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Special Session on Humanistic Healthcare Informatics
in conjunction with 3rd World Congress on Genetics, Geriatrics and
Neurodegenerative Diseasese Research - GeNeDis 2018
October 25-28, 2018, Toronto, Canada
https://www.genedis.eu/special-sessions
Digital data plays a crucial role nowadays in many disciplines,
technologies and applications. Healthcare-related systems are
inevitably following the trend and as result a brand new computer
science sub-field has emerged over the recent years, i.e., the one
of healthcare informatics. The latter forms actually a
multidisciplinary field that uses the so-called health information
technologies to improve healthcare via any combination of higher
quality, higher efficiency and innovative opportunities. Based on
this observation, every year new applications and software gets
even worldwide attention with respect to wearable sensors, sensors
connected to the human body or ambient sensors. A brand new area
of wearable devices has emerged with great popularity over the
last couple of years, thus bridging the gap between traditional
health-related approaches and the new digital technologies.
Moreover, assisted living is gaining more and more attention and
modern and future artificial !
intelligence and machine learning developments, such as deep and
machine learning, in conjunction with other sources or types of
information, like contextual information, will be heavily
exploited in the near future. Especially in the current era of
massive digital data generation of crucial personal importance
(such as all personalized health data generated by the
aforementioned various devices, sensors and applications), the
need for efficient, secure, reliable and intelligent processing
and handling of such data is essential. The latter, combined
together with viral social networks human interactivity,
constitutes the need for efficient healthcare data representation
and processing methodologies more important than ever. Taking into
account the social aspect of the ageing general population and the
increasing need for home-based e-health services, it is rather
obvious that smart humanistic healthcare informatics forms a
challenging, still applied, research field of the f!
uture.
This special session comes as a continuation of the inaugural
successful session entitled "Intelligent Humanistic Health-care
Technologies" that was held during the GeNeDis 2016 conference in
Sparta, Greece and attempts to investigate aforementioned
observations from the aspects of sensing and humanistic data
collection, related communication technologies, and humanistic
data analysis techniques to extract health-relevant information.
It calls for integrative research papers focusing on unified data
representation and processing, combining all kinds of
meta-information (visual, textual, geo-, et al.) in an efficient
manner. We particularly welcome papers that explore interaction
between intelligent local and global data classification
techniques, exploit types health-related of contextual knowledge
and investigate potential unification approaches in the sense of
personalized health information. Its ultimate scope is to attract
leading research and development approaches cont!
ributing to the hot topic of humanistic healthcare. In this sense
we are seeking original, high-quality, high-impact research papers
on all aforementioned topics, whereas papers will be selected on
the basis of novelty, technical merit, presentation and impact.
Important dates for GeNeDis 2018
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Submission of full papers: September 30, 2018 (extended!)
Main Event: October 25-28, 2018
Proceedings
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Special session papers will be included in the conference's
proceedings to be published by Springer in the well-known Series:
Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB), Impact
Factor (2016): 1.881
Aim and topics
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This GeNeDis 2018 Special Session aims to address several issues
that fall under the auspices of humanistic healthcare informatics.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Healthcare
* E-health applications
* Clinical information systems
* Wearable sensors
* Internet of Things
* Context awareness
* Data collection
* Technologies for health and wellness monitoring
* Biomedical signal processing
* Bioinformatics
* Healthcare information systems
* Telemedicine
* ICT e-health
* Internet of Things
* Telemedicine
* Context awareness
* Clinical trials
Special Session Organizers
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Phivos Mylonas, Department of Informatics, Ionian University
Konstantinos Karpouzis, Institute of Communication and Computer
Systems, National Technical University of Athens
Ilias Maglogiannis, Department of Digital Systems, University of
Piraeus
Special Session Program Committee
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* Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, University of Thessaly
* George Caridakis, University of the Aegean
* Kostas Delibasis, University of Thessaly
* Themis Exarchos, Ionian University * Theodore Giannakopoulos,
National Center for Scientific Research 'Demokritos'
* Vassiliki Iconomidou, University of Athens
* Ioannis Karydis, Ionian University
* Katia Kermanidis, Ionian University
* Stefanos Kollias, National Technical University of Athens
* Efthyvoulos Kyriacou, Frederick University Cyprus
* Angelos Michalas, Technological Educational Institute of Western
Macedonia
* Konstantinos Oikonomou, Ionian University
* Adamantia Pateli, Ionian University
* Vassilis Plagianakos, University of Thessaly
* Amaryllis Raouzaiou, National Technical University of Athens
* Spyros Sioutas, Ionian University
* Evaggelos Spyrou, National Center for Scientific Research
'Demokritos'
* Andreas-Georgios Stafylopatis, National Technical University of
Athens
* Zenonas Theodosiou, Cyprus University of Technology
* Manolis Wallace, University of Peloponnese
* Georgios N. Yannakakis, University of Malta
* Andreas Menychtas University of Piraeus
* Kostas Moutselos, University of Piraeus
Submission Procedure
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Prospective contributors are invited to submit research papers at
the dedicated submission area of the main web site
(
https://www.genedis.eu/call-for-papers)
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