MEDICON2010 Programme

Conference Programme

MEDICON 2010 – 27-30 May | Chalkidiki| Greece

	Thur, May 27		Fri, May 28		Sat, May 29		Sun, May 30
		8.15 - 8.45	Registration	8.15 - 8.45	Registration
		8.45 - 9.30	Plenary Session II	8.45 - 9.30	Plenary Session IV	8.45 - 9.30	Plenary Session VI
		9.30 - 11.00	Opening Ceremony	9.30 - 11.00	General Track 4 Med Imaging 2 Clin Engin 1	9.30 - 11.00	General Track 6 BME-MP-CE EDU BME Journals/Conferences
10.30- 15.15	Registration	9.30 - 11.00	Opening Ceremony	9.30 - 11.00	General Track 4 Med Imaging 2 Clin Engin 1	9.30 - 11.00	General Track 6 BME-MP-CE EDU BME Journals/Conferences
		11.00 - 11.30	*Coffee Break*	11.00 - 11.30	*Coffee Break*	11.00 - 11.30	*Coffee Break*
		11.30 - 13.00	Med Instrum 2 BioSignal Pro 2 e-Health 1	11.30 - 13.00	BioSignal Pro 3 Med Imaging 3 Clin Engin 2	11.30 - 13.00	Women In Engineering
		13.00 - 13.30	*Lunch Break*	13.00 - 13.30	*Lunch Break*	13.00 - 13.30	Closing Ceremony
		13.30 - 14.15	Poster Session I	13.30 - 14.15	Poster Session II		Mount Athos Trip
		14.15 - 15.00	Plenary Session III	14.15 - 15.00	Plenary Session V
15.15 - 15.45	Opening	14.15 - 15.00	Plenary Session III	14.15 - 15.00	Plenary Session V
15.15 - 15.45	Opening	15.00 - 16.30	WEB Applications General Track 2 Med Imaging 1	15.00 - 16.30	General Track 5 BioSignal Pro 4 Med Instrum 4
15.45 - 16.30	Plenary Session I
16.30 - 17.00	*Coffee Break*
17.00 - 18.30	General Track 1 Med Instrum 1 BioSignal Pro 1	16.30 - 17.00	*Coffee Break*	16.30 - 17.00	*Coffee Break*
		17.00 - 18.30	General Track 3 Med Instrum 3 e-Health 2	17.00 - 18.30	General Track - ESBME BioSignal Pro 5 EDU
		18.30 - 19.30	ELEBIT GENERAL ASSEMBLY	18.30 - 19.30	MEETING THE EDITOR
18.30 - 19.00		18.30 - 19.30	ELEBIT GENERAL ASSEMBLY	18.30 - 19.30	MEETING THE EDITOR
19.00 - 20.00	Welcome Reception	19.30 – 20.00		19.30 - 20.00
20.00		20.00	Greek Dinner	20.00	Farewell Dinner

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Plenary Session III Chair: Christos Schizas
Friday, May 28 14:15-15:00
Closed Loop: a Taxonomy Framework for Medical Procedures Georgios Sakas Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics (IGD), Darmstad, Germany	TERPSIHORI

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

General Track II Co-chairs: Damijan Miklavcic, Radu Vasile Ciupa
Friday, May 28 15:00-16:30
Studying postural sway using wearable sensors: fall prediction. Andrea Turcato and Stefano Ramat.	TERPSIHORI
Rapid Prototype Development for Studying Human Activity Athanasios Fevgas, Panagiota Tsompanopoulou and Spyridon Lalis.	TERPSIHORI
Automated estimation of 3D camera extrinsic parameters for the monitoring of physical activity of elderly patients R Deklerck, Bart Jansen, X.L. Yao and J. Cornelis.	TERPSIHORI
A game-like interface for training seniors’ dynamic balance and coordination Antonis Billis, Evdokimos Konstantinidis, Christos Mouzakidis, Magda Tsolaki, Costas Pappas and Panagiotis Bamidis.	TERPSIHORI
An Automated Method for Levodopa-Induced Dyskinesia Detection and Severity Classification Markos G. Tsipouras, Alexandros Tzallas, George Rigas, Penny Bougia, Dimitrios Fotiadis and Spyros Konitsiotis.	TERPSIHORI
Development of a Simple and Cheap Device for Movement Analysis Csanad Erdos, Gergo Farkas and Bela Pataki.	TERPSIHORI

Medical Imaging I Co-chairs: Kristina Bliznakova, Silvia Erla
Friday, May 28 15:00-16:30
Measurement Methodology for Tempomandibular Joint Displacement Based on Focus Mutual Information Alignment of CBCT Images Wolfgang Jacquet, Edgard Nyssen and Bart Vande Vannet.	ERATO
Computer Aided Diagnosis of Diffuse Lung Disease in Multi-detector CT – Selecting 3D texture features Ioannis Mariolis, Panayiotis Korfiatis, Christina Kalogeropoulou, Dimitrios Daoussis, Theodor Petsas and Lena Costaridou.	ERATO
Statistical Pre-Processing Method For Peripheral Quantitative Computed Tomography Images Tomas Cervinka, Harri Sievanen, Markus Hannula and Jari Hyttinen.	ERATO
A Novel Approach for Implementation of Dual Energy Mapping Technique in CT-Based Attenuation Correction Using Single kVP Imaging: A Feasibility Study Behnoosh Teimourian, Mohammad Reza Ay, Hossein Ghadiri, Mojtaba Shamsaei Zafarghandi and Habib Zaidi.	ERATO
Computational Visualization of Tumor Virotherapy Xuefeng Gao, Mark Tangney and Sabin Tabirca.	ERATO
Preoperative planning program tool in treatment of articular fractures: Process of segmentation procedure Matevz Tomazevic, D Kreuh, A Kristan, V Puketa and M Cimerman.	ERATO

General Track III Co-chairs: Jan Cornelis, Yuri Dekhtyar
Friday, May 28 17:00-18:30
Enhanced stem cells characteristic of fibroblastic mesenchymal cells from HHT patients Giulia Silvani, Laura Benedetti, Nicola Crosetto, Carla Olivieri, Daniela Galli, Bruno Magnani, Giovanni Magenes and Gabriella Cusella De Angelis.	TERPSIHORI
Changes in electrocardiogram during intra-abdominal electrochemotherapy: A preliminary report Barbara Mali, Tomaz Jarm, Eldar Gadzijev, Gregor Sersa and Damijan Miklavcic.	TERPSIHORI
Ventilation inhomogeneity in upright and supine position assessed by electrical impedance tomography Zhanqi Zhao, Nikola Kiefer, Melinda Kuscar, Susanne Lang and Knut Moeller.	TERPSIHORI
Numerical Simulation In Magnetic Drug Targeting. Magnetic Field Source Optimization Alin Dobre and Alexandru Morega.	TERPSIHORI
Improved Modeling of Lane Intensity Profiles on Gel Electrophoresis Images Christos Maramis and Anastasios Delopoulos.	TERPSIHORI
A multilevel and multiscale approach for the prediction of oral cancer reoccurrence Konstantinos Exarchos, Georgios Rigas, Yorgos Goletsis and Dimitrios I Fotiadis.	TERPSIHORI
Assessment of a patient-specific silicon model of the human arterial forearm Koen Van Canneyt, Francesca Giudici, Patrick Segers and Pascal Verdonck.

Medical Devices & Instrumentation III Co-chairs: Emil Valchinov, Christos Manolopoulos
Friday, May 28 17:00-18:30
Digital filter in hardware loop for on line ECG signal baseline wander reduction Andrius Petrenas, Vaidotas Marozas, Saulius Daukantas and Arunas Lukosevicius.	THALIA
WADEDA: A Wearable Affective Device with On-Chip Signal Processing Capabilities for measuring ElectroDermal Activity Evdokimos Konstantinidis, Christos Frantzidis, Christos Papadelis, Costas Pappas and Panagiotis Bamidis.	THALIA
A wearable wireless ECG sensor: a design with a minimal number of parts E.S. Valchinov and Nicolas Pallikarakis.	THALIA
Pre-clinical physiological data acquisition and testing of the IMAGE sensing device for exercise guidance and real-time monitoring of cardiovascular disease patients Alexander Astaras, Athina Kokonozi, Emmanouil Michail,	THALIA
Novel TiN-based dry EEG electrodes: Influence of electrode shape and number on contact impedance and signal quality Patrique Fiedler, Stephan Brodkorb, Carlos Fonseca, Filipe Vaz, Frank Zanow and Jens Haueisen.	THALIA

eHealth II Co-chairs: Emil Contantinos Pattichis, Marc Nyssen
Friday, May 28 17:00-18:30
Multilevel Access Control in Hospital Information Systems Vassilis Baldas, Kostas Giokas and Dimitrios Koutsouris.	ERATO
Managing Urinary Incontinence through Hand-held Real-time Decision Support Aid Constantinos Koutsojannis, George Bakogiannis, Chrysa Lithari, Eman Alkholy Nabil and Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis.	ERATO
Renal Telemedicine and Telehealth – Where Do We Stand? Eleni Kaldoudi and V Vargemezis.	ERATO
Reliability issues in Regional Health Networks Stergiani Spyrou, Panagiotis Bamidis and Nicos Maglaveras.	ERATO
A System for Monitoring Children with Suspected Cardiac Arrhythmias – Technical Optimizations and Evaluation Efthyvoulos Kyriacou, Constantinos Pattichis, Dimitris Hoplaros, Anastasis Kounoudes, Marios Milis and Antonis Jossif.	ERATO
Contributing for the creation of a European e-health space: The NETC@RDS Project G. Pangalos, S. Kortesis, I. Pagkalos	ERATO
Security and Reliability of Data Transmissions in Model Biotelemetric System Marek Penhaker, Martin Stankus, Jan Kijonka and Petr Grygarek.	ERATO

Plenary Session IV Chair: Ratko Magjarevic
Saturday, May 29 8:45-9:30
Clinical Engineering Competency and Certification Yadin David Biomedical Engineering Consultants LLC, Huston, Texas,USA	TERPSIHORI

General Track IV Co-chairs: Radovan Stojanovic, Paul Dan Cristea
Saturday, May 29 9:30-11:000
The Volume Regulation and Accumulation of Synovial Fluid between Articular Plateaus of Knee Joints Miroslav Petrtyl, Jana Danesova and Jaroslav Lisal.	TERPSIHORI
First Trimester Diagnosis of Trisomy-21 Using Artificial Neural Networks Costas Neocleous, Kypros Nikolaides, Kleanthis Neokleous and Christos Schizas.	TERPSIHORI
Diagnosis of Asthma Severity Using Artificial Neural Networks Eleni Chatzimichail, Alexandros Rigas, Emmanouil Paraskakis and Athanasios Chatzimichail.	TERPSIHORI
Using Grid Infrastructure for the Promotion of Biomedical Knowledge Mining Aristotelis Chatziioannou, I Kanaris and Ilias Maglogiannis.	TERPSIHORI
Protein Surface Atom Neighborhood Functional Description Paul Dan Cristea, Rodica Aurora Tuduce and Octavian Arsene.	TERPSIHORI
Diagnostic ECG Classification Using Artificial Neural Networks A. Karlas, K. Papathoma, G. Tsiamis, A. Zafeiropoulos and Y.S. Chatzizisis.	TERPSIHORI

Medical Imaging II Co-chairs: Theodoros Arvanitis, Eleni Kaldoudi
Saturday, May 29 9:30-11:000
Thermal Images of Electrically Stimulated Breast: a simulation study H. Feza Carlak, Nevzat G. Gencer and Cengiz Besikci.	ERATO
Magnetic Resonance Current Density Imaging Using One Component of Magnetic Flux Density: An Experimental Study Ali Ersoz and B. Murat Eyuboglu.	ERATO
Computer-aided detection of COPD using digital chest radiographs Laszlo Nikhazy, Gabor Horvath, Akos Horvath and Veronika Muller.	ERATO
Localisation, registration and visualisation of MRS volumes of interest on MR Images Yu sun, Nigel Davies, Kal Natarajan, Theodoros Arvanitis and Andrew Peet.	ERATO
Perfusion CT of the liver tumor: calibration method Michela D'Anto, Mario Cesarelli, Paolo Bifulco, Maria Romano, Vincenzo Cerciello and Francesco Fiore.	ERATO
Registration of chest X-rays Janos Csorba, Balazs Kormanyos and Bela Pataki.	ERATO

Clinical Engineering & Safety I Co-chairs: Yadin David, Monique Frize
Saturday, May 29 9:30-11:000
Human Factors Engineering applied to Risk Management in the Use of Medical Equipment Ana P. S. Silva, Rodrigo M. A. Almeida, Jose A. Ferreira and Antonio Gibertoni.	THALIA
Electromagnetic interferences (EMI) from active RFId on critical care equipment Ernesto Iadanza, Fabrizio Dori, Roberto Miniati and Edvige Corrado.	THALIA
The Clinical Data Recorder: What Shall Be Monitored? Leonardo Nascimento and Saide Calil.	THALIA
Clinical Engineering and Patient Safety: a forty year cycle Monique Frize, Sabine Weyand and Kim Greenwood.	THALIA
NOVAMEDTECH, A THREE YEAR INNOVATION PROJECT Nils-Erik Pettersson.	THALIA

Biomedical Signal Processing III Co-chairs: Antonio Fernando Infantosi, Jens Haueisen
Saturday, May 29 11:30-13:000
Comparing sensorimotor cortex activation during actual and imaginary movement Alkinoos Athanasiou, Chrysa Lithari, Ioannis Moulos, Konstantina Kalogianni, Emmanouil Chatzitheodorou and Panagiotis Bamidis.	TERPSIHORI
Studying Brain Visuo-Tactile Integration through Cross-Spectral Analysis of human MEG recordings Silvia Erla, Christos Papadelis, Luca Faes, Christoph Braun and Giandomenico Nollo.	TERPSIHORI
On the Selection of Time Interval and Frequency Range of EEG Signal Preprocessing for P300 Brain-Computer Interfacing Nikolay Manyakov, Nikolay Chumerin, Adrien Combaz and Marc Van Hulle.	TERPSIHORI
Investigating the EEG alpha band during kinesthetic and visual motor imagery of the spike volleyball movement Marcus Vinicius Stecklow, Mauricio Cagy and Antonio Fernando Catelli Infantosi.	TERPSIHORI
Dynamics of Catch-up Saccades during Tracking of Two-dimensional Time-continuous Target Trajectory Vincas Laurutis and Raimondas Zemblys.	TERPSIHORI

Medical Imaging III Co-chairs: Igor Lackovic, Ilias Maglogiannis
Saturday, May 29 11:30-13:000
Corneal nerves segmentation and morphometric parameters quantification for early detection of diabetic neuropathy Ana Ferreira, Antonio Morgado and Jose Silva.	ERATO
Statistical Texture Analysis of MRI Images to Classify Patients Affected by Multiple Sclerosis Alberto Faro, Daniela Giordano, Concetto Spampinato and Manuela Pennisi.	ERATO
The role of geometry of the human carotid bifurcation in the formation and development of atherosclerotic plaque Panagiotis Kalozoumis, Anestis Kalfas and A Giannoukas.	ERATO
New Approaches for Continuous Non Invasive Blood Pressure Monitoring Petr Zurek, Martin Cerny, Michal Prauzek, Ondrej Krejcar and Marek Penhaker.	ERATO
A Web-based tool for the Automatic Segmentation of Cardiac MRI Tarcisio de Paula, Marcelo Lobosco and Rodrigo dos Santos.	ERATO
Fully Automatic 3D Cardiac Tagged MRI using Multiple Source Non-Rigid Registration Techniques Maria J. Ledesma-Carbayo, Andres Santos, Elliot R. McVeigh.	ERATO

Clinical Engineering & Safety II Co-chairs: Jorge Saide Calil, Paolo Lago
Saturday, May 29 11:30-13:00
A web-based application for the evaluation of the healthcare management Michele Bava, Daniel Zotti, Riccardo Zangrando and Mauro Delendi.	THALIA
From biomedical research to spin-off companies for the health care market Olof Lindahl, Kerstin Ramser, Ronnie Lundstrom and Britt Andersson.	THALIA
Health Technology Assessment via Analytic Hierarchy Process. A case study: choosing the maintenance contract for a CT. Leandro Pecchia, Luciano Mirarchi, Peter A. Bath and Bracale Marcello.	THALIA
Development of a system dynamics model for cost estimation for the implantation and revision of hip joint endoprosthesis Jorg Schrottner and Arnold Herzog.	THALIA
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in the treatment of novel influenza virus infection: a multicentric Hospital-Based Health Technology Assessment in Lombardy Region Paolo Lago, Valloned Ilaria and Gianluca Zarola.	THALIA
MRI-induced heating on patients with Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators and Pacemaker: Role of Lead Structure Eugenio Mattei, Giovanni Calcagnini, Michele Triventi, Federica Censi and Pietro Bartolini.	THALIA

Poster Session II
Saturday, May 29 13:30-14:15
Comparison of Methods of Measurement of Head Position in Neurological Practice P. Kutilek, J. Charfreitag, J. Hozman	MELITON HALL I
The nanoporous AlO material used for the enzyme entrapping in a glucose biosensor C. Ravariu, E. Manea, F. Babarada, A. Popescu and C. Podaru	MELITON HALL I
Hand-held resonance sensor instrument for soft tissue stiffness measurements – a first study on biological tissue in vitro V. Jalkanen, O.A. Lindahl	MELITON HALL I
Improved optical method for measuring concentration of uric acid removed during dialysis J. Jerotskaja, F. Uhlin, M.Luman, K. Lauri and I. Fridolin	MELITON HALL I
Head Position Monitoring System P. Cech, J. Dlouhy, M. Cizek, J. Rozman and I. Vicha	MELITON HALL I
Short range wireless link for data acquisition in medical equipment N.M.Roman, S.Gergely, R.V. Ciupa, M.V.Pusca	MELITON HALL I
Corneal quantitative fluorometry – a Slit-lamp based platform J. P. Domingues, Isa Branco and A. M. Morgado	MELITON HALL I
Automatic Detection of Patients’ Spontaneous Activity During Pressure Support Ventilation G. Matrone, F. Mojoli, A. Orlando, A. Braschi and G. Magenes	MELITON HALL I
Determination of In Vivo Three-Dimensional Lower Limb Kinematics for Simulation of High-Flexion Squats P.D. Wong, B. Callewaert, K. Desloovere, L. Labey, and B. Innocenti	MELITON HALL I
Evaluation of chronic diabetic wounds with the Near Infrared Wound Monitor Michael Neidrauer, Leonid Zubkov, Michael S. Weingarten, Kambiz Pourrezaei, and Elisabeth S. Papazoglou	MELITON HALL I
Non-Contact UWB Radar Technology to Assess Tremor G. Blumrosen, M. Uziel, B. Rubinsky and D. Porrat	MELITON HALL I
High frequency mechanical vibrations stimulate the bone matrix formation in hBMSCs (human Bone Marrow Stromal Cells) D.Pre, G.Ceccarelli, M.G.Cusella De Angelis, and G.Magenes	MELITON HALL I
Mobispiro: A novel spirometer Eleni J. Sakka, Pantelis Aggelidis and Markela Psimarnou	MELITON HALL I
Selected Problems Solving on hardware Platform of Biotelemetric System Dalibor Janckulik, Leona Motalova and Ondrej Krejcar	MELITON HALL I
A computer program for the functional assessment of the rotational vestibulo-ocular re?ex (VOR) A. Bohler, M. Mandala and S. Ramat	MELITON HALL I
New application for automatic hemifield damage identification in Humphrey Field Analyzer (HFA) Visual Fields. A.Salonikiou, V. Kilintzis, A. Antoniadis and F. Topouzis	MELITON HALL I
The Effect of Mechano– and Magnetochemically Synthesized Magnetosensitive Nanocomplex and Electromagnetic Irradiation on Animal Tumor V.E. Orel, A.V. Romanov, I.I. Dzyatkovska, M.O. Nikolov, Yu.G. Mel'nik, N.M. Dzyatkovska and I.B. Shchepotin	MELITON HALL I
Verification of Measuring System for Automation Intra – Abdominal Pressure Measurement T. Toth, M. Michalikova, L. Bednarcikova, M. Petrik, and J. Zivcak	MELITON HALL I
Evolution in Bladder Pressure Measuring Implants Developed at K.U.Leuven P. Jourand, J. Coosemans, and R. Puers	MELITON HALL I
Including the effect of the thermal wave in theoretical modeling for radiofrequency ablation J.A. Lopez Molina, M.J. Rivera, M. Trujillo, V. Romero-Garcia and E.J. Berjano	MELITON HALL I
Textile Integrated Monitoring System for Breathing Rhythm of Infants H. De Clercq, P. Jourand and R. Puers	MELITON HALL I
Comparison between VHDL-AMS and PSPICE modeling of ultrasound measurement system for biological medium N. Aouzale, A. Chitnalah , H. Jakjoud , D. Kourtiche , M. Nadi	MELITON HALL I
Stimulation Parameter Testing and Verification During Pacing Martin Augustynek, Marek Penhaker, Pavel Sazel, David Korpas	MELITON HALL I
Biosignal Monitoring and Processing for Management of Hypertension A. Stan, R. Lupu, M. Ciorap and R. Ciorap	MELITON HALL I
Embedded Programmable Invasive Blood Pressure Simulator J. Kijonka, M. Penhaker	MELITON HALL I
Numerical Models of an Artery with Different Stent Types M. Brand, M. Ryvkin, S. Einav ,I. Avrahami4, J. Rosen5, M. Teodorescu6	MELITON HALL I
A macro-quality control of dual energy X-ray absorptiometry using whole dissection, ashing and computer tomography in pigs A. Scafoglieri, S. Provyn, J. Tresignie, O. Louis, J.A. Wallace, J. De Mey and J.P. Clarys	MELITON HALL I
Use of Guidelines and Decision Support Systems within EHR Applications in Family Practice – Croatian Experience D. Kralj, S. Tonkovic and M. Koncar	MELITON HALL I
Life Cycle of Developmement of Distributed Biomedical System for Home Care Agencies Dalibor Janckulik, Leona Motalova and Ondrej Krejcar	MELITON HALL I
A New Concept of the Integrated Care Service for Unstable Diabetic Patients P. Ladyzynski, P. Foltynski, J.M. Wojcic, K. Migalska-Musial, M. Molik, J. Krzymien, G. Rosinski, G. Opolski, K. Czajkowski4, M. Tracz, W. Karnafel	MELITON HALL I
TELEMON – An Embedded Wireless Monitoring and Alert System for Homecare C. Rotariu, H. Costin, R. Ciobotariu, F. Adochiei, I. Amariutei and Gladiola Andruseac	MELITON HALL I
SHARE: A meeting point for the promotion of interoperability and best practices in eHealth sector M. Ortega-Portillo, M.M. Fernandez-Rodriguez, M.F. Cabrera-Umpierrez, M.T. Arredondo, G. Carrozza	MELITON HALL I
Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology in e-Health - a sample application R. Jagusz , J. Borkowski and K. Penkala	MELITON HALL I
Risk management process and CE marking of software as MD Fabrizio Dori, Ernesto Iadanza, Roberto Miniati, Samuele Mattei.	MELITON HALL I
Subclavian steal syndrome. A computer model approach C. Manopoulos, S. Tsangaris	MELITON HALL I
From Laparoscopic Surgery to -D Double Console Robot-Assisted Surgery P. Lago, C. Lombardi and B. Dell’Anna	MELITON HALL I
Clinical Engineering and Clinical Dosimetry in Patients with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer Undergoing Thyroid Remnant Ablation with Radioiodine M. Medvedec, D. Dodig	MELITON HALL I
Recognition and Identification of Red Blood Cell size using Angular Radial Transform and Neural Networks G. Apostolopoulos, S. Tsinopoulos and E. Dermatas	MELITON HALL I
Correlations between longitudinal corneal apex displacement, head movements and pulsatile blood flow M. Danielewska, H. Kasprzak and M. Kowalska	MELITON HALL I
The Analog Processing and Digital Recording of Electrophysiological Signals F. Babarada, J. Arhip and C. Ravariu	MELITON HALL I
Parameter Selection in Approximate and Sample Entropy-Complexity of Acute and Chronic Stress Response T. Loncar Turukalo, O. Sarenac, N.Japundzic-Zigon, and D. Bajic	MELITON HALL I
The importance of uterine contractions extraction in evaluation of the progress of labour by Calculating the Values of Sample Entropy from Uterine Electromyogram J.Vrhovec, D. Rudel, A. Macek Lebar	MELITON HALL I
Simultaneous Pneumo- and Photoplethysmographic Recording of Oscillometric Envelopes Applying a Local Pad-Type Cuff on the Radial Artery R. Raamat, K. Jagomagi, J. Talts and J. Kivastik	MELITON HALL I
Estimation of Mean Radial Blood Pressure in Critically Ill Patients K. Jagomagi, J. Talts, P. Tahepold, R. Raamat and J. Kivastik	MELITON HALL I
Photoplethysmographic Assessment of the Pressure-Compliance Relationship for the Radial Artery J. Talts, R. Raamat, K. Jagomagi and J. Kivastik	MELITON HALL I
High-Frequency Acoustic Properties of Cutaneous Cell Carcinomas In Vitro L.I. Petrella, W.C.A. Pereira, P.R. Issa, H.A. Valle, C.J. Martins and J.C. Machado	MELITON HALL I
Gender-related Effects of Carbohydrate Ingestion and Hypoxia on Heart Rate Variability: Linear and Non-linear Analysis T. Princi, M. Klemenc, P. Golja and A. Accardo	MELITON HALL I
On the analysis of dynamic lung mechanics separately in ins- and expiration K. Moller, Z. Zhao, C. A. Stahl, and J. Guttmann	MELITON HALL I
Carotid stimulation during fMRI imaging: methodological and practical issues G. Calcagnini, E. Mattei, M. Triventi, A. Delogu, A. Bassi, M. Bozzali, S. Strano4 and P. Bartolini	MELITON HALL I
Patient-specific seizure prediction using a multi-feature and multi-modal EEG-ECG classification M. Valderrama, S. Nikolopoulos, C. Adam-, V. Navarro- and M. Le Van Quyen	MELITON HALL I
Clinical Validation of an Algorithm for Automatic Detection of Atrial Fibrillation from Single Lead ECG M. Triventi, G. Calcagnini, F. Censi, E. Mattei, F. Mele and P. Bartolini	MELITON HALL I
Mental and Motor Task Classification by LDA N.GURSEL OZMEN, L. GUMUSEL	MELITON HALL I
The human subthalamic nucleus – knowledge for the understanding of Parkinson’s disease T. Heida and E. Marani	MELITON HALL I
Dissociated neurons from an extended rat subthalamic area - spontaneous activity and acetylcholine addition T. Heida and E. Marani	MELITON HALL I
Nigro-subthalamic and nigro-trigeminal projections in the rat E. Marani, N.E. Lazarov, T. Heida, K.G. Usunoff†	MELITON HALL I
Statistical Estimate on Indices Associated to Atherosclerosis Risk C. M. Ipate, A. Machedon and M. Morega	MELITON HALL I
P-wave characteristics after external electrical cardioversion: predictive indexes of atrial fibrillation relapse F. Censi, G. Calcagnini, M. Triventi, E. Mattei, P. Bartolini, I. Corazza, G. Boriani	MELITON HALL I
Study of Some EEG Signal Processing Methods for Detection of Epileptic Activity D.Matei and R.Matei	MELITON HALL I
Continuous Wavelet Transformation of Pattern Electroretinogram (PERG) - a tool improving the test accuracy K. Penkala	MELITON HALL I
An Interactive Tool for Customizing Clinical Transacranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Experiments A. Faro, D. Giordano, I. Kavasidis, C. Pino, C. Spampinato, M.G. Cantone, G. Lanza and M. Pennisi	MELITON HALL I
Salient Regions Detection in Microscopic Kidney Biopsies Utilizing Image Analysis Techniques Goudas T. , Doukas C. , Chatziioannou A. , Maglogiannis I.	MELITON HALL I
Study of Gait Angles and Posture in Physiotherapy by Cyclograms and AI P. Kutilek, J. Charfreitag and O. Cakrt	MELITON HALL I
Accurate Methods for Manually Marking Retinal VesselWidths Bashir Al-Diri, Andrew Hunter and David Steel	MELITON HALL I
Classification Of Image Prostate Cancer Using Combining Classifiers S.Bouatmane , A.Bouridane and C.Tanougast	MELITON HALL I
Discrimination of epileptic pre-ictal states using feature based clustering on EEG A. Tsimpiris, D. Kugiumtzis and P. G. Larsson	MELITON HALL I
Higher Order Brain Functions in Children studied by Near Infrared Matthias Faix, C. Hoppe, Arne Simon, D. Augst, F. Haverkamp	MELITON HALL I
Mining Frequent Spatial Docking Patterns in Zinc Finger - DNA Complexes Andrea Szaboova , Ondrej Kuzelka , Filip ? Zelezny and Jakub Tolar	MELITON HALL I
Comparison of methods for identification of oval contours on tomographic images with potential application in the image guided orthopedic surgery Z. Kamarianakis , I. Buliev and N. Pallikarakis	MELITON HALL I
Slow Cortical Potentials regulation in epilepsy: a short account on the use of Brain Computer Interfaces as neuromodulation treatment A. Athanasiou, A. Karlas, C. Lithari and P.D. Bamidis	MELITON HALL I
Modellig the Ca+ as Second Messenger in the Neuronal Cell Networks C.M.Dabu	MELITON HALL I
IMAGEGRID: A Web interface aiming to medical data management at Grid Infrastructure exploiting Web Technologies Y. Thermou, I. Kanaris, I. Maglogiannis	MELITON HALL I
Open Research Issues in Vision-Based Fall Detection Systems (FDS) X. Kolovou, C. Doukas5, D. Vergados, I. Anagnostopoulos4, I. Maglogiannis	MELITON HALL I
Peripheral hemodynamic measurements using impedance pletismography C. Corciova,R. Ciorap, D. Zaharia, D. Matei	MELITON HALL I
Classification of cancer cells based on Haralick’s Coefficients using Multi-spectral images A. Chaddad, , C.Tanougast, A. Dandache, A. Bouridane, J. Charara and A. Al Houseini	MELITON HALL I
The Effect of Haemodialysis by Using On Line Paired Haimodifiltration (PHF) in Patients in an Intensice Care Unit (ICU) Papadimitriou Menelaos, Patsialas Stavros, Papadimitriou Georgios, Sidiropoulou Maria	MELITON HALL I
Risk management process and CE marking of software as MD Fabrizio Dori, Ernesto Iadanza, Roberto Miniati, Samuele Mattei.	MELITON HALL I
Extending the autism communication system with educational scenaria Ecaterini Tzanavari, Evdokimos Konstantinidis, Panagiotis Bamidis, Magda Hitoglou-Antoniadou	MELITON HALL I
The Construction of Chimeric T-cell Receptor with Spacer Base of Modeling Study of VHH and MUC Interaction Nazanin Pirooznia, Sadegh Hasannia, Majid Taghdir and Fatemeh Rahbarizade	MELITON HALL I

Plenary Session V Chair: Panagiotis Bamidis
Saturday, May 29 14:15-15:00
Affective Computing: Taking Clinical Research out of the Lab Rana el Kaliouby MIT Media Lab, USA	TERPSIHORI

General Track V Co-chairs: Kalju Meigas, Tomaz Jarm
Saturday, May 29 15:00-16:30
A Continuous-Time Dynamical Model for the Vestibular Nucleus Adrian Korodi, Vlad Ceregan, Toma Leonida Dragomir and Alexandru Codrean.	TERPSIHORI
Fast optical signal in the prefrontal cortex correlates with EEG Andrei Medvedev, Jana Kainerstorfer, Sergey Borisov and John VanMeter.	TERPSIHORI
A frequency synchronization study on the temporal and spatial evolution of emotional visual processing using wavelet entropy and IAPS picture collection Christos Frantzidis, Costas Pappas and Panagiotis Bamidis.	TERPSIHORI
Frontal EEG Asymmetry and Affective States: A Multidimensional Directed Information Approach P. Petrantonakis and Leontios Hadjileontiadis.	TERPSIHORI
Affective Learning: Empathetic Embodied Conversational Agents to Modulate Brain Oscillation. Christos N. Moridis, Manousos A. Klados, Vasilis Terzis, Anastasios A. Economides, Vasilis E. Karabatakis, Anna Karlovasitou and Panagiotis D. Bamidis.	TERPSIHORI
De-noising of in vivo MR Spectra Using Wavelet and Lorentzian Lineshape Properties Jie Hao, Nige P. Davies, Martin Wilson, Andrew C. Peet and Theodoros N. Arvanitis.	TERPSIHORI

General Track-ESBME Co-chairs: Christos Papadelis, Cristoph Braun
Saturday, May 29 15:00-16:30
Knowledge management applied to surgery using virtual reality C. Suarez-Mejias, C. Parra, D. Derlinchan, A. Cabral, T. Gomez-Cia, P. Gacto-Sanchez, M. Perez-Lorente5 and J.M. De la Higuera6	THALIA
Robotics for psycho-affective service applied to children health A.B. Naranjo Saucedo, C. Suarez Mejias, N. Nuno, E. Gonzalez , S. Finez, C. Parra and J.M. De la Higuera	THALIA
Towards Patient Self-management based on Personal Health Records and Microblogging Services A.K. Triantafyllidis, V.G. Koutkias and N. Maglaveras	THALIA
Creation of three dimensional (3D) vector models of anatomical objects, applicable for electromagnetic studies Ya. Mitev	THALIA
Alpha rhythm onset detector based on localized EEG sensor T. Araujo, N. Nunes, S. Palma and H. Gamboa	THALIA
How to measure propagation velocity in cardiac tissue – a simulation study A.C. Linnenbank, R. Coronel, J.M.T. de Bakker	THALIA

Biomedical Signal Processing IV Co-chairs: Christos Papadelis, Cristoph Braun
Saturday, May 29 15:00-16:30
Wavelet phase synchronization between EHGs at different uterine sites: comparison of pregnancy and labor contractions Mahmoud Hassan, Asgeir Alexandersson, Jeremy Terrien, Brynjar Karlsson and Catherine Marque.	ERATO
MORFEAS: A Non-Invasive System for automated Sleep Apnea Detection utilizing Snore Sound Analysis Charalampos Doukas, Theodoros Petsatodis and Ilias Maglogiannis.	ERATO
Non-linear modeling of cerebral autoregulation using cascade models Natalia Angarita-Jaimes, David Simpson and Oliver Dewhirst.	ERATO
AM-FM Texture Image Analysis in Multiple Sclerosis Brain White Matter Lesions Christos Loizou, Victor Murray, Marios Pattichis, Marios Pantziaris, Ionannis Seimenis and Constantinos Pattichis.	ERATO
Comparison of AM-FM Features with Standard Features for the Classification of Surface Electromyographic Signals Christodoulos Christodoulou, Prodromos Kaplanis, Victor Murray, Marios Pattichis and Constantinos Pattichis.	ERATO
Fusion of Biomedical and Physical Data for Assessment of Human Performance in High Speed Marine Craft Dragana Nikolic, Richard Collier and Robert Allen.	ERATO

Medical Devices & Instrumentation IV Co-chairs: Alexandros Astaras, Mario Sansone
Saturday, May 29 15:00-16:30
Magnetic Marker Monitoring: A novel approach for magnetic marker design Sebastian Biller, Daniel Baumgarten and Jens Haueisen.	THALIA
Novel catheters for in vivo research and pharmaceutical trials providing direct access to extracellular space of target tissues Manfred Bodenlenz, Christian Hoefferer.	THALIA
A new stimulation technique for electrophysiological color vision testing Michal Zaleski and Krzysztof Penkala.	THALIA
A Laboratory Scale Facility for the Parametric Characterization of the Intraocular Pressure of the Human Eye Alexandra Michailidou, Panagiota Chatzi, Panagiotis Kalozoumis, Maria Pappa, Anestis Kalfas, Ioannis Tsiafis, Evdokimos Konstantinidis and Panagiotis Bamidis.	THALIA
A New Fibre Optic Pulse Oximeter Probe for Monitoring Splanchnic Organ Arterial Blood Oxygen Saturation Michelle Hickey, Neil Samuels, Nilesh Randive, Richard Langford and Panayiotis Kyriacou.	THALIA
A New Optical Method for Measuring Creatinine Concentration During Dialysis Ivo Fridolin, Jana Jerotskaja, Kai Lauri, Fredrik Uhlin and Merike Luman.	THALIA

Biomedical Signal Processing V Co-chairs: Leontios Hadjileontiadis, Ioanna Chouvarda
Saturday, May 29 17:00-18:30
Random Forest-Based Classification of Heart Rate Variability Signals by Using Combinations of Linear and Nonlinear Features Alan Jovic and Nikola Bogunovic.	ERATO
Signal Peptide Prediction in Single Transmembrane Proteins Ioanna Avramidou, Ilias Kitsas and Leontios Hadjileontiadis.	ERATO
Measure of Similarity of ECG Cycles Akos Jobbagy and Akos Nagy.	ERATO
Correlation between fractal behavior of HRV and neurohormonal and functional indexes in chronic heart failure Gianni D'Addio, Mario Cesarelli, Maria Romano, Agostino Accardo, Graziamaria Corbi, Roberto Maestri, Maria Teresa La Rovere, Paolo Bifulco, Nicola Ferrara and Franco Rengo.	ERATO
Validation of MRS metabolic markers in the classification of brain gliomas and their correlation to energy metabolis Michail Kounelakis, Michail Zervakis, Geert Postma, Lutgarde Buydens, Arend Heerschap and Xenofon Kotsiakis.	ERATO
Directed coupling measures for interhemisheric information flow from epileptic EEG A. Papana, D. Kugiumtzis, P.G. Larsson.	ERATO

Education Co-chairs: Vassiliki Manthou, Daniela Giordano
Saturday, May 29 17:00-18:30
Geotagged Repurposed Educational Content through mEducator Social Network Enhances Biomedical Engineering Education Stathis Th. Konstantinidis, Nikolas Dovrolis, Eleni Kaldoudi and Panagiotis Bamidis.	TEPRSIHORI
Tools based eLearning Platform to Support the Development and Repurposing of Educational Material Teodor Stefanut, Mircea Marginean and Dorian Gorgan.	TEPRSIHORI
Design and development of a pilot on line electronic OSCE station for use in medical education Eleni Dafli, Panagiotis Bamidis, Costas Pappas and Nikolaos Dombros.	TEPRSIHORI
MORMED: Towards a multilingual social networking platform facilitating Medicine 2.0 Eleni Kargioti, Dimitrios Kourtesis, Dimitris Bibikas, Iraklis Paraskakis and Ulrich Boes.	TEPRSIHORI
A Feasible Teaching Tool fo Physiological Measurment. Radovan Stojanovic, Dejan Karadaglic, Bogdan Asanin and Olga Chizhova.	TEPRSIHORI
Repurposing Serious Games in Health Care Education Aristidis Protopsaltis, David Panzoli, Ian Dunwell and Sara de Freitas.	TEPRSIHORI
EMITEL e-Encyclopaedia of Medical Physics – project development and future Slavik Tabakov, Peter Smith, Franco Milano, Sven-Erik Strand, Cornelius Lewis and Magdalena Stoeva.	TEPRSIHORI

General Tracking – ESBME Co-chairs: Zhivko Bliznakov, Charalambos Bratsas
Saturday, May 29 17:00-18:30
Knowledge management applied to surgery using virtual reality C. Suarez-Mejias, C. Parra, D. Derlinchan, A. Cabral, T. Gomez-Cia, P. Gacto-Sanchez, M. Perez-Lorente and J.M. De la Higuera.	THALIA
Robotics for psycho-affective service applied to children health A.B. Naranjo Saucedo, C. Suarez Mejias, N. Nuno, E. Gonzalez , S. Finez, C. Parra and J.M. De la Higuera.	THALIA
Towards Patient Self-management based on Personal Health Records and Microblogging Services A.K. Triantafyllidis, V.G. Koutkias and N. Maglaveras.	THALIA
Creation of three dimensional (3 D) vector models of anatomical objects, applicable for electromagnetic studies Ya. Mitev	THALIA
Alpha rhythm onset detector based on localized EEG sensor T. Araujo, N. Nunes, S. Palma and H. Gamboa.	THALIA
How to measure propagation velocity in cardiac tissue – a simulation study A.C. Linnenbank, R. Coronel, J.M.T. de Bakker.	THALIA

Meeting The Editor Co-chairs: Jos Spaan, Shankar M. Krishnan

Saturday, May 29 18:30-19:30

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

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

TERPSIHORI

Plenary Session VI Chair: Dimitris Koutsouris
Sunday, May 30 8:45-9:30
Towards a patient-specific vascular access for hemodialysis patients Pascal Verdonck Institute Biomedical Technology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium	TERPSIHORI

General Track VI Co-chairs: Mario Forjaz Secca, Acos Jobbagy
Sunday, May 30 9:30-11:00
High frequency vibration (HFV) induces muscle hypertrophy in newborn mice and enhances primary myoblasts fusion in satellite cells Gabriele Ceccarelli, Laura Benedetti, Deborah Pre, Daniela Galli, Luigi Vercesi, Giovanni Magenes and Gabriella Cusella De Angelis.	TERPSIHORI
Electrospinning Poly(o-methoxyaniline) Nanofibers for Tissue Engineering Applications Wen-tyng Li.	TERPSIHORI
Surface Characterization of Collagen Films by Atomic Force Microscopy Andreas Stylianou, Stylianos Kontomaris, Maria Kyriazi and Dido Yova.	TERPSIHORI
Rheological and electrical properties of RBC suspensions in dextran 70. Changes in RBC morphology Nadia Antonova, Ivan Ivanov, Iordanka Gluhcheva and Elisaveta Tzvetkova.	TERPSIHORI
The role of electrically stimulated endocytosis in gene electrotransfer Mojca Pavlin, Masa Kanduser, Gorazd Pucihar and Damijan Miklavcic.	TERPSIHORI
Differentiation of human bone marrow stromal cells onto gelatin cryogel scaffolds Lorenzo Fassina, Enrica Saino, Livia Visai, Maria Antonia Avanzini, Maria Gabriella Cusella De Angelis, Francesco Benazzo, Sandra Van Vlierberghe, Peter Dubruel and Giovanni Magenes.	TERPSIHORI

BME Education Co-chairs: Nikolas Pallikarakis, Slavik Tabakov
Sunday, May 30 9:30-11:00
Accreditation of Medical Physics and Medical Engineering Programmes in the UK Slavik Tabakov, David Parker, Fernando Schlindwein and Andrew Nisbet.	ERATO
Quality Assurance in Biomedical Engineering COOP-Educational Training Program: Planning, Implementation and Analysis Ahmad Alhamwi, Manal Farrag and Tarek Elsarnagawy.	ERATO
A European Biomedical Engineering Postgraduate Program - From Evaluation to Continuous Improvement Vicky Griva and Nicolas Pallikarakis.	ERATO
BME Education Program Following the Expectations from the Industry, Health Care and Science Piotr Augustyniak, Ryszard Tadeusiewicz and Marta Wasilewska-Radwanska.	ERATO
Review of the Biomedical Engineering education programs in Europe within the framework of TEMPUS IV, CRH-BME project Bliznakov Zhivko and Nicolas Pallikarakis.	ERATO

BME Journals/Conferences
Sunday, May 30 9:30-11:00
Panelists: Robert Allan Ricardo Armentano Panagiotis Bamidis Costas Pattichis	THALIA

Women In Engineering
Sunday, May 30 9:30-11:00
Facilitator Prof. Monique Frize Panelists Prof. Maria Siebes and Prof. Eleni Kaldoudi	THALIA