2017 s special topic is Image Processing and Decision Making This conference will cover original and innovative scientific papers about 1D, 2D and or 3D signal processing acquired from diagnostic medical devices, feature extraction to assist diagnosis, classification and clustering for decision making The scope is not limited to diagnostic signal processing intelligent systems based on statistical data analysis, decision support systems and artificial neural networks, support vector machines, Bayes classifiers, k nearest neighborhood, k means algorithm applications, applied informatics and expert systems are also in the scope of the conference.