VIII Mediterranean conference on medical and biological engineering and computing

Medicon '98 June 14-17, 1998 Lemesos, Cyprus

Medicon '98 is the 8th in the series of regional meetings in the Mediterranean of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE). It is organised and sponsored by the Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus and the Cyprus Association of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering.

The goal of Medicon'98 is to provide updated information on state-of-the-art medical and biological engineering and computing. The program will consist of both invited and submitted papers on new developments in these fields.

Keynote Lectures

  • Information technology in biomedicine leaping into 2000, Swamy Laxminarayan (USA)
  • Integrated telemedicine networks and added value services, Stelios Orphanoudakis (Greece)
  • Computational intelligence: Status and trends in medical diagnostic systems, Evangelia Tzanakou (USA)

Medicon '98 will focus primarily on the following topics:

  • Biomechanics/implants
  • Biosignal processing and analysis
  • Cardiovascular systems
  • Cellular engineering
  • Clinical engineering
  • Healthcare technology assessment
  • High performance computing in medicine
  • Intelligent systems in medicine
  • Medical imaging
  • Medical multimedia workstations and databases
  • Models of physiological systems
  • Neuromuscular systems
  • Patient monitoring
  • Radiotherapy
  • Radiation protection
  • Rehabilitation engineering
  • Telemedicine
  • Virtual reality in medicine

Registration

The deadline for submitting papers expired on January 30th 1998. Full conference registration fee includes admission to all sessions, welcome reception, and a copy of the proceedings. Early registration is highly recommended in order to save both time and money.

  • Early registration (before April 30, 1998) Cy£140
  • Late registration (after April 30, 1998) Cy£160
  • Students Cy£70

Cy£1 = US$2 (Approx. conversion - August 97)

More information

Constantinos S Pattichis, Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, 75 Kallipoleos Street, CY-1678 Nicosia, Cyprus.

Tel no: +357-2-338705/06, Fax no: +357-2-339062

Email: pattichi@turing.cs.ucy.ac.cy

Stelios Christofides, Medical Physics Department, Nicosia General Hospital, PO Box 4039, CY-1450, Nicosia, Cyprus.

Tel no: +357-2-301306, Fax no: +357-2-369170

Email: g.h.library@cytanet.com.cy

Web-sites Medicon '98: http://www.ucy.ac.cy/ucy/cs/med98/med98.htm

Cyprus: http://www.kypros.org/cyprus/root.htm