The Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing is a regional conference with a long tradition and high scientific level, which isorganized every three years in a Mediterranean country under the umbrella of the International Federation of Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE). For more than30 years, MEDICON has been a scientific forum for the presentation of the recent advances in the biomedical engineering fields. Authors are invited to submit papersbefore April 26th 2013 about the following topics*:

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING Sergio Cerutti (Italy)- Biosignal processing and biological modellingSergio Cerutti (Italy)Juan Francisco Guerrero (Spain)- Non linear dynamic analysis of biomedical signalsJosé Carlos Principe (USA)Leif Sörnmo (Sweden)- Signal pattern classificationPanagiotis Bamidis (Greece)Constantinos Pattichis (Cyprus)- Adaptive and parametric filteringPablo Laguna (Spain)Luca Mainardi (Italy)- Time-frequency and time-scale analysisRoberto Hornero (Spain)Anna M. Bianchi (Italy)- Principal component analysis and independent component analysisChristopher James (UK)Ronald Phlypo (USA)

NEURAL AND REHABILITATION ENGINEERING Metin Akay (USA)- Neural interfaces and regenerationJosé Luis Pons Rovira (Spain)- Brain computer / machines interfacesFebo Cincotti (Italy)Ramón Ceres (Spain)- Brain physiology and modellingJosé María Delgado-García (Spain)Herbert Voigt (USA)- Neural signal processingChristos Schizas (Cyprus)Richard Reilly (Ireland)- Rehabilitation engineering and wearable technologiesJosé María Tormos (Spain)Charles Robinson (USA)

MOLECULAR, CELLULAR AND TISSUE ENGINEERING AND BIOMATERIALS Josep A. Planell (Spain)- Biomaterials cell interactionsBernardo Celda (Spain)José Becerra (Spain)- Scaffolds in tissue engineeringTomás Gómez-Cía (Spain)Gyeon-Man Kim (Spain) - Biomimetic, bioinspired and patterned biomaterialsVéronique Migonney (France)- Stem cells in regenerative medicineJosé López Barneo (Spain)Josep A. Planell (Spain)

CLINICAL ENGINEERING Nicolas Pallikarakis (Greece)Saide Calil (Brazil)- Clinical engineering and health technology managementPaola Freda (Itlay)Heikki Terio (Sweden)- Health technology policy and assessmentLeandro Pecchia (UK)- Safety and human factors engineering for medical devices and systemsBarbara Pierscionek (UK)Yadin David (USA)- Social, societal and ethical implications of computing and networking (Compunetics) in medicine and biology / Patient empowermentLodewijk Bos (Holland)

BIOMEDICAL IMAGING AND PROCESSING Jean Louis Coatrieux (France)Christian Roux (France)- X-Ray imaging / mammographyJuan Sabaté (Spain)Christian Roux (France)- Computed tomography / magnetic resonance imaging / ultrasound imagingHaim Azhari (Israel)Gözde Ünal (Turkey) - Optical imaging and microscopy / molecular imaginBarbara Pierscionek (UK)Andrés Santos (Spain)- SPECT and PET technologiesManuel Desco (Spain)Mario Forjaz (Portugal) - Multimodality imagingAlejandro Frangi (Spain)- Image processingJean Louis Coatrieux (France)Juan José Vaquero (Spain)

CARDIOVASCULAR, RESPIRATORY AND ENDOCRINE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING Fumihiko Kajiya (Japan)- Cardiac and respiratory mechanics, function, modeling and controlJosé María Ferrero Jr (Spain)- Vascular disease, mechanics and hemodynamicsJos AE. Spaan (Holland)Max E. Valentinuzzi (Argentina)- Cardiovascular and pulmonary signal processingRaimon Jané (Spain)Antonio Pedotti (Italy)- Cellular and molecular cardiorespiratory engineeringRosario Pásaro (Spain)Antonio Fernando C. Infantosi (Brazil)- Endocrine systems, function, modeling and controlRon Summers (UK)Alberto de Leiva (Spain)- Artificial organsAhmad Taher Azar (Egypt)Elena Hernando (Spain)- Cardiac instrumentation and wearable technologiesJavier Saiz (Spain)Ratko Magjarević (Croatia)

MEDICAL DEVICES AND SENSORS Toshiyo Tamura (Japan)- Ambulatory point-of-care systems, home/personal/independent livingRamón Pallás (Spain)Ákos Jobbágy (Hungary)- Medical devices evaluation and standardsHelmut Hutten (Austria)Joaquin Roca (Spain) - Diagnostic and therapeutic devicesJoachim Nagel (Germany)Robert Newcomb (USA)- Therapeutic and diagnostic techniques based on bioelectromagnetic interactionsJaako Malmivuo (Finland)Konstatina S. Nikita (Greece)

HEALTH INFORMATICS, E-HEALTH, TELEMEDICINE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN MEDICINE, BIOINFORMATICS Donna Hudson (USA)Y.T. Zhang (Hong Kong)- Wireless health technologies and body sensor networks, participatory and personal health systemsNigel Lovell (Australia)Nicos Maglaveras (Greece)- mHealth, eHealthRobert Istepanian (UK)Ahmed Morsy (Egypt)- TelemedicineMarcello Bracale (Italy)José Luis Monteagudo (Spain)- Ambient assisted living, smart homesNiilo Saranummi (Finland)Carlos H. Salvador (Spain)- Health information management, electronic health recordMarc Nyssen (Belgium)Montserrat Robles (Spain)- Knowledge discovery and management for personalized health, decision support methods and systemsDonna Hudson (USA)Dimitris Fotiadis (Greece)- Bioinformatics, biomedical informatics, computational biology, synthetic and systems biologyCarmelina Ruggiero (Italy)Pere Caminal (Spain)

BIOMECHANICS, ROBOTICS AND MINIMAL INVASIVE SURGERY Roger Kamm (USA)- Cardiovascular Fluid Mechanics / Respiratory BiomechanicsGerhard Holzapfel (Austria)Manuel Doblaré (Spain)- Prosthetic biomechanics / Rehabilitation roboticsPaolo Bonato (USA) - Robot-aided surgeryAlicia Casals (Spain)Aníbal Ollero (Spain)- Image-guided surgeryThomas Lango (Norway)Enrique J. Gómez (Spain) - Minimal invasive surgery and interventionsFrancisco Sánchez-Margallo (Spain)- Sports biomechanics and human performanceJuan Ribas (Spain)

BIO-MICRO AND BIO-NANO TECHNOLOGIES Shoogo Ueno (Japan)Josep Samitier (Spain) - Internal, implanted therapeutic devicesJordi Aguiló (Spain)- Diagnostic in vitroJosep Samitier (Spain)Zulfiqur Ali (UK) - Bionanotechnology, biosensors, biomems and lab-on-a-chip devicesMeyya Meyyapan (USA)Walter H. Chang (Taiwan)- Therapeutic nanoconjugates and drug delivery systemsJaume Veciana (Spain)- Electrical fields at the cell and protein scaleFrancisco del Pozo (Spain)Damijan Miklavcic (Slovenia)

2nd CALL FOR PAPERS

* The names listed above show the chair distribution by themes and tracks of the International Program Committee

Research and Development ofTechnology for Susainable Healthcare

CONFERENCE COMMITTEES

Conference ChairLaura M. Roa (Spain)Local Organising Committee ChairJavier Reina-Tosina (Spain)Publication CommitteeLaura M. Roa (Spain)Kang-Ping Lin (Taiwan)Igor Lackovic (Croatia)Javier Reina-Tosina (Spain)Young Investigator Competition CommitteeMarcello Bracale (Italy)Fumihiko Kajiya (Japan)Nicolas Pallikarakis (Greece)Joe Barbenel (UK)Enrique J. Gómez (Spain)

International Scientific Committee

Begoña Acha (Spain)Carlos Alberola (Spain)Mariano Alcañiz (Spain)Ricardo L. Armentano (Argentina)Sergio Arana (Spain)Joe Barbenel (UK)Giuseppe Battaglia (UK)Anastasios Bezerianos (Singapore)Ewart Carson (UK)Mario Cifrek (Croatia)Rui Cortesao (Portugal)Hariston Costin (Romania)Gianaurelio Cuniberti (Germany)Stefanie Demirci (Germany)André Dittmar (France)Olaf Doessel (Germany)Jaime Domínguez Abascal (Spain)Kim Dremstrup (Denmark)Christohper Druzgalski (USA)Miguel Ángel Estudillo (Spain)José Carlos Fernández de Aldecoa (Spain)Monique Frize (Canada)Javier García-Casado (Spain)Amit Gefen (Israel)Didier Geiger (France)Beatriz Giraldo (Spain)Balwant Godara (Francia)

Tadeusz Palko (Poland)Alfonso Palma (Spain)Gernot Plank (Austria)Carmen Poon (Hong Kong)Jesús Poza (Spain)Andriana Prentza (Greece)Petia Radeva (Spain)Jose Joaquin Rieta (Spain)José Luis Rojo (Spain)Isabel Román (Spain)Xavier Rosell Ferrer (Spain)Mercedes Salgueira (Spain)Francisco Sánchez Doblado (Spain)Daniel Sánchez Morillo (Spain)Damián Sánchez Quintana (Spain)Roberto Sassi (Italy)Francisco Sepulveda (UK)Carmen Serrano (Spain)Javier Serrano (Spain)Maria Siebes (Netherlands)Slavik Tabakov (UK)Edward Vigmond (France)Karin Wardell (Sweden)Jan Wojcicki (Poland)Xiao Yun Xu (UK)Vicente Zarzoso (France)

Alberto del Guerra (Italy)James C. H. Goh (Singapore)Ferdinando Grandori (Italy)Hiie Hinrikus (Estonia)Ernst Hofer (Austria)Roman Hovorka (UK)Ernesto Iadanza (Italy)David Izquierdo-Garcia (USA)Shankar M. Krishnan (USA)Luis Kun (USA)Damien Lacroix (UK)Rajaram Lakshminarayan (USA)André C. Linnenbank (Netherlands)Miguel López Coronado (Spain)José Alberto Maldonado Segura (Spain)José D. Martín (Spain)Ruben Martín (Spain)José Luis Martínez de Juan (Spain)Marco Masseroli (Italy)Olivier Meste (France)José Millet Roig (Spain)Umberto Morbiducci (Italy)Elena De Momi (Italy)Julio Moreno (Spain)Víctor F. Muñoz (Spain)Klaus Neuder (Germany)Quentin Noirhomme (Belgium)

Proposal of Special Sessions: March 1st 2013

Paper submission: April 26th 2013

Notification of paper acceptance: June 14th, 2013

Final accepted paper submission: June 28th 2013

Keynote Speakers

Systems Analysis of Health and Well Being in the Changing Urban Environment

Dov Jaron (School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health Systems Drexel University)

Pending confirmation

Ratko Magjarevic (University of Zagreb)

Nanotechnology in Biomedical Applications

Meyya Meyyappan (Ames Research Center NASA)

Design, development, training and use of medical devices: with practical examples from cardiovascular medicine and surgery

Alan Murray (Newcastle University)

Collagen scaffold technology for tissue engineering and its application to nerve regeneration

Guenter Rau (RWTH Aachen University)

Student Paper Competition

Papers selected for platform sessions can join the student papercompetition provided that the first author of the paper is a studentfollowing a full undergraduate or PhD program, register for theconference and make the presentation. Prospective authors shouldexpress their will upon paper submission and the papers will qualify forone of three awards selected from the finalists.

Contributed PapersEach contribution must be prepared according to the IFBME Proceedings Series format. Manuscripts should be up tofour (4) pages long and should be submitted electronically in their final form before the paper submission deadline,including an abstract, no longer that 300 words. Submissions must include the title of the paper, each author's nameand affiliation, the suggested topics in which the paper falls, and the IFMBE copyright transfer form. Check theconference website (www.medicon2013.com) for specific information on the electronic submission process, detailedpublication guidelines and templates. All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers from the ScientificInternational Committee under the supervision of the International Program Committee. They will be judged withrespect to their quality, originality, and relevance.

IMPORTANT DATES

Publication

MEDICON 2013 proceedings will be edited within IFMBEProceedings Series, published by Springer. On the other hand, thejournals IEEE Journal on Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI), Micro and Nanosystems Journal, International Journal ofSystem Dynamics Applications (IJSDA), and Journal of Health &Technology will edit an special issue with extended papersselected from manuscripts accepted for the themes Healthinformatics, e-health, telemedicine and information technology inmedicine and Diagnostic in vitro.

Indexing

The IFMBE proceedings are indexed by the following services:EI-CompendexGoogle ScholarINSPECSCImagoSCOPUS

Special Sessions & WorkshopsProspective organizers are invited to submit proposals for special sessions or workshops to theconference technical secretariat e-mail address (medicon2013@pacifico-meetings.com) byMarch 1st, 2013. Proposals must include a topical title, rationale, session/tutorial outline,contact information, and a description of how the session/tutorial will be organized.

The site for the Conference is the Meliá Sevilla Hotel (http://www.melia.com/hotels/spain/seville/melia-sevilla/index.html), in Seville, the capital of Andalusia. Seville has evolved as a melting polt of cultures with an unparallelled artistic heritage as a consequence of its milenary history. Together with its being a key touristic destination, currently it is a modern city with an outstanding projection at the technological research and industry levels, and biomedical research.

MEDICON 2013 incorporates the XXXI Annual Meeting of the Spanish Society of BiomedicalEngineering (CASEIB).

For any queries, contact the technical secretariat:GRUPO PACÍFICO | Benito Mas y Prat, 5 -1ª, Oficina 9 | 41005 Sevilla | Tel. (34) 902.108.542 - (34) 954.98.16.81 | Fax. (34)954.581.200 | medicon2013@pacifico-meetings.com

Currently, the following special sessions proposals have been submitted:

Special Sessions:

• Cardiac Arrhythmia - A Multidisciplinary ApproachChairs: E. Hofer y G. Plank (Medizinische Universität Graz, Austria)

• Special Panel On Medications And Vaccines Safety Chairs: L. Kun (National Defense University, USA)• Standardization, Certification, Quality and Performance of Medical and Healthcare Applications H. Hutten (TU Graz, Austria) y K. Neuder (VDE-DKE, Germany)• Learning as a Functional State of the Brain: Studies in Wild-type and Transgenic AnimalsChairs: J.M. Delgado (Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain)• Clinical and Non-clinical Decision Support Systems in Health CareChair: E. Iadanza (Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy)

Workshops:

• Special Workshop and Panel on Food Safety and SecurityChair: L. Kun (National Defense University, USA)• Research Transfer to Clinical PracticeChair: M. Desco (Hospital General Gregorio Marañon, Madrid)• Patient Safety and Medical DevicesChair: N. Pallikarakis (University of Patras, Greece)

Round Tables:

• The Role of Biomedical Engineers in Health Care Technology AssessmentChairs: N. Pallikarakis (University of Patras, Greece), S. Calill (State Universitty of Campinas, Brazil)• Clinical Engineering Worldwide: Present and Near FutureChairs: N. Pallikarakis (University of Patras, Greece), S. Calill (State Universitty of Campinas, Brazil)• Innovation in the Computerized Exploitation of Big Databases in MedicineOrganizer: J. Moreno (SEIS)

Organization and SponsorshipThe Conference is organized by the Biomedical Engineering Group of the University of Seville,under the sponsorship of the Spanish Society of Biomedical Engineering (SEIB), theInternational Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE) and the University ofSeville.

Technical Sponsors