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Day : Monday, 11 December 2006


 

8:30 – 17:00
Registration
9:00 – 10:30 Keynote Speech
Chair : Prof. Madiha KHATAB (Egypt)
Speaker :Prof. William HERSH - (USA)
Title : Training the Health and Biomedical Informatics Workforce: Competencies and Approaches
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10:30 –11:30 Plenary Session I
Chair : Prof. Sameh FARID (Egypt)
Speaker : Prof. Mohamed GHONEIM – (Egypt)
Title : Integrated Hospital Information System
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11:30 – 11:45 Break
11:45 – 13:45 Session 1 A
Health Care Systems
Chair :Prof. Hossam KAMEL(Egypt)
Co-Chair : Prof. Alfred WINTER (Germany)
Session 1 B
Image Processing
Chair : Prof. Ahmed EL-SHERBEENY (Egypt)
Co-Chair : Prof. Samia MASHALI (Egypt)
11:45 – 12:05 Electronic Health Record Standards – A Brief Overview
M. EICHELBERG, T. ADEN, J. RIESMEIER, A. DOGAC, G. B. LALECI (Germany)
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A Night Drive Simulator For The Evaluation Of A Predictive Advanced Front Lighting System
J. BERSSENBRUGGE, J. BAUCH and J. GAUSEMEIER (Germany)
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12:05 – 12:25 High Speed Video Link for
e-Health Teletrauma Applications on 3G Networks
Marc BAGE, Gilles Y. DELISLE (Canada)
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Blind Adaptive Equalization with Variable Step Size
Esam ABDEL-RAHEEM (Canada)
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12:25 – 12:45 Proposal of Health Care Monitoring by Wireless Ad-Hoc Networking
J. ETXANIZ, G. ARANGUREN and J.J. GUDE (Spain)
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A New Adaptive Blending Predictor for Lossless Image Compression
J. KNEZOVIC, M. KOVAC and H. MLINARI? (Croatia)
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12:45 – 13:05 Healthcare Stakeholders’ Perspective on the Use of Online Medical Record
N. LAMBRO, S. MUSTAPHA (Malaysia)
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Comparing the Performance of Learnable Evolution Model LEM and Pattern Search as a Function Optimizer
Ihab TALKHAN, Amir ATIYA, Hany SALLAM, M. ASHOUR, A. M. ABD EL SALAM, Carlo REGAZZONI (Egypt)
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13:05 - 13:25 High-level Architectural Design for LBHS Middleware
Bashar RASHID, Mohamed AMIN, M. EL-DARIEBY, Ezeddin SHIRIF (Canada)

FPGA Implementation of FIR Nyquist Filters
H. ABDULHAMID, R. LEE, and E. ABDEL-RAHEEM (Canada)
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13:25 – 13:45 Using Information Technology to Improve Health Information Literacy in Singapore - An Exploratory Study
Intan Azura MOKHTAR, Shaheen MAJID and Schubert FOO (Singapore)
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Vehicle Front-Lighting Assistance System To Improve Comfort And Safety Of The Driver
Hatem SHADEED - J. WALLASCHEK (Germany)
  
13:45 – 14:00 Coffee Break
14:00 – 16:00 Session 2 A
Health Care Tools
Chair :Prof. Osman RATIB (Switzerland)
Co-Chair : Prof. Bassel TAWFIK (Egypt)
Session 2 B
Signal Processing
Chair : Prof. Abdel Rahman EL-SAWY (Egypt)
Co-Chair : Prof. M. Zaki A-Meguid (Egypt)
14:00 – 14:20 Integrated Disaster Response Information Surveillance (IDRIS) System
Syed HAQUE, Shankar SRINIVASAN and Koushby MAJAGAH (USA)
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DWT-Based Antenna Selection for Correlated MIMO Channels
M. I. AS-SAAFANI, Ehab F. BADRAN, Darwish A. E. MOHAMED and Shawki SHAABAN (Egypt)
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14:20 – 14:40 Graphic User Interface : Needed Design Characteristics for Successful Physician Use
P. ALAFAIREET (USA)
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Spectral Correlation Analysis of OFDM Signals
Huang QI-SHAN, Peng QI-CONG, Lu YOU-RONG (China)
14:40 – 15:00 Digital X-Ray Library : A New Concept in Radiology Education
N. BARSOUM, M. SHAFIK, M. MAHFOUZ, H.SAMI, N. ABDEL RAZEK, R. EDWARD and M. SHAHIN (Egypt)
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Two New Techniques for Direction of Arrival Estimation
H. ELKAMCHOUCHI, D. ABDEL-AZIZ and M. OMAR (Egypt)
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15:00 – 15:20 Security in Healthcare Information Systems
Z. O. OMOGBADEGUN (Nigeria)
  
On Joint Antenna Selection in MIMO Systems Under Spatial Correlated Fading
Sultan J. SADI, Ehab F. BADRAN, Darwish A. E. MOHAMED and Shawki SHAABAN (Egypt)
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15:20 - 15:40 H-EtICT-8 (Health Education Through ICT for K-8): Stop AIDS Now!
Ozcan Ozgür DURSUN, Mehmet Can SAHIN, Erkan KAVAK and Asl? TURUSKAN (Turkey)
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Design of MEMS Based Triple Band Reconfigurable Antenna
A.H.M. ZAHIRUL ALAM, Norsuzlin Bt . Mohd SAHAR
and Norasyikin Bt ZAMANI (Malaysia)

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15:40 – 16:00   New Fast PCA for Face Detection
H. EL-BAKRY and Q. ZHAO (Japan)
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16:00 – 17:00 Lunch

Day : Tuesday, 12 December 2006

 

 

8:30 – 17:00
Registration
09:00 – 10:00 Plenary Session II
Chair : Prof. Sayed HAQUE (USA)
Co-Chair : Prof. Maha MOURAD (Egypt)
Speaker : H. K. HUANG (USA)
Title : Biomedical Imaging Informatics-Based Diagnosis and Treatment in Healthcare Delivery
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10:00 – 12:00 Session 3 A
Biomedical Image Processing
Chair : Prof. H. Huang (USA)
Co-Chair : Dr. Yasser KADAH (Egypt)



Session 3 B
Applications of Signal Processing
Chair :Prof. Magdy FIKRY (Egypt)
Co-Chair : Prof. Ayman EL-DESOUKY (Egypt)


Session 1 C
Simulators and Human Machine Interfaces
Chair :Prof. Adeeb GHONAIMY (Egypt)
Co-Chair : Prof. Wolfgang MINKER (Germany)
 
10:00 – 10:20 OSIRIX: An Open Source Platform for Advanced Multimodality Medical Imaging
Osman RATIB (Switzerland)
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Design Space Exploration of a Reconfigurable HMAC-HASH Unit
Esam KHAN, M. Watheq EL-KHARASHI, Fayez GEBALI and Mostafa ABD-EL-BARR
(Canada)
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From Users To Customers: HCI For Online Services
Claudio PINHANEZ (USA)
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10:20 – 10:40 Non-Linear Analysis Of ECG Signals As a Method For the Prognosis Of Life Threatening Tachyarrhythmias
R. PIZZI, G. INAMA, O. DURIN (Italy)
[Presentation] 
A Blind Signal Separation Technique Using Combination Of Second-Order and Higher-Order Approaches
Usama S. MOHAMMED and M. F. MAHMMOUD (Egypt)
[Presentation] 
Personality as a Criterion for Selecting Usability Testing Participants
G. E. BURNETT and D. DITSIKAS (UK)
 
10:40 – 11:00 Multivariate Features Extraction For Detection Of Epileptic Seizures In Electroencephalogram
M. El ADAWY, Aan ALI, Ahmed FARAG and AlShimaa ABD-ELAAL (Egypt)
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Performance Evaluation of Image Watermarking Techniques
Taha EL AREEF, Hamdy S. HENIEDY and Osama M. OUDA
(Egypt)

 
Towards the Formulation of Design Rules for Migrating Software Applications from Desktop to Handheld Devices
A. Ibrahim MOSTAFA (Egypt)
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11:00 – 11:20 A New Method for Kidney Rejection Detection
M. SAMIR and H. ABD ELGALIL (Egypt)
[Presentation] 
A High-Speed, Fully-Pipelined VLSI Architecture for Real-Time AES
M. FAYED, M. Watheq EL-KHARASHI and F. GEBALI (Canada)
[Presentation] 
Integrating a Virtual Prototyping Simulator with HLA
H. Hadj AMOR and T. SORIANO (France)
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11:20 – 11:40 Applying Image Fusion Techniques for Detection of Hepatic Lesions and Acute Intra-Cerebral Hemorrhage
Hossam El_Din MOUSTAFA and Sameh REHAN (Egypt)
[Presentation] 
DCT-Based Digital Image Watermarking via Image Segmentation Techniques
Ehab F. BADRAN, Ahmed GHOBASHY, and Khamis EL-SHENNAWY (Egypt)
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WANG Cube Simulator for Self-Assembly
Mostafa ELLABAAN and Timothy BRAILSFORD (UK)
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11:40 – 12:00 A Fast Algorithm for Segmentation of Microscopic Cell Images
M. El ADAWY, Z. SHEHAB, H. KESHK, M. El SHOURBAGY (Egypt)
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Study on the General Defects in the Information Security Management System (ISMS)
Sungho KWON, Sangsoo JANG and Jaeill LEE (South Korea)

12:00 – 12:30 Coffee Break
12:30 – 14:30 Session 4 A
Topics in Medical Informatics

Chair : Dr. Marco ECHILBERG (Germany)
Co-Chair : Dr. Ahmed ELBIALLY (Egypt)
Session 4 B
Topics in Information Processing

Chair : Prof. Said EL-KHAMY (Egypt)
Co-Chair :Dr. Ahmed TANTAWY (Egypt)
Session 2 C
Topics in HMI
Chair :Prof. M. YOUNIS (Egypt)
Co-Chair : Dr. Claudio PINHANEZ (USA)
12:30 – 12:50
The 3LGM²-Tool to Support Information Management in Health Care
Alfred WINTER (Germany)
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A New Framework for Domain-Specific Hidden Web Crawling Based on Data Extraction Techniques
Ali I. EL-DESOUKY, Hesham A. ALI, Sally M. EL-GHAMRAWY (Egypt)
[Presentation] 
Recent Trends in Spoken Language Dialogue Systems
W. MINKER, A. ALBALATE, D. BUEHLER, A. PITTERMANN, J. PITTERMANN, P.-M. STRAUSS, and D. ZAYKOVSKIY (Germany)
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12:50 – 13:10 Using the 3LGM2 Tool for Modeling the Imaging Department Workflow
Rada HUSSEIN (Egypt)
[Presentation] 
Processing Search Requests and Reply Messages in Pure Peer-To-Peer Networks
Mohammed Rami GHORAB (Egypt)
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13:10 – 13:30 Integrating Medical Images and Clinical Information
S. S. FURUIE, M. S. REBELO, R. A. MORENO, M. SANTOS, N. BERTOZZO, G. H. M. B. MOTTA, M. A. GUTIERREZ (Brazil)
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Web Layout Mining (WLM): A new Paradigm for Intelligent Web layout Design
Imran Sarwar BAJWA, Imran SIDDIQUE and M. Abbas CHOUDHARY (Pakistan)
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Improving The Performance Of The Deferrable Server Based Garbage Collection Scheduling Strategy
Ali Ebrahim EL DESOKEY, Aida Abd EL GAWAD, Amany SARHAN and Seham MOAWED (Egypt)
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13:30 – 13:50 Implementation of a PACS & RIS in a Private Radiology Center: A Three Year Experience
L. EZZAT, N. BARSOUM and M. SHAHIN (Egypt)
[Presentation]  
Automatic Domain Specific Terminology Extraction using a Decision Support System
Imran Sarwar BAJWA, Imran SIDDIQUE and M. Abbas CHOUDHARY (Pakistan)
[Presentation] 
P.A.L.I. : A Platform for Secretarial Services Support to Business Users
A. G. MALAMOS, G. MAMAKIS, T. ANASTASOPOULOS, J. DRIKOUDIS, E. FRAGOULIS, K. MAVRAGANIS, A. MOUTOU, G. TESSERIS, Y. KALIAKATSOS (Greece)
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13:50 – 14:10 A Survey of the Convergence Between Clinical Informatics and Clinical Engineering
Rada HUSSEIN (Egypt)
[Presentation]  
Offshore Outsourcing; a Proposed Maturing Solution to Developing Country
Maryam ALIABADI (Iran)
[Presentation]  
An Investigation of Minimax Search for Evolving AYO/AWARI Player
O. O. OLUGBARA, T. O. ADEWOYE and I. O. AKINYEMI (Nigeria)
14:10 – 14:30 Automatic Functional Brain MR Image Segmentation Using Region Growing and Seed Pixel
Imran SIDDIQUE, Imran Sarwar BAJWA, M. Shahid NAVEED and M. Abbas CHOUDHARY (Pakistan)
[Presentation] 
Development an Integrated Multi-Intelligent Agent Communication System
Mohamed Abd El-Wahab LABIB (Egypt)
[Presentation]  
The Role of Culture in E-Commerce Use for the Egyptian Consumers
Ghada EL-SAID (Egypt)
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14:30 – 16:30 Panel Discussion : Biomedical Case Studies
Chair : Eng. Mohamed OMRAN (Egypt)
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16:30 – 17:00 Closing Ceremony
17:00 – 18:00 Lunch