<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><font color="#000000">Dear Colleague,<br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><br>the journal Biomedical Signal Processing and Control Journal (IF 3.137, <a href="https://www.journals.elsevier.com/biomedical-signal-processing-and-control" target="_blank">https://www.journals.elsevier.com/biomedical-signal-processing-and-control</a>) is currently running a Special Issue entitled “<font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap">Analysis of 1D Biomedical signals </span><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap">through AI based approaches for Image processing</span></font>”, which is now open for submissions:<br><br><a href="https://www.journals.elsevier.com/biomedical-signal-processing-and-control/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-analysis-of-1d-biomedical-signals" target="_blank">https://www.journals.elsevier.com/biomedical-signal-processing-and-control/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-analysis-of-1d-biomedical-signals</a><br><br></font><div><div><font color="#000000">Please, find below the Call for Papers of this Special Issue.</font></div></div><div><font color="#000000">I hope it is interesting for you.<br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">I apologize if you received multiple copies of this CFP.<br></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><span id="gmail-m_-3245259542795353548gmail-m_7145173646786914634gmail-m_-3117822388648912433gmail-m_-1696461757410157751gmail-m_765997614273296418gmail-m_-7763566246907329787gmail-m_2688994456832890162gmail-m_-6305994789643278334gmail-m_9167133868363381140gmail-m_-7809341873145577568m_-4589607141362099426m_-2256809541948537821m_-1666365252266146640m_-9217969569047954088m_-727735370224972622m_-5287986551915671060gmail-m_-7251599967588600501gmail-m_-1925816350505324952gmail-m_-5748922099958557540gmail-m_4697054795056570273gmail-m_-4690175334868768140gmail-m_8115472064174741211gmail-m_4632993770331451371gmail-m_-5638802640982446187gmail-m_6906389232774243619gmail-m_-2029777749910928951gmail-m_1079505032977647119gmail-m_973414682892458354gmail-m_1020098701503658731m_2152507018625270798gmail-docs-internal-guid-e0e0cc3c-7fff-046e-d831-3e346ed78368"><font color="#000000"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">***************************************************</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING AND CONTROL JOURNAL </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Elsevier - Impact Factor: 3.137</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Special Issue on Analysis of 1D Biomedical signals </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">through AI based approaches for Image processing</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">------------------------------------------</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The human body is a complex electro-mechanical system that generates electrical, mechanical, thermal, and other signals that we normally call Biomedical Signals. ECG, EMG, PCG, PPG, BCG, skin temperature, and skin conductance are some of the 1D biomedical signals examples that record the dynamic changes of the human body, and that can also be monitored by the use of smart wearables.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The automatic analysis of biomedical signals has become an important process to both identify indicators of diseased states and to provide meaningful information for various applications in physiology, sports medicine and human–computer interface.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have the potential to manage and analyze large biomedical datasets leading to the clinical decisions and real-time applications. These techniques have been applied successfully to medical imaging, but the analysis of 1D biomedical signals has yet to fully benefit from this novel approach.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Biomedical Signal and Image Processing include the analysis, classification, and manipulation of signals by means of operations like filtering, compression, feature extraction, enhancement and spectral analysis. Under such conditions, the use of computational innovative techniques based on the convergence of signal and image processing will help us to get new solutions to the real-world challenges.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This Special Issue is aimed at sharing the innovative ideas and algorithms in the Biomedical Signal and Image processing domain. Precisely, the objective of this Special Issue is to focus the attention on emerging methods and techniques based on the transformation of biomedical signals into images and their processing through AI based image processing approaches. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">With this mission, the principal aim of this Special Issue is to collect original contributions as either research papers or comprehensive reviews that address and discuss the impact and relevance of signals and images processing in research and applicative areas such as:</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">•</span><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  </span><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">•</span><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">   </span><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Cardiovascular Signals Processing </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">•</span><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">      </span><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Medical Signal Acquisition, Analysis and Processing </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">•</span><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">    </span><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Motion Control </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">•</span><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Physiological Processes and Biomedical signal Modeling</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">•</span><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">   </span><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Neural Networks for Biomedical Data </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">•</span><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">    </span><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Pattern Recognition & Machine Learning for Biomedical Data </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">•</span><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Biomedical signals from wearable sensors and systems </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">•</span><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">   </span><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Real-Time Systems & Biomedical-Based User Interfaces </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">•</span><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">       </span><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Internet of Health Things</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">•</span><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">        </span><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Detection and Identification of diseases</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">•</span><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Electromagnetic Fields in Biology and Medicine </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">•</span><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Others</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">all referred to processing of 1D Biomedical Signals as images.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Guest Editors</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dr. Giovanna Sannino – ICAR - CNR, Italy - <a href="mailto:giovanna.sannino@icar.cnr.it" target="_blank">giovanna.sannino@icar.cnr.it</a> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dr. Nadia Brancati – ICAR - CNR, Italy - <a href="mailto:nadia.brancati@icar.cnr.it" target="_blank">nadia.brancati@icar.cnr.it</a> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Prof. Alfred M. Bruckstein – Dep. of Computer Science, Technion IIT, Haifa, Israel - <a href="mailto:freddy@cs.technion.ac.il" target="_blank">freddy@cs.technion.ac.il</a> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dr. Maria Frucci – ICAR - CNR, Italy - <a href="mailto:maria.frucci@icar.cnr.it" target="_blank">maria.frucci@icar.cnr.it</a> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Prof. Daniel Riccio – University of Naples Federico II, Italy - <a href="mailto:daniel.riccio@unina.it" target="_blank">daniel.riccio@unina.it</a> </span></p><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Key Dates</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Manuscript submission due: March 30, 2021</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">First Review Results: June 30, 2021</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Final Review and Decision: October 30, 2021</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Publication date: 4th Quarter 2021</span></p><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Courier,monospace;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For all information: <a href="https://www.journals.elsevier.com/biomedical-signal-processing-and-control/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-analysis-of-1d-biomedical-signals" target="_blank">https://www.journals.elsevier.com/biomedical-signal-processing-and-control/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-analysis-of-1d-biomedical-signals</a></span></p></font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>