7th NFSI & ICBEM 2009

7th International Symposium on Noninvasive Functional Source Imaging of the Brain and Heart & 7th International Conference on Bioelectromagnetism.

Rome

Dear colleagues,

the joint 7^th NFSI & ICBEM 2009 will take place from 29 to 31 May 2009 in Rome. This conference aims to provide a platform for scientific exchange of novel ideas on recent development in the field of functional biomedical source imaging. The conference site is www.ptsroma.it/NFSICBEM2009 where all the information can be found.

Selected papers from the conference will be published on international scientific journals such as Brain Topography, Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience and International Journal of Bioelectromagnetism.

The venue of the conference is unique: in the centre of the old Rome, in close contact with its 2000 years of history. In fact, the conference venue is located in the Engineering Faculty, which was at 500 meters from the Colosseo and Fori Romani and 20 meters from the San Pietro in Vincoli hosting the stunning Michelangelo’s Moses statue. Social program also include a visit to the marvellous Galleria Borghese in Rome where several masterpieces of Caravaggio, Tiziano and other painters are exposed.

The conference will be held under the support of the COST NEUROMATH Action BM0601. More information on the COST program for supporting the research could be found at www.cost.esf.org

We hope to see you in Rome next May!!

Fabio Babiloni, Serenella Salinari

Conference Chairs

Information about the Conference

Areas of interest:

Scientific contributions will be welcomed but not limited to the fields of

o Electroencephalography, Magnetoencephalography, functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

o Mathematical and computer models for neurons and neural tissues

o Theory and algorithms in forward problem for heart and brain

o Inverse problem and source imaging

o Mapping techniques

o Estimation of connectivity techniques from neuroelectric and/or hemodynamic recordings

o Brain-Computer Interface (BCI)

Contribution format:

Contributions for the conference are in form of a 4 page paper according to the instruction for the Authors given on the conference WEB site at the following link:

http://www.ptsroma.it/NFSICBEM2009/default.asp?id=pag1&lan=en&cogan=&idan=&link=Paper%20Submission

Publication of conference papers:

Papers from the conference will be selected for the publication in three different peer-review scientific journals that will generate a special issues devoted to the conference event. In particular, after peer review process, the conference papers will be published on the following journals

Brain Topography

Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience

International Journal of Bioelectromagnetism

Important dates:

Abstract submission: 10 March 2009

Notification to the Authors: 15 March 2009

Early registration: 30 March 2009

Late registration: 20 April 2009

Speakers:

Name	Affiliation	Title of the talk
Dr. Laura Astolfi	Universita’ di Roma “Sapienza”	Estimation of time-varying cortical connectivity from high resolution EEG recordings
Prof. Katarzyna Blinowska	Dept. Biomedical Physics, University of Warsaw	Transmission of brain activity during cognitive task
Prof. Sergio Cerutti	Politecnico di Milano	Functional assessment of cardiovascular system by means of image and signal processing
Dr. Febo Cincotti	IRCCS S.Lucia Roma	Brain computer interfaces for communication and control
Dr. Rolando Grave de Peralta	University Hospital of Geneve	Advanced source models for the analysis of EEG data: Theory and Applications.
Prof. Bin He	University of Minnesota	Functional Imaging of Brain and Heart Activity
Prof. Andreas Ioannides	RIKEN Institute Wako-shi	Fast and slow brain activity and connectivity from long MEG data
Prof. Zoltan Koles	University of Alberta	Gender differences in brain functional organization during verbal and spatial cognitive challenges
Dr. Donatella Mattia	IRCCS S.Lucia Roma	Brain Computer Interface as a possible tool for facilitation of the communicative abilities of severe brain injury patients
Prof. Christoph Michel	University Hospital of Geneve	Electric Source Imaging in Epilepsy
Prof. Jose’ Millan	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Brain Computer Interfaces
Prof. Paul Nunez	Tulane University	Why hearts don't love and brains don't pump: EEG correlates of conscious experience
Prof. Bernhard Pfeifer	University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Hall Tyrol	A-priori Knowledge Based Cardiac Modeling Approaches for Imaging Patient Individual Cardiac Function
Prof. Gert Pfurtscheller	Technical University of Graz,	EEG-based BCI - state of the art and future prospects.
Prof. Cosimo Del Gratta	Universita’ di Chieti	Multimodal integration of fMRI and Magnetoencephalographic data
Prof. Kensuke Sekihara	Tokyo Metropolitan University	Estimating functional connectivity in MEG source imaging
Prof. Daming Wei	University of Aizu	A virtual reality for catheter-based EPS based on whole-heart model
Prof. George Zouridakis	University of Houston	Information Communication Networks in the Normal and Disease Human Brain.

Conference Sponsors

1) International Society for Functional Source Imaging

2) International Society for Bioelectromagnetism

3) COST Action BM0601 “NEUROMATH”.

4) Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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