Dependable Medicine using advanced Information and Communication Technology (ICT) based on Regulatory Science (RS) is the focus of the 9th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMCIT2015). ISMICT2015 aims to establish a forum or a venue to present new research and development results, exchange ideas, discuss practices, and share experiences among Technology and Medicine sides including healthcare, wellness, clinical therapy, and surgery as well as ICT, mechanical, and biomedical engineering. Moreover, activities of standard, regulation, and business for medical ICT devices, systems and services will be promoted by local, national, and global government and industry. ISMCIT2015 will be held in a Japanese old capital Kamakura in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan 24-26 March, 2015. The theme of ISMICT2015 is Towards Better Personalized Medicine and Healthcare. Papers are invited on topics including, but not limited to, the following:

* Scope:
- BAN technology (PHY, MAC, protocols)
- Antennas and radio propagation for wireless BAN
- Medical BAN applications and services
- Wearable and implantable devices
- E-Health systems and electronic medical records
- Hardware architecture and implementation
- Hospital data networks and wireless hospital
- Privacy and Security issues
- Pervasive health care and patient monitoring
- Medical imaging and patient diagnostic systems
- Human body communication
- International standards and regulatory matters
- Physiological parameters, measurements
- Preventive care & remote patient management
- Radio coexistence and robustness
- Cognitive radio for wireless BAN
- Systems, sensing and signal processing
- Telemedicine, tele-monitoring, tele-surgery
- Wellness and sports training
- Ambient assisted living
- Rehabilitation and activity monitoring
- Wireless healthcare, homecare and welfare

* Sponsors:
Co-sponsered by Yokohama National Univ. and CWC-Nippon.
Technically co-sponsered by IEICE Technical Committee on Healthcare Medical ICT (TC-MICT), IEEE EMB Society Japan Chapter and Japanese Society for Medical
and Biological Engineering (JSMBE).

* Conference Organization:
Honorary Chair
- Ryuji Kohno (Yokohama National Univ., Japan)

Organizing Committee
General Co-Chairs
- Takahiro Aoyagi (Tokyo Inst. Tech., Japan)
- Shinsuke Hara (Osaka City Univ., Japan)
- Jianqing Wang (Nagoya Inst. Tech., Japan)
- Art Astrin (Astrin Radio, USA)
- Jari Iinatti (Univ. Oulu, Finland)

Vice Co-Chairs
- Kohei Ohno (Meiji Univ., Japan)

Finance Chair
- Ryu Miura (NICT, Japan)

Finance Vice Chair
- Kohei Ohno (Meiji Univ., Japan)

Publicity Chair
- Keisuke Shima (Yokohama National Univ., Japan)

Technical Program Committee
Technical Program Co-Chairs
- Minseok Kim (Niigata Univ., Japan)
- Tetsushi Ikegami (Meiji Univ., Japan)
- Masaru Sugimachi (NCVC, Japan)
- Matti Hämäläinen (Univ. Oulu, Finland)
- Elvino Sousa (Univ. Toronto, Canada)

Vice Chair
- Daisuke Anzai (Nagoya Inst. Tech., Japan)
- Soichi Watanabe (NICT, Japan)

Local Organizing Committee
Local Organizing Co-Chairs
- Chika Sugimoto (Yokohama National Univ., Japan)
- Huan-Bang Li (NICT, Japan)

Vice Chair
- Keisuke Shima (Yokohama National Univ., Japan)

Secretary
- Pham Thanh Hiep (Yokohama National Univ., Japan)

Local Finance
- Tadashi Shiomi (Yokohama National Univ., Japan)
- Masayuki Fujise (Yokohama National Univ., Japan)