CALL FOR PAPERS
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It is our pleasure to invite you to submit an abstract for consideration as a poster or oral presentation in a standard session, or in one of the 20 dedicated sessions (mini symposia), please consult http://www.compbiomed.net/2015/cmbe15-sessions.htm

The conference committee will consider abstracts addressing topics of substantial current interest, in accordance with the scope of the conference. The abstract must present original, unpublished work, and must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere.

SUBMISSION
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Abstracts must be prepared as a PDF file using the template provided for electronic submission. Templates and instructions are available at http://www.compbiomed.net/2015/abstract-submission-(general).htm. Final deadline for submission of papers has been extended to 07 March 2015.

REVIEW
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CMBE operates a single-blind peer review process, where papers are reviewed by members of the committees and session (mini symposia) organisers. Please also refer to CMBE Publishing Policy.

REGISTRATION
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Unless otherwise stated, submissions are limited to ONE paper per registered participant (first or presenting author). Registrants can however be co-authors on several papers.

PUBLICATION
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All accepted contributions which are submitted by the camera-ready submission deadline will be published in the CMBE proceedings in print (ISSN 2227-3085) and in online (ISSN 2227-9385) format. Authors will be invited to submit full length papers to a special issue of the Wiley journal ‘International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering’.

CMBE15 BEST PhD AWARD IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
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The award consist of a registration fee waiver and travel grant of €500. For more information consult the conference website.

CMBE15
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For information on venue and travel please consult the conference website.

The THEMES of the conference are broad-ranging, with coverage of more theoretical or fundamental aspects, as well as implementation of new methodologies, assessment, verification/validation and varied applications in all (and not limited to) the TOPICS listed below:

*Cardiovascular problems, cardiac electromechanics
*Complex biological phenomena, blood rheology, etc.
*Multiscale/multiphysics biomedical/biological modelling
*Biofluid mechanics, biomechanics
*Soft tissue, constitutive modelling
*Mechanobiology
*Respiratory systems
*Predictive modelling, computational surgery
*Numerical methods, high performance computing applied to biomedical
computational modelling and systems biology
*Imaging and image processing (medical image segmentation, registration, etc.)
*Inverse problems, uncertainty quantification in biomedical problems
*Biomedical/cardiovascular devices, orthopaedic prosthesis design/modelling
*Biological heat and mass transfer
*Analytical/fundamental approaches
*Biology and its links to diseases
*Modelling in oncology
*Experimental validation
*Clinical relevance, translational issues

INVITED SPEAKERS
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* Ajit P. Yoganathan, Regents' Professor, Associate Chair for Research in The Wallace H. Coulter School of Biomedical Engineering, and the Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Faculty Chair in Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech, USA.
* Francisco Chinesta, Professor of Computational Mechanics, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France.
* Alberto Figueroa, Associate Professor, University of Michigan, USA, KCL, UK.
* Marie-Christine Ho Ba Tho, Professor, Head Biomechanics & Bioengineering, Universite de Technologie de Compiegne (UTC), France.
* Estefania Pena B., Professor, University of Zaragoza, Spain.
* Michael Sacks, Professor of biomedical engineering, W. A. “Tex” Moncrief, Jr. Simulation-Based Engineering Science Chair, director of the ICES Center for Cardiovascular Simulation-based Engineering, U.T. Austin, USA.
* Qi Wang, Professor of Mathematics and Adjunct professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Mathematics Institute, and NanoCenter at USC University of South Carolina, USA.
* Xiao Yun Xu, Professor of Biofluid Mechanics, Imperial College London, UK.

CONFERENCE CO CHAIRS
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Perumal Nithiarasu, Swansea University, UK
Elisa Budyn, Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France
Rainald Löhner, George Mason University, USA

INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE
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Marek Behr, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Pablo J. Blanco, LNCC, Brazil
Dimitris Drikakis, Cranfield University, UK
C. Alberto Figueroa, Kings College London, UK
Luca Formaggia, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Alejandro F. Frangi, University of Sheffield, UK
Thomas Franz, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Jean-Frederic Gerbeau, INRIA, France
Boyce Griffith, University of North Carolina, USA
Matthias Heil, University of Manchester, UK
Gerhard A. Holzapfel, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Kim M. Liew, City University of Hong-Kong, HK SAR
C.W. Lim, City University of Hong-Kong, HK SAR
Gui-Rong Liu, University of Cincinnati, USA
Xiaoyu Luo, University of Glasgow, UK
Arnaud Malan, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Karol Miller, University of Western Australia, Australia
Marie Oshima, University of Tokyo, Japan
Joaquim Peiro, Imperial College London, UK
Junuthula N. Reddy, Texas A&M University, USA
Anne M. Robertson, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Bernhard Schrefler, University of Padova, Italy
Maria Siebes, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Joao M.R.S. Tavares, University of Porto, Portugal
Tayfun E. Tezduyar, Rice University, USA
Yuri Vassilevski, Moscow Institute of Numerical Mathematics, Russia
Mariano Vazquez, BSC-CNS, Spain
Alessandro Veneziani, Emory University, USA
Yiannis Ventikos, University College London, UK
Wolfgang A. Wall, TUM, Germany
Guowei Wei, Michigan State University, USA
Yun Xu, Imperial College London, UK