CALL FOR PAPERS NEW JOURNAL … from TSI Press, USA International Journal of Intelligent Computing in Medical Sciences and Image Processing IC-MED Founding editor-in-chief: Yutaka Hata, University of Hyogo, Japan, hata@ieee.org Advisory Committee Chair: Mo Jamshidi, University of Texas, USA, moj@wacong.org Advisory Committee Members: Lotfi Zadeh, USA Madan Gupta, Canada Janusz Kacprzyk, Poland Isabelle Bloch, France Nikhil R. Pal, India Erzsébet Merényi, USA Cathy Helgason, USA Madjid Fathi, Germany Shusaku Tsumoto, Japan Yuri T. Kitamura, Japan Sam Pourbabak, USA Sos Agaian, USA C. C. Nguyen, USA Board of Associate Editors: Ray Hashemi, USA Shoji Hirano, Japan Syoji Kobashi, Japan Katsuya Kondo, Japan Jean Liu, USA Yuko M. Mizuno, Japan Kouki Nagamune, Japan Hajime Nobuhara, Japan Tao Song, USA Yan Wang, USA Yi-ping Phoebe Chen, Australia Nicolas W. Chbat, USA Prof. Abdel-Badeeh M. Salem, Egypt Special issue proposal is welcome, For detail information: http://wacong.org/ic-med.html Scope International Journal of Intelligent Computing in Medical Sciences and Image Processing is published by TSI Press, the publisher of the AutoSoft Journal, beginning 2007. The focus is to publish the highest quality research in Intelligent Computing application and convergence of the areas of medical sciences and/or image processing. The Intelligent Computing includes Soft Computing (Computational Intelligence) and AI for a wide range of information analysis and knowledge acquisition applications. Intelligent computing in Medical sciences has a focus on computational and logic methods for various medical sciences. This Journal also aims at publishing research, which enables the implementation of a prototype system for various images. Authors are encouraged to submit papers that deal with theory, design, system and application in these areas. The topics include, but are not limited to, the followings: ・ Medical informatics ・ Physiological modeling ・ Biomedical informatics ・ Hospital information systems ・ Image processing ・ Clinical decision, and decision support, systems ・ Physiological and clinical data mining ・ Medical sensors/actuators/devices Instructions for Contributors The journal will consider two types of papers: articles and short papers. Articles will be full-length papers (between 8-16 pages in length) reporting original contributions or significant results. Short papers (between 5-8 typeset pages in length) present new ideas, preliminary and brief results. Papers emphasizing applications are especially welcome. Prospective authors should submit the pdf file of previously unpublished papers to the the Editor-In-Chief. To facilitate communication, the address, phone number, fax number, and email address of the corresponding author should be given at the time of paper submission. Papers should be written in English and arranged in the following order: 1) title of the paper, 2) name of all authors with affiliations and mailing address for each author, 3) an abstract (50-100 words) containing the purpose, scope, contribution of the paper, 4) up to 10 keywords with the first keyword being the most pertinent one, 5) introduction, 6) main body of the paper divided into sections and subsections where appropriate, 7) conclusion, 8) references, 9) appendices (if any). Submitted papers should be typed on standard 8.5 x 11" paper, one side only. Use a Roman typeface for your manuscript whenever possible (i.e., Times or Times Roman). All paragraphs in the manuscript should be double spaced and typed flush with the left. Do not indent paragraphs, but allow extra space between them. Italicize words to be printed in italics and bold words to be printed in bold. Both equations and figures must be numbered sequentially using Arabic numerals. Captions for figures should be in sentence format with the format with the first word capitalized and a period at the end. Please provide a separate list (separate from the text) of all captions. Equations should be numbered sequentially with the number enclosed in parenthesis and placed at the right margin. References should be listed separately at the back of the paper and numbered sequentially to match the notes within the text. Type each reference note using brackets, e.g. [2]. Please remember that every note in the text should have a corresponding note in the reference list. Type the reference list in the following manner: (for books, single author) Author’s Last Name, First Name/Initial. Title of Book (italicized). Publisher’s Name, Year of Publication, pp.222-233. (for journals) Author’s Last Name, First Name or Initial, "Title of Article (in quotes)." Name of Journal (italicized). Publisher’s Name, Month and Year, pp.23-26. The pdf file of the paper should be sent to the Editor-in-Chief: Yutaka HATA