Ebook: 3rd Kuala Lumpur International Conference on Biomedical Engineering 2006: Biomed 2006, 11 – 14 December 2006 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

The Kuala Lumpur International Conference on Biomedical Engineering (Biomed 2006) was held from 11 to 14 December 2006 at the Palace of the Golden Horses, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This international conference was jointly organised by the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Malaya, Malaysia; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Inje University, Korea; and Malaysian Society of Medical and Biological Engineering.

The papers presented at Biomed 2006 cover the following areas: artificial intelligence, biological effects of non-ionising electromagnetic fields, biomaterials, biomechanics, biomedical sensors, biomedical signal analysis, biotechnology, clinical engineering, human performance engineering, imaging, medical informatics, medical instruments and devices, physiological modelling, simulation, and control, prostheses and artificial organs, regulations and organisations, rehabilitation engineering, telemedicine, tissue engineering, and virtual reality in medicine.

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The Kuala Lumpur International Conference on Biomedical Engineering (Biomed 2006) was held from 11 to 14 December 2006 at the Palace of the Golden Horses, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This international conference was jointly organised by the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Malaya, Malaysia; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Inje University, Korea; and Malaysian Society of Medical and Biological Engineering.

The papers presented at Biomed 2006 cover the following areas: artificial intelligence, biological effects of non-ionising electromagnetic fields, biomaterials, biomechanics, biomedical sensors, biomedical signal analysis, biotechnology, clinical engineering, human performance engineering, imaging, medical informatics, medical instruments and devices, physiological modelling, simulation, and control, prostheses and artificial organs, regulations and organisations, rehabilitation engineering, telemedicine, tissue engineering, and virtual reality in medicine.

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The Kuala Lumpur International Conference on Biomedical Engineering (Biomed 2006) was held from 11 to 14 December 2006 at the Palace of the Golden Horses, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This international conference was jointly organised by the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Malaya, Malaysia; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Inje University, Korea; and Malaysian Society of Medical and Biological Engineering.

The papers presented at Biomed 2006 cover the following areas: artificial intelligence, biological effects of non-ionising electromagnetic fields, biomaterials, biomechanics, biomedical sensors, biomedical signal analysis, biotechnology, clinical engineering, human performance engineering, imaging, medical informatics, medical instruments and devices, physiological modelling, simulation, and control, prostheses and artificial organs, regulations and organisations, rehabilitation engineering, telemedicine, tissue engineering, and virtual reality in medicine.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XVI
Dart-to-Heart Distance when Taser® Causes Ventricular Fibrillation in Pigs....Pages 1-5
Advances and Challenges in Neural Engineering: Neurogenesis, Neurocontrol and Neurochips....Pages 6-6
Nanotechnology Impact Towards Innovative Biomedical Engineering....Pages 7-7
3-D Reconstruction of Nasopharyngeal Airways in Malaysian Subjects....Pages 8-11
A Hierarchical Artificial Neural Network Model for Giemsa-Stained Human Chromosome Classification....Pages 12-15
Fluid Micromixing Technology and Its Applications for Biological and Chemical Processes....Pages 16-20
Implantable and Wearable Bionics....Pages 21-21
Surface Modification of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Scaffolds for Enhanced Osteoconductivity....Pages 22-27
Warping a Neuro-Anatomy Atlas on 3D MRI Data with Radial Basis Functions....Pages 28-32
Ex vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy method for the diagnosis of human stomach cancer....Pages 33-36
A Comparative Analysis of Zernike moments and Principal Component Analysis as Feature extractors for Face Recognition....Pages 37-41
Application of Artificial Neural Network for Estimation of Fetal Weight....Pages 42-44
Classification of Breast Lesions Using Artificial Neural Network....Pages 45-49
Classification of Risk in Dengue Fever and Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever using Rule Based Expert System....Pages 50-53
Comparison of MLP and Elman Neural Network for Blood Glucose Level Prediction in Type 1 Diabetics....Pages 54-58
Electroglottographic Signal Acquisition and Neural Network based classification for pathology....Pages 59-62
Expert System for Non-Invasive Classification of Total Cholesterol Level Using Bioelectrical Impedance....Pages 63-66
Genetic Algorithm for Various Face Emotions Classification....Pages 67-71
Hybrid Method for Digits Recognition using Fixed-Frame Scores and Derived Pitch....Pages 72-76
Multiple neural networks for Human Face Recognition....Pages 77-81
Recognition of Lower Limb Muscle EMG Patterns by using Neural Networks during the Postural Balance Control....Pages 82-85
Biological Effects of EMF in Engineering Teaching Laboratories: A Review....Pages 86-88
Theta Burst Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Can Modify Cortico-Muscular Coherence in Humans....Pages 89-93
Cell Adhesion and Degradation Behaviors of Acetylated Chitosan Films....Pages 94-97
Degradation of Magnesium Alloys in Biological Solutions and Reduced Phenotypic Expression of Endothelial Cell Grown on These Alloys....Pages 98-101
Fabrication of 316L stainless steel parts by Injection Moulding for Biomedical Application using a Novel Binder....Pages 102-105
Hardness Evaluation of Porous Hydroxyapatite Coating....Pages 106-108
Hydroxyapatite Formation on Acrylic Acid-grafted Porous PLLA Scaffolds in Simulated Body Fluid....Pages 109-112
Inhibitive Effect of Antibiotic-Loaded Beads to Cure Chronic Osteomyelitis in Developing Country: Hand-made vs Commercial Beads....Pages 113-117
Nanostructure in Bone Apatite....Pages 118-121
PCL Electrospun Sheet-Embedded Microporous PLGA Membrane For Effective Guided Bone Regeneration....Pages 122-125
Physicochemical Properties and Biological Response of Titanium Surface Modified by Anodic Spark Deposition for Dental Implants....Pages 126-129
Poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid) and hydroxyapatite composite films for cartilage reconstruction....Pages 130-133
Silverfil: Its Physical Characterization....Pages 134-136
Sinterability Of Hydroxyapatite Compacts Prepared By Cold Isostatic Pressing For Clinical Applications....Pages 137-140
Standardization of Distance and Angulation of Light Curing Unit Tip Using Distometer....Pages 141-143
Structural and conductivity studies in Ag-rich AgI-ZnI2 solid solutions....Pages 144-148
Synthesis and characterization of nanocrystalline hydroxyapatite powder via sol-gel method....Pages 149-151
The effect of sample preparation and calcination temperature on the production of hydroxyapatite from bovine bone powders....Pages 152-155
Topological Analysis of a Polymer Based Contraceptive Using Atomic Force Microscopy....Pages 156-159
Rolling Ball Contact as a method for Testing Surface Fatigue of Resin Based Restorative Materials....Pages 160-162
A Model of Impact Forces during Landing from a Jumping Smash Activity....Pages 163-166
A New Modification of Adjustable standing Frame for children with Cerebral Palsy....Pages 167-170
A Preliminary Study of Acceptable Load Carriage for Primary School Children....Pages 171-174
A Preliminary Study of EMG Measurements on Biceps Brachii Muscles During Repetitive Task at Automotive Industry....Pages 175-177
Analysis of Stress on Inflation of Balloon Catheter using Finite Element Method....Pages 178-181
Design of an automated Rapid Maxillary Expansion (RME) appliance. A Preliminary Study....Pages 182-184
Effect of Stress Relaxation on Layer Thickness of Articular Cartilage due to Dynamic Loadings....Pages 185-188
Effects of Targets on Reaching Performance and Postural Balance during Standing in Persons with Left Cerebral Vascular Accidents....Pages 189-191
Human Kicking Motion Using Efficient Forward Dynamics Simulation and Optimization....Pages 192-196
Instrumented Shoes for Measuring Ground-Reaction Force of Persons with Stroke in Level Walking, Stair Ascending and Descending....Pages 197-200
Kinematic Analysis of Speech Motor Control in Children with Cerebral Palsy....Pages 201-203
Modeling and Simulation of Sit-to-Stand Exercise....Pages 204-207
Motion Analysis in Dual-task on Patients with Mild Dementias....Pages 208-210
Muscles activity of the Back and Hamstring during Trunk Flexion and Extension Task in Healthy and Low Back Pain Women....Pages 211-214
Music therapy effect of music pillow for sleep — preliminary study....Pages 215-218
Pneumatic Artificial Muscle in Biomedical Applications....Pages 219-221
Prediction of Optimal Pillow Height by Anthropometric Parameters....Pages 222-223
Stress and Strain Analysis of Anterior Cruciate Ligament for Arthroscopy Knee Reconstruction....Pages 224-227
Biomedical Engineering Education and Training In Hong Kong: Recent Developments....Pages 228-231
A quantitative study of post-biopsy radiofrequency cauterization....Pages 232-235
A Study of Nodule Detection Using Opaque Object Filter....Pages 236-240
An Automatic Cell Counting Method for a Microscopic Tissue Image from Breast Cancer....Pages 241-244
Automatic Retrieval of Microscopic Blood Cells Images....Pages 245-249
Boundary Enhancement For Echocardiogram Using Local Image Characteristics And Ratio Of Averages....Pages 250-254
Contrast Enhancement of MRI Images....Pages 255-258
Converting Data from the Lunar DPX-IQ Bone Densitometer for Interoperability....Pages 259-261
Evaluation of Texture Analysis Techniques for Characterization of Multimode-Based Liver Images Using SGLCM and FOS....Pages 262-266
Feature extraction in Medical Ultrasonic Image....Pages 267-270
High Resolution Imaging of TGF?3 Treated Human Keratinocyte via a Newly Developed Widefield Surface Plasmon Resonance Microscope....Pages 271-274
Microwave Holographic Imaging Technique for Tumour Detection....Pages 275-277
One-dimensional evaluation of a least-square polynomial fitting approach to estimate the pressure domain from velocity data obtained from medical images....Pages 278-281
Quantification of Collagen Orientation in 3D Engineered Tissue....Pages 282-286
Scale Space Texture Classification Using Combined Classifiers with Application to Ultrasound Tissue Characterization....Pages 287-290
Spinal Curvature Determination from an X-Ray Image Using a Deformable Model....Pages 291-295
Thresholding of Medical Images Using Minimum Cross Entropy....Pages 296-299
Ultrasound monitoring of temperature change during interstitial laser thermotherapy of liver: an in vitro study....Pages 300-303
Unsupervised Learning Technique for Skin Images Segmentation Using a Mixture of Beta Distributions....Pages 304-307
A Fiber Optic Immunosensor for Rapid Bacteria Determination....Pages 308-311
A review of MEMS drug delivery in medical application....Pages 312-315
A Review on Design Parameters of Micro-Fluidic System....Pages 316-320
Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis: Phase Angle - An Independent Predictive Health Marker and its Clinical Applications....Pages 321-324
Estimation of heart rate variability from peripheral pulse wave using PPG sensor....Pages 325-328
Nano-porous Polysilicon Fabrication for Micro Electro Mechanical System (MEMS) Drug Delivery Device....Pages 329-333
Widefield Surface Plasmon Resonance Microscope: A Novel Biosensor Study of Cell Attachment to Micropatterned Substrates....Pages 334-337
A Generic Algorithm for Detecting Obstructive Sleep Apnea Hyponea Events based on Oxygen Saturation....Pages 338-341
A Measuring System for Coronary Pulse Wave Velocity....Pages 342-344
A Simple Histogram Based Approach for Detection of Baseline and QRS of ECG....Pages 345-347
A Software Based Approach for Detection of QRS Vector of ECG Signal....Pages 348-351
Assessment of Steady-State Visual Evoked Potential for Brain Computer Communication....Pages 352-354
Characterizing EOG signal from the Chaotic Point of View....Pages 355-359
Classification of Electrocardiogram Signal using Multiresolution Wavelet Transform and Neural Network....Pages 360-364
Comparison of different Montages on to EEG classification....Pages 365-368
Complexity Analysis of Heart Beat Time series by Threshold based Symbolic Entropy....Pages 369-373
Computer-based System to Assess Efficacy of Stuttering Therapy Techniques....Pages 374-377
Development of an EEG amplifier for Brain-Computer-Interface....Pages 378-382
Enhancement of Epileptic Seizure in EEG Signals using Novelty Filtering based on Neural Networks....Pages 383-386
Feasibility of Fetal Photoplethysmography Signal Extraction using Adaptive Noise Cancelling....Pages 387-390
Feasibility of Photoplethymographic Signal for Assessment of Autonomic Response using Heart Rate Variability Analysis....Pages 391-395
FPGA Accelerator For Medical Image Compression System....Pages 396-399
Frequency Modulation in EEG Signals....Pages 400-401
Heart Sound Analysis Using MFCC and Time Frequency Distribution....Pages 402-405
Limb Cardiovasculature System Identification Using Adaptive Filtering....Pages 406-409
Modifying the Classic Template Matching Technique Using a Fuzzy Multi Agent to Have an Accurate P300 Detection....Pages 410-414
Multi-resolution Analysis of Near Infrared Spectroscopic Data for Calibration and Prediction of Active Substances in Phosphate Buffer Solution....Pages 415-418
Performance Evaluation of Coifman Wavelet for ECG Signal Denoising....Pages 419-422
Photoplethysmographic Pulse Amplitude Response to Flow Mediated Dilation....Pages 423-426
Reduction of Movement Artifacts in Photoplethysmograph Using SFLC (scaled Fourier linear combiner)....Pages 427-430
Two-dimensional representation of spatial structure changes in brain bioelectric potential field....Pages 431-434
Using Simple MLPs in Modular Architecture to Improve the P300 Detection Accuracy....Pages 435-439
Wavelet based compression technique of Electro-oculogram signals....Pages 440-443
Wireless Real-time Brain Mapping....Pages 444-446
Aromatherapy: It’s Effect on Brain Signal, Math Computation, Blood Pressure and Heart Rate....Pages 447-450
On the Linearity/Non-linearity of Mental Activity EEG for Brain-Computer Interface Design....Pages 451-454
Heart Rate Variability Characterization Using a Time-Frequency Based Instantaneous Frequency Estimation Technique....Pages 455-459
Evaluation of ECG Compression via Optimal Bit Allocation on DCT Coefficients....Pages 460-463
Bio-Composting Process Development by SSF for Utilization Agro-Industrial Wastes....Pages 464-468
Biodegradation of 2-methoxyethanol under aerobic conditions by bacterial isolate Pseudomonas sp. strain VB....Pages 469-475
Human pi class glutathione S-transferase: anticancer material and functional study....Pages 476-478
Liquid State Bioconversion of Domestic Wastewater Sludge for Bioethanol Production....Pages 479-482
Microbial Bioconversion of Palm Oil Mill Effluent to Citric Acid with Optimum Process Conditions....Pages 483-487
Statistical Analysis in Complex-Valued Wavelet Detection of Acute Myocardial Ischemia in Rabbit....Pages 488-491
Statistical Optimization of Process Conditions for Direct Bioconversion of Sewage Treatment Plant Sludge for Bioethanol Production....Pages 492-495
Systematic Following of Telomerase during MRC5 Population Dubbling and Cell Senescence....Pages 496-498
Analysis of Detecting the Malarial Parasite Infected Blood Images Using Statistical Based Approach....Pages 499-501
Detecting the Vocal Disorder by Extracting the Pitch in the Phonetics of Indian Regional Marathi Language Numerical....Pages 502-505
Importance of Performance Assurance in Medical Equipment Maintenance....Pages 506-508
Malay Nose Tissue Measurements For Nose Reconstruction: A Preliminary Data Collection....Pages 509-511
Quantification of Parkinsonian Rigidity: An Objective Evaluating Method....Pages 512-515
Comparison of Different Classification Techniques Using WEKA for Breast Cancer....Pages 516-519
Discovery the Relationship Between Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms and Alternative Splicing Events....Pages 520-523
Selecting Informative Genes from Leukemia Gene Expression Data using a Hybrid Approach for Cancer Classification....Pages 524-527
A High Efficiency Optical Power Transmitting System to a Rechargeable Lithium Battery for All Implantable Biomedical Devices....Pages 528-532
A Portable Potentiostat for Electrochemical Sensors....Pages 533-537
A Preliminary Case Study of Anal Retractor Usability in Anorectal Surgery....Pages 538-542
Taxonomy of surrogate users for the development and evaluation of medical devices from the end users’ perspective....Pages 543-545
A Miniature Skin-Attached Hot Flash Recorder....Pages 546-549
2D Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) Model of Blood Flow in the Left Ventricle (LV) of the Heart....Pages 550-553
A Computer-based Surgery Planning and Simulation for the Prediction of 3D Postoperative Facial Soft Tissue using Finite Element Analysis....Pages 554-557
Age-related Upper Limb Vascular System Windkessel Model using Photoplethysmography....Pages 558-562
Computational Analysis of Asymmetric Arterial Stenosis with Applications of Fluid-Solid Interaction....Pages 563-566
Computer based quantification of the mean Achilles tendon thickness in US-images — effect of tendinosis....Pages 567-571
Finite Element Analysis of Cell-Material Interaction on Hydrated Soft Material of Cartilage....Pages 572-575
Forward Simulation of Cardiac Excitation Propagation and ECG Patterns Using an Anisotropic Heart Model — a Toolbox....Pages 576-580
Haptic Pulse Simulator Training Module for Disease Diagnosis....Pages 581-584
In Vitro Modeling for Bioelectrical Impedance Measurement in Compartmental Syndrome....Pages 585-587
Optical detection of ferromagnetic and fluorescently labeled microparticles, simulation of a magnetic trap....Pages 588-590
Temperature Modeling of Therapeutic Ultrasound: A Preliminary Finding....Pages 591-593
The Alcohol Detection Using Heart Rate Variability and Bioimpedance....Pages 594-597
Visualizing Collaborative Time-Varying Scientific Datasets....Pages 598-601
Development of a steerable cochlear implant electrode array....Pages 602-606
An Automatic Lower Limb Training Machine for Monoplegia Patients....Pages 607-610
An Intelligent Tilt Table for Paralytic Patients....Pages 611-614
Application of a Novel Integrated Pointing Device Apparatus for People with Severe Disability....Pages 615-617
Conceptual Design of an Isokinetic Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) Leg Stepping Trainer for Individuals with Neurological Disability....Pages 618-621
Design of a Wireless Heart Rate Monitoring System for Rehabilitation Patients....Pages 622-624
Development of Prosthetic Hand — A preliminary study....Pages 625-627
EEG Based Brain Machine Interface for Rehabilitation: A Guided Tour....Pages 628-631
Development of Articulation Training System with Speech Recognition Based Automatic Pronunciation Detection Mechanism....Pages 632-636
Exercise Technology after Spinal Cord Injury: Functional Electrical Stimulation Leg Cycling....Pages 637-639
Prosthetic Hand for the Brain-computer Interface System....Pages 640-642
Quadraplegic Communicator for Spinal Cord Injury Patient....Pages 643-646
Theoretical Determination of Lubrication Regimes in Two-Piece First Metatarsophalangeal Prostheses....Pages 647-650
Design of Web-based Tele-ultrasound Consultation System over Digital Subscriber Lines....Pages 651-655
Development of a Mobile Telemedicine System with Multi Communication Links for Urban and Rural Areas in Indonesia....Pages 656-659
Managing and Organizing Plant Identification Keys for Easy Retrieval....Pages 660-663
Weight Control and Conversations in an Online Health-Community on Overweight....Pages 664-667
Biodegradable composite of poly ?-caprolactone/hydroxyapatite 3-D scaffolds for bone tissue engineering....Pages 668-671
Biodegradable Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering Fabricated by Surface Selective Laser Sintering....Pages 672-675
Characterization of Collagen/PEO 600K for Tissue Engineering Scaffold....Pages 676-679
Effect of TGF-? and ?-Estradiol on Extracellular Matrix Secretion in Articular Chondrocyte Culture....Pages 680-683
Human Adipose Precursor Cells Seeded on Hyaluronic Scaffolds: a Pilot Clinical Trial....Pages 684-687
Hybrid nanofiber scaffolds of polyurethane and poly(ethylene oxide) using dual-electrospinning for vascular tissue engineering....Pages 688-691
In Vitro Augmentation of Collagen Matrix Formation — Applications in Tissue Engineering....Pages 692-695
Repair of Rabbit Focal Articular Cartilage Defects with Autologous Chondrocytes Embedded in Alginate....Pages 696-699
Back Matter....Pages 700-703
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