Invited Papers -- Using the Web and ICT to Enable Persons with Disabilities -- Hybrid Brains - Biology, Technology Merger -- From the Bench to the Bedside: The Role of Semantic Web and Translational Medicine for Enabling the Next Generation Healthcare Enterprise -- I: BIODEVICES -- Active Annuloplasty System for Mitral Valve Insufficiency -- Towards a Probabilistic Manipulator Robot's Workspace Governed by a BCI -- New Soft Tissue Implants Using Organic Elastomers -- Computer Aids for Visual Neuroprosthetic Devices -- Tissue-Viability Monitoring Using an Oxygen-Tension Sensor -- Towards a Morse Code-Based Non-invasive Thought-to-Speech Converter -- Neurophysiologic and Cardiac Signals Simulator Based on Microconverter -- Multipolar Electrode and Preamplifier Design for ENG-Signal Acquisition -- II: BIOSIGNALS -- On a Chirplet Transform Based Method for Co-channel Voice Separation -- Extraction of Capillary Non-perfusion from Fundus Fluorescein Angiogram -- Content-Based Retrieval of Medical Images with Elongated Structures -- Cardiovascular Response Identification Based on Nonlinear Support Vector Regression -- Vessel Cross-Sectional Diameter Measurement on Color Retinal Image -- Automatic Detection of Laryngeal Pathology on Sustained Vowels Using Short-Term Cepstral Parameters: Analysis of Performance and Theoretical Justification -- MM-Correction: Meta-analysis-Based Multiple Hypotheses Correction in Omic Studies -- A Supervised Wavelet Transform Algorithm for R Spike Detection in Noisy ECGs -- Four-Channel Biosignal Analysis and Feature Extraction for Automatic Emotion Recognition -- Fast, Accurate and Precise Mid-Sagittal Plane Location in 3D MR Images of the Brain -- Facing Polychotomies through Classification by Decomposition: Applications in the Bio-medical Domain -- Automatic Speech Recognition Based on Electromyographic Biosignals -- A Multiphase Approach to MRI Shoulder Images Classification -- Human-Like Rule Optimization for Continuous Domains -- Automated Discrimination of Pathological Regions in Tissue Images: Unsupervised Clustering vs. Supervised SVM Classification -- ECoG Based Brain Computer Interface with Subset Selection -- III: HEALTHINF -- THE-MUSS: Mobile U-Health Service System -- Scalable Medical Image Understanding by Fusing Cross-Modal Object Recognition with Formal Domain Semantics -- Human Factors Affecting the Patient's Acceptance of Wireless Biomedical Sensors -- The Policy Debate on Pseudonymous Health Registers in Norway -- Application of Process Mining in Healthcare - A Case Study in a Dutch Hospital -- Breast Contour Detection with Stable Paths -- Formal Verification of an Agent-Based Support System for Medicine Intake -- Efficient Privacy-Enhancing Techniques for Medical Databases -- Authentication Architecture for Region-Wide e-Health System with Smartcards and a PKI -- Understanding the Effects of Sampling on Healthcare Risk Modeling for the Prediction of Future High-Cost Patients -- MEDLINE Abstracts Classification Based on Noun Phrases Extraction -- Representing and Reasoning with Temporal Constraints in Clinical Trials Using Semantic Technologies -- Gesture Therapy: A Vision-Based System for Arm Rehabilitation after Stroke.