Thermal-based ablation techniques, such as radiofrequency ablation, microwave ablation, become very popular today. These techniques have an important advantage, that is, they can be incorporated in interventional radiology procedure as well as endoscopy procedure. The principle behind these techniques is thermal energy generated on tumors from other energies such as electric-magnetic energy (radiofrequency, microwave). One of the key steps to optimize the performance of these techniques is to develop a mathematical model of tumors. In this special session, a cluster of papers are collected and presented.

Organizer:

W.J. Zhang, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
B. Zhang, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Paper submission and publication:

Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers before the submission deadline through the online submission system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lsmsicsee2017, and should write [MSTT] at the end of the title in the submitted papers to indicate this submission is for the Modeling and simulation of the thermal-based ablation of tumors special session in the conference.

See also the Author's kit for paper format.

Accepted papers will be published in the Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) proceedings (EI Compendex), which is under review. Some high-quality papers will be recommended for possible publication in SCI indexed international journals after expansion and further review, such as Neurocomputing, Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, Cognitive Computation, etc.