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                   Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
                      Special Issue Call for Papers
              Impacting Patient Care by Mining Medical Data
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Automated medical data analysis is becoming increasingly important in
healthcare.  Several factors have been vital in reaching this point:
the rapid increase in the amount and diversity of the data
collected/stored, the creation and proliferation of medical knowledge
sources, and the opportunity to employ large processing power to
analyze this data. These three factors place medical data mining in a
unique position to truly impact patient care now using data that is
readily available.

Topics include but are not limited to:

+ Biomedical data mining
+ Combination of structured and unstructured data
+ Clinical trials
+ Data and knowledge representation
+ Differential diagnosis
+ Disease detection
+ Disease management
+ Efficient algorithms for processing medical data
+ Exploiting genomic data in patient care
+ Knowledge acquisition
+ Mining large unstructured data sources (images and text)
+ Outbreak detection
+ Patient care and outcomes
+ Quality improvement

Important Dates:
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Paper submission deadline: Jan 21, 2009
Notification to authors: April 1, 2009
Camera ready papers: June 1, 2009

Editors: Romer Rosales (Siemens Healthcare)
         R. Bharat Rao (Siemens Healthcare)

Submission:
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Manuscripts should be submitted to: http://DAMI.edmgr.com  

To see full CfP, please go to:

http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/CFP_10618_20081105.pdf?SGWID=0-0-45-648116-p35596293