2016-07-21

Recent studies have found intelligent pattern recognition applications for computer vision and biomedical signal processing can be used to solve variety of real life problems. Computer vision and biomedical signal processing has rapidly transitioned from a research topic with few commercial applications to a mainstream technology with applications in virtually every sector of our economy. The integration of computer vision and biomedical signal processing technologies has become a topic of increasing interest for both researchers and developers from academic fields and industries worldwide. It is foreseeable that intelligent pattern recognition applications will be the main approach of the next generation. The explosive number of intelligent pattern recognition algorithms and increasing computational power of computers has significantly extended the number of potential intelligent pattern recognition applications for computer vision and biomedical signal processing.

Computer vision mainly involves the study of extracting information from images captured using robot vision, smart video surveillance, multi-media image search, camera-based human computer interfaces. Biomedical signal processing involves the analysis of heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen saturation levels, blood glucose, nerve conduction and brain activity to provide useful information upon which clinicians can make decisions. It further emphasis on practical, applications-led research on the use of methods and devices in clinical diagnosis, patient monitoring and management. This special issue intends to bring together researchers and developers from academic fields and industries worldwide working in the broad areas of computer vision and biomedical signal processing and promote community-wide discussion of ideas that will influence and foster continued research in the field for the betterment of human mankind.

Recommended topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

Deep Learning and Convolutional Neural Networks

Biomedical Signal Processing and Brain-Computer Interface

Computational Imaging and Video Matting

Genomic Signal Processing and Statistical Signal Processing

Computer-Aided Diagnosis and Quantitative Image Analysis

Signal Processing in Proteomics and Compressive Sensing

Human Face Recognition and Gait Recognition

Time-Frequency Analysis and Representation

Big Data and Semantic segmentation

Cardiovascular Signals and Electromagnetic fields in medicine

Physiological Processes and Bio-signal Modeling, Non-linear Dynamics

Important dates

Start of submission period: November 1st, 2016

Deadline for submission: November 30th, 2016

First review notification: February 1st, 2017

Revision submission: March 31st, 2017

Second review notification: August 1st, 2017

Final notification to authors: September 15th, 2017

Online Publication: October 2017

Paper submission:

Papers will be evaluated based on their originality, presentation, relevance and novelty, as well as their suitability to the special issue, and for their overall quality, giving preference to those with accompanying data, demo, and software. Author guidelines for preparation of manuscript can be found at:

http://www.elsevier.com/journals/pattern-recognition-letters/0167-8655/guide-for-authors

The submission website for this journal is located at: http://ees.elsevier.com/prletters/default.asp. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the special issue, it is important that authors select “SI: IPRABSP” when they reach the “Article Type Name” step in the submission process. Note that a maximum of 10 pages in the Journal layout is admitted for special issue papers.

Review process

Guest editors will make an initial determination of the suitability and scope of all submissions. The review process will be done by following the standard review process of Pattern Recognition Letters. Each paper will be reviewed by at least two experts in the field. In general, only two reviewing rounds will be possible, out of which major revision is possible only for the first round. Papers that after the 2nd reviewing round still need major revision will be rejected.

Guest Editors

Roshan Joy Martis (Managing Guest Editor)

Vivekananda College of Engineering & Technology, India

Email: roshaniiitsmst@gmail.com

Varadraj Prabhu Gurupur

University of Central Florida, USA

Email: varadraj.Gurupur@ucf.edu

Hong Lin

University of Houston Downtown, USA

Email: linh@uhd.edu

Steven Lawrence Fernandes

Sahyadri College of Engineering & Management, India

Email: steven.ec@sahyadri.edu.in

List of potential contributors:

Dr. Manumalek, Stevens University, USA

Dr. Chen Gao, Tufts University, UK

Dr. Vijay John, Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya, Japan

Dr. Claudio Moraga, European Center for Soft Computing, Spain

Dr. Ramjee Prasad, Aalborg University, Denmark

Dr. G. Josemin Bala, Karunya University, India

Dr. Goutam Chattopadhyay, California Institute of Technology, California

Dr. Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy

Dr. Amir Nakib, Texas A&M University, France

Dr. Wei-Chang Yeh, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Dr. Rajendra Udyavara Acharya, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore

Dr. Nikos Mastorakis, Technical University, Sofia

Dr. Jan Norum, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Norway

Dr. Lijljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Dr. Mussarat Abdullah, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan

Dr. Ye Zheng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Dr. Ajit Danti, King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia

Dr. Mario Koeppen, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan

Dr. Jesper Tranekjær, Nuclear Medicine & PET, Denmark

Dr. Ajith Abraham, MIR Labs, USA

Dr. Vikrant Bhateja, Shri Ramswaroop Memorial College of Engineering, India

Dr. Nik Bessis, Edge Hill University, UK

Dr. Muhammad Sharif, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan,

Dr. Antonio D. Masegosa, University of Deusto, Spain

Dr. Peter Hancock, University of Stirling, UK

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