Call for Papers
Special Issue on

Wireless Health Systems Synthesis (WHS'09)

Recent advances in pervasive, low cost, wireless communication, embedded computing for sensor information processing, and medical informatics have enabled the development and first examples of Wireless Health. This new area is broadly defined as the use of personal communication technologies to provide and support individualized healthcare for patients in their home, workplace, and remote clinic environments. The arrival of broadband wireless services, along with increasingly powerful and convenient handheld devices, and compact sensors and instruments will introduce constantly vigilant local monitoring and guidance with a wide array of diagnostic capabilities. Applications under development range from monitoring and management of wellness to diagnostic measurement and guidance of patients through rehabilitative pathways. Wireless health development is critical for addressing the urgent needs for support to all members of our society, given a rapidly growing population in the presence of otherwise declining resources.

This special issue invites contributions from the fourth international Bodynets conference participants addressing design and development of architectures, algorithms, protocols, and technology for pervasive wireless health and development of cost effective design, implementation, optimization and test methods, and tools to support the creation and evolution of such systems.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Customizable wearable medical monitoring devices; architectures and applications.
• Pervasive healthcare, wellness management utilizing ubiquitous computing, embedded and wearable sensors
• Advances in embedded computing platforms and complete systems for portable, personal assistive and rehabilitative care devices with embedded computing
• Embedded wireless network architectures, methods, and protocols for ubiquitous and personal wireless health systems
• Embedded computing, signal processing, and sensor information processing for wireless health applications.
• Automated diagnostic algorithms for embedded wireless health applications
• Distributed and ubiquitous embedded personal health information management

The papers should be submitted via the Manuscript Central website and  should adhere to standard ACM TECS formatting requirements.
The page count limit is 25.

 

Timetable:

CFP	July 15, 2009
Manuscripts Due:	Oct 31, 2009
First Reviews Due:	approx. Jan 1, 2010
Revised Manuscript Due:	approx. Feb 15 2010
Final Decisssion:	approx. April 1, 2010

Please note: disclosure of review results and the final copy deadline may differ.

 

Guest Editor(s):

• Majid Sarrafzadeh (UCLA, Computer Science)
  
• William Kaiser (UCLA, Electrical Engineering)
  
• Ani Nahapetian (UCLA, Wireless Health Institute)