3rd Kuala Lumpur International Conference on Biomedical Engineering 2006 (eBook)

Preface 7
Contents 8
Plenary Speakers 18
Dart-to-Heart Distance when Taser® Causes Ventricular Fibrillation in Pigs 18
Advances and Challenges in Neural Engineering: Neurogenesis, Neurocontrol and Neurochips 23
Nanotechnology Impact Towards Innovative Biomedical Engineering 24
Invited Speakers 25
3-D Reconstruction of Nasopharyngeal Airways in Malaysian Subjects 25
A Hierarchical Artificial Neural Network Model for Giemsa-Stained Human Chromosome Classification 29
Fluid Micromixing Technology and Its Applications for Biological and Chemical Processes 33
Implantable and Wearable Bionics 38
Surface Modification of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Scaffolds for Enhanced Osteoconductivity 39
Warping a Neuro-Anatomy Atlas on 3D MRI Data with Radial Basis Functions 45
Ex vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy method for the diagnosis of human stomach cancer 50
Artificial Intelligence 54
A Comparative Analysis of Zernike moments and Principal Component Analysis as Feature extractors for Face Recognition 54
Application of Artificial Neural Network for Estimation of Fetal Weight 59
Classification of Breast Lesions Using Artificial Neural Network 62
Classification of Risk in Dengue Fever and Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever using Rule Based Expert System 67
Comparison of MLP and Elman Neural Network for Blood Glucose Level Prediction in Type 1 Diabetics 71
Electroglottographic Signal Acquisition and Neural Network based classification for pathology 76
Expert System for Non-Invasive Classification of Total Cholesterol Level Using Bioelectrical Impedance 80
Genetic Algorithm for Various Face Emotions Classification 84
Hybrid Method for Digits Recognition using Fixed-Frame Scores and Derived Pitch 89
Multiple neural networks for Human Face Recognition 94
Recognition of Lower Limb Muscle EMG Patterns by using Neural Networks during the Postural Balance Control 99
Biological effects of non-ionising electromagnetic fields 103
Biological Effects of EMF in Engineering Teaching Laboratories: A Review 103
Theta Burst Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Can Modify Cortico- Muscular Coherence in Humans 106
Biomaterials 111
Cell Adhesion and Degradation Behaviors of Acetylated Chitosan Films 111
Degradation of Magnesium Alloys in Biological Solutions and Reduced Phenotypic Expression of Endothelial Cell Grown on These Alloys 115
Fabrication of 316L stainless steel parts by Injection Moulding for Biomedical Application using a Novel Binder 119
Hardness Evaluation of Porous Hydroxyapatite Coating 123
Hydroxyapatite Formation on Acrylic Acid-grafted Porous PLLA Scaffolds in Simulated Body Fluid 126
Inhibitive Effect of Antibiotic-Loaded Beads to Cure Chronic Osteomyelitis in Developing Country: Hand- made vs Commercial Beads 130
Nanostructure in Bone Apatite 135
PCL Electrospun Sheet-Embedded Microporous PLGA Membrane For Effective Guided Bone Regeneration 139
Physicochemical Properties and Biological Response of Titanium Surface Modified by Anodic Spark Deposition for Dental Implants 143
Poly (lactic–co–glycolic acid) and hydroxyapatite composite films for cartilage reconstruction 147
Silverfil: Its Physical Characterization 151
Sinterability Of Hydroxyapatite Compacts Prepared By Cold Isostatic Pressing For Clinical Applications 154
Standardization of Distance and Angulation of Light Curing Unit Tip Using Distometer 158
Structural and conductivity studies in Ag-rich AgI- ZnI2 solid solutions 161
Synthesis and characterization of nanocrystalline hydroxyapatite powder via sol- gel method 166
The effect of sample preparation and calcination temperature on the production of hydroxyapatite from bovine bone powders 169
Topological Analysis of a Polymer Based Contraceptive Using Atomic Force Microscopy 173
Rolling Ball Contact as a method for Testing Surface Fatigue of Resin Based Restorative Materials 177
Biomechanics 180
A Model of Impact Forces during Landing from a Jumping Smash Activity 180
A New Modification of Adjustable standing Frame for children with Cerebral Palsy 184
A Preliminary Study of Acceptable Load Carriage for Primary School Children 188
A Preliminary Study of EMG Measurements on Biceps Brachii Muscles During Repetitive Task at Automotive Industry 192
Analysis of Stress on Inflation of Balloon Catheter using Finite Element Method 195
Design of an automated Rapid Maxillary Expansion (RME) appliance. A Preliminary Study. 199
Effect of Stress Relaxation on Layer Thickness of Articular Cartilage due to Dynamic Loadings 202
Effects of Targets on Reaching Performance and Postural Balance during Standing in Persons with Left Cerebral Vascular Accidents 206
Human Kicking Motion Using Efficient Forward Dynamics Simulation and Optimization 209
Instrumented Shoes for Measuring Ground-Reaction Force of Persons with Stroke in Level Walking, Stair Ascending and Descending 214
Kinematic Analysis of Speech Motor Control in Children with Cerebral Palsy 218
Modeling and Simulation of Sit-to-Stand Exercise 221
Motion Analysis in Dual-task on Patients with Mild Dementias 225
Muscles activity of the Back and Hamstring during Trunk Flexion and Extension Task in Healthy and Low Back Pain Women 228
Music therapy effect of music pillow for sleep – preliminary study 232
Pneumatic Artificial Muscle in Biomedical Applications 236
Prediction of Optimal Pillow Height by Anthropometric Parameters 239
Stress and Strain Analysis of Anterior Cruciate Ligament for Arthroscopy Knee Reconstruction 241
Biomedical engineering education 245
Biomedical Engineering Education and Training In Hong Kong: Recent Developments 245
Biomedical imaging 249
A quantitative study of post-biopsy radiofrequency cauterization 249
A Study of Nodule Detection Using Opaque Object Filter 253
An Automatic Cell Counting Method for a Microscopic Tissue Image from Breast Cancer 258
Automatic Retrieval of Microscopic Blood Cells Images 262
Boundary Enhancement For Echocardiogram Using Local Image Characteristics And Ratio Of Averages 267
Contrast Enhancement of MRI Images 272
Converting Data from the Lunar DPX-IQ Bone Densitometer for Interoperability 276
Evaluation of Texture Analysis Techniques for Characterization of Multimode- Based Liver ImagesUsing SGLCM and FOS 279
Feature extraction in Medical Ultrasonic Image 284
High Resolution Imaging of TGFß 3 Treated Human Keratinocyte via a Newly DevelopedWidefield Surface Plasmon Resonance Microscope 288
Microwave Holographic Imaging Technique for Tumour Detection 292
One-dimensional evaluation of a least-square polynomial fitting approach to estimate the pressure domain from velocity data obtained from medical images 295
Quantification of Collagen Orientation in 3D Engineered Tissue 299
Scale Space Texture Classification Using Combined Classifiers with Application to Ultrasound Tissue Characterization 304
Spinal Curvature Determination from an X-Ray Image Using a Deformable Model 308
Thresholding of Medical Images Using Minimum Cross Entropy 313
Ultrasound monitoring of temperature change during interstitial laser thermotherapy of liver: an in vitro study 317
Unsupervised Learning Technique for Skin Images Segmentation Using a Mixture of Beta Distributions 321
Biomedical sensors 325
A Fiber Optic Immunosensor for Rapid Bacteria Determination 325
A review of MEMS drug delivery in medical application 329
A Review on Design Parameters of Micro-Fluidic System 333
Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis: Phase Angle - An Independent Predictive Health Marker and its Clinical Applications 338
Estimation of heart rate variability from peripheral pulse wave using PPG sensor 342
Nano-porous Polysilicon Fabrication for Micro Electro Mechanical System ( MEMS) Drug Delivery Device 346
Widefield Surface Plasmon Resonance Microscope: A Novel Biosensor Study of Cell Attachment to Micropatterned Substrates 351
Biomedical signal analysis 355
A Generic Algorithm for Detecting Obstructive Sleep Apnea Hyponea Events based on Oxygen Saturation 355
A Measuring System for Coronary Pulse Wave Velocity 359
A Simple Histogram Based Approach for Detection of Baseline and QRS of ECG 362
A Software Based Approach for Detection of QRS Vector of ECG Signal 365
Assessment of Steady-State Visual Evoked Potential for Brain Computer Communication 369
Characterizing EOG signal from the Chaotic Point of View 372
Classification of Electrocardiogram Signal using Multiresolution Wavelet Transform and Neural Network 377
Comparison of different Montages on to EEG classification 382
Complexity Analysis of Heart Beat Time series by Threshold based Symbolic Entropy 386
Computer-based System to Assess Efficacy of Stuttering Therapy Techniques 391
Development of an EEG amplifier for Brain-Computer-Interface 395
Enhancement of Epileptic Seizure in EEG Signals using Novelty Filtering based on Neural Networks 400
Feasibility of Fetal Photoplethysmography Signal Extraction using Adaptive Noise Cancelling 404
Feasibility of Photoplethymographic Signal for Assessment of Autonomic Response using Heart Rate Variability Analysis 408
FPGA Accelerator For Medical Image Compression System 413
Frequency Modulation in EEG Signals 417
Heart Sound Analysis Using MFCC and Time Frequency Distribution 419
Limb Cardiovasculature System Identification Using Adaptive Filtering 423
Modifying the Classic Template Matching Technique Using a Fuzzy Multi Agent to Have an Accurate P300 Detection 427
Multi-resolution Analysis of Near Infrared Spectroscopic Data for Calibration and Prediction of Active Substances in Phosphate Buffer Solution 432
Performance Evaluation of Coifman Wavelet for ECG Signal Denoising 436
Photoplethysmographic Pulse Amplitude Response to Flow Mediated Dilation 440
Reduction of Movement Artifacts in Photoplethysmograph Using SFLC ( scaled Fourier linear combiner) 444
Two-dimensional representation of spatial structure changes in brain bioelectric potential field 448
Using Simple MLPs in Modular Architecture to Improve the P300 Detection Accuracy 452
Wavelet based compression technique of Electro-oculogram signals 457
Wireless Real-time Brain Mapping 461
Aromatherapy: It’s Effect on Brain Signal, Math Computation, Blood Pressure and Heart Rate 464
On the Linearity/Non-linearity of Mental Activity EEG for Brain-Computer Interface Design 468
Heart Rate Variability Characterization Using a Time-Frequency Based Instantaneous Frequency Estimation Technique 472
Evaluation of ECG Compression via Optimal Bit Allocation on DCT Coefficients 477
Biotechnology 481
Bio-Composting Process Development by SSF for Utilization Agro- Industrial Wastes 481
Biodegradation of 2-methoxyethanol under aerobic conditions by bacterial isolate Pseudomonas sp. strain VB 486
Human pi class glutathione S-transferase: anticancer material and functional study 493
Liquid State Bioconversion of Domestic Wastewater Sludge for Bioethanol Production 496
Microbial Bioconversion of Palm Oil Mill Effluent to Citric Acid with Optimum Process Conditions 500
Statistical Analysis in Complex-Valued Wavelet Detection of Acute Myocardial Ischemia in Rabbit 505
Statistical Optimization of Process Conditions for Direct Bioconversion of Sewage Treatment Plant Sludge for Bioethanol Production 509
Study for activation of human telomerase reverse transcriptase, as major component of cancer, expressed in E. coli 513
Systematic Following of Telomerase during MRC5 Population Dubbling and Cell Senescence 516
Clinical engineering 519
Analysis of Detecting the Malarial Parasite Infected Blood Images Using Statistical Based Approach 519
Detecting the Vocal Disorder by Extracting the Pitch in the Phonetics of Indian Regional Marathi Language Numerical 523
Importance of Performance Assurance in Medical Equipment Maintenance 526
Malay Nose Tissue Measurements For Nose Reconstruction: A Preliminary Data Collection 529
Quantification of Parkinsonian Rigidity: An Objective Evaluating Method 533
Medical informatics 537
Comparison of Different Classification Techniques Using WEKA for Breast Cancer 537
Discovery the Relationship Between Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms and Alternative Splicing Events 541
Selecting Informative Genes from Leukemia Gene Expression Data using a Hybrid Approach for Cancer Classification 545
Medical instruments and devices 550
A High Efficiency Optical Power Transmitting System to a Rechargeable Lithium Battery for All Implantable Biomedical Devices 550
A Portable Potentiostat for Electrochemical Sensors 555
A Preliminary Case Study of Anal Retractor Usability in Anorectal Surgery 560
Taxonomy of surrogate users for the development and evaluation of medical devices from the end users’ perspective 563
A Miniature Skin-Attached Hot Flash Recorder 567
Physiological modelling, simulation and control 571
2D Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) Model of Blood Flow in the Left Ventricle ( LV) of the Heart 571
A Computer-based Surgery Planning and Simulation for the Prediction of 3D Postoperative Facial Soft Tissue using Finite Element Analysis 575
Age-related Upper Limb Vascular System Windkessel Model using Photoplethysmography 580
Computational Analysis of Asymmetric Arterial Stenosis with Applications of Fluid- Solid Interaction 584
Computer based quantification of the mean Achilles tendon thickness in US- images – effect of tendinosis 589
Finite Element Analysis of Cell-Material Interaction on Hydrated Soft Material of Cartilage 593
Forward Simulation of Cardiac Excitation Propagation and ECG Patterns Using an Anisotropic Heart Model – a Toolbox 598
Haptic Pulse Simulator Training Module for Disease Diagnosis 602
In Vitro Modeling for Bioelectrical Impedance Measurement in Compartmental Syndrome 605
Optical detection of ferromagnetic and fluorescently labeled microparticles, simulation of a magnetic trap 608
Temperature Modeling of Therapeutic Ultrasound: A Preliminary Finding 611
The Alcohol Detection Using Heart Rate Variability and Bioimpedance 615
Visualizing Collaborative Time-Varying Scientific Datasets 619
Prostheses and artificial organs 624
Development of a steerable cochlear implant electrode array 624
Rehabilitation engineering 628
An Automatic Lower Limb Training Machine for Monoplegia Patients 628
An Intelligent Tilt Table for Paralytic Patients 632
Application of a Novel Integrated Pointing Device Apparatus for People with Severe Disability 635
Conceptual Design of an Isokinetic Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) Leg Stepping Trainer for Individuals with Neurological Disability 639
Design of a Wireless Heart Rate Monitoring System for Rehabilitation Patients 642
Development of Prosthetic Hand – A preliminary study 645
EEG Based Brain Machine Interface for Rehabilitation: A Guided Tour 649
Development of Articulation Training System with Speech Recognition Based Automatic Pronunciation Detection Mechanism 654
Exercise Technology after Spinal Cord Injury: Functional Electrical Stimulation Leg Cycling 657
Prosthetic Hand for the Brain-computer Interface System 660
Quadraplegic Communicator for Spinal Cord Injury Patient 664
Theoretical Determination of Lubrication Regimes in Two- Piece First Metatarsophalangeal Prostheses 668
Telemedicine 673
Design of Web-based Tele-ultrasound Consultation System over Digital Subscriber Lines 673
Development of a Mobile Telemedicine System with Multi Communication Links for Urban and Rural Areas in Indonesia 677
Managing and Organizing Plant Identification Keys for Easy Retrieval 681
Weight Control and Conversations in an Online Health-Community on Overweight 685
Tissue engineering 689
Biodegradable composite of poly e-caprolactone/hydroxyapatite 3-D scaffolds for bone tissue engineering 689
Biodegradable Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering Fabricated by Surface Selective Laser Sintering 693
Characterization of Collagen/PEO 600K for Tissue Engineering Scaffold 697
Effect of TGF-ß and and ß-Estradiol on Extracellular Matrix Secretion in Articular Chondrocyte Culture 701
Human Adipose Precursor Cells Seeded on Hyaluronic Scaffolds: a Pilot Clinical Trial 705
Hybrid nanofiber scaffolds of polyurethane and poly(ethylene oxide) using dual- electrospinning for vascular tissue engineering 709
In Vitro Augmentation of Collagen Matrix Formation - Applications in Tissue Engineering 713
Repair of Rabbit Focal Articular Cartilage Defects with Autologous Chondrocytes Embedded in Alginate 717
Index Authors 722
Index Subjects 728