[apologies for multiple posts] Special Session
Intelligent Clinical Decision Support Systems (i-CDSS) CIBB 2010 - SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE METHODS FOR BIOINFORMATICS AND BIOSTATISTICS Web site: http://cibb10.pa.icar.cnr.it/ Date: September 16-18, 2010 Location: Palermo, Italy Description and Scope Medicine and its scientific and technological background are rapidly and profoundly changing in the Information Age. The impact of 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 such as 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. These data provide 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, decision trees, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computing, support vector machines, and the like. Also, the prevailing reductionist view by its own result seems to lead biomedicine to the systemic view. In some recent studies, omics data are placed in a pathways/networks context, but most often only the structure of these networks is investigated leaving the more complex dynamics as an unresolved challenge for dynamical systems analysis and control theoretic applications. Yet the professional, political, and social issues that separate the medical community and the intelligent computing and dynamical systems communities have delayed the serious application of these tools to accelerate progress in translational medicine, genome-to-phenome, bench-to-bedside and clinical trials, ultimately hindering implementation in public health programs. The mission of these annually held special sessions is to develop a foundation for Knowledge Based Medicine (KBM), the next step beyond Evidence Based Medicine (EBM), combining computational intelligence and dynamical systems. 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 Session Chairs Alexandru Floares, SAIA OncoPredict & Solutions of Artificial Intelligence Applications, Cluj-Napoca, Email: alexandru _ dot _ floares _ at _ iocn _ dot _ ro Leif Peterson, Center for Biostatistics, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas USA, E-mail: peterson _ dot _ leif _ at _ ieee _ dot _ org Important Dates Manuscript submission deadline: July 10, 2010 Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2010 Camera-ready papers due: July 30, 2010 Conference: September 16-18, 2010 Submissions (Instructions to Authors) Papers submitted for this session should be submitted by July 15, 2010. To submit a paper, please use the following steps: 1. Prepare your paper in LATEX following the guidelines available at http://cibb10.pa.icar.cnr.it/images/cibb-sample-v.1.2.zip. The size of the paper should not exceed 10 pages in that format. 2. E-mail manuscripts in pdf format to: a. alexandru _ dot _ floares _ at _ iocn _ dot _ ro b. peterson _ dot _ leif _ at _ ieee _ dot _ org Proceedings Accepted papers will be published in the compact disk of conference proceedings with ISBN. A selection of papers presented at CIBB 2010 will be published in revised extended form as a post conference volume. Revised papers of the previous editions of CIBB were published in the Springer Verlag LNBI/LNCS (see http://www.springer.com/series/538 General Chairs Paulo J. Lisboa, John Moores University, Liverpool, UK Riccardo Rizzo, Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni, (ICAR), sede di Palermo, CNR, Palermo Italy Biostatistics Technical Chair Elia Biganzoli, Istituto Nazionale per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori, Milan, Italy Bioinformatics Technical Chair Francesco Masulli, University of Genova, Italy and Temple Univ. Philadelphia, PA, USA Scientific Committee Sansanee Auephanwiriyakul, Department of Computer Engineering, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand Federico Ambrogi, University of Milan Milan, Italy Claudia Angelini, Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo "M. Picone" (IAC), sede di Napoli, IAC-CNR Naples, Italy Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Gilles G. Bernot, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France Chengpeng Bi, Bioinformatics, Childrens Mercy Hosp., Kansas City, USA Mario Cannataro, University Magna Graecia Catanzaro, Italy Xuewen Chen, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA Giuseppe Di Fatta, Computer Science and Informatics School of Systems Engineering, The University of Reading Reading UK Enrico Formenti, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France Salvatore Gaglio, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy Christoph Friedrich, Department of Bioinformatics, Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing, Sankt Augustin, Germany Antonio Giordano, University of Siena, Italy and Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine and Center for Biotechnology, Temple Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA Saman Halgamuge, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Melbourne School of Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Pietro Lio', Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Michael Lones, Department of Electronics, University of York, York, UK Elena Marchiori, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Giancarlo Mauri, Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Comunicazione, University of Milano Bicocca Milan, Italy Luciano Milanesi, Istituto di tecnologie biomediche (ITB), sede di Milano, CNR, Milan, Italy David A. Pelta, Dept. of Computer Science and A.I. University of Granada, Granada Spain Leif E. Peterson, Methodist Hospital Research Institute Houston, TX, USA Gianluca Pollastri, Complex and Adaptive Systems Lab, School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Dublin Ireland Mihail Popescu, Health Management and Info. Dept., University of Missouri - Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, USA Volker Roth, Computer Science Dept., University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland Giuseppe Russo, Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Center for Biotechnology Temple University Philadelphia, PA, USA Jennifer Smith, Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept., Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, USA Federico Mattia Stefanini, Department of Statistics "G. Parenti", University of Florence, Florence Italy Alfonso Urso, Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni, (ICAR), sede di Palermo, CNR, Palermo Italy Giorgio Valentini, University of Milan, Milan, Italy Kay Wiese, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Surrey, Canada Yanqing Zhang, Dept. of Computer Science, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Local Organizing Committee Alfonso Urso, Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni, (ICAR), sede di Palermo, CNR, Palermo Italy Pietro Storniolo, Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni, (ICAR), sede di Palermo, CNR, Palermo Italy Giosué Lo Bosco, University of Palermo, Italy Congress Management: Fabio Ferrara, Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni, (ICAR), sede di Palermo, CNR, Palermo Italy Giampiero Rizzo, Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni, (ICAR), sede di Palermo, CNR, Palermo Italy Steering Committee Pierre Baldi, University of California Irvine CA, USA Alexandru Floares, Oncological Institute Cluj-Napoca Romania Jon Garibaldi, University of Nottingham UK Francesco Masulli, University of Genova, Italy and Temple University Philadelphia, PA, USA Roberto Tagliaferri, University of Salerno Italy ===================================================================== Alexandru Floares, MD, PhD Head of Artificial Intelligence Department Cancer Institute Cluj-Napoca 400015, Str. 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