CBMS 2007: Maribor, Slovenia

Invited Speaker

• Juan J. Rodriguez:
  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, S. S. Costa, C. 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, Jing Liao, 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
  
• Vili Podgorelec, Luka Pavlic:
  Managing Diagnostic Process Data Using Semantic Web. 127-134
  

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
  
• Jian Wen, Zhoujun Li, Xiaohua Hu:
  Ontology Based Clustering for Improving Genomic IR. 225-230
  
• 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
  
• Hakan Bulu, Adil Alpkocak:
  Comparison of 3D Segmentation Algorithms for Medical Imaging. 269-274
  
• 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
  
• D. 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, R. Lombardo, M. Scarpellini, M. Serrano, 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, 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
  
• A. J. M. de Man, P. M. Bloemendaal, S. Eggermont:
  Online Medical CBT Usage. 663-668
  
• 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