[hpc-announce] [COVID-19 UPDATE] ICTS4eHealth 2020 - 5th edition of the IEEE International Workshop on ICT Solutions for e-Health

Wed Apr 22 00:08:47 CDT 2020

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The safety and well-being of all conference participants is our priority.
Please know that our thoughts are with those affected by the COVID-19
outbreak.
After studying and evaluating the recent announcements, guidance, and news
released by relevant national departments, we are sorry to announce that
ICTS4eHealth 2020, scheduled to be held July 07, 2020, will no longer be
held face to face in Rennes, France.

Authors of the accepted papers will be invited to upload a 15 minutes
presentation of their work, and their video will be available through this
website to all interested readers. So, by submitting to the ICTS4eHealth
workshop you automatically agree to publish your presentation if your paper
will be accepted.

Accepted papers will be anyway included in the ISCC 2020 Proceedings, and
will be submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore. The ISCC Proceedings have
been indexed in the past by ISI, dblp, and Scopus.

For each paper accepted at ICTS4eHealth workshop, one of the authors will
have to pay a reduced fee just to cover the IEEExplore costs:
- IEEE Author Member Fee: 100 Euros
- IEEE Authors Non-Member Fee: 125 Euros

Please, see the new deadlines at Important Dates
We are sorry for any possible inconvenience.
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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 2020 is the fifth 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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Manuscripts should describe original work and should be no more than 7
pages for full papers and 4 pages for short papers in the IEEE double
column proceedings format including tables, figures and references.
Download manuscript templates for IEEE conference proceedings here.

Note that accepted papers up to 6 pages will be published with no
additional charge. Exceeding pages will be charged an additional fee.
Papers exceeding 7 pages will not be accepted.

At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for the
conference and present the paper. Only registered and presented papers will
be published in the conference proceedings.

All papers should be submitted via EasyChair using the following link
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeeiscc2020 and then secelting
"ICTS4eHealth Workshop" track.

Please, contact us for any questions regarding the submission of
manuscripts.

Accepted papers will be included in the ISCC 2020 Proceedings and will be
submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore. The ISCC Proceedings have been
indexed in the past by ISI, dblp and Scopus. This makes the ISCC conference
one of the publication venues with very high visibility and impact in both
Computer and Communications areas.

Authors must use the IEEE conference proceedings format obtainable at:
https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

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: extended to May 09, 2020
Notification of paper acceptance: extended to May 29th, 2020
Submission of camera-ready papers: extended to June 08, 2020
Registration: extended to June 08, 2020

VENUE:
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The conference will be held in Rennes, France
More info will be available soon on the IEEE ISCC 2020 website Conference
(https://conferences.imt-atlantique.fr/iscc2020/)

FOR ANY OTHER INFORMATION http://icts4ehealth.icar.cnr.it/
or email us at icts4ehealth at googlegroups.com