The Journal of The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers

Special Issue on Innovations in Medical and Assistive Technologies
              at the Dawn of the 21st Century

Editorial Preface....................................Toshiyuki GOTOH, Yasuo WATANABE    281
 1. Trend of Scientific Technology for Medicine and Welfare...........Makoto KIKUCHI    282
 2. Virtualized Human Body and Medical Applications
  2-1  State of the Arts in Three-dimensional Image Processing Applied to Medicine
       ..........................................................Jun-ichiro TORIWAKI    287
  2-2  Virtualized Endoscope System.............Kensaku MORI and Jun-ichiro TORIWAKI    294
  2-3  Network Surgical Simulation System..............Masahiro KOBAYASHI, Tatsuo NAKAJIMA,
                                  Hiroaki CHIYOKURA, Daigo TANAKA, and Toyomi FUJINO    299
  2-4  Functional Imaging Using PET/SPECT...........Takashi YOKOI and Masaharu AMANO    303
  2-5  MR Imaging of Human Anatomy, Function and Metabolism
       ............................................Yoshio MACHIDA and Kazuya OKAMOTO    308
 3. Technologies to Open Barrier-free World on Human Communication
  3-1  Assistive Technologies for Communication Handicapped Persons and Finger Braille
       ...............................................................Akira ICHIKAWA    312
  3-2  Studies of Expanding Captioned Broadcasting for Hearing Impaired People
       .................................................Terumasa EHARA and Akio ANDO    316
  3-3  Sign Language and Its Computer Processing...Yuji NAGASHIMA and Kazuyuki KANDA    320
  3-4  Speech Signal Transformations for the Elderly Hearing Impaired...Tohru IFUKUBE    325
 4. Toward Barrier-free Computer and Network Systems
  4-1  Report on the Project of the Research and Development of Multimedia System for Disabled
       ............................................................Michiaki YASUMURA    329
  4-2  GUI Representation System Using Three-dimensional Sound for Visually Disabled
       .........................................Toshiyuki ARITSUKA and Nobuo HATAOKA    333
  4-3  Optical Media Reader........................................Kazuhide SUGAWARA    337
 5. Genome Informatics and Medical Innovations
  5-1  Genome ScienceFSystematic Construction of Biological Knowledge Base
       ..............................................Susumu GOTO and Minoru KANEHISA    341
  5-2  New Technologies for Genome ResearchFDNA Chip and Its Application
       ................................................................Satoru KUHARA    346
  5-3  Information Technologies for Genome Science..................Akihiko KONAGAYA    352
  5-4  Knowledge Discovery from Genomic Data and Genomic Object Simulation
       ............................................Hiroshi MATSUNO and Satoru MIYANO    356
  5-5  Challenge to Drug Targeting by Proteome Analysis..............Masafumi KAMADA    359
  5-6  Gene Diagnosis and Made-to-order Therapy in the 21st Century
       ........................................Tatsuhiko TSUNODA and Yusuke NAKAMURA    364

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