ISBN: 978-81-8487-195-1 
Publication Year:   2012
Pages:   354
Binding:   Hard Back

Preface / Biomedical Instrumentation and Devices - LabVIEW based Respiratory Rate Measurement using Hot-wire Anemometer / Photoplethysmographic Signals and Preliminary Pulse Oximetry Estimation from the Bowel using a new Fiber Optic Sensor / Electrical Stimulation of Quadriceps Femoris and Tibialis Anterior in Children with Spastic Cerebral Palsy: A Study to Determine Optimum Current Strength and Duration for Therapy / Tremor Assessment Device for Parkinson’s Disease Patients / Optimized Design and Development of a Cardiotocograph (CTG) through Quality Function Deployment (QFD) / Biomedical Applications of Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS): A Preliminary Study / Design and Development of MPSOC (ARM9) based ECG Machine with TSP and USB Interface / A Novel Approach for Non-invasive Blood Glucose Estimation – Preliminary Study / Micropump and Microfluidic Channels for a Drug Delivery System / Phonocardiography – Principles, Methods and Practices / Electrical Impedance Spectroscopic Studies of the Electronic Connectors of DIP Switch based Multiplexers Suitable for Multifrequency Electrical Impedance Tomography / Variable Gain Controller Design for the Nonlinear Long Term Blood Pressure Regulation / Telemedicine - An Automatic Fall-detection System for the Elderly / A Rural Health Monitor with Telemedicine / An Adaptive Integrated Framework for Optimal Data Transfer for Mobile Health Applications / Bio-Sensors – Studies on Immobilization of Butyrylcholinesterase in Polyvinyl Alcohol – Silica Matrix / Quantitative Red Blood Cell Death Monitoring using Photothermal Response Technique / Protein Microarray Fabrication by Simple Photolithographic Process / Physiological Signal Processing - Multiscale Distortion Measure for Multichannel Electrocardiogram Signals / Non-linear Analysis of EEG Signals for the Classification of Left/Right Hand Movement / Positive and Negative Emotion Classification from Stimulated EEG Signals / Pulse Rate Variability and Spectral Analysis of PPG Signal for Assessment of Cardiovascular System / Computer-based Identification of Epileptic EEG Signals using Higher Order Cumulant Features / Synthesis of Evoked Nerve Action Potentials Considering Circulating Currents around a Depletion Zones / Distribution of F-Latency (DFL) – A New Nerve Conduction Parameter: Recent Developments and Possibilities / Medical Imaging - Photoacoustic Spectroscopy for Prostate Cancer Detection / A Study on the Effects of Heating and Earth’s Magnetic Fieldon the Magnetic Field Generated by a Helmholtz Coil Subunit in a Xenon Polariser Unit / Recent Developments and Prospects of Focused Impedance Method (FIM) for Biomedical Study / Building Parametric Images of Biological Materials using High Frequency UltrasoundStudying the 2D Resistivity Reconstruction of Stainless Steel Electrode Phantoms using Different Current Patterns of Electrical / Impedance Tomography (EIT) / Image Guidance during Intervention - Tracking of Laparoscopic Surgical Instrument Tip in a Do-it-yourself Simulator / Tracking using 3D Ultrasound for Guiding Cardiac Interventions / Medical Image Processing - Evaluation of Morphometric Parameters in Cross Sections of Human Peripheral Nerves by using Color Image Analysis Software / Machine Vision based Non- invasive Technique for Determination of Conjunctivitis and its type / Medical Image Processing and Bio-modelling using Rapid Prototyping / Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) based Blood vessel Segmentation in Automatic Analysis of Retinal Images / Image Registration for DSA Artifact Reduction using Graph-cuts / Robust Measures for Retinal Vessel Tortuosity Measurement based on Curvature of Improved Chain Code / Computer-based Diagnosis of Oral Cancer using Texture Features / Modified, Optimal Thersholding for Medical Image Denoising / Nucleus Segmentation in Pap-smear Images / Towards 4D Object Modeling for Thoracic Insufficiency Syndrome / Segmentation of Liver in Computed Tomography Images using Distance Regularized Edge based Level Set Method / Vascular Segmentation in CT Angiography for Patients with Intracranial Aneurysms using a New Multi-scale Opening Algorithm / Correlation of Brain White Matter with Age based on the Textural Properties / Biomaterials and Artificial Organs - Static Strength Analysis of Modified Femoral Component of Artificial Human Knee Prosthesis / Glutaraldehyde Cross-linked Porcine Origin Biomaterials for the Reconstruction of Abdominal wall Defects in Rabbits / Biomechanics and Biodynamics - Pressure Wave Morphological Analysis of Arteries with Stenosis / Study of Flow Behavior in Cerebral Anuerysms using CFD / Application of FEA to Determine Stress Distribution in Implant-supported Lower Mandible / Cervical Loads in Pregnant Women Subjected to Ride Vibrations / Applications of Nanotechnology - A Novel Method for the Synthesis of Hydroxyapatite Nanocrystals in Simulated Body Fluid (SBF) at Physiological Conditions / First Report on Synthesis and Characterization of Phytogenic Zinc Nanoparticles and their Antimicrobial Activity / Preparation and Characterization of Nano-Silver Incorporated Sodium Alginate/Polyvinyl Alcohol Hydrogel for Wound Healing Applications / Probing Zinc-Oxide Nano-Particle Induced Stress on Stem Cellsusing Raman Tweezers / Advances in Dip-Pen Nanolithography for Applications in Nanoengineering and Life Sciences / Gold Nanoparticle Integrated PDMS Microfluidic Platform for Bio-Detection / Healthcare Informatics - Exploratory Analysis of Public Health Data using Association Rule Mining / List of Reviewers / Author Index.