Report on the Second International Conference on
Health Sciences and Medical Technologies
Type of article: Editorial
Abstract: ICHSMT'17: the second edition of International Conference on Health
Sciences and Medical Technologies 2017 held from 10 to 12 October 2017 at
Tlemcen, Algeria. With cooperation of Knowledge Kingdom Publishing and Mehr
Publishing Group the conference took place at the Renaissance hotel. Regrouping
contributors from fifteen countries, an interdisciplinary program was composed
aiming to contribute to the scientific progress on health sciences and medical
technologies.
Keywords:Conference report, Health sciences, Medical
technology, Algeria, Tlemcen
Corresponding author:DrAbdeldjalil
KhelassiComputer Sciences Department, AbouBekerBelkaid University of Tlemcen,
Algeria. Email: Khelassi.a@gmail.com
©2017-2018
KNOWLEDGE KINGDOM PUBLISHING.
1. Introduction
The second edition of International Conference on
Health Sciences and Medical Technologies ICHSMT’17 was held at Tlemcen,
Algeria, from 10 to 12 October 2017. It is an interdisciplinary platform for
medical findings and innovations [1]. This edition has contributors from 15
nations: Algeria, Germany, Iran, Switzerland, Netherland, Denmark, Malaysia, Canada, France, Morocco, Brazil, Italy, Belgium, Egypt, and the
United States of America. The author’s affiliations were from various
departments such as medicine, biology, physics, chemical sciences, computer
science, environment, pharmacy, electrical and electronic engineering, and
mechanical engineering.
The conference included three Keynotes [2, 3, and 4] on medical imaging
and scientific publishing, four international workshops, and four
sessions:
Table1: ICHSMT’17 workshops and sessions.
2. Conference sponsors
We appreciate
all sponsors for their contributions. The main list of contributors comprised:
1. Mehr Publishing Group
2. Knowledge Kingdom Publishing
3. Electronic Physician Journal
4. Medical Technologies Journal
5. Biomedical Engineering Laboratory
(University of Tlemcen)
In addition, the secondary list
covered sponsors like:
6. Faculty of technology (University of Tlemcen)
7. Renaissance hotel
3. Contributions and Prices
The published book [5] contains
all accepted abstracts of contributions presented at ICHSMT’17. There were 90
submissions. The committee decided to accept 60 presentations,the acceptance rate
was 66.66%.
Three research articles were selected for prices proposed by Electronic Physician
Journal. The first price was awarded to Ryad Temmar et al [6] about an embedded
medical application. The second price was granted to Zaki Moqaddem et al [7]
about his epidemiological survey of prostate cancer in Tlemcen. The third price
was conferred to Abdelfettah MEZIANE et al [8] about brain cancer imaging
application.
4. Conclusion
The conference was imbedded into nice and cool
surroundings with an important participation of young doctoral students and
universities. Although the estimated program was realized at 73.33% of all
scheduled presentations, and some technical problems; the achieved
presentations and interdisciplinary discussions on the conference were very
important, stimulating and exceptional. Several project and contract drafts
were initially generated and further processed.
5. Declaration of conflicts
No conflicts
6. Authors’ biography
Dr. Eng Abdeldjalil Khelassi: is an
associate professor of Informatics at Abou Bekr Belkaid University of Tlemcen.
The chair of International Conference on Health Sciences and Medical
Technologies. Head of Knowledge and
Information Engineering Research Team. Associate editor at Electronic
Physician.
7.
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