CBMS 2019: 32st IEEE CBMS International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems IMIBIC Cordoba, Spain, June 5-7, 2019 |
Conference website | http://www.cbms2019.org |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cbms2019 |
Submission deadline | January 14, 2019 |
The 32th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (IEEE CBMS2019) will be held at Instituto Maimónides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain, from Wednesday 5th to Friday 7th of June 2019. Attracting a worldwide audience, CBMS is the premier conference for computer-based medical systems, and one of the main conferences within the fields of medical informatics and biomedical informatics. CBMS allows the exchange of ideas and technologies between academic and industrial scientists. The scientific program of IEEE CBMS 2019 will consist of regular and special track sessions with technical contributions reviewed and selected by an international programme committee, as well as, keynote talks and tutorials given by leading experts in their fields. The CBMS 2019 edition also aims to host high-quality papers about industry and real case applications as well as allow to researchers leading international projects to show to the scientific community the main aims, goals and results of their projects.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.
Papers must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair conference management system at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cbms2019
All submissions will be peer-reviewed by three reviewers of the Program Committee.
All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings, and will be published by IEEE. Publication in proceedings is conditioned to the registration and presentation of the paper at the conference by one of their authors. If the paper is not presented at the conference it will not be included in the proceedings.
List of Topics
We solicit submissions on previously unpublished research work. Example areas include but are not limited to:
- e-Health
- Computer Vision
- Serious Games for Healthcare
- Software Systems in Medicine
- Radiomics and Radiogenomics
- Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery
- Knowledge Representation
- Decision Support and Recommendation Systems
- Big Data Analytics in Healthcare
- Cognitive Computing in Healthcare
- Network and Telemedicine Systems
- Technology Enhanced Medical Education
- Content Analysis of Biomedical Image Data
- Web-Based Delivery of Medical Information
- Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) in Healthcare
- Active and Healthy Ageing Systems and Data Analytics
- Technology in Clinical and Healthcare Services Research
- Biomedical Signal and Image Processing and Machine Vision
- Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Healthcare (CSCW)
- Medical Robotics, Intelligent Medical Devices and Smart Technologies
- Medical education using ICT
- Bioinformatics
Showcases/Research projects
CBMS 2019 will have a special showcase/research projects track session, where we invite (a) scientific papers, (b) demonstrations/posters and (c) research-projects descriptions.
Scientific papers: We invite papers (not exceeding 6 pages in length), describing innovative computer based medical devices or software applications, including practical experiences with such innovations. The papers should be scholarly articles presenting scientific methods, measurements, and experiments. Marketing and sales materials will not be accepted. These papers will be evaluated based on practicality, innovation, scientific rigor, value of the device or application to users, and novelty. They will be published in the proceedings of the conference along with the other papers under the industry track.
Examples of such papers could include but are not limited to:
- Computer-based medical devices that have technical/scientific novelty
- Computer-based medical applications intended for or recently introduced in the field
- Novel uses of traditional equipment in practice
- Experience papers based on use and data from the field
- Insightful measurement-based analysis of computer-based medical systems from the field
- Novel analysis providing new insights from data collected from the field
- New and practical data analytics useful in practice
Demonstrations: A demonstration is more appropriate if the value can be better expressed with a demonstration rather than in a full-length paper. The topics for the demonstration papers are the same as the scientific for this track. Please submit a one page proposal of your demonstration.
Research projects: CBMS aims in the 2019 edition to receive submissions about research or innovation projects funded by competitive calls to present their project. We foresee to receive submissions which include details about the project goals, consortium and results (expected and any tentative result obtained so far). Only projects funded by competitive calls from any national or international funding agency will be considered. International projects organized in a consortium of several countries will have preference.
Important dates:
- Paper submission: January 14, 2019
- Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2019
- Camera-ready due: March 15, 2019
- Author registration at the conference: March 15, 2019 (same day as camera-ready due)
- CBMS 2019: June 5 – 7, 2019
If you have any inquiry, you can contact the industry chairs at contact@cbms2019.org.
Tutorials
The IEEE CBMS 2019 organization invites proposals for Tutorials to be held in conjunction with the IEEE CBMS 2019 conference. Tutorials are intended to provide a comprehensive introduction to establish or emerging research topics of interest for the scientific communities that are described in the topics of the regular call for papers. These topics include but are not restricted to related research fields such as Big Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Representation, Decision Support and Recommendation Systems, Privacy and Security, Signal and Image Processing, Clinical and Healthcare Services Research and Medical Education, but also well-developed tools and suites for use of computing in healthcare and medicine. The ideal tutorial should attract a wide audience intertwining academia and industry. It should be broad enough to provide a basic introduction to the chosen area, but it should also cover the most important topics in depth.
We are inviting two types of tutorials:
- A Traditional Tutorial will cover the state-of-the-art research, development and applications in a specific CBMS related area, and stimulate and facilitate future work. Tutorials on interdisciplinary directions, novel and fast-growing directions, and significant applications are highly encouraged. We also encourage tutorials in areas that are somewhat different from the usual CBMS mainstream, but still very much related to the CBMS mission and objectives of advances in computational medical systems.
- A Hands-on Tutorial will feature in-depth hands-on training on cutting edge systems and tools of relevance to computational biomedical community. These sessions are targeted at novice as well as moderately skilled users. The focus should be on providing hands-on experience to the attendees. The pace of the tutorial should be set such that beginners can follow along comfortably. The tools & systems themselves must be available under open-source licenses (e.g. Apache 2.0, MIT, BSD etc.) and have proven track record of success in the community. Tutorials should introduce the motivation behind the tool, associated fundamental concepts, and work through examples and demonstrate its application to relatable real-life use cases.
All tutorials will be part of the main conference technical program and will be available free of charge to the attendees of the conference. Tutorials will be either half-day (approximately 3.5 hours) or full-day (approximately 7 hours).
PROPOSAL
We invite proposals from researchers, creators, experienced practitioners & tutors of CBMS related systems and tools. Each proposal must include the following information:
- Title.
- Abstract (300 words).
- Target audience and prerequisite for the tutorial (e.g. audience expertise).
- Tutors (name, affiliation, email, address, phone).
- Tutors’ short bio and their expertise related to the tutorial (up to 200 words per tutor).
- Corresponding tutor with her/his email address.
- Tutorial outline. Provide as much detail as possible.
- A list of forums and their time and locations if the tutorial or a similar/highly related tutorial has been presented by the same author(s) before, and highlight the similarity/difference between those and the one proposed for CBMS’19 (up to 100 words for each entry).
- A list of the most important references that will be covered in the tutorial.
- Equipment you will bring (e.g. laptop, projector).
- Equipment you will need (e.g. table, poster board, power sockets).
- Equipment attendees should bring (e.g. laptop).
- Suggested duration.
- Requirements for attendees: operating system and required installed tools on attendees’ devices, list of software licenses required for the tools, setup instructions for attendees. (Should not take more than 1 hour to complete it).
- Selected tutorial must provide slides and related materials for tutorial website by the “Slides due” date below.
- Optional: Video snippet of you teaching a tutorial or giving a talk.
Tutors are required to setup a web page with all the information about the tutorial that is asked in the proposal as well as to provide a main contact for those users that might be interested in the tutorial.
Tutorials Important dates:
- Tutorial proposal submission: September 24, 2018
- Notification of acceptance: October 1, 2018
For further questions please contact Tutorial chairs at contact@cbms2019.org.
Special tracks
IEEE CBMS 2019 invites proposals for organisation of special tracks that will be held in parallel with the general conference track. A special track consists of a group of papers in a sub- discipline of a biomedical engineering/technology, health informatics or a specialised field.
Special tracks are an integral part of most CBMS conferences since 2005. The themes of the special tracks should not overlap with the general conference topics and should focus on emerging research fields. Their papers should report on significant unpublished work, they are required to meet the same standards and are included in the conference proceedings.
Organiser(s) of each Special Track (ST) are responsible for the quality of the papers in their track as well as managing the review process accordingly and assigning Program Committee members as reviewers for the ST. Special Track Chairs in collaboration with the ST organiser(s) and PC chairs will do the final paper selection. A successful special track will consist of at least 4-5 accepted papers per session and 1-3 sessions at maximum.
If you are interested in organizing a Special Track, please submit your proposal before September 24, 2018 by email to contact@cbms2019.org.
Each proposal needs to include
- Special track title.
- Rough estimate of the expected size (usually, 4-5 papers per session, 1-3 sessions per track).
- A brief biography of ST organizer(s) and list of Special Track program committee members.
- A draft of Special Track “Call for papers”.
ST Important dates:
- Special track proposal submission: September 24, 2018
- Notification of acceptance: October 1, 2018
For further questions please contact Special Track chairs at contact@cbms2019.org.
Doctoral Consortium
The Doctoral Consortium for CBMS 2019 will provide an opportunity for PhD students to present their research plans or their preliminary work in an informal and supportive atmosphere. The PhD students will be able to discuss the problems that their PhDs are addressing, any preliminary results, and their future plans. The DC will offer them an opportunity to discuss any problems that they have come up against, and gain valuable advice and constructive feedback from experienced researchers in the field.
The DC will involve presentations by participating PhD students (selected by the DC chairs) as well as a number of participants on different related topics in the field.
Submissions:
DC submissions should focus specifically on a PhD thesis or subsection of a thesis. To apply for participation at CBMS 2019 DC, please submit a research plan on a topic related to the areas covered in the general or special tracks call for papers for the conference. Each submission should be in the same format as the main conference papers except it should consist of approximately 3-4 pages describing the research work.
In particular:
- Title and author
- The research problem that the PhD addresses
- Planned approach and methods for solving the problem
- How this approach compares to other known approaches
- Any preliminary results or expected results
- Future plans and directions with specific questions
DC Important dates:
- Paper submission: January 14, 2019
- Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2019
If you have any inquiry, you can contact the DC chairs at contact@cbms2019.org.
Committees
Program Committee
- Ernestina Menasalvas Ruiz, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain)
- Myra Spiliopoulou, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg (Germany)
- Jose María Luna, Universidad de Córdoba (Spain)
Organizing committee
- Sebastian Ventura, Universidad de Córdoba (Spain)
- Alejandro Rodríguez González, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain)
- Paolo Soda,
University Campus Bio-Medico di Roma (Italy)
Venue
The 32th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (IEEE CBMS2019) will be held at Instituto Maimónides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain, from Wednesday 5th to Friday 7th of June 2019.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to contact@cbms2019.org