Connectionists: [Deadline Extension] CfP: Data Analytics for Targeted Healthcare 2013 (at PAKDD '13)

[Xiaohui Tao]

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             The First International Workshop on 
      Data Analytics for Targeted Healthcare (DANTH '13)
           Gold Coast, Australia 14 April 2013

                   	CALL FOR PAPERS
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The first International Workshop on Data Analytics for Targeted 
Healthcare (DANTH '13) in Conjunction with the 17th Pacific-Asia 
Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Gold Coast, 
Australia 14 April 2013. 

Homepage: http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/danth13

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# Full paper submission (Extended):  *** 06 January 2013 ***
# Notification of acceptance:        31 January 2013
# Camera-ready submission:           15 February 2013
# Workshop:                          14 April 2013
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To succeed in transforming healthcare, many countries will need to 
move to more targeted healthcare. Successful migration must encourage 
innovation, provide access to more complete patient information and 
incorporate advanced clinical knowledge into clinical decision-making. 
Aiming at successfully transforming healthcare, some interdependent 
challenges need to be overcome, such as prevalence of tightly coupled 
applications and data; inadequate data and knowledge standards; 
insufficient analytics capabilities; unsatisfactory security and 
privacy methodologies; absence of a clinical decision-making foundation. 
Knowledge discovery and data mining techniques, especially data 
analytics, have been proven holding much promise for solving these 
problems. Providers can use health care data analytics to learn about 
patient populations, enhance preventive care and drive business 
decisions by accessing key data such as demographics and chronic 
conditions. Therefore, nowadays the healthcare industry requires a much 
more open, robust health information technology environment than ever 
existed, especially the techniques and methodologies in knowledge 
discovery and data mining.

Targeting on these interesting questions, the workshop focuses on how 
data analytics can improve information management in healthcare. The 
workshop will bring together researchers from different countries and 
regions to foster dissemination, increase the share of knowledge cross 
different domains, and strengthen the research on data analytic 
techniques and related applications to healthcare problems. 

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Topics of Interest
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TOPICS AND AREAS INCLUDE, BUT NOT LIMITED TO

- Healthcare Management Systems
- Databases and Data Management
- Data mining, knowledge discovery, decision making support
- Pattern recognition, Sequence Analysis, and Machine Learning
- System interoperability, ontology and standardization
- Bioinformatics
- Brain informatics
- Image Analysis and Processing
- Neural Networks
- Medical Signal Acquisition, Analysis and Processing
- Telemedicine
- Semantic Interoperability
- Health information visualization
- Computational Molecular Systems
- Support tools and languages for health information-system development
- Medical Data Collection and Processing
- Human-Machine Interface / Ambient Intelligence
- Modelling of Physical and Conceptual Information 
- User Profiles and Personalised Healthcare
- Social, Privacy, and Security Issues in Healthcare
- Evaluation and use of Healthcare IT
- Software Systems in Medicine
- Pervasive Health Systems and Services
- Practice-based Research Methods for Healthcare IT
- Web Services in Bioinformatics
- Fuzzy Systems and Signals
- Infodemiology, public health surveillance 

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Keynote Speakers
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Professor Pei Jian, Ph.D
School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Professor Ning Zhong, Ph.D
Department of Life Science and Informatics, Maebashi Institute of 
Technology, Japan

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On-Line Submissions and Publication
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Each submitted paper should include an abstract up to 200 words. It 
should not longer  than 12 single-spaced pages with 10pt font size. 
Authors are strongly encouraged to use Springer LNCS/LNAI manuscript 
submission guidelines (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) 
for the initial submissions. Note that submitting a paper to the 
workshop means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author 
should attend the workshop to present the paper.

The accepted papers will be published in a LNCS/LNAI post Proceedings 
of PAKDD Workshops published by Springer in the second half of 2013. 
Published papers will be indexed by ISI, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, DBLP 
and EBSCO, among others, and will be available in the SpringerLink 
Digital Library. 

Top papers with extensive work will be published in Health Information 
Science and Systems, Biomed and Springer, as the special issue of 
the workshop. 

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Special Issue
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Health Information Science and Systems, Biomed and Springer 
(http://www.hissjournal.com/)

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Organising Committee
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GENERAL CHAIR
* Yanchun Zhang     Victoria University, Australia
* Michael Ng        Hong Kong Baptist University, China

PROGRAM CO-CHAIR
* Xiaohui Tao       University of Southern Queensland, Australia
* Guandong Xu       University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
* Yidong Li         Beijing Jiaotong University, China
* Hongmin Cai       South China University of Technology, China
* Prasanna Desikan  Allina Health, United States
* Harleen Kaur      United Nations University, International Institute 
                      for Global Health (UNU-IIGH), Malaysia

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

* Ritu Chauhan	Amity Institute of Biotechnology, India
* Ling Chen	University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
* Peter Dolog	Aalborg University, Denmark
* Kazuyuki Imamura	Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
* Alípio Jorge	University of Porto, Portugal
* Ritu Khare	National Institutes of Health, USA
* Yan Li	University of Southern Queensland, Australia
* Xue Li	University of Queensland, Australia
* Zhiyong Lu	National Institutes of Health, USA
* Mohd Saberi Mohamad	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
* Mohyuddin	King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, 
                    Saudi Arabia
* Chaoyi Pang	CSIRO, Australia
* Jeffrey Soar	University of Southern Queensland, Australia
* Weighing Su	United International College, Hong Kong
* Shusaku Tsumoto	Shimane University, Japan
* Guoyin Wang	Chongqing Uni of Posts and Telecom, China
* Jie Wan	University College Dublin, Ireland
* Xin Wang	University of Calgary, Canada
* Zhiang Wu	Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China
* Zongda Wu	Wenzhou University, China
* Xiaoyin Xu	The Brigham Women’s Hospital, USA
* Yue Xu	Queensland University of Technology, Australia
* Zhenglu Yang	University of Tokyo, Japan
* Neil Yen	The University of Aizu, Japan
* Ji Zhang	University of Southern Queensland, Australia
* Yanchang Zhao	RDataMining.com, Australia
* Xiaobo Zhou	The Methodist Hospital, USA

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Contact Information
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* Xiaohui Tao        xtao at usq.edu.au
* Guandong Xu        guandong.xu at uts.edu.au
* Yidong Li          ydli at bjtu.edu.cn
* Hongmin Cai        hmcai at scut.edu.cn
* Prasanna Desikan   prasanna at gmail.com
* Harleen Kaur       harleen_k1 at rediffmail.com
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