Medical Biometrics: First International Conference, ICMB 2008, Hong Kong, China, January 4-5, 2008. Proceedings

Lalit Gupta, Sarif Kumar Naik, Srinivasan Balakrishnan (auth.), David Zhang (eds.)3540774106, 9783540774105

The past decade has seen a rapid growth in the demand for the usage of behavioral and physiological characteristics of humans for e-security and forensics applications. The significant advances in the biometrics techniques are increasingly incorporated in a number of other applications. In this context, medicine has emerged as the largest and most promising area. Medical biometrics primarily refers to the usage of beh- ioral and physiological characteristics of humans for medical diagnosis and body care. Thus the goal of medical biometrics is to explore solutions to the open problems in medicine using biometric measurements, technologies and systems. The International Conference on Medical Biometrics (ICMB 2008) was the first major gathering in the world devoted to facilitating this interaction. We are pleased that this conference attracted a large number of high-quality research papers that will benefit international medical biometrics research. After a careful review process, 40 papers were accepted either for oral (17) or poster (23) presentations. In addition to these technical presentations, this conference also held a workshop on Computerized Traditional C- nese Medicine. Our efforts are focused to generating awareness among researchers, organizing researchers to foster research in this area, and providing a common platform for discussion and investigation. This conference provided a forum for discussing prac- cal experiences in applying the state-of-the-art biometric tecnologies for medical diag- sis and body care, which will further stimulate research in medical biometrics. We are grateful to Max A.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
A New Feature Selection and Classification Scheme for Screening of Oral Cancer Using Laser Induced Fluorescence….Pages 1-8
Tongueprint Feature Extraction and Application to Health Statistical Analysis….Pages 9-16
RISC: A New Filter Approach for Feature Selection from Proteomic Data….Pages 17-24
An Effective Feature Set for ECG Pattern Classification….Pages 25-32
Research on Gesture Definition and Electrode Placement in Pattern Recognition of Hand Gesture Action SEMG….Pages 33-40
Semantic Feature Extraction for Brain CT Image Clustering Using Nonnegative Matrix Factorization….Pages 41-48
Extracting Tongue Cracks Using the Wide Line Detector….Pages 49-56
An Effective Recognition Method of Breast Cancer Based on PCA and SVM Algorithm….Pages 57-64
Predicting Protein Quaternary Structure with Multi-scale Energy of Amino Acid Factor Solution Scores and Their Combination….Pages 65-72
A Knowledge Discovery Approach to Diagnosing Intracranial Hematomas on Brain CT: Recognition, Measurement and Classification….Pages 73-82
An Adaptive Feature Extractor for Gesture SEMG Recognition….Pages 83-90
Approach to Health Supporting System Using Traditional Chinese Medicine….Pages 91-98
A Multimodal Database for a Home Remote Medical Care Application….Pages 99-106
Adaptive Segmentation and Feature Quantization of Sublingual Veins of Healthy Humans….Pages 107-114
Using Formal Concept Analysis to Leverage Ontology-Based Acu-Point Knowledge System….Pages 115-121
Implementation of a Portable Personal EKG Signal Monitoring System….Pages 122-128
Examining the Influence of Occupational Therapy and Its Effectiveness in Long-Term Care on Dementia Patients Through Ontology-Based Clustering….Pages 129-136
Automatic Classification of Tongueprints in Healthy and Unhealthy Individuals….Pages 137-144
VWPS: A Ventilator Weaning Prediction System with Artificial Intelligence….Pages 145-152
A Method of Classifying Tongue Colors for Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnosis Based on the CIELAB Color Space….Pages 153-159
Hepatitis Diagnosis Using Facial Color Image….Pages 160-167
Texture Feature Extraction and Classification for Iris Diagnosis….Pages 168-175
Screening Diabetic Retinopathy Through Color Retinal Images….Pages 176-183
Real-Time RFID-Based Intelligent Healthcare Diagnosis System….Pages 184-191
Quantitative Assessment of Pap Smear Cells by PC-Based Cytopathologic Image Analysis System and Support Vector Machine….Pages 192-199
An Integrated MRI and MRS Approach to Evaluation of Multiple Sclerosis with Cognitive Impairment….Pages 200-207
Using Modified Contour Deformable Model to Quantitatively Estimate Ultrasound Parameters for Osteoporosis Assessment….Pages 208-215
Noninvasive Ultrasound Imaging for Bone Quality Assessment Using Scanning Confocal Acoustic Diagnosis, μCT, DXA Measurements, and Mechanical Testing….Pages 216-223
Hierarchical Matching of Anatomical Trees for Medical Image Registration….Pages 224-231
Interactive Deformable Registration Visualization and Analysis of 4D Computed Tomography….Pages 232-239
Pinhole SPECT vs. Cone-Beam SPECT….Pages 240-247
Constructing the Histogram Representation for Automatic Gridding of cDNA Microarray Images….Pages 248-255
Compression of Medical Images Using Enhanced Vector Quantizer Designed with Self Organizing Feature Maps….Pages 256-264
Indicator and Calibration Material for Microcalcifications in Dual-Energy Mammography….Pages 265-272
Tongue Image Matching Using Color and Texture….Pages 273-281
Pixel Based Tongue Color Analysis….Pages 282-289
Gradient Direction Edge Enhancement Based Nucleus and Cytoplasm Contour Detector of Cervical Smear Images….Pages 290-297
Three Dimensional Reconstruction and Dynamic Analysis of Mitral Annular Based on Connected Equi-length Curve Angle Chain….Pages 298-306
A Segmentation Method Based on Dynamic Programming for Breast Mass in MRI Images….Pages 307-313
A Multi-resolution Optical Flow Based Approach to Respiratory Motion Correction in 3D PET/CT Images….Pages 314-322
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