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