[alife] Call for Papers on Medical and HealthCare Applications of Evolutionary Computation

[Antonio Della Cioppa]

CALLS FOR PAPERS

Medical and HealthCare Applications of Evolutionary Computation
 
CEC 2017 Special Session
Donostia - San Sebastián, Spain
June 5-8, 2017


SCOPE

Evolutionary Computation methods are being more and more frequently used to face 
challenging problems in Medicine and HealthCare.

These methods can be of great help in finding good solutions to many practical medical 
and healthcare applications, as for example in tasks as disease screening, diagnosis, 
treatment planning, prognosis, imaging, signal processing, health care management and 
any other task related to machine learning, knowledge discovery, decision support, 
regression, forecasting, optimization, feature selection and data mining.

The Special Session aims to bring together international experts in evolutionary 
computation for the exchange of ideas across disciplines encouraging multidisciplinary 
research collaborations and the development of new concepts in the important and growing 
domain of Medical and HealthCare ICT, thus creating a forum of excellence on the use of 
evolutionary inspired methods to face medical and healthcare problems.

This increasing trend towards the use of Evolutionary Computation methods to face 
challenging medical and healthcare problems in the next years, not only will a 
Special Session on this topic be of immediate relevance, it will also provide a platform 
for encouraging implementations of evolutionary methods for solving problems in various 
medical and health care specialties.


TOPICS 

Examples of relevant topics include, but are not limited to, applications of Evolutionary 
Algorithms to: 

- Medical imaging: image analysis by detection, segmentation, registration, classification 
of pathological patterns on various imaging modalities including X-rays, magnetic 
resonance imaging (MRI), computer tomography (CT), etc.;

- Medical signal and data processing (analysis of biosignals such as the 
electroencephalogram (EEG), electrocorticogram (ECoG), electrocardiogram (ECG), 
electrooculogram (EOG), electromyogram (EMG), respiration, and so on; automated systems 
for detection of abnormal biomedical signals, detection of relevant biomedical patterns, 
multi-scale signal processing, ...)

- Clinical diagnosis and therapy: detection of relevant diagnostic parameters, regression 
models in diagnosing diseases, earlier diagnosis of disease, treatment schedule, 
management of chronic diseases, therapy planning, ...)  

- Data inference, mining, and trend analysis (inference and modelling of physiological 
systems, data mining to discover new information, disease prediction, processing of large 
volumes of heterogeneous medical data, mining models of the patient, prediction of how 
diseases propagate ...)

- Modelling and simulation of medical processes (modelling of medical processes to avoid 
mistakes or to systematically improve decision making and practice, error, vulnerability, 
and inefficiencies detection, simulation of multi-agent concurrent activities, ...)

- Knowledge discovery and decision support (clinical decision support systems, automatic 
clinical diagnosis, ...)

- Computational Intelligence for chronic disease management (disease measure estimates, 
identification of symptoms, adaptation of medical devices to individual patients, ...)

- Healthcare modeling and simulation (physicians/patient support systems, population 
modelling systems, ...)

- Health information systems and convergence of health (healthcare delivery healthcare 
management, ...).

Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of CEC, published by IEEE Press Society. 
All the papers have to be submited electronically through the congress  application site.

More detailed information, together with a more comprehensive list of application domains, 
is available at www.mhaec.icar.cnr.it <http://www.mhaec.icar.cnr.it/> and www.cec2017.org <http://www.cec2017.org/>.


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: January 16, 2017

Notification of acceptance: February 26, 2017

Deadline for final submission: March 12, 2017

Conference dates: June 5-8, 2017


ORGANIZED BY 

Ivanoe De Falco
ICAR-CNR, ITALY
 
Antonio Della Cioppa
University of Salerno, ITALY
 
Umberto Scafuri
ICAR-CNR, ITALY
 
Ernesto Tarantino
ICAR-CNR, ITALY


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Prof. Antonio Della Cioppa, PhD
Artificial Life, Evolutionary Computation

Natural Computation Lab, 
Department of Information Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics
University of Salerno
Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132
84084 Fisciano (SA), ITALY

home page: http://nclab.diiie.unisa.it/adellacioppa <http://nclab.diiie.unisa.it/adellacioppa>
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