<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 宋体;"> </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: 14pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">IEEE J-BHI Special Issue on<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 7.8pt; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 112, 192);">Pervasive Sensing and Machine Learning for Mental Health</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: center; line-height: 14pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: blue;">https://jbhi.embs.org/2018/06/07/pervasive-sensing-and-machine-learning-for-mental-health/<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: center; line-height: 14pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: center; line-height: 14pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 宋体;">====================================================================</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0.6pt 1.35pt 0.0001pt 0.05pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.05pt; line-height: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">Mental health is one of the major global health issues affecting substantially more people than other non-communicable diseases. In the US, one in five adults have a mental health condition, and nearly one in twenty five adults has a serious mental illness. With the largest population in the world, China accounts for 17% of global mental, neurological and substance use cases.  It was estimated that there are more than 40 million people suffering from major depressive disorder in China and 49 million people in India in 2013. In Europe, mental and behavioral disorders accounted for 183,000 deaths in 2014, and at least 1 in 20 deaths in Sweden, Denmark and Luxembourg were caused by the disorders. Given this international societal impact and significant care cost, governments around the world have honed in on tackling mental health issues and promoting mental wellbeing in the population. With the increasing awareness of mental health issues and the recent initiatives launched by research councils and funding bodies, much research has been focused on developing novel technologies for tackling this global health challenge. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0.6pt 1.4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iseases<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0.6pt 40.65pt 0.0001pt 41.95pt; line-height: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-US">•<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";">     </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;">Data security and privacy for care support systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0.75pt 40.65pt 0.0001pt 41.95pt; line-height: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-US">•<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";">     </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">Innovative technologies for non-pharmaceutical mental health treatment</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 宋体;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 13pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Important Dates</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 13pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Manuscript submission due: December 31, 2018</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin-left: 140.35pt; text-indent: -140.35pt; line-height: 13pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">More details regarding paper submission, GEs, etc, are available at </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: blue;">https://jbhi.embs.org/2018/06/07/pervasive-sensing-and-machine-learning-for-mental-health</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span></p><font face="Arial" size="2">************************************************************<br><b>Yuan Zhang(张远), Ph.D., SMIEEE, SMACM <br>Associate Professor of Computer Science <br>School of Information Science & Engineering <br>University of Jinan <br>250022 P.R.China <br>Email:<font color="#0000ff"> </font></b></font><b><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#0000ff"><a href="mailto:yzhang@ujn.edu.cn" target="_blank">yzhang@ujn.edu.cn</a>, yuan.zhang@ieee.org</font><font face="Arial" size="2"><font color="#0000ff"> </font><br>URL: </font><a href="http://uslab.ujn.edu.cn/" target="_blank"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#0000ff">http://uslab.ujn.edu.cn/</font></a></b><br>