[Announcements] IEEE ICTS4eHealth: submission deadline extended - Natal, Brazil

Dear All,

        Due to many requests, we have extended the paper submission
        deadline to April 16, 2018 (firm and final).

      

      

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      ICTS4eHealth 2018 - 3rd edition of the IEEE International Workshop
      on ICT Solutions for e-Health

      Praiamar Natal Hotel & Convention, Natal, Brazil

      June 25-28 2018 - www.icts4ehealth.icar.cnr.it
      

      

      in conjunction with the Twenty-Third IEEE Symposium on Computers
      and Communications 

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      MISSION: 

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      e-Health is one of the major research topics that have been
      attracting cross-disciplinary research groups. The deployment of
      new emerging ICT technologies for Health, especially based on
      Cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), and Computational
      Intelligence, is attracting the interest of many researchers.

      

      The use of Cloud computing, IoT technologies, and methods typical
      of Soft Computing and Computational Intelligence have been very
      prominent recently and can be of great help in finding good
      solutions to many practical healthcare applications.

      

      For instance, health monitoring, health data storage, health data
      collection, mobile health, pervasive health, healthcare
      monitoring, telemedicine, context-aware computing, ubiquitous
      computing, processing health data in the cloud, securing health
      data in the cloud and Assistive Technology (AT) are areas of
      interest that are being addressed using cloud computing and IoT
      techniques. On the other hand, several challenging issues have
      raised due to the adoption of such emerging technologies. These
      include the quality of health data, the ability to retrieve
      information and use it in health context, as for example in tasks
      related to machine learning, knowledge discovery, decision
      support, regression, forecasting, optimization, feature selection,
      and additionally privacy and security issues of health data while
      being processed in the cloud, availability of health data, models
      of context and tele-monitoring of contextual applications.

      

      ICTS4eHealth 2018 is the third edition of the International IEEE
      Workshop dedicated to ICT solutions for e-Health, especially based
      on Cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), and Computational
      Intelligence.

      

      The workshop will bring together researchers from academia,
      industry, government, and medical centers in order to present the
      state of the art in the emerging area of the use of cloud systems
      in connected health infrastructure and applications, and the use
      of IoT and Computational Intelligence technique in the area of
      eHealth.

      

      TOPICS: 

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      - Cloud computing applications for eHealth 

      - Internet of Things (IoT) applications for eHealth 

      - Assistive Technology (AT). 

      - Informatization, Management and Organization of BME Environments
      

      - Bioinformatics and Computational Biology and Medicine 

      - Communication, Networking and Monitoring in Bio-systems 

      - Monitoring of Vital Functions with Sensor and ICT Systems 

      - Biosensors and Sensor Networks 

      - Advanced Bio-signal Processing 

      - Distributed BME Applications 

      - Telehealth, Telecare, Telemonitoring, Telediagnostics 

      - e-Healthcare, m-Healthcare, x-Health 

      - Assisted Living 

      - Smartphones in BME Applications 

      - Social Networking, Computing and Education for Health 

      - Computer Aided Diagnostics 

      - Improved Therapeutic and Rehabilitation Methods 

      - Intelligent Bio-signal Interpretation 

      - Data and Visual Mining for Diagnostics 

      - Advanced Medical Visualization Techniques 

      - Personalized Medical Devices and Approaches 

      - Modelling and Computer Simulations in BME 

      - Human Responses in Extreme Environments 

      - Other Emerging Topics in BME 

      - E-Accessibility 

      - Web accessibility 

      - Hardware & Software personalized assistive technologies 

      - Assistive systems for users who are blind or visually impaired 

      - Cloud computing and AT 

      - Integration between home-based assistive technologies and
      patient health data 

      - User-centered design of electronic assistive technologies 

      - Usability of assistive technologies 

      - Computer vision in AT 

      - User interfaces for home-based assistive technologies 

      - Use of prescription systems and assistive technologies 

      - Experience from real world assistive environment deployment 

      - Assistive Technologies for Urban Environments 

      - Healthcare modeling and simulation 

      - Knowledge discovery and decision support 

      - Biomedical data processing 

      - Wearable devices 

      - Sensor-based mHealth applications 

      

      The use of Soft Computing/Computational Intelligence methods in
      facing problems in the above topics is highly welcome, although
      not compulsory. 

      

      

      PAPER SUBMISSION: 

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      Authors are invited to submit their papers written in English in
      IEEE double-column format (IEEE standard conference templates).
      Papers can be either full, with a maximum length of six (6)
      printed pages, or short, with a maximum length of four (4) printed
      pages. In both cases, the number of pages includes figures, tables
      & references. Submissions should contain original material and
      not be previously published, or currently submitted for
      consideration elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed for
      scientific quality by the Technical Program Committee.

      

      All papers should be submitted via EDAS. The link for the
      submission is: 

      https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=24652
      

      

      Paper submission implies the willingness of at least one author to
      register, at the regular rate (non-student), and present the
      paper. The Workshop Proceedings will be part of the ISCC 2018
      Proceedings and will be submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore
      Digital Library. The IEEE ICTS4eHealth 2018 Workshop is using the
      EDAS Conference Management System to manage the paper submission
      process.

      

      

      BEST PAPER AWARD:

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      A "Best Paper Award" Certificate will be conferred on the
      author(s) of a paper presented at the workshop, selected by the
      Chairs based on scientific significance, originality and
      outstanding technical quality of the paper, as assessed also by
      the evaluations of the members of the Program Committee.

      

      

      IMPORTANT DATES: 

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      Submission deadline: April 16, 2018 (extended - firm deadline!)

      Notification of paper acceptance: May 07, 2018

      Submission of camera-ready papers: May 14, 2018

      

      

      VENUE: 

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      Praiamar Natal Hotel & Convention, Natal, Brazil

      http://www.praiamarnatal.com.br/

      

      

      FOR ANY OTHER INFORMATION http://icts4ehealth.icar.cnr.it/