Connectionists: NIPS 2015 Workshop on Machine Learning in Healthcare

[David Sontag]

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

NIPS 2015 WORKSHOP ON MACHINE LEARNING IN HEALTHCARE
Friday, December 11, 2015
Palais des Congrès in Montreal
https://sites.google.com/site/nipsmlhc15/home

We are pleased to announce our workshop on Machine Learning in
Healthcare to take place at this year’s Neural Information Processing
Systems conference at the Palais des Congrès in Montreal on Friday,
Dec. 11th. The objective of this workshop is to present problems of
growing relevance in healthcare and discuss how machine learning
techniques can be used to address them through collaborations between
clinicians and ML-researchers.

INVITED SPEAKERS

Isaac Kohane, MD PhD -- Director of Dept. for Biomedical Informatics,
Harvard Medical School
Anmol Madan, PhD -- CEO of ginger.io
Steven Horng, MD MMSc -- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,
Emergency Medicine
Nigam Shah, MBBS, PhD -- Assistant Professor of Medicine, Stanford
Center for Biomedical Research
Finale Doshi-Velez, PhD -- Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Harvard
Ambuj Tewari, PhD -- Assistant Professor Statistics & EECS, University
Of Michigan, Ann Arbor

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

We invite submissions of 2-page abstracts for poster contributions to
the workshops and for short contributed talks. Topics of interest
include all areas of machine learning in healthcare such as disease
modeling and detection, knowledge discovery from electronic health
records, electronic phenotyping, temporal models of disease
progression, Markov decision processes for decision support, dealing
with missing data and irregularly sampled data, uncertainty and its
role in medical statistics, calibration, model criticism, and causal
inference. Submitted papers should be up two pages long excluding
references and in NIPS-2015 format. Submissions should be sent by
email to <nips15mlhc at gmail.com> by October 23, 2015.

We additionally invite submissions of “Healthcare Challenges” by
healthcare scientists and clinicians, which are short summaries of
clinical problems that they would like to see solved (or are trying to
solve). Accepted submissions will be invited to be presented in a 5
minute pitch followed by 5 minutes of discussion, with the aim being
to spark discussion on new problems and foster new collaborations
between clinicians and machine learning researchers. For more details
see:
     https://sites.google.com/site/nipsmlhc15/call-for-healthcare-challenges

Presenters may be eligible for travel assistance to attend the meeting.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline:     October 23, 2015
Acceptance notification: November 5, 2015
Workshop:                      December 11, 2015

ORGANIZERS

Theofanis Karaletsos, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Rajesh Ranganath, Princeton University
Suchi Saria, Johns Hopkins
David Sontag, New York University

SENIOR PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Noemie Elhadad, Columbia University
Joydeep Ghosh, University of Texas at Austin
John Holmes, University of Pennsylvania
Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research
Yan Liu, University of Southern California
Ben Marlin, UMass Amherst
Christian Shelton, UC Riverside
Jimeng Sun, Georgia Tech
Chris Williams, University of Edinburgh