<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">Dear Researchers,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">Good day to you. Currently, we are accepting the high-quality book chapters for our upcoming edited book in <b><i><span style="color:rgb(192,0,0)">Springer,</span></i></b> titled, <b><i><span style="color:rgb(192,0,0)">Biomedical signal-based computer-aided diagnosis for neurological disorders</span></i></b>. Please see below for more information. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">We invite you and your network connections to consider submitting a high-quality paper related to the aim and scope of this book for possible publication. If possible, you could share this CFP in your network for their possible contribution. Please feel free to contact us, if you have any questions.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,32,96);font-weight:bold">Submission link: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(192,0,0)"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bscadnd2021" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bscadnd2021</a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(192,0,0)">   </span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri"><font color="#000000">Any queries,</font></span><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri"> please feel free to write to us at </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:bold"><a href="mailto:bookchapter.bscad@gmail.com" target="_blank">bookchapter.bscad@gmail.com</a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:bold"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri">and CC to </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:bold"><a href="mailto:m.murugappan@kcst.edu.kw" target="_blank">m.murugappan@kcst.edu.kw</a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:bold"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri">; </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:bold"><a href="mailto:yuvaraj.rajamanickam@nie.edu.sg" target="_blank">yuvaraj.rajamanickam@nie.edu.sg</a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:bold">. </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB"><br></span></p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-weight:bold"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Major topics to be included in the book are:</font></span></p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"></p><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.1in;text-align:justify;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">•<span style="color:black">Introduction to neurological disorders (ND) and biomedical signal processing.</span></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.1in;text-align:justify;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">•<span style="color:black">Basic principles of CAD in ND diagnosis.</span></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.1in;text-align:justify;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">•<span style="color:black">Characterization of biomedical signals in ND.</span></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.1in;text-align:justify;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">•<span style="color:black">Feature engineering and optimization.</span></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.1in;text-align:justify;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">•<span style="color:black">Machine learning techniques in CAD for ND</span></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.1in;text-align:justify;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">•<span style="color:black">Deep learning algorithms in CAD for ND</span></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.1in;text-align:justify;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">•<span style="color:black">Neural network applications in CAD for ND</span></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.1in;text-align:justify;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">•<span style="color:black">Fuzzy logic and optimization techniques</span></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.1in;text-align:justify;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">•<span style="color:black">Supervised and unsupervised learning</span></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.1in;text-align:justify;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">•<span style="color:black">Case studies related to ND diagnosis.</span></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.1in;text-align:justify;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">•<span style="color:black">Challenges in the CAD for ND</span></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.1in;text-align:justify;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">•<span style="color:black">Advances and trends in CAD for ND diagnosis.</span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial, sans-serif"></font></span></p><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.1in;text-align:justify;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">•<span style="color:black">Open Challenges in CAD in ND diagnosis</span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-weight:bold"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Important dates</font></span></p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"></p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"></p><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.1in;text-align:justify;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">•<span style="color:black">Abstract Submission (</span><span style="color:black;font-style:italic">max 250 words</span><span style="color:black">): </span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-weight:bold">30</span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:super">th</span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-weight:bold"> July 2021</span></font></div><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"></p><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.1in;text-align:justify;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">•<span style="color:black">Acceptance of abstract: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-weight:bold">5</span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:super">th</span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-weight:bold"> August 2021</span></font></div><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;directi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<font face="arial, sans-serif">•<span style="color:black">Length of the chapter: 20-25 pages (11550 words (approx.)) including references, tables, figures.</span></font></div><p style="color:rgb(11,83,148);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"></p><div style="color:rgb(11,83,148);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">•<span style="color:black">Similarity index should be less than </span><span style="color:black;font-weight:bold">10 %</span><span style="color:black"> (without reference).</span></font></div><p style="color:rgb(11,83,148);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"></p><div style="color:rgb(11,83,148);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">•<span style="color:black">All figures must be supplied as final artwork (e.g., JPEG, PNG, TIFF, etc.) at high-resolution.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.07in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:bold">NO PUBLICATION/ ARTICLE PROCESSING FEE.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.07in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">•All manuscripts are accepted based on a <span style="font-weight:bold">double-blind peer review</span> editorial process. <u><span style="font-weight:bold"> </span></u></font></div><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">Indexed by <span style="font-weight:bold">Web of Science (</span><span style="font-weight:bold">WoS</span><span style="font-weight:bold">), SCOPUS, Google S</span><span style="font-weight:bold">cholar, SCImago</span></font></div><div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:bold"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0.19in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:bold"><br></span></font></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" color="#0b5394">Regards</font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" color="#0b5394">YUVARAJ</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>