Workshop on CBR in the Health Sciences
The Seventh European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ECCBR-04)
Madrid, Spain
August 31, 2004
Call for Papers
Health sciences applications have been central to CBR ever since its
early days. New directions, including CBR integration, synergies
between CBR and knowledge discovery, enabling home health care
technologies, and bioinformatics applications, keep this a vital and
exciting domain for CBR research. The goals of this workshop are to:
* provide a forum for identifying important contributions and opportunities
for research on the application of CBR to the health sciences
* promote the systematic study of how to apply CBR to the health sciences
* showcase applications of CBR in the health sciences
Some of the technical issues addressed, and potential outcomes of the
workshop, are to identify preferred types and domains of applications,
challenges specific to applying CBR to the health sciences, and
guidelines to better develop CBR systems in this domain.
This workshop builds upon progress made at the First Workshop on CBR
in the Health Sciences, which was held at ICCBR-03, in Trondheim,
Norway. In addition, the authors of the best submissions will be
invited to expand and refine their papers for publication in a special
issue of the journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Elsevier) on
Case-Based Reasoning in the Health Sciences. Topics of interest
include (but are not limited to):
* Integration of CBR in health care environments
* CBR in medical decision-support systems
* CBR in medical imaging
* CBR in enabling technologies for those with physical disabilities or
chronic health problems
* CBR and knowledge discovery in medicine and the health sciences
* Cognitive approaches to applying CBR to medicine
* Theoretical framework for CBR in medical reasoning
* CBR in bioinformatics
* CBR and evidence-based medicine
Paper presentations will be interspersed with discussions in which we
characterize, categorize, and discuss the benefits of specific CBR
applications in the health sciences. A wrap-up round table discussion
will summarize the lessons learnt, issues identified, and future
directions.
Review Process
Papers will be reviewed by the organizing committee for relevance,
significance, technical soundness and depth, and readability. We will
not accept papers that are exact duplicates of others, but we welcome
papers that are modifications of them that focus on CBR in the Health
Sciences. For example, submissions summarizing previously published
material relating to this workshop's topic are welcomed. In your
submissions and finalized papers, please cite the other publication
and indicate clearly its relationship to this workshop's paper.
Submission Requirements
PostScript (compressed and uuencoded) or PDF paper submissions should
be formatted according to Springer LNCS format, with a maximum of ten
pages. Author's instructions along with LaTeX and Word macro files are
available on the web at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Please upload
submissions to the electronic submission site:
http://faculty.washington.edu/ibichind/eccbr04wk/submission
or Email submissions to Isabelle Bichindaritz at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Important Dates
* Submission Deadline: May 7, 2004
* Notification Date: June 7, 2004
* Camera-Ready Deadline: July 9, 2004
* Workshop Date: August 31, 2004
Workshop Web Site
Information about this Workshop is available at
http://oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu/~marling/eccbr04/workshop.html
Workshop Co-Chairs
Isabelle Bichindaritz, University of Washington, USA, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cindy Marling, Ohio University, USA, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Workshop Committee
Agnar Aamodt, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ricardo Bellazzi, University of Pavia, Italy, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Susan Craw, The Robert Gordon University, Scotland, UK, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Steve Hanks, University of Washington, USA, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Daniel Hennessy, University of Pittsburgh, USA, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Marie-Christine Jaulent, Faculte de Medecine Broussais-Hotel-Dieu, France, [EMAIL
PROTECTED]
Stefania Montani, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Petra Perner, Institute of Computer Vision and Applied Computer Sciences, Germany,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Brigitte Seroussi, Service d'Informatique Medicale, France, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rainer Schmidt, Institut fur Medizinische Informatik und Biometrie, Germany [EMAIL
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Derek Sleeman, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Isabelle Bichindaritz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Institute of Technology/Computing and Software Systems
University of Washington, Tacoma
1900 Commerce Street Tel: (253) 692 4605
Campus Box 358426, Office Pnk 302 Fax: (253) 692 5862
Tacoma, WA 98402
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://faculty.washington.edu/ibichind
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