SCOPE Signal processing Image analysis Computers in medicine Artificial intelligence Telemedicine Computer assisted diagnosis and therapy Medical information systems Picture Archiving and Communication System Image guided surgery Data base and warehouse Data mining Ontology Bioinformatics E-learning E-health Data acquisition, medical devices, instrumentation, and measurement Modeling and simulation Special session Classification and interpretation of text, video, voice Statistical, soft and structural methods of pattern recognition Features extraction and selection Machine learning Trends and relations recognition and analysis Data and Web mining Machine-oriented knowledge representation and inference methods Knowledge-based decision support systems Advanced signal processing methods Special hardware architecture