17th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems 9, 10, 11 & 12 September 2013, Kitakyushu, Japan http://kes2013.kesinternational.org

CALL FOR PAPERS

Invited session on

Intelligent Medical and Healthcare Informatics

KES Conference Organisation

HONORARY CHAIR:

Prof. Toyohide Watanabe, Nagoya University, Japan

GENERAL CHAIRS:

Prof. Junzo Watada, Waseda University, Japan

Lakhmi C.Jain, University of South Australia, Australia

EXECUTIVE CHAIR:

Robert J. Howlett, Bournemouth University, UK

PROGRAMME CO-CHAIRS:

Prof. Naoto Mukai, Sugiyama Jogakuen University, Japan

Prof. Koichi Asakura, Daido University, Japan

KES Conference Series

KES2013 is part of the KES Conference Series

Conference Series Chairs:

L.C.Jain and R.J.Howlett

KES International Executive Chair:

R.J.Howlett, Bournemouth University, U.K.

KES Founder:

L.C.Jain, University of South Australia

Scope

State of the arts in medical and healthcare is led by many kinds of medical informatics systems such as database, network, data processing, signal/image processing, etc. To automate such systems, to improve the performance, and/or to increase the functional roles, intelligent computing technologies must be the principal player. The technologies will include statistical approaches, probability approaches, soft computing approaches, and so on. In addition, to formulate problems in medical and healthcare field, clinical studies must be discussed. That is, the scope of this session includes theory, technology, application, and clinical studies based on the medical systems. In this session, we aim to gather not only engineering researchers but also medical doctors in order to discuss the most recent technologies and to find new problems.

Main topics

Medical image analysis	Medical image processing	Computer-aided diagnosis system
Computer-aided surgery system	Medical image/signal acquisition theory/algorithm/systems	Multidimensional data visualization
Image/Signal processing theory and algorithm	Image reconstruction	Hospital information system
Medical informatics	Clinical applications	Health care systems
Radiology information system		Others

Session Organizers

Syoji Kobashi University of Hyogo kobashi@eng.u-hyogo.ac.jp

Hiroharu Kawanaka Mie University kawanaka@elec.mie-u.ac.jp

Important dates

Submission of papers: 31 March 2013

Notification of Acceptance: 15 April 2013

Receipt of publication files:1 May 2013

Submission procedure

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers. The authors should prepare full-length papers according to KES2013 conference style (http://kes2013.kesinternational.org), and send PDF file to both of organizers (kobashi@eng.u-hyogo.ac.jp and kawanaka@elec.mie-u.ac.jp) by the deadline. Each paper should be concise with sufficient detail and references to allow critical review. Papers will be reviewed by nominally three referees for technical merit and content. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings as same as the general session papers.