Written by Mor
Peleg
The European
Society for Artificial Intelligence in MEdicine (AIME), was established in 1986 with two main goals:
1.
to
foster fundamental and applied research in the application of Artificial Intelligence
(AI) techniques to medical care and medical research, and
2.
to provide a
forum for reporting significant results achieved at biennial conferences.
A major
activity of this society has been a series of international conferences, from
Marseille (FR) in 1987 to Verona (IT) in 2009, held biennially over the last 22
years.
The AIME'2011
conference will be a unique opportunity to present and improve the
international state of the art of AI in Medicine from perspectives of theory,
methodology, and application. For this purpose, AIME'2011 will include invited
lectures, full and short papers, tutorials
(see http://www.aimedicine.info/aime11/tutorials_call.html), workshops (see http://www.aimedicine.info/aime11/workshops_call.html),
and a doctoral consortium (see
http://www.aimedicine.info/aime11/doct_call_for_papers.html). The main
conference will include a session dedicated to
application of AI methods in the day-to-day practice of health care (see
http://www.aimedicine.info/aime11/applications_call.html).
The conference
will be held in Bled, Slovenia.
Program in a Glance
Day 1
(Saturday, July 2): Doctoral symposium and tutorial(s)
Day 2-4 (July 3,4,5):
main AIME conference
Day 5 (Wednesday, July 6): workshops
Invited Speakers
Manfred Reichert, Institute of Databases and
Information Systems, University of Ulm, Germany
Andrey Rzhetsky,
Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Illinois, USA
Scope
Original
contributions are sought regarding the development of theory, techniques, and
applications of AI in BioMedicine, including the
exploitation of AI approaches to medical informatics, healthcare organizational
aspects, and to molecular medicine.
Contributions
to theory may include presentation or analysis of the properties of novel AI
methodologies potentially useful to solve medical problems.
Papers on
techniques and methodologies should describe the development or the extension
of AI methods and their implementation, and discuss the assumptions and
limitations of the proposed methods and their novelty with respect to the state
of the art.
Papers
addressing systems should describe the requirements, design and implementation
of new AI-inspired tools and systems, and discuss their applicability in the
medical field.
Application
papers should describe the implementation of AI systems to solve significant
medical problems, and should present sufficient information to allow evaluation
of the practical benefits of the system.
The scope of
the conference includes the following areas:
·
Knowledge
Acquisition and Management
·
Machine
Learning, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
·
Biomedical
Ontologies and Terminologies
·
Decision
Support Systems
·
Neural
Networks and Belief Networks
·
Reasoning
under Uncertainty
·
Temporal
and Spatial Representation and Reasoning
·
Case-Based
Reasoning
·
Planning
and Scheduling
·
Protocols
and Guidelines
·
Information
Retrieval
·
Natural
Language Generation and Understanding
·
Biomedical
Computer Vision, Imaging, and Signal Interpretation
·
Intelligent
Agents
·
Telemedicine
and Cooperative Systems
·
Cognitive
Modeling
·
Healthcare
Process Management
Best paper awards honoring Mario Stefanelli
and Marco Ramoni
To commemorate
two outstanding researchers in our field who recently passed away, AIME will establish
two awards.
Mario Stefanelli from the University of Pavia has been one of the
founders of the AIME community, an inspiration to us all, and actively helped
in advancing young researchers in our field. The best student paper will
receive an award honoring Mario Stefanelli and his
accomplishments.
Marco Ramoni has been an outstandingly respected faculty member at
Harvard and advanced the biomedical informatics field. The best paper in
bioinformatics will receive an award honoring Marco Ramoni
and his accomplishments.
Submission of proposals for workshops and tutorials
As in previous
AIME conferences, proposals for the organization of tutorials and satellite
workshops are sought regarding any of the above topic areas.
Proposals for tutorials and workshops have to be sent by email to Mor Peleg: morpeleg AT mis DOT hevra DOT Haifa DOT ac
DOT il
Paper Submission
The conference
features regular papers and papers for a special session on Applications AI
methods in the day-to-day practice of health care. For details on the special
session please click here.
There are two
categories of paper submission for the regular sessions:
1. Full
research papers (up to 10 pages)
2. Short papers (up to 5 pages) that are
a. short research paper
b. demonstration of implemented systems
c. late-breaking results (work-in-progress)
Papers should be formatted according to Springer's LNCS format (see
www.springeronline.com/lncs or www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
Submission to AIME'2011 will be electronically only.
Authors are
asked to submit an abstract first, and then to upload the full paper.
The paper submission web page is available at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aime2011
All accepted
papers will appear in the conference proceedings which will be published as
part of Springer's "Lecture Notes in AI" series.
In addition,
the authors of the best submissions will be invited to expand and refine their
papers for possible publication in the journal Artificial Intelligence in
Medicine (Elsevier).
As in previous
AIME conferences, proposals for the organization of tutorials and satellite
workshops are sought regarding any of the above topic areas.
Important dates
Proposals for
Tutorials: January 27, 2011
Proposals for Workshops: January 27, 2011
Electronic Draft Abstract Submission Deadline: January 27, 2011
Electronic Paper Submission Deadline: February 3, 2011
Notification of Acceptance: April 4, 2011
Camera-Ready Copy Deadline: April 22, 2011
Program
Committee
Ameen Abu-Hanna, The Netherlands
(Applications Session Co-chair)
Klaus-Peter Adlassnig, Austria
Steen Andreassen,
Denmark (Applications Session Co-chair)
Pedro Barahona, Portugal
Riccardo Bellazzi, Italy
Petr Berka, Czech Republic
Isabelle Bichindaritz, USA
Aziz Boxwala, USA
Paul de Clercq, The Netherlands
Carlo Combi,
Italy (Doctoral Consortium Chair)
Michel Dojat, France
Henrik Eriksson, Sweden
Catherine Garbay, France
Adela Grando, UK
Peter Haddawy, Macau
Arie Hasman, The Netherlands
Reinhold Haux, Germany
John Holmes, USA
Werner Horn, Austria
Jim Hunter, UK
Hidde de Jong, France
Elpida Keravnou, Cyprus
Pedro Larranaga, Spain
Nada
Lavrac, Slovenia
(Local Chair)
Johan van der Lei, The Netherlands
Xiaohui Liu, UK
Peter Lucas, The Netherlands
Roque Marin, Spain
Michael Marschollek, Germany
Paola Mello, Italy
Gloria Menegaz, Italy
Silvia Miksch, Austria
Stefania Montani, Italy
Mark Musen, USA
Barbara Oliboni, Italy
Niels Peek, The Netherlands
Mor Peleg,
Israel (Scientific Chair)
Christian Popow, Austria
Silvana Quaglini, Italy
Marco Ramoni, USA
Alan Rector, UK
Stephen Rees, Denmark
Daniel Rubin, USA
Lucia Sacchi, Italy
Rainer Schmidt, Germany
Brigitte Seroussi, France
Yuval Shahar, Israel
Basilio
Sierra, Spain
Costas Spyropoulos, Greece
Mario Stefanelli, Italy
Paolo Terenziani, Italy
Samson Tu, USA
Allan Tucker, UK
Frans Voorbraak, The
Netherlands
Dongwen Wang, USA
Blaz Zupan, Slovenia
Pierre Zweigenbaum, France
Organizing
Committee
Program Committee Chair: Mor Peleg,
University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
Local Organization Chair: Nada Lavrac, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Doctoral Consortium Chair: Carlo Combi, University of
Verona, Verona, Italy
Special Session on Applications Chairs: Ameen
Abu-Hanna, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Steen Andreassen,
Aalborg University, Denmark