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mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#0070C0;mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">IJCNN Special Session
on</span></b></p>
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1" align="center"><b><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Algorithms of Machine
Learning and Artificial
Intelligence Applied for Biomedical Data Processing</span></b></p>
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mso-outline-level:3" align="center"><b><span
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mso-themeshade:64;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">IEEE
International Joint Conference
on Neural Networks (IJCNN) </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;mso-outline-level:
4" align="center"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#3B3838;mso-themecolor:background2;
mso-themeshade:64;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">July
18-22, 2021, Shenzhen, China (Virtual
Event)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:10.0pt;mso-outline-level:3"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
minor-latin;color:#0070C0;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Scope and Aim</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:6.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-outline-level:
3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Biomedical data
processing involves the treatment of the physiological
electrical activities
measured using sensors placed on a living thing and also the
medical imaging,
allowing to provide useful process for abnormality detection
and diagnosis
purposes. Recently, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine
Learning (ML) have
received a great attention to solve difficult and complex
problems related to
biosignal and medical image processing; where the traditional
signal/image
processing algorithms and conventional machine learning
techniques have shown
their limitations to solve such problems. Indeed, the recent
advances in this
area have brought an impressive progress to solve several
practical and
difficult problems in many fields including medicine,
healthcare, e-health,
neuroscience, brain-computer interface (BCI), neurofeedback,
robotics, robotic
exoskeletons and biometrics, etc. In this context, the
advanced artificial
learning and ML techniques such as deep learning,
reinforcement learning, deep
reinforcement learning, statistical learning have shown their
effectiveness to
resolve various problems of detection, classification,
clustering,
segmentation, control, diagnosis, etc.; and thus, becomes
useful solutions to
be investigated more for other open problems. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:6.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-outline-level:
3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">The aim of this
special session is to bring together researchers and
scientists in the fields
of biomedical signal and image processing, AI and ML, to
present and discuss
the recent advances on artificial learning/ML algorithms and
methods applied for
biomedical data processing.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;mso-outline-level:3"><b><span
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lang="EN-US">Topics</span></b></p>
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style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">The main
topics that are of interest to this special session include,
but are not
limited to:</span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1
lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">AI for biomedical signal and medical image
processing</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1
lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">ML for biomedical signal and medical image
processing </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1
lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Feature engineering for ML applied for
biomedical signal and medical image processing</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1
lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Advanced algorithms of ML for biomedical data
processing (e.g., deep learning, reinforcement learning,
deep reinforcement learning, statistical learning...) </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1
lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Biomedical data processing in Big Data</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1
lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Advanced biomedical data processing methods
with application in medicine, healthcare, e-health,
neuroscience, BCI, neurofeedback, robotics, robotic
exoskeletons, biometrics, etc.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1
lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Related applications</span></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;mso-outline-level:3"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
minor-latin;color:#0070C0;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Important Dates</span></b></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1
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style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Paper submission: <b>January 15, 2021</b>
(Extended to <b><span style="color:red">February 10, 2021</span></b><span
style="color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1
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style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Decision notifications: <b>April 10, 2021</b></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1
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style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Camera-ready submission of accepted papers: <b>April
25, 2021</b></span></li>
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style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Conference: <b>July 18-22, 2021 </b>(Virtual
Event)</span></li>
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style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
minor-latin;color:#0070C0;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Submission Guidelines</span></b></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1
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style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
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lang="EN-US">Guidelines for paper submission: <span
style="color:#0070C0"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ijcnn.org/paper-submission-2021">https://www.ijcnn.org/paper-submission-2021</a></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1
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style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Submission link: <span style="color:#0070C0"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ieee-cis.org/conferences/ijcnn2021/upload.php">https://ieee-cis.org/conferences/ijcnn2021/upload.php</a></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1
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style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">To submit your paper to this special session,
you will choose our special session <b><span
style="color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">“S15.
Algorithms of Machine Learning and Artificial
Intelligence Applied for Biomedical Data Processing”</span></b><span
style="color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"> </span>on the
submission page</span></li>
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href="https://cis.org/conferences/ijcnn2021/upload.php"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
color:#0070C0;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"
lang="EN-US">https://ieee-cis.org/conferences/ijcnn2021/upload.php
</span></a><span
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;mso-outline-level:3"><b><span
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lang="EN-US">A selection of
accepted papers will be invited for publication in a special
issue of a SCOPUS
indexed journal (to be announced).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:10.0pt"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#0070C0;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Larbi Boubchir </span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
color:#767171;mso-themecolor:background2;mso-themeshade:128;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US" lang="EN-US">(Lead Organizer) </span><span
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LIASD research Lab., Department
of Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence,
University of Paris 8,
France </span></i><span
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Intelligence</span>, University
of Paris 8, France </span></i></p>
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style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
minor-latin;color:#0070C0;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Contact and information</span></b><b><span
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href="http://www.ai.univ-paris8.fr/~boubchir/SS/ss-ijcnn2020.html"><span
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EN-US" lang="EN-US">http://www.ai.univ-paris8.fr/~boubchir/SS/ss-ijcnn2021.html</span></a><span
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<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Larbi Boubchir, PhD,
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