08:30 Welcome Desk & Registration (08:30 - 09:00)
09:00
09:00 - 10:30 - Room Gemini I Parallel Session 8 - BIODEVICES
  • 73: AN INTEGRATED ACTIVE-RC POWERLINE NOTCH FILTER FOR BIOPOTENTIAL ACQUISITION DEVICES Hussain Alzaher, Noman Tasadduq and Yaqub Mahnashi
  • 39: A 130NM ASIC FOR EMG SIGNAL ACQUISITION TO CONTROL A HAND PROSTHETIC Lait Abu Saleh, Wjatscheslaw Galjan, Jakob Tomasik, Dietmar Schroeder and Wolfgang H. Krautschneider
  • 99: SmarTTransfuser - A Biochip System for the Final ABO Compatibility Test Karine Charrière, Jean Sebastien Guerrini-Chappuis, Bruno Wacogne, Alain Rouleau, Celine Elie-Caille, Christian Pieralli, Lionel Pazart, Pascal Morel and Wilfrid Boireau
09:00 - 10:30 - Room Gemini II Parallel Session 8 - HEALTHINF
  • 29: AN ACTIVE APPROACH IN HEALTH MONITORING Doan B. Hoang, Nor Faizah Ahmad and Congduc Pham
  • 74: A MOBILE COLLABORATION AND DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR THE MEDICAL EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT Dominique Brodbeck, Markus Degen and Maximilian Reiss
  • 141: NETWORK-AWARE BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING - Loss Concealment or Loss Awareness Beatriz Barros, Ana Aguiar and Daniel E. Lucani
09:00 - 10:30 - Room Aquarius Parallel Session 8 - BIOSIGNALS
  • 139: SPEECH EMOTIONAL FEATURES MEASURED BY POWER-LAW DISTRIBUTION BASED ON ELECTROGLOTTOGRAPHY Lijiang Chen, Xia Mao, Yuli Xue and Mitsuru Ishizuka
  • 141: NOISE ROBUST SPEAKER VERIFICATION BASED ON THE MFCC AND pH FEATURES FUSION AND MULTICONDITION TRAINING L. Zão and R. Coelho
09:00 - 10:30 - Room Vega Special Session on Training in Bioinformatics - SSTB
  • 2: BUILDING TODAY THE FUTURE CADRE OF INFORMATICS-ORIENTED PHYSICIANS - Lessons from a New Biomedical Informatics Curriculum for Medical Doctors Ronen Tal-Botzer, Rachel S. Levy-Drummer, Gidi Rechavi and Ron Unger
  • 3: A WEB-BASED INTRODUCTION TO BIOINFORMATICS - Epistemological Beliefs in Bioinformatics Gerald Lirk, Peter Kulczycki, Stefan Winkler and Jörg Zumbach
10:30 Coffee-Break (10:30 - 10:45)
10:45
10:45 - 11:45 - Room Fénix I THE DEVELOPMENT OF BIO IMAGING Keynote Speaker: Richard Bayford
11:45
11:45 - 12:45 - Room Gemini I Parallel Session 9 - BIODEVICES
  • 5: DIABETES COMPLICATIONS - Development of a New Tool for Obliterating Arteriopathy of the Lower Limbs Detection Stéphane Roeslin, Nadège Marthouret, Louis Benazet, Christophe Roncato, Gabriel Camelot, Anca Loppinet, Xavier Racadot, Sylvie Grandperret, Hayet Bourezane, Christian Pieralli, Lionel Pazart and Bruno Wacogne
  • 69: IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION OF A PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND ENERGY EXPENDITURE ALGORITHM IN A SENSIUM™-BASED BODY-WORN DEVICE M. Hernandez Silveira, S.-S. Ang, T. Mehta, B. Wang and A. Burdett
11:45 - 12:45 - Room Gemini II Parallel Session 9 - HEALTHINF
  • 94: ONE WAY TO PATIENT EMPOWERMENT - The Proposal of an Authorization Model Cátia Santos-Pereira, Luis Antunes, Ricardo Cruz-Correia and Ana Ferreira
  • 121: A CASE STUDY - On Patient Empowerment and Integration of Telemedicine to National Healthcare Services Surayya Urazimbetova
  • 124: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN CLINICAL RESEARCH AND CARE - Approaches to Semantic Interoperability, Security & Privacy Richard Vdovjak, Brecht Claerhout and Anca Bucur
11:45 - 12:45 - Room Aquarius Parallel Session 9 - BIOSIGNALS
  • 9: A PERFECTLY INVERTIBLE RANK ORDER CODER Khaled Masmoudi, Marc Antonini and Pierre Kornprobst
  • 15: RELIABILITY OF STATISTICAL FEATURES DESCRIBING NEURAL SPIKE TRAINS IN THE PRESENCE OF CLASSIFICATION ERRORS Ninah Koolen, Ivan Gligorijevic and Sabine Van Huffel
  • 111: IMPROVED ROBUST PERFORMANCE IN A SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC ADMINISTRATION OF A VASOACTIVE DRUG Nicolò Malagutti, Arvin Dehghani and Rodney A. Kennedy
11:45 - 12:45 - Room Gemini III Parallel Session 9 - BIOINFORMATICS
  • 51: A VACCINATION CONTROL LAW BASED ON FEEDBACK LINEARIZATION TECHNIQUES FOR SEIR EPIDEMIC MODELS S. Alonso-Quesada, M. De la Sen and A. Ibeas
  • 60: DUAL-ENERGY X-RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY AS AN INDICATOR FOR FRAGILITY FRACTURE RISKS OF THE FEMORAL NECK Alexander Tsouknidas, Nikolaos Michailidis, Kleovoulos Anagnostidis and Antonios Lontos
11:45 - 12:45 - Room Vega Special Session on Training in Bioinformatics - SSTB
  • 5: eBIOMICS - A Website Promoting Good Practices and Specific Methods for using Bioinformatics Resources Frédérique Lisacek, Patrick Koks, Pascale Berthault, Grégoire Rossier, Guy Bottu, Jacques van Helden, Jean Sylvestre, Jean-Pierre Kraehenbuhl and Jack Leunissen
12:45 Lunch (12:45 - 14:00)
14:00
14:00 - 15:00 - Room Fénix I ADVANCES IN BRAIN MACHINE INTERFACES Keynote Speaker: José C. Príncipe
15:00
15:00 - 16:30 - Room Gemini I Parallel Session 10 - BIODEVICES
  • 33: NITRITE BIOSENSING WITH DISPOSABLE ELECTRODE STRIPS - A Preliminary Study Marcelo Rodrigues, Cátia Correia, Célia M. Silveira, José J. G. Moura, Estibaliz Ochoteco, Elena Jubete and M. Gabriela Almeida
  • 24: AN ALTERNATIVE METHOD FOR MEASURING HUMAN RESPIRATORY IMPEDANCE Robin De Keyser and Clara M. Ionescu
  • 40: A NEW LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETER PROTOTYPE FOR MICROCIRCULATION SKIN DEPTH MONITORING - In Vitro Validation and In Vivo Preliminar Results Edite Figueiras, Rita Campos, Ricardo Oliveira, Luís F. Requicha Ferreira and Anne Humeau-Heurtier
  • 101: POLYSSACHARIDE-BASED MAGNETIC HYDROGELS AS POTENTICAL VECTORS FOR EXTERNAL-CONTROLLED SOLUTE RELEASE Alexandre T. Paulino, Laurence A. Belfiore, Matt J. Kipper and Elias B. Tambourgi
15:00 - 16:30 - Room Gemini II Parallel Session 10 - HEALTHINF
  • 7: UNDERSTANDING AND ADDRESSING THE ‘FIT’ BETWEEN USER, TECHNOLOGY AND ORGANIZATION IN EVALUATING USER ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGY Noor Azizah K. S-Mohamadali and Jonathan M. Garibaldi
  • 16: IT DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF A LIVE E-RESEARCH SYSTEM - Experiences with the Australian Schizophrenia Research Bank D. Paul, F. A. Henskens, C. M. Loughland, J. Bridge, K. McCabe, V. J. Carr, S. V. Catts, A. Jablensky, P. T. Michie, B. J. Mowry, C. Pantelis, U. Schall and R. J. Scott
  • 68: PROCESS-ORIENTED INCIDENT REPORTING IN HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS - Web Application Architecture and Modeling Experiences Martin Schmollinger, Eric Stricker, Tibor Bazlen, Thomas Eßlinger, Christopher Röhl and Brian Walter
  • 132: HEALTHCARE BUSINESS PROCESSES RISKS IDENTIFICATION AND MANAGEMENT - Approach for Medication Administration Processes Re-engineering Leandro Paulo Bogoni, Ganna Frankova, Cristina Matteotti, Fabio Casati, Duncan Dubugras Ruiz and Giampaolo Armellin
15:00 - 16:30 - Room Gemini III Parallel Session 10 - BIOINFORMATICS
  • 43: PYCOEVOL - A Python Workflow to Study Protein-protein Coevolution Fábio Madeira and Ludwig Krippahl
  • 85: PREDICTION OF CHIMERIC PROTEIN FOLD Ruben Acuña, Zoé Lacroix, Fayez Hadji, Jacques Chomilier and Nikolaos Papandreou
  • 87: SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING OF ALTERNATIVELY SPLICED EXONS USING EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION TYPE APPROACHES Ana Stanescu and Doina Caragea
  • 98: ANALYSIS OF CORRELATION STRUCTURES IN RENAL CELL CARCINOMA PATIENT DATA Italo Zoppis, Massimiliano Borsani, Erica Gianazza, Clizia Chinello, Francesco Rocco, Giancarlo Albo, André M. Deelder, Yuri E. M. van der Burgt, Marco Antoniotti, Fulvio Magni and Giancarlo Mauri
  • 41: PREDICTING NEW HUMAN DRUG TARGETS BY USING FEATURE SELECTION TECHNIQUES Eduardo Campos dos Santos, Braulio Roberto Gonçalves Marinho Couto, Marcos A. dos Santos and Julio Cesar Dias Lopes
15:00 - 16:30 - Room Aquarius Parallel Session 10 - BIOSIGNALS
  • 24: A WEARABLE GAIT ANALYSIS SYSTEM USING INERTIAL SENSORS PART I - Evaluation of Measures of Gait Symmetry and Normality against 3D Kinematic Data A. Sant'Anna, N. Wickstrom, R. Zügner and R. Tranberg
  • 25: A WEARABLE GAIT ANALYSIS SYSTEM USING INERTIAL SENSORS PART II - Evaluation in a Clinical Setting A. Sant'Anna, N. Wickström, H. Eklund and R. Tranberg
  • 26: DEVELOPMENT OF A SIT-TO-STAND ASSISTANCE SYSTEM FOR PARKINSON'S DISEASE SUFFERERS - (Intellectual Handrail) Osamu Nitta, Yasunari Fujimoto, John Surya and Yoshiyuki Takahashi
15:00 - 16:30 - Room Vega Special Session on Biofeedback Systems for Stress Reduction - BSSS
  • 4: BIOFEEDBACK SYSTEMS FOR STRESS REDUCTION - Towards a Bright Future for a Revitalized Field Egon L. van den Broek and Joyce H. D. M. Westerink
  • 2: TOWARDS UNOBTRUSIVE AUTOMATED SLEEP STAGE CLASSIFICATION - Polysomnography using Electrodes on the Face Igor J. Berezhnoy, Gert-Jan de Vries, Tim Weysen, Jonce Dimov and Gary Garcia-Molina
  • 3: COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS FOR MENTAL HEALTH CARE - On the Clinical Validation of Sensitive Machines Frans van der Sluis, Ton Dijkstra and Egon L. van den Broek
  • 1: A NOVEL APPROACH TO ALPHA ACTIVITY TRAINING USING WATER BASED ELECTRODES M. K. J. Dekker, M. M. Sitskoorn, A. Denissen, M. Jager, D. Vernon, V. Mihajlovic and G. J. M. van Boxtel
16:30
16:30 - 17:00 - Foyer Posters Session 3
BIOINFORMATICS
  • 73: COMPUTATIONAL PREDICTIONS FOR THE NUCLEATION MASS AND LAG TIMES INVOLVED IN Aβ42 PEPTIDE AGGREGATION Preetam Ghosh, Bhaswati Datta and Vijayaraghavan Rangachari
  • 79: AUTOMATED REGULON CONTENT PREDICTION AND ESTIMATION OF PWM QUALITY Elena Stavrovskaya, Andrey Mironov, Dmitry Rodionov, Inna Dubchak and Pavel Novichkov
  • 84: A NOVEL GAUSSIAN FITTING APPROACH FOR 2D GEL ELECTROPHORESIS SATURATED PROTEIN SPOTS Massimo Natale, Alfonso Caiazzo, Enrico M. Bucci and Elisa Ficarra
  • 86: CHARACTERIZATION OF COARSE GRAIN MOLECULAR DYNAMIC SIMULATION PERFORMANCE ON GRAPHIC PROCESSING UNIT ARCHITECTURES Ardita Shkurti, Andrea Acquaviva, Elisa Ficarra, Mario Orsi and Enrico Macii
  • 102: HAPLOTYPE-BASED CLASSIFIERS TO PREDICT INDIVIDUAL SUSCEPTIBILITY TO COMPLEX DISEASES - An Example for Multiple Sclerosis María M. Abad-Grau, Nuria Medina-Medina, Andrés Masegosa and Serafín Moral
BIOSIGNALS
  • 19: SEGMENTATION AND ANALYSIS OF RETINAL VASCULAR TREE FROM FUNDUS IMAGES PROCESSING Sandra Morales, Valery Naranjo, Jesús Angulo, Juan José Fuertes and Mariano Alcañiz
  • 34: ECG ARTEFACT DETECTION ALGORITHM - An Algorithm to Improve Long-term ECG Analysis Susana Brás, Nuno Ferreira and João Paulo Silva Cunha
  • 39: HEART RATE VARIABILITY IN SIESTA POLYSOMNOGRAMS - A Preliminary Study Xosé A. Vila, Arturo J. Méndez, Abraham Otero, Leandro Rodríguez-Liñares and María J. Lado
  • 43: STUDY OF TWO FEATURE EXTRACTION METHODS TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE FIRST AND THE SECOND HEART SOUNDS Ali moukadem, Alain Dieterlen and Christian Brandt
  • 51: LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS VERSUS ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK AS CLASSIFIERS FOR ELBOW ANGULAR POSITION RECOGNITION PURPOSES Maria Claudia F. Castro
  • 56: CARDIAC PATHOLOGIES DETECTION OVER FPGA USING ELECTROCARDIOGRAM Ariadna Vázquez-Sedano, Santiago T. Pérez-Suárez, Carlos M. Travieso-González and Jesús B. Alonso-Hernández
  • 61: FLYBOW IMAGE SEGMENTATION - For Tracing Neuron Circuits in Drosophila Brain Hao-Chiang Shao, Wei-Yun Cheng, Yung-Chang Chen and Wen-Liang Hwang
  • 66: BIOMETRY BASED ON EEG SIGNALS USING NEURAL NETWORK AND SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE Hamid Bagherzadeh Rafsanjani, Mozafar Iqbal, Morteza Zabihi and Hideaki Touyama
  • 89: LONG TERM BIOSIGNALS VISUALIZATION AND PROCESSING Ricardo Gomes, Neuza Nunes, Joana Sousa and Hugo Gamboa
  • 105: BRAKE RESPONSE TIME BEFORE AND AFTER TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY Carlos J. Marques, Rui Santos, Hugo Gamboa , Frank Lampe, João Barreiros and Jan Cabri
  • 109: NEUROPHYSIOLOGIC AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF FAILURES IN AUTOMATIC SLEEP STAGE CLASSIFICATION Teresa Sousa, Dulce Oliveira, Sirvan Khalighi, Gabriel Pires and Urbano Nunes
  • 134: A RULE-BASED CLASSIFICATION OF LARYNGOPATHIES BASED ON SPECTRUM DISTURBANCE ANALYSIS Krzysztof Pancerz, Wiesław Paja, Jarosław Szkoła, Jan Warchoł and Grażyna Olchowik
BIODEVICES
  • 36: SURGICAL TOOL ALIGNMENT BY LASER GUIDANCE USING FLUOROSCOPIC-BASED NAVIGATION TECHNIQUE - A System Implementation and Validation Study Jack T. Liang, Shinya Onogi and Yoshikazu Nakajima
  • 66: MOBILE HEALTH MONITORING PLATFORM FOR AAL APPLICATIONS J. Festa, C. Silva and P. M. Mendes
  • 105: SURFACE PASSIVATION EFFECT IN SGOI NANOWIRE BIOSENSOR WITH HIGH GE FRACTION Kow-Ming Chang, Chu-Feng Chen, Chiung-Hui Lai, Cheng-Ting Hsieh, Chin-Ning Wu, Yu-Bin Wang, Chung-Hsien Liu and Kuo Chin Chang
  • 107: ENERGY HARVESTED FROM RESPIRATORY EFFORT David Cavalheiro, Ana Catarina Silva, Stanimir Valtchev, J. Pamies Teixeira and Valentina Vassilenko
HEALTHINF
  • 49: OPTIMAL AUTO-REMINDER-CALLING ALGORITHM FOR SELF-REPORTING TYPE SAFETY MONITORING SYSTEM BY USING TELEPHONE FOR ELDERLY PEOPLE Jun Sasaki, Takuhide Kikuchi, Masanori Takagi, Keizo Yamada, Michiru Tanaka and Akiko Ogawa
  • 52: GIS-SAPIO - Automated Aedes Aegypti Web-based Analysis and Prevention Monitor Georges D. A. Nze, Lourdes M. Brasil, Josiane S. A. Souza and Marco A. B. Rodrigues
  • 57: ACTIVE MONITORING USING REAL-TIME METRIC LINEAR TEMPORAL LOGIC SPECIFICATIONS Gabor Simko and Janos Sztipanovits
  • 64: MASTICATION COUNTING METHOD ROBUST TO FOOD TYPE AND INDIVIDUAL Hao Zhang, Guillaume Lopez, Masaki Shuzo, Jean-Jacques Delaunay and Ichiro Yamada
  • 93: TRANSFORMING A HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE CLINICAL GUIDELINE INTO A CDSS - Difficulties in Understanding Gustavo Marísio Bacelar-Silva, Rong Chen and Ricardo Cruz-Correia
  • 102: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS APPLIED TO PATIENT DISTRIBUTION FOR FAMILY HEALTH TEAMS IN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE João Azevedo, Carlos Oliveira, Juliano Gaspar and Alberto Freitas
  • 111: THE QUANTUM OF NLP - Cognitive Metaphor as a Mind Discovering Device Svetlana Machova and Jana Kleckova
  • 126: MOBILE APPLICATION SUPPORTED LIFESTYLE INTERVENTION TO LOWER PROSTATE CANCER RISK Luuk P. A. Simons and J. Felix Hampe
16:45 Coffee-Break (16:45 - 17:00)
17:00
17:00 - 18:45 - Room Gemini I Parallel Session 11 - BIODEVICES
  • 13: LOW AND PARTICLE DEPOSITION IN THE TURBUHALER DPI - A CFD Simulation J. Milenkovic, A. H. Alexopoulos and C. Kiparissides
  • 65: CONTROLLER DESIGN FOR A STANCE-CONTROL KNEE-ANKLE-FOOT ORTHOSIS BASED ON OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES S. H. HosseinNia, F. Romero, B. Vinagre, F. J. Alonso and I. Tejado
  • 76: MULTI-SOURCE ENERGY HARVESTING POWER GENERATORS FOR INSTRUMENTED IMPLANTS - Towards the Development of a Smart Hip Prosthesis M. Soares dos Santos, Jorge A. F. Ferreira, A. Ramos, Ricardo Pascoal, Raul Morais dos Santos, Nuno M. Silva, José A. O. Simões, M. J. C. S. Reis, Camila N. Boeri, António Festas and Paulo M. Santos
  • 89: A TECHNOLOGICAL AND STATISTICAL STATE-OF-THE-ART STUDY REGARDING ACTIVE MOTION-ORIENTED ASSISTIVE DEVICES Daniel Pina, António Augusto Fernandes, Joaquim Gabriel Mendes and Renato Natal Jorge
17:00 - 18:45 - Room Gemini II Parallel Session 11 - HEALTHINF
  • 122: A TELEMEDICINE SYSTEM FOR IMPROVED REHABILITATION OF STROKE PATIENTS Steffen Ortmann and Peter Langendörfer
  • 133: A PILOT STUDY OF SHORT-TERM EFFECTS OF NON-SEDENTARY BEHAVIOUR ON MOOD CHANGES Aleksandar Matic, Venet Osmani, Andrei Popleteev and Oscar Mayora-Ibarra
  • 138: DESIGN OF A PROTOTYPE FOR PERFORMING HOSPITAL BENCHMARKING - Production and Management of Hospital Quality Indicators Juliano Gaspar, Nuno Rocha and Alberto Freitas
17:00 - 18:45 - Room Aquarius Parallel Session 11 - BIOSIGNALS
  • 95: DECISION-TREE BASED ANALYSIS OF SPEAKING MODE DISCREPANCIES IN EMG-BASED SPEECH RECOGNITION Michael Wand, Matthias Janke and Tanja Schultz
  • 74: PATHOLOGICAL VOICE DETECTION USING TURBULENT SPEECH SEGMENTS Fernando Perdigão, Cláudio Neves and Luís Sá
17:00 - 18:45 - Room Gemini III Parallel Session 11a - BIOSIGNALS
  • 85: HIERARCHICAL DYNAMIC MODEL FOR HUMAN DAILY ACTIVITY RECOGNITION Blanca Florentino-Liaño, Niamh O'Mahony and Antonio Artés-Rodríguez
  • 90: DYNAMIC AUTOREGRESSIVE MODELLING OF CRITICAL CARE PATIENTS AS A BASIS FOR HEALTH MONITORING K. Van Loon, G. Meyfroidt, T. Tambuyzer, G. Van den Berghe, D. Berckmans and J.-M. Aerts
  • 104: LEAST-SQUARES ESTIMATION OF NANOPORE CHANNEL CONDUCTANCE IN VOLTAGE-VARYING EXPERIMENTS Christopher R. O'Donnell and William B. Dunbar
  • 126: APPLICATION OF THE MP THEORY TO SYSTEMS BIOLOGY Vincenzo Manca and Luca Marchetti
19:30 Social Event (19:30 - 23:30)