Medical Biometrics: First International Conference, ICMB 2008, Hong Kong, China, January 4-5, 2008, Proceedings

The past decade has seen a rapid growth in the demand for the usage of behavioral and physiological characteristics of humans for e—security and forensics applications. The significant advances in the biometrics techniques are increasingly incorporated in a number of other applications. In this context, medicine has emerged as the largest and most promising area. Medical biometrics primarily refers to the usage of beh— ioral and physiological characteristics of humans for medical diagnosis ...