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1 Page Research Poster Paper DEADLINE is April 18, 2018
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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
Click here to book at EMBC discounted rates, before June 13, 2018.
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Sponsorship Opportunities are Still Available, find out more
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IEEE Marches for Science!!!
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Join us for an IEEE membership drive on April 14 2018
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Join the IEEE Washington Section in supporting science in our society at the March for Science! We will be spreading the word about IEEE and the benefits of IEEE membership, and encouraging other March supporters to join IEEE's mission to foster technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity.
Please RSVP and order Tshirts at the link below. The image shows last years' Tshirt design -- this years' design is coming soon! Place Tshirt orders by April 8 in order to receive them in time for the march.
On April 14, use twitter hashtag #IEEEMarchforScience to find updates about our group and our location throughout the day.
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Call for papers! Deadline for papers submission due on April 17
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The 13th IEEE-EMBS International Summer School and Symposium on Medical Devices and Biosensors (MDBS 2018) will be held at University of Macau, Macau, China, 22-25 June 2018. A wide range of topics in neuroscience will be covered and we are looking forward toward more innovative ideas.
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9th International Conference on Neural Engineering
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SAVE THE DATE 19-22 March, 2019 San Francisco, CA
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The 2nd IEEE Life Sciences Conference (LSC) will be held in Montreal, Canada 28-30 October 2018. The IEEE Life Sciences Technical Community (LSTC), which is supported by multiple IEEE member societies, is the sponsor of the conference. As such, the conference will cover diverse topics within the theme.
Call for Papers. Deadline for Papers and abstract due on June 4.
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Technical Activites Spotlight
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Technical Committee Highlights
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Dr. Javier A. Jo at Texas A& M has received a $2.5 M grant from National Institutes of Health (NIH) for advancing early detection of oral cancer
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Early detection of both new and recurrent oral cancer holds great promise for improving both the survival rate and the quality of live of these patients. A new NCI R01 grant awarded to Dr. Javier A. Jo, associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University, will allow further developing and clinically validating autofluorescence lifetime imaging endoscopic systems for quantifying noninvasively different biomarkers associated to oral epithelial cancer progression, and detecting in situ early stage oral cancer and dysplasia. This novel endoscopic tool will revolutionize oral epithelial cancer management by allowing not only early screening and diagnosis, but also treatment guidance and monitoring for disease recurrence. Moreover, the demonstrated success of this clinical tool in oral epithelial cancer will herald future success with other cancers of epithelial origin, which accounts for more than 80% of all cancers..
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Dr. Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin's group has published a paper, entitled "Mapping molecular assemblies with fluorescence microscopy and object-based spatial statistics", in Nature Communication.
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Elucidating protein functions and molecular organization requires to localize precisely single or aggregated molecules and analyze their spatial distributions. In this work, the authors develop a statistical method SODA (Statistical Object Distance Analysis) that uses either micro- or nanoscopy to significantly improve on standard co-localization techniques. SODA is a tool based on a marked-point process framework to statistically map large data sets of multi-color molecular assemblies in cellulo with high spatial resolution and characterize the relative spatial positioning of several distributions of molecules, in a quantitative and automatic manner. The capabilities of SODA have been illustrated on the study of the spatial organization of thousands of synapses...
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Staying in Motion After Stroke
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TECHNOLOGIES SUCH AS WEARABLE ROBOTICS AND VIRTUAL REALITY PROVIDE OPTIONS TO HELP STROKE SURVIVORS GET MOVING AGAIN
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In the United States, on average per year, more than 800,000 people have a stroke; in Europe, the number is roughly 1 million. The costs associated with therapy and loss of productivity for patients who suffer a stroke total nearly US$34 billion per year, which makes it imperative to find effective treatments to help patients recover.
But because strokes can occur in so many different ways, there's no one-size-fits-all solution. Researchers and engineers are therefore working on several fronts to develop technologies that could be of assistance: from wearable robotic devices to utilizing virtual reality (VR) modules that help patients relearn movement. At the same time, doctors are also interested in incorporating brain stimulation techniques to enhance other technologies that might help patients recover more quickly from impairments following a stroke
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IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering Call for Papers
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A Special Issue/Section on "Advanced and Intelligent Technology for Dementia Care:
Theory, Methods, and Applications"
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Utilizing modern advanced information and intelligence technology in dementia care has offered promising solutions for efficiently delivering many kinds of health services to dementia patients, related to non-invasive and cost-effective tools for early detection and identification of aetiology and risk factors, innovative systems with application to effectively monitor the progression of disease, new use of design in helping people with dementia to engage socially and improve subjective well-being, cost-effective point-to-care technologies for dementia sufferers. The successful utilization of these technologies in dementia care will enable faster and safer behaviour monitoring and intervention delivery, optimal response to health behaviour trajectory, lower overall cost and enhanced sustainability. While a large volume of high quality, innovative technology research is ongoing to improve dementia care, so far there has been little benefit because research has generally been limited, small scale and methodologically flawed. It is highly demanded to conduct some systematic and in-depth reviews of engineering methodologies and applications in dementia care, to bridge the gap between knowledge and practice.
The special issue aims to publish original and significant papers that present the reviews of theories, methods and applications of utilizing advanced and intelligence technology for improving the efficiency, sustainability and reliability of dementia care. The central theme is on the development and application of Advanced and Intelligent Technology for Dementia Care, where current theories, approaches, applications to leverage technology to improve dementia care will be well discussed. The theme of the special issue (SI) is especially focused on the four major aspects: 1) Innovate wearable technology for accurately monitoring functionality decline of dementia patient. 2) Latest image processing technique in early detection and prediction of dementia.3) Cost-effective platform for enhancing the communication and interaction between dementia patients and their care givers. 4) Intelligent reasoning techniques for offering personalized recommendation to dementia sufferers.
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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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