From: wms@sunbar.mc.duke.edu (William M. Smith)
Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences
Subject: Biosignal Interpretation
Date: 18 Nov 92 23:34:14 GMT
Expires: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 08:00:00 GMT
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Organization: Basic Arrhythmia Laboratory, Duke Univ. Med. Center, Durham, N.C.


IMIA - IFMBE WORKING CONFERENCE on "BIOSIGNAL INTERPRETATION"

                       AUGUST 25 - 27, 1993

                          REBILD BAKKER
                        SKOERPING, DENMARK



	FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PRELIMINARY REGISTRATION



The International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE)
and the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) will, in
colla- boration with the Danish Society for Biomedical Engineering,
organize a Working Conference for invited participants on biosignal
interpretation.  The main topics are the integration between systems
for biosignal analysis and decision support methods. The application
areas include patient monitoring and physiological function
assessment, applied during surgery, intensive and coronary care and
chronic care. This includes interpretation of e.g. ECG, EEG, flow and
pressure signals and their integration with other patient data.
Besides applications, the Working Conference will stress the
development of non-) linear processing methods and models, and the
integration of systems in departmental network environments.


Organizing Institution:

Aalborg University
Institute for Electronic Systems
Dept. of Medical Informatics and Image Analysis
Fredrik Bajersvej 7D
9220 Aalborg, Denmark
Phone:	+45 98-158522
Fax:	+45 98-154008
E-mail   conference@miba.auc.dk


Organizing Committee:

Annelise Rosenfalck, Chairman (Aalborg, DK)
Steen Andreassen (Aalborg, DK)
J rgen Kilden Petersen (Copenhagen, DK)
Ole Siggaard Andersen (Copenhagen, DK)


Scientific Program Committee:

Jan H. van Bemmel, Chairman (Rotterdam, NL)
Niilo Saranummi (Tampere, SF)
Annelise Rosenfalck (Aalborg, DK)
Richard I. Kitney (London, UK)
Christoph Zywietz (Hanover, FRG)
Shunsuke Sato (Tokyo, J)
Sergio Cerutti (Milano, I)
W. M. Smith (Durham, USA)
Torgny Groth (Uppsala, S)
Paul Rubel (Lyon, F).


Venue of Working Conference:

The Working Conference on Biosignal Interpretation will be held at the
Conference Center "Rebild Bakker", situated in the heart of one of
Denmark's most beautiful sceneries. Rebild Bakker has a large,
well-equipped auditorium and many conference rooms for poster sessions
and exhibitions. In and around the center there are excellent
facilities for informal discussions and recreation.  There is an
indoor swimmingpool, outdoor tennis courts and bicycles will be
available.  The center is situated 35 km south of Aalborg in the
immediate vicinity of the Danish National Park "Rebild" and of the
Forest of Rold which is the largest in Denmark. The heather hills in
"Rebild" were bought in 1912 by Danish Americans and donated to the
Danish state. Every year, several thousands celebrate the 4th of July
in Rebild.


Date: August 25-27, 1993



Integration: Integration of biosignal processing with decision-support
systems or depart- mental information systems; emerging standards;
network protocols.

Interfacing: Human-computer interfaces for biosignal interpretation;
windowing systems; ergonomic aspects.

Intelligent Systems: Knowledge bases for biosignal interpretation;
rule-based systems and expert systems; neural networks; causal models.

Evaluation: Documented biosignal libraries; evaluation protocols;
cost/benefit studies;

technology assessment.

Modelling: Statistical models for biosignal interpretation; non-linear
processing.

Real-time Systems and Data Acquisition: On-line assessment of the
state of a patient; intelligent transducers and instru- mentation;
closed-loop systems.

Clinical Applications, including: Patient monitoring (peri-operative,
critical care, perinatal, acute care), moni- toring of chronically ill
patients, physiological function assessment, ECG,

EMG, EEG, lung function, auditory, cardiology, internal medicine,
obstetrics, perinatal medicine, surgery, anaesthesia, neurophysiology,
and neurology.  Participation:

Besides a number of invited speakers, the Scientific Program Committee
will invite interested participants on the basis of proposals for
contributions.  For that reason, people interested in the subject of
Biosignal Interpretation are kindly asked to submit a notification of
interest in participation before October 31, 1992. Instructions to
authors will then be forwarded. A paper of maximum 2,500 words (i.e.
about 10 pages A4, including References, Figures and Tables) should be
submitted before January 15, 1993. The Scientific Program

Committee will then review the papers and decide on acceptance. Only
authors who submit a full paper are invited to the Conference.

Participation fees:

The participation fee for the Working Conference will be 4,900 DKK.
This includes registration fee, conference facilities, hotel and all
meals.  Authors whose full papers have reached the Scientific Program
Committee before December 31, 1992, will receive a discount of 500 DKK
(100 DKK is about 16 USD). All participants will receive a copy of the
journal and the Proceedings, free of charge at the Conference.


Between 30-40 papers will be selected by the Scientific Program
Committee for oral presentation at the Working Conference. The
intention is to publish these papers in an internationally recognized
journal.  Another 50-80 papers will be selected for publication in the
Conference Proceedings and for poster sessions at the Conference.

Important deadlines are as follows:

1.	Notification of interest in participation: December 31, 1992.
2.	Submission of papers (Max. 10 pages, 2,500 words): January 15, 1993.
3.	Acceptance of papers: March 15, 1993.
4.	Return of revised papers to editors: April 15, 1993.
5.	Submission of printed proof of papers to authors: June 15, 1993.
6.	Working Conference: August 25-27, 1993.

If you wish to participate, please fill in the enclosed form for
preliminary registrations.

PRELIMINARY REGISTRATIONS


I am interested in attending the IMIA - IFMBE Working Conference on
Biosignal Interpretation at Rebild Bakker, Denmark, August 25 - 27,
1993.

I would like to contribute to the sessions on:
   	Integration			               	Evaluation
   	Interfacing			               	Modelling
   	Intelligent Systems	 	        Clinical Applications
   	Real-time Systems and Data Acquisition

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