CALL FOR PAPERS

HELPLINE 2020 'Artificial Intelligence for Health, Personalized Medicine and Wellbeing' 

Workshop in conjunction with The 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2020)

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WORKSHOP DATE:  June 9, 2020.

LOCATION: Santiago de Compostela, Spain

WEBSITE:  http://events.dimes.unical.it/helpline/

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SCOPE
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning are changing the landscape of healthcare and modern personalized precision medicine. The increasing availability of health data, including patient medical records also obtained by wearable sensors, medical imaging, health insurance claims, surveillance, together with the rapid progress of machine learning algorithms and analysis techniques, are gradually enabling doctors for better diagnosis, improve disease surveillance, facilitating early disease detection, uncovering novel treatments and drug-interaction, detect false alarms and over-diagnosis, and creating an era of truly personalized medicine.
A great challenge is build better modeling tools for integrating human expertise and artificial intelligence techniques to exploit big data in healthcare, and formulate hypothesis about how the human organisms act in health and illness.
The main areas of machine learning and AI applications in healthcare are: personalized precision medicine, analysis and interpretation of radiology images, automated diagnosis, prescription preparation, clinical workflow monitoring, patient monitoring and care, discovery of new drugs, predicting the impact of gene edits, treatment protocol development, early diagnoses of diseases. In this context, AI techniques can play a crucial role to deal with such amount of heterogeneous, multi-scale and multi-modal data. Some examples of techniques that are gaining attention in this domain include deep learning, domain adaptation, semi-supervised approach, time series analysis and active learning. Even though the use of AI and the development of ad-hoc techniques are gaining increasing popularity in the health domain, we can witness that a significant lack of interaction between domain experts and AI researchers still exists. The workshop provides a venue for the community to promote collaborations and present and exchanges ideas, practices and advances specific to AI use in the particularly challenging area of health, precision medicine and wellbeing. The goal is to bring people in the field cross-cutting information management and medical informatics to discuss innovative data management and analytics technologies highlighting end-to-end applications, systems, and methods to address problems in healthcare, public health, and everyday wellness, with clinical, physiological, imaging, behavioral, environmental, and omic data, and data from social media and the Web.

TOPICS
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Personal health virtual assistant
- Early disease diagnosis and treatment prediction
- Clinical decision support in disease diagnosis and treatment
- Analysis and interpretation of radiology images
- Application of deep learning methods to health data
- Spatio-temporal prediction of pandemics
- Modeling the health status and well-being of individuals
- Real-time syndromic surveillance and early detection of emerging disease
- Drug adversial reaction
- Drug abuse and alcoholism incidence monitoring
- Medical imaging analysis and diagnosis assistance
- mHealth, eHealth, and Wearable Health
- Blockchain for healthcare
- Social media data analys and mining for public health
- Novel methods and frameworks for mining and integrating big health data
- Semantics and interoperability for healthcare data
- Clinical natural language processing and text mining
- Predictive modelling for diagnosis and treatment
- Data privacy and security for healthcare data
- Medical fraud detection
- Data analytics for pervasive computing for medical care.
 
PROGRAM CHAIRS
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Ester ZUMPANO, DIMES University of Calabria, Italy,  e.zumpano@dimes.unical.it
Andrea TAGARELLI, DIMES University of Calabria, Italy,  a.tagarelli@dimes.unical.it
Carmela COMITO, CNR-ICAR,  Italy, carmela.comito@icar.cnr.it
Pierangelo VELTRI, DMSC University of Catanzaro, Italy, veltri@unicz.it
Sergio GRECO, DIMES University of Calabria, greco@dimes.unical.it
 
SUBMISSION DETAILS
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The workshop solicits submissions (full or short papers) including: surveys, state-of-the art reports, empirical, experimental, methodological, and theoretical research reporting results on topics in the realm of healthcare and health informatics along with applications to real life situations.
Submissions are in the format of long papers (7 pages + 1 page references) or short papers (4 pages + 1 page references) or posters (2 pages).
Papers must be formatted according to ECAI guidelines and submitted electronically through EasyChair. The link to the ECAI template is here.
Contributions already published or accepted for publication at other conferences are also welcome, provided that the original publication is clearly reported in the submitted paper.

IMPORTANT DATES
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- Submission deadline: March 16, 2020
- Acceptance/Rejection Notification: April 16, 2020
- Camera-ready: April 30, 2020
- Workshop: June 9, 2020
- ECAI 2020: June 8 - 12, 2020
 
PUBLICATION
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HELPLINE 2020 proceedings will be published in CEUR Workshop Proceedings series. Accepted papers will be submitted for indexation by: DBLP, Thomson Reuters, EI, SCOPUS, Semantic Scholar and Google Scholar.
SPECIAL ISSUE
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We will organize a Special Issue with a highly-relevant, peer-reviewed international journal in the fields of interest of the workshop.
Further information will be posted soon on the workshop website.
Extended versions of accepted papers will be invited for submission to the Special Issues.