IEEE International Symposium on Bio-Informatics & Biomedical Engineering (BIBE)

Key Bridge Marriott Hotel

Nov. 8-10, 2000

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Schedule of Events

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DAY-1: Nov. 8, 2000

08:00 - 09:00 am Registration

09:00 - 10:00 am Keynote Speaker, Dr. Deanna Church, NCBI

10;00 - 12:00 noon Parallel Sessions

BI-1: Interoperability of Genome Databases

BE-1: Biomedical Applications

12:00 - 02:00 pm Lunch

02:00 - 04:00 pm Parallel Sessions

BI-2: Intelligent Cooperation & Information mining in Bio-DBs

BE-2: Neural and Connectionist Models

04:15 - 07:00 pm Tour at TIGR

end of the Day-1

DAY-2: Nov. 9, 2000

08:00 - 09:00 am Registration

09:00 - 10:00 am Keynote Speaker, Dr. Lynette Grouse, NIH

10:00 - 12:00 noon Parallel Sessions

BI-3: Bio-Databases

BE-3: Bio-Imaging I

12:00 - 02:00 pm Lunch

02:00 - 04:00 pm Parallel Sessions

BI-4: Biomedical Databases

BE-4: Bio-Imaging II

04:15 - 04:30 pm Coffee Break

04:30 - 06:30 pm Parallel Sessions

BI-5: Evolutionary Computing

BE-5: Searching and Tracking

06:30 - 07:30 pm Reception ( optional)

07:30 - 09:30 pm Dinner, Guest Speaker: Dr. Jerry Prince, John Hopkins Univ., Biomedical Eng.

end of the Day-2

DAY-3: Nov. 10, 2000

08:00 - 09:00 am Registration

09:00 - 10:00 am Keynote Speaker, Dr. Lisa McDonald, TIGR

10;00 - 12:00 noon Parallel Sessions

BI-6: Genomics I

BE-6: Dynamics and Control in Biomedicine

12:00 - 01:00 pm Coffee Break

01:00 - 03:00 pm Parallel Sessions

BI-7: Genomics II
BIBE: Panel-Concluding Remarks

end of Day-3

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Final Program

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BIO-INFORMATICS TRACK

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BI Session 1: Interoperability of Genome Databases
    Session Chair: H.Jamil  
 
  L.M.Hass, P.Kodali, J.E.Rice, P.M.Schwarz, and W.C.Swope
Integrating Life Sciences Data - With a Little Garlic  

 G.J.L.Kemp, N.Angelopoulos, and P.M.D.Gray
A Schema-based Approach to Building a Bioinformatics Database Federation  

 L. Wong
Kleisli, its Exchange Format, Supporting Tools, and an Application in Protein Interaction Extraction 

 C.J.Bult, J.E.Richardson, J.A.Blake, J.A.Kadin, M.Ringwald, J.T.Eppig, and Mouse Genome Informatics Group
Mouse Genome Informatics in a New Age of Biological Inquiry 

BI Session 2: Intelligent Cooperation & Information mining in Bio-DBs
    Session Chair: H.Jamil

W. Chu
Medical Digital Library Support Scenario Specific Information Retrieval(invited talk)

R.Wong, F.Lam, S.Graham, and W.Shui
An XML Repository for Molecular Sequence Data

A.Hinneburg, D.Keim, and W.Brandt
Clustering 3D-structures of Small Aminoacid-chains for Detecting Dependence from Their Sequential Context in Proteins

H.Jamil
GQL: A Reasonable Complex SQL for Genomic Databases

BI Session 3: Bio-Databases
    Session Chair: P. Sheu

C. Raguebaud, J. Kennedy, P. Barclay
The Prometheus Taxonomic Database

Z. Lacroix
Scientific Data Integration: Wrapping Textual Documents with a Database View Mechanism and an XML Engine (short paper)

J.Kohler, M.Lange, R.Hofestadt, and S.Schulze-Kremer
Logical and Semantic Database Integration (short paper)

J.R.Reich
A Compiler to Transfer Controlled Vocabularies and Ontologies Represented in an O-O Programming Language into Text Mark-up Languages (short paper)

BI Session 4: Biomedical Databases
    Session Chair: A. Bansal

P.Sheu, B.Cummings, C.Cotman, C.Chubb, L.Hu, T.Wang, J.Johnson, S.Mobley, T.Sitch and Y.Inagaki
An Object Relational Approach to Biomedical Databases

H.T.T.Toivonen, P.Onkamo, K.Vasko, V.Ollikainen, P.Sevon, H.Mannila and J.Kere
Gene Mapping by Haplotype Pattern Mining

K.H.Cheung and D.G.Shin
A Graph-based Meta-data Framework for Interoperation between Genome Databases

H. Jamil
Achieving Interoperability of Genome DB through Intelligent Web Mediators

BI Session 5: Evolutionary Computing
    Session Chair: A. Bansal

A. Skourikhine
Phylogenetic Tree Reconstruction Using Self-Adaptive Genetic Algorithm

E. Hibbs
Futuristic Combinatorial Analog Computing Systems: Comparing Systems from Synchros to DNA and Beyond

J. Aracena, S. Lamine, M. Mermet, O. Cohen, J. Demongeot
The genetic expressions and both chromosomic breakage and positive circuits (short paper)

J. Falqueto, J. Barreto, P. Borges
Amplification of perspectives in the use of evolutionary computation (short paper)

BI Session 6: Genomics I
    Session Chair: A. Skourikhine

P.Deschavanne, A. Giron, J. Vilain, C. Dufraigne, B. Fertil
Genomic Signature Is Preserved in Short DNA Fragments

M. Zaki, C. Bystroff, S. Jin
Mining Residue Contacts in Proteins

T. Jiang and P. Zhao
A Heurestic Algorithm for Blocked Multiple Sequence Alignment

A. Bansal
A framework for the Automated Reconstruction of Microbial Pathways

BI Session 7: Genomics II
    Session Chairs: C.Koutsougeras and A. Frank

A. Skourikhine and T. Burr
Linguistic Analysis of the Nucleoprotein Gene of Influeenza: A virus

F.Li and G.D.Stormo
Selecting Optimum DNA Oligos for Microarrays

F. Azuaje
Making genome expression data meaningful: Prediction and discovery of classes of cancer through a connectionist learning approach

S.S. Chen
Knowledge discovery of Gene Functions and Metabolic Pathways

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BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING TRACK

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BE Session 1: Biomedical Applications
    Session Chair: L.Tsoukalas

T.Jiang, X.Li and F.Kruggel
Global Optimization Approaches to MEG Source Localization

F.C.Erzen, G.Birol and A.Cinar
Simulation on the Dynamics of Diabetes Mellitus

J.C.D.Conway, C.J.N.Coelho, D.C.daSilva, A.O.Fernandes, L.C.G.Andrade, and H. Carvalho
Wearable Computer as a Multi-parametric Monitor for Physiological Signals (short paper)

BE Session 2: Neural and Connectionist Models
    Session Chair: O.Bukhres

M. Wachowiak, A. Elmaghraby, R. Smolikova, J. Zurada
Classification and Estimation of Ultrasound Speckle Noise with Neural Networks

J.L.Madden, Z.B.Miled, R.Chin and J.Schild
On Parameter Estimation for Neuron Models

S.J.Mertoguno and N.Bourbakis
A Retina-like Low Level Vision Architecture

L.Tsoukalas
New Generation Intelligent Hearing Prosthetics

BE Session 3: Bio-Imaging I
    Session Chair: A. Tascillo

L. Guimaraes, A. Suzim, J. Maeda
A New Automatic Circular Decomposition Algorithm Applied to Blood Cells Image (short paper)

B. Parvin, G. Cong, G. Fontenay, J. Taylor, R. Henshal, and M.H. Barcellos-Hoff
BioSig: A Bioinformatic System for Studying the Mechanism of Intra-Cell Signaling

R. Chbeir, F. Favetta
A Global Description of Medical Image with High Precision

R.W.I.Yarger and F.K.H.Quek
Surface Parameterization in Volumetric Images for Feature Classification

BE Session 4: Bio-Imaging II
    Session Chair: I. Pavlidis

F.Kagalwala and T.Kanade
Reconstructing Specimens using DIC Microscope Images

A.C.Zimmermann, A.A.Goncalves and J.M.Barreto
General Non-Invasise Shape Reconstruction and recognition method Applied to 3-D External Biological Morphologies

L.Freire and F.Godinho
Registration by Maximization of Mutual Information: A Cross Validation Study to Access the role of Joint Histogram's Determination in Overall Accuracy

D. Gilbert and M. Schroeder
FURY: Fuzzy Unification and Resolution Based on Edit Distance

BE Session 5: Searching and Tracking
    Session Chair: O. Kia

L. Sui, R. Haralick
Automated Left Ventricle Boundary Delineation

Y. Tang, L. He, Z. Wang, W. Wee
Model Based Contour Searching Method (short paper)

X. Wang, W. Wee
A Deformable Contour Method: Divide and Conquare Approach

BE Session 6: Dynamics and control in biomedicine
    Session Chairs: B. Paden and R. Sepulchre

B. Paden, and J. Antaki
Control Issues in A Magnetically Levitated Left-Ventricular Assist Device

M. Khammash
Calcium Homeostasis: A Feedback Control Point of View

R.Sepulchre, M.Gerard, B. Marchand and D.Prieels
Pencil Beam Scanning: a dynamical approach to proton therapy

J.R.Boston, J.F.Antaki, and M.A.Simaan
Hierarchical Control for Artificial Hearts