Connectionists: CfP: FLINS 2006 - Special Session on Data Analysis for Mass Spectrometric Problems

[thomas.villmann@medizin.uni-leipzig.de]

Dear connectionists,  

I want to draw your attention to the following announcement which   
could be of interest for you:  


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Special Session on Data Analysis  
for Mass Spectrometric Problems  

at the   

The 7th International FLINS Conference  
on Applied Artificial Intelligence (FLINS 2006)  


Session Organizers  

Frank-Michael Schleif  
University of Leipzig, Dept. of Computational Intelligence  
 & Bruker Daltonik GmbH  
Karl-Tauchnitz-Str. 25, D-04107 Leipzig, Germany  
Tel: +49-341-24 31-480 Fax: +49-341-96252-15  
E-Mail: fms at bdal.de  

Thomas Villmann  
University of Leipzig, Dept. of Computational Intelligence  
Karl-Tauchnitz-Str. 25, D-04107 Leipzig, Germany  
E-Mail: villmann at informatik.uni-leipzig.de  


Jens Decker  
Bruker Daltonik GmbH  
Research & Development  
Fahrenheitstr. 4, D-28359 Bremen, Germany  
E-Mail: jde at bdal.de  

This session is organized as a part of  

The 7th International FLINS Conference  
on Applied Artificial Intelligence (FLINS 2006)  
http://www.fuzzy.ugent.be/flins2006/  
August 29-31, 2006, Genova (Italy)  


In several areas of bioinformatics like mass spectrometry (ms),   
genome expression, biosignal analysis a.s.o. applied artificial   
intelligence methods play an important role in data analysis and data  
processing. These methods include all kinds of machine learning   
approaches  
as well as neural networks, modern statistics, genetic algorithms etc.  
In  
this session we focus on data processing in mass spectrometry. The   
most  
relevant problems arising in this domain are due to high dimensional   
but  
sparse data, processing of structures (functional data) and fuzziness.  
These topics are of more general interest also in the machine learning  
community. Otherwise ms plays an increasing role in the field of   
clinical  
proteomics and chemometrics.   

In the announced special session we focus on all kind of data analysis  
occurring during the processing of ms data like peak detection, feature  
extraction, pattern recognition, classification etc. The quality of these  
data analysis tools crucially influences the medical investigation  
results. This is especially true for the analysis of high-dimensional  
functional MALDI-TOF or SELDI-TOF spectra of body fluids from   
clinical  
proteomics studies.  

To improve the state of the art in this field both the processing of the  
spectra as well as new algorithms for the supervised and unsupervised  
analysis of the extracted spectral features should to be reconsidered in  
the light of new research results. The special session Data Analysis for  
Mass Spectrometric Problems on FLINS 2006 aims on collecting the   
state of  
the art activities in these fields and invites to bring researchers  
together working on these important topics. Therefore, we encourage   
the  
submission of contributions which aim on improvements of all kinds of   
data  
processing for MS.   

Recommended topics include but are not limited to the following:  

* Machine Learning approaches for ms data analysis  
* Fuzzy data analysis  
* Rule extraction  
* Automatic reasoning  
* Denoising  
* Baseline correction and noise estimation  
* Recalibration  
* Automatically evaluation of spectra quality   
* Feature extraction and selection  
* Classification of ms data (e.g. within clinical proteomics)  
* Statistical methods for data analysis of ms data  
* Applications in Clinical Proteomics, Metabolic Profiling  

Submission of papers  
Authors are invited to submit a paper up to 8 pages by December 15,   
2005. You can  
submit your paper to the session organizers by email to: fms at bdal.de   
or  
{Schleif, villmann}@informatik.uni-leipzig.de  

All papers submitted in this session will be peer-reviewed. Accepted  
papers will be published in the conference proceedings as the book  
"Applied Artificial Intelligence" by World Scientific (to be EI indexed).  
Final papers should be prepared according to the publisher's   
instructions  
: http://www.worldscientific.com/style/proceedings_style.shtml Please  
select the trim size: 9" x 6". Papers that are not prepared according to  
these guidelines will not be published.  

Important dates  
* Paper submissions: December 15, 2005  
* Acceptance letter: February 15, 2006  
* Final papers submissions: April 15, 2006  


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Best regards  

Thomas Villmann  



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Dr. rer. nat. Thomas Villmann

University Leipzig
Clinic for Psychotherapy
Karl-Tauchnitz-Str. 25

phone / fax   +49 (0)341 9718868 / 49
email: thomas.villmann at medizin.uni-leipzig.de