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1.
Prof., Habil. Dr. Vitalijus
Volkovas
Kaunas
University of Technology
Technological
Systems Diagnostics Institute
Kestucio
str. 27
3004
Kaunas
LITHUANIA
vitvolk@mf.ktu.lt
2.
Dr.
Assoc. Prof. Rimantas Butleris
Kaunas University of Technology,
Department of Information Systems
Studentu
str.
50-308
LT-3031 Kaunas
LITHUANIA
rimbut@if.ktu.lt
rbutler@soften.ktu.lt
3.
Prof., Habil. Dr. Arunas Lukosevicius
Kaunas
University of Technology
Biomedical
Engineering Institute
Studentu
str. 50-343
LT-3031
Kaunas
LITHUANIA
Arunas.Lukosevicius@ktu.lt
Kaunas
University of Technology (KUT) is the largest technical university in the
Baltic States. Presently the KUT group for the CARiMan encompasses 18
researchers. The main skills may be divided into 3 fields: (1) Data mining and
decision support systems for health care; Methods of medical signal and image
acquisition, processing and interchange in telemedicine networks, development of
wireless patient monitoring systems by use of PDA, GSM/GPRS, Bluetooth
technologies. (2) R&D of diagnostics and identification techniques of
technological systems; Dynamics and simulation of heterogeneous systems;
Machinery vibration and noise research, new testing methods and means (3);
Advanced methods and tools of information engineering; Knowledge-based IS
engineering; Business rules modeling; CASE tools and environments for
information systems development; Working with standard Health Level Seven (HL7),
HL7-XML.
Prof.,
Habil. Dr. Arunas Lukosevicius-
date of birth - 1946 10 12, sex - male. Director of Biomedical Engineering
Institute (BMEI) of KUT, professor of Telecommunication and Electronics Faculty
of KUT, head of Telemedicine Support centre of BMEI, president of the
Lithuanian Society for Biomedical Engineering, member of the Board for
Coordination of National e-Health Program, member of International Eye
Research Society (ISER), member of the Society of Ultrasound in Ophthalmology (SIDUO),
expert of Lithuanian State Science and Studies Foundation, member of editorial
boards and reviewer of journals Ultragarsas (Ultrasonics), Electronics and
Electronic Engineering. Awards: Lithuanian National Science Award (2000), award
of Lithuanian Council of Ministers for implementation of scientific results
(1987), EUREKA prize and medal for innovations (1977). Research
areas: Electronics, Biomedical engineering, Management of research
in universities. R&D in CEE countries, Health-care telematics for
diagnostics and expertise, Telemedicine systems for diagnostics and screening,
education and continuing education on biomedical engineering, organisation of
technical support of health care.
Prof., Habil. Dr.
Vitalijus Volkovas -
date of birth 1947 07 02, sex - male, prof. Habil. Dr., director of Institute of
Technological Systems Diagnostics in Kaunas University of Technology, member of
Lithuanian IFTOMM (International Federation for Theory of Machines and
Mechanisms) national committee, expert of Environment and Economy ministries,
assistant editor of journal "Measurements", member of editorial board
of journals "Mechanics" and "Vibroengineering". Laureate of
premiums of academic S. Vavilovas and Lithuanian Council of Minister, worked on
probation in Switzerland and England. Research field - technical diagnostics,
problems of system identification and monitoring. Published 5 books, above 100
publications in the field of diagnostics, monitoring, measurements, for example
in Insight, IMEKO.
Assoc. Prof., Dr.
Rimantas Butleris
- date of birth 1957 05 29, sex - male, assoc.Prof., Dr., head of Information
Systems Department, Faculty of Informatics, Kaunas University of Technology,
Vice-chairman of Committee for Research in Informatics Engineering of Kaunas
University of Technology, Member of ECCAI (European Coordinating Committee for
Artificial Intelligence, Lithuanian branch), member of experts group for High
technology production development (formed by Ministry of Education and Science
of Lithuania). The coordinator of several projects of scientific research and
Information systems development. Research fields - Information systems&
Databases design, Requirements engineering, CASE-tools and software engineering
environments, Knowledge representation. Published above 70 scientific
publications in the fields of information requirements engineering, business
rules modelling, knowledge representation.
Assoc. Prof., Dr.
Viktoras Dorosevas
- date of birth 1957 09 24, sex - male, senior associate researcher in
Technological Systems Diagnostics Institute of Kaunas University of Technology (KUT).
1980 - diploma of mechanical engineer in KUT. 1996 - doctoral thesis in KUT in
the direction of mechanical engineering. Research field - modeling, diagnostics
and monitoring of heterogeneous systems. Main publications:1. Viktoras
Dorosevas, Vitalijus Volkovas. Analysis of the Reactions of Elastically Plastic
Substance to Shock Impact Load in the Closed Container // Structures Under Shock
and Impact. VI Wessex Institute of Technology, 2000, p.309-318.2. Viktoras
Dorosevas, Vitalijus Volkovas. State Identification of Loose Substance in the
Close Container // Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Emerging
Technologies in NTD. ISBN 90-5809-127-9. Rotterdam: Balkema, 2000, p. 125-131.
Assoc. Prof. Dr.
Vaidotas Marozas -
year of birth 1969, sex - male. 2000 - 2002 research associate at the Institute
of biomedical engineering, since 2002 docent position in Signal Processing
department at KUT. Member of the society of Lithuanian Biomedical Engineering.
Area of expertise - computer based biomedical signal acquisition systems,
biomedical signal detection and estimation, statistical analysis, wavelet
analysis, neural networks, applications to Telemedicine. Recent publications:1.
V. Marozas, L. Sörnmo, O. Swensson, A. Lukosevicius, A. Janusauskas - Adaptive
estimation of transient evoked otoacoustic emissions" In IFMBE Proceedings,
2nd European Medical & Biological Engineering Conference (EMBEC '02), Part
1: 478-479 (2002).2. A. Janusauskas, V. Marozas, B. Engdahl, H. J. Hoffman, O.
Svensson, L. Sörnmo - Otoacoustic emissions and improved pass / fail separation
using wavelet analysis and time windowing", IMIA Yearbook of Medical
Informatics 2002, ed. Haux R, Kulikowski C(eds), Schattauer Verlagsgesellschaft
mbH, Stuttgart, ISBN: 3-7945-2193-5, p. 443-449.
Assoc. Prof., Dr.
Saulius Gudas -
date of birth 1952, sex - male, Dr., Assoc. Professor of KTU Information Systems
Department. In 1982 defended dissertation in Moscow Institute of Physics
Engineering in the field of information systems engineering. Research field -
computer aided information systems engineering (CASE) methods and tools,
knowledge-based CASE. Published 3 books, above 80 publications in the
field of IS engineering, enterprise modeling, CASE technology. Married,
has two sons. Main publications:1. Gudas S. A framework for research of
information processing hierarchy in enterprise. - Mathematics and Computers in
Simulation, No.33, 1991, p.281-285.2. Gudas S. Organisational System as a
Hierarchy of Information Processes - Applications of Artificial
Intelligence in Engineering VI (AIENG 91) , Computational Mechanics
Publications, Southampton, Boston, 1991, p.p. 1037 -1050, ISBN 1-85342-141-X3.
Gudas S. Framework for the structure of enterprise objectives - Applications of
Artificial Intelligence in Engineering , Southampton, 1992, p.p.753 - 758., ISBN
1-85166-787-3.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Lina
Nemuraite - date
of birth 1952, sex - female, Dr., Assoc. prof. of Information Systems Department
in Kaunas University of Technology (KTU). 1975 - diploma of system engineer in
KTU; 1987 - doctoral thesis in KTU in the direction of Informatics Engineering.
Research field - modelling of Information Systems and Business Processes.
Unmarried, has the son. Main publications:1. Nemuraite L. Business object
modelling framework for distributed enterprise // Informatica. ISSN 0868-4952.
1999, Vol. 10, no. 2, p. 189 - 201.2. Nemuraite L., Kavaliauskaite L.,
Ambrazevicius E. Towards Ensuring Consistency to UML Models // Informacijos
mokslai. ISSN 1392-0561. Vilniaus universitetas, 2003, No. 24, p. 85-97.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Rita
Butkiene - date of
birth 1971 09 09, sex - female, Dr., lecturer in Information Systems Department
at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) Informatics Faculty. She received the
M.S. degree of informatics from Kaunas University of Technology in 1995. In 2002
defended dissertation in KTU in the field of technological sciences and
informatics engineering. Her current research interests include requirements
engineering, requirements engineering tools, conceptual modelling, and
information systems design.Main publications: 1. Butkiene R., Butleris R. The
Approach for the User Requirements Specification. 5th East-European conference
ADBIS'2001, Research Communic anotions, Ed. by A.Caplinskas, J.Eder, Vilnius,
2001, pp.225-240.2. Butkiene, R., Butleris R. Verification Rules of Computerised
Information System Model with Respect to Data Resource Processing. Informatica,
2001, Vol.12, No.3. Vilnius, pp.347-372.
Research scientist
dr. Rytis Jurkonis
- year of birth 1971, sex - male. 1989 - 1995 electronics engineering studies at
Radioelectronics Faculty, KUT; 1995 - 1996 research associate, Laboratory of
Biomedical Engineering, KUT; 1996 - 2000 doctoral student, Department of
Theoretical Radioengineering, KUT; since 2000 research scientist, Institute of
Biomedical Engineering, KUT. Area of expertise - modelling of ultrasound
systems; models of ultrasound wave diffraction, attenuation and speed
dispersion; non-linear propagation; tissue generated harmonics; model based
signal processing. Recent publications: 1. Frequency dependence of speckle
in continuous-wave ultrasound with implications for blood perfusion measurements
/ Tomas Jansson, Rytis Jurkonis, T. Douglas Mast, Hans W. Persson, Kjell
Lindstrom// IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency
Control. New York : IEEE-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc. ISSN
0885-3010. 2002, Vol. 49, no. 6, p. 715-725.2. Jurkonis, Rytis. New method
of spatial superposition of attenuated waves for ultrasound field modelling /
Rytis Jurkonis, Arunas Lukosevicius// Ultrasonics. Amsterdam : Elsevier Science
ISSN 0041-624X. 2002, Vol. 40, no. 1-8, p. 823-827.
Research scientist
dr. Arturas Janusauskas
- year of birth - 1972, sex - male. Member of the society of Lithuanian
Biomedical Engineering. Area of expertise - Biomedical signal processing,
otoacoustic emissions analysis, ECG analysis, wavelet analysis, correlation
Analysis, biomedical Signal acquisition and validation, telemedicine. Recent
publications: 1. Signal processing of transient evoked otoacoustic emissions - a
survey of methods/ A. Janusauskas, O. Svensson, L. Sörnmo// Signal
Processing Report SPR-43, Lund Technical university, ISSN 1100-8105, http://www.es.lth.se/sig/,
March 1998.2. A. Janusauskas, V. Marozas, B. Engdahl, O. Svensson, L. Sörnmo,
"Otoacoustic emissions and improved pass/fail separation using wavelet
based denoising", 20th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Hong Kong SAR,China, October 29 -
November 1, 1998 : proceedings. Piscataway, NJ : IEEE Service Center, 1998. ISBN
0-7803-5164-9. p. 3129-3131.
Research scientist
dr. Darius Jegelevicius
- year of birth - 1973. Member of Lithuanian Society for Biomedical Engineering.
Area of expertise - Signal processing, ultrasound techniques, image processing,
data mining. Recent publications: 1. Jegelevicius D., Lukosevicius A., Paunksnis
A., Barzdziukas V. Application of Data Mining Technique for Diagnosis of
Posterior Uveal Melanoma // Informatica. - Vilnius: Institute of
Mathematics and Informatics, 2002. - Vol. 13, No 4. - P.455-464.2. Paunksnis A.,
Kuzmiene L., Kurapkiene S., Jurkonis R., Ivanov L., Sadauskiene I., Lukosevicius
A., Jegelevicius D.. Ultrasonic and biochemical characteristics of human nuclear
cataract // Ultrasound. - Kaunas: Technologija, 2001. - Vol.40, No 3. - P. 11 -
15.3. Paunksnis A., Kurapkiene S., Svaldeniene E., Paunksniene M., Babrauskiene
V., Jegelevicius D. Corneal thickness evaluation using ultrasonic technique //
Ultrasound. - Kaunas: Technologija, 2001. - Vol. 40, No 3. - P. 16 - 20.
Research scientist
dr. Robertas Mikalauskas
- date of birth 1969, sex - male, Dr., scientific worker of KTU Institute of
Technological systems diagnostics. 1994 - bachelor of Kaunas University of
Technology (KTU), specialization - machinery and equipment of light industry,
1996 - master with specialization of engineering of clothing and polymeric
material. In 2001 defended dissertation in KTU in the field of technological
sciences and mechanical engineering. Research field - diagnostics and monitoring
of technical systems. Married, has two sons. Main publications: 1. Mikalauskas,
R., Volkovas, V. Modelling of Defects of Flexible Elements of Belt Drives.-Proc.
of XVI-th IMEKO WORLD CONGRESS "IMEKO 2000.-Wien, 2000, v.VI, p.233-238. 2.
Mikalauskas, R., Volkovas, V. Modelling of Belt Transmission with Defects,
Evaluating Contact of a Flexible Element with Pulleys // Mechanika, 2001. 3(29),
p. 38 - 43.
Ph. D. student Marija
Eidukeviciute -
date of birth 1978 03 11, sex - female, graduate in KTU Institute of
Technological systems. In 1999 - bachelor of mathematical sciences of KTU,
specialization - stochastic systems and computer analysis, in 2001 - master of
mathematical sciences of Vytautas Magnus University, specialization -
mathematical methods in economy. Since 2002 - graduate in KTU Institute of
Technological System Diagnostics. Research field - uncertainty, reliability of
results. Main publications: 1. Volkovas V., Dulevicius J., Eidukeviciute M.
Increase of mean and variance estimates reliability for limited date size //
Ultrasound. ISSN 1392-2114. Technologija, Kaunas, 2002, Nr. 1 (42), p. 22-28. 2.
V. Volkovas, J. Dulevicius, M. Eidukeviciute. Evaluation of Controlled Objects
Condition with the Integral Parameters (in Lithuanian) // Measurements. ISSN
1392-1223. Technologija, Kaunas, 2002, Nr. 1 (21), p. 19-23.
Ph. D. student Tomas
Danikauskas - date
of birth 1977 01 29, sex - male. In 1999 received a bachelor degree of Computer
Science in Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania. Majoring in
Information Systems. In 2001 received a master degree of Computer Science with
honour in Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania. Majoring in user
requirements elicitation and specification for Information System. Since 2001
Informatics engineering PhD student at Kaunas University of Technology,
Information system department, Kaunas, Lithuania. Research subject: "Method
for usability of information sources specification in IS designing composition
and analysis. Main publications: Butkiene
R., Butleris R., Danikauskas T. The approach to consistency checking of
functional requirements specification. The 6th World Multiconference on
Systematics, Cybernetics and informatics, Proceedings of International
Conference, Orlando, USA. 2002, Vol.18, p.67-72. 2. Butleris R., Butkiene
R., Danikauskas T. Business modeling for elicitation of information requirements
. Business operation and its legal environment: processes, tendencies and
results, Proceedings of International Conference, Riga: Turiba, 2002, p. 67-73.
Ph. D. student
Kestutis Kapocius
- date of birth - 1977 10 27, sex - male. In 1999 - bachelor of sciences in
informatics, KTU. In 2001 - master of sciences in informatics, KTU,
specialisation - business rules structuring models. Since 2001 - Ph. D. student
at KTU, Information systems department. Research field - design and
implementation of information systems using business rules approach. Recent
publications: 1. Kapocius K., Butleris R. Distinguishing Features of Requirement
Discovery and Analysis in Business Rules Approach. Proc. of conference
"Information Technologies 2003". Kaunas, Technologija, 2003, p. XVI-74
- XVI-81.2. Kapocius K., Butleris R. The Business Rules Repository for
Information Systems Design. Research Communications of 6th East European
Conference "ADBIS 2002". Bratislava, Vydavatel'stvo STU, 2002. p.
64-77.
Ph. D. student Tomas
Skersys - date of
birth - 1977 01 01, sex - male. In 1999 - bachelor of sciences in informatics,
KTU. In 2001 - master of sciences in informatics, KTU, specialisation -
knowledge based IS engineering. Since 2001 - Ph. D. student at KTU, Information
systems department. Research field - design and implementation of knowledge
based information systems. Recent publications:1. Gudas S., Lopata A., Skersys
T. Domain Knowledge Integration for Information Systems Engineering . Proc. of
conference "Informacines technologijos verslui 2002". Kaunas,
Technologija, 2002, p. 56-59.
Ph. D. student Darius
Kybartas
was born 30.05.1974. He received MS degree of Electrical and electronics
engineering in Kaunas University of Technology (KUT) in 1998. Currently D.
Kybartas is doctoral student in KUT and works in Institute of Biomedical
Engineering. He has interests in piezoelectric ultrasonic transducers, finite
elements method, wireless communications, electrodynamics, antennas and
propagation if radio waves. D. Kybartas has 3 scientific publications.
Ph. D. student
Skaidra Kurapkienė. Professional
experience: Department of Ophthalmology, Institute for Biomedical Research of
Kaunas University of Medicine, Medical Engineer at the Department since 1998.
Education: Mechanical faculty of Kaunas University of Medicine graduated on
1994. Master of science degree in electronics engineering at Kaunas University
of Technology graduated on 2001. Defended master science thesis “Processing of
diagnostic ophthalmological signals and images and adaptation for telemedicine
system”. PhD student at Kaunas University of Technology since 2002. Research
areas: Ultrasonic diagnostic signal processing, systematization of data,
decision support systems, telemedicine.
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D. Jegelevicius , A. Lukosevicius, A. Paunksnis , V. Barzdziukas:
Application of Data Mining Technique for Diagnosis of Posterior Uveal Melanoma.
Informatica. 2002, Vol. 13, n. 4, p.455-464.
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V. Volkovas: Development and application of vibroacoustic
diagnostics and condition monitoring methods in Lithuania. Insight.
2001, n. 6 (43), p. 376-380.
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R. Butkiene , R. Butleris , T. Danikauskas:
The approach to consistency checking for functional requirements
specification. Proceedings of 6th World Multiconference on Systemics,
Cybernetics and Informatics, July 14-18, 2002, Orlando, USA, Vol XVIII, p.
67-72.
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A. Janusauskas, L. Sörnmo, O. Svensson, B. Engdahl “Detection of
transient evoked otoacoustics emissions and design of time windows” IEEE
Transactionson Biomedical Engineering, IEEE-INST Electrical Electronics
Engineers INC, ISSN: 0018-9294, vol. 49(2), 2002, p. 132-139.
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A. Janusauskas, V. Marozas, B. Engdahl, H. J. Hoffman, O. Svensson,
L. Sornmo: Otoacoustic emissions and improved pass / fall separation using
wavelet analysis and time windowing. IMIA
Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2002, p.
443-449.
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R. Butleris , K. Kapocius: The
Business Rules Repository for Information Systems Design. Research
communications of 6th East-European Conference ADBIS’2002. Research
Communications. 2002, Vol.2,
p. 64 –77.
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S. Gudas: The Information Architecture Framework for Enterprise
Integration. Databases& Information Systems. Proceedings of the 4th IEEE
International Baltic Workshop. 2000, Vol.12.
p.168-175.
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V. Volkovas , J. Dulevicius , M. Eidukeviciute:
Increase of mean and variance estimates reliability for limited date
size. Ultrasound. 2002, n. 1 (42), p. 22-28.
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V. Marozas, L. Sörnmo, O. Swensson, A. Lukosevičius, A.
Janusauskas: Adaptive estimation of transient evoked otoacoustic emissions IFMBE
Proceedings, 2nd European Medical & Biological Engineering Conference (EMBEC
'02), Vienna 2002, Part 1: p.478-479.
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R. Jurkonis, A. Lukosevicius: New method of spatial superposition of
attenuated waves for ultrasound field modelling. Ultrasonics. Amsterdam :
Elsevier Science. 2002, Vol. 40, n. 1-8, p. 823-827.
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