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Sunday, September 5, 2010
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Last updated: 08/23/2010
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| Biomedical Pattern Recognition |
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| Chair - Elect |
Term of Office: 2009-2010 |
| Mainardi, Dr. Luca |
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| Politecnico di Milano |
| Milan Italy 20133 |
| +39-02-2399-3347 |
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| Chair |
Term of Office: 2007-2010 |
| Dickhaus, Dr. Hartmut |
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| University of Heidelberg |
| Heidelberg Germany D 69120 |
| +49 6221 567483 |
| +49 6221 564997 |
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Goals & Objectives
Objectives:
To promote applications in medicine and biology focusing on methods of pattern recognition and interpretation.
Recent activities:
The Special Issue Vol.46 No2 of Methods in Medicine, 2007 contains selected papers about the Joint Workshop of Biosignal Interpretation (BSI) in Tokyo, from Sept. 6.-8., 2005. This workshop was one of WG7 activities together with IEEE EMBS and other distinct societies in the field.
This volume might be regarded as a kind of position paper as recently discussed at IMIA and requested because it represents the current state of the art in this field.
Next planned BSI workshop in 2008 will take place in the US, presumably in New York.
Together with EFMI WG Medical Image Processing we planned a Joint meeting this year at MEDINFO with the topic: Computer assisted Interpretation of Biosignals and Medical Images for Diagnostic Purposes.
This workshop should provide an ideal opportunity for colleagues working on signal or image processing in hospital, university, or industry. The participants will discuss recent advances in this exciting field with respect to diagnostic applications. In particular members and associates of IMIA WG7 "Biomedical pattern recognition" and EFMI WG MIP may take this chance as a joint activity of both groups during the stimulating setting of a world congress.
Advanced imaging modalities facilitate sophisticated tools for analysis and displaying pathophysiological processes and their functional properties together with the anatomical lesions of the body. This type of multimodal visualization provides maximal information for clinical interpretation in terms of diagnostic statements. Similar exiting and promising results are reported by reconstructing and demonstrating protein marker profiles in 3D tissue models with single cell resolution. Also advanced methods of multivariate and non linear signal processing and statistical evaluation help to achieve a deepened understanding of complex physiological coherences, for example in cardiovascular diseases and their risk stratification. Sophisticated computer supported analysis at different scales of physiological signals enables diagnostic statements with less technical complexity and stress, i.e. for patients with sleep and breathing disorders. Monitoring of elderly patients and those with specific risks of heart rhythms or after cardiological interventions could be more and more performed by sophisticated processing procedures implemented in miniaturized hardware, wireless connected to local diagnostic centers with different response and reaction options.
The meeting will mainly highlight the benefit for clinicians, health providers and patients by applying new computer supported tools and methods for diagnostic interpretation.
This meeting is announced for Wednesday, 22 August from 14.00 h. An administrative meeting is scheduled afterwards.
The 29th Annual Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) will be held, jointly with the 14th Conference of the French Society of Biological and Medical Engineering (SFGBM), from August 23 to 26, 2007 at the Convention Centre "Cité Internationale" in Lyon, France. The general theme is "Sciences and Technologies for Health" Aspect of transfer from research to industry will be also be a focus of the conference.
Unfortunately this conference will be partly at the same time as MEDINFO and therefore for all colleagues from Europe a substantial problem occurs.
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