Call for Papers Scope | Conference Topics | BIOSTEC Keynote Speakers | Paper Submission Publications | Important Dates | Secretariat | Venue Conference Co-chairs | Program Chair | Program Committee BIODEVICES is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication Scope The purpose of the International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices is to bring together researchers and practitioners from electronics and mechanical engineering, interested in studying and using models, equipments and materials inspired from biological systems and/or addressing biological requirements. Monitoring devices, instrumentation sensors and systems, biorobotics, micro-nanotechnologies and biomaterials are some of the technologies addressed at this conference. BIODEVICES encourages authors to submit papers to one of the main topics indicated below, describing original work, including methods, techniques, advanced prototypes, applications, systems, tools or general survey papers, reporting research results and/or indicating future directions. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference by one of the authors and published in the proceedings. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. There will be both oral and poster sessions. The proceedings will be indexed by several major international indexers. Special sessions are also welcome. Please contact the secretariat for further information on how to propose a special session. Conference Topics Emerging Technologies Biomedical Instrumentation Biomedical Equipment Biomedical Sensors Biomedical Metrology Microelectronics Health Monitoring Devices Embedded Signal Processing Low-Power Design Electrical Bio-Impedance Bio-Electromagnetism Biorobotics Biocomputing and Biochips Implantable Electronics Biotelemetry Wireless Systems Biomaterials MEMS Nanotechnologies Biomechanical Devices Artificial Limbs Technologies Evaluation Cardiovascular Biomechanics Electrocardiography and Heart Monitoring Computational Physiology (virtual organs) Brain-Computer Interfaces Spectroscopic Applications Imaging and Visualization Devices Computer-aided Detection and Diagnosis BIOSTEC Keynote Speakers Pedro Gómez Vilda, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Christian Jutten, GIPSA-lab, France Adam Kampff, Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal Richard Reilly, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Vladimir Devyatkov, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Russian Federation Paper Submission Authors should submit an original paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, using the on-line submission procedure. The initial submission must have between 3 to 13 pages otherwise it will be rejected without review. Please check the paper formats page so you may be aware of the accepted paper page limits. The guidelines for paper formatting provided at the conference web ought to be used for all submitted papers. The preferred submission format is the same as the camera-ready format. Please check and carefully follow the instructions and templates provided. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. Papers that are out of the conference scope or contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. Please read INSTICC\'s ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism. Remarks about the on-line submission procedure: 1. A \"double-blind\" paper evaluation method will be used. To facilitate that, the authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper, WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors. This means that is necessary to remove the authors personal details, the acknowledgements section and any reference that may disclose the authors identity. LaTeX/PS/PDF/DOC/DOCX/RTF format are accepted. 2. The web submission procedure automatically sends an acknowledgement, by e-mail, to the contact author. Paper submission types: Regular Paper Submission A regular paper presents a work where the research is completed or almost finished. It does not necessary means that the acceptance is as a full paper. It may be accepted as a \"full paper\" (30 min. oral presentation) , a \"short paper\" (20 min. oral presentation) or a \"poster\". Position Paper Submission A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. It is, nevertheless, important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (bibliographic, experimental, theoretical, or other) focused on one of the conference topic areas. The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of \"short paper\" or \"poster\", i.e. a position paper is not a candidate to acceptance as \"full paper\". Camera-ready: After the reviewing process is completed, the contact author (the author who submits the paper) of each paper will be notified of the result, by e-mail. The authors are required to follow the reviews in order to improve their paper before the camera-ready submission. All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support. Publications All accepted papers (full, short and posters) will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support. All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/). SciTePress is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/). A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series book. The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP and EI (Elsevier Index). Important Dates Conference Date: 11 - 14 February, 2013 Regular Paper Submission: September 3, 2012 (extended) Authors Notification (regular papers): October 23, 2012 Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: November 13, 2012 Secretariat BIODEVICES Secretariat Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq. 2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal Tel.: +351 265 100 033 Fax: +44 203 014 5436 e-mail: biodevices.secretariat@insticc.org Web: http://www.biodevices.biostec.org Venue The conference will be held at the Barceló Sants Hotel Barcelona, Spain. The new Barceló Sants hotel is now taking off. Get ready to enjoy a unique trip in our completely renovated Orbital Rooms. Located just on top of “Sants Estation” (now Sants Orbital Station), it has direct access to AVE (high speed train), metro and train network. Conference Co-chairs Jordi Solé-Casals, University of Vic, Spain Ana Fred, Technical University of Lisbon / IT, Portugal Hugo Gamboa, CEFITEC / FCT - New University of Lisbon, Portugal PROGRAM CHAIR Mireya Fernández Chimeno, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Program Committee Mai S. Mabrouk, Misr University for Science and Technology, Egypt Martin Bogdan, Universität Leipzig, Germany Luciano Boquete, Alcala University, Spain Fernando Cruz, College of Technology of Setubal/Polytechnic Institute of Setubal, Portugal Maeve Duffy, NUI Galway, Ireland G.S. Dulikravich, Florida International University, United States Michele Folgheraiter, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany Juan Carlos Garcia Garcia, Universidad de Alcala, Spain Miguel Angel García Gonzalez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Roman Genov, , United States Clemens Heitzinger, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Toshiyuki Horiuchi, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Leonid Hrebien, Drexel University, United States Takuji Ishikawa, Tohoku University, Japan Michael J. Schöning, Institute of Thin Film and Ion Technology, Research Centre Jülich GmbH, Germany Sandeep K. Jha, Korea University, Korea, Republic of Bozena Kaminska, Simon Fraser University , Canada Walter Karlen, UBC, Canada Frank Kirchner, DFKI, Germany Anton Koeck, Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), Austria Ondrej Krejcar, University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic Hongen Liao, The University of Tokyo, Japan Xiao Liu, Brunel University, United Kingdom Jordi Madrenas, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Ratko Magjarevic, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Croatia Jarmo Malinen, Aalto University, Finland Dan Mandru, Technical University of Cluj Napoca, Romania Raimes Moraes, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil Raul Morais, ECT-UTAD/CITAB, Portugal Umberto Morbiducci, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Alexandru Morega, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Romania Toshiro Ohashi, Hokkaido University, Japan Kazuhiro Oiwa, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan Mónica Oliveira, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom Abraham Otero, Universidad San Pablo CEU, Spain Sofia Panteliou, University of Patras, Greece Nathalia Peixoto, Neural Engineering Lab, George Mason University, United States Juan Jose Ramos Castro, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Wim L.C. Rutten, University of Twente, Netherlands Seonghan Ryu, Hannam University, Korea, Republic of Mario Sarcinelli-Filho, Federal University of Espirito Santo , Brazil Chutham Sawigun, Mahanakorn University of Technology, Thailand Federico Vicentini, National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy Bruno Wacogne, FEMTO-ST, UMR CNRS 6174, France Shigeo Wada, Osaka University, Japan Sen Xu, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Co., United States Jing Yang, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, China Mona E. Zaghloul, , United States Aladin Zayegh, Victoria University, Australia