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Your Global Connection to the
Biomedical Engineering Community
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Keynote Speakers and Panel Presentations
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From our recent successful HI-POCT Conference, all keynote and panel sessions were videotaped. The videos are now available for each day:
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Call for Participation: IEEE Brain Data Bank Competition
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December 9, 2017 in Boston, MA, USA
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This is the last in a series of challenges and competitions sponsored by IEEE Brain Initiative in 2017 that explore various brain/neuro datasets. Datasets for the Boston competition are provided by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and were collected as part of a broader intervention-based study via funding by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) under the Strengthening Human Adaptive Reasoning and Problem-solving (SHARP) program. The full datasets can be downloaded from IEEE Dataport.
Cash awards will be given to top winners.
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IEEE Life Sciences Conference
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December 13-15, 2017 in Sydney, Australia
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Chin-Moi Chow
Professor, The University of Sydney, Faculty of Health Sciences
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Carolyn McGregor, Ph.D.
Canada Research Chair in Health Informatics, University of Ontario,
Institute of Technology UOIT
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Katina Michael, Ph.D.
Professor, The Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences at the University of Wollongong
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April 4-7, 2018 in Washington DC
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One Page Abstracts - Submission Opens November 20th
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IEEE Journal Papers on Biomedical Imaging Published in 2017
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All peer-reviewed IEEE journal papers published by SPS or EMBS societies during 2017 whose topic is in the biomedical imaging and image analysis domains are eligible for presentation at ISBI 2018, subject to space availability and approval by the ISBI Program Chairs. Requests for presentation of such papers should be made by submitting a one-page abstract of the paper through the ISBI 2018 website on or before the submission deadline (
January 8, 2018
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Are you interested in a sponsorship opportunity at ISBI 2018 find out more HERE |
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Sam Achilefu
Surgical Glasses and Probes for Image-guided Cancer Surgery
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Transcranial Magnetic Resonance Guided Focused Ultrasound
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Tackling World Health Problems Through High-throughput Microscopy Imaging and Analysis
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Computational Imaging for 3D Microscopy
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EMBC 2018 will be on July 17-21, 2018 in Honolulu, Hawaii
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Workshops, Tutorials, Invited Sessions, Mini-Symposia
and Special Sessions
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EMBC 2018 Proposal Submission Deadline Extended - November 19, 2017
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Proposals for Workshops, Tutorials, Invited Sessions, Mini-Symposia and Special Sessions are invited. Submission opens on September 1, 2017 and closes
November 19, 2017. The activities are subdivided into pre-conference and during-conference. Pre-confere
nce activities will be held on
Tuesday, July 16, 2018, from
8.00 AM - 5.00 PM.
EMBC'18 is accepting proposals for the following sessions:
- Workshops (pre-conference)
- Tutorials (pre-conference)
- Mini-symposia (during conference)
- Invited Sessions (during conference)
- Special Sessions (during conference)
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Sponsorship's Opportunities Now Available
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| Are you interested in a sponsorship opportunity at EMBC 2018 find out more HERE
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Call for Contributed Papers at EMBC 2018
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Author Instructions for Contributed Papers - Full
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ontributed Papers-Full are presented either as an oral presentation or a poster presentation. The type of presentation will be determined by the Conference Editorial Board based on factors such as the reviewer's suggestions and topic of the paper. All presented and contributed papers will be published in IEEE Xplore and indexed by PubMed and Medline.
At least one author of the paper must be registered at the appropriate full conference rate (Member, Non-member, Student member, Student non-member) in order to upload the final paper. If complete payment of a registration fee is not received, authors will not be able to proceed with uploading their final manuscript. While any author of the paper may be registered, only the designated "corresponding author" may upload the final paper. Once a manuscript has been uploaded, the registration fees cannot be refunded. Please be sure that the attending author completes payment and uploads the final paper. This means that they must be the "corresponding author".
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Housing now OPEN for EMBC 2018
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Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki
Beach Resort
Approximately 15 minute walk to Hawaii Convention Center
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4-7, March 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada
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Sylvia Plevritis, Ph.D.
Stanford University
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Chris Van Hoof, PhD,
KU Leuven
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BRAIN-DECODING SCIENTISTS MOVE CLOSER TO DISCOVERING
THE KEYS TO UNLOCK THE BRAIN
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When you see or think about an object, your brain engages in a unique pattern of activity tied specifically to that object. That's how you know a cat is a cat, and not a dog or a house or a cloud. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and other techniques, scientists are not only able to measure those activity patterns but are also deciphering what each pattern means. Essentially, they are beginning to read minds.
That doesn't mean we all have to start wearing aluminum foil hats to keep our thoughts to ourselves, but it does mean that scientists are creating an increasingly better instruction manual for the brain and its amazing processing capabilities. Such a manual can then be used to begin developing a brain- computer interface device that may help someone with a motor dysfunction to operate an exoskeleton for mobility or devising a system that can bypass a blind person's nonfunctional eyes and transmit images directly to the brain for translation into sight. It may also aid in the evolution of devices that permit faster and better recovery from stroke and other brain injuries or technologies for earlier diagnosis of such neural disorders as autism.
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Neurofeedback Control in Parkinsonian Patients Using Electrocorticography Signals Accessed Wirelessly With a Chronic, Fully Implanted Device
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Preeya Khanna, Nicole C. Swann, Coralie de Hemptinne, Svjetlana Miocinovic, Andrew Miller, Philip A. Starr, Jose M. Carmena
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Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by motor symptoms such as rigidity and bradykinesia that prevent normal movement. Beta band oscillations (13-30 Hz) in neural local field potentials (LFPs) have been associated with these motor symptoms. Here, three PD patients implanted with a therapeutic deep brain neural stimulator that can also record and wirelessly stream neural data played a neurofeedback game where they modulated their beta band power from sensorimotor cortical areas. Patients' beta band power was streamed in real-time to update the position of a cursor that they tried to drive into a cued target. After playing the game for 1-2 hours each, all three patients exhibited above chance-level performance regardless of subcortical stimulation levels. This study, for the first time, demonstrates using an invasive neural recording system for at-home neurofeedback training. Future work will investigate chronic neurofeedback training as a potentially therapeutic tool for patients with neurological disorders.
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Early Access Article from JTEHM
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Special Issue on Point of Care Technologies
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The IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine (JTEHM) Is pleased to announce a Special Issue on Healthcare Innovations and Point-of-Care Technologies (HI-POCT) 2018 to be published in September 2018. JTEHM is an open-access journal (https://health.embs.org/) indexed in PubMed, Scopus and IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
The JTEHM HI-POCT 2018 special issue will focus on healthcare innovations and point-of-care technologies for precision and personalized health with their translation to address challenges in global healthcare in clinical (hospital, emergency, acute, chronic and primary care), non-traditional (consumer) and under-resourced settings.
We invite you to submit expanded manuscripts on your presentations with additional significant results and discussion for consideration of publication in the JTEHM special issue. The deadline for submitting full-length manuscripts is March 15, 2018
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Are you hunting for your dream job the wrong way?
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For most, seeking a new career takes a lot of time and patience. Job hunting has turned into a science. Avoid wasting your time and patience by using the right resources to find your next career. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) is the best channel to find open positions in our industry. Recruiters posting on IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) are looking for quality candidates that stand out from the rest. Be sure to upload your resume and start searching the open positions posted on IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) today.
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EMBS would love to hear from you....
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Please send any chapter news, events or happenings, call for papers, distinguished lecturer visits, awards received by members, etc. to the EMBS Content Form for inclusion in next week's newsletter. We look forward to hearing from you.
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