The 26th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2013) will be held at the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, from June 20th to 22th, 2013. The scientific program of CBMS 2013 will consist of regular and special track sessions with technical contributions reviewed and selected by an international programme committee, as well as keynote talks and tutorials given by leading experts in their fields.

The symposium is the premier conference for computational medicine, providing a mechanism for the exchange of ideas and technologies between academics and industrial scientists, and attracts a worldwide audience. Regular and special track presentations will cover a broad range of issues in (but not limited to) the following areas:

Software Systems in Medicine
Computer-Aided Diagnosis
Knowledge Discovery Data Mining
Knowledge-Based Systems and Techniques
Decision Support Systems
Medical Devices with Embedded Computers
Signal and Image Processing in Medicine
Medical Image Segmentation Compression
Machine Vision in Medicine
Medical Robotics
Medical Data Streams
Network and Telemedicine Systems
Medical Databases Information Systems
Web-Based Delivery of Medical Information
Multimedia Biomedical Databases
Content Analysis of Biomedical Image Data
Handheld Computing Applications in Medicine
Pervasive Health Systems and Services
e-Health
Health and Wellbeing
Learning methods for skewed data

CBMS 2013 invites original previously unpublished contributions that are not submitted concurrently to a journal or another conference. Many of the topics listed on the home page will be represented by corresponding special tracks, while others are solely covered by the general (main) CBMS track. Prospective authors are expected to submit their contributions to one of the corresponding special tracks or to the general track if none of the special tracks are relevant.

Each contribution must be prepared following the IEEE two-column format, and should not exceed the length of 6 (six) Letter-sized pages; the authors may use LaTeX or Microsoft Word templates when preparing their drafts. The papers should be submitted electronically before the paper submission deadline using the EasyChair online submission system. Papers must be submitted in PDF format, with fonts embedded. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Each program committee of the corresponding special track or general track will be responsible for the final decision about acceptance of papers submitted to that track.

All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings, and will be published by the IEEE. At least one author must pay the registration fee before April 10, 2013 for each accepted paper.

Please refer to the IEEE IPR guidelines concerning copyright. Authors of accepted papers must include a completed IEEE Copyright Form with the submission of their final camera-ready paper.

Best papers will be invited to submit extended versions for special issues of journal of the area.