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Overview
Biomedical Engineering plays an important role together with Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things. The general objective of this special session is to contribute and discuss present research, applications and experiences in the multi-disciplinary field of Biomedical Engineering, trying to bridge the gap between engineering academic developments and the technological medicine needs, fostering for advances in health care (diagnosis, monitoring and physical therapy), occupational therapy and disability support resources.
Topics of Interest
- Automation Technology for Medical Applications
- Big Data in Medicine
- Biomedical Devices
- Biomedical Micro and Nano Systems
- Biosensors
- Biosignal Processing
- Clinical Engineering and Hospital Technology
- Collaboration tools such as social media, web apps, patient education
- Data Analytics, Data Mining and Machine Learning
- Devices and Systems for Remote Surgical Intervention
- Electronic Healthcare
- Haptics in Healthcare
- Health Data Acquisition, Management and Visualization
- Robotics in Health
- ICT in Biomedical sciences
- Interactive 3-D Models
- Medical Apps
- Medical Image Processing
- Remote Monitoring
- Training Medicine with Augmented and Virtual Reality apps
- Using Virtual and Augmented Reality in Medical Diagnosis, Treatment and Therapy
- Telemedicine
- eHealth, mHealth
Program Committee
Chairs
PC Members (tbc)
- Paulo Abreu, University of Porto, Portugal
- Mihaela Badea, Transilvania University of Brasov Romania
- Panagiotis Bamidis, University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- Anna Maria Bianchi, Politecnico de Milano, Italy
- Zehava Ovadia-Blechman, Afeka Tel-Aviv Academic College of Engineering, Israel
- Alberto Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal
- Shyam Diwakar, Amrita University, India
- Juan Jesús García Domínguez, University of Alcalá, Spain
- Renato Natal Jorge, University of Porto, Portugal
- Kinda Khalaf, Khalifa University of Science, Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Ingmar H. Riedel-Kruse, Stanford University, USA
- Kang-Ping Lin, Chung-Yuan Christian University, Taiwan
- Zhihan Lv, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Paulo Menezes, University of Coimbra, Portugal
- Alessia Paglialonga, CNR-IEIIT, Italy
- Prabir Patra, University of Bridgeport, USA
- Herwig Rehatschek, Medical University of Graz
- Romita Shine, Amrita Center for Research in Advanced Technologies for Education, India
- Sergiu-Dan Stan, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Zelalem Temesgen, Mayoclinic Rochester, Minnesota, USA
- Miguel Velhote, University of Porto, Portugal
- James Wolfer, Indiana University of South Bend, USA
- Doru Ursutiu, Universitatea Transilvania Brasov, Romania
- Valtencir Zucolotto, Universidade de S. Paulo, Brazil
Important Dates
| 16 Oct 2017 | Submission of structured abstracts for full and short papers;
Submission of proposals for special sessions |
| 31 Oct 2017 | Invitation to submit a full paper or short paper |
| 03 Dec 2017 | Submission deadline for complete full and short papers and all other submissions (Special sessions papers, Work in Progress, Demos, Poster, Tutorials, Workshops) |
| 23 Dec 2017 | Notification of Acceptance |
| 28 Jan 2018 | Author registration and camera-ready due |
| 21 Mar 2018 | Conference Opening |
