Keynote lectures

Author

Akay, M. ; Yuan-Ting Zhang ; Nikita, Konstantina S. ; Andrade, Maria F. ; Ouzounis, C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

11-13 Nov. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

10

Abstract

These tutorials/keynote speeches discuss the following: the effects of nicotine exposure on the complexity and the genetic patterns of dopamine neurons in VTA; from 6-Ps medicine to cardiovascular health informatics; computer-aided interpretation of vascular images towards valid diagnosis and risk stratification of atherosclerosis; turning data into predictions of gene and protein function; from reading to writing (and rewriting) the code of life: the future of biology - scientific, ethical, legal, civil and social issues.

Keywords

bioinformatics; cardiovascular system; diseases; ethical aspects; genetics; health care; law; medical image processing; molecular biophysics; neural nets; proteins; socio-economic effects; 6-Ps medicine; VTA; atherosclerosis diagnosis; bioengineering; bioinformatics; cardiovascular health informatics; civil issues; computer-aided interpretation; dopamine neurons; ethical issues; gene prediction; genetic patterns; legal issues; nicotine exposure effects; protein function; risk stratification; scientific issues; social issues; vascular image interpretation; ventral tegmental area;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioinformatics & Bioengineering (BIBE), 2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Larnaca

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4357-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BIBE.2012.6399640

Filename

6399640