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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=PT link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>Dear Colleague,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>The following special issue of which I am the guest editor will be published in Applied Sciences (</span><a href="http://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN;text-decoration:none'>http://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci</span></a><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>), and is now open to receive submissions of full research articles and comprehensive review papers for peer-review and possible publication:</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>Special Issue: <a name="_Hlk29300136"><b>"</b>Radiogenomics: From Imaging to Genotype Characterization<b>"</b></a><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>Website:</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif'> </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/Radiogenomics_Genotype_Characterization<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Hélder P. Oliveira (Portugal)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>Prof. Dr. António Cunha (</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>Portugal) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>Dr. Tania Pereira (</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>Portugal)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>This Special Issue of Applied Sciences will focus on the </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif'>novel radiogenomics approaches.</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;color:#222222;background:white;mso-fareast-language:DE'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;color:#222222;background:white'>We invite prospective authors to submit innovative and high-quality papers with original perspectives on the</span><span lang=EN-GB> radiogenomics </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;color:#222222;background:white'>related topics.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif'>It is open to both original research articles and review articles covering all the relevant progress in these fields (though is not limited to the following):</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:DE'><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>radiogenomics</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>medical imaging<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>computer vision<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>artificial intelligence<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>deep learning<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>machine learning<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>genotype characterization<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>cancer<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>computer-aided diagnosis<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>decision support tools<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>Applied Sciences is an online, peer-reviewed, open access journal, published quarterly by MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland. The journal is covered by Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science) [search for "Applied Sciences-Basel"], Scopus, INSPEC (IET) and other databases. <a name="_Hlk29300542">manuscripts are peer-reviewed and a first decision provided to authors approximately 17 days after submission; acceptance to publication is undertaken in 5.7 days (median values for papers published in the first six months of 2018).</a></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk29300542'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk29300542'></span><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>An Article Processing Charges (APC) of 2000 CHF for Applied Sciences apply to accepted papers. You may be entitled to a discount if you have previously received a discount code or if your institute has established an institutional membership with MDPI, for more information see http://www.mdpi.com/about/memberships. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/instructions"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>http://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/instructions</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>If you are interested in submission, please feel free to contact with the assistant editor Nimo Lang (</span><a href="mailto:nimo.lang@mdpi.com"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>nimo.lang@mdpi.com</span></a><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>We look forward to hearing back from you soon.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>Hélder Oliveira<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>Manager of the </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>Visual Computing and Machine Intelligence </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>Area at INESC TEC<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>Senior Researcher, PhD, Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia at INESC TEC<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>Co-Coordinator Data Science Hub at INESC TEC<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>Invited Assistant Professor, FCUP<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>Tel: +351 222094306<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>http://www.inescporto.pt/~hfpo/<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>http://vcmi.inesctec.pt/<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>http://medicalresearch.inescporto.pt/breastresearch</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>/</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>