IEEE JOURNAL OF
BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH INFORMATICS
J-BHI Special Issue on “Integrative Sensor Networks, Informatics and Modeling for Precision and Preventative Medicine”
The topics of integrative sensor networks, informatics and modeling bring together the tightly coupled and rapidly developing fields of biomedical and health informatics and body sensor networks. Biomedical and health informatics encompasses methods to extract and communicate information from data in order to impact health, healthcare, life sciences and biomedicine. Body sensor networks provide one means to measure the needed data, through continuous monitoring in both clinical and free-living environments. Recent developments in these areas will be highlighted at two co-located conferences: the 2019 IEEE-EMBS International Conferences on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI’19) and Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN’19) (https://www.bhi-bsn-2019.org).
Biomedical and health informatics topics include: predictive models, databases, and big data analytics that optimize the acquisition, transmission, processing, monitoring, storage, retrieval, analysis, visualization and interpretation of vast volumes of multi-modal biomedical data, as well as related social, behavior, environmental, and geographical data. These technologies are being deployed in solutions that integrate key technologies including machine learning, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, mHealth, e-Health, human computer interface, telemedicine, bioinformatics, sensors, imaging, and public health monitoring, to achieve patient-centric and outcome-driven effective health care.
Body sensor networks provide innovative ways to improve treatment outcome and patients’ comfort. They offer novel ways to measure physiology, behavior observations from users. Leveraging innovative systems, communication modules, on-chip and off-line data processing and modeling, these measurements are turned into actionable information. Formation of closed-loop body sensor networks with therapeutic and interventional functions is becoming a reality.
Only original research contributions will be considered. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
GuestEditors
Wei Chen – Fudan University, China
w_chen@fudan.edu.cn
David Clifton – University of Oxford, UK
davidc@robots.ox.ac.uk
Brian Telfer – MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA
telfer@ll.mit.edu
Key Dates
Deadline for Submission: 1 Oct 2019
First Reviews Due: 1 Jan 2020
Revised Manuscript Due: 1 Mar 2020
Final Decision: 1 Apr 2020