13th International Conference on Software, Image Processing & Data Mining (SIDM-17) aimed at presenting current research being carried out in that area and scheduled to be held on Dec. 28-29, 2017 at Pattaya (Thailand). The idea of the conference is for the scientists, scholars, engineers and students from the Universities all around the world and the industry to present ongoing research activities, and hence to foster research relations between the Universities and the industry.