[NFBCS] Call for Papers: IEEE ICTS4eHealth 2023 - International Conference on ICT solutions for eHealth - Tunis, Tunisia, July 9 - 12 2023

Wed Apr 12 11:08:48 UTC 2023

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Dear colleagues,
We do hope this Call for Papers may be of your interest.

Yours sincerely,
IEEE ICTS4eHealth Organization

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3rd Edition of IEEE International Conference on ICT Solutions for e-Health

ICTS4eHealth 2023

Tunis, Tunisia, July 9 - 12 2023

https://icts4ehealth.icar.cnr.it

In conjunction with the Twenty-Eighth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications

All paper submissions must be done through EDAS by using the link https://edas.info/N30831.

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MISSION:
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E-Health is one of the major research topics that have been attracting cross-disciplinary research groups.
The deployment of new emerging ICT technologies for Health, especially based on Cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), and Computational Intelligence, is attracting the interest of many researchers. Following the success of five workshop editions and two years as an International IEEE Conference, we are now proud to announce the third edition of this popular event dedicated to ICT solutions for e-Health. The conference will bring together researchers from academia, industry, government, and medical centers in order to present the state of the art in the emerging area of the use of cloud systems in connected health infrastructure and applications, and the use of IoT and Computational Intelligence techniques in the area of e-Health.

TOPICS:
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Conference topics include (but are not limited to):
- Cloud computing applications for eHealth
- Internet of Things (IoT) applications for eHealth
- Assistive Technology (AT).
- Informatization, Management and Organization of BME Environments
- Bioinformatics and Computational Biology and Medicine
- Communication, Networking and Monitoring in Bio-systems
- Monitoring of Vital Functions with Sensor and ICT Systems
- Biosensors and Sensor Networks
- Advanced Bio-signal Processing
- Distributed BME Applications
- Telehealth, Telecare, Telemonitoring, Telediagnostics
- e-Healthcare, m-Healthcare, x-Health
- Assisted Living
- Smartphones in BME Applications
- Social Networking, Computing and Education for Health
- Computer Aided Diagnostics
- Improved Therapeutic and Rehabilitation Methods
- Intelligent Bio-signal Interpretation
- Data and Visual Mining for Diagnostics
- Advanced Medical Visualization Techniques
- Personalized Medical Devices and Approaches
- Modelling and Computer Simulations in BME
- Human Responses in Extreme Environments
- Other Emerging Topics in BME
- E-Accessibility
- Web accessibility
- Hardware & Software personalized assistive technologies
- Assistive systems for users who are blind or visually impaired
- Cloud computing and AT
- Integration between home-based assistive technologies and patient health data
- User-centered design of electronic assistive technologies
- Usability of assistive technologies
- Computer vision in AT
- User interfaces for home-based assistive technologies
- Use of prescription systems and assistive technologies
- Experience from real world assistive environment deployment
- Assistive Technologies for Urban Environments
- Healthcare modeling and simulation
- Knowledge discovery and decision support
- Biomedical data processing
- Wearable devices
- Sensor-based mHealth applications
- Security and Privacy in eHealth

IMPORTANT DATES:
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- Submission deadline: April 16, 2023
- Notification of paper acceptance: April 30, 2023
- Submission of camera-ready papers: May 07, 2023
- Registration: May 07, 2023

PAPER SUBMISSION:
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Manuscripts should describe original work and should be no more than 7 pages in the IEEE double-column proceedings format, including tables, figures and references. Download manuscript templates for IEEE conference proceedings from: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html

Note that accepted papers up to 6 pages will be published with no additional charge. Exceeding pages will be charged an additional fee. Papers exceeding 7 pages will not be accepted.

At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register to the conference and present the paper. Only registered and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

In IEEE ICTS4eHealth 2023, as well as in IEEE ISCC 2023, all submissions must be done through EDAS by using the link must be done through EDAS by using the link https://edas.info/N30831.

Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings of ISCC 2023, of which ICTS4eHealth conference is a co-located event, and will be submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore. The ICTSeHealth and ISCC proceedings have been indexed in the past by ISI, DBLP and Scopus. This makes the ISCC conference one of the publication venues with very high visibility and impact in both Computer and Communications areas.

SPECIAL SESSIONS:
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SS-ICHS: Impact of ChatBots (CBs) in the Healthcare sector

In its most basic form, a ChatBot (CB) is an application designed to simulate conversations with human users. It combines the benefits of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to respond to user inputs. In the healthcare industry, CBs have the potential to deliver a tremendous impact by providing a range of benefits to both patients and stakeholders, providing strong support to the decision-making process helping the physicians deliver high-quality clinical treatments. Finally, being software-based, CBs can naturally work along with blockchains and cyber-security systems to guarantee complete protection of sensible health-related patient information.

Co-Chairs:
- Prof. Stefano Giordano, University of Pisa, Italy
- Dr. Andrea Sciarrone, University of Genoa, Italy
- Dr. Ayman Radwan, University of Aveiro, Portugal
- Md Sabbir Ahmed, University of Pisa, Italy

SS-TAAIMHA: Technological Advancements in Artificial Intelligence for Medical and Healthcare Applications

The healthcare service system is essential in the medical field, which has enormous demands on human existence. In recent years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has seen rapid development and is being used extensively in the domains of computer science and engineering. As a result of recent developments in machine learning and deep learning, artificial intelligence has become a hot topic across all academic disciplines. The purpose of this special session is to provide a forum in which researchers and practitioners that employ unsupervised or supervised learning based on AI models for any clinical tasks can present and discuss their latest work and exchange ideas for improving the use of AI in healthcare.

Co-Chairs:
- Dr. Balasubramaniam S, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
- Dr. A. Prasanth, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Sriperumbudur, Near Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
- Dr. Soufiene Ben Othman, PRINCE Laboratory Research, ISITcom, University of Sousse, Hammam Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia

REGISTRATION FEES:
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Please carefully check the registration instructions at  https://2023.ieee-iscc.org/registration/

IEEE Member Conference Registration:
- Early registration: $250.00*
- Late registration:  $300.00

Non - IEEE Member Conference Registration:
- Early registration: $285.00*
- Late registration:  $335.00

Registration includes: access to the conference Sessions, Coffee breaks and Lunches during the realization days, welcome reception and gala dinner.
* 10% discount for authors who have an accepted paper in the ISCC conference (in addition to the ICTS4eHealth paper)

Please visit https://icts4ehealth.icar.cnr.it for more information.

BEST PAPER AWARD:
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A "Best Paper Award" Certificate will be conferred on the author(s) of a paper presented at the conference, selected by the Chairs based on scientific significance, originality and outstanding technical quality of the paper, as assessed also by the evaluations of the members of the Program Committee.

SPECIAL ISSUES:
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Authors of selected papers may be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication as full journal papers in special issues organized in prestigious indexed journals.

In the past, ICTS4eHealth has been linked to several special issues, among which we report:
- Special Issue on "Enabling Technologies for Next Generation Telehealthcare" - IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (WoS Impact Factor 7.021, Scopus SJR 1.799)
- Special Issue on "Emerging Networked Computer Applications for Telemedicine" - Journal of Network and Computer Applications (WoS Impact Factor 7.574, Scopus SJR 2.193)
- Special Issue on "Digital Healthcare Leveraging Edge Computing and the Internet of Thing" - Sensors Journal (WoS Impact Factor 3.847, Scopus SJR 0.803)

STEERING COMMITTEE:
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- Antonio Celesti, University of Messina, Italy;
- Ivanoe De Falco, ICAR-CNR, Italy;
- Giovanna Sannino, ICAR-CNR, Italy;
- Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy.

ORGANIZATION:
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General chair:
- Antonio Celesti, University of Messina, Italy.

Technical Program Co-Chairs:
- Ivanoe De Falco, ICAR-CNR, Italy;
- Panayiotis Kotzanikolaou, University of Piraeus, Greece;
- Armando Ruggeri, University of Messina, Italy;
- Giovanna Sannino, ICAR-CNR, Italy.

Honorary Chair: 
- Giuseppe De Pietro, Director of ICAR - CNR, Italy.

Publicity Chair:
- Davide Ciraolo, University of Messina, Italy.

Please visit https://icts4ehealth.icar.cnr.it for more information and if you have any questions kindly get back to us by sending an email at ICTS4eHealth at icar.cnr.it

Kind regards,
IEEE ICTS4eHealth Organization