IEEE CBMS 2008 The 21st IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems http://cbms2008.it.jyu.fi --- CALL FOR PAPERS --- CBMS2008 will be held on 17-19 June 2008 at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. It is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society (Technical Committee on Computational Medicine, TCCM); and the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Jyvaskyla; and is held in cooperation with the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, ACM SIGAPP. CBMS 2008 is intended to provide an international forum for discussing the latest results in the field of computational medicine. The scientific program of CBMS 2008 will consist of invited keynote talks given by leading scientists in the field, and regular and special track sessions that cover a broad array of issues which relate computing to medicine. RELEVANT TOPICS The conference topics include but are not limited to: * Software Systems in Medicine * Computer-Aided Diagnosis * Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining * Knowledge-Based & Decision Support Systems * Medical Devices with Embedded Computers * Signal and Image Processing in Medicine * Medical Image Segmentation & Compression * Network and Telemedicine Systems * Medical Databases & Information Systems * Web-Based Delivery of Medical Information * Multimedia Biomedical Databases * Content and Semantic Analysis of Biomedical Image Data * Handheld Computing Applications in Medicine * Bioinformatics in Medicine * Pervasive Health Systems and Services CALL FOR PAPERS CBMS 2008 invites original previously unpublished contributions that are not submitted concurrently to a journal or another conference. Many of the above listed topics are represented by corresponding Special Tracks, while others are solely covered by the general CBMS track. Prospective authors are expected to submit their contributions to one of the corresponding Special Tracks or to the general track if none of the special tracks is relevant. Please see submission guidelines for further details. SPECIAL TRACKS ST1 Bioinformatics and its Medical Applications ST2 Computational Proteomics ST3 Knowledge Discovery and Knowledge-Based Techniques and Systems in Medicine ST4 Ontologies for Biomedical Systems ST5 Healthgrid Computing ST6 Technology Enhanced Learning in Medical Education ST7 Personalisation for e-Health ST8 Supporting Collaboration among Healthcare Workers ST9 Data Integration in Biomedicine ST10 Intelligent Patient Management ST11 Computer Based Decision Systems in Biomedicine SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Each contribution must be prepared following the IEEE 2-column format and should not exceed the length of 6 (six) Letter-sized pages submitted electronically before the paper submission deadline (28 January 2008) using the paper submission system. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Each Program Committee of the corresponding Special Track or General Track will be responsible for the final decision about acceptance of papers submitted to that track. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE CS Press. At least one author must pay the registration fee before March 28 for each accepted paper. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission due (general and special tracks) 28 January 2008 Notification of acceptance for papers 28 February 2008 Final camera-ready paper due 28 March 2008 Pre-registration deadline 28 March 2008 CBMS2008 symposium days 17-19 June 2008 INTENDED AUDIENCE Engineers, scientists, clinicians and managers involved in medical computing projects are encouraged to submit papers to the symposium and/or attend the symposium. The symposium provides its attendees with an opportunity to experience state-of-the-art research and development in a variety of topics directly and indirectly related to their own work. In addition to research papers, keynote speakers and tutorial sessions it provides participants with an opportunity to come up-to-date on important technological issues. The symposium encourages the participation of students engaged in research/development in computer-based medical systems. AWARDS The best full paper and the best student paper will be awarded. COMMITTEES General Chair Seppo Puuronen, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Program Chairs Mykola Pechenizkiy, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands Alexey Tsymbal, Siemens AG, Germany Special Tracks Chair Amandeep Sidhu, Curtin University of Technology, Australia Local Organizing Committee Chair Oleksiy Mazhelis, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Program Committee The list as well as additional information concerning CBMS'08 can be found from http://cbms2008.it.jyu.fi