10th IEEE International Conference on Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine 2 – 5 November 2010 Corfu, Greece Conference Program NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS Contents TUESDAY, 2 NOVEMBER 2010 .................................................................................................................................................. 3 KEYNOTE SPEECH - PROF. METIN AKAY .................................................................................................................................................. 3 ADVANCES (INNOVATIONS) IN NEURAL INFORMATICS ................................................................................................................................ 3 Tu.1.1: Biomedical Signal and Image Processing Analysis I ..................................................................................................... 3 Tu.1.2: Bioinformatics, Computational Biology I ..................................................................................................................... 3 Tu.1.3: Biomedical Signal and Image Processing Analysis II .................................................................................................... 3 WEDNESDAY, 3 NOVEMBER 2010 ............................................................................................................................................ 4 KEYNOTE SPEECH - PROF. YUAN-TING ZHANG .......................................................................................................................................... 4 CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH INFORMATICS: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES .................................................................................................. 4 We.1.1: ARTreat Workshop I ................................................................................................................................................... 4 We.1.2: Virtual Reality in Medicine and Surgery (Special Session) .......................................................................................... 4 We.1.3: Biomedical Signal and Image Processing Analysis III ................................................................................................. 4 We.2.1: ARTreat Workshop II .................................................................................................................................................. 5 We.2.2: Biomedical Signal and Image Processing Analysis IV ................................................................................................. 5 We.2.3: Personal Health Systems I .......................................................................................................................................... 5 KEYNOTE SPEECH - PROF. JOSE PRINCIPE ................................................................................................................................................ 6 COGNITIVE INTEGRATION OF PROSTHETIC DEVICES: IS IT FEASIBLE? ............................................................................................................... 6 We.3.1: Biomedical Signal and Image Processing Analysis V .................................................................................................. 6 We.3.2: e-Health Systems, m-Health Systems, and Telemedicine Systems I ........................................................................... 6 We.3.3: Systems Biology and Modeling Methodologies I........................................................................................................ 6 THURSDAY, 4 NOVEMBER 2010 ............................................................................................................................................... 7 KEYNOTE SPEECH - PROF. SERGIO CERUTTI .............................................................................................................................................. 7 CARDIOVASCULAR VARIABILITY SIGNALS: TOWARDS A QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF THE COMPLEXITY OF AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM ..................... 7 Th.1.1: Personal Health Systems II .......................................................................................................................................... 7 Th.1.2: Biomedical Signal and Image Processing Analysis VI .................................................................................................. 7 Th.1.3: Integrated ICT and Post-genomic Approaches in Neurological Disorders (Special Session) ........................................ 7 KEYNOTE SPEECH - PROF. PAOLO DARIO ................................................................................................................................................. 8 FRONTIERS OF BIOMEDICAL ROBOTICS .................................................................................................................................................... 8 Th.2.1: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Systems ........................................................................................................................... 8 Th.2.2: Biomedical Signal and Image Processing Analysis VII ................................................................................................. 8 Th.2.3: Bridging Public Health Informatics With Personal Health Records: Opportunities for Wellness and Disease Prevention (Special Session) I .................................................................................................................................................. 8 KEYNOTE SPEECH - PROF. BRUCE WHEELER ............................................................................................................................................. 9 BRAIN ON A CHIP: CAN WE BUILD ONE? ................................................................................................................................................ 9 Th.3.1: Biomedical Signal and Image Processing Analysis VIII ................................................................................................ 9 Th.3.2: Bridging Public Health Informatics With Personal Health Records: Opportunities for Wellness and Disease Prevention (Special Session) II ................................................................................................................................................. 9 Th.3.3: Biomedical Signal and Image Processing Analysis IX ................................................................................................... 9 Th.4.1: e-Health Systems, m-Health Systems, and Telemedicine Systems II .......................................................................... 10 Th.4.2: Biomedical Signal and Image Processing Analysis X .................................................................................................. 10 Th.4.3: Systems Biology and Modeling Methodologies II ...................................................................................................... 10 FRIDAY, 5 NOVEMBER 2010 ....................................................................................................................................................11 KEYNOTE SPEECH - PROF. PAOLO BONATO ............................................................................................................................................ 11 NEW FRONTIERS IN WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY AND ITS MEDICAL APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................. 11 Fr.1.1: Biomedical Signal and Image Processing Analysis XI ................................................................................................. 11 Fr.1.2: Economic and Managerial Aspects of e-health (special session) ............................................................................... 11 Fr.1.3: Bioinformatics, Computational Biology II ................................................................................................................... 11 Fr.2.1: e-Health Systems, m-Health Systems, and Telemedicine Systems III ......................................................................... 12 Fr.2.2: Bioinformatics, Computational Biology III .................................................................................................................. 12 Fr.2.3: Biomedical Signal and Image Processing Analysis XII ................................................................................................ 12 CLOSING REMARKS ........................................................................................................................................................................... 12 POSTER SESSION* ...................................................................................................................................................................13 2 Tuesday, 2 November 2010 14:00-18:00 Registration 18:00-18:30 Opening - Welcome 18:30-18:45 Award Presentation Keynote speech - Prof. Metin Akay 18:45-19:15 Advances (Innovations) in Neural Informatics Tu.1.1: Biomedical Signal and Tu.1.2: Bioinformatics, Tu.1.3: Biomedical Signal and Image Processing Analysis I Computational Biology I Image Processing Analysis II Kerkyra Ballroom Ithaca Lefkas Chair: Nizamettin Aydin Chair: Dimitrios I. Fotiadis Chair: Konstantina S. Nikita Co-Chair: Lenka Lhotska Co-Chair: Themistoklis Exarchos Co-Chair: Andreas Ionnides 64 - Parametric Representation of the 169 - Lossless Compression of High- 154 - An extensible platform for variome Retinal Temporal Arcade Throughput RNAi Images data integration Faraz Oloumi, Rangaraj Rangayyan, Anna