Call for Papers WCCI 2016 Special Session "Intelligent Medical Science"

The purpose of this special session is to disseminate and discuss recent and significant research issues on how intelligent methodologies can be used to solve challenging problems related to medical, biomedical, and healthcare fields. This special session will be held under IEEE CIS Task Force of "Fuzzy Logic in Medical Sciences".

Topics of interest

• Fuzzy logic-based medical diagnosis control system
• Fuzzy logic-based biomedical applications
• Soft computing for biomedical applications
• Fuzzy logic-based affective computing and psychological evaluations
• Fuzzy data analysis – bioinformatics, medical informatics, pattern recognition
• Fuzzy optimization and control
• Fuzzy machine learning approach to biomedical applications
• Neuro-fuzzy models for biomedical signal processing
• Signal processing of MRI, fMRI, EEG, ECG, etc.
• Smart diagnostic predictions of various diseases
• Applications in image processing and pattern recognition
• Fuzzy logic vs. other soft computing approaches
• Approaches based on neuro-fuzzy, evolutionary neuro-fuzzy, neuro-genetic, genetic fuzzy, fuzzy cognitive map
• Fuzzy inference systems
• Assistive robotics
• Fuzzy temporal representation of knowledge

Paper submission

All papers must be submitted through the IEEE WCCI FUZZ 2016 online submission system. There, please make sure to select the appropriate special session title (FUZZ-IEEE-20 Intelligent Medical Science) under the list of research topics in the submission system. More detailed submission instructions and paper templates can be found on the WCCI submission page.

Important dates

Paper submission deadline:   January 15, 2016
Paper decision notification:   March 15, 2016
Final paper submission and registration deadline:   April 15, 2016
WCCI 2016:   July 25-29, 2016

Organisers

Syoji Kobashi
University of Hyogo
Japan
kobashi@eng.u-hyogo.ac.jp

Gerald Schaefer
Loughborough University
United Kingdom
gerald.schaefer@ieee.org

Hiroharu Kawanaka
Mie University
Japan
kawanaka@elec.mie-u.ac.jp

Atsushi Inoue
Eastern Washington University
USA
inoueatsushij@gmail.com