When dealing with medical data analysis and diseases diagnosis, it often requires searching for the twinkled evidences from huge data set. Under such complicated situation, applying cases based leaning with optimization and intelligence computational algorithm is regarded one of the most potential approaches. This special session solicits papers on computational intelligence, optimization, soft computing, and data mining techniques for the analysis, processing, and evidences discovery from medical data ( such as patient record data, physiological signal, medical images, and etc.) for health diagnosis assistance.

• Computational intelligence for medical image processing and analysis
• Optimization on evidence discovery from medical data
• Vital signal analysis on health care with intelligence evolution
• Health care devices embedded intelligence
• Computation intelligence on personal health pattern abstraction
• Computational intelligence for patient behavior discovery

Pau-Choo (Julia) Chung received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Texas Tech University in 1991. She then joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, and has become a full professor since 1996. Since 2001, she has served as the Vice Director, and currently the Director, of the Center for Research of E-life Digital Technology, National Cheng Kung University. She was selected as Distinguished Professor of National Cheng Kung University in 2005. She is currently also serving as the Director of Electrical Laboratory, National Cheng Kung University.
Dr. Chung's research interests include neural networks, image analysis and pattern recognition, and multimedia processing. Particularly she applies most of her research results on medical applications. She is the Vice Chair of Bioinformatics and Bioengineering TC of IEEE CIS Society. She is also the Chair-Elect of the IEEE Life Science Systems and Applications Technical Committee, a member of IEEE Neural Systems and Applications Technical Committee in the CASS. She is a senior member of IEEE and Member of Phi Tau Phi honor society. Currently she is also serving as the Associate Editor of Journal of Information Science and Engineering and a Guest Editor of EURASIP Journal of Applied Advanced Signal Processing. She was a Guest Editor of Journal of High Speed Network, a Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I. She was the Chair of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Tainan Chapter (2005-2006), the Secretary General of Biomedical Engineering Society of the Republic of China (2005-2006), and Delegate in International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE). She is one of the co-founders of Medical Image Standard Association at Taiwan.

Gary G. Yen received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN in 1992. He is a Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK. Before he joined OSU in 1997, he was with the Structure Control Division, U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory in Albuquerque, NM. His research is supported by the DoD, DoE, EPA, NASA, NSF, and Process Industry. His research interest includes intelligent control, computational intelligence, conditional health monitoring, signal processing and their industrial/defense applications.
Dr. Yen was an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and IEEE Control Systems Magazine during 1994-1999. He is currently serving as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics and IFAC Journal on Automatica and Mechatronics. He served as the General Chair for the 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control held in Houston, TX and 2006 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence held in Vancouver, Canada in which over 1,560 attended this event. On behalf of IEEE Robotic and Automation Society and later IEEE Control Systems Society, he was a Representative to the IEEE Neural Network Council Administrating Committee. Dr. Yen served as Vice President for the Technical Activities, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and is the founding editor-in-chief of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine.