The 4th European Congress of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Federation was held in Antwerp, November 2008.

The scientific discussion on the conference and in this conference proceedings include the following issues:

• Signal & Image Processing
• ICT
• Clinical Engineering and Applications
• Biomechanics and Fluid Biomechanics
• Biomaterials and Tissue Repair
• Innovations and Nanotechnology
• Modeling and Simulation

• Education and Professional

  Inhalt
  Modern Concepts of Cardiovascular Analysis Monitoring, Diagnosis, Risk Stratification, Prediction 1.- On the Use of Independent Component Analysis in Biomedical Signal Processing.- Measurement, Signal Processing and Models for Human Movement and Posture Analysis: Measurements, Methods and Instrumentation.- FUSION Future Environment for Gentle Liver Surgery Using Image-Guided Planning and Intra-Operative Navigation.- The Living Human Project: Building the Musculoskeletal Physiome.- Biomedical Signal Processing.- Biomedical Imaging and Image Processing.- Healthcare Information Systems.- Bioinstrumentation and Medical Devices.- Electrophysiological Systems.- Clinical Engineering.- Musculo-skeletal, Joint & Bone Biomechanics.- Cardiac Mechanics.- Vascular and Biofluid Mechanics.- Selected Topics in Biomechanics.- Gait and Motion Analysis.- Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering, Artificial Organs and Implants.- Innovations and Nanotechnology.- Magnetic Nanoparticles.- Microsystems.- Neural Engineering.- Modeling and Simulation.- Education and Profession.- Errata.