Brain-Machine/Brain-Computer Interfaces (BMI/BCI) IEEE CAS-FEST Workshop Rio de Janeiro, Brazil May 15th 2011

Organizing Committee
General Chair
Mohamad Sawan, Canada.

Call for Papers & Participation

Technical Program Co-Chairs

Pedram Mohseni, USA. Paul Sajda, USA. Justin Sanchez, USA.

rain-Machine Interfaces (BMI) and Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) are emerging topics, which cover many disciplines, from signal processing to biomedical engineering. These devices and algorithms translate physiological activity into machine language, which can be used to restore or enhance, either partially or completely, the human perceptive or sensory-motor functions. Their numerous applications and fervent reception in the medical community have turned BMI into one of the most dynamic and interesting topics in the IEEE community. The implementation of complete BMIs offers many circuits and systems design challenges, which include neural sensors, wireless transmission, harvesting energy, signal processing activities, low-power and low-voltage circuits, material sciences and biocompatibility. The research community is now especially focused on the implementation of wireless sensors and biosignal processing. The second CAS-FEST event is organized jointly by the following IEEE Societies: Circuits and Systems (CAS), Engineering, Medicine and Biology (EMB), and Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC). It welcomes contributions in current and emerging topics related to the state-of-the-art and future directions of the BMIs/BCIs. The goal of this joint event is to bring together the research community in this area from the CAS, EMB, and SMC Societies under a single roof for a fruitful coordination, promoting a cross-fertilization of ideas and state-of-the-art research activities. The workshop is a one-day event and will be held on May 15th, 2011, in conjunction with ISCAS 2011, at the Windsor Barra Hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The forum is organized in a single track to intensively cover one focus area at each meeting. CAS-FEST events are high-impact, high-quality technical forum, aiming to match the quality of accepted papers with high quality of presentations. It is required that the presenter of each paper, who must be identified upon submission, should be the most experienced author of the paper. Submitted papers might be authored by students, but accepted papers must be presented by their research advisors, unless all authors are students. Authors are invited to submit a 4-page initial version of papers in IEEE 2-colomn format at the following website http://www.casfest2011.org. An extended version of accepted CAS-FEST 2011 papers should follow submission procedure of the JETCAS. The accepted papers will be published in the December 2011 issue of the new IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS). The program of the 2011 CAS-FEST workshop will consist of keynotes, as well as oral, and poster sessions of original contributions. The prospective authors are invited to submit papers on scientific and technical interest of the following topics (but not limited to): 1. Brain-machine interface, brain-computer interface 2. Bioinspired, biomedical circuits and systems 3. Biomedical instrumentation and imaging technologies 4. Biosensor devices and interfaces 5. Biosignal and bioimage processing, and bioinformatics 6. Body area networks/body sensor networks 7. Electronics for brain science, and implantable electronics 8. Functional Electrical Neuromuscular Stimulation 9. Harvesting/scavenging energy 10. Lab-on-chip for diagnostic, and drug delivery devices 11. Medical information, and healthcare systems 12. Neural data recording, sorting, detection, and compression Microsystems Strategic Alliance of Quebec 13. Sensor array and multichannel systems 14. Wireless technology for medicine, biology, and life sciences Important dates + Paper submission March 1, 2011 + Paper submission (initial version) (revised version) + Notification of acceptance April 15, 2011 + Notification of acceptance (CAS-FEST) (JETCAS) + Meeting Date May 15, 2011

Technical committee
Andreas G. Andreou, USA. Niels Birbaumer, Germany. Eugenio Culurciello, USA. Ralph Etienne-Cummings, USA. Eberhard Fetz, USA. Roman Genov, Canada. Julius Georgiou, Cyprus. Maysam Ghovanloo, USA. Anas Hamoui, Canada. Reid Harrison, USA. Nikos Hatsopoulos, USA. Giacomo Indiveri, Switzerland. Gerald Loeb, USA. Nikos Logothetis, Germany. Pedram Mohseni, USA. F.A. (Sandro) Mussa-Ivaldi, USA. Richard Normann, USA. Miguel Nicolelis, USA. Karim Oweiss, USA. John Pezaris, USA. Barry Richmond, USA. Alexa Riehle, France. Khaled N. Salama, Saudi Arabia. Mohamad Sawan, Canada. Andrew Schwartz, USA. Gianluca Setti, Italy. Nitish V. Thakor, USA. Chris Toumazou, UK. Zhihua Wang, China.

Request for information

Tel: +1 514 340 4711, x5943 Fax: +1 514 340 4147 mohamad.sawan@polymtl.ca

June 1, 2011 July 15, 2011

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