Call for chapters in the book entitled "Wireless Technologies for Biomedical Applications", to be published by CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group. The book will be a part of the Prospects in Biomedical Engineering and Applications – P-BioMed, book series.
Introduction
Healthcare is a primary concern for technology which works collaboratively to enhance human’s quality of life. Innovations in Artificial Intelligence, Electronics, Information Theory and Wearable Computing complement each other to provide an arsenal of healthcare services and biomedical applications. Wireless networks are crucial for the interaction between these components, thus making it one of digital healthcare’s important pillars.
Objective
Considering the importance of Wireless networks in healthcare, this book is dedicated to studying the innovations and advancements of wireless networks for biomedical application and its impact. Recent advanced research in healthcare and biomedical applications are welcome. These contributions are focused on Body Sensor Networks, Mobile Networks, Internet of Things, Mobile Cloud Computing, Pervasive Computing and Wearable Computing, as well as, significant depth surveys and reviews about healthcare applications. These topics will be of interest to readers from diverse groups of audience in different areas of specialty as telecommunication, electronics and computer engineering, technologists, and non-specialist readers.
Topics of interest include, but not limited to:
- Mobile cloud computing for healthcare
- IoT for healthcare
- Machine Learning in wireless technologies for healthcare
- 5G spectrum slicing for medical applications
- 5G for Remote health monitoring: Vital signs, location, and video monitoring
- LTE-M for medical applications
- LoRaWAN for medical applications
- OpenRAN for medical applications
- Body Sensor Networks/Body Area Networks
- Data Quality, prediction and compression in Body Sensor Networks/Body Area Networks
- Remote health risk assessment
- Activity recognition based on Body Sensor Networks
- Health monitoring in underwater environments
- Pervasive and wearable computing for healthcare
- Privacy of shared healthcare data
- Policy of 5G and healthcare
Submission Guidelines
The chapter proposal submission deadline is July 31, 2020 (an abstract proposal submission of 500 to 800 words) and the submission deadline for full chapters is November 30, 2020. When emailing your abstract proposal, please indicate the title and the area in which your proposal fits. Corresponding authors should insert an “*” after their names.
Prospective authors are required to submit their contributions through email to: abdallah.makhoul@univ-fcomte.fr
Important Dates:
Chapter proposal submission due: July 31, 2020
Notification to authors: August 31, 2020
Full chapter due: November 30, 2020
Chapter acceptance notification: December 15, 2020
Manuscript completion date: January 15, 2021
Editors:
Abdallah Makhoul, Full Professor, FEMTO-ST, University of Bourgogne Franche-Comté, France
Jacques Bou Abdo, Assistant Professor, Notre Dame University, Lebanon
Jacques Demerjian, Full Professor, LaRRIS, Faculty of Sciences, Lebanese University, Lebanon