[info] [Comp-neuro] CFP ISMDS08

Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> on Sun Jun 1 20:17:05 UTC 2008

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From: Alexandru Floares <alexandru.floares at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 12:26:08 +0300
To: comp-neuro at neuroinf.org
Subject: [Comp-neuro] CFP ISMDS08


    Call for Papers and Participation


   Special Session on Intelligent Systems for Medical Decisions Support
   ([1]ISMDS08), at the

   FIFTH INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE METHODS FOR
   BIOINFORMATICS AND BIOSTATISTICS, CIBB 2008,
   [2]http://cibb08.disi.unige.it/, 3-4 October, 2008,  Vietri sul Mare,
   Salerno, Italy.


   Description and Scope 


   Medicine and its scientific and technological background are rapidly
   and profoundly changing in the Information Age. The impact on the
   biomedical equipment used to produce and collect laboratory data,
   signals and images is impressive. New high throughput technologies
   have appeared and existing technologies have been radically
   transformed. For example, techniques like electroencephalography or
   radiography, which two decades ago seemed to reach a bottleneck, came
   to a new life and their importance as diagnostic tools is continuously
   increasing. As a result, our capacity to produce and record huge
   amount of complex biomedical data - patient conditions, diagnostic
   tests, treatments, outcomes, different kind of "omics" data
   (genomics/proteomics, etc), biosignals and images have dramatically
   increased. This data provides an unprecedented source of information
   that can lead to potential improvements in medical diagnostic,
   prognostic, and individualized, optimized treatment strategy.


   However, much more work is required.  Although technology has brought
   about tremendous new sources of important biomedical data, we have not
   moved very far with regard to extracting the knowledge that lies
   latent in this data.    In recent years, modern computer science has
   brought forth tremendous new tools such as artificial neural networks,
   fuzzy logic, evolutionary computing, support vector machines, and the
   like. Yet the professional, political and social issues that separate
   the medical community and the intelligent computing community have
   delayed the serious application of these tools to accelerate progress
   in translational medicine; genome to phenome, bench to bedside and
   clinical trials to public health.

   Topics


   We encourage papers describing new or applying existing intelligent
   computing methods to real and practical medical and health-care
   problems in which the biomedical problems are central. The topics of
   interest include, but are not limited to:


   ·                     disease modeling, diagnosis and prevention

   ·                     prognostic and treatment outcome predictions

   ·                     patient monitoring and alarm systems

   ·                     optimization of patient-management workflows

   ·                     biomedical data\text\web mining and data
   visualization

   ·                     integration of biomedical data sources and
   domain knowledge

   ·                     translational bioinformatics (genomics,
   proteomics, etc.)

   ·                     biomedical signals and images processing

   ·                     design of clinical trials


   Submissions addressing theoretical problems should clearly outline the
   expected impact of the proposed solution to the medical field.


   Audience 

    

   - Medical informaticians

   - Bioinformaticians

   - Neuroinformaticians

   - Computer scientists

   - Statisticians

   - Molecular biologists and medical doctors

   - Biomedical and electrical engineers

   - Other researchers and developers


   Important Dates

    

   Paper submission deadline:  15 June 2008

   Notification of acceptance:  30 June 2008

   Final papers due:  1 September 2008

   Conference:  3-4 October 2008


   Submissions

    

   Authors are requested to abide by the following instructions in
   preparing their manuscripts:


   Prepare your paper in LATEX following the guidelines downloadable at
   [3]http://cibb08.disi.unige.it/cibb.tgz. The size of the paper should
   not exceed 10 pages in this format.

   ·                     When your paper is ready, submit it in PDF
   format by uploading to this [4]link. The deadline for up-loading
   the manuscript is June 15th, 2008. Please compile carefully the
   electronic form stating

   1.                                           Paper title,

   2.                                           Keyword(s),

   3.                                           Authors names and
   affiliations,

   4.                                           Contact Author's name
   and contact details including telephone/fax numbers and e-mail
   address, and

   5.                                           Abstract (200 words).


   The papers will be peer-reviewed and the authors will be notified via
   email of the results of the review by June 30th, 2008. Submission
   implies the willingness of at least one author per paper to register
   and present the paper at the conference.


   Accepted papers will be published in the compact disk of conference
   proceedings. A selection of papers presented at CIBB 2008 will be
   published as a post conference volume of Lecture Notes in
   Bioinformatics LNBI/LNCS series of Springer Verlag
   [5]http://www.springer.com/series/5381


   Session Chairs

    

   Alexandru Floares, SAIA - Solutions of Artificial Intelligence
   Applications & Artificial Intelligence Department, Oncological
   Institute Cluj-Napoca, Transilvania, Romania Email:
   alexandru.floares<at>[6]ieee.org

    

   Jim DeLeo, Scientific Computing Section, Department of Clinical
   Research Informatics, NIH Clinical Center & NIH Biomedical Computing
   Interest Group, Email:

   jdeleo<at> [7]nih.gov

   --
   Alexandru Floares, MD, PhD
   Head of
   Artificial Intelligence Department
   Oncological Institute Cluj-Napoca
   400015 Str. Republicii, Nr. 34-36,
   Cluj-Napoca, Transilvania, Romania
   President of
   SAIA - Solutions of Artificial Intelligence Applications
   400310 Str. Al. Vlahuta, Bl. Lama C, Ap. 45,
   Cluj-Napoca, Transilvania, Romania
   Email: [8]Alexandru.Floares at gmail.com

References

   1. http://cibb08.disi.unige.it/ISMDS08.html
   2. http://cibb08.disi.unige.it/
   3. http://cibb08.disi.unige.it/cibb.tgz
   4. http://cibb08.disi.unige.it/openconf-2.01/openconf/index.php
   5. http://www.springer.com/series/5381
   6. http://ieee.org/
   7. http://nih.gov/
   8. mailto:Alexandru.Floares at gmail.com

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