WSMS 2013 - Workshop on Smart Medical Systems

Smart Medical and Healthcare Systems 2013 workshop to take place within the Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare Conference.
The aim of the workshop is to gather a mulit-disciplinary group of experts and interested non-experts consisting of smart systems researchers and engineers, practitioners from the medical arena, managers and students to discuss the ways that intelligent systems and smart technology can be applied to issues relating to medicine, surgery and health care.
Contributions are sought on a wide range of applicable topics including the following:-
Intelligent interpretation of x-ray images
Computer axial tomography scans, ultrasound images and other sensor data
Medical data mining; medical informatics; smart patient record systems
Medical sensors and sensor systems; wired and wireless sensor networks; smart monitoring and reporting
Expert and case-based reasoning systems for medical diagnosis and decision support in medice and healthcare
Robotics surgical and micro-surgical systems; robotic surgical assistants
Robotic artificial joints and joint assistance systems
Integrated medical systems to assist in delivering quality health care during spaceflight and exploration
The use of smart systems to to alleviate problems in the aging population
Smart medical devices
Neural networks, fuzzy paradigms, genetic algorithms, expert systems in medical and healthcare applications