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 Rehabilitation Technology BIOSTEC KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Erik Meijering, Erasmus University Medical Center, Netherlands Lionel Pazart, CHU, France Nuno Sousa, University of Minho, Portugal PAPER SUBMISSION Authors should submit a paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the conference areas or topics. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgments section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity. Only original papers should be submitted. Authors are advised to read INSTICC\'s ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism thoroughly before submitting and must make sure that their submissions do not substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with proceedings. Papers that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. Authors can submit their work in the form of a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying a short report of work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue discussing ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research focused on one of the conference topic areas. All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and should follow the instructions and templates that can be found under Guidelines and Templates. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail. PUBLICATIONS All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support. SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier). All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library. It is planned to publish a short list of revised and extended versions of presented papers with Springer in a CCIS Series book (final approval pending). The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP, EI (Elsevier Index) and Scopus. IMPORTANT DATES Conference Date: 12 - 15 January, 2015 Regular Papers Paper Submission: September 1, 2014 (extended) Authors Notification: November 3, 2014 Camera Ready and Registration: November 17, 2014 Position Papers Paper Submission: September 30, 2014 Authors Notification: November 6, 2014 Camera Ready and Registration: November 17, 2014 SECRETARIAT BIODEVICES Secretariat Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq. 2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal Tel.: +351 265 100 033 Fax: +44 203 014 8813 e-mail: biodevices.secretariat@insticc.org Web: http://www.biodevices.biostec.org/ VENUE Our conference will take place at the Lisbon Marriott Hotel, this 4 star Venue was considered Portugal’s leading conference hotel. BIOSTEC CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS Ana Fred, Instituto de Telecomunicações / IST, Portugal Hugo Gamboa, CEFITEC / FCT - New University of Lisbon, Portugal Dirk Elias, University of Porto / Fraunhofer, Portugal PROGRAM CHAIR Alberto Cliquet Jr., University of São Paulo & University of Campinas, Brazil PROGRAM COMMITTEE Mai S. Mabrouk, Misr University for Science and Technology, Egypt Mark A. Reed, Yale University, United States Dharma Agrawal, University of Cincinnati, United States Jordi Aguilo , Autonoma University of Barcelona, Spain Elli Angelopoulou , University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Nizametin Aydin, Yildiz Technical University, Turkey Mohammed Bakr , CCIT-AASTMT, Egypt Alcimar Barbosa Soares, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Brazil Steve Beeby , University of Southampton, United Kingdom Dinesh Bhatia, Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science & Technology, India Wenxi Chen, The University of Aizu, Japan James M. Conrad, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, United States Fernando di Sciascio, Institute of Automatics National University of San Juan, Argentina Ye Duan, University of Missouri, United States Maeve Duffy, NUI Galway, Ireland G. S. Dulikravich, Florida International University, United States Elisabetta Farella, University of Bologna, United States Paddy French, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Anselmo Frizera, UFES, Brazil Juan Carlos Garcia Garcia, Universidad de Alcala, Spain Miguel Angel García Gonzalez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Javier Garcia-Casado, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Xiyi Hang , California State University, United States Hans L. Hartnagel, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany Toshiyuki Horiuchi, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Leonid Hrebien, Drexel University, United States Jiri Jan, University of Technology Brno, Czech Republic Sandeep K. Jha, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India Bozena Kaminska, Simon Fraser University , Canada Michael Kraft , Fraunhofer-Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems , Germany Ondrej Krejcar, University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic Hongen Liao, Tsinghua University, China Chwee Teck Lim , National University of Singapore, Singapore Chin-Teng Lin, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Anita Lloyd Spetz, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden Jarmo Malinen, Aalto University, Finland Dan Mandru, Technical University of Cluj Napoca, Romania Saibal Mitra, Missouri State University, United States Joseph Mizrahi, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Jorge E. Monzon, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Argentina Raimes Moraes, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil Raul Morais, UTAD - Escola de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal Umberto Morbiducci, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Alexandru Morega, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania Robert W. Newcomb, University of Maryland , United States Mónica Oliveira, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom Abraham Otero, Universidad San Pablo CEU, Spain Gonzalo Pajares, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Sofia Panteliou, University of Patras, Greece Kwang Suk Park, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Korea, Republic of Marek Penhaker, VİB - Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic Michael R. Neuman , Michigan Technological University, United States Dmitry Rogatkin, Moscow Regional Research and Clinical Institute \"MONIKI\" named after M.F.Vladimirskiy, Russian Federation Wim L.C. Rutten, University of Twente, Netherlands Seonghan Ryu, Hannam University, Korea, Republic of Chutham Sawigun, Mahanakorn University of Technology, Thailand Michael J. Schöning, FH Aachen, Germany Mauro Serpelloni, University of Brescia, Italy João Paulo Teixeira, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal Renato Varoto, University of São Paulo, Brazil Bruno Wacogne, FEMTO-ST UMR CNRS 6174, France Xintong Wang, Vanderbilt University, United States Dietmar Werner Hutmacher , Queensland University of Technology, Australia Huikai Xie , University of Florida, United States Sen Xu, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Co., United States Samir Y. Marzouk, Arab Academy of Science and Technology, Egypt Guang-Zhong Yang, B Biosurgery and Surgical Technology, Imperial College London, United Kingdom Wuqiang Yang , University of Mancheter, United Kingdom Hakan Yavuz, Çukurova Üniversity, Turkey Stefan Zappe , Carnegie Mellon University, United States Aladin Zayegh, Victoria University, Australia