Sept. 24

Day 1

9:00-10:00 CET

10:00-11:00 CET

11:10-12:30 CET

13:30-15:00 CET

15:10-16:00 CET

16:00 CET

Opportunity for testing equipment and software

Keynote talk 1: "Gender and age of stimuli effects on emotion recognition", 
Prof. Anna Esposito, Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy

S1: Neural Networks in Biomedical Applications

S2: Biomedical Innovations 1

S3: Biomedical Innovations 2

End of Day 1

Sept. 25

Day 2

Sept. 24, 2020 -- Detailed Technical Program for Day 1

Sept. 24

Day 1

9:00-10:00 CET

Opportunity for testing equipment and software

10:00-11:00 CET

Keynote talk 1: "Gender and age of stimuli effects on emotion recognition", 

Prof. Anna Esposito, Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy

11:10-12:30 CET

S1: Neural Networks in Biomedical Applications

S1.P1: Bi-directional Long Short-Term Memory Networks for Fall Detection using Bioradars, Lesya Anishchenko and Evgeniya Smirnova

S1.P2: Hair counting with deep learning, Alessio Gallucci, Dmitry Znamenskiy, Nicola Pezzotti and Milan Petkovic

S1.P3: A Machine Learning approach for Recognizing Intellectual Development Disorder using EEG, Talha Anwar

S1.P4: Melanoma Detection from Dermatoscopic Images using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks, Prasitthichai Naronglerdrit, Iosif Mporas, Michael Paraskevas and Vaggelis Kapoulas

S1.P5: Laplace Naive Bayes classifier in the classification of text in machine learning, Neli Kalcheva and Nedyalko Nikolov

13:30-15:00 CET

S2: Biomedical Innovations 1

S2.P1: Improved Non-Contact Mental Stress Detection via Bioradar, Lesya Anishchenko and Alina Turetzkaya

S2.P2: Composite hydrogels and their application for 3D Bioprinting in the Regenerative medicine, Petar Valchanov, Stoyan Pavlov and Trifon Chervenkov

S2.P3: The Stimulus Transduction Artifact from Headphones in hdEEG during the ASSR Experiments: a Phantom Study, Jan Štrobl, Vlastimil Koudelka, Vojtech Viktorin, Vladimir Krajca and Marek Piorecky

S2.P4: Fabrication and Characterization of Piezoelectric PVDF-TrFE Sensor Fabricated Using Spin Coating Method for Biomedical Device Applications, Saman Namvarrechi, Armin Agharazy Dormeny, Javad Dargahi and Mojtaba Kahrizi

S2.P5: Accurate Estimation of Tip Force on Tendon-driven Catheters using Inverse Cosserat Rod Model, Amir Hooshiar, Amir Sayadi, Mohammad Jolaei and Javad Dargahi

15:10-16:00 CET

S3: Biomedical Innovations 2

S3.P1: Quantification of Сhoroidal Blood Flow Using the OCT-A System Based on Voxel Scan Processing, Elena N. Iomdina, Anna A. Kiseleva, Konstantin E. Kotliar and Petr V. Luzhnov

S3.P2: Feasibility of self-monitoring of blood bilirubin levels by dual wavelength measurement, Jean Pierre Ndabakuranye, Idrissa Kayijuka, Anushi Rajapaksa, Steven Prawer and Arman Ahnood

S3.P3: Using of Two-Channel Rheoophthalmography Method for the Ocular Blood Flow Study in Patients with Myopia, Elena N. Iomdina, Nina Yu. Kushnarevich, Tatiana Yu. Larina, Petr V. Luzhnov, Anna A. Kiseleva and Elena P. Tarutta

S3.P4: Ergonomic requirements for the learning environment for the prevention of spinal deformities in children. Silviya Filkova, Natalia Usheva

16:00 CET

End of Day 1

Sept. 25, 2020 -- Detailed Technical Program for Day 2

Sept. 25

Day 2

9:00-10:00 CET

Opportunity for testing equipment and software

10:00-11:00 CET

Keynote talk 2: "Affective Computing: Applications and Impact ", 
Dr. Theodoros Kostoulas, Bournemouth University, UK

11:10-12:30 CET

S4: Biomedical Signal and Image Processing

S4.P1: The Reproducibility Assessment of Black-White Pixels Ratio In Transcranial B-images of Medial Temporal Lobe In Application for Detectable Feature of Alzheimer’s Diseas, Jiří Blahuta and Tomas Soukup

S4.P2: Image-based Contact Detection and Static Force Estimation on Steerable RFA Catheters, Pegah Yaftian, Naghmeh Bandari, Amir Hooshiar and Javad Dargahi

S4.P3: Evaluation of edge detection operators on the water area discovery task, Gergana Spasova

S4.P4: Feasibility of Haralick's Texture Features for the Classification of Chromogenic In-situ Hybridization Images, Stoyan Pavlov, Galina Momcheva, Pavlina Burlakova, Simeon Atanasov, Dimo Stoyanov, Martin Ivanov and Anton Tonchev

S4.P5: COVID-19 Identification from Chest X-rays, Iosif Mporas and Prasitthichai Naronglerdrit

13:30-15:00 CET

S5: Stress & Distress Assessment

S5.P1: Synthesis of characteristic descriptors for the detection of distress, Ginka Marinova, Todor Ganchev and Nedyalko Nikolov

S5.P2: Speech Stress Recognition by Sound Analysis and Multilayer Artificial Neural Networks, Ivelina Balabanova, Stela Kostadinova, Valentina Markova and Georgi Georgiev

S5.P3: An Overview of Network Architectures and Technology for Wearable Sensor-based Health Monitoring Systems, Martin Ivanov, Valentina Markova and Todor Ganchev

S5.P4: Automated Stress Detection from Peripheral Physiological Signals based on Hjorth Parameters, Firgan Feradov, Todor Ganchev and Valentina Markova

15:10-16:00 CET

S6: Physiological Signal Acquisition and Processing

S6.P1: Algorithm for peak detection in the Skin Conducntance Response component of the EDA signals, Kalin Kalinkov

S6.P2: A approach of Feature extraction of ECG signal of CLAS database, Veselin Atanasov, Yordan Sivkov and Nikolai Velikov

S6.P3: Heart Rate Variability calculation methods, Kalin Kalinkov, Valentina Markova and Todor Ganchev

S6.P4: Identification of Affective Mental Activity Based on Multichannel EEG Signals, Firgan Feradov and Todor Ganchev

S6.P5: Study on the Relation Between Affective and Cognative States for Automated EEG Analysis, Firgan Feradov

16:00 CET

End of Day 2

Sept. 26, 2020 -- Detailed Technical Program for Day 3

Sept. 26

Day 3

9:00-9:15 CET

Opportunity for testing equipment and software

9:15-11:00 CET

S7: Information and Communication Technology

S7.P1: Enhanced Simulation Framework for Visualisation of IEEE 802.15.4 Frame Structure on Beacon Enabled Mode of ZigBee Sensor Network, Aydan Haka, Veneta Aleksieva and Hristo Valchanov

S7.P2: Implementation of Smart Contracts based on Hyperledger Fabric Blockchain for the Purpose of Insurance Services, Veneta Aleksieva, Hristo Valchanov and Anton Huliyan

S7.P3: Device Sleeping Mode Control at the Network Edge, Evelina Pencheva and Ivaylo Atanasov

S7.P4: Comparative Analysis of Traffic Prioritisation Algorithms in Li-Fi Networks, Diyan Zhelev Dinev

S7.P5: A method to support information security risk assessment, Petko Genchev

S7.P6: A Clustered Sub GHz network of sensors for CO2 soil flux monitoring, Sindri Jens Freysson, Sindri Heiðarsson, Karl Gudmundsson, Kristinn Andersen, Helgi Thorbergsson and Saemundur E. Thorsteinsson

11:10-12:30 CET

S8: Sensing and Monitoring Applications

S8.P1: An artificial intelligence approach to real-time automatic smoke detection by unmanned aerial vehicles and forest observation systems, Diyana Kinaneva, Georgi Hristov, Georgi Georgiev, Petko Kyuchukov and Plamen Zahariev

S8.P2: An overview of the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Precision Agriculture, Georgi Hristov, Diyana Kinaneva, Georgi Georgiev, Plamen Zahariev and Petko Kyuchukov

S8.P3: Comparison of the accuracy of SVM kernel functions in text classification, Neli Kalcheva, Milena Karova and Ivaylo Penev

S8.P4: Possibilities for data transmission from external hydro-meteorological sensors via AIS, Marinela Petrova, Yordan Sivkov, Chavdar Alexandrov

S8.P5: Synthesis of Prediction Models for Levels of Noises in Electrical Signals, Ivelina Balabanova, Stela Kostadinova, Valentina Markova and Georgi Georgiev

12:30-13:00 CET

BIA-2020 Closing Remarks & Discussion

13:00 CET

End of Day 3