** Apologies for cross posting ** THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO FEBRUARY 21ST ----------------------------------- ----------------------------------- CBMS 2013 The 26th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems http://cbms2013.med.up.pt/ Porto, Portugal June 20-22, 2013 ----------------------------------- ----------------------------------- ----------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES UPDATED Paper submission: February 21, 2013 Notification: March 31, 2013 Camera-ready paper: April 24, 2013 CBMS symposium: June 20-22, 2013 ----------------------------------- SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Each contribution must be prepared following the IEEE two-column format, and should not exceed the length of 6 (six) Letter-sized pages. The papers should be submitted in PDF format using the EasyChair online submission system (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cbms2013) by 21 February 2013. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings, and will be published by the IEEE. Authors of accepted papers must include a completed IEEE Copyright Form with the submission of their final camera-ready paper. At least one author must pay the registration fee before April 24, 2013 for each accepted paper. Best papers will be invited to submit extended versions for a special issue in a journal (confirmation pending). ----------------------------------- TOPICS Regular and special track presentations will cover a broad range of issues in the following areas: - Bioinformatics in Medicine - Computer-Aided Diagnosis - Content Analysis of Biomedical Image Data - Decision Support Systems - e-Health - Handheld Computing Applications in Medicine - Health and Wellbeing - Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining - Knowledge-Based Systems & Techniques - Learning methods Methods for Skewed Data - Machine Vision in Medicine - Medical Data Streams - Medical Databases & Information Systems - Medical Devices with Embedded Computers - Medical Image Segmentation & Compression - Medical Robotics - Multimedia Biomedical Databases - Multimodal Images Visualization - Network and Telemedicine Systems - Patient-oriented health informatics tools & applications - Pervasive Health Systems & Services - Signal and Image Processing in Medicine - Software Systems in Medicine - Technology for Social Networking in Clinical Care & Health - Web-Based Delivery of Medical & Health Information ----------------------------------- SPECIAL TRACKS ST01 : Teamwork, collaboration and patient-centered care ST02 : Learning-based biomedical information systems ST03 : Ontologies, terminologies and language processing ST04 : Grid and cloud computing in biomedicine and life sciences ST05 : Intelligent patient management ST06 : Endoscopic image processing and analysis ST07 : Processing and managing medical data streams ST08 : Emerging smart technologies for individualised healthcare ST09 : Computer‐assisted analysis of capillaroscopic images ST10 : Bioinformatics: towards personalized medicine from omics data ST11 : Image processing for ophthalmology: challenges in retinal analysis and related fields ST12 : Security and privacy in healthcare IT ST13 : Data and information quality in healthcare management ST14 : Fetal monitoring signal analysis ST15 : Informatics challenges of patient centric health and social care ST16 : Medical education enhanced by technology and computer driven simulators ----------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS Pedro Larrañaga & Concha Bielza Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Jeremy Wyatt University of Leeds, UK Bharat Rao Deloitte Financial Advisory Services, USA More information: http://cbms2013.med.up.pt/?invited.html ----------------------------------- ORGANIZATION General Chairs Pedro Pereira Rodrigues, U. Porto, Portugal Mykola Pechenizkiy, TU Eindhoven, NL João Gama, U. Porto, Portugal Program Chairs Ricardo Cruz-Correia, U. Porto, Portugal Jiming Liu, Baptist University, Hong Kong Agma J. Machado Traina, U. Sao Paulo, Brazil Special Track Chairs Paolo Soda, U. Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Italy Peter Lucas, Radboud U. Nijmegen, The Netherlands Publicity Chair Daniel Pereira : University of Porto, Portugal