IEEE EMBS Special Topic Conferences Call for Papers and Registration - WebSites Now Open for Submissions 4th Annual Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine (ITAB 2003) April 24-26, 2003 Birmingham, England Program topics (regular and invited sessions and posters) are invited which meet the following ITAB 2003 themes: Bioinformatics, genomics, and neuroinformatics Mobile Healthcare technologies E-Health internetworking and home healthcare Clinical knowledge management Ethical, legal, and security aspects Education and training methodologies Advances in digital hospitals and EHR/EPR issues Computational biology and high performance computing Multimedia, virtual reality, visualization, and advanced imaging Integrated-care pathways Intelligent systems in diagnosis, prognosis, and patient management Clinical terminology and ontologies Registration and paper submission can be done at the conference website: http://www.mis.coventry.ac.uk/biocore/itab2003 1st Annual Conference on Neural Engineering (NER2003) March 20-23, 2003 Capri Island, Italy Neural engineering is an emerging discipline to understand the organizational principles and underlying mechanisms of the biology of neural systems and to study the behavior dynamics and complexity of neural systems in nature. It coalesces the engineering including electronic and photonic technologies, computer science, physics, chemistry, and mathematics with the molecular, systems, cellular, cognitive and behavioral neuroscience. Brain & Neurons Artificial Implants/Neural Prostheses Biological Neural Networks Control of Neurological Systems Neural Signal Processing Neural Informatics Brain Imaging Brain-Computer Interface Virtual and Augmented Reality in Brain Surgery, Diganosis, and Treatment Registration and paper submission can be done at the conference website: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~ne2003/