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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 -------------------------------- Submission of full papers: September 30, 2018 (extended!) Main Event: October 25-28, 2018

Proceedings ----------- 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 -------------- 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 -------------------------- 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 --------------------------------- * 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 -------------------- 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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