CBMS 2007: Maribor, Slovenia
20th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2007), 20-22 June 2007, Maribor, Slovenia. IEEE Computer Society 2007 ISBN 0-7695-2905-4
Invited Speaker
Juan J. Rodríguez Diez: Rotation Forest and Random Oracles: Two Classifier Ensemble Methods. 3
GS1: Software Systems in Medicine
Thoralf Töpel, Jens Neumann, Ralf Hofestädt: A Medical Case-Based Reasoning Component for the Rare Metabolic Diseases Database Ramedis. 7-11
Nikolay Nikolov, Peter Stoehr, Weimin Zhu, Mark Rijnbeek, Sharmila Pillai: CiteXtract: Extracting Citation Data from Biomedical Literature. 12-14
Michael A. Shifrin, Olga B. Belousova, Eva I. Kasparova: Diagnostic Games, a Tool for Clinical Experience Formalization in Interactive "Physician--IT-specialist" Framework. 15-20
Eren Demir, Thierry J. Chaussalet, Haifeng Xie: Determining Readmission Time Window Using Mixture of Generalised Erlang Distribution. 21-26
Brian S. Tani, Rafael Simon Maia, Aldo von Wangenheim: A Gesture Interface for Radiological Workstations. 27-32
Dejan Dinevski, Paolo Inchingolo, Ivan Krajnc, Peter Kokol: Open Source Software in Health Care and Open Three Example. 33-40
GS2: Computer Aided Diagnosis
Tatjana Zrimec, Sata Busayarat: A System for Computer Aided Detection of Diseases Patterns in High Resolution CT Images of the Lungs. 41-46
Marcela Xavier Ribeiro, Agma J. M. Traina, André G. R. Balan, Caetano Traina Jr., Paulo M. Azevedo-Marques: SuGAR: A Framework to Support Mammogram Diagnosis. 47-52
V. Heck Jr., Aldo von Wangenheim, Daniel D. Abdala, Eros Comunello, Sady Selamen Costa, Cristina C. Dornelles: Computational Techniques for Accompaniment and Measuring of Otology Pathologies. 53-58
M. Palfy, B. Jesensek Papez: Diagnosis of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome from Thermal Images Using Artificial Neural Networks. 59-64
Vladimir Kurbalija, Mirjana Ivanovic, Zoran Budimac, M. Semnic: Multiple Sclerosis Diagnoses--Case-Base Reasoning Approach. 65-72
GS3: Knowledge Based Systems
Kuanquan Wang, Liao Jing, Xiangqian Wu, Henggui Zhang: Recognize a Special Structure in Palmprint for Palm Medicine. 73-78
Marcus Vitek, Michaela Pinter, Andrea Rappelsberger, Yoichi Hayashi, Klaus-Peter Adlassnig: Web-Based Decision Support in Selecting Patients with Parkinson's Disease for Deep Brain Stimulation. 79-84
Massoud Vahabzadeh, Jia-Ling Lin, David H. Epstein, Mustapha Mezghanni, John Schmittner, Kenzie Preston: Computerized Contingency Management for Motivating Behavior Change: Automated Tracking and Dynamic Reward Reinforcement Management. 85-90
Adele H. Marshall, Louise Burns: A Bayesian Network Hybrid Model for Representing Accident and Emergency Waiting Times. 91-96
Vili Podgorelec, Luka Pavlic: Supporting Collaboration of Medical Informatics Researchers and Teams. 97-102
Vito Perrone, Anthony Finkelstein: Analyzing Requirements for a Large Scale System for Cancer Research. 103-108
Mateja Verlic, Miljenko Krizmaric, Stefek Grmec, Peter Kokol: Intelligent Data Analysis of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. 109-114
Milan Zorman, Peter Kokol, Mitja Lenic, José Luis Sánchez de la Rosa, José F. Sigut, Silvia Alayón: Symbol-Based Machine Learning Approach for Supervised Segmentation of Follicular Lymphoma Images. 115-120
Vitaly Schetinin, Wojtek J. Krzanowski, Carsten Maple: The Bayesian Decision Tree Technique Using an Adaptive Sampling Scheme. 121-126
GS4: Signal and Image Processing in Medicine
Alexandros T. Tzallas, Markos G. Tsipouras, Dimitrios I. Fotiadis: A Time-Frequency Based Method for the Detection of Epileptic Seizures in EEG Recordings. 135-140
Francisco Martínez-Álvarez, Alicia Troncoso Lora, José Cristóbal Riquelme Santos, Jesús S. Aguilar-Ruiz: Detection of Microcalcifications in Mammographies Based on Linear Pixel Prediction and Support-Vector Machines. 141-146
Antonio da Luz, Daniel D. Abdala, Aldo von Wangenheim, Eros Comunello: Improving Performance and Quality in Content-Based Medical Image Retrieval. 147-152
Rahul Singh, Pierre-Yves Corlobe: Multifaceted Hyperimage-Based Organization and Interaction with Bio-Medical Images. 153-158
Michael Häfner, Leonhard Brunauer, Hannes Payer, Robert Resch, Friedrich Wrba, Alfred Gangl, Andreas Vécsei, Andreas Uhl: Pit Pattern Classification of Zoom-Endoscopical Colon Images Using DCT and FFT. 159-164
Ketan C. Maheshwari, Sílvia Delgado Olabarriaga, Charl P. Botha, Jeroen G. Snel, Johan Alkemade, Adam Belloum: Problem Solving Environment for Medical Image Analysis. 165-170
André G. R. Balan, Agma J. M. Traina, Marcela Xavier Ribeiro, Paulo M. Azevedo-Marques, Caetano Traina Jr.: HEAD: The Human Encephalon Automatic Delimiter. 171-176
Jan Egger, Zvonimir Mostarkic, Stefan Großkopf, Bernd Freisleben: A Fast Vessel Centerline Extraction Algorithm for Catheter Simulation. 177-182
Maria Papadogiorgaki, Vasileios Mezaris, Yiannis S. Chatzizisis, George D. Giannoglou, Ioannis Kompatsiaris: Automated IVUS Contour Detection Using Intesity Features and Radial Basis Function Approximation. 183-188
Michalis A. Savelonas, Dimitrios K. Iakovidis, Nikolaos Dimitropoulos, Dimitrios E. Maroulis: Computational Characterization of Thyroid Tissue in the Radon Domain. 189-192
Daniele Apiletti, Elena Baralis, Giulia Bruno, Tania Cerquitelli: SAPhyRA: Stream Analysis for Physiological Risk Assessment. 193-198
Sata Busayarat, Tatjana Zrimec: Detection of Bronchopulmonary Segments on High-Resolution CT--Preliminary Results. 199-204
Mitja Lenic, Damjan Zazula, Boris Cigale: Segmentation of Ovarian Ultrasound Images Using Single Template Cellular Neural Networks Trained with Support Vector Machines. 205-212
GS5: Bioinformatics
Nawaz Khan, Ham Long, Shahedur Rahman, Tony Stockman: From Local Laboratory Data to Public Domain Database in Search of Indirect Association of Diseases: AJAX Based Gene Data Search Engine. 213-218
Paolo Soda: Early Experiences in the Staining Pattern Classification of HEp-2 Slides. 219-224
José Antônio Fernandes de Macêdo, Fabio Porto, Sérgio Lifschitz, Philippe Picouet: A Conceptual Data Model Language for the Molecular Biology Domain. 231-236
Robert Bierman, Rahul Singh: Influence of Dictionary Size on the Lossless Compression of Microarray Images. 237-242
Gregor Stiglic, Peter Kokol: Effectiveness of Rotation Forest in Meta-learning Based Gene Expression Classification. 243-250
GS6: Medical Image Segmentation
Petros S. Karvelis, Dimitrios I. Fotiadis, Alexandros T. Tzallas, Ioannis Georgiou: Region Based Segmentation and Classification of Multispectral Chromosome Images. 251-256
Julien Mille, Romuald Boné, Pascal Makris, Hubert Cardot: Segmentation and Tracking of the Left Ventricle in 3D MRI Sequences Using an Active Surface Model. 257-262
Sadao Isotani, Nilson Brasil Fo, Olimpio M. Capeli, Yuriko Ito Sakai, Antonio R. P. L. de Albuquerque: A System for the Determination of Image Density and Morphometry Developed for the Analysis of Malignant Nuclei. 263-268
Alessandro Palladini, Nicola Testoni, Luca De Marchi, Nicolo Speciale: A Reduced Complexity Estimation Algorithm for Ultrasound Images De-Blurring. 275-280
Ping-Lin Chang, Wei-Guang Teng: Exploiting the Self-Organizing Map for Medical Image Segmentation. 281-288
GS7: Medical Databases and Information Systems
Sabah S. Al-Fedaghi, Ali M. NourEddine: MYHEALTH: Personal Management of Health Information. 289-294
Hong Sun, Vincenzo De Florio, Ning Gui, Chris Blondia: Participant: A New Concept for Optimally Assisting the Elder People. 295-300
Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, Constantinos Koutsojannis, Nikolaos Papachristou: Evaluation of Usability and Assessment Capabilities of an e-Learning System for Nursing Radiation Protection. 301-306
Rattiporn Luanrattana, Khin Than Win, John Fulcher: Use of Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) in Medical Education. 307-312
Dan Qiu, G. Junghans, J. Misterek, G. Bein, Kai Marquardt: Understanding User's Role in Computer-Based Information Systems--Lessons Learned from Dealing with Mislabelling in Blood Production Process. 313-318
Reto Krummenacher, Elena Paslaru Bontas Simperl, Lyndon J. B. Nixon, Dario Cerizza, Emanuele Della Valle: Enabling the European Patient Summary through Triplespaces. 319-324
Stathis Th. Konstantinidis, Panagiotis D. Bamidis, Slobodan Marolov, Costas Pappas: The TraPa System: A Web-Based System to Improve Cross-Border Patient Transfers. 325-330
Massoud Vahabzadeh, Jia-Ling Lin, Mustapha Mezghanni, Carlo Contoreggi, Michelle Leff: An EHR-Based Multi-Site Recruiting System for Clinical Trials. 331-336
Huzaifa Al Nahas, Jitender S. Deogun: Radio Frequency Identification Applications in Smart Hospitals. 337-342
Ivan Pavlovic, Ivan Lazarevic: Two Models Used as a Basis for Development of Electronic Data Collection Software to Support Clinical Trials. 343-348
Tatjana Welzer, Peter Kokol, Ana Habjanic, Bostjan Brumen, Marjan Druzovec, Aida Kamisalic: Teaching IT in Health Care and Nursing Program--Experiences. 349-356
ST1: Affective Computing
Olivier Villon, Christine L. Lisetti: Toward Recognizing Individual's Subjective Emotion from Physiological Signals in Practical Application. 357-362
Andrej Luneski, Panagiotis D. Bamidis: Towards an Emotion Specification Method: Representing Emotional Physiological Signals. 363-370
ST2: Bioinformatics and its Medical Applications
Yihui Liu: Feature Extraction for DNA Microarray Data. 371-376
Rangaraj M. Rangayyan, Yunfeng Wu: Analysis of Knee-Joint Vibroarthrographic Signals Using Statistical Measures. 377-382
Thai Quang Tung, Taewoo Ryu, Kwang H. Lee, Doheon Lee: Inferring Gene Regulatory Networks from Microarray Time Series Data Using Transfer Entropy. 383-388
Eleni Zacharia, Dimitrios E. Maroulis: An Unsupervised and Fully-Automated Image Analysis Method for cDNA Microarrays. 389-396
ST3: Computational Proteomics: Management and Analysis of Proteomics Data
Timothy Lee, Rahul Singh, Ten-Yang Yen, Bruce Macher: MS2DB: A Mass-Based Hashing Algorithm for the Identification of Disulfide Linkage Patterns in Protein Utilizing Mass Spectrometric Data. 397-402
Marc Gerhard, Soren-Oliver Deininger, Frank-Michael Schleif: Statistical Classification and Visualization of MALDI-Imaging Data. 403-405
Dominique Zosso, Konstantin Arnold, Torsten Schwede, Michael Podvinec: SWISS-TANDEM: A Web-Based Workspace for MS/MS Protein Identification on PC Grids. 406-411
Francesco Gullo, Giovanni Ponti, Andrea Tagarelli, Giuseppe Tradigo, Pierangelo Veltri: A Time Series Based Approach for Classifying Mass Spectrometry Data. 412-420
ST4: Data Mining
Iulian Sandu Popa, Karine Zeitouni, Georges Gardarin, Didier Nakache, Elisabeth Métais: Text Categorization for Multi-label Documents and Many Categories. 421-426
Mattia C. F. Prosperi, Giovanni Ulivi, Maurizio Zazzi: Statistical Comparison of Machine Learning Techniques for Treatment Optimisation of Drug-Resistant HIV-1. 427-432
Maria Athanasiou, Jonathan Y. Clark: A Bayesian Network Model for the Diagnosis of the Caring Procedure for Wheelchair Users with Spinal Injury. 433-438
Eugenia G. Giannopoulou, Vasileios P. Kemerlis, Michalis Polemis, Joseph Papaparaskevas, Alkiviadis C. Vatopoulos, Michalis Vazirgiannis: A Large Scale Data Mining Approach to Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance. 439-444
Petra Povalej, Matej Kravos, Peter Kokol: Intelligent Data Analysis for Diagnostics of Alcohol Dependency. 445-450
Matej Mertik, Milan Zorman, Bojan Zalar: Improving Clinical Path Management Strategies by Constructive Induction. 451-458
ST5: Grids for Biomedicine and Bioinformatics
Lee Momtahan, Sharon Lloyd, Andrew Simpson: Switched Lightpaths for e-Health Applications: Issues and Challenges. 459-464
Iuri Fanti, Mattia C. F. Prosperi, Giovanni Ulivi, Alessandro Micarelli: HIV-1 Coreceptor Usage Prediction via Indexed Local Kernel Smoothing Methods and Grid-Based Multiple Statistical Validation. 465-470
K. Harald Gjermundrød, Marios Papa, Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Marios D. Dikaiakos, George Panayi, Theodoros Kyprianou: Intensive Care Window: A Multi-Modal Monitoring Tool for Intensive Care Research and Practice. 471-476
Ilias Maglogiannis, Aristotelis Chatziioannou, John Soldatos, Vasileios Mylonakis, Yiannis Kanaris: An Application Platform Enabling High Performance Grid Processing of Microarray Experiments. 477-482
Susumu Date, Takahito Tashiro, Kazunori Nozaki, Haruki Nakamura, Saburo Sakoda, Shinji Shimojo: A Grid-Ready Clinical Database for Parkinson's Disease Research and Diagnosis. 483-488
Domenico Laforenza, Rosario Lombardo, M. Scarpellini, Massimo Serranó, Fabrizio Silvestri, P. Faccioli: Biological Experiments on the Grid: A Novel Workflow Management Platform. 489-494
Sandro Fiore, Maria Mirto, Massimo Cafaro, Giovanni Aloisio: GReIC Data Storage: A Lightweight Disk Storage Management Solution for Bioinformatics "in silico" Experiments. 495-502
ST6: Healthcare Knowlege Management
Vojtech Huser, Roberto A. Rocha: Retrospective Analysis of the Electronic Health Record of Patients Enrolled in a Computerized Glucose Management Protocol. 503-508
Rim Djedidi, Marie-Aude Aufaure: Medical Domain Ontology Construction Approach: A Basis for Medical Decision Support. 509-511
Alime Öztürk, Katharina Kaiser, Patrick Martini, Silvia Miksch: Embedding the Evidence Information in Guideline Representation Languages. 512-517
Massimo Ruffolo, Marco Manna, Vittoria Cozza, Raffaello Ursino: Semantic Clinical Process Management. 518-523
Sascha Müller, Stefan Jablonski: Process-Oriented Knowledge Support in a Clinical Research Setting. 524-529
Fahim T. Imam, Wendy MacCaull, Margaret Ann Kennedy: Merging Healthcare Ontologies: Inconsistency Tolerance and Implementation Issues. 530-535
Katrina F. Hurley, Syed Sibte Raza Abidi: Ontology Engineering to Model Clinical Pathways: Towards the Computerization and Execution of Clinical Pathways. 536-541
Samina Raza Abidi: Ontology-Based Modeling of Breast Cancer Follow-up Clinical Practice Guideline for Providing Clinical Decision Support. 542-547
Guocai Chen, Jim Warren, Robert McArthur, Peter Bruza, Debbie Kralik, Kay Price: Understanding Individual Experiences of Chronic Illness with Semantic Space Models of Electronic Discussions. 548-553
Syed Sibte Raza Abidi, Sajjad Hussain: Medical Knowledge Morphing via a Semantic Web Framework. 554-562
ST7: Machine Learning and Management of Health-Care Procedural Knowledge
David Riaño: The SDA Model: A Set Theory Approach. 563-568
Joan Albert López-Vallverdú, David Riaño, Antoni Collado: Increasing Acceptability of Decision Trees with Domain Attributes Partial Orders. 569-574
Francis Real, David Riaño, John A. Bohada: Automatic Generation of Formal Intervention Plans Based on the SDA Representation Model. 575-580
Aida Kamisalic, David Riaño, Francis Real, Tatjana Welzer: Temporal Constraints Approximation from Data about Medical Procedures. 581-588
ST8: Ontologies for Biomedical Systems
Ramez Elmasri, Jack Fu, Feng Ji: Multi-level Conceptual Modeling for Biomedical Data and Ontologies Integration. 589-594
Alexey Tsymbal, Sonja Zillner, Martin Huber: Feature Ontology for Improved Learning from Large-Dimensional Disease-Specific Heterogeneous Data. 595-600
Rajagopal Rajugan, Elizabeth Chang, Tharam S. Dillon: Visual Modeling of Ontology Views for e-Sciences Using XSemantic Nets. 601-606
Amandeep S. Sidhu, Tharam S. Dillon, Elizabeth Chang: Protein Ontology Project in 2007: Looking Backward and Forward. 607-611
Kenneth McGarry, Sheila Garfield, Stefan Wermter: Auto-Extraction, Representation and Integration of a Diabetes Ontology Using Bayesian Networks. 612-617
Madalina Croitoru, Bo Hu, Srinandan Dasmahapatra, Paul H. Lewis, David Dupplaw, Alex Gibb, Margarida Julià-Sapé, Javier Vicente, Carlos Sáez, Juan Miguel García-Gómez, Roman Roset, Francesc Estanyol, Xavier Rafael Palou, Mariola Mier: Conceptual Graphs Based Information Retrieval in HealthAgents. 618-623
Arash Shaban-Nejad, Volker Haarslev: Managing Conceptual Revisions in a Temporal Fungal Taxonomy. 624-632
ST9: Technology Enhanced Learning in Medical Education
Paul A. Fearn, Kevin Regan, Frank Sculli, Jason Fajardo, Brandon Smith, Paul Alli: Lessons Learned from Caisis: An Open Source, Web-Based System for Integrating Clinical Practice and Research. 633-638
Josef Smolle, Gilbert Reibnegger: Knowledge Acquisition through Computer-Based Training: Histology of the Skin in Basic Medical Education. 639-644
Eric Jui-Lin Lu, Gwoboa Horng, Chia-Ssu Yu, Ling-ying Chou: A Web-Based Authoring System Supporting Metadata. 645-650
Pascal Staccini, Christophe Bordonado, Jerome Alet, Michel Joubert, Jean-Charles Dufour, Marius Fieschi: A Customized Open Source Content Management System to Support Collaborative Distance Learning: The J@LON Platform. 651-656
Richard Cox, Jianxiong Pang: Vicarious Learning and (Virtual) Case-Based Teaching in Health Science Education. 657-662
Charalampos Bratsas, Evangelos Kaimakamis, Vassilis Koutkias, Panagiotis D. Bamidis, Nicos Maglaveras: An Ontology-Based Approach to Constructing Medical Computational Problems for Use in Electronic Medical Education. 669-674
Spyros Kitsiou, Maro Vlachopoulou, Vicky Manthou: IMPROHEALTH II: Web Based Virtual Quality Center for Vocational Education and Training in Health Informatics. 675-680
Dorian Gorgan, Teodor Stefanut, Bogdan Gavrea: Pen Based Graphical Annotation in Medical Education. 681-686
P. Malataras, N. Pallikarakis: Evaluation of an E-learning Course in Biomedical Technology Management. 687-692
Panagiotis D. Bamidis, Maria M. Nikolaidou, Stathis Th. Konstantinidis, Costas Pappas: A Proposed Framework for Accreditation of Online Continuing Medical Education. 693-700
ST10: Intelligent Patient Management
Violeta Tasseva, Desislava Peneva, Krassimir T. Atanassov, Elia El-Darzi, Panagiotis Chountas, Christos Vasilakis: Generalized Net Model for Outpatient Care in Bulgaria. 701-706
Shuichi Toyoda, Noboru Niki, Hiromu Nishitani: A Test-Data Management Function for Chronic Condition Patients. 707-712
Sally I. McClean, Lalit Garg, Brian Meenan, Peter H. Millard: Using Markov Models to Find Interesting Patient Pathways. 713-718
Haifeng Xie, Thierry J. Chaussalet, Mike Rees: A Semi-open Queueing Network Approach to the Analysis of Patient Flow in Healthcare Systems. 719-724
Shola Adeyemi, Thierry J. Chaussalet, Haifeng Xie, Peter H. Millard: Patients Flow: A Mixed-Effects Modelling Approach to Predicting Discharge Probabilities. 725-730



