(l): invited lecture : 30-45 min.
(p): oral presentation : 20 min.
Speakers
Angela Downs-Rigaut St
Marc-le-Blanc, F
Jean Paul Rigaut: a personal portrait (l)
Gabriel Landini. University of Birmingham, UK Jean Paul Rigaut's contribution to the fractal geometry in biology. (l)
Marino Viganò, Locarno CH, Milano I Castle's Rivellino (1507): Leonardo at Locarno ? (l)
Fabio Grizzi, Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Rozzano, Millano I The fractal design of human anatomy in the era of system biology.(l)
Rangaraj M.Rangayyan. University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada Fractal analysis of breast tumours in mammograms. (l)
Rangaraj M.Rangayyan. University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada Detection of architectural distortion in prior mammograms using Gabor filters, phase portraits, fractal analysis, and texture analysis. (p)
Rasha Fadel Abu Eid. The University of Jordan, Amman Jordan Architectural changes associated with ageing of the normal oral buccal mucosa. (p)
Wlodzimierz Klonowski. Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw , Poland Simple fractal method of assessment of histological texture for medical diagnosis.(p)
Agnieska Kitlas, Marta Borowska, Edward Oczeretko, Marek Kowalewski,
Miroslava Urban. University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland
Lempel-Ziv complexity measure and approximation entropy in the analysis of the heart rate variability in children. (p)
Marta Borowska, Edward Oczeretko, Piotr Sobaniec, Tadeusz Laudanski University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland Syncrhonization in multivariate biomedical time series-nonlinear dynamic methods. (p)
Herbert F. Jelinek*, Nebojša T. Milošević, Dušan Ristanović *Charles Stuart University, Albury A; University of Belgrade, Serbia Fractal dimension as a tool for classification of rat retinal ganglion cells (p)
Loretta Ichim*° , Radu Dobrescu* *Faculty of Control and Computers, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania °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)
Konradin Metze*, Randall Luis Adam**, , Maria Luiza de Castro Valladào***, Karim 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 ofCampinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. The Goodness of fit log-log regression of the Minkowski-Bouligand algorithm applied to routine cytology as a pronostic factor (p)
Mircea V. Rusu Department of Atomic and Nuclear Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania Aspects ofpattern formation outside of equilibrium (p)
H. Akkari(1), I.Bhouri (2), A.Ben Abdallah(1), P.Dubois (3), M.H. Bedoui (1) (1) Laboratoire de biophysique, TIM, Faculté de Médecine de Monastir, Tunisie. (2) Unité de recherche Multifractals et Ondelettes, Faculté des sciences de Monastir, Tunisie. (3) Laboratoire de biophysique, INSERM, U 703, ITM, CHRU Lille, France. Lacunarity estimation for analysis of 3D images of trabecular bone (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)
Sonal O. Uppal (1), Dimitri V. Voronine (2), Elizabeth Wendt (3), Carol A. Heckman (3) (1)
Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland, USA; 2) Institut
Physikalische Chemie Wuerzburg Germany; 3) Department
of Biological Sciences, Cleveland, USA Morphological fractal analysis of cell shape in cancer chemotherapy. (p)
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)
Gabriel Landini, David A. Randell Oral Pathology Unit, School of Dentistry, The University of Birmingham, UK The complexity of cellular neighbourhoods.(p)
Marielda Cataldi (1), Francesca Carella (1),Gionata De Vico (1), Stefano Beltraminelli (2), Gabriele A. Losa (2). (1) Università Federico II Napoli I; (2) Insitute of Scientific Interdisciplinary Studies, Locarno CH The expression of beta catenin in relation to the fractal organization of canine trichoblastoma tissues (p).
Venus Sharifi- Salamantian, Paris F On stereological estimation in the presence of spatial heterogeneity (p)
Giovanni Dietler Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Vivante, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL),CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland Polymer Physics versus DNA Topology (p)
Przemko Waliszewski Department of Urology, Klinikum Fichtelgebirge 95615 Marktredwitz Germany Fokker-Planck equation and coupling in modelling of tumour growth. (p)
Giorgio Bianciardi, C. Traversi, C. De Felice, G.M. Tosi, G.Latini Dept. of Human Pathology and Oncology,University of Siena, Siena Italy Phase transition of vascular network architecture in human pathologies (p)
Mauro Tambasco Department of Oncology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada Local Variations in the Architectural Complexity ofHistology Specimens (p)
Nebojša T. Milošević University of Belgrade, Belgrade Serbia The box-counting method as an efficient tool for 2D fractal analysis of neuronal dendritic arbor (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)
Julia Maria Kroepfl (a), Roland Sedivy (b), Helmut Ahammer (a) (a) Institute of Biophysics, Medical University of Graz A-8010 Graz, Austria (b)Landesklinikum St. Pölten, A-3100 ST. Pölten, Austria The importance of the Fast Fourier dimension and texture statistics for a medical classification problem. (p)
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)
Fiorenzo Marinelli(1), Giorgio Turchetti (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)
Rosario Santoro (1), Giorgio Turchetti (2), Ugo Albisinni (3), Francesco 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)
Vincenzo Capasso, Alessandra Micheletti, Davide Morale Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy Stochastic Geometry in the Mathematical modelling of tumor-induced angiogenesis (p)
Darja Kanduc, Giovanni M. Capone Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Bari, Bari, Itally The similarity profile of the human proteome as a fractal dimension (p)