Medical, Biomedical and Health Informatics

• Electronic medical records (EMR) and electronic prescription

• Data preprocessing, cleansing, management and mining

• Data quality assessment and improvement

• Medical imaging

• Computer-aided detection, hypothesis generation and diagnosis

• Evidence-based medicine

• Evolutionary and longitudinal patient and disease models

• Clinical workflow

• Medication adherence and health monitoring

• Smart health and big data

• Deep IoT analysis

• M2M

Devices

• High-confidence medical devices

• Integration of medical devices with e-Health

• Medical device interoperability

• Wearable devices

• In/on/around-body sensors and actuators

• Biosensors at the micro/nano-scale

• Smart garments/textiles

• Wireless energy transfer

• Energy harvesting

• Device security 

Communications and Networking

• Communication/network infrastructures, architectures and protocols for e-Health

• 5G

• Soft-SIM technology

• Narrowband technology

• Antennas and propagation

• Proximity-based communication, group communication and social networks

• Power-efficient communication

• Ultra-wideband communication

• Delay-tolerant, fault-tolerant and reliable communication

• Cognitive communication for medical bands

• In-hospital networking, body area networking and cloud-integrated networking

• Software-defined networks and network management

• Network Function Virtualization

• Nanoscale/molecular communications

• Network coding and error detection/correction

• Resilience and robustness

• Security

Signal/Data Processing and Systems

• Context awareness and situation awareness

• Image/video processing and computer/robot vision

• Internet of Things, Ambient intelligence and pervasive computing

• Augmented reality and human-computer interaction

• Motion detection and activity recognition

• User modeling and personalization

• Robotics

• Computing/storage infrastructures for e-Health such as clouds and virtualization

• Software, systems and performance engineering for e-Health

• Security 

Services and Applications

• e-Health services/applications for physical and mental health; for example, in acute care, chronic care, mental health care, biomedical engineering, rehabilitation, prosthetics, elderly/nursing care, smart homes and hospitals, and rural/wilderness practice.

• e-Health services/applications for sports and exercise; for example, in training prescription and feedback, concussion detection/monitoring, life-logging and fitness monitoring.

• e-Health services/applications for public health; for example, disease prevention, pandemic preparedness, epidemiological interventions and smart cities.

• e-Health services/applications for extreme environments; for example, in firefighting, disaster response, evacuation assistance, medical triage, space travel/exploration, deep diving and deep sea exploration

• m-Health applications and software

• Quality of experience (QoE) with e-Health services/applications.

• Security, privacy and trust for e-Health services/applications

• Emerging cloud-based services/applications including health clouds/grids

System Research

• Standardization

• Requirements Engineering

• Social technological alignment

• E-health and m-health governance

• Quality of care

• Business modeling

• Supply chain management

• Anti-counterfeiting

• Smart Pharmaceuticals

• Global e-health strategies

• Tagging and tracking

• Work flow

• Patient flow

E-Health Solutions to Challenging Problems

• Telemedicine for rural area

• Aging problems and intelligent care

• Bioinformatics and precision medicine

• Smart agriculture for human health