Note: Intro -- Preface -- Organization -- Contents -- Part II -- Contents - Part I -- Biomedical Applications -- Automatic Detection of Blood Vessels in Retinal OCT Images -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Methodology -- 2.1 Retinal Layer Segmentation -- 2.2 Image Pre-processing -- 2.3 Statistical Feature Extraction -- 2.4 Vessel Detection -- 3 Experimental Results -- 4 Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- Emergency Department Readmission Risk Prediction: A Case Study in Chile -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Materials and Methods -- 2.1 Experimental Dataset -- 2.2 Data Pre-processing -- 2.3 Evaluation Metrics -- 2.4 Learning from Imbalanced Data -- 3 Experimental Results -- 3.1 Comparison of Classifiers -- 3.2 The Effect of Preprocessing and Ensemble Methods -- 4 Conclusions and Future Work -- References -- Vowel Articulation Distortion in Parkinson's Disease -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Biomechanical Model of Formant Dynamics -- 3 Distance Based on Mutual Information -- 4 Materials and Methods -- 5 Results and Discussion -- 6 Conclusions -- References -- Koniocortex-Like Network Unsupervised Learning Surpasses Supervised Results on WBCD Breast Cancer Database -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Materials and Methods -- 2.1 WBCD Dataset -- 2.2 Data Preparation -- 2.3 Koniocortex-Like Network Model -- 3 Results -- 3.1 Network Characteristics -- 3.2 Evaluation Method -- 3.3 Classification Results -- 4 Discussion -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Ongoing Work on Deep Learning for Lung Cancer Prediction -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Materials and Methods -- 3 Results -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Identification of the Semantic Disconnection in Alzheimer's Patients Conducted by Bayesian Algorithms -- 1 Introduction -- 2 State of the Art -- 3 Methodology -- 3.1 Structure of Multinomial Bayesian Networks -- 4 Evaluation of Results and Performance -- 5 Experimentation -- 6 Conclusions. , References -- Mobile Brain Computer Interaction -- Classification of Gait Motor Imagery While Standing Based on Electroencephalographic Bandpower -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Experiments -- 2.1 EEG Recording -- 2.2 Recording Session -- 2.3 EEG Analysis -- 3 Results -- 3.1 ERD Results -- 3.2 Accuracy Results -- 4 Discussion -- 5 Concluding Remarks -- References -- A Mobile Brain-Computer Interface for Clinical Applications: From the Lab to the Ubiquity -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Methods -- 2.1 Subjects and EEG Setup -- 2.2 Materials -- 2.3 Generation, Mobile Recording and Cloud-Computing of VEPs -- 3 Results -- 4 Discussion -- References -- Spatial Resolution of EEG Source Reconstruction in Assessing Brain Connectivity Analysis -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Methods -- 2.1 Estimation of Brain Source Activity -- 2.2 Measurement of Brain Connectivity -- 3 Experimental Set-Up and Results -- 4 Discussion and Concluding Remarks -- References -- Securing Passwords Beyond Human Capabilities with a Wearable Neuro-Device -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Related Works -- 3 Experimental Design -- 4 Statistical Analysis -- 5 Results -- 6 Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- Delta-Theta Intertrial Phase Coherence Increases During Task Switching in a BCI Paradigm -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Material and Methods -- 2.1 Participants -- 2.2 Experimental Design -- 2.3 Processing of Recorded Data -- 3 Results -- 3.1 Amplitude Dynamics -- 3.2 Phase Dynamics -- 4 Discussion -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Using EEG Signals to Detect Different Surfaces While Walking -- 1 Introduction -- 2 System Architecture -- 2.1 Acquisition and Users -- 2.2 Experimental Procedure -- 2.3 Processing -- 2.4 Classification -- 3 Results -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Human Robot Interaction -- Improved Control of DLO Transportation by a Team of Quadrotors -- 1 Introduction -- 2 System Description and Control. , 2.1 Quadrotor Control System -- 2.2 Quadrotor Team Control -- 2.3 Online Fuzzy Adaptation of PD Controllers -- 3 Experiments -- 3.1 Results -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Robust Joint Visual Attention for HRI Using a Laser Pointer for Perspective Alignment and Deictic Referring -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Joint Visual Attention Based on a Pointer Laser as a Deictic Device -- 2.1 Visual Search of the Object -- 2.2 Pointing Gesture Control -- 3 The Humanoid-Like Robotic Platform -- 3.1 Description of the Morphology of the Humanoid -- 3.2 Description of the Humanoid Modules -- 4 Description of the Experimental Scenario and Discussion of the Results -- 5 Conclusions and Future Work -- References -- Agent-Based Spatial Dynamics Explaining Sustained Opinion Survival -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Model -- 3 Experimental Design -- 4 Results -- 5 Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- Enhancing Neuropsychological Testing with Gamification and Tangible Interfaces: The Baking Tray Task -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Gamification of Neuropsychological Tests -- 1.2 The Birth of Computer-Based and Digitalized Assessment -- 2 The Case of Visuospatial Disorders -- 2.1 Unilateral Spatial Neglect (USN) -- 2.2 Tools and Instruments Assessing USN -- 3 The Baking Tray Task (BTT) -- 3.1 E-BTT: A New Technology-Enhanced Version of BTT -- 4 Future Directions -- References -- Hierarchical-Architecture Oriented to Multi-task Planning for Prosthetic Hands Controlling -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Hierarchical Control Architecture -- 2.1 Human-Machine Interface (HMI) -- 2.2 Haptic Perception (HP) -- 2.3 High-Level Control (HLC) -- 2.4 Mid-Level Control (MLC) -- 2.5 Low-Level Control (LLC) -- 2.6 Robotic Hand -- 3 Hardware/Software Architecture -- 4 Experimental Validation -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Smart Gesture Selection with Word Embeddings Applied to NAO Robot -- 1 Introduction. , 2 Related Work -- 3 A New Methodology for Selecting NAO Robot's Gestures from Free Text -- 4 Experimental Design -- 5 Experimental Results and Discussion -- 6 Final Algorithm Proposal -- 7 Conclusions and Future Work -- References -- Deep Learning -- A Deep Learning Approach for Underwater Image Enhancement -- 1 Introduction -- 2 State of the Art -- 2.1 Deep Learning -- 3 Proposed Method -- 4 Results -- 4.1 Experiment 1 -- 4.2 Experiment 2 -- 5 Conclusions and Future Work -- References -- A Deep Learning Approach to Handwritten Number Recognition -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Handwritten Digit Database -- 2.1 Generation of Sequence Numbers from MNIST Database -- 2.2 Transformations Applied to Images -- 3 Classification -- 4 Experimental Results -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Deep Learning-Based Approach for Time Series Forecasting with Application to Electricity Load -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Related Works -- 3 Methodology -- 4 Results -- 4.1 Dataset Description -- 4.2 Design of Experiments -- 4.3 Electricity Consumption Time Series Forecasting -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Deep Learning and Bayesian Networks for Labelling User Activity Context Through Acoustic Signals -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Context-Awareness Framework -- 2.1 Environment Recognition Component -- 2.2 Context Awareness Component (CAC) -- 3 Experimental Validation -- 3.1 ERC -- 3.2 CAC -- 4 Discussion -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Deconvolutional Neural Network for Pupil Detection in Real-World Environments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Data Sets -- 3 Architecture -- 4 Training -- 4.1 Training Data -- 4.2 Objective Function -- 4.3 Weights for Training -- 4.4 Training Process -- 4.5 Output Analysis -- 5 Experiments and Results -- 6 Conclusions -- References -- Air Quality Forecasting in Madrid Using Long Short-Term Memory Networks -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Data Sources -- 3 Model. , 4 Experiments and Results -- 5 Conclusions and Future Work -- References -- Values Deletion to Improve Deep Imputation Processes -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Proposed Method -- 2.1 SDAE Imputation Method -- 2.2 Deleting Values -- 3 Experiments -- 3.1 Pre-imputation Methods -- 3.2 Results -- 4 Discussion -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Machine Learning Applied to Big Data Analysis -- Big Data Infrastructure: A Survey -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Machine Learning for Big Data -- 2.1 Machine Learning -- 2.2 Platforms for Big Data Processing -- 3 Machine Learning for Big Data Review -- 3.1 Language -- 3.2 Scaling -- 3.3 Storage -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- A Survey of Machine Learning Methods for Big Data -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Big Data -- 2.1 Datasets -- 2.2 Classification Techniques -- 2.3 Classification Algorithms -- 3 Discussion -- 3.1 Data to be Processed -- 3.2 Algorithms Limitations and Accurate Parameterization -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Vehicle Type Detection by Convolutional Neural Networks -- 1 Introduction -- 2 System Architecture -- 3 Classification Framework -- 4 Experimental Results -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Motion Detection by Microcontroller for Panning Cameras -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Methodology -- 3 System Architecture -- 4 Experimental Results -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Data Visualization Using Interactive Dimensionality Reduction and Improved Color-Based Interaction Model -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Data Visualization via Dimensionality Reduction -- 3 Interactive Data Visualization Scheme -- 3.1 Mixture -- 3.2 Interaction Model -- 3.3 Similarity-Based Visualization -- 4 Experimental Setup -- 5 Results -- 6 Conclusions and Future Work -- References -- Bayesian Unbiasing of the Gaia Space Mission Time Series Database -- 1 Introduction. , 2 Hierarchical Modelling of the Distribution of Pulsation Properties of Classical Cepheid Variable Stars.