This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 8th
International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies BIOSTEC 2015
held in Lisbon Portugal in January 2015.The 27 revised full papers presented together with an
invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 375 submissions. The papers
cover a wide range of topics and are organized in four general topical sections on biomedical
electronics and devices bioimaging bioinformatics models methods and algorithms
bio-inspired systems and signal processing health informatics.