[BiO BB] CFP CIBB 2010 & i-CDSS 2010

[Alexandru Floares]

[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, Children’s 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

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Alexandru Floares, MD, PhD

Head of
Artificial Intelligence Department
Cancer Institute Cluj-Napoca
400015, Str. Republicii, Nr. 34-36,
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Email: alexandru.floares at iocn.ro


President of
SAIA Group
400310 Str. Al. Vlahuta, Bl. Lama C, Ap. 45,
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Email: alexandru.floares at saia.ro