Technical Presentations Schedule
| Time | Track 1: Networked, Wireless, Wearable Technology and Medical Devices (Monday May 30) |
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| 10:30 AM | Effects of membrane noise on cardiac excitable model pacemaking activity by Alireza Aghighi and Philippe Comtois |
| 10:45 AM | Characterization of the Implantable Neurostimulator-Based Wireless Bioimpedance Measurement Technique by Dmitrijs Celinskis and Bruce Towe |
| 11:00 AM | Comparison of Inertial Sensor Data from the Wrist and Mid-Lower Back During a 2-Minute Walk Test by Johnny Farah, Edward Lemaire and Natalie Baddour |
| 11:15 AM | Effectiveness of micro-current electrical stimulation for treating rheumatoid arthritis and optimized current level by Seo Hyun Kim, Hana Lee, Dong Hyun Hwang, Seungkwan Cho, Dong Hyun Seo and Han Sung Kim |
| 11:30 AM | Proof of Principle of a Stokes Polarimetry Probe for Skin Lesion Evaluation by Daniel Louie, Lioudmila Tchvialeva and Tim Lee |
| 11:45 AM | Continuous Monitoring of Mechanical Properties of Plantar Soft Tissue for Diabetic Patients Using Wearable Ultrasonic and Force Sensors by Fatemeh Zabihollahy, Bruno Trinidade, Yuu Ono and Edward Lemaire |
| Time | Track 2: Biosignals and Bioinstrumentation (Monday May 30) |
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| 10:30 AM | Simultaneous Accelerometer Measurements of Arterial Activity During Benign Ventricular Ectopy by Natalie Canino and Charles Robinson |
| 10:45 AM | Comparison of Active and Passive Electrodes in Their Optimized Electroencephalography Amplifier System by Veronika Cencen, Masako Hirotani, and Adrian Chan |
| 11:00 AM | Effect of Inter-electrode Distance on Frequency Parameters of Surface EMG During Isometric Contraction by Gelareh Hajian, Ashmita De and Evelyn Morin |
| 11:15 AM | Validation of the Empatica E4 Wristband by Cameron Mccarthy, Nikhilesh Pradhan, Calum Redpath and Andy Adler |
| 11:30 AM | The Effect of Surface Electromyography Placement on Muscle Activation Amplitudes and Timing by Rhianne Lopez and T. Claire Davies |
| 11:45 AM | Rotor Pivot Point Identification with Intrinsic Mode Function Complexity Index using Empirical Mode Decomposition by Shivaram Poigai Arunachalam, Siva Mulpuru, Paul Friedman and Elana Tolkacheva |
| Time | Track 3: Biomechanics, Robotics and Rehabilitation Engineering (Monday May 30) |
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| 10:30 AM | Degree-wise Control of an Humanoid Manipulator Based on Biceps Brachii Muscle Activity by Liang He and Pierre A. Mathieu |
| 10:45 AM | Measuring Dynamic Joint Stiffness of L4/L5 Joints in Human Lumbar Spines During Controlled Dynamic Tasks: A Pilot Study by Amir Hossein Moslehi |
| 11:00 AM | Review and analysis of recent development of lower extremity exoskeletons for walking assist by Zlatko Lovrenovic and Marc Doumit |
| 11:15 AM | Haptic Feedback in Lower-Limb Prosthesis by J. Miles Canino and Kevin B. Fite |
| 11:30 AM | Mechanomyography tracks muscle mechanical changes during NMES-evoked Torque Production by Morufu Olusola Ibitoye, Nur Azah Hamzaid, Ahmad Khairi Abdul Wahab, Nazirah Hasnan and Glen M. Davis |
| 11:45 AM | A Critical Examination of Three Approaches for the Design of Passive Ankle Walking Assist Devices by Scott Pardoel Speaker and Marc Doumit |
| 12:00 PM | Analysis of vertical ground reaction force waveforms of trans-tibial prosthesis users by Stacey Zhao, Tim Bryant, and Qingguo Li |
| Time | Track 4: Bioinformatics, Modelling and Classification (Tuesday May 31) |
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| 8:30 AM | Predicting Novel Protein-Protein Interactions Between the HIV-1 Virus and Homo Sapiens by Bradley Barnes, Maryam Karimloo, Andrew Schoenrock, Daniel Burnside, Edana Cassol, Alex Wong, Frank Dehne, Ashkan Golshani and James R. Green |
| 8:45 AM | Using Convolutional Neural Networks for Natural Saccade Classification from Electroencephalography Signals by Alexandre Drouin-Picaro and Tiago Henrique Falk |
| 9:00 AM | Comparison of Sequence- and Structure-Based Protein-Protein Interaction Sites by Kevin Dick and James Green |
| 9:15 AM | An interoperable common storage system for share dialysis clinical data by Domenico Vito, Giustina Casagrande, Camilla Bianchi and Maria Laura Costantino |
| Time | Track 5: Computational Modelling and Simulation (Tuesday May 31) |
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| 8:30 AM | Modal Analysis of a Parameterized Model of Pathological Vocal Fold Vibration by Raymond Greiss, Joana Rocha, and Edgar Matida |
| 8:45 AM | Machine Learning Model for Temporal Pattern Recognition Catherine Inibhunu and Carolyn McGregor |
| 9:00 AM | Modeling and Analysis of a Novel Approach for Particle Separation Using Time-Varying Amplitude Dielectrophoresis by Paresa Modarres and Maryam Tabrizian |
| 9:15 AM | Statistical Features Extraction for Multivariate Pattern Analysis in Meditation EEG using PCA by Laxmi Shaw and Aurobinda Routray |
| Time | Track 6 : Medical Imaging, Visualization and Image Processing (Tuesday May 31) |
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| 8:30 AM | Portable Real-time PCR System Using Tablet-based Fluorescence Imaging by Hayden Bialek, Jacob Dawes, Donald Heer and Matthew Johnston |
| 8:45 AM | Urogenital Kinematics Mesaured in the Sagittal Plane using a Novel Ultrasound Image Processing Approach by Catriona Czyrnyj, Michel Labrosse and Linda McLean |
| 9:00 AM | Evaluation of a T1 Mapping Technique for Stratifying Patient Risk: A Preliminary Study using Computer Simulations of Cardiac Electrophysiology by George Hanna and Eranga Ukwatta |
| 9:15 AM | Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Hirschsprung’s Disease by Marco Law, Adrian Chan and Dina El Demellawy |
| 9:30 AM | Automatic Multi-segmentation of Abdominal Organs by Level Set with Weighted Global and Local Forces by Malinda Vania, Deukhee Lee and Sunhee Kim |
| Time | Special Presentations: Transcriptome analysis in cancer diagnosis and treatment (Tuesday May 31) |
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| 8:30 AM | Multi-View Matrix Factorizations for High-Throughput Transcriptomatics Data Integration by Yifeng Li |
| 8:45 AM | Cost-Sensitive Classification on Class-balanced Ensembles for Imbalanced Non-coding RNA Data by Bashier Elkarami, Abedalrhman Alkhateeb and Luis Rueda |
| 9:00 AM | A new clustering method using wavelet-based probability density functions (PDF) for identifying patterns in time series by Mojtaba Kordestani, Abedalrhman Alkhateeb, Iman Rezaeian, Luis Rueda and Mehrdad Saif |
| 9:15 AM | Session Posters Presented |
| Time | Design Competition Schedule (Sunday May 29) |
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| 3:30 PM | Introductions |
| 3:35 PM | Monitoring of Arduino-based PPG and GSR Signals through an Android Device Itaf Omar Joudeh, Mohamed Alhamwi and Arslan Haq |
| 3:44 PM | Redesigning a Recycling Process to Provide Secure Supported Employment for Those with Disabilities Madison Lyndaker, John Rockwood, Victoria Kirkemo, Schayne Belrose and Charles Robinson |
| 3:53 PM | Medical Glossary for Aboriginal Interpreters Jose Arturo Santoyo Guilarte |
| 4:02 PM | Development of DNA Aptamers Against Human Red Blood Cells: A Novel Drug Delivery System Zerin Khan |
| 4:11 PM | Battery-Powered Real-Time PCR Machine Jacob Dawes and Hayden Bialek |
| 4:20 PM | Development of a Lifelike and Functional Passive Prosthetic Hand for Small Infants James Klein, Ian McKenzie, Gabrielle Sebaldt and Jaeeun Yoo |
| 4:29 PM | AlertBuddy: Wearable Emergency Alerting Device for the Hearing Impaired Amente Bekele, David Bui, Monisha Gunalan, David Yao and Meng-Ze Liu |
| 4:38 PM | Break |
| 4:53 PM | CerebraLux: A Low Cost, Open Source, Wireless Device for Optogenic Stimulation Robel Dagnew, Viola Quach, Jerikko Agatep and Elaine Lin |
| 5:02 PM | Accessible Elevators – Making Elevators Accessible to Disabled Individuals Matthew Eisler, Naveed Mazloum and Mike Konieczny |
| 5:11 PM | Electronic Swim Coach for Blind Athletes Jonathan Oommen and David Bews |
| 5:20 PM | OMNISTEP: A Wearable Technology to Reduce Falls in the Elderly Gabriel Keller Guimaraes, Windy Wang and Yinyin Zhou |
| 5:29 PM | A Better Prosthetic Hook Thomas Truong, Surath Gomis, Stefan Belev and Dallas Wilde |
| 5:38 PM | Smart Medical Assessment and Review Technology Assistance (SMARTassist) Ingrid Grozavu and Yuanchao Xue |
| 5:47 PM | Capstone Carleton University Crash Test Dummy Project: Tissue Simulation Francesca Tsimiklis, Tina Lacava and Theron Maggs |
*Should a presenter fail to show up on time for his/her presentation, the next scheduled presenter will be asked to present at that time, therefore presentation times are subject to change. Should a presenter show up after his/her scheduled presentation time, provided there is time left at the end of the session, his/her presentation could be given at that time.