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BrainKDD Call for Papers



BrainKDD: International Workshop on Data Mining for Brain Science in conjunction with ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD'14) August 24, 2014, New York City



https://sites.google.com/site/brainkdd/



Understanding brain function is one of the greatest challenges facing science. Today, brain science is experiencing rapid changes and is expected to achieve major advances in the near future. In April 2013, U.S. President Barack Obama formally announced the Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies Initiative, the BRAIN Initiative. In Europe, the European Commission has recently launched the European Human Brain Project (HBP). In the private sector, the Allen Institute for Brain Science is embarking on a new 10-year plan to generate comprehensive, large-scale data in the mammalian cerebral cortex under the MindScope project. These ongoing and emerging projects are expected to generate a deluge of data that capture the brain activities at different levels of organization. There is thus a compelling need to develop the next generation of data mining and knowledge discovery tools that allow one to make sense of this raw data and to understand how neurological activity encodes information.



This workshop will focus on exploring the forefront between computer science and brain science and inspiring fundamentally new ways of mining and knowledge discovery from a variety of brain data. We encourage submissions in, but not limited to, the following areas:

*                             Mining of in situ hybridization and microarray gene expression data

*                             Mining of brain connectivity and circuitry data

*                             Mining of structural and functional MRI data

*                             Mining of EEG and related data

*                             Mining of temporal developing brain data

*                             Mining of spatial neuroimaging data

*                             Integrative mining of multi-modality brain data

*                             Mining of diseased brain data, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and schizophrenia

*                             Segmentation and registration of neuroimaging data



Important Dates:



June 16nd, 2014: Paper Submission Due

July 8th, 2014: Notification of Acceptance August 24th, 2014: Workshop Presentation



Submission Instructions:



Papers should be prepared using the ACM Proceedings Format http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates#aL2 and should be at most 9 pages long. Paper should be submitted in PDF format through the following link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=brainkdd2014



Publication:



Accepted workshop papers will be invited to a journal to be determined (subject to peer review).



Invited Speakers:

*                             Partha Mitra, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

*                             Hanchuan Peng, Allen Institute for Brain Science



Program Committee Members:

*                             Gal Chechik, Bar Ilan University

*                             Leon French, Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest

*                             Junzhou Huang, University of Texas at Arlington

*                             Shuai Huang, University of South Florida

*                             Dean Krusienski, Old Dominion University

*                             Jiang Li, Old Dominion University

*                             Jing Li, Arizona State University

*                             Yonggang Shi, University of Southern California

*                             Lin Yang, University of Kentucky

*                             Pew-Thian Yap, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

*                             Jiayu Zhou, Arizona State University





Program Committee Chairs:



Michael Hawrylycz

Allen Institute for Brain Science



Shuiwang Ji

Old Dominion University



Tianming Liu

University of Georgia



Dinggang Shen

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill



Publicity Chair:



Rongjian Li

Old Dominion University

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