AIME'09 2009 - 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME'09)

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Category AIME'09 2009

Deadline: February 02, 2009 | Date: July 18, 2009

Venue/Country: Verona, Italy

Updated: 2010-06-04 19:32:22 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

to foster fundamental and applied research in the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to medical care and medical research, and

to provide a forum for reporting significant results achieved at biennial conferences.

A major activity of this society has been a series of international conferences, from Marseille (FR) in 1987 to Amsterdam (NL) in 2007, held biennially over the last 20 years.

The AIME'09 conference will be a unique opportunity to present and improve the international state of the art of AI in BioMedicine from both perspectives of theory, methodology, and application.

For this purpose, AIME'09 will include invited lectures, full and short papers, tutorials, workshops, and a doctoral consortium.

The conference will be held in Verona - Italy.

Scope

Original contributions are sought regarding the development of theory, techniques, and applications of AI in BioMedicine, including the exploitation of AI approaches to molecular medicine and biomedical informatics.

Contributions to theory may include presentation or analysis of the properties of novel AI methodologies potentially useful to solve biomedical problems.

Papers on techniques should describe the development or the extension of AI methods and their implementation, and discuss the assumptions and limitations of the proposed methods.

Application papers should describe the implementation of AI systems to solve significant medical problems, and should present sufficient information to allow evaluation of the practical benefits of the system.

Original long and short papers are sought on the development of theory, systems, and applications of AI in Medicine, including the exploitation of AI approaches to molecular medicine and biomedical informatics and to healthcare organizational aspects.

Contributions to theory may include presentation or analysis of the properties of novel AI methods potentially useful in solving medical problems.

Papers addressing theory should describe the development or the extension of AI methods and discuss the assumptions and limitations of the proposed methods and their novelty with respect to the state of the art.

Papers addressing systems should describe the requirements, design and implementation of new AI-inspired tools and systems, and discuss their applicability in the medical field.

Application papers should describe the implementation of AI systems to solve significant medical problems, and should present sufficient information to allow evaluation of the practical benefits of the system.

The scope of the conference includes the following areas:

Knowledge Acquisition and Management

Machine Learning, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Biomedical Ontologies and Terminologies

Decision Support Systems

Neural Networks and Belief Networks

Reasoning under Uncertainty

Temporal and Spatial Representation and Reasoning

Case-Based Reasoning

Planning and Scheduling

Protocols and Guidelines

Information Retrieval

Natural Language Generation and Understanding

Biomedical Computer Vision, Imaging, and Signal Interpretation

Intelligent Agents

Telemedicine and Cooperative Systems

Cognitive Modelling

Healthcare Process Management

Submissions Overview

There are two categories of paper submission

Full research papers (up to 10 pages)

Short papers (up to 5 pages) that:

are short research papers

demonstrate implemented systems

describe late-breaking results (work-in-progress)

Papers should be formatted according to Springer's LNCS format (see www.springeronline.com/lncs or www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).

Authors are strongly encouraged to submit the papers electronically, following the instructions provided in the conference web page (see below).

All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings which will be published as part of Springer's "Lecture Notes in AI" series.

In addition, the authors of the best submissions will be invited to expand and refine their papers for possible publication in the journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Elsevier).

As in previous AIME conferences, proposals for the organisation of tutorials and satellite workshops are sought regarding any of the above topic areas.

Important dates

Proposals for Tutorials: February 9, 2009

Proposals for Workshops: February 9, 2009

Electronic Draft Abstract Submission Deadline: February 2, 2009

Electronic Paper Submission Deadline: February 9, 2009

Notification of Acceptance: April 6, 2009

Camera-Ready Copy Deadline: April 27, 2009

Programme Committee

Ameen Abu-Hanna, The Netherlands (Doctoral Consortium Chair)

Klaus-Peter Adlassnig, Austria

Steen Andreassen, Denmark

Pedro Barahona, Portugal

Riccardo Bellazzi, Italy

Petr Berka, Czech Republic

Isabelle Bichindaritz, USA

Paul de Clercq, The Netherlands

Carlo Combi, Italy (Local Chair and Scientific co-Chair)

Michel Dojat, France

Henrik Eriksson, Sweden

Catherine Garbay, France

Peter Haddawy, Thailand

Arie Hasman, The Netherlands

Reinhold Haux, Germany

John Holmes, USA

Werner Horn, Austria

Jim Hunter, UK

Hidde de Jong, France

Elpida Keravnou, Cyprus

Pedro Larranaga, Spain

Nada Lavrac, Slovenia

Johan van der Lei, The Netherlands

Xiaohui Liu, UK

Peter Lucas, The Netherlands

Roque Marin, Spain

Paola Mello, Italy

Gloria Menegaz, Italy

Silvia Miksch, Austria

Stefania Montani, Italy

Mark Musen, USA

Barbara Oliboni, Italy

Niels Peek, The Netherlands

Mor Peleg, Israel

Christian Popow, Austria

Silvana Quaglini, Italy

Marco Ramoni, USA

Alan Rector, UK

Stephen Rees, Denmark

Lucia Sacchi, Italy

Rainer Schmidt, Germany

Brigitte Seroussi, France

Yuval Shahar, Israel (Scientific Co-Chair)

Basilio Sierra, Spain

Costas Spyropoulos, Greece

Mario Stefanelli, Italy

Paolo Terenziani, Italy

Samson Tu, USA

Allan Tucker, UK

Frans Voorbraak, The Netherlands

Dongwen Wang, USA

Thomas Wetter, Germany

Blaz Zupan, Slovenia

Pierre Zweigenbaum, France

Organizing Committee

Carlo Combi, Barbara Oliboni and Roberto Posenato

Dipartimento di Informatica

Universit¨¤ degli Studi di Verona, Italy

Yuval Shahar, Beer Sheva, Israel (Programme Committee co-Chair)

Carlo Combi, Verona, Italy (Programme Committee co-Chair and Organizing Committee Chair)