Innovating Bioengineering Through Next-Generation Computational Approaches

Proceedings of the XVII Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering, MEDICON 2026, September 14–17, 2026, Siena, Italy - Volume 2: Clinical Engineering, Simulations, Imaging, Robotics, and Biomaterials
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-032-37735-7
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 663 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: IFMBE Proceedings

This book presents cutting-edge research and developments in the broad field of medical, biological engineering and computing. Second volume of the proceedings of the XVII Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing (MEDICON 2026), held on September 14-17, 2026, in Siena, Italy, it bridges between device innovation and clinical practice. Contributions cover advances in wearable and remote sensing systems for continuous patient monitoring, topics in healthcare management and medical device design, and developments in biomaterials for drug delivery, tissue regeneration, and other medical applications. They offer extensive and timely information to biomedical and materials engineers, robotics engineers, and healthcare professionals.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Iadanza, Ernesto

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde Materialwissenschaft: Biomaterialien, Nanomaterialien, Kohlenstoff
• Technische Wissenschaften Elektronik | Nachrichtentechnik Elektronik Robotik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizintechnik, Biomedizintechnik, Medizinische Werkstoffe
• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Medizintechnik, Biomedizintechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Development of a Novel Lactation Phantom and Measurement Device for Breast Milk Expression.- Multimodal Physiological Response Profiles in Robot-Assisted Gait Training: A Comparative Case Study in Cerebral Palsy.- Detection of Pressure-induced Faults in Continuous Glucose Monitoring Sensors using a Dynamic Time Warping-based Approach.- From Users to Co-Creators: Advancing Usability in Medical Device Development.- PillsGuard: An IoT-Based System for Safe Medication Administration and Error Reduction in Clinical Environments.- A Radar-Based Framework for the Automated Detection and Monitoring of OSAS.- DINO by Paperbox: A Serious-Gaming Platform for Early Screening of Learning Difficulties in Children.- A Wearable Closed-Loop EEG-Guided Mindfulness System for Chronic Tinnitus Intervention: A Randomized Controlled Study.- Pressure Distribution in Supine Postures: Full-Body and Region of Interest Analysis.- A Digital Calibration Management Framework for Medical Equipment in Low-Resource Healthcare Settings.- Assessment and Dead-band Threshold Derivation for the Sentinel Wearable Reaction-Wheel Balance Assistance System – A Preliminary Study.- IMU-heart: Nocturnal cardiac monitoring with wearable inertial sensors.- A Practical Handheld Photoacoustic Microscopy System for In Vivo Microvascular Imaging.- An explainable Hybrid Symbolic-Deep Learning Architecture for Real-Time Sleep and Behavior Monitoring in Ambient Assisted Living Environment.- An event-based approach to estimate motor engagement during Robot-Assisted Gait Training via gaze-related features.- Reverse Osmosis Membranes in Medical Applications: Focus on Water Purification for Hemodialysis.- To evaluate the SNR and uniformity of 5.0T MRI.- Building a National Medical Equipment Inventory in Greece: Field Registration Process and AI-Assisted Data Entry across 129 Public Hospitals.- Design of a Video System for Training Clinical Engineering Personnel.- Real-Time Indoor Positioning of Critical Medical Devices: A Hybrid BLE Pilot under Greece’s Unified Medical Equipment Management System.- Additive Manufacturing of Biocompatible Oculopalpebral Prostheses: A Workflow for Personalized Design Approach to Reduce Clinical Time.- Design of a Patient-Specific Mandibular Graft for Reconstruction Planning Using Medical Image Processing.- Data-Driven Smart Clinical Engineering: A Multidimensional Assessment of Patient Safety, Operational Ethics, and ESG Sustainability.- Health Technology Assessment as a Bridge Between Biomedical Engineering and Public Health Policy.- M/EEG Task Classification by Means of Brain Dynamic Analysis.- Design of a High-Voltage-Tolerant Multi-Modal Intracardiac Sensing System Integrating Electrogram and Impedance Measurement for Pulsed Field Ablation.- Differentiating Cognitive Workload Requests by Combined Behavioural Performance and HRV Metrics.- Sealed Rare-Gas System for Cold Atmospheric Plasma and Electromagnetic Energy Delivery.- Continuous Ordinal Representation of Neural Irritation in IONM via Geometric Modeling.- Analysis of Glare Level: Design and Realization of Glaremeter Device.- Cost-Effectiveness and Budget Impact Analysis of Introducing Rotavirus Vaccination for Infants in Bosnia and Herzegovina.- Pharmacoeconomic analysis of the use of SGLT2 inhibitors in the treatment of type 2 diabetes in Bosnia and Herzegovina.- Towards Markerless Mixed Reality (MR) for TAVI: A Proof of Concept in 3D Quantification and Feature Extraction.- Static and Motion-Adaptive Temporal Propagation for Vessel Segmentation in Thermal Infrared Videos.- Analysis of landmark-based coordinates for mouse intracerebroventricular surgery using in vivo X-ray microtomography.- Nonlinear Trimodal Regression Analysis-Based Imaging Biomarkers for Early Prediction of Chronic Disease Onset.- Quantitative assessment of Crossed Cerebellar Diaschisis in ischemic stroke using a CT Perfusion normalization framework.- Breast Tumour Imaging via Tomographic Microwave and Ultrasound Sensing: a Preliminary Numerical Study.- Design and Preliminary Testing of an Event-Triggered Mixed Reality System for Ataxia Assessment.- Timing Matters: Prenatal Heavy Metal Exposure and Childhood Brain Development.- An Experimental MIMO Ultrasound Tomography Dataset for Benchmarking Imaging Algorithms.- Feasibility of a Mixed Reality Framework for Balance Assessment in Multiple Sclerosis.- Effect of 3D-printed holder wall thickness on X-ray attenuation and micro-CT image quality of paraffin-embedded core samples.- Beyond Overlap Metrics: A Multi-Domain Evaluation Framework for Hepatic Vascular Segmentation.- Proof of Concept: Multilevel Linguistic Assessment and fMRI-Based Analysis of Brain Regions Involved in Language Learning in University-Level Students.- A Patient-Specific Flow-Enabled Ultrasound Phantom for Femoral Vascular Access Training.- Microwave Medical Imaging for Colorectal Cancer Detection: Electromagnetic Simulations and Tissue-Mimicking Material Fabrication.- A Novel Iterative Image Reconstruction Method for Low-dose CT based on Artificial Neural Networks.- Copper-Doped Carbon Quantum Dots Derived from Vitis vinifera and Vaccinium spp.: A Nanobioactive Platform with Antibacterial Potential for Biomedical Applications.- Optical fiber–enabled drug delivery for precision oncology: from spatiotemporal control to feedback-enabled systems.- Pharmacoeconomic Analysis of NOAC Therapy in the Prevention of Stroke in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation.- Computational Design, Mechanical Homogenization, and Additive Manufacturing of a Porous Scaffold for Trabecular Bone Regeneration.- Multifunctional Magnetofluorescent Carbon Dots for Magnetic Hyperthermia in Breast Cancer Models.- Biomimetic hyaluronic acid-based scaffolds for tissue engineering applications.- Resting HRV Signatures of Psychological Burden: Time-of-Day Modulation across Anxiety, Stress, and Distress.