ITAB-ITIS 2000 - Technical Program

Day 1 - Thursday, 9th November 2000

7.30 AM - 7.50 AM - CONFERENCE OPENING AND WELCOME

• Swamy Laxminarayan, Conference Chair
• Andy Marsh, Conference Co-Chair
• Metin Akay, Program Chair
• Ilias Iakovidis, Program Co-Chair
• Christian Roux, International Chair
• Luis Kun, Publications Chair

7.50 AM - 9.00 AM - PLENARY SESSION Chairs: Dr. Swamy Laxminarayan, NJIT and VocalTec Communications, USA Dr. Andy Marsh, ITIS Chair

• 7.50 AM Computer Security When Data = = Life
  Prof. Jean Camp, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA
• 8:30 AM Multimedia Technologies in Medicine: The Role of Emerging Standards
  J. Puentes, C. Roux, ENST Bretagne, Brest, France

9.00 AM - 9.30 AM - PANEL: HOME HEALTH CARE: APPLICATIONS 9.30 AM - 10.30 AM - PANEL: HOME HEALTH CARE: ISSUES, POLICIES AND TECHNOLOGIES Moderators: Dr. Luis Kun, Center for Disease Control, Atlanta, USA Dr. Helga Rippen, IEEE USA Medical Technology Policy Committee

APPLICATIONS

Telemedicine, Home Care Evaluation of Diabetic Elderly Patients - A Coordinated Effort Between Government, Industry and Academia:
Presentations will focus on the roles played by Columbia University, NY and the American Telecare, followed by discussions by the IEEE-USA Medical Technology Policy Committee on demographics, disease trends and an overview of home health care to include the Columbia University example as a case study. Discussions will also include issues of reimbursement, licensure, standards and access as well as privacy and security requirements established by HIPAA 96.

ISSUES, POLICIES AND TECHNOLOGIES

Privacy and Security as required by HIPAA 96. Whether or not a health care innovation will improve patient outcomes or reduce costs will depend on a complex array of technical, administrative, political and other factors. Using the homecare telemedicine initiative for diabetics as an example, the panel will demonstrate a practical way to identify the major barriers to implementation. Biomedical staff who can address these barriers can substantially improve chances of program implementation, enhance the ability of the program to improve patient outcomes, and help project the fiscal impact of the programming, as implemented.

Presentations:

• Dr. Justin Starren, Columbia University, New York, USA
• Dr. Khalid Mahmud, American Telecare, USA
• Dr. Joel Nitzkin, Medical Technology Policy Committee, IEEE USA
• Dr. Michael Fitzmaurice, Medical Technology Policy Committee, IEEE USA

10.30 AM - 10.45 AM - BREAK

10.45 AM - 11.45 AM - SPECIAL SESSION: TELEMEDICINE AND MOBILITY Chairs: Dr. Robert Istepanian, Brunel University, UK Prof. Laura Roa, University of Seville, Spain

• 10:45 AM Advances in Wireless Telemedicine: Improvements and Challenges in Wireless Ultrasound
  Absar Kazmi, B.R. Arslan, M. Tulgar, P.C. Pedersen, K. Pahlavan, B. Cengiz, A. Arslan, PairGain Technologies, Inc., USA; Raytheon Electronics Systems, Gaziantep University, Turkey; Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
• 10:55 AM The Mobile Patient: Wireless Distributed Sensor Networks for Patient Monitoring and Care
  P.H. Bauer, M. Sichitiu, R.S.H. Istepanian, K. Premaratne, University of Notre Dame, USA; Brunel University, London, UK; University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA
• 11:05 AM Wireless Personal Area Networks in Telemedical Environment
  E. Jovanov, J. Price, D. Raskovic, K. Kavi, T. Martin, R. Adhami, University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA; and ADTRAN, Alabama, USA
• 11:15 AM On the Feasibility of the Usage of WAP Devices in Telemedicine
  K. Hung, Y.T. Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• 11:25 AM Optimum Delivery of Telemedicine Over Low Bandwidth Links
  M. Clarke, A. Fragos, R. Jones, D. Lioupis, Brunel University, London, UK
• 11:35 AM Pharos: Coupling GSM & GPS-TALK Technologies to Provide Orientation, Navigation and Location-Based Services for the Blind
  Andy Marsh (1), Michael May (2), Markku Saarelainen (3), (1) Institute of Communication & Computer Systems, 9 Iroon Polytechniou Street, Zographou, Athens, Greece; (2) SenderoGroup, 1118 Maple Lane, Davis, California 95616, USA; (3) Arbonaut Ltd, Torikatu 21C, Joensuu 80100, Finland.

11.45 AM - 12.15 PM - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ISSUES - SHORT PAPERS Chair: Dr. Jean Camp, Harvard University, USA

• 11:45 AM Development of a Secure Medical Research Environment
  Adil Alaoui, B. Levine, K. Cleary, S.K. Mun, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington DC, USA
• 11:55 AM The Cultural Approach to Telemedicine in Latin American Homes
  J.E. Monzon, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Argentina
• 12:05 PM Organizational and Social Impacts of Telehealth: A Cause for Concern?
  R.K. Bali, Coventry University, UK

12.15 PM - 1.45 PM - LUNCH AND POSTERS

POSTERS: TELEHEALTH SYSTEMS, E-COMMERCE AND DIGITAL LIBRARY Chairs: Prof. Ewart Carson, The City University, London, UK Prof. T-Y Lee, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, ROC

• Methodology for Designing Telecare Systems: A Case Study in Cystic Fibrosis Monitoring
  F. Magrabi, N.H. Lovell, B.G. Celler, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
• Information System for the Integrated Management of a Burnt Unit
  J. Reina-Tosina, L. Roa, J. Caceres, T. Gomez-Cia, University of Seville, Spain
• A Telemedicine Application Utilizing Data Socket to Remotely Track the Heart Rate Variability of Patients in a Clinical Research Environment
  S.A. Atapattu, R.D. Mitrani, University of Miami, Florida, USA
• An Implementation of Real Time Monitoring and Analysis in Telemedicine
  Z. Obrenovic, D. Starcevic, E. Jovanov, V. Radivojevic, University of Belgrade, Belgrade and University of Alabama, USA
• The Automatic Health Monitoring System for Home Health Care
  M. Nambu, K. Nakajima, A. Kawarada, T. Tamura, National Institute of Longevity Sciences and Hiroshima Prefectural College of Health Sciences, Japan
• A Wireless Wellness Monitor for Personal Weight Management
  J. Pärkkä, M. van Gils, T. Tuomisto, R. Lappalainen, I. Korhonen, VTT Information Technology, Tampere, Finland
• Contect-Oriented Coding Aids for Health Care Activity Description
  J.M. Cauvin, J. Mansourati, J.L. Scheydeker, C. Le Guillou, B. Solaiman, J.J. Blanc, University Hospital, Brest, France
• Medical E-Commerce for Regional Australia - Virtual Clinical Call Center
  D.K. Kumar, A. Howard, P. Mikelaitis, RMIT University, Australia
• An Internet Based Telemedicine System
  Z. Guo, J.C. Moulder, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA
• Design and Implementation of the Vital Sign Box for Home Health Care
  Y. Mori, M. Yamauchi, K. Kaneko, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd, Japan
• A Palm Pilot Based Pocket ECG Recorder
  Y. Zou, Z. Guo, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA
• Optimal Wavelet Biosignal Compression for Mobile Multi-Purpose Telemedicine
  S. Pavlopoulos, R.S.H. Istepanian, E. Kyriacou, D. Koutsouris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece; Brunel University, London, UK

1.45 PM - 3.15 PM - SPECIAL PANEL: BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS Chair: Dr. Donna Hudson, University of California, San Francisco, USA

Presentations:

• From Bioinformatics and Genomics to Therapeutic Engineering
  C. Anthony Hunt, Michael N. Liebman
• Information Technology and Computational Biology in Human Reproduction Technologies: Perspectives and Bio-ethical Issues for Clinical Practice
  Joseph Tritto, Saint-Louis Hospital, Paris, France, IASTA-MED International, International Association of Sciences and Technologies for Andrology
• Using the Internet to Assist Clinical Decision Making
  Donna L. Hudson, Maurice E. Cohen, University of California, San Francisco, USA
• The New Chaotic Methods for Biomedical Signals Analysis
  Maurice E. Cohen, Donna L. Hudson, University of California, San Francisco, USA
• A computational model of visual cortex receptive fields using spatio-temporal filters
  Mariofanna Milanova, Adel S. Elmaghraby, Mark P. Wachowiak, Aurelio Campilho, University of Porto, Portugal and University of Louisville, USA
• Panel Discussion : Educational Issues in Biomedical Informatics
  M. E. Cohen, A. Elmaghraby, D. Hudson, C. A. Hunt, N. Liebman, M. Milanova, Joseph Tritto

3.15 PM - 3.30 PM - BREAK

3.30 PM - 6.30 PM - PANEL: RESEARCH NETWORKS Chair: Dr. Sandor Vari, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, LA, California, USA

RESEARCH NETWORKS IN BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES (RNBS)

Presentations:

• Implement Research Networks in Biomedical Sciences
  Sandor G. Vari, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
• Rethinking the Fundamentals of International Scientific Cooperation In The Early Twenty-First Century,
  Carole Ganz-Brown, International Programs Division, National Science Foundation, USA
• Potential Benefit of Trans-Atlantic Research Collaboration in the Central & East European Countries
  Lajos Kemeny, Chairman of Committee for Contract Research, University Szeged, Hungary
• Virtual Scientific Collaborations Dependent on Human Motivational Issues
  G. Rufus Sessions, Chief Scientific Officer, Clinical Applications Division, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), USA Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC), Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD,USA
• Use of Information Technology in European Research Institutes as Research and Management Tool
  Gerard Brugal, Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble, France
• Using Networks for Detection/Surveillance of Bio-terrorism and Global Immunization, Registries for Disease Prevention and Vaccine Effectiveness
  Luis Kun, National Immunization Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA
• International Networks enable Global Enrollment and Optimized Care of Patients into Research and Clinical Protocols
  Piet C. de Groen, Associate Professor Division of Gastroenterology Mayo Clinic and Foundation, USA
• Role of National and International Organizations in Research Collaborations
  Emery Moore, Past President of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), USA
• E-connected Network for Stem Cell Transplantation
  Andrzej Lange, Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
• Open Distance Learning Networks for Medical Education
  Anastasia N. Kastania, Michael P. Bekakos, Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
• Virtual versus Real Mobility of Researchers in the Biomedical Sciences
  Stelios Orphanoudakis, Foundation Research Technology HELLAS, FORTH, Institute of Computer Sciences, Iraklion, Greece
• Integrated International and Regional Services for Interventional Cardiology
  Sandor Vari, Gabor Duray, Istvan Preda, Geza Nagy, Imre Ungi, Hungary

Panel Discussion
Moderator: Sandor G. Vari, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, LA, California, USA

Invited Panelists:

• R. Borchers, Director, Advanced Computational Infrastructure and Research Division, NSF, USA
• M. Domach, Program Director, Bioengineering & Environmental Systems, NSF, USA
• S. Goldstein, Senior Advisor, Information Technology, Engineering Directorate, NSF, USA
• E.R. Siegel, Associate Director for Health Information Programs Development, National Library of Medicine, USA
• J. Rosenthal, Program Director for Biodiversity, Ecology and Informatics, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, USA
• C. Ganz-Brown, International Programs Division, National Science Foundation, USA
• Luis Kun, Acting Chief Information Technology Officer, National Immunization Program, CDC, USA
• K. Olsen, Chief Scientist, Associate Administrator, NASA Office of Life and Microgravity Sciences, USA
• G. R. Sessions, Ph.D. CSO, Clinical Applications Division, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC), Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD, USA
• S. Sastry, Director, The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Information Technology Office (ITO), USA
• Representative from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA
• E. Moore, Past President of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), USA
• P. C. de Groen, Division of Gastroenterology Mayo Clinic, USA
• G. Brugal, Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble, France
• L. Kemeny Chairman of Committee for Contract Research, University Szeged, Hungary
• A. Lange, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland
• A. N. Kastania, Athens University of Economics and Business, GreeceS. Orphanoudakis, Foundation Research Technology HELLAS, FORTH, Greece
• S. Laxminarayan, Guttenburg Information Technology Center, NJIT, USA
• Andreas Lymberis, European Commission, Brussels, Directorate General
• I. Iakovidis, European Commission, Directorate General - Information Society, Belgium

6.30 PM - 8.00 PM - CONFERENCE RECEPTION

Day 2 - Friday, 10th November 2000

7.30 AM - 8.10 AM - SESSION: COLLABORATIVE TECHNOLOGIES Chair: Dr. Stelios Orpanaudakis, Foundation Research Technology, Greece

• 7.30 AM Collaborative and Multimedia Medical Technologies
  B-K Erlandson, University Hospital, Umea, Sweden
• 7:50 AM EU-TeleInViVo: An Integrated Portable Telemedicine Workstation Featuring Acquisition, Processing and Transmission Over Low-Bandwidth Lines of 3D Ultrasound Volume Images
  G. Kontaxakis, S. Walter, G. Sakas, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics (IGD), Germany
• 8:00 AM Telemedicine System to Support Asthma Self-Management
  J. Finkelstein, R.H. Friedman, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, USA

8.10 AM - 8.50 AM - SESSION: INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS - SHORT PAPERS Chairs: Prof. N.P. Reddy, University of Akron, OH, USA Prof. M. Frize, Carleton Unversity, Ottawa, Canada

• 8:10 AM Automated Optimization of Neural Networks in Estimating Medical Outcomes
  M. Frize, C.M. Ennet, E. Charette, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
• 8:20 AM A Fuzzy Measurement-Based Assessment of Brest Cancer Prognostic Markers
  H. Seker, M. Odetayo, D. Petrovic, R.N.G. Naguib, C. Bartoli, L. Alasio, M.S. Lakshmi, G.V. Sherbet, Coventry University (UK); University of New Castle Upon Tyne, UK; Institute for Molecular Medicine, CA, USA
• 8:30 AM Towards Intelligent Web Monitoring: Performance of Committee Neural Networks vs Single Neural Network
  P. Gopinath, N. P. Reddy, University of Akron, Akron, OH, USA
• 8:40 AM Information Processing in Upper Digestive Endoscopy
  C. Le Guillou, J-M Cauvin, B. Solaiman, M. Robaszkiewicz, C. Roux, ENST, Bretagne, Centre Hospitalier Regional Universitaire, Brest, France

8.50 AM - 9.30 AM - PLENARY SESSION Chair: Metin Akay, Thayer College of Engineering, Hanover, NH, USA

Cybercare: Responding to a Mass Casualty Event in the 21st century
Joseph Rosen, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, NH, USA

9.30 AM - 10.30 AM - INVITED SESSION: MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGIES Chairs: Dr. Peter Brett, Aston University, UK Dr. B-K Erlandson, University Hospital Umea, Sweden

• 9:30 AM Using Java to Embed Complex Simulation Media into Surgical Training Environments
  S. Grange, G. Jones, Princess Elizabeth Orthopedic Center, University of Exeter, UK
• 9:45 AM Interactive Histopathology Consultation Network
  S.G. Vari, G. Brugal, R.D. Naber, G. Müller, VARIMED Ltd. Hungary; Institut Albert Bonniot - Faculté de Médecine, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble; TRITECH GmbH, Isny im Allgäu, Germany; Laser und Medizin Technologie GmbH Berlin, Germany
• 10:00 AM An Interactive Tool for the Segmentation of Multimodal Medical Images
  L. Vosilla, G. De Leo, M. Fato, A. Schenone, F. Beltrame, University of Genoa, Italy
• 10:10 AM Multi-Sensor Schemes for Controlling Devices in Clinical Applications
  P.N. Brett, G. Tritto, M.V. Griffiths, University of Aston, UK; St Michael's Hospital, Bristol, UK; Hôpital St. Louis Paris, France
• 10:20 AM A Multi Center Digital MRI Network for Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD)
  B.A. Levine, F. Eichler, M.L. Ingeholm, H. Moser, Georgetown University, Washington DC and Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

10.30 AM - 11.30 AM - BREAK AND POSTERS

POSTERS: MULTIMEDIA, VISUALIZATION AND CLINICAL DEVICES Chairs: Dr. Simion Pruna, Romanian Society of Clinical Engineering, Romania Dr. Andy Marsh, Institute of Communications and Computer Science, Greece

• A New Lossy 3D Wavelet Transform for High Quality Compression of Medical Video
  G. Bernabe, J. Gonzalez, J.M. Garcia, Universidad de Murcia and Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
• Interactive Animation of 4D Medical Imaging
  T-Y Lee, C-H Lin, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, Republic of China
• Realistic 3D Head Modeling from Video Captured Images and CT Data
  A.M. Haider, T. Kaneko, Toyohashi University, Japan
• A Simulation Study of Non-invasive Electrocardiographic Imaging
  G. Li, B. He, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
• The Application of Virtual Bronchoscopy in the Evaluation of Hemoptysis: Comparitive Evaluation with Real Fibre Optic Bronchoscopy
  S. Kourelea, Th. Vontetsianos, V. Maniatis, K. Lyberopoulos, A. Rigopoulou, M. Mandeou, Ch Michael, A. Marsh, Regional General Chest Diseases Hospital of Athens, Greece
• Relevance of Watermarking in Medical Imaging
  G. Coatrieux, H. Maitre, B. Sankur, Y. Rolland, R. Collorec, ENST, Paris; Université de Rennes I, France; Bogazici University, Turkey

POSTERS: BIOINFORMATICS AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS Chair: Prof. Joseph Tritto, International Association of Sciences and Technologies for Andrology, France

• Health Data Transfer Protocol Based on SGML, The Health Data Markup Language (HDML)
  S. Hara, H. Sugimori, K. Yoshida, K. Furumi, I. Tofukuji, T. Kubodera, National Institute of Japanese Literature and St. Marianna University, Japan
• Extracting a Partition from a Complex Schema of a Medical Terminology
  H. Gu, Y. Perl, M. Halper, J. Geller, F-S Kuo, J.J. Cimino, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Kean University and Columbia University, USA
• Assessment of Bilharziasis History in Outcome Prediction of Bladder Cancer Using a Radial Basis Function Neural Network
  W. Ji, R.N.G. Naguib, M. Ghoneim, BIOCORE, Coventry University, UK

11.30 AM - 12.15 PM - SESSION: HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS Chair: Raouf Naguib, Coventry University, UK

• 11:30 AM A Model-Based Framework for Public Health: A Vehicle for Maximizing the Value of Telecare
  D.G. Cramp, E.R. Carson, City University, London, UK
• 11:45 AM Information Infrastructure for an Integrated Healthcare Services Network
  M. Tsiknakis, D.G. Katehakis, S.C. Orphanoudakis, University of Crete, Crete, Greece
• 11:55 AM Black Sea Tele Diab: Building an Information System for Management of Diabetes
  S. Pruna, N.D. Harris, R. Dixon, Romanian Society for Clinical Engineering and Medical Computing, Romania and University of Sheffield, UK
• 12: 05 PM Primary Care Physicians' Communication Networks in Central Europe
  S. G. Vari , M. Bruun-Rasmussen, B. Bercic, G. Nagy, I. Iakovidis, VARIMED Ltd., Hungary; Danish Centre for Health Telematics, Denmark; INFONET, Slovenia; Semmelweis Hospital, Miskolc, Hungary; European Commission, Directorate-General Information Society, Belgium

12.15 PM - 1.00 PM - SESSION: BIOINFORMATICS Chair: James Geller, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

• 12:15 PM A Structural Partition of the Unified Medical Language System's Semantic Network
  Z. Chen, M. Halper, J. Geller, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Kean University, USA
• 12:30 PM Informatics and Simulation in a Genomic Approach to Understanding Virulence
  J.P. Fitch, B.A. Sokhansanj, L.L. Ott, T.R. Slezak, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, USA
• 12:45 PM Gene Expression Patterns and Cancer Classifications: A Self Adaptive and Incremental Neural Approach
  F. Azuaje, University of Dublin, Ireland

1.00 PM - 2.00 PM - LUNCH

2.00 PM - 3.30 PM - ROUND TABLE: NEUROINFORMATICS Chair: Prof. Francisco Beltrame, University of Genoa, Italy

The panel will discuss the goals of the Neuroinformatics Working Group set up by the OECD Global Science Forum. The main discussion issues will focus on the mandate and activities of the group which include:

1. generating and making available to the scientific community an inclusive listing of neuroinformatics resources such as neuroscience databases, neuroinformatics tools, and computational methods for modeling and simulating brain function,
2. developing database guidelines for content, organization, quality control, and standards to ensure interoperability and longevity of the neuroscience databases,
3. creating a Neuroinformatics Portal which will be an Internet-based knowledge repository for Neuroinformatics applications and neuroscience data, providing e-services for scientists, governments and citizens.

Panelists:

• Dr. Stephen H. Koslow, Associate Director, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, USA
• Prof. Shiro Usui, IEEE Fellow, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan
• Dr. Dan Gardner, Cornell University, USA
• Dr. Giorgio Ascoli, George Mason University, USA

3.30 PM - 4.30 PM - BREAK AND POSTERS

POSTERS: HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS Chairs: Dr. Simon Grange, Princess Elizabeth Orthopedic Center, UK Dr. S. Hara, National Institute of Japanese Literature, Japan

• Longitudinal Patient-Centered Collection and Analysis of Clinical Data
  P. Huyn, Z. Lacroix, A. Perrone, SurroMed, Inc., California, USA
• Telecommunication System for Handicapped People
  F. Fernandez, L. Roa, F. Chavez, University of Extremadura and University of Seville, Spain
• On-Demand Intranet for Nurse Education - An European Nursing Informatics and Telematics Project
  P. Kokol, P. Procter, University of Maribor, Slovenia and University of Sheffield, UK
• Analysis of Attendance and Screening Variation in a UK Brest Cancer Screening Unit
  H.E. Arochana, A. Whitford, R.N.G. Naguib, H. Mashhoudy, M.G. Wallis, Coventry University, UK
• MyCareTeam: A Disease Management Web Application
  M-J T. Hu, B. Levine, A. Alaoui, S. Clement, S.K. Mun, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington DC, USA
• Design Considerations for a Relational Database Schema to hold Dental Epidemiological Data
  D. Taylor, R.N.G. Naguib, S. Amin, A. James, S. Boulton, Coventry University and Coventry Health Authority, UK
• Design and Implementation of a Web-Based HL7 Validation System
  D-M Liou, E-W Huang, T-T Chen, S-H Hsiao, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan, ROC
• Towards a Qualitative-Informed Model for EPR Implementation: Considering Organizational Culture
  R.K. Bali, School of Mathematical and Information Sciences, Coventry University, UK

POSTERS: INFORMATION PROCESSING AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING Chairs: Prof. Y.T. Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Prof. Bin He, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA

• On The Rehabilitation of Cochlear Implant Patients using a Flexible and Versatile Speech Processing Technique with a Spectral Approach
  A.B. Hamida, University of Sfax, Tunisia
• Detecting Non-Linear Patterns in Physiological Signals
  N. Radhakrishnan, J.D. Wilson, R.M. Hawk, University of Arkansas at LittleRock, USA
• Doppler Shift Measurements Using Monte Carlo Modeling
  R-C Chian, B-S Lin, F.C. Chong, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, ROC
• A Model Based Fault-Tolerant CSCW Architecture: Application to Biomedical Signals Visualization and Processing
  Y. Bouillon, F. Wendling, ATLANTIDE, Centre Affaires Rennes Oberthur and Université de Rennes I, France

4.30 PM - 6.30 PM - PANEL: BIOINFORMATICS AND THE WEB Chair: Terence Critchlow, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CA, USA

Presentations:

• Leveraging the Web and XML as an Integrated Information Platform for the Life Sciences
  B. Marshal, LBNL (GAME), USA
• Scaling the Tower of Babel: Data Integration and Warehousing with the WWW
  S.B. Davidson, University of Pennsylvania, Bio-Kliesli, USA
• Supporting Web based Biology with Ontologies
  C. Goble, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

Panel Discussion
Moderator: Dr. Terence Critchlow, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA

6:30 PM - CLOSE