We would like to invite you to contribute a paper for the special issue “New trends in biomedical signal processing: a crossroads between smart sensors in e-health and virtual physiological human initiatives” of The Open Biomedical Engineering Journal (TOBEJ) on your recent work with new derivations, new concepts or new implications.
Scope:
Current trends in e-health systems are founded on two pivots: the user involvement and the biomedical knowledge. Research in the second is oriented to the discovering and management of personalized and adaptive knowledge regarding the user, organizational workflow, and living situations.
Health information technologies can be used to generate a computational image of the assisted user and the associated therapy devices through different sources of multimodal biomedical data. Computational and distributed processing components like smart sensors, expert systems using evidence based medicine (EMB), and physiological mathematical models, contribute in a synergistic manner to discover that customized and adaptive biomedical knowledge, providing an advanced supervision of the assisted user.
Signal processing for e-health can be understood in a general way, including the different layers of components from smart sensors through the data-driven and the structural mathematical models embedded in the software framework. Physiological models need meeting requirements of modularity, hierarchical and inheritable building, interoperability, reusability, and ability to integrate multilevel biomedical knowledge, which are also key features of the mathematical models of virtual physiological human (VPH) initiatives, like Physiome.
The special issue will present a set of key articles addressing different aspects of this synergistic scenario, with emphasis in the e-health-VPH crossroad.
Keywords include, but are not limited, to the following: Physiological system modeling, data-driven models, learning-based information systems, e-health, distributed computational networks, biosignal processing, information models standards, medical devices, smart sensors, wearable devices, multimodal analysis, data sources fusion, medical imaging.
Submissions Details:
The deadline for submission of these papers will be 24 August 2009. The papers will go through the usual refereeing process. For further details about publishing in TOBEJ, please visit website.
This thematic special issue will be fully Open Access and no publication fees to be paid by the contributing authors. Open Access increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations as indicated by several studies.
Manuscripts should be prepared according to the Instructions for Authors, and submitted by e-mail to Mr. Faisal (Editorial Manager) at tobej[at]benthamopen.org (add “Manuscript Submission for Thematic Issue” as the message title), and a copy to Prof. Manuel Prado-Velasco (mpradovelasco[at]telefonica.net) and Prof. M. del Mar Elena (mar[at]zipi.us.es). Both full research papers and review articles are invited.
