ISMICT 2016 Call for Papers
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Scope

Dependable Medicine using advanced Information and Communication Technology (ICT) based on Regulatory Science (RS) is the focus of the 10th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT 2016). ISMICT 2016 aims to establish a forum to present new research and development results, exchange ideas, discuss practices, and share experiences among Technology and Medicine sides including healthcare, wellness, clinical therapy, and surgery as well as ICT, mechanical, and biomedical engineering. Moreover, activities of standard, regulation, and business for medical ICT devices, systems and services will be promoted by local, national, and global government and industry. ISMICT 2016 will be held in Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, 20-23 March 2016. Papers are invited on topics including, but not limited to, the following:

. CPS for medical applications
. BAN technology (PHY, MAC, protocols)
. Antennas and radio propagation for wireless BAN
. Medical BAN applications and services
. Wearable and implantable devices
. E-Health systems and electronic medical records
. Hospital data networks and wireless hospital
. Privacy and Security issues
. Pervasive health care and patient monitoring
. Medical imaging and patient diagnostic systems
. Human body communication
. Preventive care & remote patient management
. Radio coexistence and robustness
. Cognitive radio for wireless BAN
. Telemedicine, tele-monitoring, tele-surgery
. Wellness and sports training
. Rehabilitation and activity monitoring
. Wireless healthcare, homecare and welfare
. Medical device regulatory science

Paper Submission

Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 5 pages). Accepted papers will be included in the IEEE Xplore. The review process is according to the following schedule and the conference is scheduled for 20-23 March 2016. Selected papers from the ISMICT 2016 will be invited to expand and publish as an special issue of Springer's International Journal of Wireless Information Networks.  Also, related paper will be invited as a book chapter for a book entitled "RF in Medicine", De Gruyter, Germany, Edited by Dr. F. Nekoogar of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories.

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: November 30, 2015, December 31, 2015, January 15, 2016
Paper acceptance notification: January 15, 2016, January 31, 2016, February 29, 2016
Camera-ready paper due: February 15, 2016, March 7, 2016