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Previous Awards

The papers receiving these awards were selected from a set of outstanding papers, based on the quantitative and qualitative classifications as well as comments provided by the program committee reviewers, their final classification as full paper and their oral presentation at the conference.

2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010

BIODEVICES 2018

Best Paper Award

A Wearable Silent Speech Interface based on Magnetic Sensors with Motion-Artefact Removal
Lam A. Cheah, James M. Gilbert, Jose A. Gonzalez, Phil D. Green, Stephen R. Ell, Roger K. Moore and Ed Holdsworth

Best Student Paper Award

Building IoT-Enabled Wearable Medical Devices: An Application to a Wearable, Multiparametric, Cardiorespiratory Sensor
Arthur Gatouillat, Bertrand Massot, Youakim Badr, Ervin Sejdić and Claudine Gehin

Best Poster Award

Intelligent Multi-sensor Arrays for Next Generation Diagnostic Biodevices
Hadar Ben-Yoav

BIOIMAGING 2018

Best Paper Award

EndoCal 10 Obturation Voids in Root Canal and Isthmus of a Human Premolar: A Synchrotron micro-CT Imaging Study
Assem Hedayat and Pengyu Wu

Best Student Paper Award

Graph-Cut Segmentation of Retinal Layers from OCT Images
Bashir Isa Dodo, Yongmin Li, Khalid Eltayef and Xiaohui Liu

Best Poster Award

Dense 3D Reconstruction of Endoscopic Polyp
Ankur Deka, Yuji Iwahori, M. K. Bhuyan, Pradipta Sasmal and Kunio Kasugai

BIOINFORMATICS 2018

Best Paper Award

Supervised Classification of Metatranscriptomic Reads Reveals the Existence of Light-dark Oscillations During Infection of Phytoplankton by Viruses
Enzo Acerbi, Caroline Chenard, Stephan C. Schuster and Federico M. Lauro

Best Student Paper Award

Protein Disorder Prediction using Jumping Motifs from Torsion Angles Dynamics in Ramachandran Plots
Jonny Alexander-Uribe, Julián D. Arias-Londoño and Alexandre Perera-Lluna

Best Poster Award

Species Categorization via MicroRNAs - Based on 3’UTR Target Sites using Sequence Features
Malik Yousef, Dalit Levy and Jens Allmer

BIOSIGNALS 2018

Best Paper Award

Real-time Low SNR Signal Processing for Nanoparticle Analysis with Deep Neural Networks
Jan Eric Lenssen, Anas Toma, Albert Seebold, Victoria Shpacovitch, Pascal Libuschewski, Frank Weichert, Jian-Jia Chen and Roland Hergenröder

Best Student Paper Award

Feasibility of Labor Induction Success Prediction based on Uterine Myoelectric Activity Spectral Analysis
C. Benalcazar Parra, A. I. Tendero, Y. Ye-Lin, J. Alberola-Rubio, A. Perales Marin, J. Garcia-Casado and G. Prats-Boluda

Best Poster Award

Adaptive Filtering for Electromyographic Signal Processing in Scoliosis Indexes Estimation
Eleonora Sulas, Luigi Raffo, Marco Monticone and Danilo Pani

HEALTHINF 2018

Best Paper Award

A Remote Home Monitoring System to Support Informal Caregivers of People with Dementia
Stefan Lentelink, Monique Tabak, Boris van Schooten, Dennis Hofs, Harm op den Akker and Hermie Hermens

Best Student Paper Award

Automated Measurement of Adherence to Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Guidelines using Neurological ICU Data
Anthony Stell, Ian Piper and Laura Moss

Best Poster Award

Impact of Online Health Information on Patient-physician Relationship and Adherence; Extending Health-belief Model for Online Contexts
Tahir Hameed

BIOSTEC 2018

Best PhD Project Award

Dimension Reduction and Automated Evaluation in Retinal OCT Volumes
Anna Breger, Bianca S. Gerendas, Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth and Martin Ehler

BIODEVICES 2017

Best Paper Award

Effects of Configuration and Dimension of Concentric Ring Electrodes in EEnG Recording Applications
V. Zena-Giménez, J. Garcia-Casado, G. Prats-Boluda and Y. Ye-Lin

Best Student Paper Award

Determination of the Selectivity of Printed Wearable Sweat Sensors
Alicia Zörner, Susanne Oertel, Björn Schmitz, Nadine Lang, Michael P. M. Jank and Lothar Frey

Best Poster Award

Biopotential Conducting Polymer Electrodes Design and Realization for ECG Measurement
Marek Penhaker, Jan Polomik, Jan Kubicek and Vladimir Kasik

BIOIMAGING 2017

Best Paper Award

Localization of Demyelinating Plaques in MRI using Convolutional Neural Networks
Bartłomiej Stasiak, Pawel Tarasiuk, Izabela Michalska, Arkadiusz Tomczyk and Piotr S. Szczepaniak

Best Student Paper Award

Segmentation of Retinal Ganglion Cells From Fluorescent Microscopy Imaging
Silvia Baglietto, Ibolya E. Kepiro, Gerrit Hilgen, Evelyne Sernagor, Vittorio Murino and Diego Sona

Best Poster Award

Saliency Guided Computer-aided Diagnosis for Neurodegenerative Dementia
Olfa Ben Ahmed, Mohamed-Chacker Larabi, Marc Paccalin and Christine Fernandez-Maloigne

BIOINFORMATICS 2017

Best Paper Award

Protein Disorder Prediction using Information Theory Measures on the Distribution of the Dihedral Torsion Angles from Ramachandran Plots
Jonny A. Uribe, Julián D. Arias-Londoño and Alexandre Perera-Lluna

Best Student Paper Award

Reconstruction of Mitochondrial Genotypes from Diverse next Generation Sequencing Datasets
Peter Ulz, Michael R. Speicher and Gerhard G. Thallinger

Best Poster Award

A Web- and Cloud- based Service for the Clinical Use of a CAD (Computer Aided Detection) System - Automated Detection of Lung Nodules in Thoracic CTs (Computed Tomographies)
M. E. Fantacci, A. Traverso, S. Bagnasco, C. Bracco, D. Campanella, G. Chiara, E. Lopez Torres, A. Manca, D. Regge, M. Saletta, M. Stasi, S. Vallero, L. Vassallo and P. Cerello

BIOSIGNALS 2017

Best Paper Award

A Neural Network Approach for Automatic Detection of Acoustic Alarms
Alex Peiró Lilja, Ganna Raboshchuk and Climent Nadeu

Best Student Paper Award

Flow Parameters Derived from Impedance Pneumography after Nonlinear Calibration based on Neural Networks
Marcel Młyńczak and Gerard Cybulski

Best Poster Award

Linking Non-Extensive Entropy with Lempel-ziv Complexity to Obtain the Entropic Q-index from EEG Signals
Ernane José Xavier Costa, Adriano Rogeri Bruno Tech and Ana Carolina Sousa Silva

HEALTHINF 2017

Best Paper Award

Technologies for Ageing in Place to Support Home Monitoring of Patients with Chronic Diseases
Alexandra Queirós, Luís Pereira, Ana Dias and Nelson Pacheco Rocha

Best Student Paper Award

Healthcare-Oriented Characterisation of Human Movements by Means of Impulse-Radar Sensors and by Means of Accelerometric Sensors
Paweł Mazurek, Jakub Wagner, Andrzej Miękina, Roman Z. Morawski and Frode Fadnes Jacobsen

Best Poster Award

Internet of Things Controlled Home Objects for the Elderly
Research Dawadi, Zeeshan Asghar and Petri Pulli

BIOSTEC 2017

Best PhD Project Award

Towards Novel Methods for Effective Transfer Learning and Unsupervised Deep Learning for Medical Image Analysis
Mijung Kim, Jasper Zuallaert and Wesley De Neve

BIODEVICES 2016

Best Paper Award

Electrochemical Analysis of Accelerated Aging of PEDOT-PTS Coated Screen-printed Electrodes
Nathalia Peixoto, Tjerignimin Silue, Catalina Vallejo-Giraldo and Manus Biggs

Best Student Paper Award

Discontinuous Dielectrophoresis - A Technique for Investigating the Response of Loosely Adherent Cells to High Shear Stress
Rebecca Soffe, Sara Baratchi, Shi-yang Tang, Peter McIntyre, Arnan Mitchell and Khashayar Khoshmanesh

Best Poster Award

Chemically Modified NiO Gas Sensor for Environmental Monitoring
Yun Jin Jeong, Chandran Balamurugan and Dong Weon Lee

BIOIMAGING 2016

Best Paper Award

Design of Customised Orthodontic Devices by Digital Imaging and CAD/FEM Modelling
Sandro Barone, Alessandro Paoli, Armando Viviano Razionale and Roberto Savignano

Best Student Paper Award

Tackling the Problem of Data Imbalancing for Melanoma Classification
Mojdeh Rastgoo, Guillaume Lemaitre, Joan Massich, Olivier Morel, Franck Marzani, Rafael Garcia and Fabrice Meriaudeau

Best Poster Award

Processing Magnetic Resonance Image Features with One-class Support Vector Machines - Investigation of the Autism Spectrum Disorder Heterogeneity
Ilaria Gori, Alessia Giuliano, Piernicola Oliva, Michela Tosetti, Filippo Muratori, Sara Calderoni and Alessandra Retico

BIOINFORMATICS 2016

Best Paper Award

Highly Robust Classification: A Regularized Approach for Omics Data
Jan Kalina and Jaroslav Hlinka

Best Student Paper Award

BioMed Xplorer - Exploring (Bio)Medical Knowledge using Linked Data
Mohammad Shafahi, Hayo Bart and Hamideh Afsarmanesh

Best Poster Award

Use of GeIS for Early Diagnosis of Alcohol Sensitivity
José Fabián Reyes Román and Óscar Pastor López

BIOSIGNALS 2016

Best Paper Award

Extraction of Temporal Gait Parameters using a Reduced Number of Wearable Accelerometers
Mohamed Boutaayamou, Vincent Denoël, Olivier Brüls, Marie Demonceau, Didier Maquet, Bénédicte Forthomme, Jean-Louis Croisier, Cédric Schwartz, Jacques G. Verly and Gaëtan Garraux

Best Student Paper Award

A Simulation-based Methodology to Test and Assess Designs of Mechatronic Neural Interface Systems
Samuel Bustamante, Juan C. Yepes, Vera Z. Pérez and Julio C. Correa

Best Poster Award

Nonlinear Model for Complex Neurons in Biological Visual Visions
Sasan Mahmoodi and Nasim Saba

HEALTHINF 2016

Best Paper Award

ICT-mediated Community Coaching to Improve Physical Activity
Lamia Elloumi, Margot Meijerink, Bert-Jan van Beijnum and Hermie Hermens

Best Student Paper Award

Generalizing the Detection of Internal and External Interactions in Clinical Guidelines
Veruska Zamborlini, Rinke Hoekstra, Marcos da Silveira, Cedric Pruski, Annette ten Teije and Frank van Harmelen

Best Poster Award

Generating SD-Rules in the SPECIALIST Lexical Tools - Optimization for Suffix Derivation Rule Set
Chris J. Lu, Destinee Tormey, Lynn McCreedy and Allen C. Browne

On the Reactivity of Sleep Monitoring with Diaries
M. S. Goelema, M. M. Willems, R. Haakma and P. Markopoulos

BIOSTEC 2016

Best PhD Project Award

Study of a Low-cost Sensitive Point-of-Care Testing System using Screen Printed Biosensors for Early Biomarkers Detection Related to Alzheimer Disease
Sarah Tonello, Mauro Serpelloni, Nicola Francesco Lopomo, Giulia Abate, Daniela Uberti and Emilio Sardini

BIODEVICES 2015

Best Paper Award

Noise Analysis of Programmable Gain Analog to Digital Converter for Integrated Neural Implant Front End
Amir Zjajo, Carlo Galuzzi and Rene van Leuken

Best Student Paper Award

High Voltage Integrated Chip Power Recovering Topology for Implantable Wireless Biomedical Devices
Vijith Vijayakumaran Nair, Jinhwan Youn and Jun Rim Choi

BIOIMAGING 2015

Best Paper Award

Content Based Retrieval of MRI Based on Brain Structure Changes in Alzheimer’s Disease
Katarina Trojacanec, Ivan Kitanovski, Ivica Dimitrovski and Suzana Loshkovska

BIOINFORMATICS 2015

Best Paper Award

Identifying Aging Genes in the Aging Mouse Hypothalamus Using Gateway Node Analysis of Correlation Networks
Kathryn M. Cooper, Stephen Bonasera and Hesham Ali

Best Student Paper Award

Essential Proteins and Functional Modules in the Host-Pathogen Interactions from Innate to Adaptive Immunity - C. albicans-zebrafish Infection Model
Chia-Chou Wu and Bor-Sen Chen

BIOSIGNALS 2015

Best Paper Award

A User-centric Design of Permanent Magnetic Articulography based Assistive Speech Technology
Lam A. Cheah, Jie Bai, Jose A. Gonzalez, Stephen R. Ell, James M. Gilbert, Roger K. Moore and Phil D. Green

Best Student Paper Award

Recognizing Hand and Finger Gestures with IMU based Motion and EMG based Muscle Activity Sensing
Marcus Georgi, Christoph Amma and Tanja Schultz

HEALTHINF 2015

Best Paper Award

Eyetrace2014 - Eyetracking Data Analysis Tool
Katrin Sippel, Thomas Kübler, Wolfgang Fuhl, Guilherme Schievelbein, Raphael Rosenberg and Wolfgang Rosenstiel

Best Student Paper Award

Towards Guidelines for the Design of Patient Feedback in Stroke Rehabilitation Technology
Lilha Willems, Daniel Tetteroo and Panos Markopoulos

BIODEVICES 2014

Best Paper Award

Development of Concurrent Object-oriented Logic Programming System to Intelligent Monitoring of Anomalous Human Activities
Alexei A. Morozov, Abhishek Vaish, Alexander F. Polupanov, Vyacheslav E. Antciperov, Igor I. Lychkov, Aleksandr N. Alfimtsev and Vladimir V. Deviatkov

Best Student Paper Award

VLSI Wavelet Denoising of Neural Signals - Critical Appraisal of Different Algorithmic Solutions for Threshold Estimation
Nicola Carta, Danilo Pani and Luigi Raffo

BIOIMAGING 2014

Best Paper Award

Infrared Spectral Microimaging - A New Tool to Characterise the Tissue Features in Skin Cancers of Melanoma Type
David Sebiskveradze, Cyril Gobinet, Nathalie Cardot-Leccia, Michel Manfait, Pierre Jeannesson, Vincent Vuiblet and Olivier Piot

Best Student Paper Award

Model-based Approach to Tissue Characterization using Optical Coherence Tomography
Cecília Lantos, Rafik Borji, Stéphane Douady, Karolos Grigoriadis, Kirill Larin and Matthew A. Franchek

BIOINFORMATICS 2014

Best Paper Award

A Computational Study to Identify TP53 and SREBF2 as Regulation Mediators of miR-214 in Melanoma Progression
Gianfranco Politano, Alfredo Benso, Stefano Di Carlo, Francesca Orso, Alessandro Savino and Daniela Taverna

Best Student Paper Award

Exploring a Sub-optimal Hidden Markov Model Sampling Approach for De Novo Peptide Structure Modeling
Pierre Thevenet and Pierre Tufféry

BIOSIGNALS 2014

Best Paper Award

Observer Design for a Nonlinear Minimal Model of Glucose Disappearance and Insulin Kinetics
Driss Boutat, Mohamed Darouach and Holger Voos

Best Student Paper Award

Synchronization of Electroencephalography and Eye Tracking using Global Illumination Changes
Daniel Siboska, Henrik Karstoft and Henrik Pedersen

HEALTHINF 2014

Best Paper Award

Feasibility Estimation for Clinical Trials
Zhisheng Huang, Frank van Harmelen, Annette Ten Teije and Andre Dekker

Best Student Paper Award

Partopens at the Point of Care - Evaluating Digital Pen-based Maternal Labor Monitoring in Kenya
Heather Underwood, John Ong’ech, Sara Rosenblum, Addie Crawley, S. Revi Sterling, John K. Bennett and Maya Appley

BIOSTEC 2014

Best PhD Project Award

Enhanced Bone Healing Through Mechanical Stimulation by Implanted Piezoelectric Actuators
Natacha Rosa, Fernão D. Magalhães, Ricardo Simões and António Torres Marques

BIODEVICES 2013

Best Paper Award

Flexible Array of Active Concentric Ring Electrodes for Surface Bioelectrical Recordings - Application to Non-invasive Recordings of EEnG
J. Garcia-Casado, V. Zena, G. Prats-Boluda, Y. Ye-Lin and E. Garcia-Breijo

Best Student Paper Award

Bioimpedance Parameter as a Risk Factor to Assess Pine Decay - An Innovative Approach to the Diagnosis of Plant Diseases
E. Borges, M. Sequeira, André F. V. Cortez, H. Catarina Pereira, T. Pereira, V. Almeida, T. M. Vasconcelos, I. M. Duarte, N. Nazaré, J. Cardoso and C. Correia

BIOINFORMATICS 2013

Best Paper Award

Qualitative Analysis of Gene Regulatory Networks using Network Motifs
Sohei Ito, Takuma Ichinose, Masaya Shimakawa, Naoko Izumi, Shigeki Hagihara and Naoki Yonezaki

Best Student Paper Award

A Methodology for Optimizing the Cost Matrix in Cost Sensitive Learning Models applied to Prediction of Molecular Functions in Embryophyta Plants
S. García-López, J. A. Jaramillo-Garzón, L. Duque-Muñoz and C. G. Castellanos-Domínguez

BIOSIGNALS 2013

Best Paper Award

Dynamic Data-based Modelling of Synaptic Plasticity: mGluR-dependent Long-term Depression
Tim Tambuyzer, Tariq Ahmed, C. James Taylor, Daniel Berckmans, Detlef Balschun and Jean-Marie Aerts

Best Student Paper Award

Array-based Electromyographic Silent Speech Interface
Michael Wand, Christopher Schulte, Matthias Janke and Tanja Schultz

HEALTHINF 2013

Best Paper Award

Inclusion of Data from the Domestic Domain in the Process of Clinical Decision Making using the Example of a Comprehensive Ambient Energy Expenditure Determination for COPD Patients
Axel Helmer, Frerk Müller, Okko Lohmann, Andreas Thiel, Marco Eichelberg and Andreas Hein

Best Student Paper Award

The PartoPen in Training and Clinical Use - Two Preliminary Studies in Kenya
Heather Underwood, S. Revi Sterling and John K. Bennett

BIODEVICES 2012

Best Paper Award

AUTONOMOUS SENTINELS FOR THE DETECTION OF INVASIVE PATHOGENS
Howard Clyde Wikle III, Suiqiong Li, Aleksandr Simonian and Bryan A. Chin

Best Student Paper Award

MOBILE, REAL-TIME SIMULATOR FOR A CORTICAL VISUAL PROSTHESIS
Horace Josh, Benedict Yong and Lindsay Kleeman

BIOINFORMATICS 2012

Best Paper Award

A n2 RNA SECONDARY STRUCTURE PREDICTION ALGORITHM
Markus E. Nebel and Anika Scheid

Best Student Paper Award

LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETERS PROTOTYPES VALIDATION USING MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS
Edite Figueiras, Rita Campos, Ricardo Oliveira, Luís F. Requicha Ferreira, Frits de Mul and Anne Humeau-Heurtier

BIOSIGNALS 2012

Best Paper Award

A WEARABLE GAIT ANALYSIS SYSTEM USING INERTIAL SENSORS PART II - Evaluation in a Clinical Setting
A. Sant'Anna, N. Wickström, H. Eklund and R. Tranberg

Best Student Paper Award

AN EFFICIENT STOCHASTIC BASED MODEL FOR SIMULATING MICROELECTRODE RECORDINGS OF THE DEEP BRAIN - Modelling and Analysis
K. J. Weegink, J. J. Varghese, P. A. Bellette, T. Coyne, P. A. Silburn and P. A. Meehan

HEALTHINF 2012

Best Paper Award

A HEART RATE PREDICTION MODEL FOR THE TELEREHABILITATION TRAINING OF CARDIOPULMONARY PATIENTS
Axel Helmer, Riana Deparade, Friedrich Kretschmer, Okko Lohmann, Andreas Hein, Michael Marschollek and Uwe Tegtbur

Best Student Paper Award

TWITTER IMPROVES SEASONAL INFLUENZA PREDICTION
Harshavardhan Achrekar, Avinash Gandhe, Ross Lazarus, Ssu-Hsin Yu and Benyuan Liu

BIODEVICES 2011

Best Paper Award

AN INTEGRATED MULTI-CHANNEL SYSTEM FOR BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL ACQUISITION
Jakob M. Tomasik, Wjatscheslaw Galjan, Kristian M. Hafkemeyer, Dietmar Schroeder and Wolfgang H. Krautschneider

Best Student Paper Award

URINE OUTPUT MONITORING - A Simple and Reliable Device for Monitoring Critical Patients’ Urine Output
Abraham Otero, Teodor Akinfiev, Andrey Apalkov, Francisco Palacios and Jesús Presedo

BIOINFORMATICS 2011

Best Paper Award

AUTOMATED COUNTING OF YEAST COLONIES USING THE FAST RADIAL TRANSFORM ALGORITHM
Jan Schier and Bohumil Kovář

Best Student Paper Award

KINETIC MODELS AND QUALITATIVE ABSTRACTION FOR RELATIONAL LEARNING IN SYSTEMS BIOLOGY
Gabriel Synnaeve, Katsumi Inoue, Andrei Doncescu, Hidetomo Nabeshima, Yoshitaka Kameya, Masakazu Ishihata and Taisuke Sato

BIOSIGNALS 2011

Best Paper Award

BIO-INSPIRED AUDITORY PROCESSING FOR SPEECH FEATURE ENHANCEMENT
HariKrishna Maganti and Marco Matassoni

Best Student Paper Award

OPTICAL METHODS FOR LOCAL PULSE WAVE VELOCITY ASSESSMENT
T. Pereira, M. Cabeleira, P. Matos, E. Borges, V. Almeida, J. Cardoso, C. Correia and H. C. Pereira

HEALTHINF 2011

Best Paper Award

EEG AND ECG CHARACTERISTICS OF HUMAN SLEEP COMPOSITION TYPES
Amro Khasawneh, Sergio A. Alvarez, Carolina Ruiz, Shivin Misra and Majaz Moonis

Best Student Paper Award

PATIENT-BASED LITERATURE RETRIEVAL AND INTEGRATION - A Use Case for Diabetes and Arterial Hypertension
Ana Jimenez-Castellanos, Izaskun Fernández, David Perez-Rey, Elisa Viejo, Francisco Javier Díez, Xabier García de Kortazar, Miguel García-Remesal, Víctor Maojo, Antonio Cobo and Francisco del Pozo

BIODEVICES 2010

Best Paper Award

DEVICE FOR PROSODIC SPEECH RESTORATION - A Multi-Resolution Approach for Glottal Excitation Restoration

Best Student Paper Award

AL2O3 NANOLAYER AS EVANESCENT WAVEGUIDE FOR BIOMEDICAL SENSOR APPLICATION

BIOINFORMATICS 2010

Best Paper Award

CO-EVOLUTION IN HIV ENZYMES

Best Student Paper Award

REACTION KERNELS - Structured Output Prediction Approaches for Novel Enzyme Function

BIOSIGNALS 2010

Best Paper Award

PROBABILISTIC PATIENT MONITORING USING EXTREME VALUE THEORY - A Multivariate, Multimodal Methodology for Detecting Patient Deterioration

Best Student Paper Award

FEATURE RELEVANCE ASSESSMENT IN AUTOMATIC INTER-PATIENT HEART BEAT CLASSIFICATION

HEALTHINF 2010

Best Paper Award

A LIGHTWEIGHT MODEL FOR REPRESENTING AND REASONING WITH TEMPORAL INFORMATION IN BIOMEDICAL ONTOLOGIES

Best Student Paper Award

USER CENTERED DESIGN OF PATIENT USER INTERFACES FOR REMOTE TRAINING SUPERVISION - A User Study