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Medsip Technical Scope

The conference is organised primarily seven special themes as follows:

1. Electrophysiology (electrocardiology and electroencephalography/electromyography)
2. Critical/Intensive Care
3. Medical Imaging and Image Processing
4. Non-Linear Signal Processing
5. Telemedicine & E-Health
6. Calibration & Measurement Analysis
7. Emerging Technologies

The organising committee invites contributions in any of the proposed topic areas below:

1. Electrophysiology

• Electrocardiography: electrocardiogram (ECG) beat detection;arrhythmia analysis; ST segment analysis; ECG compression; ambulatory and exercise ECG analysis; automatic defibrillation; pacemakers; ECG modeling; advanced systems; clinical applications.
• Electroencephalography and Electromyography: electroencephalogram (EEG) and evoked potential (EP) analysis; applications of the EEG and EP in sleep-disorder studies; assessment of brain diseases including epilepsy and dementia; depth of anaesthesia monitoring; electromyogram (EMG) analysis and applications; nerve stimulation; functional electrical stimulation (FES); advanced neurophysiological systems.

2. Acute Medical Specialities for Critical/Intensive Care (IC)

• Anaesthesia and IC: depth of anaesthesia monitoring; EEG and EP bispectral analysis; closed loop anaesthesia systems; heart rate analysis; pulse oximetry; gas analysers; cardiovascular systems; cardiac output measurements; respiratory system measurements.
• Obstetrics: fetal ECG analysis; CTG analysis;umbilical cord blood gas analysis; neonatal medicine; neonatal (EP) analysis; advanced monitoring systems.

3. Medical Imaging and Image Processing

• Imaging Modalities: x-ray techniques; computed tomography (CT); magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Doppler and ultrasound; infrared; digital radiography.
• Image and Video Analysis: enhancement and restoration; reconstruction; segmentation; interpretation and understanding; compression and transmission for telemedicine.
• Application Areas: cardiac imaging; cardiovascular and cardiorespiratory systems; fetal imaging; functional MRI; digital mammographic image analysis; EEG/EP mapping; 2D/3D image display and visualization; bone densitometry; breast, chest and skin image analysis; histo-cytological applications.

4. Non-Linear Techniques

• Enabling Techniques: time-frequency and wavelet analysis; denoising methods; fractals and chaos; artificial neural networks (ANNs); time-varying filtering; non-linear dynamics; hidden-markov models (HMMs); higher-order statistics (HOS); blind deconvolution; principal components analysis (PCA); independent components analysis (ICA).
• Application Areas: ECGs, EEGs, heart rate variability, mammograms, x-rays, MRI, CT, ultrasound; non-linear dynamics in cardiovascular and cardiorespiratory systems; non-linear/chaotic analysis of ECGs and EEGs; fractal analysis of cardiac dysfunction; fractal and bispectrum analysis of EEGs and EPs; non-linear image processing; ANN-based non-linear filtering and event detection.

5. Telemedicine & E-Health

Current areas of interest might include: personal and in-home monitoring; use of ICTs in independent living for the ageing and disabled; disease management and medication compliance; wireless and broadband applications; satellite communication.

6. Calibration & Measurement Analysis

Equipment safety testing; Ensuring that medical equipment performs to specification; accurate calibration using traceable standards; assessment of variability of accuracy in medical devices; implications of mis-calibrated devices on medical outcome.

7. Emerging Technologies

• Enabling Techniques: medical data mining, machine learning and knowledge discovery; pattern analysis; artificial intelligence (AI) data processing; medical knowledge modeling; ANNs; expert systems; fuzzy logic; fuzzy-neural; multimedia signal processing.
• Application Areas: electrophysiology; critical care; diabetes therapy; management of labour; screening; primary care; rehabilitation; medical data processing (e.g. hospital/patient information systems); telemedicine; visualization; signal & information processing technologies for on-line health care, medical systems modeling; neural prosthetic interfaces.

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Important Deadlines

Full paper submission date:	Monday, 17 March 2008
Notification of acceptance:	Friday, 4 April 2008
Receipt of camera ready copy:	Friday, 25 April 2008
Conference start date:	Monday, 14 July 2008

Registration

Please note that at least one presenting author must register for the conference, Monday 2 June 2008.

Working Language

The Working language of the Conference is English, which will be used for all printed material, presentations and discussion