Laura M. Roa Romero (Ed.) Volume 41 XIII Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2013 MEDICON 2013, 25–28 September 2013, Seville, Spain IFMBE Proceedings Volume 41 SeriesEditor RatkoMagjarevic DeputyEditors FatimahBintiIbrahim IgorLackovic´ PiotrŁadyz˙yn´ski EmilioSacristanRock Forfurthervolumes: http://www.springer.com/series/7403 The International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering,IFMBE, is a federation of national and transnational organizationsrepresentinginternationallythe interests of medical and biologicalengineeringand sciences. The IFMBE is a non-profitorganizationfosteringthecreation,disseminationandapplicationofmedicalandbiologicalengineeringknowledge andthemanagementoftechnologyforimprovedhealthandqualityoflife.Itsactivitiesincludeparticipationintheformulation ofpublicpolicyandthedisseminationofinformationthroughpublicationsandforums.Within thefieldofmedical,clinical, and biological engineering, IFMBE’s aims are to encourage research and the application of knowledge, and to disseminate informationandpromotecollaboration.TheobjectivesoftheIFMBEarescientific,technological,literary,andeducational. TheIFMBEisaWHOaccreditedNGOcoveringthefullrangeofbiomedicalandclinicalengineering,healthcare,healthcare technologyand management.It is representingthroughits 60 member societies some 120.000professionalsinvolvedin the variousissuesofimprovedhealthandhealthcaredelivery. IFMBEOfficers President:RatkoMagjarevic,Vice-President:JamesGoh Past-President:HerbertVoigt Treasurer:MarcNyssen,Secretary-General:ShankharM.Krishnan http://www.ifmbe.org Laura M. Roa Romero Editor XIII Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2013 MEDICON 2013, 25–28 September 2013, Seville, Spain ABC Editor LauraM.RoaRomero BiomedicalEngineeringGroup EngineeringSchooloftheUniversityofSeville Sevilla Spain ISSN1680-0737 ISSN1433-9277 (electronic) ISBN978-3-319-00845-5 ISBN978-3-319-00846-2 (eBook) Printedin2Volumes DOI10.1007/978-3-319-00846-2 SpringerChamHeidelbergNewYorkDordrechtLondon LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2013949465 (cid:2)c SpringerInternationalPublishingSwitzerland2014 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsarereservedbythePublisher,whetherthewholeorpartofthematerialisconcerned,specificallytherightsof translation,reprinting,reuseofillustrations,recitation,broadcasting,reproductiononmicrofilmsorinanyotherphysicalway,andtransmissionorinformation storageandretrieval,electronicadaptation,computersoftware,orbysimilarordissimilarmethodologynowknownorhereafterdeveloped.Exemptedfrom thislegalreservationarebriefexcerptsinconnectionwithreviewsorscholarlyanalysisormaterialsuppliedspecificallyforthepurposeofbeingenteredand executedonacomputersystem,forexclusiveusebythepurchaserofthework.Duplicationofthispublicationorpartsthereofispermittedonlyunderthe provisionsoftheCopyrightLawofthePublisher’slocation,initscurrentversion,andpermissionforusemustalwaysbeobtainedfromSpringer.Permissions forusemaybeobtainedthroughRightsLinkattheCopyrightClearanceCenter.ViolationsareliabletoprosecutionundertherespectiveCopyrightLaw. Theuseofgeneraldescriptivenames,registerednames,trademarks,servicemarks,etc.inthispublicationdoesnotimply,evenintheabsenceofaspecific statement,thatsuchnamesareexemptfromtherelevantprotectivelawsandregulationsandthereforefreeforgeneraluse. Whiletheadviceandinformationinthisbookarebelievedtobetrueandaccurateatthedateofpublication,neithertheauthorsnortheeditorsnorthepublisher canacceptanylegalresponsibilityforanyerrorsoromissionsthatmaybemade.Thepublishermakesnowarranty,expressorimplied,withrespecttothe materialcontainedherein. TheIFMBEProceedingsisanOfficialPublicationoftheInternationalFederationforMedicalandBiologicalEngineering(IFMBE) Printedonacid-freepaper SpringerispartofSpringerScience+BusinessMedia(www.springer.com) Welcome Message ItisagreatpleasureandhonortowelcomeallparticipantsintheXIIIMediterraneanConferenceonMedicalandBiological EngineeringandComputing(MEDICON2013),whichwillbeheldinSeville,thecapitaloftheSpanishregionofAndalusia, fromSeptember25to28,2013. MEDICONisaregionalconferencewithalongtraditionandhighscientificlevel,whichisorganizedeverythreeyearsin aMediterraneancountryundertheumbrellaoftheInternationalFederationofMedicalandBiologicalEngineering(IFMBE). The generaltheme of MEDICON 2013 is "Research and Developmentof Technologyfor Sustainable Healthcare". This decade is being characterized by the appearance and use of emergent technologies under development. This situation has producedatremendousimpactonMedicineandBiologyfromwhichitisexpectedanunparalleledevolutioninthesedisciplines towards novel concept and practices. The consequence will be a significant improvement in health care and well-fare, i.e. the shift from a reactive medicine to a preventive medicine. This shift implies that the citizen will play an important role in the healthcare delivery process, what requires a comprehensive and personalized assistance. In this context, society will meet emerging media, incorporated to all objects, capable of providing a seamless, adaptive, anticipatory, unobtrusive and pervasiveassistance.Thechallengewillbetoremovecurrentbarriersrelatedtothelackofknowledgerequiredtoproducenew opportunitiesfor all the society, while new paradigmsare created for this inclusive society to be socially and economically sustainable,andrespectfulwiththeenvironment.Inthisway,theconferenceprogramwillbefocusedontheconvergenceof biomedicalengineeringtopicsrangingfromformalizedtheorythroughexperimentalscience andtechnologicaldevelopment topracticalclinicalapplications. InspiteofalltheproblemsthatmanyMediterraneancountriesarecurrentlyfacingduetothefinancialandpoliticalcrisis, weareproudofthegreatdiffusionofthisConference,withparticipantscomingfromallthecontinents.Thisparticipationisa signthattheBiomedicalEngineeringCommunitycancontributetoovercomethechallengesthatareaffectingsociety.Iwould like to share this success with all the membersof the committees, institutions, participants, and individualpersonsand that havemadepossiblethecelebrationofthisevent. Sevilleisamillenarytownwitharichartisticheritageasaconsequenceofthefusionofthethreecultures.Theconjunction of the Spanish weather, history and natural resources have shaped it as a modern city with an outstanding projection at the levelsoftechnologicalresearchandindustry,andbiomedicalresearch.Alltheimprovementsmadeonthecityduringthelast decades,haveallowedSevilletobecomeacosmopolitanandeasy-to-getdestination. IamsurethatyouwillenjoyawonderfulexperienceofvisitingSevilleduringyourstay. LauraM.Roa Conferencechair,MEDICON2013 Preface We are pleased to introducethe Proceedingsof the 13th MediterraneanConferenceon Medicaland BiologicalEngineering andComputing(MEDICON2013),thatarepublishedasthe39th volumeoftheIFMBEProceedings,publishedbySpringer underthesponsorshipoftheInternationalFederationforMedicalandBiologicalEngineering(IFMBE). Over 500 papers have been submitted for review by the InternationalProgram Committee/InternationalScientific Com- mittee, and the programis structuredunder ten themescoveringthe latest advanceson Medicaland BiologicalEngineering andComputing.TheseProceedingsarestructuredasfollows:thefirstsectionincludestheconferencecommittees,themesand tracks,andparallelactivitiescomprisingspecialsessions,workshopsandroundtables;next,keynotespeakerswiththeirple- narylecturesandinvitedpapers;finally,thepapersselectedforpresentationattheconference.TheindexingoftheProceedings areeasedbytworegistersforauthorsandthemesandtracks. We are gratefulto GrupoPacifico TechnicalSecretary andto Springerfortheir help and supportforthe editionof these Proceedings. WewishthatthisvolumeofIFMBEProceedingswillserveasavaluablesourceofinformationforprofessionals,scholars, researchersandstudentsaswellasareferenceforthestate-of-the-artinthisperiodofrapiddevelopmentandchangesinour fieldsofMedicalandBiologicalEngineeringandComputing. LauraM.RoaRomero IgorLackovic Kang-PingLin JavierReina-Tosina PublicationCommittee Conference Committee Conference Chair LauraM.Roa UniversidaddeSevilla(Spain) Local OrganizingCommitteeChair JavierReina-Tosina UniversidaddeSevilla(Spain) PublicationCommittee LauraM.Roa UniversidaddeSevilla(Spain) IgorLackovic UniversityofZagreb(Croatia) Kang-PingLin ChungYuanChristianUniversity(Taiwan) JavierReina-Tosina UniversidaddeSevilla(Spain) Young InvestigatorCompetition Committee MarcelloBracale UniversitàdegliStudidiNapoliFedericoII(Italy) FumihikoKajiya KawasakiUniversityofMedicalWelfare(Japan) NicolasPallikarakis UniversityofPatras(Greece) JoeBarbenel UniversityofStrathclyde(UK) EnriqueJ.Gómez UniversidadPolitécnicadeMadrid(Spain) Local OrganizingCommittee JoséA.Milán HospitalUniversitarioVirgenMacarena(Spain) IsabelRomán UniversidaddeSevilla(Spain) JorgeCalvillo-Arbizu UniversidaddeSevilla(Spain) DavidNaranjo-Hernández UniversidaddeSevilla,CIBERBBN(Spain) AmparoCallejón UniversidaddeSevilla(Spain) MiguelÁngelGarcía UniversidaddeSevilla(Spain) AlejandroTalaminos UniversidaddeSevilla(Spain) GerardoBarbarov UniversidaddeSevilla(Spain) AlfonsoLara HospitalUniversitarioVirgenMacarena(Spain) RegionalConference OrganizingCommittee AssociazioneItalianadiIngegnariaMedicaeBiologica LeandroPecchia UniversityofNottingham(UK) PaoloMelillo UniversitàdegliStudidiNapoliFedericoII(Italy) X ConferenceCommittee CroatianMedicalandBiologicalEngineeringSociety IgorLackovic UniversityofZagreb(Croatia) VedranBilas UniversityofZagreb(Croatia) CyprusAssociationofMedicalPhysicsandBiomedicalEngineering ProdromosA.Kaplanis UniversityofCyprus(Cyprus) ConstantinosPattichis UniversityofCyprus(Cyprus) EuropeanAllianceforMedicalandBiologicalEngineeringandScience BirgitGlasmacher LeibnizUniversitaetHannover(Germany) GreekSocietyforBiomedicalEngineering NicolasPallikarakis UniversityofPatras(Greece) PanagiotisBamidis AristotleUniversityofThessaloniki(Greece) IEEE-EngineeringinMedicineandBiologySociety DonnaHudson UCSFFresno(USA) IsraelSocietyforMedicalandBiologicalEngineering HaimAzhari Technion-IIT(Israel) IditAvrahami ArielUniversity(Israel) ItalianAssociationofClinicalEngineers PaolaFreda PaolaFreda,AReSSPiemonte-AgenziaRegionaleperiServiziSanitari(Itlay) PaoloLago FondazioneIRCCS-PoliclinicoSanMatteoPavia(Italy) SociétéFrançaisedeGénieBiologiqueetMédical CatherineMarque UniversitédeTechnologiedeCompiègne(France) VéroniqueMigonney UniversitéParis13(France) SociedadePortuguesadeEgenhariaBiomedica MarioF.Secca UniversidadeNovadeLisboa(Portugal) PedroM.C.Vieira UniversidadeNovadeLisboa(Portugal) SloveneSocietyforMedicalandBiologicalEngineering DamijanMiklavcic UniversityofLjubljana(Slovenia) TomazVrtovec UniversityofLjubljana(Slovenia) SpanishSocietyofBiomedicalEngineering EnriqueJ.Gómez UniversidadPolitécnicadeMadrid(Spain) RaimonJané UniversitatPolitècnicadeCatalunya(Spain) International Program Committee ZulfiqurAli TeessideUniversity(England) MetinAkay UniversityofHouston(USA) ConferenceCommittee XI AhmadTaherAzar MisrUniversityforScienceandTechnology(Egypt) HaimAzhari Technion-IITHaifa(Israel) PanagiotisBamidis AristotleUniversityofThessaloniki(Greece) JoséLópezBarneo UniversidaddeSevilla(Spain) JoséBecerra UniversidaddeMálaga(Spain) AnnaM.Bianchi PolitecnicodiMilano(Italy) PaoloBonato HarvardMedicalSchool(USA) LodewijkBos ICMCC(Holland) MarcelloBracale UniversitàdegliStudidiNapoliFedericoII(Italy) SaideCalil StateUniversityofCampinas(Brazil) PereCaminal UniversidadPolitécnicadeCataluña(Spain) AliciaCasals UniversidadPolitécnicadeCataluña(Spain) BernardoCelda UniversidaddeValencia(Spain) SergioCerutti PolitecnicodiMilano(Italy) WalterH.Chang ChungYuanChristianUniversity(Taiwan) FeboCincotti SapienzaUniversitàdiRoma(Italy) JeanLouisCoatrieux UniversitédeRennes1(France) YadinDavid EngineeringConsultantsLLC(USA) JoséM.Delgado-García UniversidadPablodeOlavide(Spain) ManuelDesco UniversidadCarlosIII(Spain) ManuelDoblaré UniversidaddeZaragoza(Spain) JoséM.Ferrero-Jr UniversidadPolitécnicadeValencia(Spain) MarioForjazSecca UniversidadeNovadeLisboa(Portugal) DimitrisFotiadis UniversityofIoannina(Greece) AlejandroFrangi UniversitatPompeuFabra(Spain) EnriqueGómez UniversidadPolitécnicadeMadrid(Spain) TomásGómez-Cía HospitalUniversitarioVirgendelRocío(Spain) JuanGuerrero UniversidaddeValencia(Spain) CarlosH.Salvador InstitutodeSaludCarlosIII(Spain) ElenaHernando UniversidadPolitécnicadeMadrid(Spain) RobertoHornero UniversidaddeValladolid(Spain) GerhardHolzapfel TechnischeUniversitätGraz(Austria) DonnaHudson UCSFFresno(USA) HelmutHutten TechnischeUniversitätGraz(Austria) AntonioFernandoC.Infantosi FederalUniversityofRiodeJaneiro(Brazil) RobertIstepanian KingstonUniversity(England) ChristopherJames UniversityofWarwick(England) RaimonJané UniversidadPolitécnicadeCataluña(Spain) AkosJobbagy BudapestUniversityofTechnologyandEconomics(Hungary) FumihikoKajiya KawasakiUniversityofMedicalWelfare(Japan) RogerKamm MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology(USA) Gyeon-ManKim CEIT(Spain) PabloLaguna UniversidaddeZaragoza(Spain) ThomasLango SINTEFHealthResearchTrondheim(Norway) AlbertoLeiva HospitalSantPau(Spain) NigelLovell UniversityofNewSouthWales(Australia) RatkoMagjarevich UniversityofZagreb(Croatia) NicosMaglaveras AristotleUniversityofThessaloniki(Greece) LucaMainardi PolitecnicodiMilano(Italy)