Biological and Medical Data Analysis: 7th International Symposium, ISBMDA 2006, Thessaloniki, Greece, December 7-8, 2006. Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, cartea 4345

Bioinformatics: Functional Genomics.- HLA and HIV Infection Progression: Application of the Minimum Description Length Principle to Statistical Genetics.- Visualization of Functional Aspects of microRNA Regulatory Networks Using the Gene Ontology.- A Novel Method for Classifying Subfamilies and Sub-subfamilies of G-Protein Coupled Receptors.- Integration Analysis of Diverse Genomic Data Using Multi-clustering Results.- Bioinformatics: Sequence and Structure Analysis.- Effectivity of Internal Validation Techniques for Gene Clustering.- Intrinsic Splicing Profile of Human Genes Undergoing Simple Cassette Exon Events.- Generalization Rules for Binarized Descriptors.- Application of Combining Classifiers Using Dynamic Weights to the Protein Secondary Structure Prediction – Comparative Analysis of Fusion Methods.- A Novel Data Mining Approach for the Accurate Prediction of Translation Initiation Sites.- SPSO: Synthetic Protein Sequence Oversampling for Imbalanced Protein Data and Remote Homology Detection.- Biomedical Models.- Markov Modeling of Conformational Kinetics of Cardiac Ion Channel Proteins.- Insulin Sensitivity and Plasma Glucose Appearance Profile by Oral Minimal Model in Normotensive and Normoglycemic Humans.- Dynamic Model of Amino Acid and Carbohydrate Metabolism in Primary Human Liver Cells.- The Probabilities Mixture Model for Clustering Flow-Cytometric Data: An Application to Gating Lymphocytes in Peripheral Blood.- Integrative Mathematical Modeling for Analysis of Microcirculatory Function.- Searching and Visualizing Brain Networks in Schizophrenia.- Databases and Grids.- TRENCADIS – A Grid Architecture for Creating Virtual Repositories of DICOM Objects in an OGSA-Based Ontological Framework.- Minimizing Data Size for Efficient Data Reuse inGrid-Enabled Medical Applications.- Thinking Precedes Action: Using Software Engineering for the Development of a Terminology Database to Improve Access to Biomedical Documentation.- Grid-Based Knowledge Discovery in Clinico-Genomic Data.- A Prospective Study on the Integration of Microarray Data in HIS/EPR.- Web Services Interface to Run Protein Sequence Tools on Grid, Testcase of Protein Sequence Alignment.- Semantics and Information Modelling.- Integrating Clinical and Genomic Information Through the PrognoChip Mediator.- OntoDataClean: Ontology-Based Integration and Preprocessing of Distributed Data.- Language Modelling for the Needs of OCR of Medical Texts.- Biomedical Signal Processing – Time Series Analysis.- The Use of Multivariate Autoregressive Modelling for Analyzing Dynamical Physiological Responses of Individual Critically Ill Patients.- Time Series Feature Evaluation in Discriminating Preictal EEG States.- Symbol Extraction Method and Symbolic Distance for Analysing Medical Time Series.- A Wavelet Tool to Discriminate Imagery Versus Actual Finger Movements Towards a Brain–Computer Interface.- Biomedical Image Analysis and Visualisation Techniques.- A Fully Bayesian Two-Stage Model for Detecting Brain Activity in fMRI.- A Novel Algorithm for Segmentation of Lung Images.- An Evaluation of Image Compression Algorithms for Colour Retinal Images.- An Automated Model for Rapid and Reliable Segmentation of Intravascular Ultrasound Images.- Biomedical Data Analysis and Interpretation.- Supervised Neuro-fuzzy Clustering for Life Science Applications.- Study on Preprocessing and Classifying Mass Spectral Raw Data Concerning Human Normal and Disease Cases.- Non-repetitive DNA Sequence Compression Using Memoization.- Application of Rough Sets Theory to theSequential Diagnosis.- Data Integration in Multi-dimensional Data Sets: Informational Asymmetry in the Valid Correlation of Subdivided Samples.- Decision Support Systems and Diagnostic Tools.- Two-Stage Classifier for Diagnosis of Hypertension Type.- Handwriting Analysis for Diagnosis and Prognosis of Parkinson’s Disease.- A Decision Support System for the Automatic Assessment of Hip Osteoarthritis Severity by Hip Joint Space Contour Spectral Analysis.- Modeling for Missing Tissue Compensator Fabrication Using RFID Tag in U-Health.- The Effect of User Factors on Consumer Familiarity with Health Terms: Using Gender as a Proxy for Background Knowledge About Gender-Specific Illnesses.- ICT for Patient Safety: Towards a European Research Roadmap.