Advances in Telemedicine: Applications in Various Medical Disciplines and Geographical Regions

Edited by: Georgi Graschew and Theo A. Roelofs

ISBN 978-953-307-161-9, Hard cover, 296 pages
Publisher: InTech
Publication date: March 2011
Subject: Telemedicine

Innovative developments in information and communication technologies (ICT) irrevocably change our lives and enable new possibilities for society. Telemedicine, which can be defined as novel ICT-enabled medical services that help to overcome classical barriers in space and time, definitely profits from this trend. Through Telemedicine patients can access medical expertise that may not be available at the patient’s site. Telemedicine services can range from simply sending a fax message to a colleague to the use of broadband networks with multimodal video- and data streaming for second opinioning as well as medical telepresence. Telemedicine is more and more evolving into a multidisciplinary approach. This book project “Advances in Telemedicine” has been conceived to reflect this broad view and therefore has been split into two volumes, each covering specific themes: Volume 1: Technologies, Enabling Factors and Scenarios; Volume 2: Applications in Various Medical Disciplines and Geographical Regions. The current Volume 2 is structured into the following thematic sections: Cardiovascular Applications; Applications for Diabetes, Pregnancy and Prenatal Medicine; Further Selected Medical Applications; Regional Applications.

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Ultrasound Imaging

Edited by: Masayuki Tanabe

ISBN 978-953-307-239-5, Hard cover, 210 pages
Publisher: InTech
Publication date: April 2011
Subject: Medical Imaging

In this book, we present a dozen state of the art developments for ultrasound imaging, for example, hardware implementation, transducer, beamforming, signal processing, measurement of elasticity and diagnosis. The editors would like to thank all the chapter authors, who focused on the publication of this book.

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Methodological Advances in the Culture, Manipulation and Utilization of Embryonic Stem Cells for Basic and Practical Applications

Edited by: Craig Atwood

ISBN 978-953-307-197-8, Hard cover, 506 pages

Publisher: InTech

Publication date: April 2011

Subject: Stem Cells

Pluripotent stem
cells have the potential to revolutionise medicine, providing treatment options for a wide range of diseases and conditions that currently lack therapies or cures. This book describes methodological advances in the culture and manipulation of embryonic stem cells that will serve to bring this promise to practice.

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Ventricular Assist Devices

Edited by: Jeffrey Shuhaiber

ISBN 978-953-307-164-0, Hard cover, 212 pages
Publisher: InTech
Publication date: April 2011
Subject: Medical Sciences

The assist devices will continue adding a large number of years of life to humans globally and empower the medical society to optimize heart failure therapy. While expensive and cumbersome task, the foundation provided in this book reflects a contemporary product of original research from a multitude of different experts in the field. We hope this cumulative international effort provides the necessary tools for both the novice as well as the active practitioner aiming to change the outcome of these complex patients.

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Advances in Biomimetics

Edited by: Anne George

ISBN 978-953-307-191-6, Hard cover, 522 pages
Publisher: InTech
Publication date: April 2011
Subject: Bioinspiration

The interaction between cells, tissues and biomaterial surfaces are the highlights of the book “Advances in Biomimetics”. In this regard the effect of nanostructures and nanotopographies and their effect on the development of a new generation of biomaterials including advanced multifunctional scaffolds for tissue engineering are discussed. The 2 volumes contain articles that cover a wide spectrum of subject matter such as different aspects of the development of scaffolds and coatings with enhanced performance and bioactivity, including investigations of material surface-cell interactions.

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Advances in Biomimetics

Edited by: Anne George

ISBN 978-953-307-191-6, Hard cover, 522 pages
Publisher: InTech
Publication date: April 2011
Subject: Bioinspiration

The interaction between cells, tissues and biomaterial surfaces are the highlights of the book “Advances in Biomimetics”. In this regard the effect of nanostructures and nanotopographies and their effect on the development of a new generation of biomaterials including advanced multifunctional scaffolds for tissue engineering are discussed. The 2 volumes contain articles that cover a wide spectrum of subject matter such as different aspects of the development of scaffolds and coatings with enhanced performance and bioactivity, including investigations of material surface-cell interactions.

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Embryonic Stem Cells: The Hormonal Regulation of Pluripotency and Embryogenesis

Edited by: Craig Atwood

ISBN 978-953-307-196-1, Hard cover, 672 pages
Publisher: InTech
Publication date: April 2011
Subject: Stem Cells

Pluripotency is a prerequisite for the subsequent coordinated differentiation of embryonic stem cells into all tissues of the body. This book describes recent advances in our understanding of pluripotency and the hormonal regulation of embryonic stem cell differentiation into tissue types derived from the ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm.

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Embryonic Stem Cells - Recent Advances in Pluripotent Stem Cell-Based Regenerative Medicine

Edited by: Craig Atwood

ISBN 978-953-307-198-5, Hard cover, 410 pages
Publisher: InTech
Publication date: April 2011
Subject: Stem Cells

Pluripotent stem cells have the potential to revolutionise medicine, providing treatment options for a wide range of diseases and conditions that currently lack therapies or cures. This book describes recent advances in the generation of tissue specific cell types for regenerative applications, as well as the obstacles that need to be overcome in order to recognize the potential of these cells.

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Mobile Robots: towards New Applications

Edited by: Aleksandar Lazinica

ISBN 978-3-86611-314-5, Hard cover, 600 pages
Publisher: InTech
Publication date: December 2006
Subject: Robotics

The range of potential applications for mobile robots is enormous. It includes agricultural robotics applications, routine material transport in factories, warehouses, office buildings and hospitals, indoor and outdoor security patrols, inventory verification, hazardous material handling, hazardous site cleanup, underwater applications, and numerous military applications. This book is the result of inspirations and contributions from many researchers worldwide. It presents a collection of wide range research results of robotics scientific community. Various aspects of current research in new robotics research areas and disciplines are explored and discussed. It is divided in three main parts covering different research areas: Humanoid Robots, Human-Robot Interaction, and Special Applications. We hope that you will find a lot of useful information in this book, which will help you in performing your research or fire your interests to start performing research in some of the cutting edge research fields mentioned in the book.

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Ultrasound Imaging

Edited by: Masayuki Tanabe

ISBN 978-953-307-239-5, Hard cover, 210 pages
Publisher: InTech
Publication date: April 2011
Subject: Medical Imaging

In this book, we present a dozen state of the art developments for ultrasound imaging, for example, hardware implementation, transducer, beamforming, signal processing, measurement of elasticity and diagnosis. The editors would like to thank all the chapter authors, who focused on the publication of this book.

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Image Segmentation

Edited by: Pei-Gee Ho

ISBN 978-953-307-228-9, Hard cover, 538 pages
Publisher: InTech
Publication date: April 2011
Subject: Computer Vision

It was estimated that 80% of the information received by human is visual. Image processing is evolving fast and continually. During the past 10 years, there has been a significant research increase in image segmentation. To study a specific object in an image, its boundary can be highlighted by an image segmentation procedure. The objective of the image segmentation is to simplify the representation of pictures into meaningful information by partitioning into image regions. Image segmentation is a technique to locate certain objects or boundaries within an image. There are many algorithms and techniques have been developed to solve image segmentation problems, the research topics in this book such as level set, active contour, AR time series image modeling, Support Vector Machines, Pixon based image segmentations, region similarity metric based technique, statistical ANN and JSEG algorithm were written in details. This book brings together many different aspects of the current research on several fields associated to digital image segmentation. Four parts allowed gathering the 27 chapters around the following topics: Survey of Image Segmentation Algorithms, Image Segmentation methods, Image Segmentation Applications and Hardware Implementation. The readers will find the contents in this book enjoyable and get many helpful ideas and overviews on their own study.

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Physics and Applications of Graphene - Experiments

Edited by: Sergey Mikhailov

ISBN 978-953-307-217-3, Hard cover, 540 pages
Publisher: InTech
Publication date: April 2011
Subject: Graphene

The Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age... Every global epoch in the history of the mankind is characterized by materials used in it. In 2004 a new era in material science was opened: the era of graphene or, more generally, of two-dimensional materials. Graphene is the strongest and the most stretchable known material, it has the record thermal conductivity and the very high mobility of charge carriers. It demonstrates many interesting fundamental physical effects and promises a lot of applications, among which are conductive ink, terahertz transistors, ultrafast photodetectors and bendable touch screens. In 2010 Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics “for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene’’. The two volumes Physics and Applications of Graphene - Experiments and Physics and Applications of Graphene - Theory contain a collection of research articles reporting on different aspects of experimental and theoretical studies of this new material.

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PID Control, Implementation and Tuning

Edited by: Tamer Mansour

ISBN 978-953-307-166-4, Hard cover, 238 pages
Publisher: InTech
Publication date: April 2011
Subject: Control Systems

The PID controller is considered the most widely used controller. It has numerous applications varying from industrial to home appliances. This book is an outcome of contributions and inspirations from many researchers in the field of PID control. The book consists of two parts; the first is related to the implementation of PID control in various applications whilst the second part concentrates on the tuning of PID control to get best performance. We hope that this book can be a valuable aid for new research in the field of PID control in addition to stimulating the research in the area of PID control toward better utilization in our life.

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Motion Control

Edited by: Federico Casolo

ISBN 978-953-7619-55-8, Hard cover, 590 pages
Publisher: InTech
Publication date: January 2010
Subject: Forward Kinematic and Reverse Kinematic

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Robot Surgery

Edited by: Seung Hyuk Baik

ISBN 978-953-7619-77-0, Hard cover, 172 pages
Publisher: InTech
Publication date: January 2010
Subject: Robotic Surgery

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Robotics 2010 Current and Future Challenges

Edited by: Houssem Abdellatif

ISBN 978-953-7619-78-7, Hard cover, 494 pages
Publisher: InTech
Publication date: February 2010
Subject: Robotics

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Human-Robot Interaction

Edited by: Daisuke Chugo

ISBN 978-953-307-051-3, Hard cover, 288 pages
Publisher: InTech
Publication date: February 2010
Subject: Robot Learning


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Remote and Telerobotics

Edited by: Nicolas Mollet

ISBN 978-953-307-081-0, Hard cover, 220 pages
Publisher: InTech
Publication date: March 2010
Subject: Teleoperation

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New Trends in Technologies: Control, Management, Computational Intelligence and Network Systems

Edited by: Meng Joo Er

ISBN 978-953-307-213-5, Hard cover, 438 pages
Publisher: InTech
Publication date: November 2010
Subject: Information Technology

The grandest accomplishments of engineering took place in the twentieth century. The widespread development and distribution of electricity and clean water, automobiles and airplanes, radio and television, spacecraft and lasers, antibiotics and medical imaging, computers and the Internet are just some of the highlights from a century in which engineering revolutionized and improved virtually every aspect of human life. In this book, the authors provide a glimpse of the new trends of technologies pertaining to control, management, computational intelligence and network systems.

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New Trends in Technologies: Devices, Computer, Communication and Industrial Systems

Edited by: Meng Joo Er

ISBN 978-953-307-212-8, Hard cover, 444 pages
Publisher: InTech
Publication date: November 2010
Subject: Information Technology

The grandest accomplishments of engineering took place in the twentieth century. The widespread development and distribution of electricity and clean water, automobiles and airplanes, radio and television, spacecraft and lasers, antibiotics and medical imaging, computers and the Internet are just some of the highlights from a century in which engineering revolutionized and improved virtually every aspect of human life. In this book, the authors provide a glimpse of new trends in technologies pertaining to devices, computers, communications and industrial systems.

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