12TH Mediterranean Conference
on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing
MEDICON 2010 – 27-30 May | Chalkidiki| Greece
Conference Programme
Book of Abstracts
Editors
Panagiotis D. Bamidis, Stathis Th. Konstantindis,
Kristina Bliznakova, Nicolas Pallikarakis
MEDICON 2010 – 27-30 May | Chalkidiki| Greece
MEDICON 2010 – 27-30 MAY | CHALKIDIKI| GREECE
Conference Programme
Book of Abstracts
of
12th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing
7th European Symposium on Biomedical Engineering
May 27-30, 2010
Porto Carras, Chalkidiki, Greece
Editors:
Panagiotis D. Bamidis, Stathis Th. Konstantindis, Kristina Bliznakova,
Nicolas Pallikarakis
Technical Assistance:
Manousos A. Klados, Dimitris Spachos
ISBN: 978-960-99365-0-7
Publisher: Hellenic Society of Biomedical Engineering (ELEVIT).
Cover Message
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. After more than twenty years since its first implementation in Patras as MEDICON 1989 and following a very successful tour in Italy 1992, Israel 1995, Cyprus 1998, Croatia 2001, Italy 2004 and Slovenia 2007, this major event returns to Greece as MEDICON 2010 in Chalkidiki. During these years, Biomedical Engineering underwent an amazing progress and provided the basis for the recent developments in health care delivery. This evolution creates however an explosively evolving and very demanding environment. MEDICON 2010 is dedicated to all those young Biomedical Engineers who have to face this new challenging situation and are expected to play a key role in bringing the benefits of the technological evolution right to the patient.
This “MEDICON 2010” conference proceedings volume presents recent advances in practically every main topic of Biomedical Engineering. It provides communication and an exchange of ideas on Biomechanics and Biomaterials, Medical Devices and Bioinstrumentation, Medical Imaging, Technology Assessment, Clinical Engineering, Rehabilitation Engineering, Medical Informatics and e-Health, as well as Educational, Ethical and Professional Aspects.
PREFACE
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. Consequently, the associated field of Biomedical Engineering education – and its related branches – is undergoing a rapid evolution characterized by an increasing degree of specialization. This imposes new challenges, while the changing scene at the European level dictates the need for harmonization and standardization of education, with a focus on meeting the emerging needs for appropriately trained young engineers within this new landscape. Therefore, MEDICON 2010 is dedicated to all those young Biomedical Engineers who have to face this very demanding environment and are expected to play a key role in bringing the benefits of this technological evolution right to the patient.
The 12th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing - MEDICON 2010 has been supported by a limited number of external sponsors to which we would like to express our appreciation. However, this Conference would not have been possible to organize and prove successful without the valuable contribution of the many volunteers involved. Particularly we would like to express our deep thanks to the invited speakers for accepting to come to Chalkidiki on their own expenses and deliver their excellent presentations. It is also a great pleasure for us to acknowledge the dedicated and hard work done by all the members of the International Scientific as well as the Programme Committees, but also the many volunteering reviewers, that performed as a real team, thereby rendering the rigorous reviewing process a quality filter for an indeed noteworthy proceedings publication. All these have created an enthusiastic and challenging atmosphere that has all the necessary ingredients to make MEDICON2010 an unforgettable event.
We hope you will appreciate this Proceedings volume as much as we are proud of it!
MEDICON 2010 co-chairs
Nicolas Pallikarakis
Panagiotis Bamidis
Organized by
Hellenic Society of Biomedical Engineering
In Cooperation with:
AristotleUniversity of Thessaloniki, Greece
University of Patras, Greece
International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering
Conference Chairs
Nicolas Pallikarakis, University of Patras, Greece
Panagiotis D. Bamidis, AristotleUniversity of Thessaloniki, Greece
Local Organizing Committee
Costas Pappas (Chairman), Stavros Panas, George Sergiadis, Dimitris Koufogiannis†, Nicholas Dombros.
International Scientific Committee Chairs
Ratko Magjarevic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Marcello Bracale, University "Federico II" of Naples, Italy
International Scientific Committee
James C. H. Goh (Singapore), Fernando A. Infantosi (Brazil), Akos Jobbagy (Hungary), Makoto Kikuchi (Japan), Shankar M. Krishnan (USA), Luis Kun (USA), Mario Medvedec(Croatia), Alan Murray (United Kingdom), Patrick Pentony (Ireland), Niilo Saranummi (Finland), Jos A.E. Spaan (The Netherlands), Herbert Voigt(USA).
Program Committee Chairs
Dimitris Koutsouris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Nicos Maglaveras, AristotleUniversity of Thessaloniki, Greece
Program Committee
Pantelis Angelidis(Greece), Maria Teresa Areddondo(Spain), Theo Arvanitis(UK), Alexandros Astaras(Greece), Joe Barbenel (UK), Zhivko Bliznakov(Greece), Kristina Bliznakova(Greece), Ivan Buliev(Boulgaria), Babis Bratsas(Greece), Ioanna Chouvarda(Greece), Catherine Chronaki(Greece), Asuman Dogac(Tourkey), Olaf Dossel(Germany), Barry Eaglestone(UK), David Elad(Israel), Simon G. Fabri(Malta), Dimitris Fotiadis(Greece), Frederique Frouin(France), Demetrius Georgiou(Greece), Leontios Hadjileontiadis(Greece), Maria Haritou(Greece), Jens Haueisen(Germany), Jiri Holcik (Czech Republic), Andreas Ioannides(Cyprus), Eleni Kaldoudi(Greece), Panagiotis Ketikidis(Greece), Stathis Konstantinidis(Greece), Vassilis Koutkias(Greece), Periklis Ktonas(Greece), Efthyvoulos Kyriakou(Cyprus), Igor Lackovic(Croatia), Olof Lindahl(Sweden), Dimitris Lymperopoulos(Greece), Ilias Maglogiannis(Greece), Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann(Switcherland), Fillia Makedon(USA), Andigoni Malousi(Greece), Vicky Manthou, (Greece), Cristina Mazzoleni (Italy), Damijan Miklavcic(Slovenia), Joe Mizrahi(Israel), Per Moeller(Denmark), Robert Allen(UK), Roger Moore(UK), Konstantina Nikita(Greece), Marc Nyssen(Belgium), Christos Papadelis(Italy), Iraklis Paraskakis (Greece), Constantinos Pattichis(Cyprus), Sotiris Pavlopoulos(Greece), Thomas Penzel(Germany), Ioannis Pitas(Greece), Andriana Prentza(Greece), Gunter Rau(Germany), Georgios Sakas(Germany), Laura Roa(Spain), Abdul Roudsari(UK), Göran Salerud(Sweden), Theodoros Samaras(Greece), Mario Sansone(Italy), Andres Santos (Spain), Christos Schizas(Cyprus), Mario Forjaz Secca(Portugal), Maria Siebes(The Netherlands), Stella Spyrou(Greece), Rita Stagni(Italy), Gregory-Telemachos Stamkopoulos(Greece), Selma Supek(Croatia), Panayiotis Tsanakas(Greece), Jan Wojcicki(Poland), Michalis Zervakis(Greece).
MEDICON 2010 – 27-30 May | Chalkidiki| Greece
Conference tracks & Chairs
- Medical Devices & Instrumentation
Chairs:
Alexandros Astaras
Andreas Lymberis
- Education
Chairs:
Eleni Kaldoudi
Daniela Giordano
Stathis Konstantinidis
- Biomedical Imaging
Chairs:
Kristina Bliznakova
Ilias Maglogiannis
- Biosignal Processing
Chairs:
Leontios Hadjileontiadis
Christos Papadelis
- Clinical Engineering & Safety
Chairs:
Yadin David
Jorge Calil Saide
Zhivko Bliznakov
- E-health
Chairs:
Constantinos Pattichis
Efthyvoulos Kyriakou
- Workshop on BME and MP Education: Current trends in Europe
Chairs:
Slavik Tabakov
Nicolas Pallikarakis
MEDICON 2010 – 27-30 May | Chalkidiki| Greece
List of Reviewers
Mansour Ahmadian
Robert Allen
Christos-Nikolaos Anagnostopoulos
Pantelis Angelidis
Antonis Antoniadis
Theo Arvanitis
Sara Assecondi
Alexander Astaras
Nizamettin Aydin
Branko Babusiak
Joe Barbenel
Ofer Barnea
Katarzyna Blinowska
Zhivko Bliznakov
Kristina Bliznakova
Francesca Bovolo
Marcello Bracale
Charalampos Bratsas
Christoph Braun
Maide Bucolo
Ivan Buliev
Enrico Caiani
Giovanni Calcagnini
Martin Cerny
Aristotelis Chatziioannou
Giannis Chatzizisis
Michela Chiappalone
Ki-H Chon
Ioanna Chouvarda
Christodoulos Christodoulou
Catherine Chronaki
Radu Ciupa
Eleni Costaridou
Hariton Costin
Paul Cristea
Eleni Dafli
Andriani Daskalaki
Kostas Delibasis
Gianpaolo Demarchi
Aris Dermitzakis
Fabrizio De-Vico-Fallani
Asuman Dogac
Zlatica Dolna
Olaf Dossel
Charalampos Doukas
Barry Eaglestone
David Elad
George Eleftherakis
Miroslawa El-Fray
Silvia Erla
Simon Fabri
Luca Faes
Silvia Fantozzi
Jocelyne Fayn
Mario Forjaz-Secca
Dimitrios Fotiadis
Christos Frantzidis
Monique Frize
Michal Gala
Demetrius Georgiou
Daniela Giordano
James Goh
Leontios Hadjileontiadis
Karel Hana
Maria Haritou
Jens Haueisen
Jan Havlik
Martin HoÃbach
Jiri Holcik
Dimitris Iakovidis
Adam Idzkowski
Antonio-Fernando Infantosi
Andreas Ioannides
Robert Istepanian
Sriram Iyengar
Akos Jobbagy
Erik Johannessen
Vaggelis Kaimakamis
Eleni Kaldoudi
Anna Karahaliou
Eleni Kargioti
Kostas Karpouzis
Spyros Kitsiou
Manousos Klados
Athina Kokonozi
Antonios Komnidis
Evdokimos Konstantinidis
Stathis Konstantinidis
Dimitrios Kosmopoulos
Sophia Kossida
Kostas Kostopoulos
Vassilis Koutkias
Periklis Ktonas
Dinesh Kumar
Efthyvoulos Kyriacou
Igor Lackovic
Philip Langley
Nikos Laskaris
Olof Lindahl
Angelika Lingnau
Chrysa Lithari
Andrej Luneski
Andreas Lymberis
Ilias Maglogiannis
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann
Fillia Makedon
Andigoni Malousi
Vicky Manthou
Mattia Marconcini
Ioannis Mariolis
Michela Masa¨
Georgios Matis
Giulia Matrone
Veronica Mazza
Cristina Mazzoleni
Mario Medvedec
Damijan Miklavcic
Joe Mizrahi
Per Moeller
Mihaela Morega
Antonis Mpillis
Brian-Edmond Murphy
Alan Murray
Tuncay Namli
Jila Nazari
Marios Neofytou
Kleanthis Neokleous
Konstantina Nikita
Maria Nikolaidou
Giandomenico Nollo
Leonidas Orfanidis
Cristina Oyarzun-Laura
Christos Papadelis
Kostas Papathanasiou
Iraklis Paraskakis
Ana Pascoal
Constantinos Pattichis
Leandro Pecchia
Marek Penhaker
Krzysztof Penkala
Patrick Pentony
Thomas Penzel
Francesca Pizzorni-Ferrarese
Vassilis Plagianakos
Vahe Poghosyan
Senan Postaci
Eugene Postnikov
Deborah PrÃ
Michal Prauzek
Andriana Prentza
Efi Psarouli
Chiara Rabotti
Dan Rafiroiu
Gunter Rau
Ulrike Richter
Jose-Joaquin Rieta
Laura Roa
Georgios Sakas
Goran Salerud
Mario Sansone
Andres Santos
Niilo Saranummi
Roberto Sassi
Christos Schizas
Maurizio Schmid
Nicu Sebe
George Sergiadis
Maria Siebes
Pavel Smrcka
Delia Soimu
Tomasz Soltysinski
Jos Spaan
Stergiani Spyrou
Pascal Staccini
Rita Stagni
Telemachos Stamkopoulos
Stavros Stavrinidis
Sebastian Steger
Milan Stork
Charalampos Styliadis
Selma Supek
Slavik Tabakov
Luigi Tame
Tong-Boon Tang
Lucio Tommaso-De-Paolis
Lubomir Traikov
Riccardo Tranfaglia
Ioannis Tsamardinos
Styliani Tsigka
Aristeidis Vaggelatos
Emil Valchinov
Teena Vellaramkalayil
Vassilios Vescoukis
Andreas Voss
Wojtek Walendziuk
Marta Wasilewska-Radwanska
Jozef Wiora
Jan Wojcicki
Mustafa Yuksel
Michalis Zervakis
MEDICON 2010 – 27-30 May | Chalkidiki| Greece
Young Investigator Competition Committee
Chair:
Marcello Bracale, Italy
Members:
Costas Pattichis, Cyprus
Andres Santos, Spain
Rita Stagni, Italy
Dimitris Koutsouris, Greece
MEDICON 2010 – 27-30 May | Chalkidiki| Greece 12th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing
MEDICON 2010 – 27-30 May | Chalkidiki| Greece 12th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing
Conference Programme at a glance
Thursday, May 27 / Friday, May 28 / Saturday, May 29 / Sunday, May 3010.30- 15.15 /
Registration / 8.15 - 8.45 / Registration / 8.15 - 8.45 / Registration
8.45 - 9.30 / Plenary Session II / Olympic Hall / 8.45 - 9.30 / Plenary Session IV / TERPSIHORI / 8.45 - 9.30 / Plenary Session VI / TERPSIHORI
9.30 - 11.00 / Opening Ceremony / Olympic Hall / 9.30 - 11.00 / General Track IV
Med Imaging II
Clin Engin I / TERPSIHORI
ERATO
THALIA / 9.30 - 11.00 / General Track VI
BME-MP-CE EDU
BME Journals/ Conf. / TERPSIHORI
ERATO
THALIA
11.00 - 11.30 / Coffee Break / 11.00 - 11.30 / Coffee Break / 11.00 - 11.30 / Coffee Break
11.30 - 13.00 / Med Instrum II
BioSignal Pro II
e-Health I / THALIA
TERPSIHORI
ERATO / 11.30 - 13.00 / BioSignal Pro III
Med Imaging III
Clin Engin II / TERPSIHORI
ERATO
THALIA / 11.30 - 13.00 / Women In Engineering / THALIA
13.00 - 13.30 / Lunch Break / 13.00 - 13.30 / Lunch Break / 13.00 - 13.30 / Closing Ceremony / TERPSIHORI
13.30 - 14.15 / Poster Session I / MELITON HALL I / 13.30 - 14.15 / Poster Session II / MELITON HALL I / Mount Athos Trip
14.15 - 15.00 / Plenary Session III / TERPSIHORI / 14.15 - 15.00 / Plenary Session
V / TERPSIHORI
15.15 - 15.45 / Opening / Olympic Hall / 15.00 - 16.30 / WEBApplications
General Track II
Med Imaging I / THALIA
TERPSIHORI
ERATO / 15.00 - 16.30 / General Track V
BioSignal Pro IV
Med Instrum IV / TERPSIHORI
ERATO
THALIA
15.45 - 16.30 / Plenary Session I / Olympic Hall
16.30 - 17.00 / Coffee Break / 16.30 - 17.00 / Coffee Break / 16.30 - 17.00 / Coffee Break
17.00 - 18.30 / General Track I
Med Instrum I
BioSignal Pro I / TERPSIHORI
THALIA
EARTO / 17.00 - 18.30 / General Track III
Med Instrum III
e-Health II / TERPSIHORI
THALIA
ERATO / 17.00 - 18.30 / General Track-ESBME
BioSignal Pro V
EDU / THALIA
ERATO
TERPSIHORI
18.30 - 19.30 / ELEBIT GENERAL ASSEMBLY / 18.30 - 19.30 / MEETING
THE EDITOR / TERPSIHORI
19.00 / Welcome Reception
20.00 / Greek Dinner / 20.00 / Farewell Dinner
MEDICON 2010 – 27-30 May | Chalkidiki| Greece 12th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing
Thursday, May 2715:45-16:30Plenary Session I
Olympic Hall
Chair:Nicolas Pallikarakis
Mark S Hawley
(Univeristy ofSheffield, UK)
Clinical applications of speech Technology
General Track I
TERPSIHORI
Co-chairs:Costas Pappas,
Mario Medvedec / Med Instrum I
THALIA
Co-chairs:Krysztof Penkala,
Panayiotis Kyriacou / BioSignal Pro I
ERATO
Co-chairs:Robert Allen,
Dimitris Koutsouris
- Anas Bouguecha, Islam Elgaly, Christina Stukenborg-Colsman, Matthias Lerch, Ingo Nolte, Patrick Wefstaedt and Bernd-Arno Behrens. Numerical Investigations of the Strain-Adaptive Bone Remodeling in the Prosthetic Pelvis
- Jan Quintelier, Matthieu de Beule, Peter Verdonk, Fredrik Almqvist, Patrick de Baets and Annemieke van Haver. Patellofemoral contact during simulated weight bearing squat movement: A cadaveric study
- Igor Lackovic, Ratko Magjarevic and Damijan Miklavcic. Incorporating Electroporation-related Conductivity Changes into Models for the Calculation of the Electric Field Distribution in Tissue
- Gergana Nikolova. Anthropometric measurements and model evaluation of mass-inertial parameters of the human upper and lower extremities
- Philippe Reymond, Yvette Bohraus, Fabienne Perren, Francois Lazeyras and Nikos Stergiopulos. Validation of a Person Specific 1-D Model Of the Systemic Arterial Tree
- Ze'ev Aronis, Lior Rosen, Rami Haj-Ali and Shmuel Einav. Numerical analysis of a Novel method for temperature gradient measurement in the vicinity of warm inflamed atherosclerotic plaques
- Ricardo Campos, Micael Xavier, Marcelo Lobosco and Rodrigo Santos. Performance Evaluation of a Grid-based Heart Simulator
- Antonios Komnidis, Evdokimos Konstantinidis, Ioannis Stylianou, Manousos A. Klados, Anestis Kalfas and Panagiotis Bamidis. A modular architecture of a computer-operated olfactometer for universal use
- Jens Haueisen, Katrin Fleissig, Daniel Strohmeier, Ralph Huonker, Mario Liehr and Otto W. Witte. Vectorial magnetoencephalographic measurements for the estimation of radial dipolar activity in the human somatosensory system
- Riccardo Carta, Jef Thoné and Robert Puers. Wireless Power and Data Transmission for Robotic Endoscopic Capsules
- Vasileios Charisis, Alexandra Tsiligiri, Leontios Hadjileontiadis, Crhistos Liatsos, Christos Mavrogiannis and George Sergiadis. Ulcer Detection in Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Images Using Bidimensional Nonlinear Analysis
- Kristjan Pilt, Meigas Kalju, Margus Viigimaa, Rain Kattai, Deniss Karai and Jüri Kaik. Arterial Pulse Transit Time Dependence on Applied Pressure
- Damian Obidowski, Przemyslaw Klosinski, Piotr Reorowicz and Krzysztof Jozwik. Influence of an Artificial Valve Type on the Flow in the Ventricular Assist Device
- N. Nikolaidis. DatAssist– The development of a portable multi-purpose medical Data Acquisition System
- Paulo José G. Da Silva, Antonio F. C. Infantosi and Jurandir Nadal. Event-Related Synchronization/Desynchronization for Evaluating Cortical Response Detection Induced by Dynamic Visual Stimuli
- Daniel Strohmeier, Andreas Halbleib, Maciej Gratkowski and Jens Haueisen. The Epsilon-Skew-Normal dictionary for the decomposition of single- and multichannel biomedical recordings using Matching Pursuit algorithms
- Dimitrios A. Adamos, Nikolaos A. Laskaris, Efstratios K. Kosmidis and George Theophilidis. Spike Sorting based on Dominant-Sets clustering
- Danilo B. Melges, Antonio Mauricio F. L. Miranda de Sá and Antonio Fernando Catelli Infantosi. Simples Coherence vs Multiple Coherence: a somatosensory evoked response detection investigation
- Suyeon Kim, Dragana Nikolic, Alicia Costalago Meruelo and Robert Allen. Can echolocation provide clues to improvements in medical ultrasound or hearing aids?
- Chrysa Lithari, Manousos A. Klados and Panos D. Bamidis. Graph Analysis on Functional Connectivity Networks during an Emotional Paradigm
- Joao Carlos G D Costa, Danilo B Melges, Renan Moritz V R Almeida and Antonio Fernando C Infantosi. Principal Components Clustering Through a Variance-Defined Metric
Friday, May 288:45-9:30
Plenary Session II
Olympic Hall
Chair:Nikolaos Dobros
Gunter Rau
(Helmholtz-Institute for Biomedical Engineering, RWTH-Aachen University, Germany)
Global Aspects and Developments in Biomedical Engineering
applied to Health and Life Care: Pushes and Pulls
Opening Ceremony
Olympic Hall
Welcome addresses from:
Co-chairs of MEDICON 2010
Rector of AristotleUniversity of Thessaloniki
Dean of MedicalSchool of AristotleUniversity of Thessaloniki
President of IFMBE
Conference Opening:
Minister of Health and Welfare