Contents

Volume 1-1

Opening Editorial - A Message from the Publisher

Invited Paper:
Stroke is a Dynamic Process Best Captured Using a Fuzzy Logic Based Scientific Approch to Information and Causation by
Cathy M Helgason and Thomas H Jobe

Invited Paper:

Temporal Data Mining in Hospital Information Systems: Analysis of Clinical Courses of Chronic Hepatitis by Syoji Kobashi, and Shusaku Tsumoto

Brain MRI Slices Classification Using Least Squares Support Vector Machine
by
H.Selvaraj, S. Thamarai Selvi, D. Selvathi, L. Gewali

A Review and Adaptation of Methods of Object Tracking to Telemetry Capsules
by
Khalil Arshak, Francis Adepoju, David Waldron

An Atlas Based Fuzzy Method for Putamen Detection in Anatomical MR Images
by
Tao Song, Mo Jamshidi, Roland R. Lee, and Mingxiong Huang

A Support Vector Machine Model for Mapping of Lake Water Quality from Remote-Sensed Images by Lizhong Xu, Jianying Wang, Jun Guan, and Fengchen Huang

A Microscopic Images Classification System for High-Throughput Cell-Cycle Screening
by
Tuan D. Pham, Dat T. Tran, X. Zhou, and Stephen T. C. Wong



 

Volume 1-2

Guest Editorial on Medical Engineering
by
Syoji Kobashi and Kouki Nagamune

Development of Laser Cell-Chip System for Cell Functional Analysis
by
Toshihiro Kushibiki, Tomoko Sano, Hideo Eda, and Kunio Awazu

Model-Based Human Ear Localization and Feature Extraction
by
Ernö Jeges and László Máté

Distinction of Liver Disease from CT Images Using Kernel-Based Classifiers
by
Chien-Cheng Lee, Yu-Chun Chiang, Chun-Li Tsai, and Sz-Han Chen

An Automated Calculation of Three-Dimensional Evaluation of Canal Fill Ratio of the Stem in the Femoral Bone from CT Image
by
Kouki Nagamune, Nao Shibanuma, and Masahiro Kurosaka

Invisible Object Locating System for Fracture Surgery by Using Eddy Current
by
Maki Endo, Hiroshi Nakajima, and Yutaka Hata

Elasticity Imaging of the Lung with Fuzzy Control-Based Image Registration Using Multidetector-Row CT
by
Syoji Kobashi, Yosuke Yanagida, Katsuya Kondo, and Yutaka Hata




Volume 2-1

A Computerized Drug Delivery Control System for Regulation of Blood Pressure
by
K.Y. Zhu, H. Zheng, and D. G. Zhang

Real-Time Hand Gesture Interface for Browsing Medical Images by
Juan Wachs, Helman Stern, Yael Edan, Michael Gillam, Craig Feied, Mark Smith, and Jon Handler

Images as Active Connection Matrixes: the J-Net System
by
Massimo Buscema, Luigi Catzola, and Enzo Grossi

Modeling Cardiovascular Dynamics Using a Parallel Structure with Auto-Regressive and Neuro-Fuzzy Inference by Jingyu Liu, Mo Jamshidi, and Sam Pourbabak


 

Volume 2-2

Guest Editorial: A Special Issue of Image Processing of Cognitive Agents
by
Naoyuki Kubota

Variety of Robot Behaviors for Human-Robot Interactions Using Attention
by
Jun Mukai and Mishita Imai

An Overt Visual Attention Mechanism Based on Saliency Dynamics
by
José M. Canas, Marta Martînez de la Casa, and Teosoro González

Randam Scanning Algorithm for Tracking Curves in Binary Images Sequences
by
Kazuhiko Kawamoto and Kaoru Hirota

Evolutionary Video Processing for Lip Tracking
by
Takuya Akashi, Yuji Wakasa, Kanya Tanaka, Stephen Karugaru, and Minoru Fukumi

On-line Stable Evolustionary Recognition Based on Unit Quaternion Representation by Motion-Feedforward Compensation by Wei Song, Mamoru Minami, and Seiji Aoyagi

Building a Comfortable Space Fitting to Human Behaviors Through Biopsy Information
by
Zalili Binti Musa, Junzo Watada, and Hideyasu Hirano



Volume 2-3

Horticultural Therapy has Beneficial Effects on Brain Functions in Cerebrovascular
Diseases
by Yuko Mizuno-Matsumoto, Syoji Kobashi , Yutaka Hata, Osamu Ishikawa and
Fusayo Asano

Optimized Region Competition Algorithm Applied to the Segmentation of Artificial
Muscles in Stereoscopic Images
by Rafael Verdu-Mondero, Juan Morales-Sanchez and Jorge Larrey-Ruiz

Hemodynamic Response Latency Analysis Using Wavelet Transform in Event-related Functional MRI by Syoji Kobashi, Yuri T. Kitamura, Toshio Yanagida and Yukata Hata

A framework for tissue discrimination in magnetic resonance brain images based on predicates analysis and compensatory fuzzy logic by Gustavo Javier Meschino, Rafael Espin Andrade and Virginia Laura Ballarin.

Wavelet-Based Statistical Analysis versus SPM of Brain Imaging Data by Radu Mutihac


Volume 3-1

Improvement of Low-dose MDCT Images by Applying a Novel Adaptive Median Filter with Local Averaging by Jiehang Deng*, Koichiro Hiratsuka1, Tomokazu Ishida2, Haruhiko Shirai3, Jousuke Kuroiwa3, Tomohiro Odaka3, and Hisakazu Ogura3

Beta Activities in EEG Associated with Emotional Stress by Takuto Hayashi*, 1, Eika Okamoto1, Haruhiko Nishimura1, Hiroshi Inada1, Ryouhei Ishii2, Satoshi Ukai3, Kazuhiro Shinosaki3, Yuko Mizuno-Matsumoto1

Pattern Recognition in Computer-Aided Systems for Transformation of Mathemati-cal Figures into Tactile Graphics by Noboru Takagi

ICA, LDA, and Gabor Jets for Robust Ear Recognition, and Jet Space Similarity for Ear Detection by Daishi Watabe1, Hideyasu Sai1, Takuro Ueda1, Katsuhiro Sakai1 and Osamu Nakamura2

A Programmable DSP Development Platform for Automated Detection of Melanoma by Y. Wu1, J. Chen1, X. Yuan2, and G. Zouridakis1,2,3


Volume 3-2

Special Issue on Recent Advances in Multimedia and Image Processing by SYOJI KOBASHI

MEMS Based Digital-Controlled Vibratory-Beam-Accelerometer by Takayuki Fujita, Hiroki Okada and Kazusuke Maenaka

On-Stream Defect Detection of Metal Artifacts from Line CCD Image by Kenta Kurokawa, Masakazu Morimoto and Kensaku Fujii

Actualization of Causality-Based Transparency and Accuracy in System Modeling with Human-Machine Collaboration by D. Moritz Marutschke, Hiroshi Nakajima, Naoki Tsuchiya, Mitsuhiro Yoneda, Taro Iwami and Katsuari Kamei

M2VSM: Extension of Vector Space Model for Text Mining by Introducing Meta Keyword by Yasufumi Takama1, Toru Ishibashi2, Takashi Okada2

Fuzzy-Based Evolutionary Robot Vision for People Tracking by Akihiro Yorita, Naoyuki Kubota

Estimation Algorithm of Butyrylcholi-nesterase for Cirrhosis using Neural Net-work by Yutaka Hatakeyama, Hiromi Kataoka, Noriaki Nakajima, Teruaki Watabe, Yoshiyasu Okuhara