CALL FOR PAPERS
Website: http://www.healthinf.biostec.org
February 1 – 4, 2012
Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal
Important Deadlines:
Regular Paper Submission: July 25, 2011
Authors Notification (Regular Papers): September 29, 2011
Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: October 20, 2011
Technical Co-sponsored by:
ESEM (European Society for Engineering and Medicine)
BMES (Biomedical Engineering Society)
IEEE EMB (IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society)
IEEE Portugal EMBS Chapter (IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society)
In cooperation with:
AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence)
The purpose of the International Conference on Health Informatics is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the application of information and communication technologies (ICT) to healthcare and medicine in general and to the specialized support to persons with special needs in particular.
Databases, networking, graphical interfaces, intelligent decision support systems and specialized programming languages are just a few of the technologies currently used in medical informatics. Mobility and ubiquity in healthcare systems, standardization of technologies and procedures, certification, privacy are some of the issues that medical informatics professionals and the ICT industry in general need to address in order to further promote ICT in healthcare. In the case of medical rehabilitation and assistive technology the use of ICT has had important results in the enhancement of the quality of life, contributing to a full integration of all citizens in the societies they are also part of.
HEALTHINF 2012 is part of the International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Tecnologies (BIOSTEC 2012) that has 3 more conferences with very strong synergies between them, namely:
– BIODEVICES: International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices (http://www.biodevices.biostec.org)
– BIOINFORMATICS: International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms (http://www.bioinformatics.biostec.org)
– BIOSIGNALS: International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing (http://www.biosignals.biostec.org)
These four concurrent conferences are held in parallel and registration to one warrants delegates to attend all four.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Jos� C. Pr�ncipe, University of Florida, U.S.A.
Richard Bayford, Middlesex University, U.K.
Jan Cabri, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Norway
Mamede de Carvalho, Institute of Molecular Medicine – University of Lisbon, Portugal
Franco Docchio, Universit� degli studi di Brescia, Italy
Miguel Castelo Branco, University of Coimbra, Portugal
PUBLICATIONS
All accepted papers (full, short and posters) will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/).
SciTePress is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).
A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series book.
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index, INSPEC, DBLP and EI.
AWARDS
Best paper awards will be distributed during the conference closing session.
Please check the website for further information (http://www.healthinf.biostec.org/best_paper_awards.asp).
CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS
Carlos Correia, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Ana Fred, Technical University of Lisbon / IT, Portugal
Hugo Gamboa, CEFITEC / FCT – New University of Lisbon, Portugal
PROGRAM CHAIR
Emmanuel Conchon, University of Toulouse, IRIT/ISIS, France
CONFERENCE TOPICS
* e-Health
* Telemedicine
* Medical and Nursing Informatics
* Design and Development Methodologies for Healthcare IT
* Interoperability
* Semantic Interoperability
* Confidentiality and Data Security
* Knowledge Management
* Databases and Datawarehousing
* Datamining
* Decision Support Systems
* Wearable Health Informatics
* Mobile Technologies for Healthcare Applications
* Evaluation and Use of Healthcare IT
* Physiological Modeling
* Cognitive Informatics
* Affective Computing
* Therapeutic Systems and Technologies
* Healthcare Management Systems
* Human-Machine Interfaces for Disabled Persons
* Development of Assistive Technology
* ICT, Ageing and Disability
* Practice-based Research Methods for Healthcare IT
* Electronic Health Records and Standards
* Software Systems in Medicine
* Pervasive Health Systems and Services
* e-Health for Public Health
* Clinical Problems and Applications
* Data Visualization
* Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Rob van der Mei, CWI Amsterdam, Netherlands
Yves A. Lussier, University of Chicago, United States
Hiroshi Arisawa, Yokohama National University, Japan
Filippos Azariadis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Adrian Barb, Penn State University, United States
R�mi Bastide, ISIS, France
Bert-Jan van Beijnum, University of Twente, Netherlands
Egon L. van den Broek, Human-Centered Computing Consultancy / University of Twente / Radboud UMC Nijmegen, Netherlands
Eric Campo, LAAS CNRS, France
Cristina De Castro, Ieiit-cnr, Italian National Research Council, Italy
James Cimino, NIH Clinical Center, United States
Carlos Costa, Universidade de Averio, Portugal
Donald Craig, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Amar K. Das, Stanford University, United States
Anna Divoli, University of Chicago, United States
Stephan Dreiseitl, Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences at Hagenberg, Austria
Jos� Fonseca, UNINOVA, Portugal
Christoph M. Friedrich, University of Applied Science and Arts Dortmund, Germany
Ioannis Fudos, University of Ioannina, Greece
Jonathan Garibaldi, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Enrique J. G�mez, Universidad Polit�cnica de Madrid, Spain
Alfredo Go�i, University of the Basque Country, Spain
David Greenhalgh, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
Nicolas Guelfi, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Chun-Hsi Huang, University of Connecticut, United States
Anastasia Kastania, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University, Sweden
Georgios Kontaxakis, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Athina Lazakidou, University of Peloponnese, Greece
Baoxin Li, Arizona State University, United States
Giuseppe Liotta, University of Perugia, Italy
Nicolas Lom�nie, Universit� Paris Descartes, France
Martin Lopez-Nores, University of Vigo, Spain
Emilio Luque, University Autonoma of Barcelona (UAB), Spain
Paloma Mart�nez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Alice Maynard, Future Inclusion, United Kingdom
Gianluigi Me, Universit� degli Studi di Roma “tor Vergata”, Italy
Sai Moturu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Erik M. Van Mulligen, Erasmus Medical Center, Netherlands
Radhakrishnan Nagarajan, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, United States
Nobert Noury, University of Lyon, France
Chaoyi Pang, The Australian e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO, Australia
Danilo Pani, University of Cagliari, Italy
Jos� J. Pazos-arias, University of Vigo, Spain
Rosario Pugliese, Universita’ di Firenze, Italy
Juha Puustj�rvi, University of Helsinki, Finland
Arkalgud Ramaprasad, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States
Nickolas S. Sapidis, University of Western Macedonia, Greece
Akio Sashima, AIST, Japan
Arash Shaban-Nejad, McGill University, Canada
Jan Stage, Aalborg University, Denmark
Zoran Stevic, University in Belgrade, Serbia
Abdel-Rahman Tawil, University of East London, United Kingdom
Francesco Tiezzi, Universit� degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
Adrian Tkacz, BioMedical-IT, Poland
Alexey Tsymbal, Siemens AG, Germany
Aristides Vagelatos, RACTI, Greece
Xiang Sean Zhou, Siemens Medical Solutions, United States
Andr� Z�quete, IEETA / IT / Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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WORKSHOPS
3rd International Workshop on Medical Image Analysis and Description for Diagnosis Systems – MIAD 2012
>http://www.biostec.org/MIAD.asp
Workshop Chair:
Khalifa Djemal
University of Evry Val d’Essone
France
Please check further details at the conference website (http://www.healthinf.biostec.org).