MTC 2020: MedTech Conference 2020 IIT Ropar Rupnagar, Punjab, India, February 6-9, 2020 |
Conference website | http://www.mtc.iitrpr.ac.in/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mtc2020 |
Abstract registration deadline | November 15, 2019 |
Submission deadline | November 15, 2019 |
Center for Biomedical Engineering, IIT Ropar is conducting MedTech Conference 2020 from 30th Jan – 2nd Feb 2020. This is the new avatar of CMTW which was successfully conducted by the department last year. In addition to all major components of CMTW, this year the conference shall accept short papers on medical device innovation. We also invite papers from clinicians on unmet needs and medical device use cases. Startups are invited to share their stories. These papers shall be peer reviewed and published in yearly proceedings of the MTC. Proceedings of MTC shall be published through our publication partner Taylor & Francis and shall be submitted to Scopus and Clarivate.
Apart from this, one full day hospital visit and direct one-on-one clinician interaction shall be a major addition. Reputed clinicians, researchers and professionals from medical device companies will be on-board for talks, panel discussions and Jury. There will be ample networking opportunities for students and participants. We are in talks with PGI to formally attach the hospital with the conference.
Prizes worth more than Rs. 1 Lakhs shall be given away to best paper and hackathon winners. Internships shall be on offer from major companies and startups.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
All papers must be submitted in the prescribed template.
The Microsoft word template can be downloaded from here.
The Google doc template may be edited in your google drive directly from here.
All papers should be submitted as single PDF files through Easy-chair paper submission portal. The papers may be resubmitted any time before the deadlines. But no submission after the last dates shall be accepted.
Submitted papers shall undergo a peer review process supervised by the editorial board of MTC. For each accepted paper, at-least one of the author is required to register for the conference and and present their work as a poster. If no-one shows up for paper presentation those papers shall be removed from the proceedings of MTC.
All accepted papers are automatically evaluated for best paper awards. Cash prizes of more than Rs. 1 Lakh shall be given away by the conference.
List of Topics
- Medical instrumentation and signal processing
- Applications of computing and AI in medicine
- Prosthetics and assistive devices
- Telemedicine and remote healthcare
- Mathematical modelling for medical device development
- Point-of-care devices
- Device development for affordable healthcare
- Business case studies of medical devices
- Identification of unmet needs
- MedTech startup stories
Committees
Program Committee
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Dr. Ashish K Sahani (Convener)
Assistant Professor CBME, IIT Ropar -
Dr. Dhiraj Mahajan
Assistant Professor, ME, IIT Ropar -
Dr. Ravibabu Mulaveesala
Associate Professor, EE, IIT Ropar -
Dr. Devarshi Das
Assistant Professor, EE, IIT Ropar -
Dr. Deepthi Bathula
Assistant Professor, CSE, IIT Ropar -
Dr. Navin Kumar
Associate Professor, ME, IIT Ropar -
Dr. Gurpreet Singh Wander
Professor, Head and Chief Cardiologist of DMC&H Ludhiana -
Dr. Kushaljit Singh Sodhi
Professor, Dept. of Radiodiagnosis, PGIMER, ChandigarhDr. Rohit Tandon
MD (Medicine) Sr. Consultant Physician DMC&H, Ludhiana
Publication
MTC 2020 proceedings will be published by Taylor and Francis
Venue
The conference will be held in main campus of IIT Ropar, Rupnagar (near Chandigarh), Punjab.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to mtc@iitrpr.ac.in