The 4th European Congress of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Federation was held in Antwerp, November 2008.

The scientific discussion on the conference and in this conference proceedings include the following issues:

• Signal & Image Processing
• ICT
• Clinical Engineering and Applications
• Biomechanics and Fluid Biomechanics
• Biomaterials and Tissue Repair
• Innovations and Nanotechnology
• Modeling and Simulation
• Education and Professional

1;IFMBE Proceedings Volume 22/1;2 1.1;About IFMBE;6 1.2;Welcome to Antwerp!;7 1.3;Conference details;8 1.4;Content;11 1.5;Risk Stratification in Ischemic Heart Failure Patients with Linear and Nonlinear Methods of Heart Rate Variability Analysis;47 1.6;Biomagnetic risk stratification by QRS fragmentation in patients with Implanted Cardioverter Defibrillators;51 1.7;Beating Rate Variability Studies with Human Embryonic Stem Cell Derived Cardiomyocytes;54 1.8;The method of assessment of chosen hemodynamic and electrophysiologic parameters in the healthy human subject circulation;58 1.9;2D Isochronal Correlation Method to Detect Pacing Capture during Ventricular Fibrillation;60 1.10;Chaotic Phase Space Differential (CPSD) Algorithm for Real-Time Detection of VF, VT, and PVC ECG Signals;64 1.11;Supervised ECG Delineation Using the Wavelet Transform and Hidden Markov Models;68 1.12;Validating the Reliability of Five Ventricular Fibrillation Detecting Algorithms;72 1.13;Novel multichannel capacitive ECG-System for cardiac diagnostics beyond the standard- lead system;76 1.14;On Independent Component Analysis based on Spatial, Temporal and Spatio- temporal information in biomedical signals;80 1.15;Extracting Event-Related Field Components Through Space-Time ICA: a Study of MEG Recordings from Children with ADHD and Controls;84 1.16;Gender differences in the control of the upper body accelerations during level walking;89 1.17;Heart rate variability analysis during bicycle ergometer exercise;93 1.18;Color cues in Human Motion Analysis;97 1.19;Transforming retinal velocity into 3D motor coordinates for pursuit eye movements;101 1.20;Effectiveness of deep brain stimulation in subthalamic nucleus in Parkinson(TM)s disease - a somatotopic organisation;105 1.21;The Median Point DTW Template to Classify Upper Limb Gestures at Different Speeds;109 1.22;2D Markerless Gait Analysis;113 1.23;Tremor control during movement of the upper limb using artificial neural networks;118 1.24;Low-cost, Automated Assessment of Sit-To-Stand Movement in " Natural" Environments;122 1.25;Human Body Motions Classification;126 1.26;Parametric Representation of Hand Movement in Parkinson(TM)s Disease;131 1.27;A wireless integrated system to evaluate efficiency indexes in real time during cycling;135 1.28;Contactless head posture measurement;139 1.29;Specialized glasses - projection displays for neurology investigation;143 1.30;Digital Wireless Craniocorpography with Sidelong Scanning by TV Fisheye Camera;148 1.31;Calibration of a measurement system for the evaluation of efficiency indexes in bicycle training;152 1.32;Preliminary study on a remote system for diagnostic-therapeutic postural measurements;156 1.33;Software Assistance for Planning of RF-Ablation and Oncological Resection in Liver Surgery;160 1.34;Ultrasound Navigated RFA of Liver Tumors;164 1.35;LapAssistent - a laparoscopic liver surgery assistance system;167 1.36;The observation of human joint movement;172 1.37;Estimation of speed distribution of particles moving in an optically turbid multiple scattering medium by decomposition of laser- Doppler spectrum;176 1.38;A Novel Multivariate Analysis Method with Noise Reduction;179 1.39;Iterative improvement of lineshape estimation;184 1.40;An Investigation of the use of a High Resolution ADC as a " Digital Biopotential Amplifier";188 1.41;A portable data acquisition system for the measurement of impact attenuation material properties;194 1.42;Assessing Driver(TM)s Hypovigilance from Biosignals;198 1.43;Analyzing an sEMG signal using wavelets;202 1.44;Role of Myelin in Synchronization and Rhythmicity of Visual Impulses;206 1.45;Analyzing Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Signals with Macromolecular Contamination by the Morlet Wavelet;209 1.46;Robust and Adaptive Filtering of Multivariate Online-Monitoring Time Series;213 1.47;A novel synchronization measure for epileptic seizure detection based on Fourier series expansions;217 1.48;Investigating the Relationsh