio Univ. Hospital);
Tarvainen, Mika (Univ. of Eastern Finland); Meigal, Alexander (Petrozavodsk State Univ.); Nuutinen, Juho (Univ.
Hospital of Kuopio); Jäkälä, Pekka Artti (Finnish Brain Research & rehabilitation Center Neuron, Kuopio, Finland);
Airaksinen, Veikko Olavi Pietari (Kuopio Univ. Hospital); Karjalainen, Pasi, A* (Univ. of Eastern Finland)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo10.10
A Mixed FES/EMG System for Real Time Analysis of Muscular Fatigue ....................................................... 4882-4885
Yochum, Maxime (LE2I UMR CNRS 5158 Univ. de Bourgogne); Binczak, Stéphane* (LE2I UMR CNRS 5158
Univ. de Bourgogne); Bakir, Toufik (LE2I UMR CNRS 5158 Univ. de Bourgogne); Jacquir, Sabir (LE2I UMR
CNRS 5158, Univ. de Bourgogne); Lepers, Romuald (INSERM U887, Univ. de Bourgogne)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo10.11
A Study on the Forearm Muscular Reflexes During Grasping for Prosthetic Applications ......................... 4886-4889
Soma, Hirokazu* (Chiba Univ.); Horiuchi, Yuse (Chiba Univ); Gonzalez Vargas, Jose Eduardo (Chiba Univ.);
Yu, Wenwei (Univ. of Chiba)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo10.12
On the Feasibility of Learning to Predict Minimum Toe Clearance under Different Walking Speeds ........ 4890-4893
Lai, Tze Huei, Daniel (Victoria Univ.); Shilton, Alistair (The Univ. of Melbourne); Begg, Rezaul* (Victoria Univ.)

FrDPo11: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

6.6.2 Neuromuscular Systems II (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo11.1
Neuromuscular Properties of Different Spastic Human Joints Vary Systematically .................................... 4894-4897
Mirbagheri, Mehdi* (Northwestern Univ./RIC); Settle, Krista (Rehab. Inst. of Chicago)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo11.2
A Novel Dynamic Sensing of Wearable Digital Textile Sensor with Body Motion Analysis ........................ 4898-4901
Yang, Chang-Ming (Ming Yang Biomedical Corp.); Lin, Zhan-Sheng (Industrial Tech. Research Inst.);
Hu, Chang-Lin* (Industrial Tech. Research Inst.)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo11.3
An EMG-Based Handwriting Recognition through Dynamic Time Warping .................................................. 4902-4905
Huang, Gan (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.); Zhang, Dingguo* (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.)
16:00-17:30 FrDPo11.4
A Foot Drop Correcting FES Envelope Design Method Using Tibialis Anterior EMG During Healthy
Gait with a New Walking Speed Control Strategy ............................................................................................. 4906-4909
Chen, Mo* (Zhejiang Univ.); Wang, Qing Bo (Zhejiang Univ.); Lou, Xin Xin (Zhejiang Univ.);
Xu, Kai (Zhejiang Univ.); Zheng, Xiao Xiang (Zhejiang Univ.)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo11.5
A Methodological Study for the Multifactorial Assessment of Motor Adaptation: Integration of
Kinematic and Neural Factors ............................................................................................................................ 4910-4913
Molteni, Erika* (Politecnico di Milano); Preatoni, Ezio (Politecnico di Milano); Cimolin, Veronica (Politecnico di
Milano – Dipartimento di Bioingegneria); Bianchi, Anna Maria (Politecnico di Milano); Galli, Manuela
(Politecnico di Milano); Rodano, Renato (Politecnico di Milano – Dipartimento di Bioingegneria)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo11.6
Intrinsic, Reflex and Voluntary Contributions to Task-Dependent Joint Stiffness ....................................... 4914-4917
Ludvig, Daniel* (McGill Univ.); Kearney, Robert Edward (McGill Univ.)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo11.7
Predicting Losses of Balance During Upright Stance: Evaluation of a Novel Approach
Based on Wearable Accelerometers .................................................................................................................. 4918-4921
Turcato, Andrea (Univ. of Pavia); Ramat, Stefano* (Univ. di Pavia)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo11.8
Electromyographic Evaluation of Muscle Recovery after Isometric Fatigue ................................................ 4922-4925
Peixoto, Luciana Roberta Tenorio* (Univ. of Brasilia); da Rocha, Adson F. (Univ. of Brasilia);
Carvalho, Joao Luiz Azevedo de (Univ. of Brasília); Goncalves, Carlos Alberto (Univ. of Brasilia)

FrDPo12: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

6.8.3 Clinical Neuroengineering – Neurological
Disorders and Neurophysiology (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo12.1
Muscle Activation Improvement During Stroke Rehabilitation by Using Treadmill
Training at Ischemia Rat ...................................................................................................................................... 4926-4929
Li, Le (The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.); Rong, Wei (Dept of HTI, The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.);
Ke, Zheng (The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.); Hu, Xiaoling (The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.); Yip, Shea Ping
(The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.); Tong, Kai Yu, Raymond* (The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo12.2
Detection of Nocturnal Hypoglycemic Episodes Using EEG Signals ............................................................ 4930-4933
Nguyen, Hung T.* (Univ. of Tech., Sydney); Jones, Timothy (Princess Margaret Hospital for Children)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo12.3
Non-Linear Recurrence Analysis of NREM Human Sleep Microstructure Discloses Deterministic
Oscillation Patterns Related to Sleep Stage Transitions and Sleep Maintenance ........................................ 4934-4937
Priano, Lorenzo (Univ. of Torino); Saccomandi, Fabio (INRIM); Mauro, Alessandro (Univ. of Torino);
Guiot, Caterina* (Univ.)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo12.4
Optimal Pulse Shapes for Magnetic Stimulation of Fibers: An Analytical Approach Using the
Excitation Functional ........................................................................................................................................... 4938-4941
Suarez-Bagnasco, Diego* (School of Medicine, CLAEH, Punta del Este – Uruguay);
Armentano, Ricardo Luis (Favaloro Univ.)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo12.6
Histogram Based Quantification of Spinal Cord Injury Level Using Somatosensory Evoked Potentials .. 4942-4945
Mir, Hasan* (American Univ. of Sharjah); Al-Nashash, Hasan (American Univ. of Sharjah); Kerr, Douglas (Johns
Hopkins Univ.); Thakor, Nitish (Johns Hopkins Univ.); All, Angelo (Johns Hopkins Univ.)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo12.7
EEG Feature Selection Using Mutual Information and Support Vector Machine: A Comparative Analysis ... 4946-4949
Guerrero-Mosquera, Carlos* (Univ. Carlos III de Madrid); Verleysen, Michel (Univ. Catholique de Louvain –
UCL); Navia Vazquez, Ángel (Univ. Carlos III of Madrid)
16:00-17:30 FrDPo12.8
A Closed-Loop Brain Computer Interface for Real-Time Seizure Detection and Control ............................ 4950-4953
Liang, Sheng-Fu* (Natl. Cheng Kung Univ.); Shaw, Fu-Zen (Natl. Cheng Kung Univ.); Young, Chung-Ping (Natl.
Cheng Kung Univ.); Chang, Da-Wei (Natl. Cheng Kung Univ.); Liao, Yi-Cheng (Natl. Cheng Kung Univ.)

16:00-17:30 FrDPo12.9
Implementation of an iPhone for Characterizing Parkinson’s Disease Tremor Through a
Wireless Accelerometer Application .................................................................................................................. 4954-4958
LeMoyne, Robert* (UCLA); Mastroianni, Timothy (Cognition Engineering); Cozza, Michael (Converge Robotics
Corp.); Coroian, Cristian (UCLA)

FrE01: 17:30-19:00 Libertador A

1.2.4 Biomedical Modeling and Simulation IV (Oral Session)

17:30-17:45 FrE01.1
Calculation of Photon Path Changes Due to Scatter in Monte Carlo Simulations ........................................ 4959-4962
Phillips, Justin* (City Univ.); Kyriacou, Panayiotis (City Univ.); Jones, Deric (City Univ.)

17:45-18:00 FrE01.2
Flow Behavior and Applicability of Models for Different Hemodynamic States ........................................... 4963-4966
Cymberknop, Leandro Javier* (Univ. Tecnológica Nacional – Facultad Regional Buenos Aires);
Pessana, Franco (FICEN, Favaloro Univ.); Armentano, Ricardo Luis (Favaloro Univ.);
Furfaro, Alejandro (Electronic Dept., Buenos Aires Regional Faculty, Natl. Technological Univ.)

18:00-18:15 FrE01.3
Linear Parameter Varying System Based Modeling of Hemodynamic Response to Profiled Hemodialysis .. 4967-4970
Javed, Faizan* (Univ. of New South Wales); Savkin, Andrey (Univ. of New South Wales); Chan, Gregory S H
(The Univ. of New South Wales); Mackie, James (Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney); Lovell, Nigel H (Univ. of
New South Wales)

18:15-18:30 FrE01.4
Cardiac Output and Stroke Volume Estimation Using a Hybrid of Three Windkessel Models .................... 4971-4974
Arai, Tatsuya (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.); Lee, Kichang (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.);
Cohen, Richard* (Harvard Univ.-Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.)

18:30-18:45 FrE01.5
Development of a System to Measure Local Measurement Conditions Around Textile Electrodes ........... 4975-4978
Kim, Saim* (RWTH Aachen Univ.); Oliveira, Joana (Rwth Aachen Univ.); Beckmann, Lisa (RWTH Aachen
Univ.); Leonhardt, Steffen (RWTH Aachen Univ.)

18:45-19:00 FrE01.6
Sensor Calibration Models for a Non-Invasive Blood Glucose Measurement Sensor ................................. 4979-4982
Stemmann, Meike* (Lund Univ.); Ståhl, Fredrik (Lund Univ.); Lallemand, Jordane (Ondalys);
Renard, Eric (Hospitalier Univ. de Montpellier); Johansson, Rolf (Lund Univ.)

FrE02: 17:30-19:00 Libertador B

2.5.2 Electrical Impedance Imaging Techniques II (Oral Session)

17:30-17:45 FrE02.1
A Study of Forward Problem of Magnetoacoustic Tomography with Magnetic Induction .......................... 4983-4986
Wenjing, He* (Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Science); Liu, Guoqiang (Chinese Acamedy of
Sciences); zhang, yang (Electrical Engineering Inst. of Chinese AcademyofSciences);
Xiaoping, Zeng (Inst. of Electrical engneering of Chinese Academy ofSciences. Beijing. China)

17:45-18:00 FrE02.2
Experimental Verification of Contrast Mechanism in Magnetic Resonance Electrical
Impedance Tomography (MREIT) ....................................................................................................................... 4987-4990
Kim, Young Tae (Kyung Hee Univ.); Oh, Tong In (Kyunghee Univ.); Woo, Eung Je* (Kyung Hee Univ.)
18:00-18:15 FrE02.3
Towards Non-Invasive EIT Imaging of Domains with Deformable Boundaries ............................................. 4991-4995
Kantartzis, Panagiotis* (City Univ. London); Kunoth, Angela (Univ. Paderborn);
Pabel, Roland (Univ. of Paderborn); Liatsis, Panos (City Univ.)

18:15-18:30 FrE02.4
Electrical Impedance Tomography Reconstruction Using a Monotonicity Approach
Based on a Priori Knowledge ............................................................................................................................. 4996-4999
Flores-Tapia, Daniel* (CancerCare Manitoba); Pistorius, Stephen (CancerCare Manitoba / Univ. of Manitoba)

18:30-18:45 FrE02.5
A Fisher Information Matrix Interpretation of the NOSER Algorithm in Electrical Impedance Tomography .. 5000-5005
Hashemzadeh, Parham (Middlesex Univ.); Kantartzis, Panagiotis* (City Univ. London); Zifan, Ali (City Univ.);
Liatsis, Panos (City Univ.); Nordebo, Sven (School of Computer Science, Physics & Mathematics, Linnaeus
Univ.); Bayford, Richard H. (Middlesex Univ.)

18:45-19:00 FrE02.6
Polar Decomposition Radio-Frequency Current Density Imaging .................................................................. 5006-5009
Ma, Angela W.* (Univ. of Toronto); Wang, Dinghui (Univ. of Toronto); DeMonte, Tim P. (Field Metrica Inc.);
Nachman, Adrian I. (Univ. of Toronto); Joy, Michael L.G. (Univ. of Toronto)

FrE03: 17:30-19:00 Libertador C

3.5.2 Wireless Sensors and Systems (Oral Session)

17:30-17:45 FrE03.1
Experimental Demonstration of Noncontact Pulse Wave Velocity Monitoring Using Multiple
Doppler Radar Sensors ....................................................................................................................................... 5010-5013
Lu, Li (Texas Tech Univ.); Li, Changzhi* (Texas Tech Univ.); Lie, Donald (Texas Tech Univ.)

17:45-18:00 FrE03.2
Preliminary Characterization of a Glucose-Sensitive Hydrogel ...................................................................... 5014-5017
Beier, Brooke* (Purdue Univ.); Brandner, Eric (Purdue Univ.); Musick, Katherine (Purdue Univ.);
Matsumoto, Akira (Univ. of Tokyo); Nauman, Eric (Purdue Univ.); Irazoqui, Pedro (Purdue Univ.)

18:00-18:15 FrE03.3
Towards Unobtrusive in Vivo Monitoring of Patients Prone to Falling .......................................................... 5018-5021
Karel, Joël* (Maastricht Univ.); Senden, Rachel (Maastricht Univ.); Janssen, Joep (Maastricht Univ.);
Savelberg, Hans (Maastricht Univ.); Grimm, B. (Atrium MC Heerlen); Heyligers, I.C. (Atrium MC Heerlen);
Peeters, Ralf (Univ. Maastricht); Meijer, Kenneth (NUTRIM School of Nutrition, Toxicology & Metabolism,
Maastricht Univ. Medical Centre)

18:15-18:30 FrE03.4
Wireless Transmission of Cardiac Action Potentials with Ultrasonically
Guided Insertion of Silicon Probes .................................................................................................................... 5022-5025
Shen, Ching-Ping* (Cornell Univ.); Ramkumar, Abhishek (Cornell Univ.); Lal, Amit (Cornell Univ.);
Gilmour, Robert (Cornell Univ.)

18:30-18:45 FrE03.5
Introducing Knowledge of Wearing Compression Stockings on the Skin Blood Flow by
Using µHematron Device ..................................................................................................................................... 5026-5029
Toumi, Dareen* (INSA Lyon); Gehin, Claudine (INSA Lyon); Grenier, Etienne (INSA Lyon);
Dittmar, Andre (INSA Lyon); McAdams, Eric (Univ. of Ulster)

18:45-19:00 FrE03.6
A Miniature, Wearable Activity/Fall Monitor to Assess the Efficacy of Mobility Therapy for Children
with Cerebral Palsy During Everyday Living ..................................................................................................... 5030-5033
Smith, Warren* (California State Univ., Sacramento); Bagley, Anita (Shriners Hospitals for Children)
FrE04: 17:30-19:00 Retiro A
2.7.12 Image Segmentation II (Oral Session)

17:30-17:45 FrE04.1
Real Time Mri Prostate Segmentation Based on Wavelet Multiscale Products Flow Tracking ................... 5034-5037
Flores-Tapia, Daniel* (CancerCare Manitoba); Niranjan, Venugopal (Univ. of Manitoba); Thomas, Gabriel (Univ.
of Manitoba); McCurdy, Boyd (CancerCare Manitoba); Ryner, Lawrence (Inst. of Biodiagnostics); Pistorius,
Stephen (CancerCare Manitoba / Univ. of Manitoba)

17:45-18:00 FrE04.2
Brain Volume Segmentation in Newborn Infants Using Multi-Modal MRI with a
Low Inter-Slice Resolution .................................................................................................................................. 5038-5041
Despotovic, Ivana* (Gent Univ.)

18:00-18:15 FrE04.3
Multiphase Level Set Algorithm for Coupled Segmentation of Multiple Regions.
Application to MRI Segmentation ....................................................................................................................... 5042-5045
Merino-Caviedes, Susana* (Univ. de Valladolid); Pérez, María Teresa (Univ. of Valladolid); Martin-Fernandez,
Marcos (Univ. of Valladolid)

18:15-18:30 FrE04.4
A Novel Object-Oriented Stereo Matching on Multi-Scale Superpixels for Low-Resolution Depth Mapping ... 5046-5049
Tong, Hanyang (Zhejiang Univ. of Tech.); Liu, Sheng* (Zhejiang Univ. of Tech.); Liu, Nianjun (Natl. ICT
Australia Limited); Barnes, Nick (NICTA Canberra Research Center)

18:30-18:45 FrE04.5
Analysis of Lipid Vesicle Populations from Microscopy Video Sequences .................................................. 5050-5053
Zupanc, Jernej (Faculty of Computer & Information Science); Bas, Erhan* (Northeastern Univ.);
Erdogmus, Deniz (Northeastern Univ.)

18:45-19:00 FrE04.6
Improving a CAD System Using Bilateral Information ..................................................................................... 5054-5057
Tortajada, Meritxell (Univ. of Girona); Oliver, Arnau (Univ. of Girona); Díez, Yago (Univ. of Girona);
Martí, Robert (Univ. of Girona); Freixenet, Jordi* (Univ. of Girona); Vilanova, Joan Carles (Univ. of Girona)

FrE05: 17:30-19:00 Retiro B

6.7.4 Neurorehabilitation – Prosthesis (Oral Session)

17:30-17:45 FrE05.1
Selection of Sampling Rate for EMG Pattern Recognition Based Prosthesis Control ................................. 5058-5061
Li, Guanglin* (Shenzhen Inst. of Advanced Tech., Chinese Academyof Sciences); Li, Yaonan (Purdue Univ.);
Zhang, Zhiyong (Shenzhen Inst. of Advanced Tech.); Geng, Yanjuan (Shenzhen Inst. of Advanced Tech.);
Zhou, Rui (Shenzhen Inst. of Advanced Tech)

17:45-18:00 FrE05.2
A Multigrasp Hand Prosthesis for Transradial Amputees ............................................................................... 5062-5065
Dalley, Skyler (Vanderbilt Univ.); Wiste, Tuomas (Vanderbilt Univ.); Varol, Huseyin Atakan (Vanderbilt Univ.);
Goldfarb, Michael* (Vanderbilt Univ.)

18:00-18:15 FrE05.3
Structural Preservation of Deafferented Cortex Induced by Electrical Stimulation of a Sensory
Peripheral Nerve ................................................................................................................................................... 5066-5069
Herrera-Rincón, Celia (Complutense Univ. of Madrid); Torets, Carlos (Complutense Univ. of Madrid); Sanchez-
Jimenez, Abel (Complutense Univ. of Madrid); Avendaño, Carlos (Faculty of Medicine, Autonomous Univ. of
Madrid); Guillen, Pedro (Complutense Univ. of Madrid); Panetsos, Fivos* (Complutense Univ. of Madrid)
18:15-18:30 FrE05.4
Acquisition of Myoelectric Signals to Control a Hand Prosthesis with Implantable Epimysial Electrodes .... 5070-5073
Ruff, Roman* (Fraunhofer Inst. für Biomedizinische Technik); Poppendieck, Wigand (Fraunhofer Inst. für
Biomedizinische Technik); Gail, Alexander (German Primate Center & the Bernstein Center for Computational
Neuroscience); Westendorff, Stephanie (German Primate Center & the Bernstein Center for Computational
Neuroscience); Russold, Michael (Otto Bock Healthcare Products GmbH); Lewis, Sören (Otto Bock Healthcare
Products GmbH); Meiners, Thomas (Werner-Wicker-Klinik); Hoffmann, Klaus-Peter (Fraunhofer Inst.)

18:30-18:45 FrE05.5
Rechargeable Wireless EMG Sensor for Prosthetic Control ........................................................................... 5074-5076
Lichter, Patrick (Koronis Biomedical Technologies); Riehle, Timothy (Koronis Biomed. Technologies Corp.);
Anderson, Shane (Koronis Biomedical Technologies); Hedin, Daniel* (Advanced Medical Electronics);
Lange, Erik (PYXIS Integrated Technologies, LLC)

18:45-19:00 FrE05.6
Toward Improved Sensorimotor Integration and Learning Using Upper-Limb Prosthetic Devices ........... 5077-5080
Gillespie, R. Brent* (Univ. of Michigan); Contreras-Vidal, José (Univ. of Maryland); Shewokis, Patricia A (Drexel
Univ.); O’Malley, Marcia K. (Rice Univ.); Brown, Jeremy (Univ. of Michigan); Agashe, Harshavardhan (Univ. of
Maryland-College Park); Gentili, Rodolphe (Univ. of Maryland); Davis, Alicia (Univ. of Michigan)

FrE06: 17:30-19:00 Retiro C

1.4.4 Biomedical Signal Classification IV (Oral Session)

17:30-17:45 FrE06.1
Automatic Annotation of Actigraphy Data for Sleep Disorders Diagnosis Purposes .................................. 5081-5084
Domingues, Alexandre* (Inst. Superior Técnico); Adamec, Ondrej (VSB Technical Univ. of Ostrava);
Paiva, Teresa (Inst. Superior Técnico); Sanches, J. Miguel (Inst. for Systems & Robotics, NIF)

17:45-18:00 FrE06.2
Automatic Detection of a Phases of the Cyclic Alternating Pattern During Sleep ........................................ 5085-5088
Mariani, Sara* (Politecnico di Milano); Bianchi, Anna Maria (Politecnico di Milano); Manfredini, Elena (Politecnico
di Milano, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering); Rosso, Valentina (Sleep Disorders Centre, Dept. of Neurology,
Univ. of Parma, Parma, Italy); Mendez, Martin Oswaldo (Univ. Autonoma de San Luis Potosi); Parrino, Liborio
(Sleep Disorders Centre, Dept. of Neurology, Univ. of Parma, Parma, Italy); Matteucci, Matteo (Politecnico di
Milano); Grassi, Andrea (Sleep Disorders Centre, Dept. of Neurology, Univ. of Parma, Parma, Italy); Cerutti,
Sergio (Politecnico di Milano); Terzano, Mario Giovanni (Sleep Disorders Centre, Dept. of Neurology,
Univ. of Parma, Parma, Italy)

18:00-18:15 FrE06.3
Sleep/Wake Detection Based on Cardiorespiratory Signals and Actigraphy ................................................ 5089-5092
Devot, Sandrine* (Philips Research Europe); Dratwa, Reimund (Philips Research Europe);
Naujokat, Elke (Philips Research Europe Laboratories)

18:15-18:30 FrE06.4
REM Behaviour Disorder Detection Associated with Neurodegenerative Diseases .................................... 5093-5096
Kempfner, Jacob* (Technical Univ. of Denmark); Sorensen, Gertrud Laura (Technical Univ. of Denmark);
Zoetmulder, Marielle (Danish Centre for Sleep Medicing); Jennum, Poul (Danish Centre for Sleep Medicing);
Sorensen, Helge (Technical Univ. of Denmark)

18:30-18:45 FrE06.5
Automated Polysomnogram Artifact Compensation Using the Generalized Singular Value
Decomposition Algorithm ................................................................................................................................... 5097-5100
Fairley, Jacqueline (Emory Univ.); Johnson, Ashley* (Georgia Inst. of Tech.); Georgoulas, George (Univ. of
Patras); Vachtsevanos, George (Georgia Inst. of Tech.)

18:45-19:00 FrE06.6
The Mean Value of the Descriptors of the Pathological Events Recorded on the Polysomnogram As a
Support Tool in the Diagnosis of SAHS ............................................................................................................ 5101-5104
Otero, Abraham* (San Pablo CEU); Félix Lamas, Paulo (Univ. of Santiago de Compostela);
Rodríguez Álvarez, Miguel (Univ. of Santiago de Compostela); Zamarrón, Carlos (Hospital Clínico Univ.)
FrE07: 17:30-19:00 Martin Fierro 1
8.7.1 Modeling and Biomechanics (Oral Session)

17:30-17:45 FrE07.1
Comparison of Two Commercial Patellofemoral Prostheses by Means of Computational Modeling ........ 5105-5108
Muller, Cobus* (Stellenbosch Univ.); Scheffer, Cornie (Stellenbosch Univ.); Erasmus, P. J. (Stellenbosch
Medi-clinic); Dillon, Edwin (Stellenbosch Medi-clinic); Elvin, Alex (Univ. of the Witwatersrand)

17:45-18:00 FrE07.2
Force Feedback in Limb Lengthening ............................................................................................................... 5109-5112
Wee, Jinyong (Drexel Univ.); Rahman, Tariq* (Nemours); Seliktar, Rahamim (Drexel Univ.); Akins, Robert
(Nemours – A.I. duPont Hospital for Children); Levine, David (Univ. of Pennsylvania); Richardson, Dean (Univ.
of Pennsylvania); Dodge, George (Univ. of Pennsylvania); Thabet, Ahmed (Benha Medical School);
Holmes, Lauren (A.I. duPont Hospital for Children); Mackenzie, William (A.I. duPont Hospital for Children)

18:00-18:15 FrE07.3
Contact Stresses in a Patient-Specific Unicompartmental Knee Replacement ............................................ 5113-5116
Van Den Heever, Dawie (Stellenbosch Univ.); Scheffer, Cornie* (Stellenbosch Univ.);
Erasmus, P. J. (Stellenbosch Medi-clinic); Dillon, Edwin (Stellenbosch Medi-clinic)

18:15-18:30 FrE07.4
The Sacroiliac Spine – Computer Simulation of Motion and Modeling of the Ligaments ............................ 5117-5120
Buford, Jr., William L* (The Univ of Texas Medical Branch); Moulton, Darrell (Univ of Texas Medical Branch);
Gugala, Zbigniew (Univ of Texas Medical Branch); Lindsey, Ronald (Univ of Texas Medical Branch)

18:30-18:45 FrE07.5
Self-Powered Instrumented Knee Implant for Early Detection of Postoperative Complications ................ 5121-5124
Almouahed, Shaban* (Inst. Télécom – Télécom Bretagne); Gouriou, Manuel (Inst. Télécom – Télécom
Bretagne); Hamitouche, Chafiaâ (Ecole Natl.e Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne);
Stindel, Eric (Univ. de Bretagne Occidentale); Roux, Christian (TELECOM Bretagne – INSERM)

18:45-19:00 FrE07.6
Repeatability of an Off-The-Shelf, Full Body Inertial Motion Capture System During Clinical Gait Analysis .... 5125-5128
Scheffer, Cornie* (Stellenbosch Univ.); Cloete, Teunis (Stellenbosch Univ.)

FrE08: 17:30-19:00 Martin Fierro 2

2.9.1 EEG Neuroimaging (Oral Session)

17:30-17:45 FrE08.1
Sources of Non-Physiologic Noise in Simultaneous EEG-fMRI Data: a phantom study .............................. 5129-5132
Politte, David (Washington Univ. School of Medicine); Prior, Fred (Washington Univ. School of Medicine);
Ponton, Curtis (Compumedics Neuroscan Inc.); Nolan, Tracy (Washington Univ. School of Medicine);
Larson-Prior, Linda* (Washington Univ. in St. Louis)

17:45-18:00 FrE08.2
Detection of EEG Electrodes in Brain Volumes ................................................................................................ 5133-5136
Graffigna, Juan Pablo* (Univ. Nacional de San Juan); Gómez, María Eugenia (Univ. Nacional de San Juan);
Bustos, José Javier (Univ. Nacional de San Juan, Argentina)

18:00-18:15 FrE08.3
Localization of Class-Related Mu-Rhythm Desynchronization in Motor Imagery Based
Brain-Computer Interface Sessions ................................................................................................................... 5137-5140
Haufe, Stefan* (Berlin Inst. of Tech.); Tomioka, Ryota (The Univ. of Tokyo); Dickhaus, Thorsten (Berlin Inst. of
Tech.); Sannelli, Claudia (Berlin Inst. of Tech., BBCI Group); Blankertz, Benjamin (Berlin Inst. of Tech.);
Nolte, Guido (Fraunhofer FIRST); Müller, Klaus-Robert (Berlin Inst. of Tech.)

18:15-18:30 FrE08.4
DYNAMO: Dynamic Multi-Model Source Localization Method for EEG And/or MEG ................................... 5141-5144
Antelis, Javier M.* (Univ. of Zaragoza); Minguez, Javier (Zaragoza Univ.)
18:30-18:45 FrE08.5
Variation-Based Sparse Cortical Current Density Imaging in Estimating Cortical Sources with MEG Data ... 5145-5148
Ding, Lei* (Univ. of Oklahoma); Zhu, Min (Univ. of Oklahoma); Zhang, Wenbo (Minnesota Epilepsy Group);
Dickens, Deanna (Minnesota Epilepsy Group)

18:45-19:00 FrE08.6
3D Reconstruction of Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Images .......................................................................... 5149-5152
Fan, Yichen* (The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong); Meng, Max Q.-H. (The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong);
Li, Baopu (The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong)

FrE09: 17:30-19:00 Ombu A

5.5.1 Cardiovascular Imaging (Oral Session)

17:30-17:45 FrE09.1
Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging Measurements for the Determination of Local Wave
Speed and Arrival Time of Reflected Waves in Human Ascending Aorta ..................................................... 5153-5156
Li, Ye (Brunel Univ.); Borlotti, Alessandra* (Brunel Univ., London, UK); Hickson, Stacey (Univ. of Cambridge);
McEniery, Carmel (Univ. of Cambridge); Wilkinson, Ian (Cambridge Univ.); Khir, Ashraf (Brunel Univ.)

17:45-18:00 FrE09.2
Structured Light Imaging of Epicardial Mechanics .......................................................................................... 5157-5160
Laughner, Jacob (Washington Univ. in St. Louis); Gong, Yuanzheng (Iowa State Univ.); Filas, Benjamen
(Washington Univ. in St. Louis); Zhang, Song (Iowa State Univ.); Efimov, Igor* (Washington Univ. in St. Louis)

18:00-18:15 FrE09.3
Observation of Capillary Flow in Human Skin During Tissue Compression Using CCD Video-Microscopy .. 5161-5164
Shibata, Masahiro* (Shibaura Inst. of Tech.); Yamakoshi, Takehiro (Kanazawa Univ.);
Yamakoshi, Ken-ichi (Kanazawa Univ.); Komeda, Takashi (Shibaura Inst. of Tech.)

18:15-18:30 FrE09.4
A New Gradient-Based Algorithm for Edge Detection in Ultrasonic Carotid Artery Images ....................... 5165-5168
Morsy, Ahmed* (Cairo Univ.); De Groot, Eric (AMC Vascular Imaging); Hassan, Ahmed (Cairo Univ.)

18:30-18:45 FrE09.5
Silicone Rubber Trileaflet Valve Assessment Using Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging ......... 5169-5172
Garcia, Julio* (Laval Univ.); Kadem, Lyes (Concordia Univ.); Pibarot, Philippe (Laval Univ.)

18:45-19:00 FrE09.6
Patient Based Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Rupture Risk Prediction Combining Clinical Visualizing
Modalities with Fluid Structure Interaction Numerical Simulations ............................................................... 5173-5176
Xenos, Michalis (Stony Brook Univ., Dept of Biomedical Engineering); Rambhia, Suraj (Stony Brook Univ., Dept
of Biomedical Engineering); Alemu, Yared (Stony Brook Univ., Dept of Biomedical Engineering);
Einav, Shmuel (Tel Aviv & Stony Brook Univ.); Ricotta, John (Washington Hospital Center, Dept. of Surgery);
Labropoulos, Nicos (Stony Brook Univ., Dept of Surgery); Tassiopoulos, Apostolos (Stony Brook Univ.,
Dept of Surgery); Bluestein, Danny* (Stony Brook Univ.)

18:45-19:00 FrE09.7
Multiscale Imaging of the Human Heart: Building the Foundation for Human Systems
Physiology and Translational Medicine ............................................................................................................. 5177-5180
Efimov, Igor* (Washington Univ. in St. Louis); Fedorov, Vadim (Washington Univ. in St. Louis); Glukhov, Alexey
(Washington Univ. in St. Louis); Lou, Qing (Washington Univ. in St. Louis); Ambrosi, Christina (Washington
Univ. in St. Louis); Janks, Deborah (Washington Univ. in St. Louis); Hucker, William (Washington Univ. in St.
Louis); Kurian, Thomas (Washington Univ. in St. Louis); Schuessler, Richard (Washington Univ. in St. Louis);
Moazami, Nader (Washington Univ. in St. Louis)

FrE10: 17:30-19:00 Ombu B

10.1.1 Personal Health Systems and Pervasive Health (Oral Session)

17:30-17:45 FrE10.1
E-Textile Platforms for Rehabilitation ................................................................................................................ 5181-5184
Paradiso, Rita* (Smartex srl); Caldani, Laura (Smartex srl); Pacelli, Maria (Smartex s.r.l.);
Negro, Francesco (Aalborg Univ., Aalborg, Denmark); Farina, Dario (Aalborg Univ.)
17:45-18:00 FrE10.2
Energy Expenditure Estimation Using Triaxial Accelerometry and Barometric Pressure Measurement .. 5185-5188
Voleno, Matteo (Politecnico di Milano); Redmond, Stephen James* (Univ. of New South Wales);
Cerutti, Sergio (Politecnico di Milano); Lovell, Nigel H (Univ. of New South Wales)

18:00-18:15 FrE10.3
A Sensor Middleware for Integration of Heterogeneous Medical Devices .................................................... 5189-5192
Brito, Mario (CISUC, Centre for Informatics & Systems, Univ. of); Vale, Leandro (Univ. of Coimbra);
de Carvalho, Paulo* (Univ. of Coimbra); Henriques, Jorge (Univ. of Coimbra)

18:15-18:30 FrE10.4
Behavioral Pattern Detection from Personalized Ambient Monitoring .......................................................... 5193-5196
Amor, James* (Univ. of Southampton); James, Christopher (Univ. of Warwick)

18:30-18:45 FrE10.5
A System for Monitoring Cardiac Vibration, Respiration, and Body Movement in Bed Using an Infrared .... 5197-5200
Maki, Hiromichi* (Hiroshima Inst. of Tech.); Ogawa, Hidekuni (Hiroshima Inst. of Tech.);
Tsukamoto, Sosuke (Hiroshima Inst. of Tech.); Yonezawa, Yoshiharu (Hiroshima Inst. of Tech.);
Caldwell, Morton (Caldwell Biomedical Electronics)

18:45-19:00 FrE10.6
Predicting Severity of Parkinson’s Disease from Speech ............................................................................... 5201-5204
Asgari, Meysam (The Center for Spoken Language Understanding, OHSU); Shafran, Izhak* (The Center for
Spoken Language Understanding, OHSU)

FrE11: 17:30-19:00 Poncho

5.7.1 Cardiovascular and Respiratory Engineering in the ICU (Oral Session)

17:30-17:45 FrE11.1
Estimated Venous Return Surface and Cardiac Output Curve Precisely Predicts New
Hemodynamics after Volume Change ............................................................................................................... 5205-5208
Sugimachi, Masaru* (Natl Cardio Center Research Inst); Sunagawa, Kenji (Kyushu Univ.); Uemura, Kazunori
(Natl. Cardio. Center Research Inst); Kamiya, Atsunori (Natl. Cardiovascular Center Research Inst.);
Shimizu, Shuji (Natl. Cardiovascular Center Research Inst.); Inagaki, Masashi (Natl. Cardiovascular
Research Inst.); Shishido, Toshiaki (Natl. Cardiovascular Center Research Inst.)

17:45-18:00 FrE11.2
Model-Based Data Integration in Clinical Environments ................................................................................. 5209-5212
Heldt, Thomas* (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.); Verghese, George (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.)

18:00-18:15 FrE11.3
Heuristics to Determine Ventilation Times of ICU Patients from the MIMIC-II Database .............................. 5213-5216
Cao, Hanqing* (Philips Research North America); Lee, K. P. (Philips Research); Ennett, Colleen M. (Philips
Research North America); Eshelman, Larry J (Philips Research); Nielsen, Larry (Philips Healthcare);
Saeed, Mohammed (MIT); Gross, Brian (Philips Healthcare)

18:15-18:30 FrE11.4
Evaluation of Monitoring Cardiac Output by Long Time Interval Analysis of a Radial Arterial Blood
Pressure Waveform Using the MIMIC II Database ............................................................................................ 5217-5217
Zhang, Guanqun (Michigan State Univ.); Mukkamala, Ramakrishna* (Michigan State Univ.)

18:30-18:45 FrE11.5
Preliminary Study of Physiological Control for the Undulation Pump Ventricular Assist Device .............. 5218-5221
Saito, Itsuro* (The Univ. of Tokyo); Ishii, Kohei (The Univ. of Tokyo); Isoyama, Takashi (The Univ. of Tokyo);
Ono, Toshiya (The Univ. of Tokyo); Nakagawa, Hidemoto (The Univ. of Tokyo); Shi, Wei (The Univ. of Tokyo);
Inoue, Yusuke (The Univ. of Tokyo); Abe, Yusuke (The Univ. of Tokyo)

18:45-19:00 FrE11.6
Automated Drug Delivery System for the Management of Hemodynamics and Cardiac
Energetic in Acute Heart Failure ........................................................................................................................ 5222-5225
Uemura, Kazunori (Natl. Cardio. Center Research Inst); Sugimachi, Masaru* (Natl Cardio Center Research
Inst); Kawada, Toru (Nat. Cardiovascular Center Res Inst); Sunagawa, Kenji (Kyushu Univ.)
FrE12: 17:30-19:00 Rio de Plata
6.9.3 Human Performance Modeling (Oral Session)

17:30-17:45 FrE12.1
Different Models for Predicting Driving Performance in People with Brain Disorders ................................ 5226-5229
Innes, Carrie R. H.* (Canterbury District Health Board); Lee, Dominic (Univ. of Canterbury); Chen, Chen (Univ.
of Canterbury); Ponder-Sutton, Agate (Univ. of Canterbury); Jones, Richard D. (Van der Veer Inst.)

17:45-18:00 FrE12.2
Model-Based Inference of Cognitive Processes from Unobtrusive Gait Velocity Measurements .............. 5230-5233
Austin, Daniel (Univ. of Southern California); Leen, Todd (Oregon Health & Science Univ.);
Hayes, Tamara (Oregon Health & Science Univ.); Kaye, Jeffrey A. (Oregon Health & Science Univ.);
Jimison, Holly (Oregon Health & Science Univ.); Pavel, Michael* (Oregon Health & Science Univ.)

18:00-18:15 FrE12.3
Models of Cognitive Performance Based on Home Monitoring Data ............................................................. 5234-5237
Jimison, Holly* (Oregon Health & Science Univ.); McKanna, James (Oregon Health & Science Univ.); Kyle,
Ambert (Oregon Health & Science Univ.); Hagler, Stuart (Oregon Health & Science Univ.); Hatt, William J
(Oregon Health & Science Univ., Central Campus); Pavel, Michael (Oregon Health & Science Univ.)

18:15-18:30 FrE12.4
Cognitive Performance Modeling Based on General Systems Performance Theory ................................... 5238-5241
Kondraske, George* (Univ. of Texas at Arlington)

18:30-18:45 FrE12.5
Arm Path Fragmentation and Spatiotemporal Features of Hand Reaching in Healthy
Subjects and Stroke Patients .............................................................................................................................. 5242-5245
Liebermann, Dario G.* (PT Dept – Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Univ. of Tel Aviv); McIntyre, Joseph (Centre
d’Etude de la Sensorimotricité, CNRS – Univ. Paris Descartes, France); Levin, Mindy F. (School of Physical &
Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, McGill Univ., Montreal, Canada); Weiss, Patrice (Tamar) (Dept. of
Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Social Welfare & Health Sciences, Univ. of Haifa, Haifa, Israel);
Berman, Sigal (Dept. of Industrial Engineering & Mgmt., Ben Gurion Univ. of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel)

18:45-19:00 FrE12.6
Human Strategies in Balancing an Inverted Pendulum with Time Delay ....................................................... 5246-5249
Lupu, Mircea Florian (Univ. of Pittsburgh); Sun, Mingui* (Univ. of Pittsburgh); Askey, David (Energid
Technologies Corp.); Xia, Ruiping (Creighton Univ.); Mao, Zhi-Hong (Univ. of Pittsburgh)

FrE13: 17:30-19:00 Gomez Losada

3.5.1 Wearable Sensor Application (Oral Session)

17:30-17:45 FrE13.1
Wireless Control of Smartphones with Tongue Motion Using Tongue Drive Assistive Technology ......... 5250-5253
Kim, Jeonghee (Georgia Inst. of Techonology); Huo, Xueliang (Georgia Inst. of Tech.);
Ghovanloo, Maysam* (Georgia Inst. of Tech.)

17:45-18:00 FrE13.2
Wireless Fabric Patch Sensors for Wearable Healthcare ................................................................................ 5254-5257
Yoo, Hoi-Jun (KAIST); Yoo, Jerald* (MIT); Yan, Long (KAIST)

18:00-18:15 FrE13.3
Development of a Sleep Apnea Event Detection Method Using Photoplethysmography ............................ 5258-5261
Suzuki, Takuji* (Toshiba Corp.); Kameyama, Ken-ichi (Toshiba); Inoko, Yoshimi (The Nippon Dental Univ.
School of Life Dentistry at Niigata); Tamura, Toshiyo (Chiba Univ.)

18:15-18:30 FrE13.4
A Low-Power Asynchronous ECG Acquisition System in CMOS Technology ............................................. 5262-5265
Hwang, Sungkil (Tufts Univ.); Trakimas, Michael (Tufts Univ.); Sonkusale, Sameer* (Tufts Univ.)
FrE14: 17:30-19:00 Auditorium
10.1.4 Latest Developments on Personal Health Systems for
Management of Patients with Chronic Diseases I (Mini Symposium)

17:30-17:45 FrE14.1
Care Assessment Platform: An ICT-Enabled Home Care Model for Secondary
Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases ............................................................................................................ 5266-5266
Karunanithi, Mohanraj* (CSIRO ICT Centre); Varnfield, Marlien (Australian e-Health Research Centre (AEHRC));
Ding, Hang (CSIRO); Garcia, Elsa (AEHRC); Whittaker, Frank (CAAIR); Sarela, Antti (goACT Pty Ltd)

17:45-18:00 FrE14.2
Telehealth Technologies for Managing Chronic Disease – Experiences from Australia and the UK ......... 5267-5269
Lovell, Nigel H* (Univ. of New South Wales); Redmond, Stephen James (Univ. of New South Wales); Basilakis,
Jim (Univ. of NSW); Shany, Tal (Univ. of New South Wales); Celler, Branko George (Univ. of New South Wales)

18:00-18:15 FrE14.3
A Diabetes Management System Empowering Patients to Reach Optimised Glucose Control:
From Monitor to Advisor ..................................................................................................................................... 5270-5271
Poulsen, Jens Ulrik* (Novo Nordisk A/S); Chauchard, Fabien (Ondalys, 34730 Prades Le Lez, France);
Johansson, Rolf (Lund Univ.); Pogose, Mike (Toumaz Tech. Ltd, Abingdon, OX14 4RY England);
Saudek, František (Inst. for Clinical & Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic)

18:15-18:30 FrE14.4
Personal Health Systems – Opportunities and Barriers for Adoption ........................................................... 5272-5272
Korhonen, Ilkka (Nokia); Mattila, Elina (VTT); van Gils, Mark* (VTT Tech Research Centre of Finland)

Saturday, 4 September 2010

SaA01: 09:15-10:45 Libertador A

1.2.5 Signal Processing in Physiological Systems VII (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 SaA01.1
Hidden State Dynamics in Laser Doppler Vibrometery Measurements of the
Carotid Pulse Under Resting Conditions .......................................................................................................... 5273-5276
Kaplan, Alan D.* (Washington Univ. in St. Louis); O’Sullivan, Joseph A. (Washington Univ. in St. Louis);
Sirevaag, Erik J. (Washington Univ. in St. Louis); Kristjansson, Sean D. (Washington Univ. in St. Louis);
Lai, Po-Hsiang (Washington Univ. in St. Louis); Rohrbaugh, John W. (Washington Univ. in St. Louis)

09:30-09:45 SaA01.2
Pulse Wave Velocity in Patients with Severe Head Injury: A Pilot Study ...................................................... 5277-5281
Shahsavari, Sima* (Chalmers Univ. of Tech.); McKelvey, Tomas (Chalmers Univ. of Tech.);
Eriksson-Ritzén, Catherine (Sahlgrenska Univ. Hospital); Rydenhag, Bertil (Sahlgrenska Univ. Hospital)

09:45-10:00 SaA01.3
Relative Blood Volume Monitoring During Hemodialysis in End Stage Renal Disease Patients ................ 5282-5285
Ion Titapiccolo, Jasmine (Politecnico di Milano); Ferrario, Manuela* (Politecnico di Milano); Garzotto, Francesco
(Dep. Nephrology Dialysis & Transplantation, San Bortolo Hospital); Cruz, Dinna (Dep. Nephrology Dialysis &
Transplantation, San BortoloHospital); Moissl, Ulrich (Fresenius Medical Care, Deutschland, GmbH); Tetta, Ciro
([email protected]); Ronco, Claudio (Dep. Nephrology Dialysis & Transplantation, San Bortolo
Hospital); Signorini, Maria G. (Politecnico di Milano); Cerutti, Sergio (Politecnico di Milano)

10:00-10:15 SaA01.4
Atrial Fibrillation Disorganization Is Reduced by Catheter Ablation: A Standard ECG Study .................... 5286-5289
Bonizzi, Pietro* (Univ. of Nice-Sophia Antipolis); Meste, Olivier (UNSA-CNRS);
Zarzoso, Vicente (Univ. de Nice – CNRS)

10:15-10:30 SaA01.5
Visualizing the Electrocardiogram through Orbital Transform ....................................................................... 5290-5293
Illanes-Manriquez, Alfredo* (Univ. Austral de Chile); Jiménez, Raúl (Univ. de Concepción);
Dinamarca, Gustavo (Univ. de Concepción); Jiménez, Claudia (Univ. de Concepción);
Lecannelier, Eduardo (Hospital G. Grant Benavente)
10:30-10:45 SaA01.6
Relationship between Heart Rate Variability Using Lorenz Plot and Sleep Level ......................................... 5294-5297
Hagiwara, Hiroshi* (Ritsumeikan Univ.)

SaA02: 09:15-10:45 Libertador B

2.2.1 Doppler Ultrasonic Imaging (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 SaA02.1
High Range Resolution Medical Acoustic Vascular Imaging with Frequency Domain Interferometry ....... 5298-5301
Taki, Hirofumi* (Kyoto Univ.); Taki, Kousuke (Dept. of Anatomy, Shiga Univ. of Medical Science); Sakamoto,
Takuya (Dept. of Communications & Computer Engineering, Kyoto Univ.); Yamakawa, Makoto (Advanced
Biomedical Engineering Research Unit, KyotoUniv.); Shiina, Tsuyoshi (Kyoto Univ.); Sato, Toru (Kyoto Univ.)

09:30-09:45 SaA02.2
Understanding the Vascular Environment of Myofascial Trigger Points Using Ultrasonic
Imaging and Computational Modeling ............................................................................................................... 5302-5305
Sikdar, Siddhartha* (George Mason Univ.); Ortiz, Robin (Natl. Inst. of Health); Gebreab, Tadesse (Natl. Inst. of
Health Clinical Center); Gerber, Lynn (George Mason Univ.); Shah, Jay (Natl. Inst. of Health Clinical Center)

09:45-10:00 SaA02.3
Non-Invasive Hemodynamic State Monitoring Using Ultrasound .................................................................. 5306-5309
Dentinger, Aaron M.* (GE Global Research); Hoctor, Ralph T. (GE Global Research)

10:00-10:15 SaA02.4
Measurement of Tendon Velocities Using Vector Tissue Doppler Imaging : A Feasibility Study ............... 5310-5313
Eranki, Avinash* (George Mason Univ.); Bellini, Lindsey (Natl. Inst. of Health); Prosser, Laura (Natl. Inst. of
Health); Bland, Daniel (Natl. Inst. of Health); Damiano, Diane (Natl. Inst. of Health);
Sikdar, Siddhartha (George Mason Univ.)

10:15-10:30 SaA02.5
Separation of Preterm Infection Model from Normal Pregnancy in Mice Using Texture Analysis of
Second Harmonic Generation Images ............................................................................................................... 5314-5317
Yousefi, Siamak* (Univ. of Texas at Dallas); Kehtarnavaz, Nasser (Univ. of Texas at Dallas);
Akins, Meredith (Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center); Luby-Phelps, Kate (The Univ. of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center); mahendroo, mala (Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center)

SaA03: 09:15-10:45 Libertador C

3.12.1 Implantable Sensors Principle and Technology (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 SaA03.1
Probing Protein Binding Spectra with Fourier Microfluidics .......................................................................... 5318-5321
Mastrangelo, Carlos* (Univ. of Utah); Williams, Layne (Univ. of Utah, Dept. of Electrical & Computer
Engineering); Ghosh, Tridib (Univ. of Utah, Dept. of Bioengineering)

09:30-09:45 SaA03.2
A Miniaturized Device for Wireless FSCV Monitoring of Dopamine in an Ambulatory Subject .................. 5322-5325
Roham, Masoud (Case Western Reserve Univ.); Covey, Daniel (Illinois State Univ.); Daberkow, David (Illinois
State Univ.); Ramsson, Eric (Illinois State Univ.); Howard, Christopher (Illinois State Univ.); Garris, Paul (Illinois
State Univ.); Mohseni, Pedram* (Case Western Reserve Univ.)

09:45-10:00 SaA03.3
A Novel Pulse-Based Modulation Technique for Wideband Low Power Communication with
Neuroprosthetic Devices ..................................................................................................................................... 5326-5329
Ghovanloo, Maysam* (Georgia Inst. of Tech.); Inanlou, Farzad (Georgia Inst. of Tech.);
Kiani, Mehdi (Georgia Inst. of Tech.)

10:00-10:15 SaA03.4
Microsystems Technology in Radiation Therapy ............................................................................................. 5330-5333
ziaie, babak* (Purdue Univ.); Maleki, Teimour (Purdue Univ.)
10:15-10:30 SaA03.5
CMOS/Microfluidic Lab-On-Chip for Cells-Based Diagnostic Tools ............................................................... 5334-5337
Sawan, Mohamad* (Ecole Polytechnique); Miled, Amine (Ecole Polytechnique);
Ghafar-Zadeh, Ebrahim (Ecole Polytechnique)

SaA04: 09:15-10:45 Retiro A

2.7.13 Image Segmentation VI (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 SaA04.1
Segmenting the Sepal and Shoot Apical Meristem of Arabidopsis Thaliana ................................................ 5338-5342
Cunha, Alexandre* (California Inst. of Tech.); Roeder, Adrienne H.K. (California Inst. of Tech.);
Tobin, Cory J. (California Inst. of Tech.); Meyerowitz, Elliot M. (California Inst. of Tech.)

09:30-09:45 SaA04.2
Automatic Identification of Internal Carotid Artery from 3DRA Images ......................................................... 5343-5346
Bogunovic, Hrvoje* (Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona); Pozo, Jose Maria (Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona);
Cardenes, Ruben (Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona); Frangi, Alejandro (Univ. Pompeu Fabra)

09:45-10:00 SaA04.3
Identification of Lobar Fissures in Pathological Lungs ................................................................................... 5347-5350
Wei, Qiao (Univ. of Calgary); Hu, Yaoping* (The Univ. of Calgary); MacGregor, J. H. (Foothills Medical Center);
Gelfand, Gary (Foothills Medical Center)

10:00-10:15 SaA04.4
Automatic Liver Segmentation from CT Scans Based on a Statistical Shape Model ................................... 5351-5354
Zhang, Xing (Inst. of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Tian, Jie* (Chinese Academy of Sciences);
Deng, Kexin (Inst. of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences); Wu, Yongfang (Inst. of Automation, Chinese
Academy of Sciences); Li, Xiuli (Inst. of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

10:15-10:30 SaA04.5
Learning-Based Approach for the Automatic Detection of the Optic Disc in
Digital Retinal Fundus Photographs .................................................................................................................. 5355-5358
Wong, Damon* (Inst. for Infocomm Research); Liu, Jiang (Inst for Infocomm Resrch, A STAR);
Tan, Ngan Meng (A*STAR, Inst. for Infocomm Research); Yin, Fengshou (Inst. for Infocomm Research);
Lee, Beng Hai (Inst. for Infocomm Research); Wong, Tien Yin (Natl. Univ. of Singapore)

10:30-10:45 SaA04.6
Automatic Detection of Posterior Subcapsular Cataract Opacity for Cataract Screening .......................... 5359-5362
Li, Huiqi* (Inst. for Infocomm Research); Lim, Joo Hwee (Inst. for Infocomm Research); Liu, Jiang (Inst for
Infocomm Resrch, A STAR); Wong, Damon (Inst. for Infocomm Research); Foo, Yongfeng (Natl. Univ. of
Singapore); Sun, Ying (Natl. Univ. of Singapore); Wong, Tien Yin (Natl. Univ. of Singapore)

SaA05: 09:15-10:45 Retiro B

1.7.1 Blind Source Separation (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 SaA05.1
In Vivo Snapshot Hyperspectral Image Analysis of Age-Related Macular Degeneration ............................ 5363-5366
Lee, Noah* (Columbia Univ.); Wielaard, Jim (Columbia Univ.); Fawzi, Amani (Univ. of Southern California, Doheny
Eye Inst.); Sajda, Paul (Columbia Univ.); Laine, Andrew (Columbia Univ.); Martin, Gabriel (Reichert Ophthalmic
Instruments Inc.); Humayun, Mark (Univ. of Southern California); Smith, R Theodore (Columbia Univ.)

09:30-09:45 SaA05.2
Comparison of Source Separation Techniques for Multilead T-Wave Alternans Detection in the ECG ..... 5367-5370
Monasterio, Violeta* (Univ. of Zaragoza); Clifford, Gari (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.);
Martínez, Juan Pablo (Univ. of Zaragoza)

09:45-10:00 SaA05.3
Reference Estimation in EEG Recordings ......................................................................................................... 5371-5374
Ranta, Radu* (Nancy-Univ.); Salido-Ruiz, Ricardo (CRAN, Nancy Univ.); Louis-Dorr, Valerie (Nancy-Univ.)
10:00-10:15 SaA05.4
Multi-Dimensional PARAFAC2 Component Analysis of Multi-Channel EEG Data
Including Temporal Tracking .............................................................................................................................. 5375-5378
Weis, Martin* (Ilmenau Univ. of Tech.); Husar, Peter (Ilmenau Univ. of Tech.); Jannek, Dunja (Ilmenau Univ. of
Tech.); Roemer, Florian (Ilmenau Univ. of Tech.); Guenther, Thomas (Ilmenau Univ. of Tech.);
Haardt, Martin (Ilmenau Univ. of Tech.)

10:15-10:30 SaA05.5
EEG Sensor Selection by Sparse Spatial Filtering in P300 Speller Brain-Computer Interface ................... 5379-5382
Rivet, Bertrand (Grenoble Univ.); Cecotti, Hubert (INPG/CNRS UMR 5216); Phlypo, Ronald* (INPG/CNRS
UMR 5216); Bertrand, Olivier (INSERM); Maby, Emmanuel (INSERM); Mattout, Jérémie (INSERM)

10:30-10:45 SaA05.6
Automatic Artifact Removal from EEG – A Mixed Approach Based on Double Blind Source
Separation and Support Vector Machine ........................................................................................................... 5383-5386
Bartels, Georg (ShanghaiJiaoTong Univ.); Shi, Lichen (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.);
Lu, Bao-Liang* (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.)

SaA06: 09:15-10:45 Retiro C

1.4.2 Signal Pattern Classification II (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 SaA06.1
Combining EMD with ICA for Extracting Independent Sources from Single Channel and
Two-Channel Data ................................................................................................................................................ 5387-5390
Mijovic, Bogdan* (Katholieke Univ. Leuven); De Vos, Maarten (KU Leuven); Gligorijevic, Ivan (Katholieke Univ.
Leuven); Van Huffel, Sabine (Katholieke Univ. Leuven)

09:30-09:45 SaA06.2
Sleep Stage Transitions in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Patients with or without Fibromyalgia ................. 5391-5394
Kishi, Akifumi* (The Univ. of Tokyo); Natelson, Benjamin H. (Beth Israel Medical Center); Togo, Fumiharu (Natl.
Inst. of Occupational Safety & Health); Struzik, Zbigniew R. (The Univ. of Tokyo); Rapoport, David M. (NYU
School of Medicine); Yamamoto, Yoshiharu (The Univ. of Tokyo)

09:45-10:00 SaA06.3
Linear and Nonlinear Analysis of Autonomic Regulation of Heart Rate Variability in Healthy
First-Degree Relatives of Patients with Schizophrenia .................................................................................... 5395-5398
Voss, Andreas* (Univ. of Applied Sciences Jena); Schulz, Steffen (Univ. of Applied Sciences Jena);
Bär, Karl-Jürgen (Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. of Jena)

10:00-10:15 SaA06.4
Evaluation of an ECG Heartbeat Classifier Designed by Generalization-Driven Feature Selection ........... 5399-5402
Llamedo, Mariano* (Zaragoza Univ.); Martínez, Juan Pablo (Univ. of Zaragoza)

10:15-10:30 SaA06.5
Development of a Novel Border Detection Method for Melanocytic and
Non-Melanocytic Dermoscopy Images .............................................................................................................. 5403-5406
Norton, Kerri-Ann* (Rutgers Univ.); Iyatomi, Hitoshi (Hosei Univ.); Celebi, M. Emre (Louisiana State Univ in
Shreveport); Schaefer, Gerald (Loughborough Univ.); Tanaka, Masaru (Tokyo Women’s Medical Univ., Medical
Center East); Ogawa, Koichi (Hosei Univ.)

10:30-10:45 SaA06.6
Classification of Melanocytic Skin Lesions from Non-Melanocytic Lesions ................................................. 5407-5410
Iyatomi, Hitoshi* (Hosei Univ.); Norton, Kerri-Ann (Rutgers Univ.); Celebi, M. Emre (Louisiana State Univ in
Shreveport); Schaefer, Gerald (Loughborough Univ.); Tanaka, Masaru (Tokyo Women’s Medical Univ., Medical
Center East); Ogawa, Koichi (Hosei Univ.)
SaA07: 09:15-10:45 Martin Fierro 1
8.3.4 Surgical Robotics (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 SaA07.1
Design and Control of a Robotic System for Assistive Laser Phonomicrosurgery ..................................... 5411-5415
Mattos, Leonardo* (IIT – Italian Inst. of Tech.); Caldwell, Darwin G. (Italian Inst. of Tech.);
Dellepiane, Massimo (Univ. of Genoa – ENT Dept.); Grant, Edward (NC State Univ.)

09:30-09:45 SaA07.2
Target Motion Compensation in MRI-Guided Prostate Biopsy with Static Images ....................................... 5416-5419
Tadayyon, Hadi (Queen’s Univ., School of Computing); Lasso, Andras* (Queen’s Univ.);
Gill, Sean (Queen’s Univ.); Kaushal, Aradhana (Natl. Cancer Inst.); Guion, Peter (Natl. Cancer Inst.);
Fichtinger, Gabor (Johns Hopkins Univ.)

09:45-10:00 SaA07.3
Retinal Vessel Cannulation with an Image-Guided Handheld Robot ............................................................. 5420-5423
Becker, Brian C.* (Carnegie Mellon Univ.); Voros, Sandrine (Johns Hopkins Univ.); Lobes, Louis A. (Univ. of
Pittsburgh Medical Center); Handa, James T (Johns Hopkins Univ.); Hager, Gregory D (Johns Hopkins Univ.);
Riviere, Cameron N (Carnegie Mellon Univ.)

10:00-10:15 SaA07.4
Targeting Error Simulator for Image-Guided Prostate Needle Placement ..................................................... 5424-5427
Lasso, Andras* (Queen’s Univ.); Avni, Shachar (Queen’s Univ., School of Computing);
Fichtinger, Gabor (Johns Hopkins Univ.)

10:15-10:30 SaA07.5
Application of the HeartLander Crawling Robot for Injection of a Thermally Sensitive Anti-Remodeling
Agent for Myocardial Infarction Therapy ........................................................................................................... 5428-5431
Chapman, Michael (Univ. of Pittsburgh); López González, Jose Luis (Univ. of Valladolid); Goyette, Brina (Carnegie
Mellon Univ.); Fujimoto, Kazuro (Univ. of Pittsburgh); Ma, Zuwei (Univ. of Pittsburgh); Wagner, William R (Univ.
of Pittsburgh); Zenati, Marco (Harvard Medical School); Riviere, Cameron N* (Carnegie Mellon Univ.)

10:30-10:45 SaA07.6
Needle Steering System Using Duty-Cycled Rotation for Percutaneous Kidney Access ............................ 5432-5435
Wood, Nathan* (Carnegie Mellon Univ.); Shahrour, Khaled (Univ. of Pittsburgh); Ost, Michael (Univ. of
Pittsburgh); Riviere, Cameron N (Carnegie Mellon Univ.)

SaA08: 09:15-10:45 Martin Fierro 2

6.7.1 Musculoskeletal Models as a Guide for Rehabilitation Interventions (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 SaA08.1
Computational Hypothesis Testing for Neuromuscular Systems .................................................................. 5436-5439
Kutch, Jason* (Univ. of Southern California); Valero-Cuevas, Francisco (Univ. of Southern California)

09:30-09:45 SaA08.2
Probabilistic Musculoskeletal Modeling of the Knee: A Preliminary Examination
of an ACL-Reconstruction ................................................................................................................................... 5440-5443
Barry, Megan (Northwestern Univ.); Kwon, Tae-Hyun (Northwestern Univ.); Dhaher, Yasin* (Northwestern Univ.)

09:45-10:00 SaA08.3
Predictive Simulation of Gait in Rehabilitation ................................................................................................. 5444-5447
Ackermann, Marko* (Centro Univ. da FEI); van den Bogert, Antonie J. (Cleveland Clinic)

10:00-10:15 SaA08.4
Adaptive Terminal Sliding Mode Control of Ankle Movement Using Functional Electrical
Stimulation of Agonist-Antagonist Muscles ..................................................................................................... 5448-5451
Nekoukar, Vahab (Neuromuscular Control Systems Lab., Neural Tech. Research Centre, Dept. of Biomedical
Engineering, Iran Univ. of); Erfanian, Abbas* (Iran Univ. of Science & Tech.)
10:15-10:30 SaA08.5
Model of Postural Control System Applied in Parkinson’s Disease Patients ............................................... 5452-5455
Nogueira, Santiago (Laboratorio de Otoneurología); Ferreira, Enrique D. (Univ. Catolica del Uruguay);
Geisinger, Dario (Laboratory of Otoneurology); San Román, María Cecilia* (Lab. of Otoneurology. British
Hospital.); Suarez, Hamlet (Laboratory of Otoneurology)

10:30-10:45 SaA08.6
Model to Estimate Hamstrings Behavior in Cerebral Palsy Patients: As a Pre-Surgical Clinical
Diagnosis Tool ..................................................................................................................................................... 5456-5459
Ravera, Emiliano Pablo (Univ. Nacional de Entre Ríos, Facultad de Ingeniería); Crespo, Marcos (FLENI, Inst.
for Neurological Research); Catalfamo, Paola Andrea Lucia (Univ. Nacional de Entre Ríos, Faculatad de
Ingeniería); Braidot, Ariel Andrés* (Univ. Nacional de Entre Ríos, Facultad de Ingeniería)

SaA09: 09:15-10:45 Ombu A

6.1.1 Models and Methods Inferring Neural Circuits (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 SaA09.1
Causal Neuronal Networks Provide Functional Signatures of Stimulus Encoding ...................................... 5460-5463
Eldawlatly, Seif* (Michigan State Univ.); Oweiss, Karim (Michigan State Univ.)

09:30-09:45 SaA09.2
Changes of Hippocampal CA3-CA1 Population Nonlinear Dynamics across Different Training
Sessions in Rats Performing a Memory-Dependent Task ............................................................................... 5464-5467
Chan, Rosa H. M.* (Univ. of Southern California); Song, Dong (Univ. of Southern California); Hampson, Robert
(Wake Forest Univ.); Deadwyler, Sam (Wake Forest Univ.); Berger, Theodore (Univ. of Southern California)

09:45-10:00 SaA09.3
Quantitative Analysis of Neural Plasticity in Motorcortex During Functional Recovery
Post Spinal Cord Injury ....................................................................................................................................... 5468-5471
Huo, Yan (Beijing Inst. of Tech.); Li, Ping (Beijing Inst. of Tech.); Ma, Chaolin (Arizona State Univ.);
Zhang, Hang (Arizona State Univ.); lv, bin (Inst. of Automation,Chinese Academy of Sciences);
He, Jiping* (Arizona State Univ.)

10:00-10:15 SaA09.4
A Theory about a Role of the Hyperdirect Pathway in Pattern Expression by the Basal Ganglia .............. 5472-5475
Jourdan, Ivan (Facultad de Ingeniería. Univ. de BuenosAires); Barttfeld, Pablo (Inst. de ingeniería Biomédica-
facultad de Ingeniería, UBA); Zanutto, Silvano* (Inst. de Ingeniería Biomédica FI-UBA; IBYME-CONICET)

10:15-10:30 SaA09.5
Can We Infer Subthalamic Nucleus Spike Trains from Intranuclear Local Field Potentials? ...................... 5476-5479
Michmizos, Kostis* (Natl. Technical Univ. of Athens); Nikita, Konstantina (Natl. Technical Univ. of Athens)

10:30-10:45 SaA09.6
ATP Consumption and Neural Electrical Activity: A Physiological Model for Brain Imaging ..................... 5480-5483
Gafaniz, Rita (Inst. for Systems & Robotics); Sanches, J. Miguel* (Inst. for Systems & Robotics, NIF)

SaA10: 09:15-10:45 Ombu B

10.2.2 Mobile Health (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 SaA10.1
Development of Mobile Psychiatry for Bipolar Disorder Patients .................................................................. 5484-5487
Prociow, Pawel* (Univ. of Nottingham); Crowe, John (Univ. of Nottingham)

09:30-09:45 SaA10.2
A Novel Method to Detect Heart Beat Rate Using a Mobile Phone ................................................................. 5488-5491
Pelegris, Panagiotis (Brunel Univ.); Banitsas, Konstantinos* (Brunel Univ.); Orbach, Tuvi (Health-Smart);
Marias, Kostas (Foundation for Res. & Tech. Hellas)
09:45-10:00 SaA10.3
An Internet-Based System for Home Monitoring of Respiratory Muscle Disorders ..................................... 5492-5495
Silva Junior, Evert* (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro); Esteves, Guilherme (Univ. do Estado do Rio de
Janeiro); Faria, Alvaro Camilo Dias (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro);
Melo, Pedro Lopes (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)

10:00-10:15 SaA10.4
A Mobile Communications System for Home-Visit Medical Services: The Electronic Doctor’s Bag ......... 5496-5499
Yoshizawa, Makoto* (Tohoku Univ.); Yambe, Tomoyuki (Tohoku Univ); Saijo, Yoshifumi (Tohoku Univ.);
Sugita, Norihiro (Tohoku Univ.); Sugai, Telma Keiko (Tohoku Univ.); Abe, Makoto (Tohoku Univ.)

10:15-10:30 SaA10.5
A Cardiod Based Technique to Identify Cardiovascular Diseases Using
Mobile Phones and Body Sensors ..................................................................................................................... 5500-5503
Sufi, Fahim (RMIT Univ.); Khalil, Ibrahim* (RMIT Univ.); Tari, Zahir (RMIT Univ.)

10:30-10:45 SaA10.6
Mobile Middleware for Wireless Body Area Network ....................................................................................... 5504-5507
Chen, Xiang* (Inst. for Infocomm Research); Waluyo, Agustinus Borgy (Monash Univ.); Pek, Isaac (Inst. for
Infocomm Research); Yeoh, Wee Soon (Inst. for Infocomm Research)

SaA11: 09:15-10:45 Poncho

4.1.1 Algorithms and Computational Tools for
Proteomics and Gene Expression Profiling (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 SaA11.1
Protein Surface Functional Description ............................................................................................................ 5508-5511
Cristea, Paul Dan* (Univ. Politehnic of Bucharest); Tuduce, Rodica (Univ. Politehnic of Bucharest);
Arsene, Octavian (Politehnic Univ. of Bucharest)

09:30-09:45 SaA11.2
Predictability of Protein Subcellular Locations by Pattern Recognition Techniques .................................. 5512-5515
Jaramillo Garzón, Jorge Alberto* (Univ. Nacional de Colombia); Perera, Alexandre (Univ. Politècnica de
Catalunya); Castellanos-Dominguez, Germán (Univ. Nacional de Colombia)

09:45-10:00 SaA11.3
Adaptive Threshold for Detecting Differentially Expressed Genes in Microarray Data –
A Simulation Study to Investigate Its Performance ......................................................................................... 5516-5519
Fukuoka, Yutaka* (Tokyo Medical & Dental Univ.); Inaoka, Hidenori (Kitasato Univ.);
Noshiro, Makoto (Kitasato Univ.)

10:00-10:15 SaA11.4
Towards a Digital Model of Zebrafish Embryogenesis. Integration of Cell Tracking and
Gene Expression Quantification ......................................................................................................................... 5520-5523
Castro Gonzalez, Carlos* (Univ. Politécnica de Madrid); Luengo-Oroz, Miguel Angel (Univ. Politécnica de
Madrid); Duloquin, Louise (CNRS); Savy, Thierry (Ecole Polytechnique); Melani, Camilo (Univ. de Buenos
Aires); Desnoulez, Sophie (CNRS); Ledesma-Carbayo, Maria J. (Univ. Politécnica de Madri); Bourgine, Paul
(Ecole Polytechnique); Peyrieras, Nadine (CNRS); Santos, Andres (Univ. Politecnica Madrid)

10:15-10:30 SaA11.5
Accurate Samples for Testing Mass Spectrometry Based Peptide Quantification Algorithms .................. 5524-5528
Carrillo, Brian* (McGill Univ.); Laboissiere, Sylvie (McGill Univ. & Genome Quebec Innovation Centre Proteomics
Platform); Nadon, Robert (Dept. of Human Genetics at McGill Univ.); Kearney, Robert Edward (McGill Univ.)

10:30-10:45 SaA11.6
An Information Theory-Based Tool for Characterizing the Interaction Environment of a Protein .............. 5529-5532
Massanet-Vila, Raimon* (Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya); Gallardo-Chacón, Joan-Josep (CIBER Bioengineering,
Biomaterials, & Nanomedicin); Caminal, Pere (Technical Univ. of Catalonia (UPC)); Perera, Alexandre (Univ.
Politècnica de Catalunya)
SaA13: 09:15-10:45 Gomez Losada
6.8.2 Neuroligical Disorders (Oral Session)

09:15-09:30 SaA13.1
Quantitative Description of the State of Awareness of Patients in Vegetative and
Minimally Conscious State .................................................................................................................................. 5533-5536
Wieser, Martin* (ETH Zurich); Buetler, Lilith (HUMAINE Clinic); Koenig, Alexander (ETH Zurich); Riener, Robert
(ETH & Univ. Zurich)

09:30-09:45 SaA13.2
Predicting Temporal Lobe Epileptic Seizures Based on Zero-Crossing Interval Analysis in Scalp EEG .. 5537-5540
Shahidi Zandi, Ali (The Univ. of British Columbia); Tafreshi, Reza* (Texas A&M Univ. at Qatar); Javidan,
Manouchehr (Univ. of British Columbia & Vancouver General Hospital); Dumont, Guy (Univ. of British Columbia)

09:45-10:00 SaA13.3
Epileptic Seizure Detection – An AR Model Based Algorithm for Implantable Device ................................. 5541-5544
Kim, Hyunchul (Univ. of California Santa Cruz); Rosen, Jacob* (Univ. of California – Santa Cruz)

10:00-10:15 SaA13.4
A Novel Morphology-Based Classifier for Automatic Detection of Epileptic Seizures ................................ 5545-5548
Yadav, Rajeev* (Concordia Univ.); Agarwal, Rajeev (Concordia Univ.); Swamy, M.N.S. (Concordia Univ.)

10:15-10:30 SaA13.5
Clinical Study of Neurorehabilitation in Stroke Using EEG-Based Motor Imagery Brain-Computer
Interface with Robotic Feedback ........................................................................................................................ 5549-5552
Ang, Kai Keng* (Inst. for Infocomm Research); Guan, Cuntai (Inst. for Infocomm Research);
Chua, Karen Sui Geok (Tan Tock Seng Hospital Rehabilitation Centre); Ang, Beng Ti (Natl.
Neuroscience Inst.); Kuah, Christopher Wee Keong (Tan Tock Seng Hospital Rehabilitation Centre);
Wang, Chuanchu (Inst. for Infocomm Research); Phua, Koksoon (Inst. for Infocomm Research);
Chin, Zheng Yang (Inst. for Infocomm Research); Zhang, Haihong (Inst. for Infocomm Research)

10:30-10:45 SaA13.6
A Neural Repair Treatment with Gait Training Improves Motor Function Recovery after Spinal Cord Injury ... 5553-5556
Ma, Chaolin (Arizona State Univ.); He, Jiping* (Arizona State Univ.)

SaBPo01: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

2.7.8 Image Classification IV (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo01.1
Small Bowel Tumors Detection in Capsule Endoscopy by Gaussian Modeling of Color
Curvelet Covariance Coefficients ....................................................................................................................... 5557-5560
Lima, Carlos Manuel Gregorio Santos* (Univ. of Minho); Barbosa, Daniel (Univ. of Minho);
Martins, Maria Manuel (Univ. of Minho)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo01.2
Boosting Instance Prototypes to Detect Local Dermoscopic Features ......................................................... 5561-5564
Situ, Ning (Univ. of Houston); Yuan, Xiaojing (Univ. of Houston); Zouridakis, George* (Univ. of Houston)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo01.3
Classification of Apoptosis Using Advanced Clustering Techniques on Digital Microscopic Images ...... 5565-5568
Tasoylis, Sotirios (Univ. of Central Greece); Doukas, Charalampos* (Univ. of the Aegean);
Maglogiannis, Ilias (Univ. of Central Greece); Plagianakos, Vassilis (Univ. of Central Greece)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo01.4
Recognizing Physical Activity from Ego-Motion of a Camera ........................................................................ 5569-5572
Zhang, Hong (Beihang Univ.); Li, Lu (Beihang Univ.); Jia, Wenyan (Univ. of Pittsburgh); Fernstrom, John D.
(Univ. of Pittsburgh); Sclabassi, Robert (Univ. of Pittsburgh); Sun, Mingui* (Univ. of Pittsburgh)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo01.5
Parallel Nonlinear Analysis of Weighted Brain’s Gray and White Matter Images for
Alzheimer’s Dementia Diagnosis ....................................................................................................................... 5573-5576
Razavian, Seiied-Mohammad-Javad (Sharif Univ. of Tech.); Torabi, Meysam* (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
10:45-12:15 SaBPo01.6
Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Breast Cancer from Magnetic Resonance Imaging Examinations by
Custom Radial Basis Function Vector Machine ............................................................................................... 5577-5580
Levman, Jacob Evan Daniel* (Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Univ. of Toronto);
Martel, Anne (Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Univ. of Toronto)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo01.7
A Preliminary Study of Moment-Based Texture Analysis for Medical Images .............................................. 5581-5584
Wu, Ke* (Southeast Univ. China); Garnier, Carole (Univ. de Rennes1); Coatrieux, Jean Louis (INSERM-Univ.
Rennes 1); Shu, Huazhong (Southeast Univ.)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo01.8
SVM Based Colon Polyps Classifier in a Wireless Active Stereo Endoscope .............................................. 5585-5588
Ayoub, Jad (CNRS ENSEA Univ. Cergy Pontoise); Granado, Bertrand* (ENSEA – CNRS – Univ. Cergy
Pontoise); Mohanna, Yasser (Faculty ofSciences I, Lebanese Univ.); Romain, Olivier (UPMC)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo01.9
Curvatures with Uncertainties Derived in Conformal Space to Characterize Tendon Microstructure ....... 5589-5592
Harvey, Ann K.* (Oxford Univ.); Szilágyi, Tünde (Univ. of Oxford); Brady, Michael (Univ. of Oxford);
Thompson, Mark (Oxford Univ.); Joshi, Niranjan (Oxford Univ.)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo01.10
Using PCA and LVQ Neural Network for Automatic Recognition of Five Types of White Blood Cells ...... 5593-5596
Roshani Tabrizi, Pooneh* (Tehran); Rezatofighi, Seyed Hamid (Univ. of Tehran, Iran);
Yazdanpanah, Mohammad Javad (Tehran)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo01.11
Genetic Algorithm and Image Processing for Osteoporosis Diagnosis ........................................................ 5597-5600
Jennane, Rachid* (Univ. of Orleans); almhdie, Ahmad (Univ. of Orleans); Hambli, Ridha (Univ. of Orleans);
Ucan, Osman Nuri (Univ. of of Istanbul); Benhanou, Claude-Laurent (Centre Hospitalier Régional d’Orléans)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo01.12
Automatic Learning of Spatial Patterns for Diagnosis of Skin Lesions ......................................................... 5601-5604
Zortea, Maciel* (Univ. of Tromsø); Skrøvseth, Stein Olav (Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care &
Telemedicine); Godtliebsen, Fred (Univ. of Tromsø)

SaBPo02: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

2.7.10 Rigid-Body Image Registration I (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo02.1
Registration of 2D Point Sets by Complex Translation and Rotation Operations ........................................ 5605-5607
Sahin, Ismet* (Univ. of Maryland)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo02.2
A Semi-Automatic Method for Positioning a Femoral Bone Reconstruction for Strict View Generation ... 5608-5611
Milano, Federico* (Univ. de Buenos Aires, Univ. Tecnologica Nacional); Ritacco, Lucas E (Hospital Italiano);
Gomez, Adrian (Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires); Gonzalez Bernaldo de Quirós, Fernán (Hospital
Italiano de Buenos Aires); Risk, Marcelo (Univ. de Buenos Aires)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo02.3
Pre-Reconstruction Rigid Body Registration for Positron Emission Tomography: An Initial
Validation against Ground Truth ........................................................................................................................ 5612-5615
Nordberg, Peter* (Univ. of Oxford); Declerck, Jerome (Siemens Molecular Imaging);
Brady, Michael (Univ. of Oxford)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo02.4
Multimodal Target Correction by Local Bone Registration: A PET/CT Evaluation ....................................... 5616-5619
Oliveira-Santos, Thiago* (ISTB – Inst. for Surgical Tech. & Biomechanics); Weitzel, Thilo (Dept. of Nuclear
Medicine, Inselspital Bern, 3010 Bern, Switzerland); Klaeser, Bernd (Dept. of Nuclear Medicine, Inselspital
Bern, 3010 Bern, Switzerland); Krause, Thomas (Univ. of Bern, 3010 Bern, Switzerland); Nolte, Lutz-Peter
(Univ. of Bern); Weber, Stefan (Univ. of Bern); Reyes, Mauricio (MEM Research Center, Univ. Bern)
10:45-12:15 SaBPo02.5
Postoperative Evaluation of Surgery for Craniosynostosis Based on Image Registration Techniques .... 5620-5623
Elias de Oliveira, Marcelo* (Univ. of Bern); Hallila, Harri (Dept. of Electronics, School of Science & Tech., Aalto
Univ.); Ritvanen, Antti (Dept. of Electronics, School of Science & Tech., Aalto Univ.); Büchler, Philippe (Univ. of
Bern); Paulasto, Mervi (Dept. of Electronics, School of Science & Tech., Aalto Univ.); Hukki, Jyri (Cleft Palate &
Craniofacial Center, Dept. of Plastic Surgery, Helsinki Univ. Hospital)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo02.6
FMRI 3D Registration Based on Fourier Space Subsets Using Neural Networks ......................................... 5624-5627
Freire, Luis C.* (Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa,Inst. Politécnico de Lisboa); Godinho,
Fernando (Atomedical, Laboratório de Medicina Nuclear, Lda); Gouveia, Ana Isabel (Univ. da Beira Interior, CICS)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo02.7
A Torsional Eye Movement Calculation Algorithm for Low Contrast Images in Video-Oculography ........ 5628-5631
Jansen, Stephan* (Maastricht Univ.); Kingma, Herman (Univ. Hospital Maastricht); Peeters, Ralf (Univ.
Maastricht); Westra, Ronald (Univ. Maastricht)

SaBPo03: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

2.9.2 Functional Image Analysis (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo03.1
Analysis of Foveal Avascular Zone in Colour Fundus Images for Grading of
Diabetic Retinopathy Severity ............................................................................................................................ 5632-5635
Ahmad Fadzil, Mohamad Hani* (Univ. Teknologi Petronas); Adi Nugroho, Hanung (Gadjah Mada Univ.)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo03.2
Automated Indexation of Metabolic Changes in Alzheimer’s Mice Using a Voxel-Wise Approach
Combined to an MRI-Based 3D Digital Atlas ..................................................................................................... 5636-5639
Lebenberg, Jessica* (Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique); Hérard, Anne-Sophie (Commissariat à l’Energie
Atomique); Dubois, Albertine (Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique); Dhenain, Marc (Commissariat à l’Energie
Atomique); Hantraye, Philippe (Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique); Delzescaux, Thierry (Commissariat à
l’Energie Atomique)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo03.3
Fmri Measurement of Brain Activities to Major and Minor Chords and Cadence Sequences ..................... 5640-5643
Nemoto, Iku* (Tokyo Denki Univ.); Fujimaki, Takuya (Tokyo Denki Univ.); Wang, Li-qun (Tokyo Denki Univ.)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo03.4
Automatic Blood Vessel Localization in Small Field of View Eye Images ..................................................... 5644-5648
Bansal, Mayank (Sarnoff Corp.); Kuthirummal, Sujit (Sarnoff Corp.); Eledath, Jayan* (Sarnoff Corp.);
Sawhney, Harpreet (Sarnoff Corp.); Stone, Richard (Univ. of Pennsylvania)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo03.5
Support System for the Preventive Diagnosis of Hypertensive Retinopathy ................................................ 5649-5652
Ortiz, Daniel* (Pontificia Univ. Javeriana); Cubides, Mauricio (Pontificia Univ. Javeriana); Suarez, Andres
(Pontificia Univ. Javeriana); Zequera Diaz, Martha Lucia (Pontificia Univ. Javeriana); Quiroga, Julian (Pontificia
Univ. Javeriana); Gomez, Jorge (Pontificia Univ. Javeriana); Arroyo, Nubia (COLMEDICA)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo03.6
Automatic Immunostaining Vessel Image Filtering for Visual Search Efficiency ......................................... 5653-5656
Tsou, Chi-Hsuan* (Natl. Taiwan Univ.); Lu, Yi-Chien (Dept. of Medical Imaging Natl. Taiwan Univ. Hospital &
College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan); Yuan, Ang (Natl. Taiwan Univ. Hospital); Chang, Yeun-Chung (Dept. of
Medical Imaging Natl. Taiwan Univ. Hospital & College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan); Chen, Jyh-Horng (Natl.
Taiwan Univ.)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo03.7
A Robust Volumetric Feature Extraction Approach for 3D Neuroimaging Retrieval .................................... 5657-5660
Liu, Sidong* (Univ. of Sydney); Cai, Weidong (Univ. of Sydney); Wen, Lingfeng (Univ. of Sydney); Eberl, Stefan
(Royal Prince Alfred Hospital); Fulham, Michael (Royal Prince Alfred Hospital); Feng, Dagan (The Univ. of Sydney)
10:45-12:15 SaBPo03.8
Comparison and Analysis of Nonlinear Algorithms for Compressed Sensing in MRI ................................. 5661-5664
Yu, Yeyang* (the Univ. of Queensland); Hong, Mingjian (ChongQing Univ.); Liu, Feng (The Univ. of
Queensland); Wang, Hua (The Univ. of Queensland); Crozier, Stuart (The Univ. of Queensland)

SaBPo04: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

2.9.3 Neuroimaging (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo04.1
Tractography Clustering for Fiber Selection in ROI-Based Diffusion Tensor Studies ................................. 5665-5668
de Luis-García, Rodrigo* (Univ. of Valladolid); Alberola-López, Carlos (Univ. de Valladolid)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo04.2
Low-Parametric Induced Current – Magnetic Resonance Electrical Impedance Tomography for
Quantitative Conductivity Estimation of Brain Tissues Using a Priori Information: A Simulation Study ....... 5669-5672
De Geeter, Nele* (Univ. of Ghent, Faculty of Engineering); Crevecoeur, Guillaume (Ghent Univ., Dept. Electrical
Energy, Systems & Automation); Dupré, Luc (Ghent Univ., Dept. Electrical Energy, Systems & Automation)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo04.3
Fmri Headtracking Using a Single Camera and a Lightweight Fiducial ......................................................... 5673-5676
MacFarlane, Duncan* (The Univ. of Texas at Dallas); Wildey, Chester (The Univ. of Texas at Dallas)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo04.4
On the Distinguishability of HRF Models in Fmri ............................................................................................. 5677-5680
Silvestre, Carlos (Inst. Superior Tecnico); Figueiredo, Patricia* (Inst. Superior Técnico / Inst. for Systems &
Robotics); Rosa, Paulo (Inst. Superior Tecnico)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo04.5
Wideband MRI: Theoretical Analysis and Its Applications .............................................................................. 5681-5684
Wu, Edzer L.* (Natl. Taiwan Univ.); Chen, Jyh-Horng (Natl. Taiwan Univ.); Chiueh, Tzi-Dar (Natl. Taiwan Univ.)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo04.6
Brain Activation in Complex Partial Seizures During Switching from a Goal-Directed Task to a Resting
State: Comparison of Fmri Maps to the Default Mode Network ...................................................................... 5685-5688
Karmonik, Christof* (The Methodist Hospital Neurological Inst); dulay, Mario (The Methodist Hospital);
Verma, Amit (The Methodist Hospital); Yen, Christopher (The Methodist Hospital);
Grossman, Robert (The Methodist Hospital)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo04.7
In vivo MRI Study of the Visual System in Normal, Developing and Injured Rodent Brains ....................... 5689-5692
Chan, Kevin C. (The Univ. of Hong Kong); Cheung, Matthew M. (The Univ. of Hong Kong); Xing, Kai (The Univ. of
Hong Kong); Zhou, Iris Yuwen (The Univ. of Hong Kong); Chow, April M. (The Univ. of Hong Kong); Lau, Condon
(The Univ. of Hong Kong); So, Kwok-fai (The Univ. of Hong Kong); Wu, Ed X.* (The Univ. of Hong Kong)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo04.8
A Three-Coil RF Probe-Head at 2.35 T: Potential Applications to the 23Na and to the
Hyperpolarized 129Xe MRI in Small Animals .................................................................................................... 5693-5699
Asfour, Aktham* (Grenoble Univ.)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo04.9
Integrated Software for Brain Imaging Detection of Epileptogenic Zones in Refractory Epilepsy ............. 5700-5703
Mottini, Alejandro* (Univ. de la República); Miceli, Franco (Univ. de la República Oriental del Uruguay –
Facultad de Ingeniería); Albín, Germán (Facultad de Ingeniería, Univ. de la República);
Fernández, Alicia (Univ. de la República); Nuñez, Margarita (Univ. de la República);
Ferrando, Rodolfo (Facultad de Medicina, Univ. de la República)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo04.10
Multiple-Model Set-Valued Observers: A New Tool for HRF Model Selection in Fmri .................................. 5704-5707
Silvestre, Carlos (Inst. Superior Tecnico); Figueiredo, Patricia* (Inst. Superior Técnico / Inst. for Systems &
Robotics); Rosa, Paulo (Inst. Superior Tecnico)
10:45-12:15 SaBPo04.11
Joint Fmri Brain Activation Detection and Segmentation Using Level Sets ................................................. 5708-5711
Silveira, Margarida* (Inst. Superior Técnico); Figueiredo, Patricia (Inst. Superior Técnico / Inst. for
Systems & Robotics)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo04.12
Image Resolution Improvement Based on Sinogram Super-Resolution in PET ........................................... 5712-5715
Jeong, Kye Young (KAIST); Choi, Kyuha (KAIST); Nam, Woo Hyun (KAIST); Kim, Ji Hye (KAIST);
Ra, Jong Beom* (KAIST)

SaBPo05: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

2.9.4 Cardiac Image Analysis (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo05.1
Estimation of Coronary Length-Volume Allometric Relations of Human Arteries Invivo Using CT ........... 5716-5719
Casciaro, Mariano Ezequiel* (Univ. Favaloro); Craiem, Damian (Favaloro Univ.); Graf, Sebastián (Favaloro
Univ.); Gurfinkel, Enrique (Fundación Favaloro); Armentano, Ricardo Luis (Favaloro Univ.)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo05.2
Analysis of the Helix and Transverse Angles of the Muscle Fibers in the Myocardium Based on
Diffusion Tensor Imaging .................................................................................................................................... 5720-5723
Muñoz-Moreno, Emma (Univ. Pompeu Fabra); Cardenes, Ruben (Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona);
Frangi, Alejandro (Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona); Frangi, Alejandro* (Univ. Pompeu Fabra)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo05.3
A Qualitative and Quantitative Study of Coronary Artery MRA ...................................................................... 5724-5727
Velut, Jérôme* (Univ. de Rennes 1); Lentz, Pierre-Axel (CHU Pontchaillou); Philipot, Clément (Univ. de Rennes
1); Garcia, Marie-Paule (Univ. de Rennes 1); Toumoulin, Christine (Univ. de Rennes 1)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo05.4
Exploratory Data Analysis of Image Texture and Statistical Features on Myocardium and
Infarction Areas in Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Images ............................................................................... 5728-5731
Engan, Kjersti* (Univ. of Stavanger); Eftestøl, Trygve (Univ. of Stavanger); Ørn, Stein (Stavanger Univ.
Hospital); Kvaløy, Jan Terje (Univ. of Stavanger); Woie, Leik (Stavanger Univ. Hospital, Stavanger, Norway)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo05.5
Factor Analysis of Ventricular Contraction Using SPECT-ERNA Images ...................................................... 5732-5735
Rojas Ordus, Diana (Univ. Autonoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa); Jimenez-Angeles, Luis* (Inst. Nacional de
Cardiologia Ignacio Chávez); Hernandez, Salvador (Inst. Nacional de CArdiologia); Valdes-cristerna, Raquel
(Univ. Autonoma Metropolitana)

SaBPo06: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

3.1.6 Mechanical Sensors (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo06.1
Portable Nanoparticle Quantization Using a Resizable Nanopore Instrument – the IZON Qnano .............. 5736-5739
Garza-Licudine, Edolfo (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz); Deo, Darrel (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz);
Yu, Samuel S C (Izon Science, MacDiarmid Inst. for Advanced Materials & NanoTech.);
Uz-Zaman, Asma (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz); Dunbar, William B.* (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo06.2
Ac Biosusceptometry As a Method for Measuring Gastric Contraction ........................................................ 5740-5743
Agostinho, Marcelo* (Univ. Estadual Paulista-Unesp)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo06.3
Effect of Pressurization Methods on the Accuracy of Wrist Blood Pressure Measurement ....................... 5744-5747
Kim, Jong Pal* (Samsung Advanced Inst. of Tech.); Bae, Sang Kon (Samsung Advanced Inst of Tech);
Kim, Youn Ho (Samsung Advanced Inst. of Tech.); Kang, KyoungHo (Samsung Advanced Inst. of Tech.);
Ko, Byung-Hoon (Samsung Advanced Inst. of Tech.); Kim, Seok (Samsung Advanced Inst. of Tech.);
Shin, Kunsoo (Samsung Advanced Inst of Tech)
10:45-12:15 SaBPo06.4
Insole with Pressure Control and Tissue Neoformation Induction Systems for Diabetic Foot ................... 5748-5751
Reis, Maria do Carmo dos (Univ. of Brasilia); Araujo Soares, Fabiano (Univ. of Brasília – UnB);
da Rocha, Adson F.* (Univ. of Brasilia); Carvalho, Joao Luiz Azevedo de (Univ. of Brasília);
S. F. R. Rodrigues, Suelia (UnB-Gama Faculty, Univ. of Brasília)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo06.5
Electronic System for Monitoring the Frequency and Pressure of Mastication:
Study and Approach for Its Design .................................................................................................................... 5752-5755
Nakamura, Orlando (Univ. Tecnológica del Perú); García Romero, Daniel (Univ. Tecnológica del Perú);
Yabar Escribanel, Leopoldo Félix* (Univ. Tecnológica del Perú)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo06.6
Ultrasound User-Identification for Wireless Sensor Networks ....................................................................... 5756-5759
Shahid, Bilal (Univ. of New South Wales); Kannan, Anushiya Arunachalam (Univ. of New South Wales);
Lovell, Nigel H* (Univ. of New South Wales); Redmond, Stephen James (Univ. of New South Wales)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo06.7
Experimental Validation of a Polyvinylidene Fluoride Sensing Element in a Tactile Sensor ...................... 5760-5763
Yahud, Shuhaida (Univ. of New South Wales); Dokos, Socrates* (Univ. of New South Wales);
Morley, John William (Univ. of Western Sydney); Lovell, Nigel H (Univ. of New South Wales)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo06.8
Point-Type Non-Contact Stiffness Sensing of Soft Tissue with Coupling Effect .......................................... 5764-5767
Tanaka, Nobuyuki* (Osaka Univ.); Uchida, Ryohei (Osaka Univ.); Higashimori, Mitsuru (Osaka Univ.);
Tadakuma, Kenjiro (Osaka Univ.); Kaneko, Makoto (Osaka Univ.)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo06.9
Opto-Electronic System for Detection of Flat Foot by Using Estimation Techniques:
Study and Approach of Design ........................................................................................................................... 5768-5771
Luis, Navarro (Univ. Nacional Mayor de San Marcos); Huamaní, Robinson (Univ. Tecnológica del Perú);
Yabar Escribanel, Leopoldo Félix* (Univ. Tecnológica del Perú)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo06.10
Test System for Clinical Force Platforms .......................................................................................................... 5772-5775
Blanchard, German* (Univ. de Valparaíso, Chile.)

SaBPo07: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

3.1.7 Photonics (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo07.1
A Study of Opto-Physiological Modeling to Quantify Tissue Absorbance in Imaging
Photoplethysmography ....................................................................................................................................... 5776-5779
Hu, Sijung* (Loughborough Univ.); Zheng, Jia (Loughborough Univ.); Azorin Peris, Vicente (Loughborough Univ.)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo07.2
New Ear Sensor for Mobile, Continuous and Long Term Pulse Oximetry ..................................................... 5780-5783
Buschmann, Johannes (Buschmann Labor- und Medizintechnik);
Huang, Jin* (Buschmann Labor- und Medizintechnik)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo07.3
Time-Resolved Diffuse Reflectance Measurement Carried Out on the Head of an
Adult at Large Source-Detector Separation ...................................................................................................... 5784-5786
Liebert, Adam* (Inst of Biocybernetics & Biomed Eng); Sawosz, Piotr (Inst. of Biocyberentics & Biomedical
Engineering); Kacprzak, Michal (Inst. of Biocybernetics & Biomedical Engineering); Weigl, Wojciech (Dept. of
Anesthesiology & Intensive Care, Medical Univ. of Warsaw); Botwicz, Marcin (Inst. of Biocyberentics &
Biomedical Engineering); Maniewski, Roman (Inst of Biocybernetics & Biomed Engr)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo07.4
Design of a 3D Surface Scanner Prototype Suitable for MR ........................................................................... 5787-5790
Cavalleri, Matteo* (IRCCS E.MEDEA); Romei, Marianna (IRCCS “E.Medea”); Reni, Gianluigi (IRCCS)
10:45-12:15 SaBPo07.5
Concentration of Uric Acid Removed During Dialysis. Estimated by Multi Wavelength and
Processed Ultra Violet Absorbance Spectra ..................................................................................................... 5791-5794
Jerotskaja, Jana* (Tallinn Univ. of Tech.); Uhlin, Fredrik (Univ. Hospital, Linköping); Lauri, Kai (Tallinn Univ. of
Tech.); Tanner, Risto (Natl. Inst. of Chemical Physics & Biophysics); Luman, Merike (North-Estonian Regional
Hospital); Fridolin, Ivo (Centre of Biomedical Engineering)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo07.6
An Integrated Imaging Microscope for Untethered Cortical Imaging in Freely-Moving Animals ................ 5795-5798
Murari, Kartikeya* (Johns Hopkins Univ.); Etienne-Cummings, Ralph (Johns Hopkins Univ.);
Cauwenberghs, Gert (Univ. of California San Diego); Thakor, Nitish (Johns Hopkins Univ.)

SaBPo08: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

1.4.10 Biomedical Signal Classification VI (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo08.1
Towards Error-Free Interaction .......................................................................................................................... 5799-5802
Tsoneva, Tsvetomira* (Philips Research); Bieger, Jordi (Philips Research);
Garcia-Molina, Gary Nelson (Philips Research Europe)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo08.2
A Comparison of Monopolar and Bipolar Recordings for SSVEP Detection ................................................ 5803-5806
Diez, Pablo Federico (Univ. Nacional de San Juan); Mut, Vicente (Univ. Nacional de San Juan);
Laciar, Eric* (Univ. Nacional de San Juan); Avila Perona, Enrique Mario (Natl. Univ. of San Juan)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo08.3
Single-Trial Classification of Auditory Event-Related Potentials Elicited by Stimuli from
Different Spatial Directions ................................................................................................................................. 5807-5810
Fuentes Cabrera, Alvaro Rodrigo* (Aalborg Univ.); Hoffmann, Pablo (Aalborg Univ.)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo08.4
Mutual Information-Based Fisher Discriminant Analysis for Feature Extraction and
Recognition with Applications to Medical Diagnosis ....................................................................................... 5811-5814
Shadvar, Ali* (Iran Univ. of Science & Tech. (IUST), Dept. of Biomedical Engineering);
Erfanian, Abbas (Iran Univ. of Science & Tech.)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo08.5
Prototype of a Wearable System for Remote Fetal Monitoring During Pregnancy ....................................... 5815-5818
Fanelli, Andrea (Politecnico di Milano); Ferrario, Manuela (Politecnico di Milano); Piccini, Luca (Politecnico di
Milano); Andreoni, Giuseppe (Politecnico di Milano); Matrone, Giulia (Univ. of Pavia);
Magenes, Giovanni (Univ. of Pavia); Signorini, Maria G.* (Politecnico di Milano)

SaBPo09: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

6.7.5 Neural Rehabilitation Technologies I (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo09.1
Effectiveness of Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES)-Robot Assisted Wrist
Training on Persons after Stroke ....................................................................................................................... 5819-5822
Hu, Xiaoling (The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.); Tong, Kai Yu, Raymond* (The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.);
Li, Rui (Dept. of HTI, The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.); Chen, Mo (Zhejiang Univ.); Xue, Jingjing (Dept. of
HTI, The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.); Ho, Sze Kit (The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.); Chen, P. N. (The
Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo09.2
The Influence of Orthopaedic Implants on Patient Tolerance of Neuromuscular
Electrical Stimulation (NMES) ............................................................................................................................. 5823-5826
Broderick, Barry (Natl. Univ. of Ireland Galway); Kennedy, Cian (Univ. Hospital Galway); Breen, Paul (Natl.
Univ. of Ireland Galway); Kearns, Stephen R. (Natl. Univ. of Ireland, Galway, Univ. Road, Galway, Ireland &
Galway Univ. Hospitals, Galway, Ireland.); O’Laighin, Gearoid* (Natl. Univ. of Ireland Galway)
10:45-12:15 SaBPo09.3
Electrocutaneous Stimulation System for Braille Reading ............................................................................. 5827-5830
Echenique, Ana Maria* (Facultad de Ingeniería,Univ. Nacional de San Juan); Graffigna, Juan Pablo (Univ.
Nacional de San Juan); Mut, Vicente (Univ. Nacional de San Juan)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo09.4
Cochlear Implant Design for Better Representation of Basilar Membrane Mechanics ................................ 5831-5834
Varsavsky, Andrea* (The Univ. of Melbourne)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo09.5
Non-Invasive Muscle Force Assessment Apparatus for Use in the Intensive Care Unit ............................. 5835-5838
Durfee, William* (Univ. of Minnesota)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo09.6
Surface EMG Analysis of Tibialis Anterior Muscle in Walking with FES in Stroke Subjects ....................... 5839-5842
Sabut, Sukanta (SMST, Indian Inst. of Technolgy, Kharagpur); Kumar, Ratnesh (Natl. Inst. for the
Orthopaedically Handicapped); Prasanna, Lenka (Natl. Inst. for the Orthopaedically Handicapped);
Mahadevappa, Manjunatha* (Indian Inst. of Technolgy, Kharagpur)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo09.7
H-Reflex Measurement and a Simulation Model for Interpreting the Effect of an Auxiliary
Electrical Stimulation on FES ............................................................................................................................. 5843-5846
Baoping, Yuan (AIST); Gomez Tames, Jose David (Chiba Univ.); Gonzalez Vargas, Jose Eduardo (Chiba
Univ.); Yu, Wenwei* (Univ. of Chiba); Ino, Shuichi (Natl. Inst. of Advanced Industrial ScienceandTech.)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo09.8
Estimation of Finger Postures to Control a Maniform Device for Playing a Trumpet Using
Electromyographic Signals with External Triggers .......................................................................................... 5847-5850
Kobayashi, Yutaro* (Univ. of Tokyo); Fukayama, Osamu (The Univ. of Tokyo); Suzuki, Takafumi (The Univ. of
Tokyo); Mabuchi, Kunihiko (The Univ. of Tokyo)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo09.9
Effects of Simultaneous Vibrations to Two Tendons on the Velocity of Induced Illusory Movement ........ 5851-5853
Yaguchi, Hiroaki* (The Univ. of Tokyo); Fukayama, Osamu (The Univ. of Tokyo); Suzuki, Takafumi (The Univ.
of Tokyo); Mabuchi, Kunihiko (The Univ. of Tokyo)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo09.10
Assessment of the Assistive Performance of an Ankle Exerciser using Electromyographic Signals ....... 5854-5858
Saglia, Jody A.* (Italian Inst. of Tech.); Tsagarakis, Nikos (Italian Inst. of Tech.); Dai, Jian S. (King’s College
London, Univ. of London); Caldwell, Darwin G. (Italian Inst. of Tech.)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo09.11
A Variable Structure Pantograph Mechanism for Comprehensive Upper Extremity Haptic
Movement Training .............................................................................................................................................. 5859-5862
Oblak, Jakob (Univ. Rehabilitation Inst., Republic of Slovenia); Perry, Joel C. (Fatronik-Tecnalia);
Jung, Je Hyung (Fatronik-tecnalia); Cikajlo, Imre (Univ. Rehabilitation Inst., Republic of Slovenia);
Keller, Thierry (Fatronik-Tecnalia); Matjačić, Zlatko* (Univ. Rehabilitation Inst., Republic of Slovenia)

SaBPo10: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

6.7.6 Neural Rehabilitation Technologies II (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo10.1
Preliminary Investigation of Test-Retest Reliability of a Robotic Assessment of Parkinson’s Disease .... 5863-5866
Brewer, Bambi* (Univ of Pittsburgh); Pradhan, Sujata (Univ. of Washington)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo10.2
Hand Spring Operated Movement Enhancer (HandSOME) Device for Hand Rehabilitation after Stroke ... 5867-5870
Brokaw, Elizabeth* (The Catholic Univ. of America); Lum, Peter (Natl. Rehabilitation Hospital, Catholic
Univ. of America, Veteran Affairs); Holley, Rahsaan (Natl. Rehabilitation Hospital)
10:45-12:15 SaBPo10.3
Tactile Communication Using a CO2 Flux Stimulation for Blind or Deafblind People ................................. 5871-5874
da Cunha, José Carlos* (Uiversidade Positivo); Bordignon, Luiz Alberto (Univ. Positivo);
Nohama, Percy (Univ. Tecnológica Federal do Paraná)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo10.4
Current Research of C-Sight Visual Prosthesis for the Blind ......................................................................... 5875-5878
Wu, Kaijie* (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.); Zhang, Chun (Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua Univ., Beijing,
P. R. China, 100084); Huang, Weichang (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.); Wang, Guohe (Peking Univ.)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo10.5
Discrete Cortical Responses from Multi-Site Supra-Choroidal Electrical Stimulation in the
Feline Retina ......................................................................................................................................................... 5879-5882
Suaning, Gregg* (The Univ. of New South Wales); Kisban, Sebastian Aron (Univ. of Freiburg);
Chen, Spencer Chin-Yu (Univ. of New South Wales); Byrnes-Preston, Phil J. (The Univ. of New South Wales);
Dodds, Christopher William Douglas (Univ. of New South Wales); Tsai, David (Univ. of New South Wales);
Matteucci, Paul (Univ. of New South Wales); Herwik, Stanislav (Univ. of Freiburg); Morley, John William (Univ.
of Western Sydney); Lovell, Nigel H (Univ. of New South Wales); Paul, Oliver (Univ. of Freiburg);
Stieglitz, Thomas (Univ. of Freiburg); Ruther, Patrick (Univ. of Freiburg)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo10.6
A CMOS-Based Multichip Flexible Retinal Stimulator for Simultaneous Multi-Site Stimulation ................. 5883-5886
Tokuda, Takashi* (Nara Inst of Science & Tech.); Sagawa, Yuki (Nara Inst. of Science & Tech.);
Noda, Toshihiko (Nara Inst. of Science & Tech.); Sasagawa, Kiyotaka] (Nara Inst. of Science & Tech.);
Nishida, Kentaro (Osaka Univ.); Fujikado, Takashi (Osaka Univ.); Ohta, Jun (Nara Inst. of Science & Tech.)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo10.7
Correction for Chinese Character Patterns Formed by Simulated Irregular Phosphene Map .................... 5887-5890
Dai, Cong (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.); Lu, Manman (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.); Zhao, Ying (Shanghai Jiao Tong
Univ.); Lu, Yanyu (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.); Zhou, Chuanqing (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.); Chen, Yao (Shanghai
Jiao Tong Univ.); Ren, Qiushi (Shanghai Jiaotong Univ.); Chai, Xinyu* (Shanghai JiaoTong Univ., China)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo10.8
Higher-Order Sliding Mode Control of Leg Power in Paraplegic FES-Cycling .............................................. 5891-5894
Farhoud, Aidin (Iran Univ. of Science & Tech. (IUST)); Erfanian, Abbas* (Iran Univ. of Science & Tech.)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo10.9
Vision Based Interface: An Alternative Tool for Children with Cerebral Palsy ............................................. 5895-5898
Gonzalez, Magdalena (UNSJ); Mulet, Debora (UNSJ); Perez Berenguer, Maria Elisa* (UNSJ);
Soria, Carlos (Univ. Nacional de San Juan); Mut, Vicente (Univ. Nacional de San Juan)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo10.10
Mixed Reality Rehabilitation for Stroke Survivors Promotes Generalized Motor Improvements ............... 5899-5902
Duff, Margaret* (Arizona State Univ.); Chen, Yinpeng (Arizona State Univ.); Attygalle, Suneth (Arizona State
Univ.); Sundaram, Hari (Arizona State Univ.); Rikakis, Thanassis (Arizona State Univ.)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo10.11
Enhancement of Bend Sensor Properties as Applied in a Glove for Use in Neurorehabilitation Settings .... 5903-5906
Oess, Ninja P.* (Univ. of Zurich, Balgrist Univ. Hospital); Van Hedel, Hubertus J. A. (Univ. of Zurich, Balgrist
Univ. Hospital); Wanek, Johann (Univ. of Zurich, Balgrist Univ. Hospital)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo10.12
Dynamic Range Considerations When Designing PC Sound Card Based Audiometric
Systems to Test Human Hearing ........................................................................................................................ 5907-5910
Ellingson, Roger M.* (Dept. of Veterans Affairs); Dille, Marilyn L. (Dept. of Veterans Affairs)

SaBPo11: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

6.7.7 Neural Rehabilitation Technologies III (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo11.1
Perturbation-Based Measurement of Real and Imaginary Parts of Human Arm’s
Mechanical Impedance ........................................................................................................................................ 5911-5914
Mousavi Hondori, Hossein* (Nanyang Technological Univ.); Ling, Shih-Fu (Nanyang Technological Univ.)
10:45-12:15 SaBPo11.2
Visual Error Augmentation Enhances Learning in Three Dimensions ........................................................... 5915-5918
Sharp, Ian* (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, RIC); Patton, James (Jim) (Rehab Inst. of Chicago & U. of Illinois at
Chicago); Huang, Felix (Rehab. Inst. of Chicago)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo11.3
Restoration of Useful Vision up to Letter Recognition Capabilities Using Subretinal Microphotodiodes .... 5919-5922
Benav, Heval* (Univ. of Tuebingen); Bartz-Schmidt, Karl Ulrich (Univ. of Tuebingen); Besch, Dorothea (Univ. of
Tuebingen); Bruckmann, Anna (Univ. of Tuebingen); Gekeler, Florian (Univ. of Tuebingen); Greppmaier, Udo
(Retina Implant AG); Harscher, Alex (Retina Implant AG); Kibbel, Steffen (Retina Implant AG); Kusnyerik, Akos
(Semmelweis Univ., Budapest); Peters, Tobias (STZ-eyetrial at the Centre for Ophthalmology, Univ. of
Tuebingen); Sachs, Helmut (Klinikum Friedrichstadt, Dresden); Stett, Alfred (Natural & Medical Sciences Inst.,
Reutlingen); Stingl, Katarina (Univ. of Tuebingen); Wilhelm, Barbara (Univ. of Tuebingen); Wilke, Robert (Univ.
of New South Wales); Wrobel, Walter (Retina Implant AG); Zrenner, Eberhart (Univ. of Tuebingen)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo11.4
Dependability: A Challenge for Electrical Medical Implant ............................................................................. 5923-5926
Le Floch, Fanny (Univ. Montpellier II – LIRMM); Cathebras, Guy* (Univ. Montpellier II); Bernard, Serge (CNRS);
Soulier, Fabien (Univ. Montpellier II)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo11.5
Engineering Evaluation of the Energy-Storing Orthosis FES Gait System ................................................... 5927-5930
Kangude, Abhijit (Univ. of Minnesota); Burgstahler, Brett (Univ. of Minnesota);
Durfee, William* (Univ. of Minnesota)

SaBPo12: 10:45-12:15 Catalinas/Golden Horn

2.7.14 Deformable Image Registration II (Poster Session)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo12.1
Symmetric Multi-Scale Image Registration ....................................................................................................... 5931-5934
Mohagheghian, Fahimeh (Tehran Univ.); Ahmadian, Alireza (Tehran Univ. of Medical Sciences);
Saberi, Hooshang (Imam Hospital, Research Center for Science & Tech. in Medicine);
Alirezaie, Javad* (Ryerson Univ., Univ of Waterloo)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo12.2
Registering a Non-Rigid Multi-Sensor Ensemble of Images ........................................................................... 5935-5938
Kim, Hwa Young (Univ. of Waterloo); Orchard, Jeff* (Univ. of Waterloo)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo12.3
Statistical Shape Modeling of Pathological Scoliotic Vertebrae: A Comparative Analysis ......................... 5939-5942
Elias de Oliveira, Marcelo* (Univ. of Bern); Reutlinger, Christoph (Univ. Bern); Zheng, Guoyan (Univ. of Bern);
Hasler, Carol-Claudius (UKBB – Basel); Büchler, Philippe (Univ. of Bern)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo12.4
Multiple Registration of Coronal and Sagittal MR Temporal Image Sequences Based on
Hough Transform ................................................................................................................................................. 5943-5946
Stevo, Neylor Antunes (Escola Politecnica da Univ. de Sao Paulo); Sato, André Kubagawa (Escola Politecnica
da Univ. de Sao Paulo); Tsuzuki, Marcos de Sales Guerra* (Escola Politecnica da Univ. de Sao Paulo);
Gotoh, Toshiyuki (Yokohama Natl. Univ.); Kagei, Seiichiro (Yokohama Natl. Univ.);
Iwasawa, Tae (Kannagawa Cardiovascular & Respiratory Centre)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo12.5
NURBS for the Geometrical Modeling of a New Family of Compact-Supported Radial Basis Functions
for Elastic Registration of Medical Images ........................................................................................................ 5947-5950
García-Pérez, Verónica* (Univ. of Valladolid); Tristan-Vega, Antonio (Univ. de Valladolid);
Aja-Fernandez, Santiago (Univ. de Valladolid)

10:45-12:15 SaBPo12.6
A Hybrid Multimodal Non-Rigid Registration of MR Images Based on Diffeomorphic Demons ................. 5951-5954
Lu, Huanxiang* (Inst. for Surgical Tech. & Biomechanics, Univ. of Bern); Cattin, Philippe C. (Medical Image
Analysis Center (MIAC), Univ. of Basel); Reyes, Mauricio (MEM Research Center, Univ. Bern)
10:45-12:15 SaBPo12.7
Spatio-Temporal Registration of Cardiac Perfusion MRI Exams using High-Dimensional
Mutual Information ............................................................................................................................................... 5955-5958
Hamrouni, Sameh* (Inst. TELECOM / TELECOM SudParis); Rougon, Nicolas (Inst. TELECOM / TELECOM
SudParis); Prêteux, Françoise (ARTEMIS Dept. / TELECOM SudParis)

SaC01: 14:30-16:00 Libertador A

1.2.6 Signal Processing in Physiological Systems VIII (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 SaC01.1
EEG Complexity During Sleep: On the Effect of Micro and Macro Sleep Structure ..................................... 5959-5962
Chouvarda, Ioanna* (Aristotle Univ.); Rosso, Valentina (Sleep Disorders Centre, Dept. of Neurology, Univ. of
Parma, Parma, Italy); Mendez, Martin Oswaldo (Univ. Autonoma de San Luis Potosi); Bianchi, Anna Maria
(Politecnico di Milano); Parrino, Liborio (Sleep Disorders Centre, Dept. of Neurology, Univ. of Parma, Parma,
Italy); Grassi, Andrea (Sleep Disorders Centre, Dept. of Neurology, Univ. of Parma, Parma, Italy);
Terzano, Mario Giovanni (Sleep Disorders Centre, Dept. of Neurology, Univ. of Parma, Parma, Italy);
Cerutti, Sergio (Politecnico di Milano); Maglaveras, Nikolaos (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki)

14:45-15:00 SaC01.2
Coherence in Depth Electrodes During Induction of Deep Anesthesia ......................................................... 5963-5966
Silfverhuth, Minna* (Univ. of Oulu, WellTech Oulu Inst.); Kortelainen, Jukka (Univ. of Oulu);
Sonkajärvi, Eila (Univ. of Oulu); Suominen, Kalervo (Oulu Univ. Hospital); Alahuhta, Seppo (Univ. of Oulu);
Jäntti, Ville (Seinäjoki Central Hospital & Tampere Univ. of Tech.); Seppänen, Tapio (Univ. of Oulu)

15:00-15:15 SaC01.3
Interpretation of the Approximate Entropy Using Fixed Tolerance Values As a Measure of Amplitude
Variations in Biomedical Signals ....................................................................................................................... 5967-5970
Sarlabous, Leonardo* (Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)); Torres, Abel (Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya);
Fiz Fernandez, José Antonio (Navarra Hospital); Gea, Joaquim (IMIM- Hospital del Mar, UPF, CIBERES);
Martínez-Llorens, Juana M. (IMIM- Hospital del Mar, UPF, CIBERES); Morera Prat, Jose (Hospital Univ.
Germans Trias i Pujol); Jané, Raimon (Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya)

15:15-15:30 SaC01.4
Assessment of the Depth of Anesthesia Based on Symbolic Dynamics of the EEG ................................... 5971-5974
Tupaika, Nadine (Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya); Vallverdu, Montserrat* (Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya);
Jospin, Mathieu (Technical Univ. of Catalonia (UPC)); Jensen, Erik Weber (Morpheus Medical);
Struys, Michel (Ghent Univ. Hospital); Vereecke, Hugo (Ghent Univ. Hospital); Voss, Andreas (Univ. of
Applied Sciences Jena); Caminal, Pere (Technical Univ. of Catalonia (UPC))

15:30-15:45 SaC01.5
Frequency Domain Surface Emg Sensor Fusion for Estimating Finger Forces ........................................... 5975-5978
Potluri, Chandra Sekhar* (Idaho State Univ.); Kumar, Parmod (Idaho State Univ.);
Anugolu, Madhavi (Idaho State Univ.); Urfer, Alex (Idaho State Univ.);
Naidu, D Subbaram (Idaho State Univ.); Schoen, Marco P. (Idaho State Univ.)

15:45-16:00 SaC01.6
Fourier and Wavelet Spectral Analysis of EMG Signals in Isometric and
Dynamic Maximal Effort Exercise ...................................................................................................................... 5979-5982
Dantas, José Luiz (Univ. Estadual de Londrina); Camata, Thiago* (Univ. Estadual de Londrina); Brunetto, Maria
Angélica de Olivieira Camargo (Univ. Estadual de Londrina); Moraes, Antônio Carlos de (Univ. de Campinas);
Abrão, Taufik (Univ. Estadual de Londrina); Altimari, Leandro Ricardo (Univ. Estadual de Londrina)

SaC02: 14:30-16:00 Libertador B

2.2.2 Therapeutic Ultrasound (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 SaC02.1
Influence of Temperature Variations on the Average Grayscale of B-Mode
Images of HIFU-Induced Lesions ....................................................................................................................... 5983-5986
Marquez Villalobos, Salomon Elieser* (Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Politecnico
Nacional); Leija, Lorenzo (Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Inst. Politecnico Nacional);
Vera, Arturo (Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados delInst. Politecnico Nacional)
14:45-15:00 SaC02.2
Miniaturized Ultrasound Imaging Probes Enabled by CMUT Arrays with
Integrated Frontend Electronic Circuits ............................................................................................................ 5987-5990
Oralkan, Omer (Stanford Univ.); Nikoozadeh, Amin (Stanford Univ.); Wygant, Ira (Stanford Univ.); Zhuang, Steve
(Stanford Univ.); Gencel, Mustafa (Stanford Univ.); Choe, Jung Woo (Stanford Univ.); Stephens, Douglas N. (Univ.
of California); de la Rama, Alan (St. Jude Medical); Chen, Peter (St. Jude’s Medical); Lin, Feng (General Electric
Global Research); Dentinger, Aaron M. (GE Global Research); Wildes, Douglas (GE Global Research);
Thomenius, Kai E. (GE Global Research); Shivkumar, Kalyanam (Univ. of California); Mahajan, Aman (Univ. of
California); Seo, Chi Hyung (Univ. of Washington); O’Donnell, Matthew (Univ. of Washington); Truong, Uyen
(OHSU); Sahn, David J. (Oregon Health & Science Univ.); Khuri-Yakub, Butrus T. (Pierre)* (Stanford Univ.)

15:00-15:15 SaC02.3
A New Ultrasound Imaging Concept for Laparoscopy in Urology .................................................................. 5991-5994
Gumprecht, Jan* (Technische Univ. München); Maier, Thomas (Technische Univ. München);
Stolzenburg, Jens-Uwe (Univ. of Leipzig); Lueth, Tim (Technical Univ. of Munich)

15:15-15:30 SaC02.4
Computer Assisted Biopsy of Breast Tumors .................................................................................................. 5995-5998
Arambula Cosio, Fernando* (Univ. Nacional Autonoma de Mexico); Lira Berra, Eric (UNAM); Hevia-Montiel,
Nidiyare (Centro de Ciencias Aplicadas y Desarrollo Tecnologico, Univ. Nacional Autonoma de Mexico);
Garcia Segundo, Cresencio (Optical & Electric Sensors Lab., CCADET, UNAM); Garduño, Edgar (Dept. of
Computer Science, IIMAS, UNAM); Alvarado Gonzalez, Montserrat (Dept. of Computer Science, IIMAS,
UNAM); Quispe, Rosa Maria (Optical & Electric Sensors Lab., CCADET, UNAM); Reyes Ramirez, Bartolome
(Image Analysis Lab., CCADET, UNAM); Hazan Lasri, Eric (Natl. Inst. of Rehabilitation)

15:30-15:45 SaC02.5
Study of Superficial Basal Cell Carcinomas and Bowen Disease by Qualitative and Quantitative
Ultrasound Biomicroscopy Approach ............................................................................................................... 5999-6002
Petrella, Lorena Itati (Biomedical Engineeing Program – COPPE – Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro); Coelho A
Pereira, Wagner* (Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro); A. Valle, Heliomar (Gaffrée & Guinle Univ. Hospital, State
Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro); Issa, Paulo Roberto (Gaffrée & Guinle Univ. Hospital, State Federal Univ. of
Rio de Janeiro); Martins, Carlos J. (Gaffrée & Guinle Univ. Hospital, State Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro);
Machado, Joao Carlos (Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro)

15:45-16:00 SaC02.6
Modeling and Simulation of Ultrasound Fields Generated by 2D Phased Array Transducers for
Medical Applications ........................................................................................................................................... 6003-6006
Matrone, Giulia* (Univ. of Pavia); Quaglia, Fabio (STMicroelectronics); Magenes, Giovanni (Univ. of Pavia)

SaC03: 14:30-16:00 Libertador C

6.2.2 Analysis of Neural Signals III (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 SaC03.1
Time-Domain Features of Epileptic Spikes As Potential Bio-Markers of the Epileptogenesis Process ..... 6007-6010
Huneau, Clément* (INSERM; Univ. de Rennes 1; LTSI); Demont-Guignard, Sophie (INSERM; Univ. de Rennes
1; LTSI); Benquet, Pascal (CNRS; Univ. de Rennes 1; UMR6026); Martin, Benoit (INSERM; Univ. de Rennes 1;
LTSI); WENDLING, Fabrice (INSERM – Univ. de Rennes 1)

14:45-15:00 SaC03.2
Eigenbrains: The Free Vibrational Modes of the Brain As a New Representation for EEG ......................... 6011-6014
Poli, Riccardo* (Univ. of Essex); Citi, Luca (MGH / Harvard Medical School); Salvaris, Mathew Savas (Univ. of
Essex); Cinel, Caterina (Univ. of Essex); Sepulveda, Francisco (Univ. of Essex)

15:00-15:15 SaC03.3
Brain Surface Electrode Co-Registration Using MRI and X-Ray ..................................................................... 6015-6018
Miller, Kai J* (Univ. of Washington); Hebb, Adam O. (Univ. of Washington); Hermes, Dora (Univ. Medical Center
Utrecht); denNijs, Marcel (Univ. of Washington); Ojemann, Jeffrey G (Univ. of Washington);
Rao, Rajesh PN (Univ. of Washington)
15:15-15:30 SaC03.4
A Case Study on the Relation between Electroencephalographic and Electrocorticographic
Event-Related Potentials ..................................................................................................................................... 6019-6022
Krusienski, Dean* (Univ. of North Florida); Shih, Jerry (Mayo Clinic)

15:30-15:45 SaC03.5
Spatio-Temporal Clustering of Firing Rates for Neural State Estimation ...................................................... 6023-6026
Brockmeier, Austin* (Univ. of Florida); Park, Il (Univ. of Florida); Mahmoudi, Babak (Univ. of Florida);
Sanchez, Justin C. (Univ. of Florida); Principe, Jose (Univ. of Florida)

15:45-16:00 SaC03.6
Low-Dimensional Neural Features Predict Muscle EMG Signals ................................................................... 6027-6033
Rivera-Alvidrez, Zuley* (Stanford); Kalmar, Rachel S. (Stanford); Ryu, Stephen (Stanford Univ.);
Shenoy, Krishna (Stanford Univ.)

SaC04: 14:30-16:00 Retiro A

9.7.1 Clinical Engineering (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 SaC04.1
Diagnostic Performance of the Forced Oscillation Technique in the Detection of Early Respiratory
Changes in Rheumatoid Arthritis ....................................................................................................................... 6034-6037
Faria, Alvaro Camilo Dias* (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro); Lopes, Agnaldo (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro);
Jansen, José (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro); Melo, Pedro Lopes (Univ. do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)

14:45-15:00 SaC04.2
Robust Closed-Loop Control of Propofol Administration Using WAVCNS Index as the
Controlled Variable .............................................................................................................................................. 6038-6041
Hahn, Jin-Oh* (Univ. of British Columbia); Dumont, Guy (Univ. of British Columbia);
Ansermino, J. Mark (British Columbia’s Children’s Hospital)

15:00-15:15 SaC04.3
Clinical Engineering Development in the Uruguayan Public Health System ................................................ 6042-6045
Di Virgilio, Valerio* (PAHO Argentina); Ambrois, Gonzalo (ASSE Uruguay)

15:15-15:30 SaC04.4
Morphological Descriptors As Rupture Indicators in Middle Cerebral Artery Aneurysms .......................... 6046-6049
Valencia, Carolina (Univ. Pompeu Fabra); Villa-Uriol, Maria Cruz (Univ. Pompeu Fabra);
Pozo, Jose Maria (Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona); Frangi, Alejandro (Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona);
Frangi, Alejandro* (Univ. Pompeu Fabra)

15:30-15:45 SaC04.5
Development of Modified Intraoperative Examination Monitor for Awake Surgery (IEMAS) System for
Awake Craniotomy During Brain Tumor Resection ......................................................................................... 6050-6053
Yoshimitsu, Kitaro* (Tokyo Women’s Medical Univ.); Suzuki, Takashi (Tokyo Women’s Medical Univ.);
Muragaki, Yoshihiro (Tokyo Women’s Medical Univ.); Chernov, Mikhail (Tokyo Women’s Medical Univ.);
Iseki, Hiroshi (Tokyo Women’s Medical Univ.)

15:45-16:00 SaC04.6
A Framework of Medical Equipment Management System for In-House
Clinical Engineering Department ....................................................................................................................... 6054-6057
Chien, Chia-Hung* (Natl. Taiwan Univ.); Huang, Yi-You (Natl. Taiwan Univ.);
Chong, Fok-Ching (Natl. Taiwan Univ.)

SaC05: 14:30-16:00 Retiro B

1.7.2 Neural Networks in Biosignal Processing and Classification II (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 SaC05.1
Multimodal EEG, MRI and PET Data Fusion for Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis .......................................... 6058-6061
Polikar, Robi* (Rowan Univ.); Tilley, Christopher (Rowan Univ.); Hillis, Brendan (Rowan Univ.);
Clark, Christopher (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
14:45-15:00 SaC05.2
Dynamic Neural Network Detection of Tremor and Dyskinesia from Wearable Sensor Data ...................... 6062-6065
Cole, Bryan* (Boston Univ.); Roy, Serge (Boston Univ.); De Luca, Carlo J. (Boston Univ.);
Nawab, Syed Hamid (Boston Univ.)

15:00-15:15 SaC05.3
Multichannel Surface EMG Based Estimation of Bilateral Hand Kinematics During
Movements at Multiple Degrees of Freedom ..................................................................................................... 6066-6069
Muceli, Silvia* (Aalborg Univ.); Jiang, Ning (Aalborg Univ.); Farina, Dario (Aalborg Univ.)

15:15-15:30 SaC05.4
Multi-Parameter Analysis of ECG and Respiratory Flow Signals to Identify Success of
Patients on Weaning Trials ................................................................................................................................. 6070-6073
Correa, Lorena* (Univ. Nacional de San Juan); Laciar, Eric (Univ. Nacional de San Juan);
Mut, Vicente (Univ. Nacional de San Juan); Giraldo, Beatriz (Univ. Poiltècnica de Catalunya);
Torres, Abel (Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya)

15:30-15:45 SaC05.5
Diagnosis of Brain Tumours from Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Using
Wavelets and Neural Networks ........................................................................................................................... 6074-6077
Arizmendi, Carlos* (Technical Univ. of Catalonia (UPC)); Hernandez-Tamames, Juan Antonio (Univ. Rey Juan
Carlos); Vellido, Alfredo (Dept. de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informatics, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya);
Romero, Enrique (Technical Univ. of Catalonia (UPC)); del Pozo, Francisco (Univ. Politecnica de Madrid)

15:45-16:00 SaC05.6
Development of a Pediatric Cardiac Computer Aided Auscultation Decision Support System .................. 6078-6082
Pretorius, Eugene* (Diacoustic Medical Devices (Pty) Ltd.)

SaC06: 14:30-16:00 Retiro C

1.4.5 Biomedical Signal Classification V (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 SaC06.1
An Integrative Model of the Surface EMG in Pathological Tremor ................................................................. 6083-6086
Dideriksen, Jakob* (Aalborg Univ., Denmark); Farina, Dario (Aalborg Univ.)

14:45-15:00 SaC06.2
Parkinson’s Disease Identification through Optimum-Path Forest ................................................................ 6087-6090
Spadotto, Andre Augusto (Univ. of Sao Paulo); Guido, Rodrigo Capobianco (Univ. of Sao Paulo);
Papa, Joao Paulo (Sao Paulo State Univ.); Papa, Joao Paulo* (Univ. of Campinas)

15:00-15:15 SaC06.3
Influence of Evoked Response Latency and Amplitude on Stimulus Artifact Removal ............................... 6091-6094
Oyama, Alberto (Univ. of Sao Paulo); Itiki, Cinthia* (Escola Politecnica of the Univ. of Sao Paulo)

15:15-15:30 SaC06.4
Automatic Detection of Layer Activation Order in Information Processing Pathways of Rat Barrel
Cortex under Mechanical Whisker Stimulation ................................................................................................. 6095-6098
Mahmud, Mufti* (Univ. of Padova); Maschietto, Marta (NeuroChip Laboratory, Univ. of Padova); Girardi,
Stefano (NeuroChip Laboratory, Univ. of Padova); Bertoldo, Alessandra (Univ. of Padova);
Vassanelli, Stefano (NeuroChip Laboratory, Univ. of Padova)

15:30-15:45 SaC06.5
Exploring High-Frequency Oscillation As a Marker of Brain Ischemia Using S-Transform ........................ 6099-6102
Wu, Dan* (Johns Hopkins Univ.); Bezerianos, Anastasios (Univ. of Patras); Zhang, Huaijian (Zhejiang Univ.);
Jia, Xiaofeng (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine); Thakor, Nitish (Johns Hopkins Univ.)

15:45-16:00 SaC06.6
Using Pre-Treatment EEG Data to Predict Response to SSRI Treatment for MDD ....................................... 6103-6106
Khodayari-Rostamabad, Ahmad* (McMaster Univ.); Reilly, James (McMaster Univ.); Hasey, Gary (McMaster
Univ.); de Bruin, Hubert (McMaster Univ.); MacCrimmon, Duncan (McMaster Univ.)
SaC07: 14:30-16:00 Martin Fierro 1
11.3.1 Student Session: Negotiating Your First BME Job: Do’s and Don’ts in
Academia, Private Sector and Government (Mini Symposium)

14:30-14:45 SaC07.1
Negotiating Your First BME Job: Do’s and Don’ts in Academia, Private Sector and Government ............. 6107-6109
Linte, Cristian A.* (Robarts Research Inst.)

SaC08: 14:30-16:00 Martin Fierro 2

2.7.15 Image Classification II (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 SaC08.1
Ultrasonographic Characterization and Identification of Symptomatic Carotid Plaques ............................ 6110-6113
Seabra, Jose Carlos* (Inst. Superior Tecnico, Lisboa NIF); Pedro, Luis Mendes (Faculdade de Medicina de
Lisboa); Sanches, J. Miguel (Inst. for Systems & Robotics, NIF)

14:45-15:00 SaC08.2
Edge-Based Partial Volume Averaging Estimation for FLAIR MRI with White Matter Lesions ................... 6114-6117
Khademi, April* (Univ. of Toronto); Venetsanopoulos, Anastasios (Ryerson Univ.); Moody, Alan R. (Sunnybrook
Health Sciences Centre, Dept. of Medical Imaging)

15:00-15:15 SaC08.3
Exploratory Matrix Factorization for PET Image Analysis ............................................................................... 6118-6121
Kodewitz, Andreas (Univ. of Regensburg); Keck, Ingo (Univ. of Regensburg); Tome, Ana Maria (Univ. de
Aveiro); Lang, Elmar W.* (Univ. of Regensburg)

15:15-15:30 SaC08.4
Automatic Analysis of Macroarrays Images ..................................................................................................... 6122-6125
Caridade, Cristina M. R.* (Inst. Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra); Marcal, Andre R. S. (Faculdade de
Ciencias, Univ. do Porto); Mendonça, Teresa (Faculdade de Ciencias, Univ. do Porto); Albuquerque, Pedro
Miguel da Silva (IBMC – Inst. de Biologia Molecular e Celular); Mendes, Marta V. (IBMC – Inst. for Molecular &
Cell Biology); Tavares, Fernando (Inst. for Molecular & Cell Biology)

15:30-15:45 SaC08.5
Grouping a Few Sets of Normally Distributed Voxels of SPECT Volumes in Discrimination between
Alzheimer Dementia and Controls ..................................................................................................................... 6126-6129
Yin, Tang-Kai* (Natl. Univ. of Kaohsiung); Chiu, Nan-Tsing (Natl. Cheng Kung Univ.);
Pai, Ming-Chyi (Natl. Cheng Kung Univ.)

15:45-16:00 SaC08.6
Modeling Spatial Relation in Skin Lesion Images by the Graph Walk Kernel ............................................... 6130-6133
Situ, Ning (Univ. of Houston); Wadhawan, Tarun (Univ. of Houston); Yuan, Xiaojing (Univ. of Houston);
Zouridakis, George* (Univ. of Houston)

SaC09: 14:30-16:00 Ombu A

5.10.2 Obstructive Sleep Apnea (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 SaC09.1
Autonomic and Metabolic Effects of OSA in Childhood Obesity .................................................................... 6134-6137
Oliveira, Flavia* (Univ. of Southern California); Tran, Winston (Univ. of Southern California);
Lesser, Daniel (Rady Childrens Hospital San Diego); Bhatia, Rajeev (Childrens Hospital Los Angeles);
Ortega, Ricardo (Childrens Hospital Los Angeles); Mittelman, Steven (Childrens Hospital Los Angeles);
Keens, Thomas (Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Univ. of Southern California);
Davidson Ward, Sally (Univ. of Southern California); Khoo, Michael (Univ. of Southern California)

14:45-15:00 SaC09.2
Regular and Non Regular Snore Features As Markers of SAHS ..................................................................... 6138-6141
Mesquita, Joana* (Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya); Fiz Fernandez, José Antonio (Navarra Hospital);
Solà-Soler, Jordi (Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya); Morera Prat, Jose (Hospital Univ. Germans Trias i Pujol);
Jané, Raimon (Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya)
15:00-15:15 SaC09.3
Automatic Non-Invasive Differentiation of Obstructive and Central Hypopneas with Nasal Airflow
Compared to Esophageal Pressure ................................................................................................................... 6142-6145
Morgenstern, Christian* (Inst. de Bioenginyería de Catalunya); Schwaibold, Matthias (MCC-Med
GmbH & Co KG); Randerath, Winfried (Klinikum Bethanien); Bolz, Armin (Univ. of Karlsruhe);
Jané, Raimon (Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya)

15:15-15:30 SaC09.4
Nocturnal Sound Analysis for the Diagnosis of Obstructive Sleep Apnea ................................................... 6146-6149
Ben-Israel, Nir* (Ben-Gurion Univ.); Zigel, Yaniv (Ben-Gurion Univ.); Tarasiuk, Ariel (Ben-Gurion Univ.)

15:30-15:45 SaC09.5
Development of a Continuous Multisite Accelerometry System for Studying Movements During Sleep ..... 6150-6153
Terrill, Philip Ian* (Univ. of Queensland); Mason, David Glen (Univ. of Queensland);
Wilson, Stephen (Univ. of Queensland)

15:45-16:00 SaC09.6
Pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea Severity Assessment Using Pulse Oximetry and Dual RIP Bands ..... 6154-6157
Mason, David Glen* (Univ. of Queensland); Iyer, Kartik (Mater Children’s Hospital, Univ. of Queensland);
Terrill, Philip Ian (Univ. of Queensland); Wilson, Stephen (Univ. of Queensland);
Suresh, Sadasivam (Mater Children’s Hospital)

SaC10: 14:30-16:00 Ombu B

10.5.3 Decision Support Methods II (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 SaC10.1
An Accurate and Interpretable Model for BCCT.core ....................................................................................... 6158-6161
Oliveira, Hélder P.* (INESC Porto, Faculdade de Engenharia, Univ. do Porto); T. Magalhaes, Andre (Oporto
Medical School – Portugal); Cardoso, Maria João (Porto Faculty of Medicine); Cardoso, Jaime S. (INESC Porto,
Faculdade de Engenharia, Univ. do Porto)

14:45-15:00 SaC10.2
SeyeS – Support System for Preventing the Development of Ocular Disabilities in Leprosy ..................... 6162-6165
Girardi, Dennys Robson* (Pontifícia Univ. Católica do Paraná/FAECentro Univ.);
Moro, Claudia (PUCPR – Pontifical Catholic Univ. of Parana); Bulegon, Hugo (Health
Tech. Postgraduate Program – PontificalCatholic Univ.)

15:00-15:15 SaC10.3
A Guideline-Based Decision Support System for Generating Referral Recommendations from
Routinely Recorded Home Telehealth Measurement Data .............................................................................. 6166-6169
Mohktar, Mas Sahidayana* (Univ. of Malaya); Basilakis, Jim (Univ. of NSW); Redmond, Stephen James (Univ.
of New South Wales); Lovell, Nigel H (Univ. of New South Wales)

15:15-15:30 SaC10.4
Hybrid Cost-Sensitive Fuzzy Classification for Breast Cancer Diagnosis .................................................... 6170-6173
Schaefer, Gerald (Loughborough Univ.); Nakashima, Tomoharu* (Osaka Prefecture Univ.)

15:30-15:45 SaC10.5
Compression-Based Aggregation Model for Medical Web Services .............................................................. 6174-6177
Al-Shammary, Dhiah (RMIT Univ.); Khalil, Ibrahim* (RMIT Univ.)

15:45-16:00 SaC10.6
Activity-Based Process Mining for Clinical Pathways Computer Aided Design ........................................... 6178-6181
Fernandez-Llatas, Carlos* (Univ. Politecnica de Valencia); Meneu, Teresa (Polytechnic Univ. of Valencia);
Benedí, Jose Miguel (ITI – Univ. Politecnica de Valencia); Traver, Vicente (Inst. ITACA)
SaC11: 14:30-16:00 Poncho
4.1.2 Algorithms and Tools for Genome Analysis (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 SaC11.1
Learning in Glaucoma Genetic Risk Assessment ............................................................................................ 6182-6185
Zhang, Zhuo* (A*STAR); Liu, Jiang (Inst for Infocomm Resrch, A STAR); Kwoh, Chee Keong (Nanyang Tech.
Univ., Singapore); Sim, Xueling (Centre for Molecular Epidemiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Natl.
Univ. of Singapore); Tay, Wan Ting (Singapore Eye Research Inst., Singapore); Tan, Yong Hua (Nanyang
Technological Univ. (NTU), Inst. For Infocomm Research (I2R)); Yin, Fengshou (Inst. for Infocomm Research);
Wong, Tien Yin (Natl. Univ. of Singapore)

14:45-15:00 SaC11.2
Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Selection Using Independent Component Analysis ............................... 6186-6189
Nahlawi, Layan* (Queen’s Univ.); Mousavi, Parvin (Queen’s Univ.)

15:00-15:15 SaC11.3
Benchmarking of Gene Prediction Programs for Metagenomic Data ............................................................ 6190-6193
Yok, Non* (Drexel Univ.); Rosen, Gail (Drexel Univ.)

15:15-15:30 SaC11.4
A Computationally Fast Measure of Epistasis for 2 SNPs and a Categorical Phenotype ............................ 6194-6197
Antoniades, Athos (Univ. of Cyprus); Matthews, Paul (Glaxo Smith Kline); Pattichis, Constantinos* (Univ. of
Cyprus); Galwey, Nicholas (Glaxo Smith Kline)

15:30-15:45 SaC11.5
Regulatory Network of Micrornas in RAW 264.7 Macrophage Cells ............................................................... 6198-6201
Garmire, Lana* (Univ. of California at San Diego)

15:45-16:00 SaC11.6
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) and Sequence Specific Oligonucleotide Probes (SSOP) Genotyping
Assay for Detection of Genes Associated with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Multiple Sclerosis .................... 6202-6205
Nikolaou, Konstantina (Univ. of Ioannina); Kalatzis, Fanis (Univ. of Ioannina); Giannakeas, Nikolaos (Univ. of
Ioannina); Markoula, Sofia (Univ. of Ioannina); Chatzikyriakidou, Anthi (Univ. of Ioannina);
Georgiou, Ioannis (Univ. of Ioannina); Fotiadis, Dimitrios I.* (Univ. of Ioannina)

SaC12: 14:30-16:00 Rio de Plata

6.7.2 Recent and Emerging Rehabilitation Approaches (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 SaC12.1
Peripheral Nerve Signal Recording and Processing for Artificial Limb Control ........................................... 6206-6209
Wodlinger, Brian* (Case Western Reserve Univ.); Durand, Dominique (Case Western Reserve Univ.)

14:45-15:00 SaC12.2
Epileptic Seizure Onset Detection Prior to Clinical Manifestation .................................................................. 6210-6213
Salam, Muhammad Tariqus* (École Polytechnique de Montréal); Sawan, Mohamad (Ecole Polytechnique);
Nguyen, Dang (Notre-Dame Hospital)

15:00-15:15 SaC12.3
Development of an Implantable Transverse Intrafascicular Multi-Channel Electrode (TIME) System for
Relieving Phantom Limb Pain ............................................................................................................................. 6214-6217
Jensen, Winnie (Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction); Micera, Silvestro* (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna);
Navarro, Xavier (Univ. Autònoma de Barcelona); Stieglitz, Thomas (Univ. of Freiburg); Guiraud, David (INRIA);
Divoux, Jean-Louis (MXM Neuromedics); Rossini, Paolo Maria (Campus Biomedico Univ.);
Yoshida, Ken (Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ. Indianapolis)

15:15-15:30 SaC12.4
Wireless Distributed Architecture for Therapeutic Functional Electrical Stimulation :
A Technology to Design Network-Based Muscle Control ............................................................................... 6218-6221
Toussaint, Mickael* (LIRMM CNRS)
15:30-15:45 SaC12.5
Command of an Upper Extremity FES System Using a Simple Set of Commands ...................................... 6222-6225
Cornwell, Andrew* (Case Western Reserve Univ.); Kirsch, Robert (Case Western Reserve Univ.)

15:45-16:00 SaC12.6
Interleaved Multichannel Epimysial Stimulation for Eliciting Smooth Contraction of
Muscle with Reduced Fatigue ............................................................................................................................. 6226-6229
Hughes, Aaron* (Georgia Inst. of Tech.); Guo, Liang (Georgia Inst. of Tech.);
DeWeerth, Stephen P. (Georgia Tech/Emory Univ.)

SaC13: 14:30-16:00 Gomez Losada

6.9.2 Advanced Instrumentation for Neural Prosthetic Devices (Oral Session)

14:30-14:45 SaC13.1
Molecular Photovoltaic Structures for Optical Activation of Excitable Cells:
Current Advances and Perspectives ................................................................................................................. 6230-6232
Pennisi, Cristian Pablo* (Aalborg Univ.)

14:45-15:00 SaC13.2
A Wearable System for the Visually Impaired ................................................................................................... 6233-6236
Pradeep, Vivek* (Univ. of Southern California); Medioni, Gerard (Univ. of Southern California);
Weiland, James (Univ. of Southern California)

15:00-15:15 SaC13.3
Science and Technology of Biocompatible Thin Films for Implantable Biomedical Devices ..................... 6237-6242
Li, Wei (Argonne Natl. Lab); Bernd, Kabius (Argonne Natl. Lab); Auciello, Orlando* (Argonne Natl. Lab)

15:15-15:30 SaC13.4
Spatial Characterization of Electric Potentials Generated by Pulsed Microelectrode Arrays ..................... 6243-6246
Kandagor, Vincent (The Univ. of Tennessee-Knoxville); Cela, Carlos J. (Univ. of Utah); Sanders, Charlene (Oak
Ridge Natl. Lab); Greenbaum, Elias* (ORNL); Lazzi, Gianluca (Univ. of Utah); Humayun, Mark (Univ. of Southern
California); Zhou, David (Second Sight Medical Products, Inc); Castro, Richard (Second Sight Medical Products);
Gaikwad, Sanjay (Second Sight Medical Products); Little, James S (Second Sight Medical Products Inc)

15:30-15:45 SaC13.5
Signal processing for a vestibular neurostimulator ......................................................................................... 6247-6247
Rubinstein, Jay T.* (Univ. of Washington); Nie, Kaibao (Univ. of Washington); Bierer, Steven (Univ. of
Washington); Ling, Leo (Univ. of Washington); Phillips, James O. (Univ. of Washington)

SaDPo01: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

11.2.3 Societal Impact and Safety (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo01.1
The Role of Biomedical Engineering in Health System Improvement and Nation’s Development ............. 6248-6251
Schneider, Jr., Bertoldo* (Federal Univ. of Tech. – Parana – Brazil); Schneider, Fabio Kurt (Federal Univ. of
Tech. Parana); Dallabona, Carlos Alberto (Federal Univ. of Tech. – Parana)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo01.2
The Telemetric and Holter ECG Warehouse Initiative (THEW): A Data Repository for Quantitative
Electrocardiography and Cardiac Safety ........................................................................................................... 6252-6255
Couderc, Jean-Philippe* (Univ. of Rochester)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo01.3
The Concept for Integration of Thermal Imaging Systems with Personal Protective Equipment ............... 6256-6259
Owczarek, Grzegorz* (Natl. Research Inst.); Gralewicz, Grzegorz (Central Inst. for Labour Protection – Natl.
ResearchInst.); Wolska, Agnieszka (Central Inst. for Labour Protection-Natl. Research Inst.)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo01.4
UV Protective Textile Clothing for Workers Exposed to Natural and Artificial UV Radiation ...................... 6260-6263
Wolska, Agnieszka (Central Inst. for Labour Protection-Natl. Research Inst.); Owczarek, Grzegorz* (Natl.
Research Inst.); Bartkowiak, Grażyna (Central Inst. for labour Protection – Natl. research Inst.);
Poscik, Adam (Central Inst. for Labour Protection Natl. Research Inst.)
SaDPo02: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn
2.7.11 Rigid-Body Image Registration II (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo02.1
Integration of Model-Based Weighting into an ICP Variant to Account for Measurement
Errors in Intra-Operative A-Mode Ultrasound-Based Registration ................................................................. 6264-6267
Fieten, Lorenz Johannes* (RWTH Aachen Univ.); Radermacher, Klaus (RWTH Aachen Univ., Chair of Medical
Engineering); Kernenbach, Manuel Andreas (RWTH Aachen Univ.); Heger, Stefan (RWTH Aachen Univ.)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo02.2
A Computationally Efficient Approach for 2D-3D Image Registration ........................................................... 6268-6271
Haque, Md. Nazmul (The Univ. of New South Wales); Pickering, Mark* (The Univ. of New South Wales);
Biswas, Moyuresh (The Univ. of New South Wales); Frater, Michael (The Univ. of New South Wales);
Scarvell, Jennie (The Canberra Hospital); Smith, Paul (The Canberra Hospital)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo02.3
Temporal Registration for Low-Quality Retinal Images of the Murine Eye .................................................... 6272-6275
Andreou, Lenos (Univ. of Bristol); Achim, Alin* (Univ. of Bristol)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo02.4
Medical Image Registration Using Tsallis Entropy in Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM) ..................... 6276-6279
Amaral-Silva, Henrique (Univ. of São Paulo); Murta Jr., Luiz Otavio (Univ. of Sao Paulo);
Wichert-Ana, Lauro (Univ. of São Paulo); Sakamoto, Américo (Univ. of São Paulo);
Azevedo-Marques, Paulo Mazzoncini* (Univ. of São Paulo)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo02.5
An Integrated Software Solution for Multi-Modal Mapping of Morphological and Functional Ocular Data ..... 6280-6283
Troeger, Eric* (Univ. of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany); Sliesoraityte, Ieva (Univ. of Tuebingen);
Charbel Issa, Peter (Univ. of Oxford); Scholl, Hendrik Peter Nicolas (Wilmer Eye Inst., Johns Hopkins Univ.,
Baltimore, Maryland, USA); Zrenner, Eberhart (Univ. of Tuebingen); Wilke, Robert (Univ. of New South Wales)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo02.6
Validation through Accuracy Prediction in Neuroimage Registration ........................................................... 6284-6287
Pizzorni Ferrarese, Francesca* (Univ. of Verona); Simonetti, Flavio (Univ. of Verona);
Menegaz, Gloria (Univ. of Siena)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo02.7
A Comparison of the 3D Kinematic Measurements Obtained by Single-Plane 2D-3D Image
Registration and RSA .......................................................................................................................................... 6288-6291
Abdullah Al, Muhit (The Univ. of New South Wales); Pickering, Mark* (The Univ. of New South Wales);
Ward, Tom (The Canberra Hospital); Scarvell, Jennie (The Canberra Hospital); Smith, Paul (The Canberra Hospital)

SaDPo03: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

1.4.8 Biomedical Signal Classification VII (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo03.1
Performance of Combined Support Vector Machine and Principal Component Analysis in
Recognizing Infant Cry with Asphyxia ............................................................................................................... 6292-6295
Sahak, Rohilah (Univ. Teknologi Mara); Mansor, Wahidah (Univ. Teknologi Mara); Lee, Khuan Y.* (Univ.
Teknologi Mara); Zabidi, Azlee (Univ. Teknologi Mara); Mohd Yassin, Ahmad Ihsan (Univ. Teknologi Mara)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo03.2
Analysis of Spontaneous MEG Activity in Mild Cognitive Impairment Using Spectral Entropies and
Disequilibrium Measures ..................................................................................................................................... 6296-6299
Bruña, Ricardo (Biomedical Engineering Group (GIB), Univ. of Valladolid); Poza, Jesús* (Univ. of Valladolid);
Gomez, Carlos (Univ. of Valladolid, CIF: Q4718001C); Fernandez, Alberto (Univ. Complutense de Madrid);
Hornero, Roberto (Univ. of Valladolid)
16:00-17:30 SaDPo03.3
Doppler Based Identification of Uterine Artery and Umbilical Artery for Monitoring Pregnancy ............... 6300-6303
Vajinepalli, Pallavi* (Philips Electronics India Ltd); Gupta, Lalit (Philips Electronics India Ltd.);
Naik, Sarif Kumar (Philips Electronics India Ltd); Sisodia, Rajendra Singh (Philips Research Asia – Bangalore);
Firtion, Celine (Philips Electronics India Ltd)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo03.4
Diversity-Based Selection of Components for Fusion Classifiers ................................................................. 6304-6307
Gupta, Lalit (Southern Illinois Univ.); Kota, Srinivas* (Southern Illinois Univ.); Molfese, Dennis (Univ. of
Louisville); Vaidyanathan, Ravi (Univ. of Bristol)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo03.5
Performance of Dynamic Features in Classifying Scalp Epileptic Interictal and Normal EEG .................... 6308-6311
Bao, Forrest Sheng* (Texas Tech Univ.); Li, Ya-Liang (Singapore Mgmt. Univ.); Hu, Jing (Jiangsu Provincial
Hospital of Chinese Medicine); Gao, Jue-Ming (Jiangsu Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo03.6
Acoustics Based Assessment of Respiratory Diseases Using GMM Classification .................................... 6312-6316
Mayorga Ortiz, Pedro* (Inst. Tecnologico de Mexicali & CSULB); Druzgalski, Christopher (CSULB);
Morelos, Raul (Inst. Tecnologico de Mexicali); González Arriaga, Oscar Hugo (Inst. Tecnológico de Mexicali);
Vidales, Jorge (Inst. Tencnologico de Mexicali)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo03.7
Reconstruction of Cortical Sources Activities for Online Classification of
Electroencephalographic Signals ...................................................................................................................... 6317-6320
Fruitet, Joan* (INRIA); Clerc, Maureen (INRIA)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo03.8
On Improvement of Detection of Obstructive Sleep Apnea by Partial Least Square-based
Extraction of Dynamic Features ......................................................................................................................... 6321-6324
Sepúlveda-Cano, Lina María (Univ. Nacional de Colombia Sede Manizales); Travieso-González, Carlos (Univ.
de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria); Godino-Llorente, Juan Ignacio (Univ. Politécnica de Madrid);
Castellanos-Dominguez, Germán* (Univ. Nacional de Colombia)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo03.9
A Bayesian Approach for Epileptic Seizures Detection with 3D Accelerometers Sensors ......................... 6325-6328
Jallon, Pierre* (CEA Grenoble)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo03.10
A Comparison of Different Dimensionality Reduction and Feature Selection Methods for
Single Trial ERP Detection .................................................................................................................................. 6329-6332
Lan, Tian (Oregon Health & Science Univ.); Erdogmus, Deniz* (Northeastern Univ.); Black, Lois (Oregon Health
& Science Univ.); Van Santen, Jan (Oregon Health & Science Univ.)

SaDPo04: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

1.4.9 Biomedical Signal Classification VIII (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo04.1
A Wavelet Approach for Unsupervised Nystagmus Analysis on ENG and VOG Recordings ..................... 6333-6336
Jansen, Stephan* (Maastricht Univ.); Kingma, Herman (Univ. Hospital Maastricht); Peeters, Ralf (Univ. Maastricht)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo04.2
Examining the Adverse Effects of Limb Position on Pattern Recognition Based Myoelectric Control ..... 6337-6340
Scheme, Erik* (Univ. of New Brunswick); Fougner, Anders (Norwegian Univ. of Science & Tech.);
Stavdahl, Oyvind (Norwegian Univ. of Science & Tech.); Chan, Adrian (Carleton Univ.);
Englehart, Kevin (Univ. of New Brunswick)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo04.3
A Computational Environment for Long-Term Multi-Feature and Multi-Algorithm Seizure Prediction ...... 6341-6344
Teixeira, César* (CISUC, Univ. of Coimbra); Direito, Bruno (FCTUC, Univ. of Coimbra); Costa, Rui (School of
Informatics, The Univ. of Edinburgh, UK); Valderrama, Mario (ICM Research Center); Feldwisch-Drentrup,
Hinnerk (Univ. of Freiburg); Nikolopoulos, Stavros (ICM Research Center); Le Van Quyen, Michel (ICM
Research Center); Schelter, Bjorn (Albert-Ludwigs Univ.); Dourado, António (FCTUC, Univ. of Coimbra)
16:00-17:30 SaDPo04.4
Three-Dimensional Gesture Comparison Using Curvature Analysis of Position and Orientation ............. 6345-6348
Pham, Minh Tu* (Inst. Natl. des Sciences Appliquées (INSA de Lyon)); Moreau, Richard (INSA-Lyon);
Boulanger, Pierre (Univ. of Alberta)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo04.5
Intelligent Artifact Classification for Ambulatory Physiological Signals ....................................................... 6349-6352
Sweeney, Kevin Thomas* (NUI Maynooth); Leamy, Darren John (Natl. Univ. of Ireland Maynooth);
Ward, Tomas (NUI Maynooth); McLoone, Sean F. (Natl. Univ of Ireland, Maynooth)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo04.6
Automatic Detection of EEG Artefacts Arising from Head Movements ......................................................... 6353-6356
O’ Regan, Simon* (Univ. College Cork, Ireland); Faul, Stephen (Univ. College Cork);
Marnane, Liam (Univ. College Cork)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo04.7
Fluctuating EMG Signals: Investigating Long-Term Effects of Pattern Matching Algorithms .................... 6357-6360
Kaufmann, Paul* (Univ. of Paderborn); Englehart, Kevin (Univ. of New Brunswick);
Platzner, Marco (Univ. of Paderborn)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo04.8
Classification of Protein Profiles Using Fuzzy Clustering Techniques: An Application in Early
Diagnosis of Oral, Cervical and Ovarian Cancer .............................................................................................. 6361-6364
Karemore, Gopal* (Univ. of Copenhagen); Mullick, Jhinuk (Safdarjang Hospital); Sujatha, R. (Center for
Atomic & Molecular Physics, Manipal Univ., India); C, Santhosh (Manipal Univ.)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo04.9
Dynamic Channel Selection to Reduce Computational Burden in Seizure Detection .................................. 6365-6368
Faul, Stephen* (Univ. College Cork)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo04.10
SVM Detection of Epileptiform Activity in Routine EEG .................................................................................. 6369-6372
Kelleher, Daniel* (Univ. College Cork); Temko, Andriy (Univ. College Cork); Nash, Derek (Univ. College Cork);
McNamara, Brian (Univ. College Cork); Marnane, Liam (Univ. College Cork)

SaDPo05: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

3.11.2 Textile Systems (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo05.1
Wearable Monitoring of Lumbar Spine Curvature by Inertial and E-Textile Sensory Fusion ...................... 6373-6376
Bartalesi, Raphael (Univ. of Pisa); Lorussi, Federico (Univ. of Pisa); De Rossi, Danilo* (Univ. of Pisa);
Tesconi, Mario (Univ. of Pisa); Tognetti, Alessandro (Univ. of Pisa)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo05.2
A New Washable Low-Cost Garment for Everyday Fall Detection ................................................................. 6377-6380
Niazmand, Khalil* (Technische Univ. München); Jehle, Claudius (Technische Univ. München);
D’Angelo, Lorenzo Tancredi (Technische Univ. Muenchen); Lueth, Tim (Technical Univ. of Munich)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo05.3
Emerging Low Energy Wearable Body Sensor Networks Using Patch Sensors for
Continuous Healthcare Applications ................................................................................................................. 6381-6384
Yoo, Jerald* (MIT); Yoo, Hoi-Jun (KAIST)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo05.4
Textile Electrode Straps for Wrist-To-Ankle Bioimpedance Measurements for Body Composition
Analysis. Initial Validation and Experimental Results ..................................................................................... 6385-6388
Márquez Ruiz, Juan Carlos (Chalmers Univ. of Tech.); Ferreira Gonzalez, Javier* (Royal Inst. of Tech.);
Buendia, Ruben (Univ. of Alcala); Seoane, Fernando (Univ. of Borås); Lindecrantz, Kaj (Royal Inst. of Tech.)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo05.5
The Ear As a Location for Wearable Vital Signs Monitoring ........................................................................... 6389-6392
He, David Da* (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.); Winokur, Eric S. (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.);
Heldt, Thomas (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.); Sodini, Charles G. (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.)
16:00-17:30 SaDPo05.6
bioLights: Light Emitting Wear for Visualizing Lower-Limb Muscle Activity ................................................ 6393-6396
Igarashi, Naoto* (Univ. of Tsukuba); Suzuki, Kenji (Univ. of Tsukuba); Kawamoto, Hiroaki (Univ. of Tsukuba);
Sankai, Yoshiyuki (Univ. of Tsukuba)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo05.8
Implementation of Array Sensor Module for a Radial Artery Tonometry ....................................................... 6397-6400
Shin, Ki-Young* (Korea Electorechnology Research Inst.); Jeon, Sung Chae (Korea Electorechnology Research
Inst.); Nam, Ki Chang (Korea Electrotech Resrch Inst.); Huh, Young (Korea ElectroTech. Resrch Inst)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo05.9
Development of a Wearable Vital Signs Monitor for Healthcare ..................................................................... 6401-6404
Gallego, Jonathan (Univ. de Antioquia); Lemos, Diego* (Univ. de Antioquia); Meneses, Gustavo (Univ. of
Antioquia); Hernandez, Alher Mauricio (Univ. of Antioquia)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo05.10
A Stretchable Electrode Array for Non-Invasive, Skin-Mounted Measurement of Electrocardiography
(ECG), Electromyography (EMG) and Electroencephalography (EEG) .......................................................... 6405-6408
Ma, Rui* (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign); Kim, Dae-Hyeong (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign);
McCormick, Martin (Univ. of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign); Coleman, Todd (UIUC, Dept of ECE &
Neuroscience Program); Rogers, John (Univ. of Illinois)

SaDPo06: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

3.12.2 Implantable Systems (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo06.1
A New System Design of the Multi-View Micro-Ball Endoscopy System ....................................................... 6409-6412
Gu, Yingke (Tsinghua Univ.); Xie, Xiang (Tsinghua Univ.); Li, Guolin* (Tsinghua Univ.); Sun, Tianjia (Tsinghua
Univ.); Zhang, Qiang (Tsinghua Univ.); Wang, Ziqiang (Tsinghua Univ.); Wang, Zhihua (Tsinghua Univ.)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo06.2
An RF-Powered Wireless Multi-Channel Implantable Bio-Sensing Microsystem ......................................... 6413-6416
Young, Darrin* (Univ. of Utah)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo06.3
Ligament Imbalance Metrics and an Autonomous Measurement System for Post TKA .............................. 6417-6420
Gupta, Deepak* (TELECOM Bretagne, France); Lahuec, Cyril (TELECOM Bretagne, France);
Arzel, Matthieu (TELECOM Bretagne, France); Jezequel, Michel (TELECOM Bretagne, France);
Hamitouche, Chafiaâ (Ecole Natl.e Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo06.4
A Fully Integrated Preamplifier for Cardiac Sensing in a HVCMOS Technology .......................................... 6421-6424
Jose, Lasa* (Univ. Católica del Uruguay)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo06.5
Implantable Electronics: Emerging Design Issues and an Ultra Light-Weight Security Solution ............... 6425-6428
Narasimhan, Seetharam* (Case Western Reserve Univ.); Wang, Xinmu (Case Western Reserve Univ.);
Bhunia, Swarup (Case Western Reserve Univ.)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo06.6
Sub-Cubic Millimeter Intraocular Pressure Monitoring Implant to Enable Genetic Studies on
Pressure-Induced Neurodegeneration ............................................................................................................... 6429-6432
Chow, Eric* (Purdue Univ., Cyberonics Inc.); Ha, Dohyuk (Purdue Univ.); Lin, Tse-Yu (Purdue Univ.);
deVries, Wilhelmine (The Jackson Laboratory); John, Simon (The Jackson Laboratory);
Chappell, William (Purdue Univ.); Irazoqui, Pedro (Purdue Univ.)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo06.7
Translating Electromagnetic Torque into Controlled Motion for Use in Medical Implants .......................... 6433-6436
Pivonka, Daniel* (Stanford Univ.); Meng, Teresa (Stanford Univ.); Poon, Ada S Y (Stanford Univ.)
16:00-17:30 SaDPo06.8
A High-Power Versatile Wireless Power Transfer for Biomedical Implants .................................................. 6437-6440
Jiang, Hao* (San Francisco State Univ.); Zhang, Jun Min (San Francisco State Univ.); Liou, Shy Shenq (San
Francisco State Univ.); Fechter, Richard (Univ. of California at San Francisco); Hirose, Shinjiro (Univ. of
California at San Francisco); Harrison, Michael (Univ. of California at San Francisco); Roy, Shuvo (Univ. of
California at San Francisco)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo06.9
Implantable Micropump Technologies for Murine Intracochlear Infusions ................................................... 6441-6444
Johnson, Dean G.* (Rochester Inst. of Tech.); Waldron, Matthew (Rochester Inst. of Tech.); Frisina, Robert D.
(Univ. of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry); Borkholder, David A. (Rochester Inst. of Tech.)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo06.10
Adaptive Spike Detection Method Based on Capacitor Arrays Dedicated to Implantable
Neural Recording Microsystems ........................................................................................................................ 6445-6448
Barati, Saied (S. Rajaee Univ.); Sodagar, Amir M.* (Univ. of Michigan)

SaDPo07: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

3.10.1 Advances in Sensor Technology (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo07.1
New Architecture for Wireless Implantable Neural Recording Microsystems Based on
Frequency-Division Multiplexing ........................................................................................................................ 6449-6452
Rajabi-Tavakkol, Alireza (S. Rajaee Univ.); Sodagar, Amir M.* (Univ. of Michigan);
Refan, Mohammad H. (S. Rajaee Univ.)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo07.2
Thermal Parameters Measurement on Fire Fighter: Improvement of the Monitoring System .................... 6453-6456
Oliveira, Aurélien* (INSA Lyon); Gehin, Claudine (INSA Lyon); Massot, Bertrand (INSA Lyon);
Ramon Zarate, Carolina (INSA Lyon); Dittmar, Andre (INSA Lyon); McAdams, Eric (Univ. of Ulster)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo07.3
A Novel Device with 36 Channels for Imaging and Signal Acquisition of the Gastrointestinal
Tract Based on AC Biosusceptometry .............................................................................................................. 6457-6460
Paixão, Fabiano Carlos* (Pontificia Univ. Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul); Quini, Caio Cesar (Univ. Estadual
Paulista); Baffa, Oswaldo (FFCLRP-Univ. of Sao Paulo); Miranda, José Ricardo A (IBB – Univ. Estadual Paulista)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo07.4
Sensorized Guidewires with MEMS Tri-Axial Force Sensor for Minimally Invasive Surgical Applications ... 6461-6464
Lou, Liang (Inst. of Microelectronics, A*STAR, Singapore); Krishna, Kotlanka R. (Inst. of Microelectronics,
A*STAR, Singapore); Shao, Lichun (Inst. of Microelectronics, A*STAR, Singapore); Park, Woo-Tae* (Inst. of
Microelectronics, A*STAR, Singapore); Daquan, Yu (Inst. of Microelectronics, A*STAR, Singapore);
Lim, Lishiah (Inst. of Microelectronics, A*STAR, Singapore); Wee, Yongjun (Nanyang Technological Univ.,
Singapore); Vaidyanathan, Kripesh (Inst. of Microlectronics); Feng, Hanhua (IME, Singapore);
Benjamin, S Y Chua (Natl. Univ. Hospital, Singapore); Chengkuo, Lee (Natl. Univ. of Singapore);
Kwong, Dim-Lee (Inst. of Microelectronics, A*STAR, Singapore)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo07.5
Modelling and Characterization of an Instrumented Medical Needle in Sight of New Microsensor
Design for Its Insertion Guidance ...................................................................................................................... 6465-6468
Yang, Wenbin (TIMA Laboratory, CNRS – UJF – Grenoble INP); Bonvilain, Agnès* (Univ. Joseph Fourier
Grenoble); BBasrour, Skandar (TIMA (CNRS- Crenoble INP – UJF)); Alonso, Thierry (Laboratoire 3SR –
Grenoble – France); Moreau-Gaudry, Alexandre (Univ. Joseph Fourier – Grenoble Univ. Hospital)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo07.6
Ultrasonically Actuated Silicon-Microprobe-Based Testicular Tubule Metrology ........................................ 6469-6472
Ramkumar, Abhishek* (Cornell Univ.); Lal, Amit (Cornell Univ.)
16:00-17:30 SaDPo07.7
Single-Cell Stimulation and Electroporation Using a Novel 0.18 µm CMOS Chip with
Subcellular-Sized Electrodes .............................................................................................................................. 6473-6476
Braeken, Dries* (IMEC); Huys, Roeland (IMEC); Loo, Josine (IMEC); Bartic, Carmen (IMEC);
Borghs, Gustaaf (IMEC); Callewaert, Geert (KU Leuven Campus Kortrijk); Eberle, Wolfgang (imec)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo07.8
Development of Nanostructured Magnetic Capsules by Means of the Layer by Layer Technique ............ 6477-6480
Herrera Sandoval, Oscar Leonardo* (Univ. of Genoa & Central Univ.); Parigi, Enrico (Univ. degli studi di
Genova); Habibi, Neda (Univ. of Genova); Pastorino, Laura (Univ. of Genova); Caneva Soumetz, Federico
(Univ. of Genova); Ruggiero, Carmelina (Univ. of Genova)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo07.9
Characterizing Skin Using a Three-Axis Parallel Drive Force-Sensitive Micro-Robot .................................. 6481-6484
Flynn, Cormac (The Univ. of Auckland); Taberner, Andrew (The Univ. of Auckland);
Nielsen, Poul* (The Univ. of Auckland)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo07.10
A Linearized Current Stimulator for Deep Brain Stimulation .......................................................................... 6485-6488
Shen, Ding-Lan* (Fu Jen Catholic Univ.); Chu, Yu-Jung (Fu Jen Catholic Univ.)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo07.11
Heart Rate Detection from Single-Foot Plantar Bioimpedance Measurements in a Weighing Scale ......... 6489-6492
Diaz Cerecedo, Delia Hortensia* (Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya); Casas, Oscar (Technical Univ. of Catalonia);
Pallas-Areny, Ramon (Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo07.12
Dry Electrode Bio-Potential Recordings ............................................................................................................ 6493-6496
Gargiulo,, Gaetano (The Univ. of Sydney); McEwan, Alistair (The Univ. of Sydney); Nasehi Tehrani, Joubin*
(The Univ. of Sydney); Jin, Craig (The Univ. of Sydney); van Schaik, André (The Univ. of Sydney)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo07.13
Energy Estimation of Treadmill Walking Using On-Body Accelerometers and Gyroscopes ...................... 6497-6501
Vathsangam, Harshvardhan* (Univ. of Southern California); Emken, Adar (Univ. of Southern California);
Schroeder, Todd (Univ. of Southern California); Spruijt-Metz, Donna (Univ. of Southern California);
Sukhatme, Gaurav (USC)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo07.14
Rectus Abdominis Electromyography and Mechanomyography Comparison for the
Detection of Cough .............................................................................................................................................. 6502-6505
Lamraoui, Hamid* (CNRS – Grenoble INP – UJF); Bonvilain, Agnès (Univ. Joseph Fourier Grenoble); Robain,
Gilberte (Er 6UMPC Univ Paris 06); Mozer, Pierre (APHP); Basrour, Skandar (TIMA (CNRS- Crenoble INP –
UJF)); Cinquin, Philippe (Josep Fourier Univ.); Gumery, Pierre-Yves (Univ. joseph fourier);
Moreau-Gaudry, Alexandre (Univ. Joseph Fourier – Grenoble Univ. Hospital)

SaDPo08: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

3.9.1 Microsystems Technologies (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo08.1
Microfluidic Based Contactless Dielectrophoretic Device: Modeling and Analysis ..................................... 6506-6509
Minnikanti, Saugandhika (George Mason Univ.); Reyes, Darwin R. (Natl. Inst. of Standards & Tech.);
Aguilar, Ruben Claudio (Purdue Univ.); Gaitan, Michael (NIST); Pancrazio, Joseph (George Mason Univ.);
Peixoto, Nathalia* (George Mason Univ.)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo08.2
A Bio-Analytical System for Rapid Cellular Electrophysiological Assays .................................................... 6510-6513
Fatoyinbo, Henry* (Univ. of Surrey); Gould, David (Univ. of Surrey); Labeed, Fatima (Univ of Surrey)
16:00-17:30 SaDPo08.3
Integrated Fluidic System for Bio-Molecule Separation .................................................................................. 6514-6517
FIORINI, Paolo (imec); Hiraoka, Maki (Advanced Tech. Research Laboratories, Panasonic); Zhang, Lei (imec);
De Malsche, Wim (Dept. of Chemical Engineering at the VUB (Vrije Univ. Brussel)); Majeed, Bivragh (imec);
SabuncuogluTezcan, Deniz (imec); Desmet, Gert (Dept. of Chemical Engineering at the VUB (Vrije Univ.
Brussel)); Ichiro, Yamashita (Nara Inst. of Science & Tech., Ikoma Nara Japan); Van Hoof, Chris (IMEC);
Op de Beeck, Maaike* (IMEC)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo08.4
Rapid Monodisperse Microencapsulation of Single Cells ............................................................................... 6518-6521
Zhang, Xiaoxiao (Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa); Ohta, Aaron (Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa);
Garmire, David* (Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo08.5
Fully Integrated Micro-Separator with Soft Magnetic Micro-Pillar Arrays for Filtrating Lymphocytes ....... 6522-6526
Dong, Tao* (Vestfold Univ. College); Su, Qianhua (Vestfold Univ. College)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo08.6
Direct Analog-To-QRS Detection Front-End Architecture for Wearable ECG Applications ........................ 6527-6530
Agarwal, Ritika (Tufts Univ.); Sonkusale, Sameer* (Tufts Univ.)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo08.7
An Asymmetric Resonant Coupling Wireless Power Transmission Link for Micro-Ball Endoscopy ......... 6531-6534
Sun, Tianjia (Tsinghua Univ.); Xie, Xiang* (Tsinghua Univ.); Li, Guolin (Tsinghua Univ.);
Gu, Yingke (Tsinghua Univ.); Wang, Ziqiang (Tsinghua Univ.); Wang, Zhihua (Tsinghua Univ.)

SaDPo09: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

3.3.1 Bioelectric Sensors (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo09.1
3-D Modeling of a Carbon Nanotube Cantilever Biosensor ............................................................................. 6535-6538
Islam, Md. Saiful (Deakin Univ.); Kouzani, Abbas Z.* (Deakin Univ.); Dai, Xiujuan J. (Deakin Univ.);
Michalski, Wojtek P. (CSIRO)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo09.2
A Capacitive ECG Array with Visual Patient Feedback .................................................................................... 6539-6542
Eilebrecht, Benjamin (RWTH Aachen); Schommartz, Antje (RWTH Aachen, Chair of Medical Information
Tech.); Walter, Marian* (RWTH Aachen Univ.); Wartzek, Tobias (RWTH Aachen, Chair of Medical
Information Tech.); Czaplik, Michael (Univ. Hospital RWTH Aachen, Dept. of Anaesthesiology);
Leonhardt, Steffen (RWTH Aachen Univ.)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo09.3
bioTones: A Wearable Device for EMG Auditory Biofeedback ....................................................................... 6543-6546
Tsubouchi, Yasunori* (Univ. of Tsukuba); Suzuki, Kenji (Univ. of Tsukuba)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo09.4
An Electronic DNA Sensor Chip Using Integrated Capacitive Read-Out Circuit .......................................... 6547-6550
Lee, Byunghun* (KAIST)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo09.5
A Fractional Electrical Impedance Model in Detection of Occlusal Non-Cavitated Carious ........................ 6551-6554
Morais, Andréa (Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro); Pino, Alexandre Visintainer (Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro);
Souza, Marcio N.* (Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo09.6
Bioimpedance Monitoring for Cryopreservation Process Control ................................................................. 6555-6558
Olmo, Alberto (Univ. de Sevilla); Buzon, Blanca (Univ. of Seville); Yufera, Alberto* (CSIC);
Risco, Ramon (Univ. of Seville)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo09.7
A Digital Driven Right Leg Circuit ...................................................................................................................... 6559-6562
Haberman, Marcelo Alejandro (Univ. Nacional de La Plata, Facultad de Ingeniería, Dept. de electrotecnia);
Spinelli, Enrique* (CONICET – UNLP)
16:00-17:30 SaDPo09.8
Hook Effect Correction and Resistance-Based Cole Fitting Prior Cole Model-Based Analysis:
Experimental Validation ...................................................................................................................................... 6563-6566
Buendia, Ruben* (Univ. of Alcala); Seoane, Fernando (Univ. of Borås); Harris, Matthew (Philips Research);
Caffarel, Jennifer (Philips Research); Gil Pita, Roberto (Univ. of Alcala)

SaDPo10: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

6.5.2 Brain Functional Imaging II (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo10.1
Sliding-Window Motion Artifact Rejection for Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy ............................... 6567-6570
Ayaz, Hasan* (Drexel Univ.); Izzetoglu, Meltem (Drexel Univ.); Shewokis, Patricia A (Drexel Univ.);
Onaral, Banu (Drexel Univ.)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo10.2
Extraction of M and P Components from the Visual Evoked Potential Using Pseudorandom
Stimulation with Swept Parameter Technique .................................................................................................. 6571-6574
Momose, Keiko* (Waseda Univ.)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo10.3
MEG Brain Activities Reflecting Affection for Visual Food Stimuli ................................................................ 6575-6578
Kuriki, Shinya* (Tokyo Denki Univ.); Miyamura, Takahiro (Tokyo Denki Univ.);
Uchikawa, Yoshinori (Tokyo Denki Univ.)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo10.4
Time Change of Perceptual Reversal of Ambiguous Figures by rTMS .......................................................... 6579-6582
Nojima, Kazuhisa* (Kyushu Uviversity); Ge, Sheng (Kyushu Univ.); Katayama, Yoshinori (Graduate School of
ISEE, Kyushu Univ.); Iramina, Keiji (Kyushu Univ.)

SaDPo11: 16:00-17:30 Catalinas/Golden Horn

6.9.5 Human Performance (Poster Session)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo11.1
An Experimental Study on Target Recognition Using White Canes ............................................................... 6583-6586
Nunokawa, Kiyohiko* (Tokyo Intl. Univ.); Ino, Shuichi (Natl. Inst. of Advanced Industrial ScienceandTech.)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo11.2
Off-Line and On-Line Vigilance Estimation Based on Linear Dynamical System and Manifold Learning . 6587-6590
Shi, Lichen (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.); Lu, Bao-Liang* (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo11.3
Vigilance Estimation by Using Electrooculographic Features ........................................................................ 6591-6594
Ma, Jiaxin* (Shanghai Jiaotong Univ.); Shi, Lichen (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.);
Lu, Bao-Liang (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo11.4
Towards an Index of Cognitive Efficacy: EEG-Based Estimation of Cognitive Load among
Individuals Experiencing Cancer-Related Cognitive Decline .......................................................................... 6595-6598
Mathan, Santosh* (Honeywell Laboratories)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo11.5
Enhancing Pilot Performance with a SymBodic System ................................................................................. 6599-6602
Karlen, Walter* (UBC); Cardin, Sylvain (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne); Thalmann, Daniel (Ecole
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)); Floreano, Dario (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo11.6
Assessment of Observers’ Stability and Reliability – A Tool for Evaluation of Intra and
Inter-Concordance in Animal Behavioral Recordings ..................................................................................... 6603-6606
Crispim-Junior, Carlos Fernando* (Univ. Federal de Santa Catarina); Garcia, Vitor Augusto (Univ.
Federal de Santa Catarina); Marino-Neto, José (Univ. Federal de Santa Catarina)
16:00-17:30 SaDPo11.7
Fuzzy-Based Simulation of Real Color Blindness ............................................................................................ 6607-6610
Lee, Jinmi* (Univ. de Pernambuco); dos Santos, Wellington (Univ. de Pernambuco)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo11.8
Effects of Additional Workload on Hand and Tongue Performance ............................................................... 6611-6614
Johnson, Ashley* (Georgia Inst. of Tech.); Huo, Xueliang (Georgia Inst. of Tech.); Cheng, Chih-Wen (Georgia
Inst. of Tech.); Ghovanloo, Maysam (Georgia Inst. of Tech.); Shinohara, Minoru (Georgia Inst. of Tech.)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo11.9
A Software Program for the Head Impulse Testing Device (HITD) ................................................................. 6615-6618
Böhler, Andreas (Upper Austria Univ. for Applied Sciences); Mandalá, Marco (Univ. of Verona);
Ramat, Stefano* (Univ. di Pavia)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo11.10
Development of a Data Acquisition and Analysis System for Nociceptive Withdrawal Reflex and
Reflex Receptive Fields in Humans ................................................................................................................... 6619-6624
Biurrun Manresa, José Alberto* (Aalborg Univ.); Hansen, John (Aalborg Univ.);
Andersen, Ole Kæseler (Aalborg Univ.)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo11.11
Evaluation of a Bimanual-Coordinated Upper-Limbs Training System Based on the Near
Infrared Spectroscopic Signals on Brain .......................................................................................................... 6625-6628
LI, Chunguang* (Kochi Univ. of Tech.); Liu, Tao (Kochi Univ. of Tech.); Inoue, Yoshio (Kochi Univ. of Tech.);
Shibata, Kyoko (Kochi Univ. of Tech.)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo11.12
Eye Movement Inhibits the Facilitation of Perceptual Filling-In ...................................................................... 6629-6632
Yokota, Masae* (Nagoya Bunri Univ.); Yokota, Yasunari (Gifu Univ.)

16:00-17:30 SaDPo11.13
Quantitative Evaluation Protocol for Upper Limb Motor Coordination in Patients with Ataxia .................. 6633-6636
Marini, Federico (IRCCS E. Medea, ITALY); Chwastek, Catherine (Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA); Romei,
Marianna (IRCCS “E.Medea”); Cavalleri, Matteo* (IRCCS E.MEDEA); Bonato, Sara (IRCCS E. Medea, ITALY);
Reni, Gianluigi (IRCCS)

SaE02: 17:30-19:00 Libertador B

2.3.1 MR and NIR Imaging (Oral Session)

17:30-17:45 SaE02.1
Multispectral Transillumination Imaging of Skin Lesions for Oxygenated and Deoxygenated
Hemoglobin Measurement .................................................................................................................................. 6637-6640
D’Alessandro, Brian* (New Jersey Inst. of Tech.); Dhawan, Atam (New Jersey Inst. of Tech.)

17:45-18:00 SaE02.2
Positive Contrast MRI of Prostate Brachytherapy Seeds Based on Resonant Frequency Offset Mapping .. 6641-6644
Whitehead, Gregory* (Texas A&M Univ.); Ji, Jim Xiuquan (Texas A&M Univ.)

18:00-18:15 SaE02.3
A Decoupled Circular-Polarized Volume Head Coil Pair for Studying Two Interacting
Human Brains with MRI ....................................................................................................................................... 6645-6648
Lee, Ray* (Princeton Univ.)

18:15-18:30 SaE02.4
A Fourth Gradient to Overcome Slice Dependent Phase Effects of Voxel-Sized Coils in Planar Arrays ... 6649-6652
Bosshard, John* (Texas A&M Univ.); Eigenbrodt, Edwin (Texas A&M Univ.);
McDougall, Mary (Texas A&M Univ.); Wright, Steven M. (Texas A&M Univ.)

18:30-18:45 SaE02.5
A Desktop Imaging System for Teaching MR Engineering ............................................................................. 6653-6656
Wright, Steven M.* (Texas A&M Univ.); McDougall, Mary (Texas A&M Univ.); Bosshard, John (Texas A&M Univ.)
18:45-19:00 SaE02.6
A Novel Spiral Radiofrequency Coil for High Field Mouse Cardiac Imaging ................................................. 6657-6661
Constantinides, Christakis* (Assistant Professor, Univ. of Cyprus); Gkagkarellis, Stavros (Univ. of Cyprus);
Angeli, Stelios (Univ. of Cyprus); Cofer, Gary (Duke Univ.)

SaE03: 17:30-19:00 Libertador C

6.2.3 Analysis of Neural Signals IV (Oral Session)

17:45-18:00 SaE03.1
A Wavelet Approach for On-Line Spike Sorting in Tetrode Recordings ........................................................ 6662-6665
De Benedetti, Eugenio (Univ. of Buenos Aires); Lew, Sergio Eduardo* (Univ. of Buenos Aires);
Zanutto, Silvano (Inst. de Ingeniería Biomédica FI-UBA; IBYME-CONICET)

18:00-18:15 SaE03.2
Combination of PCA and Undecimated Wavelet Transform for Neural Data Processing ............................ 6666-6669
Farashi, Sajjad (Tehran Univ. of Medical Sciences,Tehran, Iran); Abolhassani, Mohammad D* (Tehran Univ. of
Medical Science); Salimpour, Yousef (Tehran Univ. of Medical Science); Taghavi Kani, Mostafa (Tehran Univ.
of Medical Sciences)

18:15-18:30 SaE03.3
Extended Kalman Filtering of Point Process Observation .............................................................................. 6670-6673
Salimpour, Yousef* (Tehran Univ. of Medical Science)

18:30-18:45 SaE03.4
Automatic Classification of Penicillin-Induced Epileptic EEG Spikes ........................................................... 6674-6677
Kortelainen, Jukka* (Univ. of Oulu); Silfverhuth, Minna (Univ. of Oulu, WellTech Oulu Inst.); Suominen, Kalervo
(Oulu Univ. Hospital); Sonkajärvi, Eila (Univ. of Oulu); Alahuhta, Seppo (Univ. of Oulu); Jäntti, Ville (Seinäjoki
Central Hospital & Tampere Univ. of Tech.); Seppänen, Tapio (Univ. of Oulu)

18:45-19:00 SaE03.5
Skin Relaxation Predicts Neural Firing Rate Adaptation in SAI Touch Receptors ....................................... 6678-6681
Williams, Aaron* (Univ. of Virginia); Gerling, Gregory (Univ. of Virginia); Wellnitz, Scott (Baylor College of
Medicine); Bourdon, Sarah M (Baylor College of Medicine); Lumpkin, Ellen (Baylor College of Medicine)

17:30-17:45 SaE03.6
Non-Listening Effort Related Parameters in Auditory Discrimination Paradigms ........................................ 6682-6685
Bernarding, Corinna* (Computational Diagnostics & Biocybernetics Unit); Strauss, Daniel J. (Comp. Diagn. &
Biocyb. Unit); Latzel, Matthias (SIEMENS Audiology); Corona-Strauss, Farah I. (Saarland Univ. Hospital)

SaE04: 17:30-19:00 Retiro A

9.3.2 Cardiovascular Diagnostic and Therapeutic Devices and Modeling (Oral Session)

17:30-17:45 SaE04.1
ZMIND – An Interactive Environment for Electrical Modeling of the Thorax ................................................. 6686-6689
Yang, Fei (Univ. of Minnesota); Patterson, Robert P.* (Univ. of Minnesota)

17:45-18:00 SaE04.2
Using the Virtual Heart Model to Validate the Mode-Switch Pacemaker Operation ...................................... 6690-6693
Jiang, Zhihao (Univ. of Pennsylvania); Connolly, Allison (Univ. of Pennsylvania);
Mangharam, Rahul* (Univ. of Pennsylvania)

18:00-18:15 SaE04.3
Suitable Acoustic Paths to Transfer Energy in Depth Using Ultrasound ...................................................... 6694-6697
Cotté, Benjamin* (INSERM); Lafon, Cyril (INSERM); Chapelon, Jean-Yves (INSERM U556);
Dehollain, Catherine (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)

18:15-18:30 SaE04.4
Design of a Fuzzy Controller for the Automation of an Extracorporeal Support System with the Use of
a Simulation Environment ................................................................................................................................... 6698-6701
Mendoza Garcia, Alejandro* (Technical Univ. Munich); Baumgartner, Benedikt (Technical Univ. Munich);
Schreiber, Ulrich (German Heart Center); Eichhorn, Stefan (German Heart Center); Krane, Markus (German
Heart Center); Bauernschmitt, Robert (German Heart Center); Knoll, Alois (Technical Univ. Munich)
18:30-18:45 SaE04.5
Safety Evaluation of Magnetic Catheter Steering with an Upgraded Magnetic
Resonance Imaging System ............................................................................................................................... 6702-6705
Martel, Sylvain (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal); Gosselin, Frédérick P. (Ecole polytechnique de Montréal);
Lalande, Viviane* (Ecole polytechnique de Montréal); Bringout, Gael (Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal)

18:45-19:00 SaE04.6
Characteristics of Smooth Muscle Cells’ Shape and Proliferation Rate in Novel Short-Term
Thermal Angioplasty Ex Vivo and In Vitro ......................................................................................................... 6706-6708
Kunio, Mie* (Keio Univ.); Shimazaki, Natsumi (Keio Univ.); Ito, Arisa (Keio Univ.);
Hayashi, Tomoaki (Keio Univ.); Arai, Tsunenori (Keio Univ.)

SaE06: 17:30-19:00 Retiro C

1.9.1 Algorithms for Data Mining and Data Processing (Oral Session)

17:30-17:45 SaE06.1
Delineation and Interpretation of Gene Networks towards Their Effect in Cellular Physiology a Reverse
Engineering Approach for the Identification of Critical Molecular Players, through the Use of
Controlled Biological Vocabularies ................................................................................................................... 6709-6712
Moutselos, Konstantinos (Univ. of the Aegean); Maglogiannis, Ilias (Univ. of Central Greece);
Chatziioannou, Aristotelis* (Natl. Hellenic Research Foundation)

17:45-18:00 SaE06.2
A Hybrid Decision Support System for the Risk Assessment of Retinopathy Development As a Long
Term Complication of Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus ............................................................................................... 6713-6716
Skevofilakas, Marios (Natl. Technical Univ. of Athens); Zarkogianni, Konstantia (Natl. Technical Univ. of
Athens); Karamanos, Basil (Diabetes Centre, Hippokration Hospital, V. Sofias 114,11527, Athens, Greece);
Nikita, Konstantina* (Natl. Technical Univ. of Athens)

18:00-18:15 SaE06.3
Construction of Signaling Pathways and Identification of Drug Effects on the Liver Cancer Cell HepG2 .... 6717-6720
Alexopoulos, Leonidas* (Natl. Technical Univ. of Athens); Melas, Ioannis (Natl. Technical Univ. of Athens);
Chairakaki, Aikaterini (Natl. Technical Univ. of Athens); Saez-Rodriguez, Julio (Harvard Medical School);
Mitsos, Alexander (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.)

18:15-18:30 SaE06.4
Classification of Dermatological Images Using Advanced Clustering Techniques ..................................... 6721-6724
Tasoylis, Sotirios (Univ. of Central Greece); Doukas, Charalampos (Univ. of the Aegean);
Maglogiannis, Ilias* (Univ. of Central Greece); Plagianakos, Vassilis (Univ. of Central Greece)

18:30-18:45 SaE06.5
A New Curve Registration Technique for the Analysis of T Waves Shapes .................................................. 6725-6728
Meste, Olivier* (UNSA-CNRS); Rix, Hervé, Henri (Univ. of Nice-Sophia Antipolis); Dori, Guy (Dept of Medicine,
Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel)

SaE08: 17:30-19:00 Martin Fierro 2

2.7.16 Image Classification III (Oral Session)

17:30-17:45 SaE08.1
Classifier-Assisted Metric for Chromosome Pairing ........................................................................................ 6729-6732
Ventura, Rodrigo* (Inst. Superior Técnico); Khmelinskii, Artem (Inst. Superior Técnico Univ.);
Sanches, J. Miguel (Inst. for Systems & Robotics, NIF)

17:45-18:00 SaE08.2
Measurement of the Complex Permittivity of Microbubbles Using a Cavity Perturbation
Technique for Contrast Enhanced Ultra-Wideband Breast Cancer Detection .............................................. 6733-6736
Ogunlade, Olumide* (Univ. of Greenwich); Chen, Yifan (Univ. of Greenwich);
Kosmas, Panagiotis (Kings College London)
18:00-18:15 SaE08.3
Fractal Analysis of Contours of Breast Masses in Mammograms Via the Power
Spectra of Their Signatures ................................................................................................................................ 6737-6740
Rangayyan, Raj* (Univ. of Calgary); Oloumi, Faraz (Univ. of Calgary); Nguyen, Thanh Minh (Univ. of Calgary)

18:15-18:30 SaE08.4
Automated Video-Based Measurement of Eye Closure for Detecting Behavioral Microsleep .................... 6741-6744
Malla, Amol (Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Ltd); Davidson, Paul Robert (Van der Veer Inst.); Bones, P.J. (Univ.
of Canterbury); Green, Richard (Univ. of Canterbury); Jones, Richard D.* (Van der Veer Inst.)

18:30-18:45 SaE08.5
Detection of Exudates in Retinal Images Using a Pure Splitting Technique ................................................. 6745-6748
Jaafar, Hussain F* (Univ. of Liverpool); Nandi, Asoke K (The Univ. of Liverpool);
Al-Nuaimy, Waleed (Univ. of Liverpool)

18:45-19:00 SaE08.6
Automated Classification of Renal Cell Carcinoma Subtypes Using Bag-Of-Features ................................ 6749-6752
Raza, Syed Hussain* (Georgia Inst. of Tech.); Parry, R. Mitchell (Georgia Inst. of Tech.); Sharma, Yachna
(Georgia Inst. of Tech.); Chaudry, Qaiser (Georgia Inst. of Tech.); Moffitt, Richard A. (Georgia Inst. of Tech.);
Young, Andrew N (Emory Univ.); Wang, May Dongmei (Georgia Tech & Emory Univ.)

SaE09: 17:30-19:00 Ombu A

6.1.2 Visual Prosthetics (Oral Session)

17:30-17:45 SaE09.1
Activation of Ganglion Cell Axons Following Epiretinal Electrical Stimulation with
Hexagonal Electrodes .......................................................................................................................................... 6753-6756
Abramian, Miganoosh* (Univ. of New South Wales); Dokos, Socrates (Univ. of New South Wales);
Morley, John William (Univ. of Western Sydney); Lovell, Nigel H (Univ. of New South Wales)

17:45-18:00 SaE09.2
Diamond Penetrating Electrode Array for Epi-Retinal Prosthesis .................................................................. 6757-6760
Ganesan, Kumaravelu* (Univ. of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic 3010, Australia); stacey, alastair (School of Physics, Univ.
of Melbourne); Meffin, Hamish (Natl. ICT Australia); Lichter, Samantha (Univ. of Melbourne); Greferath, Ursula (The
Univ. of Melbourne); Fletcher, Erica Lucy (The Univ. of Melbourne); Prawer, Steven (Univ. of Melbourne)

18:00-18:15 SaE09.3
Retinal Ganglion Cell (RGC) Responses to Different Voltage Stimulation Parameters in
Rd1 Mouse Retina ................................................................................................................................................ 6761-6764
Goo, Yong Sook* (Chungbuk Natl. Univ Medical Sch); Ye, Jang Hee (Chungbuk Natl. Univ Medical Sch);
Ryu, Sangbaek (Yonsei Univ.); Kim, Kyung Hwan (Yonsei Univ.)

18:15-18:30 SaE09.4
Focal Activation of Primary Visual Cortex Following Supra-Choroidal Electrical Stimulation of the
Retina: Intrinsic Signal Imaging and Linear Model Analysis ........................................................................... 6765-6768
Cloherty, Shaun L* (Australian Natl. Univ.); Hietanen, Markus A (Australian Natl. Univ.);
Suaning, Gregg (The Univ. of New South Wales); Ibbotson, Michael R (Australian Natl. Univ.)

18:30-18:45 SaE09.5
Conducting Polymer Electrodes for Visual Prostheses .................................................................................. 6769-6772
Green, Rylie A.* (Univ. of New South Wales); Matteucci, Paul (Univ. of New South Wales); Chen, Spencer
Chin-Yu (Univ. of New South Wales); Byrnes-Preston, Phil J. (The Univ. of New South Wales); Poole-Warren,
Laura A. (Univ. of New South Wales); Lovell, Nigel H (Univ. of New South Wales); Suaning, Gregg (The Univ. of
New South Wales)

SaE10: 17:30-19:00 Ombu B

10.5.2 Decision Support Methods III (Oral Session)

17:30-17:45 SaE10.1
Uncertainty and Complexity in Personal Health Records ............................................................................... 6773-6776
Hudson, Donna L* (Univ. of California, San Francisco); Cohen, Maurice (Univ. of California San Francisco)
17:45-18:00 SaE10.2
Anaesthesia Synchronization Software: Target Controlled Infusion System Evaluation ............................ 6777-6780
Bressan, Nadja* (Faculdade de Engenharia (PT600 027 716)); Moreira, António paulo (Univ. of Porto – Faculty
of Engineering); Amorim, Pedro (Hospital Geral de Santo António); Nunes, Catarina S (King’s College London)

18:00-18:15 SaE10.3
Intelligent Clinical Decision Support Systems Based on SNOMED CT ......................................................... 6781-6784
Ciolko, Ewelina* (Univ. of Ontario Inst. of Tech.); Joshi, Amardeep (Univ. of Ontario Inst. of Tech.);
Lu, Fletcher (Univ. of Ontario Inst. of Tech.)

18:15-18:30 SaE10.4
Real-Time Prognosis of ICU Physiological Data Streams ............................................................................... 6785-6788
Sow, Daby* (IBM); Sun, Jimeng (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center); Hu, Jianying (IBM T.J. Watson Research
Center); Ebadollahi, Shahram (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center); Biem, Alain (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)

18:30-18:45 SaE10.5
Using Tele-Medical Electrocardiography Monitoring and Analysis for a More Immediate
Prognosis to Patients of Suspect Long QT Syndrome .................................................................................... 6789-6792
Ho, Thomas Chee Tat (Inst. for Infocomm Research); Chen, Xiang* (Inst. for Infocomm Research)

SaE11: 17:30-19:00 Poncho

4.1.4 Multiscale Modeling (Oral Session)

17:30-17:45 SaE11.1
Integrated Approach for the Study of Anatomical Variability in the Cardiac Purkinje System:
From High Resolution MRI to Electrophysiology Simulation .......................................................................... 6793-6796
Bordas, Rafel* (Univ. of Oxford); Grau, Vicente (Univ. of Oxford); Burton, Rebecca (Univ. of Oxford);
Hales, Patrick (Univ. of Oxford); Schneider, Jurgen E. (Univ. of Oxford); Gavaghan, David (Univ. of Oxford);
Kohl, Peter (Univ. of Oxford); Rodriguez, Blanca (Oxford Univ.)

17:45-18:00 SaE11.2
Comparing Finite Element and Finite Difference Techniques As Applied to the Development of
Diffusive Models of Glioblastoma Multiforme Growth ..................................................................................... 6797-6800
Roniotis, Alexandros (FORTH & Technical Univ. of Crete); Marias, Kostas (Foundation for Res. & Tech. Hellas);
Sakkalis, Vangelis* (ICS-FORTH); Stamatakos, Georgios (Natl. Technical Univ. of Athens);
Zervakis, Michalis (Technical Univ. of Crete, Greece)

18:00-18:15 SaE11.3
AngioLab: Integrated Technology for Patient-Specific Management of Intracranial Aneurysms ............... 6801-6804
Villa-Uriol, Maria Cruz (Univ. Pompeu Fabra); Larrabide, Ignacio* (Networking Research Center on Bioengineering,
Biomaterials & Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN), Univ. Pompeu Fabra); Geers, Adrianus Johannes (Univ. Pompeu
Fabra & CIBER-BBN); Pozo, Jose Maria (Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona); Bogunovic, Hrvoje (Univ. Pompeu
Fabra, Barcelona); Mazzeo, Marco (Univ. Pompeu Fabra); Pedro, Omedas (Univ. Pompeu Fabra); Barbarito,
Valeria (Univ. Pompeu Fabra); Carotenuto, Luigi (Univ. Pompeu Fabra); Riccobene, Chiara (Univ. Pompeu
Fabra); Planes, Xavier (Univ. Pompeu Fabra); Martelli, Yves (Univ. Pompeu Fabra);
Frangi, Alejandro (Univ. Pompeu Fabra)

18:15-18:30 SaE11.4
Effects of Time Varying Currents and Magnetic Fields in the Frequency Range of 1 Khz to
1 MHz to the Human Body – A Simulation Study .............................................................................................. 6805-6808
Bohnert, Julia* (Karlsruhe Inst. of Tech.); Doessel, Olaf (Karlsruhe Inst. of Tech. (KIT))

18:30-18:45 SaE11.5
Evaluation Framework for the Multilevel Macroscopic Models of Solid Tumor
Growth in the Glioma Case ................................................................................................................................. 6809-6812
Sakkalis, Vangelis* (ICS-FORTH); Roniotis, Alexandros (FORTH & Technical Univ. of Crete);
Farmaki, Christina (Inst. of Computer Science (ICS), FORTH); Karatzanis, Ioannis (Inst. of Computer
Science (ICS), FORTH); Marias, Kostas (Foundation for Res. & Tech. Hellas)

18:45-19:00 SaE11.6
Towards a Realistic Dielectric Tissue Model: A Multiscale Approach ........................................................... 6813-6816
Huclova, Sonja* (ETH Zurich); Froehlich, Juerg (Swiss Federal Inst. of Tech. Zurich (ETH))
SaE12: 17:30-19:00 Rio de Plata
6.8.1 Clinical Neurophysiology (Oral Session)

17:30-17:45 SaE12.1
Auditory Streaming and Listening Effort: An Event Related Potential Study ............................................... 6817-6820
Bernarding, Corinna* (Computational Diagnostics & Biocybernetics Unit); Corona-Strauss, Farah I. (Saarland
Univ. Hospital); Latzel, Matthias (SIEMENS Audiology); Strauss, Daniel J. (Comp. Diagn. & Biocyb. Unit)

17:45-18:00 SaE12.2
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in the Presence of Deep Brain Stimulation Implants:
Induced Electrode Currents ................................................................................................................................ 6821-6824
Deng, Zhi-De* (Columbia Univ.); Lisanby, Sarah (Columbia Univ. / New York State Psychiatric Inst.);
Peterchev, Angel V (Columbia Univ.)

18:00-18:15 SaE12.3
Habituation Analysis of Chirp vs. Tone Evoked Auditory Late Responses .................................................. 6825-6828
Kern, Kevin* (Saarland Univ. & Saarland Univ. of Applied Sciences); Royter, Vladislav (Saarland Univ. &
Saarland Univ. of Applied Sciences); Corona-Strauss, Farah I. (Saarland Univ. Hospital); Mohamed Aminuddin,
Mai Mariam (Saarland Univ Hospital); Strauss, Daniel J. (Comp. Diagn. & Biocyb. Unit)

18:15-18:30 SaE12.4
Feasibility and Performance Evaluation of Generating and Recording Visual Evoked Potentials Using
Ambulatory Bluetooth Based System ................................................................................................................ 6829-6832
Ellingson, Roger M.* (Dept. of Veterans Affairs); Oken, Barry (Oregon Health & Science Univ.)

18:30-18:45 SaE12.5
A Kernel-Based Novelty Detection Scheme for the Ultra-Fast Detection of Chirp Evoked Auditory
Brainstem Responses ......................................................................................................................................... 6833-6836
Corona-Strauss, Farah I.* (Saarland Univ. Hospital); Delb, Wolfgang (Saarland Univ. Hosptal);
Schick, Bernhard (Saarland Univ. Hospital); Strauss, Daniel J. (Comp. Diagn. & Biocyb. Unit)

SaE13: 17:30-19:00 Gomez Losada

11.1.3 Innovation and New Tendencies of Bioengineering in the Industry (Mini Symposium)

17:30-17:45 SaE13.1
Erasmus Mundus Programme ............................................................................................................................................ *
Colas, Javier* (Medtronic Iberica)

17:45-18:00 SaE13.2
Health Technopole: Innovation applied to Clinical Engineering and Health
Technology Management Education ................................................................................................................. 6837-6840
Vilcahuaman, Luis* (Pontifical Catholic Univ. of Peru); Rivas, Rossana (Pontifical Catholic Univ. of Peru)

18:00-18:15 SaE13.3
“Hands On” in Bioengineering ........................................................................................................................... 6841-6841
Bastos, Teodiano* (Univ. Federal do Espírito Santo); Müller, Sandra Mara Torres (Federal Univ. of Espirito Santo)

18:15-18:30 SaE13.4
Erasmus Mundus Programme: An European Oportunity for Students and Scholars .................................. 6842-6843
Páez-Borrallo, José* (Univ. Politécnica de Madrid)

18:30-18:45 SaE13.5
The Biomedical Engineer As a Driver for Health Technology Innovation ..................................................... 6844-6846
Colas, Javier* (Medtronic Iberica); Guillen, Alejandra (Medtronic Spain)
SaE14: 17:30-19:00 Auditorium
10.1.5 Latest Developments on Personal Health Systems for
Management of Patients with Chronic Diseases II (Mini Symposium)

17:30-17:45 SaE14.1
HeartCycle: Beyond Building Demonstrators. A Structured Approach to Develop,
Implement and Validate Healthcare Innovations in Tele-Monitoring .............................................................. 6847-6849
Reiter, Harald* (Philips)

17:45-18:00 SaE14.2
CHRONIOUS: An Open, Ubiquitous and Adaptive Chronic Disease Management Platform for Chronic
Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and Renal Insufficiency ........... 6850-6853
Rosso, Roberto* (Tesan S.p.A.); Munaro, Giulia (Tesan S.p.A.); Salvetti, Ovidio (CNR);
Colantonio, Sara (CNR); Ciancitto, Fabio (Fraunhofer IIS)

18:00-18:15 SaE14.3
Shift from Physician-Driven Care to Patient-Managed Self Monitoring and Care for Chronic Diseases
Related to Metabolic Disorders .......................................................................................................................... 6854-6857
Guillen, Alejandra* (Medtronic Spain); Colas, Javier (Medtronic Iberica); Fico, Giuseppe (Technical
Univ. of Madrid); Ardigo, Diego (Univ. of Parma); Fernandez, Duarte (Medtronic Iberica)

18:15-18:30 SaE14.4
Tracking Motor Recovery in Stroke Survivors Undergoing Rehabilitation Using Wearable Technology .. 6858-6861
Patel, Shyamal (Harvard Medical School); Hughes, Richard (Harvard Medical School); Hester, Todd (Harvard
Medical School); Stein, Joel (Columbia Univ.); Akay, Metin (Univ. of Houston); Dy, Jennifer (Northeastern
Univ.); Bonato, Paolo* (Harvard Medical School)