Chapter 1. Healthcare services in Developing Countries of the South Asian region: present and future perspectives -- Chapter 2. Overview of surgical instruments for the operation theatre -- Chapter 3. Devices for rehabilitation -- Chapter 4. Application of biomechanics instrumentation in occupational health research -- Chapter 5. Devices for controlled release advancements and effectiveness -- Chapter 6. Low-cost body area network for monitoring of diabetic patient -- Chapter 7. Advances in MEMS and Micro-scale technologies for application in controlled drug-dosing systems: MEMS-based drug delivery systems -- Chapter 8. Optimization techniques applications in biochemical engineering and controlled drug delivery: current practices and forthcoming challenges -- Chapter 9. Segmentation of liver from 3D medical imaging dataset for diagnosis and treatment planning of liver disorders -- Chapter 10. Development of a text-to-speech scanner for visually impaired people -- Chapter 11. Analysis of ECG signals to investigate the effect of a humorous audio-visual stimulus on autonomic nervous system and heart of females -- Chapter 12. Wavelet packet analysis of ECG signals to understand the effect of Cannabis abuse on cardiac electrophysiology of Indian women working in paddy fields -- Chapter 13. Analysis of the changes in the RR interval signals of smokers (before and after smoking) using recurrence analysis and ANN classification -- Chapter 14. Remote monitoring via EEG of persons in severe depression -- Chapter 15. Effect of a motivational song on the autonomic nervous system and the heart of Indian male volunteers -- Chapter 16. Applications of machine learning techniques in disease classification from medical images: recent practices and future challenges.