ADVANCES IN MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES.

MEGHA SINGH S. RADHAKRISHNAN.

Medical diagnosis has made significant progress due to the availability of newer technologies, leading to better understanding of the internal structure and functioning of the human body. This volume contains recent developments, with the emphasis on telemedicine, biomedical instrumentation, artificial neural network modelling, biomedical imaging, hemorheological techniques and drug delivery systems. These articles, which provide in-depth knowledge and the latest breakthroughs, will prove to be valuable in the future development of these disciplines through the interaction between engineering, medicine and science.

Contents: Detecting Failure in Biological Systems – A Network Approach; Recent Advances and Future Directions in Ultrasonic Diagnosis of tissues; Non-invasive Investigation of the Relationship between Electrical and Metabolic Cerebral Activity by Multimodal Functional Imaging; Diagnostic Reference Levels Nuclear Medicine Imaging; Poisson Generalized Additive Model – A New Technique to Evaluate the Visual Field; Analysis of Foot Pressure Images for Different Levels of Foot Sole Sensory Loss and Thickness in Diabetes; Non-Dimensional Indices for Physiological Assessment and Cost-Effective Operation of Hospital Systems; Non-invasive Monitoring of Cardio-Respiratory Function by Inductance Plethysmography; Multifractality Measures of EEG – Diagnostic Distinction in Healthy Subjects and Aphasics during Cognitive Task; Diagnostic Techniques for the Investigation of Epileptic Seizures in Children and Newborns; Novel Methods for Identification of Heart Diseases by Phonocardiogram; Identification of actual latencies in Transient Visual Evoked Potentials based on slope detection; Four Channel Adaptive Fetal ECG Extraction and Enhancement; Wavelet Transforms for Recognition and Compression of Electrocardiogram Signals; Flow Evaluation of Stents in Artery Models with a Blood-like Fluid; Electrostimulation Procedures in Osteoporosis and Bone Fracture Treatment; Resonance Frequency Detector System with Intelligent Sweeping for Injectable Passive Resonant Circuit; Effect of Diabetes/Peripheral Neuropathy on Ankle Strategy to Detect Perturbation; Mechanics of Plantar Ulcers in Diabetic Neuropathy and its Prevention; Teleophthalmology; Determination of Diabetic Foot at Risk – Looking beyond Semmes Weinstein Monofilaments; Statistical Analysis of visual Evoked Potentials in Normal and Optic Neuropathy Subjects; Two Components Implantable Device for Passive Thermotelementry; Separation of Twins Fetal MCG signals using Independent Component Analysis and Adaptive Filtering; Mechanism of Red Blood Cell Aggregation – Particle Electrophoresis Studies; Ultrasonic Characterization of Fractal red Blood Cell Aggregates in Dense Suspension Submitted to a Controlled Shear Flow; hemorheological Aspects of the Microcirculation – Approach, Disorders, Principal Factors, Investigation Techniques; Improving certain Erythrocyte Changes in Schistosomal Patients and Its Impact on Clinical Presentation; Effects of red Blood Cell Aggregation on Blood Flow Resistance in the Isolated Guinea Pig Hind Limb; A Study on the Flow Properties of Human Blood and the Effects of l-carnitine; Reconstruction of 3D Images from CT Scans for Relaistic Finite Element Analysis; Optical Characterization of Biological Tissues; Stiffness-Graded Bone Plate for Fracture-Fixation – An Inside View; Telemedicine – Clinical Studies on Effectiveness on Consults from Major Medical Centres to Rural Clinics; Brain Asymmetry and its Implications; Morphological Analysis on Human Retinal Microvasculature Using Wavelet Transforms; Artificial Neural Network Model for the Assessment of Osteoporosis and Prediction of Fracture Risk; Neural Network Based Anomaly Detection in Thoracic Region by Electrical Impedance Tomography Technique; ANN Model for diagnosis of Disease Severity based on Rheological Parameters of Blood using Imaging and Optical Techniques; Use of Cell Lines for the Assessment of Affectivity of Synthesized Targeted Biodegradable 188Re-DMSA-PLGA Microspheres; Multifunctional Tin (SnCl2 ) in Synthesis of EDTMP loaded PEG-Acrylamide Hydrogels – Role in Radiolabelling and Drug Delivery; An Intelligent Comprehensive Endoscopic Image Analysis System for Cancer-Screening; Analysis of DICOM-CT Images in Identification of Location in Human Thoracic Region.