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6.00 pm Sala
Orelli, Ancient Monastery
of Capuchins
Alta
Scuola Pedagogica [ASP]
Reception of participants and registration
Aula Magna ASP
7.00 pm session
I
Welcome/ Opening of the Fifth
International Symposium
< Fractals in Biology and Medicine >
Invited speaker: Angela Downs Rigaut, St
Marc-le-Blanc, F
<
Jean Paul Rigaut: a personal portrait>
(l)
Invited speaker: Gabriel
Landini, Birmingham, UK
<Jean
Paul Rigaut’s contribution to the Fractal Geometry
in Biology >
(l)
8.00 pm Ancient Monastery ASP: Convivial
Party
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Thursday 13 March 2008
Aula Magna ASP
9.00 am The Scientific Committee: Introductory Remarks
oral presentations
9.10 am Session II
Chairman: Fritz Albregtsen Oslo
N
Gabriel Landini, David A. Randell
Oral Pathology
Unit, School of Dentistry, The University of Birmingham,UK
The complexity of cellular neighbourhoods.
(p)
Venus Sharifi- Salamantian
Paris France
On stereological estimation in the
presence of spatial heterogeneity (p)
Rasha Fadel Abu Eid
The University of Jordan, Amman Jordan
Architectural changes associated
with ageing
of the normal oral buccal
mucosa
(p)
Marielda Cataldi (1), Francesca Carella (1),Gionata
De Vico (1), Stefano Beltraminelli (2), Gabriele A. Losa (2).
(1) Napoli Università Federico
II, 80134 Napoli Italy; (2)
Institute of Scientific Interdisciplinary Studies, 6600 Locarno
Switzerland
The expression of beta catenin in relation to the fractal organization of
canine trichoblastoma
tissues.
(p)
Discussion
Mauro Tambasco
Department of Oncology, University of
Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Local Variations in the
Architectural Complexity of Histology Specimens (p)
Giorgio Bianciardi
University of Siena, Siena Italy
Phase transition of vascular network
architecture in human pathologies (p)
Herbert F. Jelinek*, Nebojša T. Milošević, Dušan Ristanović
*Charles Stuart University, Albury Australia; University of Belgrade, Belgrade
Serbia
Fractal dimension as a tool for classification of rat retinal ganglion
cells (p)
Invited speaker: Nebojša T.
Milošević, Dušan Ristanović
Department of Biophysics, School
of Medicine, University of
Belgrade,
Belgrade, Serbia
The box-counting method as an efficient tool for 2D fractal analysis
of neuronal dendritic arbor
(l)
Discussion
1.00-3.00 pm
Intermezzo
Chairman : Herbert F. Jelinek
Albury AU
Rangaraj M. Rangayyan.
FIEEE, FEIC, FAIMBE, FSPIE, FSIIM,
FCMBES
of
Electrical and Computer Engineering Schulich School of
Engine University of Calgary, Calgary,
Alberta, University
of Calgary,
Calgary, Canada
Detection of architectural
distortion in prior mammograms using Gabor filters,
phase portraits,
fractal analysis,
and texture analysis.
(p)
Konradin
Metze*, Randall Luis Adam**, Maria Luiza de Castro Valladào***, Karime
Cury Scarpelli****, Neucimar J. Leite**, Irene G.H. Lorand-Metze ******Department of Pathology, Faculty
of Medicine, State University of Campinas, Campinas; **Institute of
Computing , State University of Campinas; ***Postgraduate Course in Medical
Pathophysiology, Faculty of Medicine, State University of Campinas;****
Postgraduate Course in Medicine, Faculty of Medicine; *****Department of
Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil.
The goodness of fit of the log-log
regression of the Minkowski-Bouligand algorithm applied to routine cytology as
a prognostic factor (p)
Przemko
Waliszewski
Department of Urology, Klinikum Fichtelgebirge 95615 Marktredwitz,
Germany
Fokker-Planck equation and coupling in modelling of tumour
growth.
(p)
Rosario Santoro (1), Giorgio Turchetti (2), Ugo Albisinni (3),
Fiorenzo Marinelli (1)
(1)Molecular Genetic Institute, IOR (IGM-CNR)40136 Bologna, Italy
(2) Dept of Physics, Bologna University, (3) Radiology Inst. IOR Bologna,
Italy
Multifractal analysis in radiographs of osteoporotic bone tissue.
(p)
A. Ben Abdallah (1), H.
Hakkari (1), I. Bhouri (2), P.Dubois (3),
M.H. Bedoui
(1) Laboratoire de
biophysique, TIM, Faculté de Médecine, Monastir, Tunisie.(2) Unité de
recherche Multifractals et
Ondelettes, TIM, Faculté des
Sciences de Monastir, Tunisie (3) Laboratoire de biophysique, INSERM,
U703, Lille, France.
Lacunarity
estimation for analysis of 3D images of
trabecular bone (p)
Discussion
Invited speaker: Marino Viganò,
Locarno CH, Milano I
Castle's Rivellino (1507): Leonardo
at Locarno ?
(l)
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Friday 14 March 2008
9.00
am
Session
IV
Nadja Kanduc, Giovanni M. Capone
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Bari,Italy
The similarity profile of the human
proteome as a fractal dimension. (p)
Loretta Ichim*° , Radu Dobrescu*
*Faculty of Control and Computers, Politehnica University of Bucharest,
Romani, °Stefan S. Nicolau Institute of Virology, Romanian
Academy, Romania
Using fractal analysis for determination of the size
distribution of
HeLa cellular nuclei in spectrophotometric images.
(p)
Konradin Metze*, Randall Luis Adam**,
Neucimar J. Leite**, Irene G.H.
Lorand-Metze***
*Department of
Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP),
Campinas, Brazil;**Institute of Computing, State University of
Campinas***Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, State
University of
Campinas, Brazil
A
comparison of different methods for the evaluation of the fractal
dimension of surface: a study based on synthetic images and on
chromatin structure in cytology.
(p)
Fiorenzo Marinelli (1), Giorgio Tuchetti (2), Nicoletta Zini (1),
Rosario Santoro (1)
1) Molecular Genetic Institute, IOR (IGM-CNR) 40136 Bologna Italy
2 ) Dept of Physics Bologna University, Bologna Italy
Multifractal
analysis of chromatin during apoptosis.
(p)
10.40 am Pause
Chairman Georges Delides
Heraklion G
Wlodzimierz Klonowski
Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
Poland
Simple fractal method of assessment of histological texture for
medical
diagnosis.
(p)
M. M. Bouguerra, M.A. Alimi
REGIM, ENIS, BP W,,
University of Sfax , Sfax, Tunisia
Fractal analysis limitation to describe and classify (normal and
pathological
cases) of human retinal blood vessels.
(p)
Catalin-Iulian Chiurciu (2), Ion Dina (3), Camelia-Doina
Vrabie(3),
Marius Cornitescu (1)
(1) "Stefan S. Nicolau" Institute of Virology, Bucharest; (2)
"Dr. C. Chiurciu" Medical Praxis, Bucharest; (3) "St. John"
Emergency Hospital, Bucharest, Romania.
Structure recognition in human optical microscopy specimens using the fractal
analysis of the spatial colour density distribution.
(p)
Julia Maria Kroepfl (a), Roland Sedivy (b), Helmut Ahammer (a)
(a) Institute of Biophysics, Medical University of Graz, 8010 Graz, Austria
(b) Landesklinikum St. Pölten,
3100 St. Pölten, Austria
The importance of the Fast Fourier dimension and texture
statistics
for a medical classification problem.
(p)
Dimitri Voronine (2), Sonal
O. Uppal (1), Elizabeth Wendt (3),
Carol A. Heckman (3)
(1) Lerner Research Institute,
Cleveland, USA; 2) Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Wuerzburg. Germany; 3) Department of
Biological Sciences, Cleveland, USA
Morphological fractal analysis of
cell shape in cancer chemotherapy. (p)
3.00 pm Session VI
Chairman: Mircea V. Rusu Bucharest
R
Invited speaker: Ralf Metzler (1,2), Michael
A. Lomholt (3)
(1) Physics
Department, Technical University of Munich, D-85747 Garching, Germany;(2)
Center for NanoScience, Ludwig Maximilians Universität,
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1,D-80539 Munich, Germany; (3) Department of Physics
and Chemistry, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M,
Denmark
When Nature goes beyond the central limit theorem: from gene control
to animal foraging
(l)
Vincenzo Capasso, Alessandra Micheletti, Davide Morale
ADAMSS and Department of Mathematics, University of Milano, Via
Saldini 50, 20133 Milano, Italy
Stochastic Geomatry and related
statistical issues in the mathematical modelling of tumor-induced
angiogenesis
(p)
Agnieska
Kitlas (1), Marta Borowska (1), Edward Oczeretko (1), Marek
Kowaleski (2) , Miroslaw Urban (2)
(1) Institute of Computer Science, University of Bialystok, Sosnowa 6
15-887 Bialystok, Poland, (2) 2-nd Department of Children Disease, Medical University of Bialystok Waszyngtona17, 15-274 Bialystok, Poland
Lempel-Ziv complexity measure and
approximation entropy in the analysis
of the heart rate variability in children.
(p)
Alexander Delides
Athens Medical Center, Athene Greece
Fractals and Sleep: Fractal Quantitative Endoscopic Analysis of the
upper
airway as a predictor for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome
(p)
Marta Borowska (1), Edward Oczeretko (1), Piotr
Sobaniec (2) Tadeusz Laudanski (3)
(1) Department of Medical Informatics, Institute of Computer Science, University of
Bialystok, Sosnowa 64, 15-887 Bialystok, Poland
(2 )Department of
Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Bialystok, Wiejska 45D,
15-351 Bialystok, Poland; Neurology Student's Society, Department of
Children Neurology, Medical University of Bialystok. Waszyngtona
17,15-274 Bialystok, Poland
(3)Department of Pathophysiology of Pregnancy, Medical University of
Bialystok, MSkłodowskiej-Curie 24a,
15-273, Bialystok, Poland
Synchronization in multivariate
biomedical time series-nonlinear dynamics. (p)
Mircea V. Rusu
Department of
Atomic and Nuclear Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
Aspects of pattern
formation outside of equilibrium.
(p)
Discussion
Maestro Livio Vanoni
Organ Concert: Music of Johann Sebastian Bach
Albergo Elvetico Locarno
Melodie Immortali
Trio Alvaros
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9.30 am Session VII
Chairman: Sandro Rusconi Bellinzona CH
Invited speaker:
Fabio Grizzi
Istituto
Clinico Humanitas, Rozzano - Milano
Italy
< The fractal design of human
anatomy in the era of system biology > (l)
10.15
am Invited speaker:
Rangaraj M. Rangayyan
FIEEE, FEIC, FAIMBE, FSPIE, FSIIM,
FCMBES
Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering
University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
< Fractal diagnosis of
breast tumours from radiographic
images > (l)
11.00 am Pause
11.30 am Invited speaker:
Andras Eke
Institute
of Human Physiology and Clinical Experimental Research,
Semmelweis University, Budapest Hungary
< Fractal
physiological time series analysis: from methods to applications in
assessment
of perfusion dynamics in the human
brain cortex from the
standpoint of
age,
gender and localization >
(l)
12.15 pm Chairman : Theo F. Nonnenmacher Ulm DE
Conclusions,
Comments
End of the Fifth Symposium