Author Index

AAbd El-Ilah, Layla 957Abdellah, Marwan 372Abry, Patrice 1199Accardo, A. 758Accardo, Agostino 124, 129, 409, 425Acha, Begona 337Adamopoulos, A. 565Aelterman, Jan 258Aitidis, Ilias 15Ajčević, Miloš 129, 758Akalin-Acar, Zeynep 105Akulov, Sergey A. 140Akulova, Anna S. 140Al Harrach, Mariam 119AL Harrach, Mariam 37Albo-Canals, Jordi 1185Alesanco, Alvaro 1111Alexandru, D. 46Ali, Mahmoud Omer Mohamed 1058Alić, Berina 957Aliverti, Andrea 737Almeida, Alexandre Cardozo 25Alqudah, Ali Mohammad 145Altayyar, Saleh S. 1058Altınçay, Hakan 824Álvarez-Rodríguez, Joaquín 840Amato, Francesco 870Ambrosini, Emilia 649, 1075Amer, Yassin 372An, Junmo 326, 663Anastasiou, Athanasios 1243Anayiotos, Andreas 1081Anderson, Peter 1081Andreou, Panayiotis 903, 919Angeli, Stelios 620Angulo, Cecilio 1185Antonietti, Alberto 1069Antonini, Angelo 1150Antoniou, A. 1337Antoniou, Zinonas C. 1099Apostolidis, Charilaos 1040Apostolidis, Dimitrios 1040Apostolopoulos, George 222Arfelli, Fulvia 409Argiri, Marina 1216

Argyriou, Christos-Rafail 9Árnadóttir, Iris 709Aronis, C. 302Arredondo Waldmeyer, Maria Teresa 988,

1150Arrigoni, Stefano 649Ascolese, Antonio 1287Astaras, Alexander 462, 715Astner, Sabrina T. 287Asuncion, Maria Christine Tankeh 752Athanasiou, Alkinoos 462Augustynek, Martin 239Aula, Antti 420Avantaggiato, P. 451Averkiou, Mike A. 748Avezzano, Paolo 967, 1010Aydin, Nizamettin 114, 518

BBabiloni, Fabio 1351Babusiak, Branko 184Bacigal, Tomas 1131Bacsó, Piroska 571Badnjević, Almir 957Baldassini, D. 644Baldassini, Davide 640Balestra, Gabriella 296Bamidis, P.D. 1231Bamidis, Panagiotis D. 462, 1292Barbato, Mario 709Barbee, Kenneth A. 524Barco, Alex 1185Barmpakos, Dimitrios 33Barmpoutis, Panagiotis 234Bartels, W. 659Bauer, Prisca R. 100Baumeyer, Julien 614Bayford, Richard 172Beck, Christoph 854Bei, Ekaterini S. 500, 512, 1085Belardinelli, Andrea 967, 1010Bell, S.L. 3Ben Mansour, Khalil 37Benali, Abderraouf 602Beretta, Elena 673Bernans, Alvis 770

Bertollo, Maurizio 913Besnard, Vincent 614Bezerianos, Anastasios 1351Bianchi, Anna Maria 105Bibas, Athanasios 726Bibas, Thanos 320Bibbo, Daniele 476, 913, 1034Bibiano, César 50Biediger, Daniel 679Biffi, Emilia 451, 673, 737Biffi, Stefania 409Bifulco, Paolo 71, 870Bigler, Stéphane 741Billiris, Antonis 859Billis, A.S. 1231Bisio, Angela 542Biundo, Roberta 1150Bizopoulos, Paschalis A. 332Black, Norman D. 897Blandamura, Stella 393Blinowska, Katarzyna J. 19Bliznakova, Kristina 367Bogdan, Martin 535, 983Böhm, Stephan H. 172Böhnke, Frank 320Booth, Nichola 1174Borgatti, R. 451Bottenberg, Peter 399Boudaoud, Sofiane 37, 119Bousi, Evgenia 254Bouzit, Mourad 602Boyd, Adele 897Braghin, Francesco 649Braoudaki, Maria 507Brocks, Holger 781Broekhuizen, Henk 1003Brott, Brigitta 1081Brox, Ellen 1225Bryan, Keith 576Bryjova, Iveta 239Bryjová, Iveta 774Brzezicka, Aneta 19Buerk, Donald G. 524Buliev, Ivan 367Burattini, Laura 42, 551, 555

Bursa, Miroslav 874, 1162Butterworth, Micheal 172Buyl, Ronald 797Cabrero-Canosa, Mariano J. 865

CCagy, Mauricio 95Cagy, Maurício 962Caldwell, Darwin G. 720Calil, Saide J. 1024Callejón, M. Amparo 467Calori, Ilaria 83Caltagirone, Laura 971Camilleri, Kenneth P. 173, 275Camilleri, Kenneth 134Camilleri, Tracey 134, 173Canbay, Ferhat 114Cancela, Jorge 988, 1150Cantiani, Chiara 105Cao, Zili 766Carcano, A. 451Carriou, Vincent 119Casellato, Claudia 1069Cassar, Kevin 275Castaldo, Rosanna 1000Castaldo, Rossana 205Caulier-Cisterna, Raúl 89Cavero, Eva 1111Cereghetti, Donato M. 903Cervigón, Raquel 62Cesarelli, Mario 71, 870Cesareo, Ambra 673, 737Charalambous, Marina 1304Chase, J. Geoff 50Chatziioannou, Aristotelis 495Chemouny, J. 614Chen, Chien-Hsun 209Chen, Mei-Fen 975, 1331Cheng, Jack Chun-Yiu 341Chiew, Yeong Shiong 50, 56Chin, Karen 326Chkeir, Aly 909Chockalingam, Nachi 275Chouvarda, Ioanna 529Christodoulakis, Alexandros 859Christodoulakis, Georgios 932Christodoulou, Eleni 903, 919Christofides, Damianos 748Christofides, S. 1337Christofides, Stelios 172Christoforou, Eftychios G. 663, 679Christophorou, Christophoros 903, 919Christou, Synesios 847, 885Christoyianni, Ioanna 222Chrysanthou, I. 1337Chu, Shiang-Lin 975Chudáček, Václav 1199, 1211

Ciani, Oriana 1345Cid, J. 457Cinquetti, Martino 124Civit, Anton 1225Clark, Dan J. 1028Cleland, Ian 897Clemente, Fabrizio 71Cleymaet, Roberto 399Cocchi, Duccio 967Cogo, Carla E. 551, 555Colombo, Federico 409Colombo, Vera Maria 1075Colomer-Farrarons, J. 457Comani, Silvia 913Conforto, Silvia 476, 634, 913, 1034Conrad, M. 1249Constantinides, Anthony G. 1099Constantinides, G. 1081Constantinou, Riana 847, 850, 885Conti, G. 1231Contreras, Iván 1137Cotti Cottini, Michele 640Cottini, Michele Cotti 644Cristea, Daniel 1081Cruciani, Federico 897Csuhaj, Péter 571Curiardi, Matteo 967Cybulski, Gerard 167

DD’Alterio, Francesco 250D’Angelo, Egidio 1069D’Angelo, Maria Grazia 737D’Anna, Carmen 634, 913D’Avenio, Giuseppe 688, 694da Silva, Fernando H. Lopes 100Dal Monego, Simeone 409Danas, Konstantinos 808, 834Dance, David R. 217Daniele, Carla 688Dawson, Darren 576De Angelis, Giorgio 694De Blasiis, Maria Rosaria 913De Dea, Federica 124de Geus-Oei, Lioe-Fee 1003de Graaf, Gimon 172de Melo, Thiago M. 95De Paolis, Lucio Tommaso 880de Sa, Antonio Mauricio Ferreira Leite

Miranda 25de Sá, Antonio Mauricio Miranda 196De Vylder, Jonas 258Dekhtyar, Yuri 482del Re, Luigi 190Delibasis, Konstantinos 1105Delibasis, Kostas 302Delière, Quentin 1125

Delport, H. 659Demetrakopoulos, Ioannis 846Demetriadou, O. 1337Demosthenous, Andreas 172Dermatas, Evaggelos 222di Fronso, Selenia 913Di Iorio, Valentina 250Di Nardo, Francesco 42, 551, 555Dias, Joana 814, 828Díaz, Martha Zequera 1329Díaz-Boladeras, Marta 1185Dibi, Zohir 602Dimitropoulos, Kosmas 234do Carmo Lopes, Maria 814, 828Docherty, Paul D. 50, 56Domènech, Miquel 1185Donnelly, Mark P. 897, 1174Donnelly, Mark 1237Doret, Muriel 1199Dori, Fabrizio 1010Drechsler, Klaus 382Drnovšek, Janko 437Drosatos, George 791Duchêne, Jacques 909

EEdmunds, Kyle Joseph 709Elangovan, Premkumar 217Eldeib, Ayman 372Ellul, Christian 275El-Yaagoubi, Mohammed 414Elze, Romy 983Engel, Felix 781Errachid, Abdelhamid 1180Eskola, Hannu 430Estournet, Delphine 709Evertsen, Gunn 1225

FFaelli, Emanuela 551, 555Faes, Luca 67Faiella, Giuliana 71Fakas, Georgios J. 787Falzon, Owen 134, 173, 275Fanariotis, M. 302Farina, Paulo Danilo 962Fatih Ugurdag, H. 114Federici, Carlo 1345Fedotov, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich 140Felix, Leonardo Bonato 196Ferber, Reed 580, 586Fernández-Leal, Ángel 865Fernandez-Luque, Luis 1225Ferrante, Simona 640, 644, 1075Ferreira, Brígida 814, 828Ferrigno, Giancarlo 1075Fico, Giuseppe 988

1354 Author Index

Fifer, William P. 83Fifield, Bruce 172Finesso, Lorenzo 393Fioretti, Sandro 42, 551, 555Fiorino, Sirio 393Formica, F. 451Formosa, Cynthia 275Foroglou, Nicolas 462Fotiadis, Dimitrios I. 320, 332, 559, 1180Fotopoulos, Ilias 802Freckmann, Guido 190Frerichs, Inéz 172Frize, Monique 820Frosini, Francesco 967, 1010Ftikas, D. 1040Ftikas, Vasileios 1040Fuchs, M. 781

GGabriele, Stefano 634Gala, Michal 184Galanopoulos, Anastasios 9Gandolla, Marta 640, 644García, Jose 1111García-Alberola, Arcadio 89Gargiulo, Paolo 709Garrovo, Chiara 409Gatt, Alfred 275Gauci, Jean 275Gauci, Norbert 134Gayraud, Nathalie T.E. 1216Gelaude, F. 659Geminiani, Alice 1069Gentile, Giovanni 1150Georgescu, D. 46Georgiadis, Dimosthenis 903, 919Georgiou, Julius 854Georgopoulos, Voula C. 1309Georgoulas, George 1211Geršak, Gregor 437Giacomini, Mauro 446, 542Giannini, Valentina 296Giansanti, Daniele 1050Giatromanolaki, Alexandra 495Giglio, Manuela 1150Giokas, K. 726Giokas, Konstantinos 245Giokas, Kostas 162, 1243Giovagnoli, Maria Rosaria 1050Gíslason, Magnus K. 709Goffredo, Michela 634, 913Goh, Cho Hong James 752Golpaygani, Ali Tavakoli 624, 941Gong, Bo 1270, 1276, 1280Gonzalez-Abril, Luis 1167Göran Salerud, E. 442Goren, Sezer 114

Gormez, Zeliha 489Görzig, Heike 781Grala, B. 388Grammalidis, Nikos 234Grey, Michael J. 1075Grigioni, Mauro 688, 694Grigutis, Mantas 79Grillone, Saverio 1010Grizzi, Fabio 393Grosset, Jean-Francois 37Grosu, Anca-Ligia 287Guanziroli, E. 644Guastini, Luca 720Guglielmelli, Eugenio 1000Gunnlaugsdottir, Kristín Inga 403Gurbeta, Lejla 957

HHaaparanta, Anne-Marie 420Hadjichristofi, George 885, 1304Hadjileontiadis, Leontios J. 9Hadjipanteli, Andria 217Hannula, Markus 420Haritopoulos, Michel 1193Hassani, Kamran 200, 624Hedjazi, Naceur 602Helgason, Thordur 403Hemmje, Matthias 781Hermannsson, Þrostur 709Hernandez, Liss 988Herodotou, P. 596Hettinga, Blayne A. 580, 586Heutelbeck, Dominic 781Hewson, David J. 909Hoffmann, Jörn 535Hong, Junghwa 685Hortelano, Marcos 62Horváth, Márk 571Hozman, Jiri 1323Hummel, J. Marjan 1003Huptych, Michal 1162, 1199Hussein, Eltahir Mohammed 1058Hyttinen, Jari 420

IIadanza, Ernesto 967, 971, 1010, 1019Ichinose, Roberto Macoto 25Ignesti, Cosimo 1019Iliopoulou, Dimitra 162, 332, 507Illanes, Alfredo 1193Ilves, Mirja 653Indera-Putera, Siti Hazurah 994Infantosi, Antonio Fernando C. 962Infantosi, Antonio Fernando Casttelli 95Ioannou, Maria 1304Iuppariello, Luigi 71

JJacob, Vesna 287Jacquet, Wolfgang 399Jafarian, Kamal 200Januškevičius, Tomas 79Jaron, Dov 524Javorka, Michal 67Jelenc, Jure 1030Jeyhani, Vala 151, 1144Jiang, Wei-Wei 341Jobbágy, Ákos 571, 1320Jonkers, I. 659Jónsson, Halldor 709Jung, Soonmoon 685

KKaiafas, Aggelos 859Kakolyris, S. 565Kakouri, Eleni 748Kalatzis, Fanis G. 1180Kaldoudi, Eleni 791Kalitzin, Stiliyan N. 100Kamarianakis, Zacharias 367Kambanaros, Maria 1309Kaminski, Jan 19Kaminski, Maciej 19Kampanis, N. 932Kao, Tsai 975Kaolis, D. 1337Kapnisis, Konstantinos 1081Karaiskou, Angeliki-Ιlektra 9Karanasiou, Georgia S. 1180Karanikas, Haralampos 859Karaoli, Christina 172Karatsiolis, Savvas 525Karatzia, Anastasia 9Karavias, Dimitrios D. 245Karavias, Dionissios 245Karimi, Alireza 624Karkanis, Stavros A. 33Karvelis, Petros 1211Kasparis, Takis 347, 351Kassinopoulos, Michalis 254Katashev, Alexei 472, 770Katrakazas, Panagiotis 162, 507, 726Katsiri, Eleftheria 859Katsogridakis, E. 29Kavallieratou, Ergina 592Kaza, Chrysoula 9Kellomäki, Minna 420Kelly, Brian 781Kelly, Ger 576Kemanetzi, Christina 715Keramaris, Vasilios A. 808Khan, Ali Mehmood 1297Khoo, Boo Cheong 744Khouri, Leila 828

Author Index 1355

Kim, Hunhee 685Kim, Jaemin 685Kirby, Patrick 524Kirsanidou, Ines 715Klados, Manousos A. 462Klaseboer, Evert 744Kleanthous, Styliani 903, 919Kleks, Amir 179Knox, Christopher 172Kobsar, Dylan 580Koch, A.P. 1329Kohlschuetter, Jan 668Kolany, Adam 983Koletsa, Triantafyllia 234Konstantinidis, E.I. 1231Konstantinidis, Stathis Th. 1225Kontogianni, Georgia 495Kontomaris, Stylianos Vasileios 264, 269Kopp, Christine 287Koprivova, Jana 157Kopru, Rahul 679Korfitis, Chrysovalantis 715Kostopoulos, Ioannis 234Koukourakis, Michael I. 495Kouris, Ioannis 162, 507, 726, 802Koutras, Athanasios 222Koutsouri, Tzortzia 507Koutsouris, Dimitrios D. 332Koutsouris, Dimitrios 245, 802Koutsouris, Dimitrios-Dionysios 162, 507,

726Koutsouris, Dimitris 1243Kretschmer, Jörn 50, 56, 703Krueger-Ziolek, Sabine 1270, 1276, 1280Kubátová, Ivana 1006Kubicek, Jan 239, 774Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos 847, 850, 885,

1304Kyriacou, George 15Kyriacou, Panicos A. 281, 378

LLaforet, Jeremy 119Lai, Ka-Lee 341Lai, Ying-Hui 209Lam, Tsz-Ping 341Lamberts, Robert J. 100Lambrou, George I. 162, 507Landini, Luigi 308Lanitis, Andreas 361, 891Latorre, Malcolm A. 442Laufer, Bernhard 56Laura, Cristina Oyarzun 382Lawo, Michael 1297Lazaridou, Elisavet 715Leandrou, Stephanos 281Lee, Jen-Kai 975

Lee, Taekyeong 685Lee, Youngho 685Lehmann, Thomas 703Lehocki, Fedor 1131Leigh, Ryan 580Lejeune, Laurent 1125Lekkala, Jukka 653Lemons, Jack 1081Leonarduzzi, Roberto 1199Leska, Valsamo 500Levent, Vecdi Emre 114Lhotska, Lenka 157, 874, 1162, 1211,

1323Li, Yan 694Lim, Tae-Hong 685Lin, Fun-Hsiang 975Lin, Kang-Ping 762, 975, 1331Lioi, Giulia 3Lippens, Saskia 258Litvak, J. 472Liu, Xin 663, 679Liutkevičienė, Rasa 110Loizou, Christakis 355Loizou, Christos P. 347, 351, 355, 361LoMauro, Antonella 737Lontos, Antonis 1337Looney, Padraig 217Louca, Loucas S. 596Lu, Shao-Hung 762Lucangelo, Umberto 129, 758Lucchini, Maristella 83Luschi, Alessio 971, 1019Lylykangas, Jani 653Lyra, Maria 314

MMacas, Martin 157Maccioni, Giovanni 1050Mackenzie, Alistair 217Macor, Paolo 409Magenes, Giovanni 1205Maglaveras, Nicos 529Maglogiannis, Ilias 302, 495, 1105Magras, Ioannis 462Mahdiani, Shadi 151, 1044Mahfouf, Mahdi 994Makeig, Scott 105Mäkelä, Eeva 653Malandraki, Georgia A. 1309Malataras, Panagiotis 1061Manis, George 1216Mansour, Nashat 834Mäntysalo, Matti 1144Maramis, Christos 529Maranesi, Elvira 42Marcou, Yiola 748Marias, K. 932

Marin, Frederic 37Marinou, Mary 979Markiewicz, Tomasz 388Maroulis, Ioannis 245Marozas, Mindaugas 110Marozas, Vaidotas 79, 110Martens, Luc 399Martínez Madrid, Natividad 1156Martirosyan, Hasmik 820Massote, Mariana Aguiar 25Matamis, Dimitrios 355Matloňová, Veronika 1006Mattos, Leonardo S. 720Matziari, Elena 1304Mavrocheilos, Rafail 847, 1304McCullagh, Paul J. 897McDonough, Suzanne 897McFaull, Steven R. 820Meccariello, Pasqua 1000Megalooikonomou, Vasileios 245Meijers, Judith 903Melillo, Paolo 250Mendes, Eduardo M.A.M. 196Mengarelli, Alessandro 42Menk, Ralf Hendrick 409Merlo, Marco 124Mermoud, André 741Michael, George 361Migeotte, Pierre-François 1125Miklavčič, Damijan 1030Mills, G.H. 994Minas, George 355Miniati, Roberto 967, 971, 1010, 1019Miossec, Sylvain 614Miribel-Català, Pere L. 457Mitrakas, Achilleas 495Miyakoshi, Makoto 105Mizzi, Anabelle 275Mizzi, Stephen 275Młyńczak, Marcel 167Moeller, Knut 608, 1270, 1276, 1280Möller, Knut 50, 56, 703, 1259Molls, Michael 287Molteni, F. 644Mondovecchio, Claudio 971Montesinos, Luis 1000Monticone, Marco 1075Mora, Francesco 720Mora-Jiménez, Inmaculada 414Morandi, F. 451Moret-Bonillo, Vicente 865Morettini, Micaela 551, 555Moussa, Daniel 846Movahedi, Mohammad Mehdi 941Mpekris, Fotios 620Mucci, Vivana 1125Mueller, Andreas 596

1356 Author Index

Müller, Heimo 546Muñoz, Roberto Alejandro Espí 75Munteanu, Daniel 1081

NNammour, Fadi Louis 834Nandi, Asoke K. 1193Naranjo, David 467Natale, Agostino 870Neocleous, Andreas C. 936Neocleous, Costas K. 936Neocleous, Costas 731Neofytou, Marios 1054Neophytou, Marios 847, 850Ni, Guangjian 320Nicolaides, Kypros H. 936Nicolaidou, Iolie 847, 850Nicolaou, Maria 850Nikolaou, Chrysovalantis 847, 850, 1304Nikoletopoulos, Stelios 846Nikolic, Dragana 29Nollo, Giandomenico 67Noponen, Kai 1144Nordebo, Sven 172Notas, G. 932Novales, Cyril 614Nugent, Chris D. 897, 1174Nugent, Chris 1237Nyssen, Marc 797

OOelmann, Simon 382Oesch, Peter 1225Ogutcen, Omer Faruk 489Ohl, Siew-Wan 744Oks, Alexander 472Oriwoh, Edewede 1249Orrico, Ada 250Ortega Ramírez, Juan Antonio 1156, 1167Ortega Tañá, Laura 457Osis, Sean T. 580, 586Osmancik, Radek 946Ozen, Mustafa 518

PPace, Teresa 425Pacilè, Serena 409Pacini, Giovanni 753Palaiologou, Revekka 802Pallikarakis, Nicolas 979, 1061Panagidis, Chr. 1337Panayides, Andreas S. 1099Pandria, Niki 1292Panerai, Ronney B. 29Panis, Gabriel 361Pannese, Lucia 1287Panopoulou, Chrysi 529

Pantanowitz, Adam 179Pantziaris, Marios 351, 1099Papadaniil, Chrysa 9Papadodima, Olga 495Papadouli, Aspasia 1040Papaioannou, Maria 731Papaioannou, Theodoros G. 332Pareja-Grande, Juan Antonio 414Parikh, Jaimit 524Parpottas, Yiannis 1337Pashaei, Elham 518Patterson, Timothy 897Pattichis, Constantinos S. 281, 355, 787,

1099Pattichis, Constantinos 33, 1054Pattichis, Marios S. 1099Pavšelj, Nataša 1030Pecchia, Leandro 205, 1000Pedrocchi, Alessandra 640, 644, 649,

1069, 1075Peltomäki, Timo 430Penhaker, Marek 239Peretti, Giorgio 720Pérez-Carrasco, José-Antonio 337Peri, Elisabetta 1075Peter, Lukas 946Peters, Jan 668Petkov, Nicolai 787, 936Petrakis, Euripides 500Petrėnas, Andrius 79Petropoulou, Ourania 162, 507Petros, A.J. 378Petroudi, Styliani 281Petsani, Despoina 9Peyton, Graham 179Philip, Nada Y. 1093Philips, Wilfried 258Phinyomark, Angkoon 580, 586Piazza, C. 451Piazza, Caterina 105Piperidou, Charitomeni 15Piras, Paolo 634Pirentis, Athanassios P. 620Pitris, Costas 254Pitsillides, Costas 1081Plakas, Konstantinos 726Plotegher, L. 1231Pochini, Marco 1050Poisson, Gérard 614Polterauer, Phillipp 190Polyviou, Petros 748Portokallidis, Nick 791Positano, Vincenzo 308Poullos, Nektarios 287Prakash, Mithilesh 430Pramatari, Katerina 859Prokopi, Marianna 1081

QQian, Yongkai 766

RRafiroiu, Dan 694Ramezani, Ali 941Ramos-López, Javier 840Rancans, M. 472Rantanen, Ville 653Rauch, Giuseppe 446, 542Rautiainen, Markus 653Raya, Cristóbal 1185Redmond, Daniel 50, 703Regge, Daniele 296Rehman, Ikram U. 1093Reihs, Robert 546Reilly, Richard B. 62Reina-Tosina, Javier 467Reiterer, Florian 190Remartinez, Antonio 1225Ren, Shen 1351Reni, G. 451Reni, Gianluigi 105, 673Revuelta-Zamorano, Paz 840Reyes Adame, Miguel 608Reyes-Aldasoro, Constantino Carlos 281Riederer, Stephen J. 292Rigas, George 320Rigon, Luigi 409Rimensberger, Peter 172Rimševičius, Laurynas 79Roa, Laura M. 467Robaldo, Stefano 542Rocha, Humberto 814, 828Rodríguez Villarreal, A.I. 457Roels, Joris 258Rojo-Álvarez, José Luis 89, 414, 840Romano, Maria 71, 870Rosati, Samanta 296Rossi, Settimio 250Roubik, Karel 1264Rousou, Charis M. 748Roy, Sylvain 741Rubin, David M. 179Rubio, Oscar J. 1111Rueckert, Elmar 668Ruggeri, Piero 551, 555Ruggiero, Carmelina 446, 542Russo, Debora 649

SSaeys, Yvan 258Saifutdinova, Elizaveta 157Sakellarios, Antonis I. 320, 332Samaras, George 903, 919Sambani, Kyriaki 269Sánchez, Alberto 840

Author Index 1357

Sancho, Jorge 1111Sanromán-Junquera, Margarita 89Santarelli, Maria Filomena 308Santi, Marika 737Santos, Luis 919Santos, Talita E.B. 95Sbrignadello, Stefano 393, 753Scampicchio, Anna 393Scherz, W. Daniel 1119Schiza, Eirini C. 787Schizas, Christos N. 525, 731, 787, 936Schmid, Maurizio 476, 1034Schullcke, Benjamin 1270, 1276, 1280Schultheisz, Judit 571Sciancalepore, Marina 425Scipioni, Michele 308Sciuto, Salvatore Andrea 476, 1034Scorza, Andrea 476, 1034Seepold, Ralf 1119Seimenis, I. 565Seimenis, Ioannis 326Sejdinović, Dijana 957Seker, Huseyin 489Selutina, Margarita 482Seneci, Carlo 640, 644Serbanescu, M. 46Serbes, Gorkem 114Serrallonga, Núria 1185Serrano, Carmen 337Sfakianakis, S. 932Sfakianakis, Stelios 1085Shah, Dipan J. 326Sheikhi, Ghazaal 824Shewell, Colin 1237Siegersma, Klaske R. 1003Signorini, Maria G. 83, 1205Šileikaitė, Milda 110Simonelli, Francesca 250Simpson, D.M. 3Simpson, David M. 29Sinagra, Gianfranco 124Skillen, Kerry-Louise 1174Skinner, Robin 820Sklia, Despoina 378Skutova, H. 774Slodkowska, J. 388Sneiders, Maksims 482Soares, Inês 814, 828Sobota, Vladimir 1264Soguero-Ruiz, Cristina 840Soleimezi, Eleni 355Solomou, Rafaella 347Sološenko, Andrius 79Soria Morillo, Luis Miguel 1119, 1167Soulis, Nikolas 351

Souza, Ana Paula 196Souza, Angelo Bernardo B. 962Spachos, Dimitris 1292Spilka, Jiří 1199, 1211Spyrou, Giorgos 847Stanaitis, Skirmantas 110Stankevičius, Dainius 79Stechova, Katerina 1162Stehle, Patrick 703Stergiopulos, Nikolaos 741Steuten, Lotte 172Stoeva, M. 950Strazza, Annachiara 42Strazzer, Sandra 673Strimpakos, Nikolaos 33Stylianopoulos, Triantafyllos 620Stylianou, Andreas 264, 269Stylios, Chrysostomos D. 1211, 1309Suárez-Mejías, Cristina 337Subaskaran, Jenini 820Surakka, Veikko 653Swiderska-Chadaj, Zaneta 388Symeonidis, Ioannis 592

TTabakov, Slavik 927Tachos, Nikolaos S. 320Tahir, Muhammad Atif 489Tamminen, Ilmari 420Tang, Shih-Tsang 209Tanos, Vasilios 1054Tarata, Mihai 46Tarricone, Rosanna 1345Teicher, Mina 179Testa, Francesco 250Thakor, Nitish V. 1351Theodorou, Marilena 287Theodorou, Nasia 850Theodosiadou, Georgia 15Thijs, Roland D. 100Third, Allan 791Tierra-Criollo, Carlos Julio 25Tiv, Melinda 820Tizzard, Andrew 172Toh, Siew Lok 752Toh, Siew-Lok 1317Tousoulis, Dimitris 332Triantaris, Pavlos 9Tripoliti, Evanthia E. 559, 1180Tromba, Giuliana 409Tsai, Cheng-Lun 762Tsai, Cheng-Lung 975, 1331Tsai, Kao 1331Tsakaneli, Stayroula 512Tsao, Yu 209

Tsaparellas, Kyriakos 361Tsekos, Nikolaos V. 326, 663, 679Tsimaris, M. 850Tsukahara, Victor Hugo Batista 1024Ttofi, Elena 314Tura, Andrea 393, 753

UUlozas, Virgilijus 110Ulozienė, Ingrida 110Unan, Mahmut 326, 663

Vvan de Borne, Philippe 1125van de Ruit, Mark 1075van Kaam, Anton 172Van Laere, Sven 797Vander Sloten, Jos 659Vanhala, Jukka 1044Varano, Valerio 634Varisco, Gabriele 83Vavuranakis, Manolis 332Vehi, Josep 1137Vehkaoja, Antti 151, 653, 1144Velis, Demetrios N. 100Veraldi, Valerio 913Verho, Jarmo 653Veselý, Petr 653Vetter, R. 950Vezzosi, Stefano 1010Vieyres, Pierre 614Viik, Jari 1044Villamarin, Adan 741Villanueva Mascato, Samanta 1150Vlachou, Anastasia Anna 846Voilmy, Dimitri 909Vrachatis, Dimitrios A. 332Vraskó, Hanna Réfy 571Vuorinen, Tiina 1144

WWalsh, Paul 781Wang, Guanglei 694Wang, Haiying 1237Wårdell, Karin 442Weavers, Paul T. 292Webb, Andrew G. 326, 663Weber, Ulrike 983Weiler, Norbert 172Wells, Kevin 217Wesarg, Stefan 382Wolf, W. 46Worm, Anna M.E. 1014Wortley, David 1287Wrobel, Miroslaw 983

1358 Author Index

XXenitidis, Panagiotis 565Xydas, Evagoras 596Xygonakis, Ioannis 9

YYang, Dongwook 685Yay, Emre 1156Yeh, Zong-Mu 209Yerworth, Rebecca 172Yiannakkaras, Ch. 1337Yiannakkaras, Charalambos 172Young, Kenneth C. 217

Yova, Dido 264, 269Yu, Jing 608

ZZachevsky, Ido 228Zadinans, M. 472Zatloukal, Kurt 546Zavlanou, Christina 891Zeckzer, Dirk 535Zeevi, Yehoshua Y. 228Zeng, Bixin 766Zerafa, Rosanne 173

Zervakis, Michalis 500, 512, 559, 1085Zhao, Zhanqi 1259, 1270Zheng, Huiru 897Zheng, Yong-Ping 341, 1330Zhou, Guang-Quan 341Zin, W.A. 758Ziraldo, Gaia 425Zogkas, Alexander 715Zorec, Barbara 1030Zunda, Uldis 482Žunić, Emir 957Zygomalas, Apollon 245

Author Index 1359

Keyword Index

MISCIn vivo imaging 1081

MISCk-space volume reconstruction 372µCT imaging 4203D Reconstruction 320, 326, 3323D SPECT 3143D tissue segmentation 7094G-Health 10935G-Health 1093

AAccident investigation 1024Accidental falls 205Accreditation 1329Acetabular reconstruction 659Acoustic 774Acoustocerebrography 983Acousto-electric effect 403Active ageing & wellbeing 891Active ageing 903Active aging 1225Active and Healthy Ageing 1231Activities of Daily Living 1249Activity recognition 1105Activity vector 512Actor-Network Theory 1185Acute insulin response 551Adaptive threshold 140Adenocarcinoma 393Advanced driver assistance system 1156Adverse Event 1024, 1061aEEG 95Ageing in place 1237Ageing society 1287Ageing Well 903, 919Ageing 586Aging effects 891Aging 124Air leaks 758Alarms 962Alertness 913Alzheimer’s Disease 281Ambient Assisted Living 1237Ambulatory respiratory monitoring 167

Amplitude descriptors 119Analog filtering 145Analysis 774Analytics 834Analyzer Based Imaging 409Animal model 1081, 551, 555Anisotropic 752Anomaly detection 1249Ant colony optimization 874Antigen-Induced Arthritis (AIA) 409Approximate string matching 535Apps 1304Arena models healthcare 967Armeo 673Arrhythmia 79Arterial blood pressure 29Artificial carotid video 347Artificial Neural Network 640Artificial Neural Networks 296, 820, 936Assessment 1309, 971Assistive device 451Assistive environments 1105Assistive robotics 649Assistive technology 1174ASSR 196Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) 264,

269Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

(ADHD) 1292Auscultation 854Autism Spectrum Disorder 1174Automated system 1034Automatic classification 105Automatic detection 275Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) 83Autonomic Nervous System 67Axon potential 442

BBacteria 744Ballistocardiography 1125Bayesian Networks 234Bayesian 668BCI 196Biceps Brachii 37Big data 840

Bilateral activity 105Binning 1167Bio signals 1119Bioengineering 1329, 1331Biofilm 744Bioimpedance 467Bioinformatics 535Biological networks 1085, 512Biomechanical testing 1081Biomechanics 602, 659Biomedical engineering education 1331Biomedical engineering 1014, 1317, 1323,

1329, 715Biomedical image processing 234Biomedical signal 145Bio-mimicking 162Bioprosthetic Aortic Valve 332Bipolar disorder 500Bipolar 1054Birth injury 571Blood donation 802Blood donor management information

system 802Blood glucose control 190Blood glucose 1137Blood 457, 624Blood-gases 994BME education 1320Body monitor 437Body sounds 854Body temperature 437Bottom-up 9Brain computer interface 462Brain health state 983Brain volume 281Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) 134, 173Breast cancer diagnosis 200Breast cancer 1085, 222, 748Breast irradiation 770Burden of Diabetes 824

CCAD system 296Calcification detection 217Camera calibration 1105

Cancer diagnostics 546Capillaries 378Capillary 624CardioTocography 1193, 1205, 1216Care pathway 791Care robots 919Carotid plaque 351Cartilage imaging 409Causality 67Cavitation 744CBCT 430CDA HL7 870CDMAM 217Cell deformation 624Cell segmentation 234Center of Gravity 1264Center of Ventilation 1264Centerline extraction 332Central congenital hypoventilation

syndrome 451Cerebellum 1069Cerebral autoregulation 29Cerebral blood flow control 29Cerebral function monitoring 962Characterization 442Chemotherapy 620Children with disabilities 571Child-robot interaction 1185Chromosomal abnormalities 936Chronic conditions 897CIMT 673CIS 971Classification 1193, 1211, 281, 814, 9Classifier 1044Clinical algorithm 791Clinical data monitoring 1034Clinical decision support system 802Clinical decision support 834Clinical Document Architecture 870Clinical engineering maintenance 975Clinical engineering outsourcing 975Clinical engineering 1014, 1019, 1024,

975Clinical practice guideline 791Clonic seizures 100Cloud computing 834Cloud technologies 919Cluster headache diagnosis 414Clustering 542Cochlea 320Cognitive monitoring 1150Collagen 269, 420Collision avoidance 608Collision detection 614Color features 414Color mapping 239Common carotid artery 347

Communication with patient 1040Community structure of networks 19Compartmental model 308Complex dynamics 507Complex systems 162Complexity 67Component 1297Compression 1111Computational DNA 162Computational fluid dynamics 694Computational intelligence 936Computational neuroscience 1069Computational RNA 162Computed micro-tomography 409Computer assisted surgery 245Computer vision 425Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) 222Computer-based platform 367Conceptual model 791Connectivity 157Context-Aware Services 1237Continuous Glucose Monitoring 190, 753Continuous monitoring 95Contractility 1125Contraction 425Contrast enhanced ultrasound 748Contrast enhanced 326Contrast sensitivity 766Contrast-enhanced MR angiography 292Co-occurrence 476Correlation of derivative 254Cough 737Coupling parameters 442Crisis Emergency Management 850Cross-database validation 1199CUDA/OpenGL interoperability 372Curriculum 1317CWT 9

DD – Band periodicity 269Data acquisition 715Data mining 1167, 874Data models 897Data protection 787Data reduction 95Data visualization 874Data warehousing 834Dataset fuzzification 731Deaths by poison 820Debye effect 403Decision support 1162, 994Decision tree induction 874Decision Trees 820Defibrillation 946Deformation estimation 37Deformation 332

Denervated degenerated muscles 403Denoising 258Dentistry 744Dermatoscope 715Dermoscopy 715Desmoplasia 393Detection 140Development 1304Devices 1019Diabetes 1131, 1162, 988Diagnosis 731Diagnostic radiology 950Diagnostic ultrasound 476Diaphragmatic motion analysis 355Diaphragmatic muscle 355Diaphragmatic ultrasound 355DICOM 1111, 399Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) 302Digital Breast Tomosynthesis 217Digital pathology 1050Digital signature 870Dijkstra’s minimum-cost path 302Direct reconstruction 308Directed Coherence 3Directed Transfer Function 19Discomfort 909Discrete event simulation 967Discretization algorithm 1167Discriminative post filter 209Display 399Distributed systems 932DMD 766Dose report 1040Driver stress 1156Driving behaviour 1156Driving 913Dual signal model 89Dual Tree Complex Wavelet Transform

114Duchenne muscular dystrophy 737Dynamic positron emission tomography

308

EECG morphology 205ECG 1119, 140, 151, 184, 75, 854Echocardiograms 1111Ecosystem 1180Education 1174, 1317, 1323, 1329, 927,

946EEG 1351, 913E-health systems 1167e-Health 787, 797, 797, 1119, 1243EIT 1264Elastance 50Elderly 1075, 1225e-Learning 927

1362 Keyword Index

Electric circuit phantom 467Electrical Impedance Tomography 1259,

1264, 1270, 1276, 1280Electrical impedance tomography 715Electrical safety 941Electrical stimulation 403, 425, 653Electrode testing 442Electrode 1144Electroencephalogram 25Electroencephalography (EEG) 134, 157Electroencephalography 15, 865Electromyography 33, 46, 709Electron microscopy 258Electronic Health Record (EHR) 787Electronic health record 834Electronic medical records 802Electronic prescription systems 797Electronics 715Electro-oculography 145Electrophysiology 89Electrosurgery 1054Electrosurgical equipment 941Embedded devices 75Embedded signal processing 79Emergency health care support 885Emergency telemedicine 885Emergency workflow management 885Emergency 847EMG classifier 640EMG model 668EMG-control 644Emotional states 1297Empirical Mode Decomposition 71Endotracheal tubes 129Energy-efficiency 1156En-face Spectral Domain Optical Coherence

Tomography (SD-OCT) 250Engagement index 913Ensemble feature selection 489Ensemble learning 1085Enter up to five keywords and separate them

by commas 859Epilepsy 100Equivalent dipole 105ERPs 9EUDAMED 1061Evaluation 850, 909Event Related Synchronization 25Event-Related Desynchronization 25Event-related fields 179Evoked Potential 196Ex vivo histological analysis 1030Exchange formats 781Exergames 1225

FFacial pacing 653Facial paralysis 653FDA 1061Feature extraction 1193, 222, 580, 586Feature ranking 518Feature reduction 580Feature selection 1199, 580, 814Fetal Heart Rate (FHR) 1211Fetal Heart Rate 1199, 1216Fetal monitoring 1199FHR simulation 71Fibroblasts 264Fibroin 752Field in field technique 770FIF 770Filter 151Filtering surgery 741Finite Element Method 1280Finite element method 726Finite Elements Analysis 709First Order Model 50, 56First-phase insulin secretion 551Fisheye video 1105Flight simulation 1351Fluid 457Fluid-structure interaction 624Fluorescence Microscopy 258FMECA 1010Foetal Heart Rate Variability 71Foetal heart rate 1193Foetal welfare assessment 1193Folds 388Follicular Lymphoma 234Foreign countries examples 1006FPGA 114, 535Fractal analysis 124Fractionated Stereotactic Radiotherapy 287Frailty 909Freehand 3-D ultrasound 341Frequency domain filtering 1270Frequency domain 1205Functional analysis 495Functional connectivity 3Future ready 1317Fuzzy clustering 446Fuzzy Cognitive Maps 1309Fuzzy cognitive maps 731Fuzzy-ART 200

GGait analysis 1231, 472, 580Galvanic coupling 467Gamification 1287Gamma criterion 770

Gas adsorption 482Gas sensing 482Gelatin 752Gender 586Gene expression 495, 507, 512Gene Regulatory Networks 565Generalized Maximum A Posteriori Spectral

Amplitude 209Generic algorithm 1044Genetic algorithm 1069Genetic Algorithm 200, 209Genomic signature 512Geodesic corrections 1105Geometric morphometrics 634Geometry optimization 217Gestural interface 880Glaucoma drainage device 741Glenohumeral joint center 576Glycaemic index 1162Glycemia measurement 753GPU-based rendering 372Gradient coils 774Graduates 1317Grammatical evolution 1137Gray value 399Grip-ball 909

HHaEEG 95Hand rehabilitation 640, 644Haptic feedback 608Hardware 535Harmony search algorithm 200Hausdorff-besicovitch dimension 393HD-sEMG modeling 119Head tilt test 110Head-mounted display 110Health care 1323, 1329Health Technology Assessment 1003,

1050Healthcare applications 979Healthcare associated infections 840Healthcare technology 1028Healthy subjects 1075Hearing Aids 209Heart Failure 1180Heart monitoring 962Heart Rate Variability (HRV) 83Heart Rate Variability 124, 184, 1205Heart Rate 62Hemodialysis 753Hemodynamics 688Hepatectomy 245Heuristic evaluation 988HEVC 1099

Keyword Index 1363

HFPV 129HIFU 744Hilbert transform 140, 95Hippocampus 281Histogram 337Histology 320Home care 983Home rehabilitation 644Hospital child-life programs 1185Hospital Information Systems (HIS) 808Hospital-based HTA 1006HotNet2 512HTA 1000, 1006, 1010, 1345, 971Human Factors Engineering 1024Human factors 988Human-computer interaction 880Human-readable 870Hungarian higher education 1320Huple 571Hurst exponent 393Hypertension 555Hypnogram 865Hypoxia 620

IICT services 903ICT 1329IIR 151Image classification 239Image fusion 1276Image processing 393Image reconstruction 367Image registration 430Image-enhancement 1050Imaging quantification 748Imaging technologies 1003Imaging 378Imbalanced datasets 525Immunogenetics 529Impedance pneumography 167Impedance 1144Implementation 1006Impulses 946IMRT 770In vitro testing 688In vitro 264Independent Component Analysis (ICA)

105Independent living 903Indoor location 1231Inference 565Inflatable lungs 1337Information theory 67Information Transfer Rate (ITR) 134Initialization 151Inner ear 320Inspection 957

In-stent restenosis 1081Insulin resistance 551, 555Insulin secretion 555Integration 932Intelligent decision support 1309Intelligent dialogue 919Intensive unit care 840Intentional 820International Affective Picture System

1297Interoperability & System Analysis and

Design (SAD) 808Interoperability 787Inter-session reliability 1075Inter-subject variability 29Interval type-2 fuzzy logic modelling 994Intrabody Communication 467Intraoperative planning 720Intra-trabecular fluid pressure 685Inverse problem 1280, 15, 89IoT analytics 1231Iris color 414Iris tracking 361Isometric contraction 37

JJND 399Joint replacement 659Joystick control 649Juvenile Macular Degeneration 250

KKeepWell 897Kernel methods 559Keytagging 1111Kidney 314Kinect 592Kinematic parameters 913Kinematics acquired brain injury 673Kinematics 576, 580, 586Kinetic analysis 308Kineticardiography 1125Kinetics 576K–means algorithm 542K-Nearest Neighbour Classifier 489Knee extensor 42Knitted sensor 472Kohonen 542

LLab-on-a-Chip 457Labview 946Landmark setting 430Language 1304Laparoscopy 1054Laplacian 89Laser 1054

Lasso Regression 824LASSO 129Leakage flow 694Least Squares Support Vector Machines

(LS-SVMs) 1211Legislation 1323Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) 205Liver segmentation 245Liver 382Local binary pattern 388Location 1144Logistic Regression 824Low flow anaesthesia 758Low Level Laser Therapy (LLLT) 264Lung cancer 495Lung mechanics 56Lung-protective ventilation 1259

MM1 46M2 46Machine learning classifiers 1297Machine Learning 167, 446, 542, 820,

824, 840, 919, 983, 1167, 1249Machine vision 1237Machine-readable 870Macular lesions 239Magnetic field 774Magnetic resonance imaging 326, 679Magnetic resonance 774Magnetoencephalography 179Mammography 217, 228Manipulator-driven tracking 663Manner of death 820Master program 1320Mathematical model 551Mathematical modeling 620Mathematical models 314Matlab 1000MAUDE 1061Max-flow 337Maximum Relaxation Rate (MRR) 355Measurements 774Mechanical force transmission 679Mechanical heart valves 688Mechanical insufflation-exsufflation 737Mechanical ventilation 56, 703, 758Medical and hospital equipment 962Medical compliance 1243Medical devices 1345, 75, 957Medical engineering 1331Medical equipment maintenance 1034Medical image processing 228Medical instrumentation 715Medical physics 950MedTecHTA 1345Melanoma 715

1364 Keyword Index

Mercer kernel 89Meta-analysis 1000Metaheuristic optimization 200Metrological reliability 941Metrology 957mHealth apps design 979mHealth apps 979mHealth assessment 979m-health 1093mHealth 1131, 1150, 1180m-health 1243Microarray analysis 500Microarray data 565Microarray 507Microbubbles 748Microct 320Microelectrode 462Micro-rheometer 457Microwave 1019Middle ear 726Mie theory 254Mild Cognitive Impairment 281Minimum Jerk Model 596Mobile health (mHealth) 979Mobile platform 602Mobile technology 1162Mobile 1150Mobile-health (mHealth) 1099Mobility 1225Model identification 129Model-based decision support 703Modelling and simulation 367Monitor 854Monopolar 1054Morris method 119Motion Capture 37Motion capture 592Motion simulation 347Motion tracking 167Motivation 1287Movement analysis 576Movement classification 33m-QoE 1093m-QoS 1093MR scanners 774MR 774MR-compatible manipulator 663MRI 292, 663, 774MRI-compatible robotics 679Multi-channel implementation 114Multi-criteria decision analysis 1003Multimodal assessment 709Multi-objective optimization 1099Multiparameter analysis 1205Multiparametric MRI 296Multiple Kernel Learning 559Multiscale Entropy 62

Multisensory stimulation 451Multi-stains 234Muscle 337Muscular contraction 634Music player 173Myocardial perfusion imaging 1337Myotubes 425

NNanomedicine 620Nanoscale 462Nanotechnology 462Nasal congestion 762Navigation aid 608Near Field Communication 1174Near-extinction 162Near-Infrared spectroscopy 753Needs assessment 1014Neoadjuvant therapy 748Neonatal incubator 1058Neonate 378Neural network 1044, 525Neurofeedback 1292Neuroprosthetics 462Next generation RNA sequencing 495Next generation sequencing 529NGS 546NINAPRO 33NMF 668Noise meter 774Noise Reduction 209Noise reduction 774Noise 308Non linear and complexity analysis 1205Non-Functioning Pituitary Adenoma 287Non-invasive diagnosis 936Non-linear analysis 586Non-small cell lung cancer 1003Nuclear medicine 950Numerical model 1030

OObesity 555Objective assessment of movement con-

trol 571Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

157Oculus rift 110Oncologic liver surgery 245Ontology 791, 808Optical Coherence Tomography 254Optical rhinometry 762Optically detunable 663Opto-electronic plethysmography 737Orthognathic surgery 430Orthostatic Intolerance 62Oscillations 507

Otosclerosis 726Overlapped nuclei segmentation 234Oversegmentation 382

PPACS 971PADES 870Page rank 1085Pain detection 361Parallel transport 634Parameter identification 50Pareto Optimality 489Parity selection 179Parkinson’s disease 1150Partial Directed Coherence 3Particle image velocimetry 694Particle Swarm Optimization 200Patent blue 1030Pathloss 467Pathology 1069Pathway 507Patient empowerment 1180Patient monitoring 361Patient safety 1024, 1040, 1061, 975Patient simulator 703Patient specific procedure 659Patient’s data 880Patient’s smart phones 1243PCA 668PCG 854Performance measurement 834Performance test 1058Peripheral vascular MRA 292Permeability 685Personalisation 1174Personalized management 1180Personalized treatment 1243Phase contrast imaging 367Phase Contrast Imaging 409Phonocardiograph 854Physiological devices 1297Physiological modeling 703Physiological modelling 56Physiological signals 1044Physiotherapy 592, 797Pneumography 1144Polylactide 420Polynomial curve fitting 341Pooled data 495Poroelastic property 685Portable instrument 753Postural analysis 602Posture detection 205Pre-computed torque 614Prediction 281Preeclampsia 525Premature newborns 83

Keyword Index 1365

Preservation 781Pressure 472Prevention 1287Principal Components Analysis (PCA) 15Prior information 1276Probabilistic features 668Product design 891Professional association 1014Projection imaging 326Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD)

15Prostate Cancer 296Prosthetic heart valve 694Prosthetic limb control 33Protontherapy 614Psychophysiology 437Pulmonary perfusion 1259, 1270Pulse oximeter 854

QQFD 971QRS-wave 140Quadriceps femoris group 42Quadriplegia paralysis 145Quality assurance 476Quantitative MRI 281Quaternion 222

RR wave detection 184Radiation dose software 1040Radiation oncology 950Radiation protection 950Radiofrequency energy 1054Radiotherapy 770, 814, 828Random forest 518Real-time BCI 173Real-time imaging 1276Real-time 1351Reconstruction 314Recursive feature elimination 500Red blood cell 624Red low power laser 269Region of interest 1264Rehabilitation 1309, 596Representation 399Reproducibility 250, 781Respiration 1144Respiratory mechanics 50Respiratory motion 1337Respiratory signal processing 129RF coils 663RGB-D sensor 634Ridge Regression 824Risk analysis 1010, 245Risk factors 840Risk management 1019

Robot 614Robot-based intervention 1185Robotic pets 1185Robotic surgery 1010Robotic training 644ROC curve 936Root Cause Analysis 1024

SSafety 1156, 614, 774Scaffold 752Scanning micromanipulator 720Scatterer size 254Scoliosis 341Security 1111, 1249, 787Segmentation 239, 258, 275, 337, 382Selective Attention 196Self-management 1174Semi-Supervised Learning 828Sensewear 437Sensitivity analysis 119Sequences 774Sequencing error correction 529Serious games 1225, 592, 909Shapelets 222Sidestream Dark Field 378Signal filtration 184Signal processing 145Signal 140Significance analysis of microarrays 500Silk 752Simulation 726Single ionic channel 446Singularity avoidance 649Sink 507Skeletal muscle cells 425Skin conductance 437Skin electroporation 1030Sleep analysis 865Sleep 3, 451, 762Small cells 1093Small databases 814, 828Small-world network 157Smart homes 1249Smart socks 472Social inclusion 891Soft tissue deformation 634Software architecture 75Software architectures 932Software 957SOM 542Sound level 774Source localization 105Spectral analysis 124, 254, 3Spectral F-Test 25Spectral graph wavelet 1280Speech and language pathology 1309

Speech 1304Spiking neural network 1069Splice site prediction 518Stability test 442Staining 420Standards 962Statistical feature selection 489Statistical Gait Analysis 42Steady-State Visual Evoked Potential

(SSVEP) 134, 173Stents 1081Stimulus-response curve 1075Stochastic textures 228Straight-line mechanisms 596Stress detection 1119Stretch Reflex 46Stroke 983Strokes 15Study 1131Subjective vertical test 110sub-Saharan Africa 1014SUDEP 100Superpixels 258Supervised sparse SVM 1199Support & relevance vector machines 500Support vector classifier 414Support Vector Machine 388, 89Support Vector Machines 824Support 1304Surface EMG 42Surface phenomena 482Surgical interface 720Sympatho-Vagal Balance 71System identification 190

TT cell receptors 529T2DM 988Tactile maps 608Technology assessment 1061Technology based self-management 897Telemedicine 1099, 1131, 847, 854Temperature 1058Temporal lobe 281Testing and calibration 941Textual data processing 874Texture analysis 228, 351Texture features 296Texture variability 351Texture video analysis 361Texture 476Thermal ablation 1019Thermal imaging 275Time and frequency domain analysis 83Time delays 190Time domain 1205Time series analysis 67

1366 Keyword Index

Time series prediction 1137Time-frequency representations 179Tomosynthesis 367Top-down 9Torques optimization 649Total Hip Arthroplasty 709Touchless 880Trabeculae 685Tractography 302training effect 196Training 847, 850, 927Transcatheter aortic valve implantation

332Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation 1075,

25Transdermal molecular delivery 1030Transient 151Translation pathway 1028Translational research 720Transmission of neural activity 19Transoral laser microsurgery 720Triage 854Trisomy 21 731Tube shunt 741Tympanosclerosis 726Type 1 diabetes 1137, 190

UUbiquitous computing 1119Ultrasound energy 1054Ultrasound video 1099, 347, 351Ultrasound 37, 403, 983Unbalanced datasets 828

Undergraduate/Graduate programs 1331Undetermined 820Uniaxial strain 685Uniformity measurement 476Unintentional 820Unser 388Upper extremity 576Upper limb powered exoskeleton 649Upper limb rehabilitation 673Upper limb 592Usability requirements 546Usability 850, 988User studies 1297Users’ feedback 847

VVariability 42Vascular imaging 292Ventilation management 994Ventilation 1270Ventilator-induced lung injury 1259Ventilatory mode 758Verification 770Vessel collapse 620Video processing 100Vigilance system 1061Virtual microscopy 1050Virtual reality 1351, 891Viscoelastic Model 50Viscosity 457Visual inspection 766Visually impaired 608

Volitional contribution to training 644Volume projection imaging 341Volume reflector 758Volume 314Volumetric imaging 326Volumetric MRI 287Volunteer testing 592

WWavelet energy 33Wavelet 46Wearable Computing 1237Wearable devices 1044Wearable monitoring 1125Wearable system 79Weighted directed networks 19Wellbeing 1287, 897, 903WHAAM application 1292Whole slide images 388Working memory 19Workload 1351Wrist sensor 79

XXerostomia 814, 828X-ray volume rendering 372

YYoung’s modulus 264, 269

ZZernike moments 1105

Keyword Index 1367