ITME 2014 - The 2014 International Symposium on Information Technology in Medicine and Education (ITME 2014)

The 2014 International Conference on
Information Technology in Medicine and Education (ITME 2014)
http://www.ftrai.org/itme2014
July 7-10, 2014, Jeju, Korea
Organized by FTRA and KITCS
Technically sponsored by KIPS
Published by Springer-LNEE (indexed by EI and SCOPUS)
ITME 2014 is the 6th International Conference on IT in Medicine and Education. The conference this year is
technically sponsored by FTRA International, Korea, and organized by Qinghai University, Future University
Hakodate, Xiamen University and Shandong Normal University. It will be held from 7 to 10 July, 2014. in Jeju, Korea.
We invite submissions of papers presenting a high-quality original research and development for the
conference tracks. All accepted papers will be published by Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE，ISSN：
1876-1100) of Springer, and will be indexed by EI Compendex and ISTP.
This conference provides an opportunity for academic and industry professionals to discuss recent progress in the area of Information Technology in Medicine and Education (ITME) including models and systems, new directions, novel applications associated with the utilization.
The goals of this conference are to provide a complete coverage of the areas outlined and to bring together the researchers from
academic and industry as well as practitioners to share ideas, challenges, and solutions relating to the multifaceted aspects of this field.
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Topics
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We are inviting new and unpublished papers on, but not limited to, the following topics:
special tracks. The major topics include, but not limited to:
==Track 1. IT in Medicine ==
1. IT Application in Medicine Education
2. Medical Image Processing & compression
3. CT,MRI,PET,SPECT image acquisition and analysis
4. e-Health and e-Hospital
5. Tele-medicine and Tele-surgery
6. Standard in Health Informatics and cross-language solution
7. Computer-Aided Diagnostic (CAD)
8. Health informatics education
9. Biomechanics, modeling and computing
10. Digital Virtual Organ and Clinic Application
11. Three Dimension Reconstruction for Medical Imaging
12. Hospital Management Informatization
13. Construction of Medical Database
14. Medical Knowledge Mining
15. IT and Biomedicine
16. IT and Clinical Medicine
17. IT and Laboratory Medicine
18. IT and Preclinical Medicine
19. IT and Medical Informatics
== Track 2. IT in Education ==
1. Architecture of Educational Information Systems
2. Building and Sharing Digital Education Resources on the Internet
3. Collaborative Learning/Training
4. Computer Aided Teaching and Campus Network Construction
5. Curriculum Design and Development for Open/Distance Education
6. Digital Library
7. e-Learning Pedagogical Strategies
8. Ethical and Social Issues in Using IT in Education
9. Innovative Software and Hardware Systems for Education and Training
10. Issues on University Office Automation and Education Administration Management Systems
11. Learning Management Information Systems
12. Managed Learning Environments
13. Multimedia and Hypermedia Applications and Knowledge Management in Education
14. Pedagogical Issues on Open/Distance Education
15. Plagiarism Issues on Open/Distance Education
16. Security and Privacy issues with e-learning
17. Software Agents and Applications in Education
18. Synchronous Translation/Authoring Technologies
19. Web Based Systems for Education
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**Call for Workshop Proposals**
In conjunction with ITME-14, we will organize some workshops.
The workshop proposals should be submitted to the Leading Workshop Chair - Prof. Gangman Yi (gangman-AT-cs.gwnu.ac.kr) or
FTRA Conference Manager - David Kang (ftraconf.manager-AT-gmail.com) by **Jan. 10, 2014**.
Several workshops will be held in conjunction with ITME-14 with the aim to explore special topics and provide international forums for scientists, engineers, and computer users to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results on hot topics on Future Information Technology.
Workshops for presenting papers from industrial companies and papers on implementations of systems and services are very welcome.
All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE) - Springer (indexed by EI and SCOPUS).
In general, a workshop takes one day, although multiple-days and half-day workshops are welcome.
The workshop proposal should include following information:
1. Title of the workshop: International Workshop on ...
2. Workshop Organizers(s): name, affiliation, address, phone and fax numbers, e-mail.
3. Brief description of the workshop (several hundred words)
4. Expected number of papers to be submitted
5. Call for paper of the workshop (draft version - 1 page CFP MS Word version)
6. Tentative list of program committee members (Name, affiliation, country, email address)
7. Your workshop web address (Tentative)
Financial Support for Workshop Organizer:
We will provide workshop organizers to some honorariums for their contribution (at least 6 registed papers).
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Organization (Pending)
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General Chairs
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James J. Park, SeoulTech, Korea (Leading Chair)
Shaozi Li, XMU, China
Qun Jin, Waseda, Japan
Bin Hu, UCE Birmingham, UK
Yueh-Min Huang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Program Chairs
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Hwa Young Jeong, Kyung Hee University, Korea (Leading Chair)
YingLi Tian, City University of New York, USA
Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
Namje Park, Jeju National University, Korea
Osamu Takahashi, FUN, Hakodate, Japan
Jianming Yong, USQ，Australia
Workshop Chairs
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Gangman Yi, Gangneung-Wonju National University, Korea
Neil Y. Yen, The University of Aizu, Japan
Ying Dai, Iwate Pref. University, Japan
Dongqing Xie, GZHU, China
International Advisiory Committee
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Doo-soon Park, SoonChunHyang University, Korea (Leading Chair)
Xiaohong Jiang, FUN, Hakodate, Japan
Yongnian Liu, QHU, China
Hong Liu, SDNU, China
Yu Jianshe, GZHU, China
Ramana Reddy, WVU, USA
Han-Chieh Chao, National Ilan University, Taiwan
Dingfang Chen, WHUT, China
Junzhong Gu, ECNU, China
Hamid R. Arabnia, The University of Georgia, USA
Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA
Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia
Yi Pan, Georgia State University USA
Koji Nakano, University of Hiroshima, Japan
Prof. Yun Yang Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
Publicity Chairs
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Bong-Hwa Hong, Kyung Hee Cyber University, Korea
Ting-Ting Wu, Chia Nan University of Pharmacy & Science, Taiwan
Byung-Gyu Kim, Sunmoon University, Korea
Local Arrangement Chairs
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Deok-Gyu Lee, ETRI, Korea
Seung-Ho Lim, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea
Min Choi, Chungbuk National University, Korea
Sung-Ki Kim, Sunmoon University, Korea
Anna Kang, Dongguk University, Korea
== Program Committee ==
- See http://www.ftrai.org/itme2014/pc.php
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Important Dates
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Workshop Proposal Submission Due: Jan. 10, 2014
Paper Submission Due: Feb. 10, 2014 (Extended)
Accept Notification: March 1, 2014
Camera-ready paper Due: March 15, 2014
Registration Due: March 15, 2014
Conference/Workshop Dates: July 7-10, 2014
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Submission and Publication
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There will be a combination of presentations including scientific papers. Prospective authors are invited, in the first instance, to submit papers for oral presentations in any of the areas of interest for this conference. Authors should submit a paper with 5~6 pages at both two types in length, including all figures, tables, and references. If you want to submit more than page limitation, you can add up to 2 extra pages with the appropriate fee payment.
Papers must strictly adhere to page limits as follows.
- Regular Paper: 6 pages (Max 2 extra pages allowed at additional cost : by 8 pages)
- Cyber Presentation Paper: 5 page (Max 2 extra pages allowed at additional cost : by 7 pages) for not attending authors
Papers exceeding the page limits will be rejected without review.
Please use the Springer Proceedings format for submission. Template is available here: Manuscript Templates
All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings as one of Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE) series published by Springer (indexed by EI & SCOPUS).
Type 1. Regular Paper Submission : http://www.editorialsystem.net/itme2014
Type 2. Cyber presentation paper submission : http://www.editorialsystem.net/itme2014cyber
All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings as one of Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE) series published by Springer (indexed by EI & SCOPUS).
Distinguished papers accepted and presented in ITME 2014, after further revisions, will be published in the special issues of the following international journals: (Pending)
- The Journal of Supercomputing (JoS) - Springer (SCI)
- Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP) - Springer (SCIE)
- Human-Centric and Information Sciences (HCIS) - Springer
- International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence (IJITCC) - Inderscience
- Journal of Convergence (JoC) - FTRA
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Venue
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Official Travel Information
- Official Korea Tourism Organization: http://english.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/index.kto
- Jeju Special Self-Governing Provincial Tourism Association: http://www.hijeju.or.kr/english/main.html
- Jeju Tour Info: http://english.jeju.go.kr/