CALL FOR PAPERS
Data Mining in Biomedical Informatics and Healthcare (DMBIH) Workshop 2014
In conjunction with IEEE ICDM 2014
Shenzhen China, December 14th, 2014
http://dampa.cdm.depaul.edu/events/DMBIH14/index.html
Highlights
- Deadline Extension: New submission deadline September 17, 2014
- Keynote: Y.T. Zhang, Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Key Lab for Health
Informatics of Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Special Issue: Journal of Biomedical Informatics
The ICDM 14 Data Mining in Biomedical Informatics and Healthcare workshop aims to provide
a forum for data miners, informacists and clinical researchers to share information on their latest
investigations in applying data mining techniques to biomedical and healthcare data. The broader
context of the workshop comprehends artificial intelligence, information retrieval, machine
learning, and natural language processing. Submissions are invited to address the need for
developing new methods to mine, summarize and integrate the huge volume and diverse
modalities of the structured and unstructured biomedical and healthcare data that can potentially
lead to significant advances in the field.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
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Clustering text data in Electronic Medical Records (EMR)
Classifying and clustering temporal data in EMR on the patient level in high dimensional
space
Topic detection and information extraction in big text clinical data
Longitudinal analysis of clinical notes and surveys
Statistics and probability in large-scale data mining
Methods to perform simulation of population outcomes based on treatment types and
identification of the optimal treatment
Visualization methods for identification of patients' similarity based on treatment types,
and resource allocation (i.e. drugs, hospitalizations)
Evidence-based medicine
Medical image data mining
Computer-aided detection and diagnosis
Radiology structured-reporting and data mining
HIPAA compliance data mining
Data preprocessing and cleansing to deal with noise and missing data in medical data
Pharmacogenomics data mining
Biological markers detection
Biological and clinical data analysis and integration for translational research
Computational genetics, genomics and proteomics
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr. Yuan-Ting Zhang will present "Convergence: from Wearable Cuffless Blood Pressure
Measuring Devices to Cardiovascular Health Informatics". Dr. Zhang is currently the Director
of Joint Research Center for Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Department of Electronic
Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong, China. He serves
concurrently the Director of the Key Lab for Health Informatics of the Chinese Academy of
Sciences (HICAS) at SIAT, Shenzhen, China. He is the first Head of the Division of Biomedical
Engineering at CUHK and the founding Director of the CAS-SIAT Institute of Biomedical and
Health Engineering.
IMPORTANT DATES:
 September 17, 2014: (Extended) Due date for full workshop papers
 October 10, 2014: Notification of paper acceptance
 October 24, 2014: Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers
 December 14, 2014: Workshop date
SUBMISSIONS &PROCEEDINGS
Paper submissions will be done through the IEEE ICDM Workshop CyberChair submission
system. Papers should be limited to a maximum of *10* pages, and follow the IEEE ICDM
format requirements (http://icdm2014.sfu.ca/submission.html).All accepted workshop papers
will be published in a formal proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press. One paper will
be selected for the best paper award, which will be presented at the workshop. Authors of
selected papers will be invited to submit extended papers to the special issue "Mining Big Data
in Biomedical Informatics and Healthcare" of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics.
WORKSHOP CHAIRS
 Samah Jamal Fodeh, Yale University
 Daniela Stan Raicu, DePaul University
WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE
 Yu Cao, University of Massachusetts Lowell
 Samah Jamal Fodeh, Yale University
 José D. Martín-Guerrero, University of Valencia
 Daniela Stan Raicu, DePaul University
 Mohammad-Reza Siadat, Oakland University
PROGRAM COMMITTTE MEMBERS
• Sameer Antani, NIH National Library of Medicine
• Emili Balaguer, Bournemouth University, UK
• Paul Bradley, MethodCare, Inc.
• Hamidreza Chitsaz, Wayne State University
• Rosa Figueroa, University of Utah
• Jacob Furst, DePaul University
• Adam Gaweda, University of Louisville
• Maryellen Giger, University of Chicago
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Juan Gómez, University of Valencia, Spain
Kourosh Jafari-Khouzani, Harvard University
Paulo J. G. Lisboa, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Rafael Magdalena, University of Valencia, Spain
Henning Müller, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland / University
Hospitals and University of Geneva, Switzerland
Theophilus Ogunyemi, Oakland University
Doug Redd, University of Utah
Gautam G. Singh, Oakland University
Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh, Henry Ford Health System
Emilio Soria, University of Valencia, Spain
Szilard Vajda, NIH National Library of Medicine
Chengcui Zhang, The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Tian Zhao, University of Wisconson-Milwaukee