Over the past three decades, the exploding number of new technologies and applications introduced in medical practice, often powered by advances in biosignal processing and biomedical imaging, created an amazing account of new possibilities for diagnosis and therapy, but also raised major questions of appropriateness and safety. The accelerated development in this field, alongside with the promotion of electronic health care solutions, is often on the basis of an uncontrolled diffusion and use of medical technology. The emergence and use of medical devices is multiplied rapidly and today there exist more than one million different products available on the world market. Despite the fact that the rising cost of health care, partly resulting from the new emerging technological applications, forms the most serious and urgent problem for many governments today, another important concern is that of patient safety and user protection, issues that should never be compromised and expelled from the Biomedical Engineering research practice agenda.

Presents the Proceedings of the XII Medicon Conference Chalkidiki, Greece

All research papers are double peer reviewed

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The MEDICON conferences are international events of high scientific standards with long lasting tradition held every third year in one of the Mediterranean countries under the auspices of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering. This "MEDICON 2010 conference proceedings present recent advances in practically every main topic of Biomedical Engineering. The volume provides communication and an exchange of ideas on Biomechanics, Bioinstrumentation, Medical Imaging, Medical Radiation Physics, Technology Assessment, Clinical Engineering, Rehabilitation Engineering, Medical Informatics, Biomaterials and Educational, Ethical and Professional Aspects.

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Biosignal Processing.- Quantitative Analysis of Two-Dimensional Catch-Up Saccades Executed to the Target Jumps in the Time-Continuous Trajectory.- Spike Sorting based on Dominant-Sets clustering.- Differentiation of human bone marrow stromal cells onto gelatin cryogel scaffolds.- Simples Coherence vs. Multiple Coherence: A Somatosensory Evoked Response Detection Investigation.- Measure of Similarity of ECG Cycles.- Wavelet phase synchronization between EHGs at different uterine sites: comparison of pregnancy and labor contractions.- Dynamic Generation of Physiological Model Systems.- Random Forest-Based Classification of Heart Rate Variability Signals by Using Combinations of Linear and Nonlinear Features.- Validation of MRS metabolic markers in the classification of brain gliomas and their correlation to energy metabolism.- Event-Related Synchronization/Desynchronization for Evaluating Cortical Response Detection Induced by Dynamic Visual Stimuli.- Investigating the EEG Alpha Band during Kinesthetic and Visual Motor Imagery of the Spike Volleyball Movement.- Principal Components Clustering through a Variance-Defined Metric.- A Kurtosis-Based Automatic System Using Naïve Bayesian Classifier to Identify ICA Components Contaminated by EOG or ECG Artifacts.- Correlation between Fractal Behavior of HRV and Neurohormonal and Functional Indexes in Chronic Heart Failure.- On the Selection of Time Interval and Frequency Range of EEG Signal Preprocessing for P300 Brain-Computer Interfacing.- Development of a Simple and Cheap Device for Movement Analysis.- Signal Peptide Prediction in Single Transmembrane Proteins Using the Continuous Wavelet Transform.- Comparison of AM-FM Features with Standard Features for the Classification of Surface Electromyographic Signals.- Studying Brain Visuo-Tactile Integration through Cross-Spectral Analysis of Human MEG Recordings.- Patient-specific seizure prediction using a multi-feature and multi-modal EEG-ECG classification.- Horizontal Directionality Characteristics of the Bat Head-Related Transfer Function.- Assessment of Human Performance during High-Speed Marine Craft Transit.- Effects of Electrochemotherapy on Microcirculatory Vasomotion in Tumors.- Non-linear modeling of cerebral autoregulation using cascade models.- The Epsilon-Skew-Normal dictionary for the decomposition of single- and multichannel biomedical recordings using Matching Pursuit algorithms.- On the Empirical Mode Decomposition Performance in White Gaussian Noise Biomedical Signals.- Simulation of Biomechanical Experiments in OpenSim.- Comparing Sensorimotor Cortex Activation during Actual and Imaginary Movement.- Graph Analysis on Functional Connectivity Networks during an Emotional Paradigm.- MORFEAS: A Non-Invasive System for automated Sleep Apnea Detection utilizing Snore Sound Analysis.- Improved Optical Method for Measuring Concentration of Uric Acid Removed during Dialysis.- Correlations between Longitudinal Corneal Apex Displacement, Head Movements and Pulsatile Blood Flow.- THE ANALOG PROCESSING AND DIGITAL RECORDING OF ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS.- Parameter Selection in Approximate and Sample Entropy-Complexity of Acute and Chronic Stress Response.- The Importance of Uterine Contractions Extraction in Evaluation of the Progress of Labour by Calculating the Values of Sample Entropy from Uterine Electromyogram.- Simultaneous Pneumo- and Photoplethysmographic Recording of Oscillometric Envelopes Applying a Local Pad-Type Cuff on the Radial Artery.- Estimation of Mean Radial Blood Pressure in Critically Ill Patients.- Photoplethysmographic Assessment of the Pressure-Compliance Relationship for the Radial Artery.- High Frequency Acoustic Properties for Cutaneous Cell Carcinomas In Vitro.- Gender-related Effects of Carbohydrate Ingestion and Hypoxia on Heart Rate Variability: Linear and Non-linear Analysis.- On the analysis of dynamic lung mechanics separately in ins- and expiration.- Clinical Validation of an Algorithm for Automatic Detection of Atrial Fibrillation from Single Lead ECG.- Mental and Motor Task Classification by LDA.- The human subthalamic nucleus knowledge for the understanding of Parkinson's disease.- Dissociated neurons from an extended rat subthalamic area - spontaneous activity and acetylcholine addition.- Nigro-subthalamic and nigro-trigeminal projections in the rat.- Statistical Estimate on Indices Associated to Atherosclerosis Risk.- Study of Some EEG Signal Processing Methods for Detection of Epileptic Activity.- Continuous Wavelet Transformation of Pattern Electroretinogram (PERG) - a tool improving the test accuracy.- An Interactive Tool for Customizing Clinical Transacranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Experiments.- Medical Imaging.- Measurement Methodology for Tempomandibular Joint Displacement Based on Focus Mutual Information Alignment of CBCT Images.- Computer Aided Diagnosis of Diffuse Lung Disease in Multi-detector CT Selecting 3D Texture Features.- Statistical Pre-processing Method for Peripheral Quantitative Computed Tomography Images.- Security and Reliability of Data Transmissions in Biotelemetric System.- A Novel Approach for Implementation of Dual Energy Mapping Technique in CT-Based Attenuation Correction Using Single kVP Imaging: A Feasibility Study.- Computational Visualization of Tumor Virotherapy.- New Approaches for Continuous Non Invasive Blood Pressure Monitoring.- Wireless Power and Data Transmission for Robotic Endoscopic Capsules.- Ulcer Detection in Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Images Using Bidimensional Nonlinear Analysis.- Pre-clinical physiological data acquisition and testing of the IMAGE sensing device for exercise guidance and real-time monitoring of cardiovascular disease patients.- Thermal Images of Electrically Stimulated Breast: a simulation study.- Magnetic Resonance Current Density Imaging Using One Component of Magnetic Flux Density: An Experimental Study.- Computer-Aided Detection of COPD Using Digital Chest Radiographs.- Localisation, Registration and Visualisation of MRS Volumes of Interest on MR Images.- Magnetic Mar…