Data Mining calls for papers / meetings & conferences

Call for Abstracts: NTTS (New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics) 2013

5 to 7 March 2013 Brussels, Belgium

NTTS (New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics) 2013 is an international scientific conference on the impact of new technologies on statistical collection, production and dissemination systems.

The purpose of the conference is to stimulate and facilitate the preparation of new innovative projects, to encourage cooperation and possible building of consortia by researchers with the aim of enhancing the quality and usefulness of official statistics and to prepare activities related to research in statistics within the next European Framework Programme for Research and Development (Horizon 2020).

Previous NTTS conferences were organised in 1992, 1995, 1998, 2001, 2009 and 2011.

The NTTS 2013 conference will take place from 5 to 7 March 2013 in Brussels.

The deadline for submission of abstracts is 31 October 2012.

Aim and scope

Present and share the outcomes of recent research activities in statistics in general and in official statistics including Eurostat ESSnet projects and VIP (Vision Infrastructure Projects).

Promote new research methodological and technological development for use by Official Statistics.

Present the new research framework from 2014 onwards (Horizon 2020) in terms of orientations and deadlines and prepare further content and partnership for possible proposals submission.

Discuss future needs and developments of research in statistics, new paradigms for data use, access and retrieval (open data, big data, organic data) and ICT developments and infrastructures for use by Official Statistics.

Conference topics

NTTS 2013 addresses research and development aspects related to innovative methods and techniques for official statistics with a particular emphasis on automatic and ICT-based methods. Papers are accepted in the following areas:

New ways of collecting, accessing and using big amount of data. The Cyber-infrastructure has changed the way data are collected, accessed and managed. New sampling techniques and new survey approaches and methodologies for Official Statistics are also an important aspect of this area.

Integration, consolidation, combination of multiple data sources. ICT-based surveys and cross-linking of statistical data and their combination with textual, spatial, transactional and/or image information coming from different sources are an example of this phenomenon. The combination and use of multiple types of ancillary information (administrative data, organic data) is another example.

Analysing data. The high dimensionality, large amount and diversity of data types and structures, require new paradigms, mathematical background, computational methods and modeling approaches for data mining and analysis. The need to monitor and measure policies at different geographical levels (Small Area Estimation) requires new modeling techniques. New paradigms like moving from data to statistical information and from statistical information to knowledge should be considered. Issues like estimation methods and management of non-response are also be part of this area.

Distributing, presenting and accessing data and microdata. ICT has deeply changed the way information is presented, distributed and accessed. This has an impact on statistical data dissemination, visualization and retrieval. Topics like narratives, remote access, graphical and data visualization tools, data confidentiality, synthetic files are included in this area.

Support for evidence-based policymaking. Robust and scalable indicators building models have been produced for decades. How can new indicators be generated using multiple data types and how can we ensure their quality? Topics on GDP and Beyond and Well-Being indicators are also part of this area.

Use of standards for Official statistics. The ESS is confronted with new requirements for designing the future architecture of integrated statistical production systems. This requires further research and development in the use and integration of meta/paradata and their format, reengineering of the statistical production chain using enterprise architecture modeling, new collaborative tools and innovative distributed environments.

Call for Papers: Genome Informatics Workshop 2012

December 12-14, 2012 Tainan, Taiwan

Paper submission deadline: July 15, 2012

Genome Informatics Workshop (GIW) is the longest running international bioinformatics conference in the world. The scope includes all works that are ultimately devoted to the computational understanding of biological systems on the molecular basis and the aims are to present recent results of both theoretical and practical research, to demonstrate biological systems, and to show new applications and directions of future research. The first GIW was held at Tokyo in 1990. Since then, GIW has been held annually around the countries in Asia-Pacific region. This year's GIW is the 23rd anniversary and will be held at Tainan in Taiwan. The purpose of GIW2012 is to provide an international forum for scientists and researchers to exchange ideas and approaches.

National Cheng Kung University and Taiwan Society for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (TSBSB) are honored to host the GIW2012. We are delighted to give you a warm welcome to Tainan in Taiwan.

Papers in all areas related to works that are ultimately devoted to the computational understanding of biological systems on a molecular basis will be considered. The aims of the conference are to present recent results of both theoretical and practical research, to show new applications, to demonstrate systems, and to indicate directions of future research. Authors can choose to submit full paper or poster that focuses on bioinformatics and computational biology, but not limited to the following areas:

-Genome-wide Association Study

-Gene Expression Analysis

-Genomic Database

-Sequence Analysis

-Functional Genomics

-Next-generation Sequencing

-Structural Genomics

-Simulation of Biological System

-Biomarker Identification and Drug Discovery

-Biological Network Reconstruction and Analysis

-Protein Interaction Networks

-Biological Databases

-Protein Structure and Function Prediction

-Medical and Biomedical Informatics

-Knowledge Extraction from Literature

-Modeling of Biological Systems

-Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

-Bio-data Visualization

-Gene Regulatory Networks

-Comparative Genomics

Call for Papers: Managing Interoperability & compleXity in Health Systems

held in conjunction with the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM’12

October 29 to November 2, 2012, Maui, Hawaii, USA

Workshop Submissions Due: June 29, 2012

Topics of interest, include but are not limited to:

-- Bio-medical Data-Mining, Information retrieval and extraction and NLP on biomedical text

-- Inference and statistical Models of diseases & Multimorbidity

-- Clinical Information Retrieval, Management and Normalization

-- Medical Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Expert and Clinical Decision Support Systems -- Interoperability in Distributed healthcare Systems

-- Clinical Information and Interoperability Standards (e.g. HL7) Clinical Terminologies, Classifications (e.g. ICD 10) and
biomedical ontologies (e.g. SNOMED - CT)

-- Hospital Enterprise Information Management Systems, Electronic Health Record, (EHR), Clinical Document Architecture

To submit your paper, go to:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mixhs12

Call for Papers: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence 2012 Fall Symposium on Information Retrieval and Knowledge Discovery in Biomedical Text

November 2-4, 2012 Arlington, Virginia

Submission Deadline: 25 May 2012

The amount of biological and medical literature has grown exponentially within the last decade. This data may be in the form of journal citations in PubMed, in the form of clinical summaries in healthcare institutions or in the form of blogs and user comments that express personal opinions on the different healthcare topics such as drug adverse effects or disease treatments. This material, be it expressed by researchers, medical professionals or medical care receivers, is of significant importance in terms of the wealth of information that it possesses. However, it is only valuable if efficient and reliable ways of accessing and analyzing that information are available.

In this symposium we would like to address novel research on computational techniques for information retrieval and knowledge discovery from biomedical and clinical texts, with a focus on machine learning and/or natural language processing, as well as novel applications of existing techniques to the open problems in text processing in biomedical domain. We will invite several speakers from the biomedical text processing community who will present current research problems in this field, and we will invite contributed talks on novel learning approaches that can improve the analysis and retrieval of biological and medical information.

We solicit two types of submissions to the symposium:

1. Contributed talks and/or posters
We invite submissions that address new algorithmic and methodological contributions to the spectrum of problems in biomedical text analysis, where textual resources can include semi-structured and unstructured biomedical text, clinical text, social media and any other healthcare related text media.

2. Open problems
For open problems, we request the authors to submit a one page description that motivates and explains an existing open problem in text analysis and information retrieval in biomedical domain. The main goal here is to foster active discussion.

Papers for the symposium will be collected and made into an AAAI technical report, which will be distributed to attendees on CD and included in the AAAI Digital Library. The issuance of technical report allows the work to be cited.

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission Deadline: May 25, 2012

Notification of acceptance: June 22, 2012

Camera-ready papers : September 7, 2012

AAAI 2012 Fall Symposium: November 2-4, 2012

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to direct your questions to
Rezarta.Islamaj@nih.gov or Lana.Yeganova@nih.gov

AAAI 2012 Fall Symposium Organizers:
Lana Yeganova, PhD, Staff Scientist, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health.

Rezarta Islamaj Dogan, PhD, Research Fellow, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health.

Vahan Grigoryan, PhD, Associate, Cloud Analytics Group, Booz Allen Hamilton.

Mark Dredze, PhD, Assistant Research Professor, Department of Computer Science and the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence, Johns Hopkins University.

Call for Abstracts: Advances in eHealth 2012 Workshop

The workshop provides a forum for eHealth researchers from multiple disciplines to share current advances and research on increasing the effectiveness and adoption of technology in healthcare in the coming decade. This ranges from the use of sensor devices, human-computer interfaces, to cloud based medical record systems in order to provide radically new solutions for helping patients. At the same time medical informatics and large scale genomics data analysis are playing major role in clarifying the opportunities for personalized medicine applications. Biobanks as the back end of data-driven biomedical science open the possibilities for studying genetic and environmental influences over time, accelerating the pace of biomedical research. On other hand, ongoing efforts toward a global sharing of digital healthcare data will pave the way to maximize the potential for knowledge discovery.

These advances require structural changes as well as technological development. Society is facing an increase in chronic degenerative diseases that require monitoring and long-term patient management, the growing desire of patients to be treated in a family environment in order to protect their social ties, and, finally, a need to reduce costs. These factors necessitate a new strategic orientation in services and infrastructures for supporting these services. Both the shift towards networked sensors and cloud-based systems also require new security concepts to facilitate secure and effective use of these systems.

We are looking for papers that address medium to large-scale and medium to long-term challenges for eHealth and potential solutions.

The workshop is part of the eScience2012 conference (http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/escience2012), 8-12 October 2012, Chicago, USA.

Workshop twitter hashtag: #aeh2012

Topics of interest include but not limited to:

Medical Simulations
Computing Infrastructures for eHealth
Data Storage, Transfer, and Indexing Systems for eHealth Applications
Security & Privacy for eHealth
HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) for eHealth
User Studies of eHealth Systems
Electronic Health Record (EHR) Systems and Applications
Bio-banking and eHealth
Data Mining and Applications for Personalized Medicine

Workshop format
The workshop will include invited speakers, paper presentation sessions and a tentative panel discussion.

Organizing Committee
Rossen Apostolov, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
rossen@kth.se
Matthew Smith, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany
smith@dcsec.uni-hannover.de
Tristan Glatard, CREATIS, Medical Imaging Research Center, Lyon, France
tristan.glatard@creatis.insa-lyon.fr

Important dates
Abstract submission: 4 July 2012
Paper submission: 11 July 2012
Paper author notification: 22 August 2012
Camera-ready papers due: 10 September 2012
Conference: 8-12 October 2012

Submission guidelines
Authors are invited to submit papers with unpublished, original work of not more than 8 pages of double column text using single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines. (Up to 2 additional pages may be purchased for US$150/page). Templates are available from http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html.

Authors should submit a PDF file that will print on a PostScript printer to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aeh2012

(Note that paper submitters also must submit an abstract in advance of the paper deadline. This should be done through the same site where papers are submitted.)

It is a requirement that at least one author of each accepted paper attend the conference.

Call for Papers: International Workshop on Pattern Recognition for Healthcare Analytics

In today's environment, health care industry must balance between the often contradictory goals of cost reduction and improving quality of care. With growing costs and rising populations comes an inevitable paradigm shift towards accountable care where organizations are focusing on cost reduction, standardized care and quality improvement like never before. In addition, with the information overload in clinical literature coupled with the difficulty in extrapolating evidence from clinical trials to real world settings, providers find it difficult to select appropriate therapy for each patient. Thus far, health care has lagged behind other industries in improving operational performance and adopting technology-enabled process improvements.

It is possible to address many of these challenges by emulating and implementing best practices in health care by analyzing large amount of available information (extensive electronic health records recording patient conditions, diagnostic tests, labs, imaging exams, genomics, proteomics, treatments, outcomes, claims, financial records, clinical guidelines and best practices etc.). This data contains tremendously valuable hidden information relevant both for clinical and non-clinical decision support. At the heart of healthcare analytics is the ability to recognize (identify, classify and discover) patterns from the plethora of information available. As such, pattern recognition plays a pivotal role in the future of healthcare, specifically in healthcare analytics.

Date: November 11, 2012

Venue: Tsukuba Science City, JAPAN (collocated with ICPR 2012)

We invite submissions describing original research in topic areas including (but not limited to):

Topics of Interest

Statistical analysis and characterization of healthcare data
Data quality assessment and improvement: preprocessing, cleaning, missing data treatment etc.
Therapy Selection
Precision diagnostics (more precise diagnostics, diseases sub-typing)
Population Management and risk stratification
Pattern detection and hypothesis generation from observational data
Comparative effectiveness research
Disease pattern Identification and longitudinal patient and disease models
Information extraction, fusion and knowledge transfer in healthcare
Post Market Surveillance of medical interventions
Claim Fraud Detection and Prevention
Clinical care pathway modeling and best practice identification
Payment and incentive models
Utilization management and optimization

Procedure

Papers should be up to 4 pages in ICPR format. The accepted papers will be available for downloading from the workshop website's Proceedings page. Accepted papers will be either presented as a talk or poster (with poster spotlight). Papers should be emailed to Kohichi Takeda at takedasu@jp.ibm.com. Please indicate your preference for oral or poster presentation.

Publication of Papers

Accepted papers will be either presented as a talk or poster. They will also be available in an online proceedings that will be made available prior to the workshop. Extended versions of some accepted papers will also be invited for inclusion in an edited book on the same topic as the workshop.

Important Dates
Please remember the following dates in relation to paper presentations.

July 6 - Abstract (500 word) submission deadline
Aug 10 - Deadline of submission
Sep 14 - Notification of Acceptance
Oct 12 - Camera Ready Submission
nov 11 - Workshop Proper

Call for Papers: 3rd AMA-IEEE Medical Technology Conference: Translational Engineering in Health & Medicine: the Intersection of the Lab, the Clinic and the Community

Abstract & Paper deadline: 10 September 2012

The American Medical Association (AMA) and the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMB) Society are pleased to announce the 3rd AMA-IEEE Medical Technology Conference: Translational Engineering in Health & Medicine: the intersection of the lab, the clinic and the community in Houston, TX, on 7th-9th November 2012 at the Methodist Hospital Research Institute in the Texas Medical Center.

This conference is devoted to the exploration of the intersection of engineering, medicine, and health. Emphasis will be placed on novel innovations that have a foreseeable impact on human health and disease. Specific areas of interest include Imaging; Nano Medicine; Data Mining and the Use of Large Datasets; Remote Sensing; Networks & Communication; Applied Metabolomics; Aerospace and Harsh Environments; and Global Health.

We invite participation by physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals, engineers, innovators, entrepreneurs, industrial leaders, government agencies and policy makers. The conference will be inaugurated by a keynote lecture and evening reception on Wednesday, 7th November. The following two days will feature plenary, break-out sessions and poster presentations focusing on Translational Engineering in Health & Medicine. Authors interested in submitting manuscripts can either submit a 1 page abstract or a 4 page paper.

Accepted papers may be considered for publication in IEEE PULSE or The IEEE Journal on Translational Engineering in Health & Medicine (to be launched in 2013).