Welcome Message The 2009 edition of IEEE International Workshop on Medical Measurement and Applications (MeMeA’09) is held in May 29 and 30 in Cetraro (CS), in the enchanting ambience of the Grand Hotel San Michele, high on a rock above the Tyrrhenian coast and a sea of one thousand colours.

The workshop has been co-organized by the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, TC-25 “Medical and Biological Measurements”, the Department of Electronics, Computer and System Science of the University of Calabria and the University of Sannio.

This is the 4th edition of a successful series previously held in: Ottawa-Canada (2008), Warsaw-Poland (2007), and Benevento-Italy (2006).

The workshop deals with all the aspects of interactions between the instrumentation and measurement field and the medical field. Measurement problems in medical applications are continuously increasing and several examples exist that process measurement data from several instruments in order to derive specific knowledge about the patient status from the vital parameters.

Researchers and experts from universities, research institutes and industry coming from 17 Countries all around the world have submitted in total 72 papers. Among them 57 manuscripts presenting contributions of high quality have been selected for presentation.

The technical program of MeMeA’09 has been structured in several parallel oral sessions and one poster session, scheduled to avoid overlapping of sessions on related topics. Moreover, it includes a number of important events and activities to offer new and exciting technical information, and to make the MeMeA workshop a forum where highly qualified researchers working in various domains concerning with medical applications can share information and discuss about their experience and needs.

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The scheduled events are: o Three Invited Lectures:

• Prof. Giovanni Cuda, “Magna Græcia” University of Catanzaro, School of Medicine, Italy, will present the keynote on “Bioengineer meets Medicine school: experiences and cooperations at University Magna Graecia”,

• Prof. Robert F. Murphy, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, will present the keynote on “Analysis and modeling of sub cellular location on a proteome-scale: Implications for systems biology and medicine”,

• Prof. Francesco Fera, “Magna Græcia” University of Catanzaro, School of Medicine, Italy, will present the keynote on “Human brain mapping: the basis of the bold fMRI signal”.

o A Special Session and a Round Table on “Image Measurement for Medical Applications”.

o The meeting of TC-25 Subcommittee for Objective Blood Pressure Measurement working at the IEEE P1721 draft standard on Objective Measurement of Systemic Arterial Blood Pressure in Humans.

Special appreciation goes to all the Technical Program Committee members, the reviewers, and the organizers of the special session who have contributed to make the program possible. A particular gratitude and recognition go to the Authors for their contributions and for sharing their scientific findings with the international community. A warm welcome goes to the researchers who have chosen to participate to MeMeA’09 wishing to everybody a fruitful work in Cetraro (CS), Italy. General Chairs of MeMeA 2009 Domenico Grimaldi Sergio Rapuano

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MeMeA 2009 Committee

Honorary Chair Marco Parvis, Polytechnic of Torino, Italy

General Chairs Domenico Grimaldi, University of Calabria, Italy Sergio Rapuano, University of Sannio, Italy

Technical Program Co-Chairs Pasquale Daponte, University of Sannio, Italy Voicu Groza, University of Ottawa, Canada

Steering Committee Pasquale Daponte, University of Sannio, Italy Sergio Greco, University of Calabria, Italy Francesco Amato, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy Alessandro Ferrero, Polytechnic of Milano, Italy Emil M. Petriu, University of Ottawa, Canada Reza Zoughi, Missouri University of Science & Technology, USA George C. Giakos, University of Akron, USA

Conference Management Chris Dyer, Conference Catalysts, LLC, USA

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Thursday, May 28 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Registration Congress Center Grand Hotel San Michele 9:00 PM – 10:30 PM Welcome Party Grand Hotel San Michele Friday, May 29 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM Registration 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Plenary Opening Session Room: Crati Session Chairs: Domenico Grimaldi (University of Calabria, Italy), Sergio Rapuano (University of Sannio, Italy) Welcome address Alessandro Ferrero, President, IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society (Polytechnic of Milan, Italy) Invited Lecture “Bioengineer meets Medicine school: experiences and co-operations at University Magna Graecia. “ Prof. Giovanni Cuda (“Magna Græcia” University of Catanzaro, School of Medicine, Italy) 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM Coffee break 10:50 AM - 12:30 PM

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1A1: Embedded Systems and Signal Processing Room: Crati Session Chair: Reza Zoughi (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA) 10:50 Thermoelectric Generator Design Based on Power from Body Heat for Biomedical Autonomous Devices

Aime' Lay-Ekuakille (University of Salento, Italy) Giuseppe Vendtamin (University of Salento, Italy) Gabriella Mazzotta (Politechnic of Bari, Italy) Amerigo Trotta (Politechnic of Bari, Italy)

11:10 Near-Field Microwave and mm-Wave Noninvasive Diagnosis of Human Skin

Sergiy Kharkivskiy (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA) Mohammad Ghasr (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA) Mohamed Abou-Khousa (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA) Reza Zoughi (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)

11:30 EMG wavelet analysis and metabolic study during cardio fitness activity

Arrigo Palumbo (Università Magna Graecia, Italy) Antonio Ammendolia (University of Catanzaro, Italy) Teresa Iona (Università Magna Graecia, Italy) Mario D'Andrea (Università Magna Graecia, Italy) Maurizio Iocco (Università Magna Graecia, Italy) Gionata Fragomeni (Università Magna Graecia, Italy)

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11:50 Combining Pixon Concept with Wavelet Thresholding in Medical Image Segmentation

Hadi Yousefian (Iran University of Science Technology, Iran) G.A. Rezaiu Rad (Iran University of Science Technology, Iran) H. Hassanpour (Iran University of Science Technology, Iran) Amid Zehtabian (Iran University of Science Technology, Iran)

12:10 Portable embedded medical box implementation for health monitoring applications in avionic environments.

Konstantinos Anastasopoulos (Technological Educational Institute of Piraeus, Greece) Pavlos Kouros (Technological Educational Institute of Piraeus, Greece) Dimitrios Marinos (University of Athens, Greece) Konstantinos Aidinis (University of Athens, Greece) Nikolaus Schmitt (EADS Innovation Works, Germany) Jirka Klaue (EADS Innovation Works, Germany) Thomas Pistner (EADS Innovation Works, Germany)

1B1: Sensors for Medical Systems and Medical Specific Instrumentation I Room: Pugliese Session Chair: Luigino Benetazzo (University of Padova, Italy) 10:50 A Body Sensor Network Toward Ambient Intelligence: an e-Health Perspective

Md. Abdur Rahman (University of Ottawa, Canada) Mohammed Alhamid (University of Ottawa, Canada) Wail Gueaieb (University of Ottawa, Canada) Abdulmotaleb El Saddik (University of Ottawa, Canada)

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11:10 Parametric Representation of Human Breast Shapes Giovanni Gallo (University of Catania, Italy) Giuseppe Claudio Guarnera (Università di Catania, Italy) Francesco Milanese (Università di Catania, Italy) Davide Modica (Università di Catania, Italy) Giuseppe Catanuto (Humanitas Centro Catanese di Oncologia, Italy)

11:30 A Remote Doctor for Homecare and Medical Diagnoses on Cardiac Patients by an Adaptive ECG Analysis

Claudio De Capua (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy) Antonella Meduri (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy) Rosario Morello (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy)

11:50 Wavelet Estimation of Pulse Rate Variability from Oscillometric Blood Pressure Measurements

Saif Ahmad (University of Ottawa, Canada) Miodrag Bolic (University of Ottawa, Canada) Hilmi Dajani (University of Ottawa, Canada) Voicu Groza (University of Ottawa, Canada)

12:10 A Numerical Hand Model for a Virtual Glove Rehabilitation System Danilo Franchi (University of L'Aquila, Italy) Alfredo Maurizi (University of L'Aquila, Italy) Giuseppe Placidi (University of L'Aquila, Italy)

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch

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2:00 PM - 2:45 PM Plenary session Room: Crati Session Chair: Pasquale Daponte (University of Sannio, Italy) Invited Lecture “Analysis and modeling of sub cellular location on a proteome-scale: Implications for systems biology and medicine.” Robert F. Murphy, Ph.D (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) 2:45 PM - 4:25 PM 1A2: Sensors for Medical Systems and Medical Specific Instrumentation II Room: Crati Session Chair: Voicu Groza (University of Ottawa, Canada) 2:45 A Hand-Arm Vibration Meter Monitoring the Percussion Exposure for Health Risk Prevention Applications

Claudio De Capua (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy) Antonella Meduri (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy) Rosario Morello (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy)

3:05 A Novel Portable Device for Pathological Voice Analysis Arrigo Palumbo (Università Magna Graecia, Italy) F. Amato (Università Magna Graecia, Italy) Barbara Calabrese (Università Magna Graecia, Italy) Mario Cannataro (Università Magna Graecia, Italy) Pierangelo Veltri (Università Magna Graecia, Italy) A. Garozzo (Università Magna Graecia, Italy) N. Lombardo (Università Magna Graecia, Italy)

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3:25 A Basic Study of Ultrasonic Shear Wave Elastography in Tissue- mimicking Phantoms

Varadharajan Rengaraju (University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany) Adonay da Silva (Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany) Ingolf Sack (Charité - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Germany) Christian Kargel (University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany)

3:45 Implementation of ECG Signal Processing and Analysis Techniques in Digital Signal Processor Based System

Balasubramaniam Doraisamy (University of Madras, India) Devi Nedumaran (University Of Madras, India)

4:05 Microtuators of SMA for Braille display systems Daniel Chaves (State University of Amazonas, Brazil) Ana Lima (Fucapi, Brazil) I.L. Peixoto (State University of Amazonas, Brazil) M.F. Vieira (Federal Center for Technological Education of Paraiba, Brazil) C.J. de Araújo (Federal Center for Technological Education of Paraiba, Brazil)

1B2: Standards and Medical Applications Room: Pugliese Session Chair: Octavian Postolache (University of Lisbon, Portugal) 2:45 Temperature and Humidity Measurements in Nasal Cavity

Evangelia Tsakiropoulou (Aristotle University, Greece) Vasileios Konstantakos (Aristotle University, Greece) Richard Leiacker (University of Ulm, Germany) Gerhard Rettinger (University of Ulm, Germany) Joerg Lindemann (University of Ulm, Germany)

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3:05 Practical Calibration for Upper Extremity Patients in Haptic Rehabilitation

Jilin Zhou (University of Ottawa, Canada) Francois Marlic (University of Ottawa, Canada) Shervin Shirmohammadi (University of Ottawa, Canada)

3:25 Objetive Assessment of olfactory function using Functional Magnetic Resonance (fMRI).A device for generating automated olfactory stimuli

Susana Borromeo (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain) Juan Hernandez-Tamames (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain) Guillermo Luna (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain) Felipe Machado (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain) Norberto Malpica (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain) Adolfo Toledano (Fundación Hospital de Alcorcón, Spain)

3:45 Unobstrusive Heart Rate and Respiratory Rate Monitor Embedded on Wheelchair

Octavian Postolache (Institute of Telecomunication, Portugal) Pedro Silva Girão (Institute of Telecomunication, Portugal) Joaquim Mendes (IDMEC, FEUP, Portugal) Gabriela Postolache (Universidade Atlântica, Portugal)

4:05 Evaluating the Post-Stroke Patients Progress Using an Augmented Reality Rehabilitation System

Atif Alamri (University of Ottawa, Canada) Jongeun Cha (University of Ottawa, Canada) Mohamad Eid (University of Ottawa, Canada) Abdulmotaleb El Saddik (University of Ottawa, Canada)

4:25 PM - 4:45 PM Coffee break

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4:45 PM – 6:25 PM 1A3: Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine Room: Crati Session Chair: Abed El Saddik (University of Ottawa, Canada) 4:45 A Novel ICA-Based Hardware System for Reconfigurable and Portable BCI

Arrigo Palumbo (Università Magna Graecia, Italy) Barbara Calabrese (Università Magna Graecia, Italy) Pierangelo Veltri (Università Magna Graecia, Italy) Patrizia Vizza (Università Magna Graecia, Italy) G. Cocorullo (Università Magna Graecia, Italy) M. Lanuzza (Università Magna Graecia, Italy) Patrizia Vizza (Università Magna Graecia, Italy) A. Gambardella (Università Magna Graecia, Italy) M. Sturniolo (National Research Council, Italy)

5:05 Design of an Electronic Device for Brain Computer Interface Applications

Patrizia Vizza (University Magna Graecia, Italy) Arrigo Palumbo (Università Magna Graecia, Italy) Pierangelo Veltri (Università Magna Graecia, Italy) A. Gambardella (Università Magna Graecia, Italy) F. Pucci (Università Magna Graecia, Italy) M. Sturniolo (National Research Council, Italy)

5:25 Securing Medical Data in Smart Homes Mouhcine Guennoun (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada) Khalil El-Khatib (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)

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5:45 A device for stent designing in emodynamic surgery room Mario Cannataro (Università Magna Graecia, Italy) Ciro Indolfi (Università Magna Graecia, Italy) Giuseppe Tradigo (Università Magna Graecia, Italy) Pierangelo Veltri (Università Magna Graecia, Italy)

6:05 Arterial Pulse Wave Decomposition by independent component analysis

Laila Gbaoui (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Eugenijus Kaniusas (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

1B3: Sensors for Medical Systems and Medical Specific Instrumentation III Room: Pugliese Session Chair: Sergio Rapuano (University of Sannio, Italy) 4:45 ECG monitoring. A software tool for deriving time and frequency parameters

Marcel Stanciu (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania) Mihaela Albu (Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania) Anatolie Boev (Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania)

5:05 Automated Measurements of Finger Movements in Arthritic Patients Using A Wearable Data Hand Glove

Joan Condell (University of Ulster, United Kingdom) Kevin Curran (University of Ulster, United Kingdom) Terry Quigley (University of Ulster, United Kingdom) Philip Gardiner (Western Health and Social Care Trust, United Kingdom) Michael McNeill (University of Ulster, United Kingdom) Ermai Xie (University of Ulster, United Kingdom)

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5:25 Biomedical Data Acquisition and Transmission Infrastructure in the HEARTFAID Platform

Domenico Conforti (University of Calabria, Italy) Domenico Costanzo (University of Calabria, Italy) Christos Biniaris (Virtual Medical World Solutions, Ltd, UK) Andrew Marsh (Virtual Medical World Solutions, Ltd, UK)

5:45 Pulse Arrival Time and Ballistocardiogram Application to Blood Pressure Variability Estimation

Eduardo Pinheiro (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal) Octavian Postolache (Institute of Telecomunication, Portugal) Pedro Girão (Institute of Telecommunications, Portugal)

6:05 Automatic Head Position Monitoring for Optimal Recovery after Vitrectomy

Jiri Dlouhy (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic) Martin Cizek (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic) Petr Cech (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic) Igor Vicha (University Hospital Brno, Czech Republic) Jiri Rozman (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic)

8:30 PM – 11:00 PM Social Dinner Grand Hotel San Michele

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Saturday, May 30 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM Registration 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM Plenary Opening Session Room: Crati Session Chair: Michele Ceccarelli (University of Sannio, Italy) Invited Lecture “Human brain mapping: The basis of the bold fMRI signal.” Prof. Francesco Fera (“Magna Græcia” University of Catanzaro, School of Medicine, Italy) Round Table on Image Measurement for Medical Applications 10:10 AM - 10:30 AM Coffee break 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM 2A1: Image Analysis for Medical Measurements I Room: Crati Session Chair: Giovanni Paolella (University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy) 10:30 Automatic Skeletal Bone Age Assessment by integrating EMROI and CROI Processing

Concetto Spampinato (University of Catania, Italy) D. Giordano (University of Catania) G. Scarciofalo (University of Catania) R. Leonardi (University of Catania)

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10:50 Objective Analysis of Simple Kidney Cysts from CT Images Sebastiano Battiato (University of Catania, Italy) Giovanni Farinella (University of Catania, Italy) Giovanni Gallo (University of Catania, Italy) Orazio Garretto (Vittorio Emanuele Hospital, Italy) Carmelo Privitera (Vittorio Emanuele Hospital, Italy)

11:10 Multiresolution Texture Analysis for Human Oocyte Cytoplasm Description

Laura Caponetti (University of Bari, Italy) Giovanna Castellano (University of Bari, Italy) Vito Corsini (University of Bari, Italy) Gianluca Sforza (University of Bari, Italy)

11:30 Characterisation of a Coding/Reconstruction Algorithm on MRI Simulated Noisy Data

Giuseppe Placidi (University of L'Aquila, Italy) Danilo Franchi (University of L'Aquila, Italy) Alfredo Maurizi (University of L'Aquila, Italy)

11:50 Assisted Breast Cancer Diagnosis Environment: A Tool for DICOM Mammographic Images Analysis

Marcello Salmeri (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) Arianna Mencattini (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) Giulia Rabottino (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) Alfredo Accattatis (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) Roberto Lojacono (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)

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12:10 A Computer Vision Approach to Micro-Nucleus automatic detection and surface measurements

Michele Ceccarelli (University of Sannio, Italy) Domenico Grimaldi (University of Calabria, Italy) Francesco Lamonaca (University of Calabria, Italy) Antonio Speranza (National Research Council, Italy)

2B1: Sensors for Medical Systems and Medical Specific Instrumentation IV Room: Pugliese Session Chair: Min Mart (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia) 10:30 Robot-Assisted Assessment of Sensorimotor Control: A Case Study

David Méary (San Raffaele Vita-Salute University, France) Gabriel Baud-Bovy (San Raffaele University, Italy) Raffaella Chieffo (Neurorehabilitation Institute of Experimental Neurology-INSPE, Italy) Letizia Leocani (University Hospital San Raffaele, Italy) Mauro Comola (INSPE, IRCCS University Hospital San Raffaele, Italy) Giancarlo Comi (INSPE, IRCCS University Hospital San Raffaele, Italy)

10:50 Segmenting Wrist Bone Tissue: Enhancements to Level Set Algorithm

Donatello Conte (Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy) Francesco Tufano (Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy)

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11:10 New Soldering Technology for Transducers: Characterization of a Medical Ultrasound Phase Array Probe

Marcantonio Catelani (University of Florence, Italy) Valeria Scarano (University of Florence, Italy) Francesco Bertocci (University of Florence, Italy) Roberto Singuaroli (University of Florence, Italy) Francesca Gelli (Esaote S.p.A., Italy) Lorenzo Spicci (Esaote S.p.A., Italy)

11:30 Preliminary Results of Severity if Illness Measures of Rheumatoid Arthritis Using Infrared Imaging

Monique Frize (Carleton University, Canada) Jacob Karsh (Ottawa Hospital-Riverside, Canada) Christophe Henry (Carleton University, Canada) Cynthia Adea (Carleton University, Canada) Idris Aleem (Carleton University, Canada) Pierre Payeur (University of Ottawa, Canada)

11:50 Determination of Body Density by the Hydrostatic Weighting: Dynamometer versus Load Cell

Carlos Magno Cursino (University of Pernambuco, Brazil) Raimundo Freire (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil) João Silva (Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil) Enilson José Costa (Federal Center of Technical Education of Pernambuco, Brazil) Sebastian Catunda (Federal University of Maranhão, Brazil) Alessio Barros (Federal Center for Technological Education of Paraiba, Brazil) Fernando Guimarães (University of Pernambuco, Brazil)

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12:10 A Model to Measure the Caracterizing Parameters of Deep Fascia Luigino Benetazzo (University of Padova, Italy) Guglielmo Frigo (University of Padova, Italy) Carla Stecco (University of Padova, Italy)

Poster Session Room: Hall of Congress center Chair: Mihaela Albu (Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania) Optimized Evaluation of Image Alteration Indexes in IFC

Francesco Lamonaca (Univeristy of Calabria, Italy) Domenico Grimaldi (University of Calabria, Italy)

Open Questions on Unified Approach for Calibration of Oscillometric Blood Pressure Measurement Devices

Eulalia Balestrieri (University of Sannio, Italy) Pasquale Daponte (University of Sannio, Italy) Sergio Rapuano (University of Sannio, Italy)

Low Frequency Ultrasounds in Medicine A.S. Fiorillo (Università Magna Graecia, Italy) Domenico Grimaldi (University of Calabria, Italy) S.A. Pullano (Università Magna Graecia, Italy)

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch

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2:00 PM - 4:00 PM 2A2: Image Analysis for Medical Measurements II Room: Crati Session Chair: Michele Ceccarelli (University of Sannio, Italy) 2:00 An Iris Detector for Tumoral Masses Identification in Mammograms

Arianna Mencattini (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) Giulia Rabottino (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) Marcello Salmeri (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) Roberto Lojacono (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)

2:20 An Optimized Java Based Software Package for Biomedical Images and Volumes Processing

Alfredo Maurizi (University of L'Aquila, Italy) Danilo Franchi (University of L'Aquila, Italy) Giuseppe Placidi (University of L'Aquila, Italy)

2:40 Segmentation of 3D fluorescent image data with an energy based interaction model

Michele Ceccarelli (University of Sannio, Italy) Vincenzo Paduano (University of Naples "Federico II", Italy) Carlo Sansone (University of Naples "Federico II", Italy)

3:00 Gene expression reliability estimation through cluster-based analysis

Luca Sterpone (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Alfredo Benso (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Stefano Di Carlo (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Gianfranco Politano (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

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3:20 Quantitative in vitro characterization of transformed cell lines as a model for metastatic dissemination Leandra Sepe (Universita' di Napoli Federico II, Italy)

Concita Cantarella (Universita' di Napoli Federico II, Italy) Francesca Fioretti (Universita' di Napoli Federico II, Italy) Giovanni Paolella (Universita' di Napoli Federico II, Italy)

3:40 Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Video Segmentation Giovanni Gallo (University of Catania, Italy) Eliana Granata (University of Catania, Italy) Giuseppe Scarpulla (Ospedale “M. Raimondi”, Italy)

2B2: Sensors for Medical Systems and Medical Specific Instrumentation V Room: Pugliese Session Chair: Alessandro Ferrero, President, IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society (Polytechnic of Milan, Italy) 2:00 Speech Recognition based Computer Keyboard Replacement for the Quadriplegics, Paraplegics, Paralytics and Amputees

Chandrsekaran Chandramouli (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India) Vivek Agarwal (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)

2:20 A Tool to Achieve Correct and Precise Measurements for Oral Implant Planning and Simulation

Tommaso Chiarelli (University of Ferrara, Italy) Evelina Lamma (University of Ferrara, Italy) Tommaso Sansoni (Era Scientific s.r.l., Italy)

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2:40 Systems of Measurement and Control of Relative Humidity in Newborn Incubator

Enilson José Costa (Federal Center for Technological Education of Pernambuco, Brazil) Raimundo Freire (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil) João Bosco Silva (Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil) Carlos Magno Cursino (University of Pernambuco, Brazil) José Silva (University Católica of Brasilia, Brazil) Aléssio Barros (Federal Center for Technological Education of Paraiba, Brazil)

3:00 Alternative Emergency Communication Channel through Television Cable

Chandrsekaran Chandramouli (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India) Vivek Agarwal (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)

3:20 Development of an ad hoc measurement station for the human surface electromyography in rest position

Edoardo Fiorucci (University of L'Aquila, Italy) Giovanni Bucci (University of L'Aquila, Italy) Annalisa Monaco (University of L'Aquila, Italy) Ruggero Cattaneo (University of L'Aquila, Italy)

3:40 Rectangular Wave Excitation in Wideband Bioimpedance Spectroscopy

Mart Min (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia) Toivo Paavle (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia) Paul Annus (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia) Raul Land (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia)

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3:40 PM – 4:00 PM Closing Ceremony Room: Crati Chair: Alessandro Ferrero, President, IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society (Polytechnic of Milan, Italy) 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM Meeting TC-25 Subcommittee for Objective Blood Pressure Measurement Room: Crati

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