Special sessions are very small and specialized events to be held during the conference as a set of oral and poster presentations that are highly specialized in some particular theme or consisting of the works of some particular international project. The goal of special sessions (minimum 4 papers; maximum 9) is to provide a focused discussion on innovative topics. All accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings book, under an ISBN reference, and on CD-ROM support. All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library. SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef and every paper is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier). The proceedings are submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP, EI (Elsevier Engineering Village Index) and Scopus.
SPECIAL SESSIONS LIST
NENT 2017, Neuro-electrostimulation in Neurorehabilitation Tasks (BIOSIGNALS)
Chair(s): Vladimir Kublanov and Yuri Danilov
KALSIMIS 2017, Special Session on Knowledge Acquisition and Learning in Semantic Interpretation of Medical Image Structures (BIOIMAGING)
Chair(s): Piotr Szczepaniak, Piotr Grzelak and Arkadiusz Tomczyk
WHC 2017, Special Session on Wearable HealthCare (BIODEVICES)
Chair(s): Vítor Carvalho
SmartMedDev 2017, Special Session on Smart Medical Devices - From Lab to Clinical Practice (HEALTHINF)
Chair(s): Jan Sliwa, Ivanoe De Falco and Giovanna Sannino
PMHI 2017, Special Session on Project Management for Healthcare Informatics (HEALTHINF)
Chair(s): Carla Messikomer and Vijay Kanabar
ACP 2017, Special Session on Analysis of Clinical Processes (HEALTHINF)
Chair(s): Gert-Jan de Vries
CompMiRNomics 2017, Special Session on Computational miRNomics (BIOINFORMATICS)
Chair(s): Jens Allmer and Malik Yousef
Neuro-electrostimulation in Neurorehabilitation Tasks -
NENT
2017
Paper Submission:
December 14, 2016
Authors Notification:
December 23, 2016
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January 5, 2017
Scope
Nowadays, among the leading causes of the disability and high mortality are the deaseses of the central nervous system that are accomponied by the cognitive, sensor, motor and autonomic disorders.
The most common approach for treatment of such deases is the neoruprotection therapy, which promotes normalisation and strengtening of the physiological activities of the brain tissues. However, in this case pharmocological treatment methods are not always in conformity with the contemprorary requirements of the efficacy and safety of health care in the developed countries. This nonconformity have stimulated the development of new technologies for neuroprotection, based on application of the physical fields for formation of the neuromodulation proceses in the brain structures.
The goal of the special session is to present results of the latest achievements in the development of the systems for neuro-electrostimulation, the approach that implements the posibilities of the neuroplasicity.
Special Session on Knowledge Acquisition and Learning in Semantic Interpretation of Medical Image Structures -
KALSIMIS
2017
Paper Submission:
December 14, 2016
Authors Notification:
December 23, 2016
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January 5, 2017
Scope
Current machine learning techniques are able to achieve spectacular results in automatic understanding of natural images whereas in the area of medical image analysis the progress is not that evident. The problem is medical knowledge essential for proper interpretation of image content. That knowledge, possessed by relatively small number of radiological experts, usually cannot be directly expressed using mathematical formulas. This can be overcome by laborious knowledge acquisition or by techniques to some extent imitating expert behaviour. Both approaches are, however, still challenging tasks. That is why the goal of the special session is to discuss the problems in acquisition and utilization of domain knowledge in automatic understanding of semantic image structure.
Special Session on Wearable HealthCare -
WHC
2017
Paper Submission:
December 14, 2016
Authors Notification:
December 23, 2016
Camera Ready and Registration:
January 5, 2017
Scope
Wearable HealthCare is part of the actual human daily life. Nowadays, we are able to find them practically everywhere, as integrated, among others, in our homes, body, mobile devices and vehicles, with the objective of improving our safety, comfort, performance and quality of life.
Special Session on Smart Medical Devices - From Lab to Clinical Practice -
SmartMedDev
2017
Paper Submission:
December 14, 2016
Authors Notification:
December 23, 2016
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January 5, 2017
Scope
The goal of this special session is to discuss the problems hindering the widespread adoption of smart medical devices - software based, wireless, implantable and wearable - including issues related to the quality of monitored 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, availability of health data, and tele-monitoring.
Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the problems, we would like to gather a balanced group of device and sensors developers, system integrators and developers, knowledge and decision support experts, and clinical practitioners and provide them a convenient forum for discussion and exchange.
We encourage authors to submit papers to one of the main topics indicated below, or to open new perspectives and present novel points of view on this highly dynamic and important research and application field. Lessons learned from actual implementations of devices and systems, prospective frameworks, future visions and position papers are equally invited.
This year''s edition is technically sponsored by the World Federation on Soft Computing (http://softcomputing.org).
Special Session on Project Management for Healthcare Informatics -
PMHI
2017
Paper Submission:
December 14, 2016
Authors Notification:
December 23, 2016
Camera Ready and Registration:
January 5, 2017
Scope
Scope:
Project management education and knowledge of processes tailored for Healthcare, Health informatics, and Public Health is the focus of this special session.
Topics:
-Project Management Curriculum for Health Informatics
- Undergraduate project management curriculum for eHealth and HIT programs
- Workflow and Process design Projects -Public Health Informatics -Developing Health Informatics Systems
- Project Management Processes tailored for different sectors
- eHealth and Project Management
Special Session on Analysis of Clinical Processes -
ACP
2017
Paper Submission:
December 14, 2016
Authors Notification:
December 23, 2016
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January 5, 2017
Scope
In order to reduce undesirable variation in care, care is provided in a protocolized way. These protocols and guidelines can be implemented through hospital-specific clinical pathways and form a primary source of clinical processes for specific diseases and conditions, both in acute and chronic care. The wish to further optimize various outcomes drives the request for means to analyze clinical processes using computational models. The goal of this special session is to outline advances in automated analysis of processes in a clinical context, ranging from specific clinical domains to public health and from technical advances in process mining to applications on retrospectively or prospectively acquired health data.
Special Session on Computational miRNomics -
CompMiRNomics
2017
Paper Submission:
December 14, 2016
Authors Notification:
December 23, 2016
Camera Ready and Registration:
January 5, 2017
Scope
MicroRNAs regulate protein abundance on the post-transcriptional level. For experimental discovery they need to be co-expressed with their target mRNA and their effect needs to be measured on the protein level. These complications, led to a rise in interest in computational prediction of miRNAs. Computational miRNomics covers all areas ranging from pri- and pre-miRNA detection to the prediction of protein abundance and regulatory networks as well as their intersection with gene regulatory ones. The workshop aims to assemble experts in the field to establish a snapshot of the current state-of-the-art in computational miRNomics.