C.f.Abstracts: NN in Biomedical Systems

[Georg Dorffner]

Following the general call for papers for 
EANN '96 (Int. Coference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks), 
we are still soliciting abstracts for the


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                 Special Track on

        Neural Networks in Biomedical Systems

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Any application of neural networks in the medical domain will be welcome.
Examples are:

- biosignal processing (e.g. EEG, ECG, intensive care, etc.)
- biomedical image processing (e.g. in radiology, dermatology, etc.)
- diagnostic support in medicine
- topographical mapping of diseases or syndromes
- epidemological studies
- control of biomedical devices (e.g. heart/lung machines, respirators, etc.)
- optimization of therapy
- monitoring (e.g. in intensive care)
- and many more

Special emphasis will be put on careful validation of results to make clear
the value of neural networks in the application (e.g. through cross-validation
with mutiple training sets and comparison to alternatives, such as linear
methods).

One-page abstracts can be submitted until

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          Feb. 15, 1996
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Please state clearly what data was used (number of input features, number of
training and test samples) and your results (e.g. by reporting mean performance
and standard deviation from a cross-validation).

Final papers will be due around March 21, 1996. It is planned to publish the 
best-quality papers in a special issue of a journal.

Abstracts should be emailed to:

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georg at ai.univie.ac.at
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Below is a description of the EANN conference.


Georg Dorffner
Dept. of Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence
University of Vienna
Freyung 6/2
A-1010 Vienna, Austria
phone: +43-1-53532810
fax:   +43-1-5320652
email: georg at ai.univie.ac.at
http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/oefai/nn/georg.html


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 International Conference on
 Engineering Applications of Neural Networks
 (EANN '96)

 London, UK 
 17--19 June 1996 


The conference is a forum for presenting  the latest results on neural
network applications  in technical fields. The  applications may be in
any  engineering  or technical  field,   including but  not limited to
systems    engineering,  mechanical   engineering,   robotics, process
engineering,   metallurgy, pulp   and  paper technology,  aeronautical
engineering, computer  science,  machine vision,  chemistry,  chemical
engineering,     physics, electrical engineering, electronics,   civil
engineering,  geophysical   sciences,  biotechnology,    environmental
engineering, and biomedical engineering.


Abstracts  of   one page   (200  to 400   words)  should  be  sent  by 
e-mail in  PostScript format  or ASCII.  Please  mention  two to  four 
keywords, and  whether you prefer  it to  be a short  paper or a  full 
paper.   The short papers will be 4 pages in  length, and  full papers  
may  be  upto 8  pages. Submissions  will be  reviewed and  the number 
of full papers  will be very limited. For more information on EANN'96, 
please see 

http://www.lpac.ac.uk/EANN96 

and for reports on EANN '95, contents  of the proceedings, etc. please 
see http://www.abo.fi/~abulsari/EANN95.html

Five special tracks are being organised in EANN '96: 
Computer Vision (J. Heikkonen, Jukka.Heikkonen at jrc.it), 
Control Systems (E. Tulunay, ersin-tulunay at metu.edu.tr),
Mechanical Engineering (A. Scherer, andreas.scherer at fernuni-hagen.de), 
Robotics (N. Sharkey, N.Sharkey at dcs.shef.ac.uk), and
Biomedical Systems (G. Dorffner, georg at ai.univie.ac.at) 


Organising committee 

A. Bulsari (Finland) 
D. Tsaptsinos (UK) 
T. Clarkson (UK) 


International program committee


G. Dorffner (Austria)
S. Gong (UK) 
J. Heikkonen (Italy)
B. Jervis (UK)
E. Oja (Finland) 
H. Liljenstr\"om (Sweden)
G. Papadourakis (Greece)
D. T. Pham (UK) 
P. Refenes (UK)
N. Sharkey (UK)
N. Steele (UK) 
D. Williams (UK)
W. Duch (Poland)
R. Baratti (Italy)
G. Baier (Germany)
E. Tulunay (Turkey)
S. Kartalopoulos (USA)
C. Schizas (Cyprus)
J. Galvan (Spain)
M. Ishikawa (Japan)
D. Pearson (France)

 Registration information for the
 International Conference on
 Engineering Applications of Neural Networks
 (EANN '96)

The conference fee   will be   sterling   pounds (GBP) 300  until   28
February, and sterling pounds (GBP)   360 after  that.  At least   one
author of each accepted  paper should register by  21 March to  ensure
that the  paper will be included  in the  proceedings.  The conference
fee can be  paid  by a bank  draft (no  personal  cheques)  payable to
EANN '96, to be  sent to EANN  '96, c/o  Dr.  D. Tsaptsinos,  Kingston
University,  Mathematics, Kingston upon   Thames, Surrey KT1 2EE,  UK.
The fee includes attendance to the conference and the proceedings.

Registration form can be picked up from the www (or can be sent to you
by e-mail)  and can be returned by  e-mail (or post  or fax)  once the
conference  fee has  been sent. A   registration form sent before  the
payment of  the conference  fee is not  valid.   For more information,
please ask eann96 at lpac.ac.uk