Digital Medicine and Image Processing

Dear Colleagues, 

This Special Issue will present extended versions of selected papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Digital Medicine and Image Processing (DMIP 2021). DMIP 2021 aims to provide a platform for researchers, engineers, and academicians, as well as industrial professionals from all over the world, to present their research results and development activities in Digital Medicine and Image Processing and related fields. It is one of the leading international conferences for presenting novel and fundamental advances in these fields. It started in Okinawa, Japan in 2018, followed by Shanghai, China in 2019 and Kyoto, Japan in 2020. Hit by global COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, we had many presenters and participants by holding the conference online. The conference returns to Kyoto in 2021.

Image processing, one of the topics covered in the conference, is considered to be one of the most rapidly evolving areas of information technology today, and its applications are expanding and deepening not only in medical imaging, but also in various other fields such as industrial imaging, remote sensing, and space imaging, for instance. Furthermore, digital medicine can be described as a technology for measuring and monitoring human beings for the sake of their health. It consists of a wide range of high-quality medical software and hardware to treat and prevent diseases and improve the health of individuals and entire populations.

In addition to applications and implementations of digital medicine and image processing, this Special Issue also welcomes research on understanding humans, which is the basis for technologies for measuring and monitoring humans. Examples include physiology, biological engineering, neuroscience, natural anthropology, zoology, psychology, and cybernetics. Authors of invited papers should be aware that the final submitted manuscript must provide a minimum of 30% new content and not exceed 30% copy/paste from the proceedings paper. 

Prof. Dr. Kiyoshi Hoshino
Guest Editor

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