Advances in Wireless Implanted Devices
Special Session Call for papers
Wireless medical devices implanted within the human body represent an exciting research area worldwide and hold the promise to become one of the major technology drivers of the 21st century. These devices can be used for several monitoring, diagnostic, therapeutic, and interventional applications that range from the well known cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators to emerging applications in visual prosthesis, brain computer interfaces (BCIs), embedded monitoring of several useful medical variables such as oxygen, glucose, pH level, pressure, and core temperature, and control of vital parameters of people suffering from chronic diseases such as asthma, diabetes, epilepsy, Parkinson's disease and heart attacks.
Wireless-enabled medical implants provide a tremendous advantage to both patients and caregivers, including greater patient ease of movement, continuous data feeds, greater quality and reliability of data reporting (compared to patient self-reported data), while eliminating patient discomfort. With continued advances in electronic component integration, sensor development, and micropackaging technologies, these biomedical devices will achieve widespread use in emerging biomedical applications aimed at improving quality of life. The need to achieve optimum balance among low power consumption of the implant, high quality bidirectional links, data integrity and patient safety reveals the research challenges of wireless implants.
Submission Instructions
For submission instructions, please visit: https://mobihealth.name/submission.shtml.
Papers should be submitted to OpenConf by 30 June 2011, by selecting the special session link in the "Topic Area" list.
The preferred length for initial submissions is 4 pages, however the length of final papers should not exceed 8 pages including all figures, tables and references. Extra pages will incur additional charges. The papers must be submitted in PDF format. All papers will be reviewed. All submissions will be peer-reviewed, and acceptances will be provided by 15 July 2011.
Chair
Konstantina S. Nikita, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Short Bio
Konstantina S. Nikita received the Diploma in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece. She then received the M.D. degree from the Medical School, University of Athens, Greece.
Since 1990, she has been working as a Researcher at the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, NTUA. In 1996, she joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA, as an Assistant Professor, and since 2005 she serves as a Professor, at the same department. Her current research interests include biomedical signal and image processing and analysis, biomedical informatics, simulation of physiological systems, medical imaging, biological effects and medical applications of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields. Dr. Nikita has authored or co-authored 141 papers in refereed international journals and chapters in books, and more than 250 papers in international conference proceedings. She is author or co-author of two books (Simulation of Physiological Systems, Medical Imaging Systems) in Greek and co-editor of one book (Computational Electromagnetics: State of the Art and Future Trends) in English published by Springer. She holds two patents. She has been the technical manager of several European and National Research and Development projects in the field of biomedical engineering. She has been chair/member of the program/organizing committee of more than 50 international conferences on the same fields. She is member of the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering and guest editor of several international journal issues on biomedical engineering subjects.
Dr. Nikita was the Recipient of the 2003 Bodossakis Foundation Academic Prize for exceptional achievements in "Theory and Applications of Information Technology in Medicine". She has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic National Academic Recognition and Information Center and a member of the National Council of Research and Technology. Dr. Nikita is a Senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece and a member of the Athens Medical Association. She is also the founding chair and ambassador of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Greece chapter, vice chair of the IEEE Greece Section and vice chair of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the NTUA.
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