ITME 2018 is the 9th International Conference on Information Technology in Medicine and Education, and will be held on October 19-21, 2018, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. ITME 2018 is the next event in a series of highly successful the International conference on IT in Medicine and Education, ITME-16 (Fuzhou, China, Dec, 2016) ITME-15 (Huangshan, China, Nov. 2015), ITME-14 (Jeju, Korea, July 2014), ITME-13 (Xining, China, July 2013), ITME-12 (Hokkaido, Japan, Aug. 2012), ITME-11 (Guangzhou, China, Dec. 2011), ITME-09 (Jinan, China, Aug. 2009), ITME-08 (Xiamen, China, Dec. 2008).

ITME 2018 is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, and sponsored by China Jiliang University, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang provincial natural science foundation, Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, Iwate Prefectural University, Shandong Normal University, Xiamen University, Fuzhou University, Hunan University of Humanities, Science and Technology, and Co-Sponsored by Lanzhou University, Henan University of Technology, Wuhan University of Technology, East China Normal University, Birmingham City University, University of Southern Queensland.

We invite submissions of papers presenting a high-quality original research and development for the conference tracks. The proceedings will be submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore and other indexing databases. More details can be found at the website:

http://www.itme.org.cn