IFMBE

The 4th International Workshop on Biosignal Interpretation

June 24-26th, 2002 Villa Olmo, Como, Italy

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IEEE JSMBE AIIMB AEI Politecnico Milano EMB

NEWS

The 4th International Workshop on Biosignal Interpretation (BSI2002) is rapidly approaching. The Workshop, which is an initiative of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE) and the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), in collaboration with the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), the Japan Society of Medical Electronics and Biomedical Engineering (JSMEBE), the Associzione Elettrotecnica ed Elettronica Italiana (AEI), the Associazione Italiana di Ingegneria Medica e Biologica (AIIMB) and the Polytechnic University in Milano will be held in Villa Olmo, Como, Italy on June 24-26th 2002.

The Scientific Committee has recently completed the review process of the submitted papers. Acceptance was notified to the Authors on March 18th. 136 papers have been accepted for presentation during the workshop in oral (54 papers) or poster (82 papers) sessions.

Program Committee
Sergio Cerutti
Polytechnic Univ. of Milan, Italy.
General Chair 		Metin Akay
Darthmouth Collage, Hanover, USA

Bin He
Univ. of Illinois, Chicago, USA 		Shunsuke Sato
Osaka University, Japan

Christoph Zywietz
Mediz. Hochschule Hannover, Germany

Scientific Committee
Solange Akselrod
Tel Aviv University, Israel

Giuseppe Baselli
Polytechnic Univ. of Milan, Italy

Anastasios Bezerianos
Univ. of Patras, Greece

Marcello Bracale
Univ. of Naples, Italy

Pere Caminal
Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

Ewart Carson
City Univ, London, UK

Jean-Louis Coatrieux
Université de Rennes I,France

Jacques Duchêne
Univ. of Troyes, France 		Donna Hudson
University of California SF,
USA

Helmut Hutten
Technische Univ. Graz, Austria

Fumihiko Kajiya
Okayama Univ. Graduate School, Japan

Richard Kitney
Imperial College, London,UK

Ilkka Korhonen
VTT, Tampere Finland

Pablo Laguna
Univ. de Zaragoza, Spain

Carlo Marchesi
Univ. of Florence, Italy

Roberto Merletti
Polytechnic of Turin, Italy 		Hervé Rix
Univ. de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France

Laura Roa
Univ. de Sevilla, Spain

Carmelina Ruggiero
University of Genova, Italy

Niilo Saranummi
VTT, Tampere Finland

Jan van Bemmel
Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam, NL

Andreas Voss
Univ. of Appl. Sciences Jena, Germany

Yoshiharu Yamamoto
Univ. of Tokyo, Japan

Kazuo Yana
Hosei University, Japan

Ten oral sessions and 2 poster sessions were planned according to the preliminary program reported below. Sessions will deal with both innovative methodological approach to biological signal analysis and relevant applications to ECG, Heart Rate Variability, EEG, and EMG studies. Two invited speakers will deliver keynote lectures on Monday and Wednesday morning sessions. Prof. Alain Arneodo, Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal, Pessac, France will talk about "Fractal Analysis of DNA Sequences Using Wavelet Techniques" and Prof. Jose Principe, University of Florida Gainesville, FL, USA will talk about "Signal Processing Techniques in Neuroscience and Brain-Machine Interface". In addition, a Panel Discussion titled "Cardiovascular Variability Signals: Advanced Tools of Signal Processing and Physiological Interpretation" has been planned on Thursday afternoon with the presence of expert physiologists and biomedical engineers.

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM:

  Monday June 24th, 2002 Thursday June 25th, 2002 Wednesday June 26th, 2002
8.20Welcome Address  
8.30-10.30 Session S1
Data Processing in Genomic and Proteinomics
Keynote speaker:
Dr. A. Arneodo		 Session S5
Myocardial
Signal Analysis and Modeling		 Session S8
Processing of Electrical Signals in the Brain
Keynote speaker:
Dr. J. Principe
COFFE BREAK
11.00-13.00 Session S2
Time-frequency and Wavelets Analysis		 Session S6
Heart Rate Variability Signal		 Session S9
Analysis of EEG Signal and Neuronal Activity
LUNCH
14.30-16.30 Session S3
Non-Linear, Fractal and Chaotic Analysis		 Session S7
Panel Discussion		 Session S10
Medical
Decision Making
COFFE BREAK
17.00-19.00 Session S4
EMG Signal Analysis		 Session P1
Poster Session		 Session P2
Poster Session
18.30 Social Event and Dinner Poster award and arrivederci
19.00Cocktail Aperitifs

We encourage engineers, medical researchers, computer scientists, physicists and applied mathematicians to join us in Como on next June. Registration must be done by filling the forms, which you will find on the web site www.BSI2002.polimi.it. Registration fees are:

  1. Early Registration
  2. Late Registration
 before April, 1st
after April, 1st 		260 Euro
340 Euro
IMPORTANT DEADLINES:
  1. Early Registration Deadline:
  2. Hotel Room Reservation Deadline:
  3. International Workshop:
 April 1st , 2002
May 15th, 2002
June 24-26th, 2002
WEB SITE: www.BSI2002.polimi.it E-MAIL: BSI2002@biomed.polimi.it