ANNIMAB-1: First Call for Papers ANNIMAB-1, an international conference on Artificial Neural Networks In Medicine And Biology Gothenburg, Sweden, May 11-14, 2000 Artificial neural network (ANN) techniques are currently being used for many data analysis and modelling tasks in clinical medicine as well as in theoretical biology, and the possible applications of ANNs in these fields are countless. The ANNIMAB-1 conference will summarise the state of the art, analyse the relations between ANN techniques and other available methods, and point to possible future biological and medical uses of ANNs. The conference will have three main themes: 1) Medical applications of artificial neural networks: for better diagnoses and outcome predictions from clinical and laboratory data, in the analysis of ECG and EEG signals, in medical image analysis, and for the handling of medical databases. 2) Uses of ANNs in biology outside clinical medicine: for example, in models of ecology and evolution, for data analysis in molecular biology, in simulations of cell signalling mechanisms, and in models of animal and human nervous systems and their capabilities. 3) Theoretical aspects: recent developments in ANN techniques, ANNs in relation to AI and to traditional statistical procedures, and possible roles of ANNs in the medical decision process. Hybrid systems and other integrative approaches will receive special attention. The size of the conference will be limited to 250 participants. Contributors who want their full presentations to be printed in the proceedings will be urged to send in their full papers in advance for refereeing. The book will then be available at the conference. Preliminary schedule for submissions: Second announcement and call for papers Aug 15, 1999 Deadline for abstract submissions Oct 15, 1999 Notification of acceptance for presentations Nov 1, 1999 Deadline for full paper submissions Dec 1, 1999 Notification of acceptance for publication Jan 15, 2000 Deadline for final manuscript submissions Feb. 15, 2000 The ANNIMAB-1 conference is organised by the ANNIMAB Society (ANNIMAB-S), which has its base at the University of Gothenburg and embraces several Swedish groups working with biological or medical applications of neural networks. For further information about the conference and the Society, write to: ANNIMAB-S Dept. of Philosophy University of Gothenburg Box 200 SE-405 30 G�teborg Sweden Phone/Fax: (+46) 31 773 5573 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.phil.gu.se/ANN/annimab1.html ------------------------------- Richard Dybowski PhD Research Fellow (Knowledge & Data Engineering) King's College London Medical Informatics Laboratory (Department of Medicine) 4th Floor North Wing St Thomas' Hospital Lambeth Palace Road London SE1 7EH UK Tel (office): 0171 928 9292 extension 6429 Tel (mobile): 0976 250092 Fax: +44 (0)171 928 4458 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site: http://www.umds.ac.uk/microbio/richard/richard.htm {Note: Currently using e-mail address [EMAIL PROTECTED] whilst link to Internet is being established in my new office at St Thomas' Hospital}
