International Journal of Computers in Healthcare

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Editor in Chief: Dr. Margarita Sordo
ISSN online: 1755-3202
ISSN print: 1755-3199
4 issues per year
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IJCIH is a fully-refereed international quarterly journal publishing original articles concerning the theory and application of the computer to biomedicine and healthcare, with emphasis on novel approaches of wide healthcare significance.

 



 Topics covered include

  • Innovative paradigms and applications of computers in biomedicine and healthcare
  • Knowledge-based systems in biomedicine and healthcare
  • Artificial intelligence and computational intelligence paradigms in biomedicine and healthcare

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Objectives

The main aim of IJCIH is to provide an international forum for exchanging results of original research ideas and concepts in both computer science and artificial intelligence techniques in biomedicine and healthcare. IJCIH focuses on articles that report novel approaches of wide healthcare significance in the areas of decision support systems, medical diagnosis, data mining, e-Health, knowledge management, information retrieval and text mining.


Readership

IJCIH provides a vehicle to help professionals, academics and researchers in medical informatics and healthcare to disseminate the latest application of computer science and artificial intelligence techniques in biomedicine and healthcare.


Contents

IJCIH publishes original research papers, case studies and commentaries with specific emphasis on the use of computer science and artificial intelligence as means to improve healthcare. Special issues of the journal may occasionally be published.


 

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Honorary Editor

  • Jain, Lakhmi C., University of Canberra, Australia
  • Mulvenna, Maurice, University of Ulster, UK
  • Silverman, Barry G., University of Pennsylvania, USA

Editor in Chief

  • Sordo, Margarita, Harvard Medical School, USA
    (msordo@dsg.harvard.edu)

    Executive Editor

    • Zheng, Huiru (Jane), University of Ulster, UK

    EB Members

    • Bianchini, Monica, Universitŕ degli Studi Di Siena, Italy
    • Bichindaritz, Isabelle, University of Washington, Tacoma, USA
    • Cerrito, Patricia B., University of Louisville, USA
    • Combi, Carlo, Universitá degli Studi di Verona, Italy
    • Hongsermeier, Tonya, Partners Healthcare, USA
    • Jenders, Robert A., National Institutes of Health and Georgetown University, USA
    • Koczkodaj, Waldemar W., Laurentian University, Canada
    • Kumar, Vinod, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India
    • Maojo, Victor, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
    • Markey, Mia K., University of Texas, USA
    • Murphy, Shawn, Partners Healthcare System, Inc, USA
    • Nagashino, Hirofumi, University of Tokushima, Japan
    • Peleg, Mor, University of Haifa, Israel
    • Rakus-Andersson, Elisabeth, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
    • Saha, Asit K., Central State University, USA
    • Smith, Stephen L., The University of York, UK
    • Tedman, Raymond, Griffith University, Australia
    • Tsumoto, Shusaku, Shimane University, Japan
    • Uchino, Eiji, Yamaguchi University, Japan
    • Yoshida, Hiro, Harvard Medical School, USA
    • Zhang, Daqing, Institut TELECOM, France

     

    A few essentials for publishing in this journal

     

    • Submitted articles should not have been previously published or be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.
    • Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written (taken to mean more than 50%) and the author has cleared any necessary permissions with the copyright owner if it has been previously copyrighted.
    • All our articles are refereed through a double-blind process.
    • All authors must declare they have read and agreed to the content of the submitted article. A full statement of our Ethical Guidelines for Authors is available.

     

    Submission process

     

    All articles for this journal must be submitted using our online submissions system.

    Read our information on preparing and submitting articles.

     

     

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      A new sleep pattern monitoring system has been developed by UK researchers to help spot sleep disturbance in people diagnosed with early dementia. The system, known as PAViS, could be used remotely by healthcare workers to view sleep profiles and analyse sleep patterns based on sensory data gathered at the patients home. Writing in the [...]

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      17 - 19 July 2013
      University of Piraeus, Greece


      Selected authors will be invited to elaborate on their research topic and submit the results to the journal.