Nowadays, Multimedia and Pattern Recognition based medical technology is becoming a hot topic, which can explore and utilize multimedia information from multiple sources, including video streams, images, voice, heartbeat and blood pressure data. Based on these kinds of technologies, medical device is able to percept, process in real-time, analyze and evaluate multi-source and multi-dimensional data, thus has been widely used in disease diagnosis, rehabilitation, health monitoring, assisted surgery and other medical area. Many of these applications require the multimedia and pattern recognition paradigm using medical sensors. The notion of neurocomputing is becoming a reality with the development of variety of multimedia technologies. The intelligence functions of multimedia and pattern recognition technologies can be applied to Smart Hospital, Smart Clinic, Smart Medical Application for Individual. Accordingly, the assessment and evaluation methods need to be developed and involved into the iterative designing process.

This special issue calls for high quality, up-to-date technology related to medical technology based on multimedia and pattern recognition and serves as a forum for researchers all over the world to discuss their works and recent advances in multimedia/pattern recognition medical technology or device and its clinical applications. Both research paper and review paper are welcome for submission. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and selected on the basis of both their quality and their relevance to the theme of this special issue.

The list of possible topics includes, but not limited to:

Machine Learning and Neurocomputing in Medical Technology
Novel Multimedia and Pattern Recognition Technology
Wearable , Multimodal and Multiple Sensor Device
Neural Networks and Learning Systems
Sparse Coding, Learning-to-Rank, Bag-of-Features
Internet of Things/Cloud Computing Based Medicine
Multimedia Signal Processing and 3D video pre/post-processing
Stereoscopic 3D Image and/or Video quality Assessment
Bio-optics and Health Monitoring
Pervasive and Ubiquitous Technology for Medicine
Virtual Rehabilitation and Its Efficacy Evaluation
Ultra-wideband (UWB) Radar Imaging for Healthcare
Virtual Reality/ Augmented Reality and Human-Computer Interaction
Virtual Avatar and Virtual Body/Self Representation
Wireless and Internet-of-Things Technology for Medicine
Serious Game for Clinical Purpose
Neuroathome Related Production
All Medical Technologies Related to Multimedia and Pattern Recognition
Timeline

Expected First Submission: October 1, 2015
First Submission Deadline: January 1, 2016.
First Review Round: March 1 2016.
Acceptance Deadline: May 1, 2016.
Expected Publication Date: July 1, 2016.
Submission Instruction

Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Guide for Authors available from the online submission page of the Neurocomputing journal (Impact Factor: 2.083) at http://www.journals.elsevier.com/neurocomputing/. Authors should choose “SI: MTBMPR” under Article Type. All the papers will be peer-reviewed following the Neurocomputing reviewing procedures.

Guest Editors

Zhihan Lv (Managing), Fundación FIVAN, Valencia, Spain.
Jim Jingyan Wang, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia.
Tengfei Yin, Susex University, UK.