Second International Conference on

    Computational Intelligence in Medicine and Healthcare

                               The BIOPATTERN Conference

 

            29th June - 1st July 2005, Costa da Caparica, Lisbon, Portugal

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TOPICS OF INTEREST

(including but not limited to)

 Bioinformatics

Computational intelligence for biodata analysis - trends and progress in medical and healthcare applications of:

● Machine learning techniques for bioinformatics and their applications in biomedicine for tasks such as gene expression analysis, structural and functional analyses, protein structure prediction, drug discovery and design, bioinformatics data mining and knowledge discovery, sequence and proteomics, visualisation and learning.

● Data base systems and design, human genome public databanks.

● Synergy between bioinformatics and medical informatics – applications to individualised healthcare in areas such as degenerative and developmental brain diseases (e.g. Alzheimer, epilepsy, neonatal brain injury).

computational intelligence techniques and their applications including artificial neural networks (e.g. Bayesian networks and support vector machines), fuzzy and neuro-fuzzy systems, data mining and knowledge discovery, evolutional computing, intelligent agents, expert systems, non-linear dynamical analysis methods, intelligent signal processing, Independent components analysis, Image processing.

New and emerging methods including data fusion for bioinformatics and medical informatics, ontology, visualisation.

Application to healthcare, e.g. biodata analysis and decision support for brain diseases and cancer.

 

Evaluation and benchmarking

Data

Bio-statistical and medical statistical methods for biomedical data and systems analysis (e.g. models assessment of diagnostic and prognostic performance, tools and techniques for assessment of diagnostic and prognostic performance; ROC analysis; confusion matrix analysis for biomedicql informatics).

● Applications to healthcare, e.g. intelligent medical systems; clinical diagnostic studies, pharmacogenomics, cancer and brain diseases.

Standardisation and protocols for data collection, format, storage, quality assessment and exchange (e.g. for brain diseases, cancer and bioinformatics)

Public databanks and seamless access, data sets for benchmark studies; ethical issues; electronic health records in post-genomic era; ethical issues; collection of bioprofiles; biopattern information models; ontology.

 

 

e-Delivery technologies for e-healthcare

Clinical applications of computational intelligence and biomedical informatics

Grid and multi-agent technologies – tools, techniques and applications in healthcare and biomedical informatics; quality of service issues (including QoS prediction for real-time and non-real-time service; security and confidentiality issues); grid-enabled health care applications; ontology.

Mobile and wireless technologies – tools, techniques and applications; wireless sensors; hand held computing in healthcare, wireless sensors.

IP networks and healthcare; broadband and multimedia communications and healthcare, hospital information systems; quality of service and security requirements and solutions in distributed health

Applications – e.g. eHealth, telemedicine and telecare

 

Brain diseases – intelligent biodata analysis and decision support for brain diseases diagnosis, prognosis and care (including degenerative, developmental, epilepsy);  exploitation of  bioprofiling and biodata analysis and synergy between bioinformatics and medical informatics for individualised healthcare in the areas of brain diseases; e-health applications inc clinical practice.

Cancer – intelligent biodata analysis and decision support for cancer diagnosis, a prognosis and care (including breast, ovarian, ocular melanoma and brain cancers);  exploitation of  bioprofiling and biodata analysis and synergy between bioinformatics and medical informatics for individualised healthcare; e-health applications in clinical practice; image analysis.

Other diseases – clinical applications of computational intelligence methods to other diseases are also of interest