[alife] CfP - Medical and HealthCare Applications of Evolutionary Computation @CEC 2017

[Antonio Della Cioppa]

Medical and HealthCare Applications of Evolutionary Computation

to be held as Special Session of the

2017 Conference on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2017)
Donostia - San Sebastián, Spain
June 5-8, 2017

We are pleased to invite you to submit a paper to the 
Medical and HealthCare Applications of Evolutionary Computation Special Session

SCOPE AND TOPICS OF INTEREST

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.

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, …)


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

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 <applewebdata://09B453AE-2401-47A5-A225-976D7A0E1E9B/www.mhaec.icar.cnr.it> and www.cec2017.org <applewebdata://09B453AE-2401-47A5-A225-976D7A0E1E9B/www.cec2017.org>.

Workshop Organizers

Ivanoe De Falco
Antonio Della Cioppa
Ernesto Tarantino
Umberto Scafuri

CEC is sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society