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5th Workshop on CBR in the Health Sciences
International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR-07)
Belfast, Northern Ireland
August 15, 2007
Call for Papers
There has been an explosion of interest in health sciences applications of CBR, not only in the traditional CBR in Medicine domain, but also in bioinformatics, enabling home health care technologies, CBR integration, and synergies between CBR and knowledge discovery. This is the fifth in a series of exciting workshops held at previous ICCBR and ECCBR conferences. 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 challenges specific to applying CBR to the health sciences, required methodological improvements to fit this context needs, preferred types and domains of applications, and guidelines to better develop CBR systems in this domain.
We welcome all those interested in the problems and promise of CBR in the health sciences, whether or not they have participated in past workshops.
A special issue of Computational Intelligence will be published to feature the best papers presented at the workshop.
Previous workshops papers have been featured in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Computational Intelligence, and Applied Intelligence (in press).
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.
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.
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.
Please upload submissions to the workshop online submission site at http://iccbr07-ws-health.confmaster.net/
Dates
- Submission Deadline: May 14, 2007
- Notification Date: June 4, 2007
- Camera-Ready Deadline: June 25, 2007
- Workshop date: August 15, 2007
Workshop Web Site
Information about this Workshop is available at:
http://faculty.washington.edu/ibichind/iccbr07/
Workshop Committee
Isabelle Bichindaritz (Co-Chair), University of Washington, USA, ibichind@u.washington.edu
Stefania Montani (Co-chair), Universita del Piemonte Orientale, Italy, stefania@mfn.unipmn.it
Syed Sibte Raza Abidi, Dalhousie University, Canada
Klaus-Dieter Althoff, University of Hildesheim, Germany
Peter Funk, Malardalen University, Sweden
Alec Holt, University of Otago, New Zealand
Daniel Hennessy, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Jean Lieber, Loria, France
Cindy Marling, Ohio University, USA
Stefan V. Pantazi, Conestoga College Institute of Technology, Canada
Luigi Portinale, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy
Petra Perner, Institute of Computer Vision and Applied Computer Sciences, Germany
Rainer Schmidt, Institut fur Medizinische Informatik und Biometrie, Germany
Malika Smail, Loria, France
Olga Vorobieva, Pavlov State Medical University, Russia
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