The purpose of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing is to bring together researchers and practitioners from multiple areas of knowledge, including biology, medicine, engineering and other physical sciences, interested in studying and using models and techniques inspired from or applied to biological systems. A diversity of signal types can be found in this area, including image, audio and other biological sources of information. The analysis and use of these signals is a multidisciplinary area including signal processing, pattern recognition and computational intelligence techniques, amongst others.

BIOSIGNALS encourages authors to submit papers to one of the main topics indicated below, describing original work, including methods, techniques, advanced prototypes, applications, systems, tools or survey papers, reporting research results and/or indicating future directions. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference by one of the authors and published in the proceedings. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. There will be both oral and poster sessions.
The proceedings will be indexed by several major international indexers.
Special sessions are also welcome. Please contact the secretariat for further information on how to propose a special session.

• Medical Signal Acquisition, Analysis and Processing
• Wearable Sensors and Systems
• Real-time Systems
• Biometrics
• Pattern Recognition
• Fuzzy Systems and Signals
• Evolutionary Systems
• Neural Networks
• Speech Recognition
• Acoustic Signal Processing
• Time and Frequency Response
• Wavelet Transform
• Medical Image Detection, Acquisition, Analysis and Processing
• Physiological Processes and Bio-signal Modeling, Non-linear Dynamics
• Monitoring and Telemetry
• Cybernetics and User Interface Technologies
• Electromagnetic Fields in Biology and Medicine
• Cardiovascular Signals
• Image Analysis and Processing
• Detection and Identification
• Motion Control

José C. Príncipe, University of Florida, U.S.A.
Richard Bayford, Middlesex University, U.K.
Jan Cabri, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Norway
Mamede de Carvalho, Institute of Molecular Medicine - University of Lisbon, Portugal
Franco Docchio, Università degli studi di Brescia, Italy
Miguel Castelo Branco, University of Coimbra, Portugal

All accepted papers (full, short and posters) will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/). SciTePress is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).
A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series book.
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP and EI (Elsevier Index).

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Sabine Van Huffel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Oliver Amft, TU Eindhoven, Netherlands
Peter Bentley, UCL, United Kingdom
Egon L. van den Broek, Human-Centered Computing Consultancy / University of Twente / Radboud UMC Nijmegen, Netherlands
Tolga Can, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Francis Castanie, TeSA, France
M. Emre Celebi, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, United States
Jan Cornelis, VUB, Belgium
Carlos Correia, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Rezarta Islamaj Dogan, National Institutes of Health, United States
Jose-Jesus Fernandez, National Centre for Biotechnology (CNB), National Research Council (CSIC), Spain
Hugo Gamboa, CEFITEC / FCT - New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Juan I. Godino-Llorente, Dept. Ingeniería de Circuitos y Sistemas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Verena Hafner, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Saman Halgamuge, University of Melbourne, Australia
Thomas Hinze, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Germany
Huosheng Hu, University of Essex, United Kingdom
Sabine Van Huffel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Bart Jansen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Herbert Jelinek, Charles Sturt University, Australia
Pasi Karjalainen, University of Eastern Finland, Finland
Georgios Kontaxakis, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Vaclav Kremen, Czech Technical Universtity in Prague, Czech Republic
KiYoung Lee, AJOU University School of Medicine, Korea, Republic of
Alexandre Luís Magalhães Levada, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil
Lenka Lhotska, Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Republic
Hari Krishna Maganti, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy
Dimitrios Makrakis, University of Ottawa, Canada
Emanuela Marasco, West Virginia University, United States
Kostas Marias, FORTH-ICS, Greece
G. K. Matsopoulos, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Paul Meehan, The University of Queensland, Australia
Mihaela Morega, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Romania
Kayvan Najarian, Virgina Commonwealth University, United States
Baikunth Nath, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Nicoletta Nicolaou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Kazuhiro Oiwa, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Krzysztof Pancerz, University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow, Poland
George Panoutsos, The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Joao Papa, UNESP - Univ Estadual Paulista, Brazil
Sever Pasca, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Shahram Payandeh, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Gennaro Percannella, University of Salerno, Italy
Ernesto Pereda, University La Laguna, Spain
Octavian Postolache, Institute of Telecommunications, Portugal
Ales Prochazka, Institute of Chemical Technology, Czech Republic
Dick de Ridder, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
José Joaquín Rieta, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Marcos Rodrigues, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom
Heather Ruskin, Dublin City University, Ireland
Carlo Sansone, University of Naples, Italy
Andres Santos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Gerald Schaefer, Loughborough University, United Kingdom
Peter Schelkens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium
Emanuele Schiavi, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Tapio Seppänen, University of Oulu, Finland
Jordi Solé-Casals, University of Vic, Spain
Olga Sourina, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Daby Sow, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, United States
Asser Tantawi, IBM, United States
Wallapak Tavanapong, Iowa State University, United States
Petr Tichavsky, Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Republic
Duygu Tosun, Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, United States
Carlos M. Travieso, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Mahdi Triki, Philips Research Laboratories, Netherlands
Bart Vanrumste, Katholieke Hogeschool Kempen/ Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Aniket Vartak, Qualcomm Incorporated, United States
Michal Vavrecka, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
Anastasios Venetsanopoulos, Ryerson University, Canada
Eric Wade, USC Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy, United States
Yuanyuan Wang, Fudan University, China
Takashi Watanabe, Tohoku University, Japan
Quan Wen, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Huiyu Zhou, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom
Li Zhuo, Beijing University of Technology, China