MCBR-CDS09: CALL FOR PAPERS

CALL FOR PAPERS
MCBR-CDS 2009: Medical Content-based Retrieval for Clinical Decision Support
September 20th, 2009
London, UK
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/projects/aalim/multimodal-decision.html

** Paper Submisions Due May 22th, 2008 **

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Call for Papers
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Diagnostic decision making (using images and other clinical data) is still very much an art for many physicians in their practices today due to a lack of quantitative tools and measurements. Traditionally, decision making has involved using evidence provided by the patient’s data coupled with a physician’s a priori experience of a limited number of similar cases. With advances in electronic patient record systems, a large number of pre-diagnosed patient data sets are now becoming available. These datasets are often multimodal consisting of images (x-ray, CT, MRI), videos and other time series, and textual data (free text reports and structured clinical data). Analyzing these multimodal sources for disease-specific information across patients can reveal important similarities between patients and hence their underlying diseases and potential treatments. Researchers are now beginning to use techniques of content-based retrieval to search for disease-specific information in modalities to find supporting evidence for a disease or to automatically learn associations of symptoms and diseases. Benchmarking frameworks such as ImageCLEF (Image retrieval track in the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum) have expanded over the past five years to include large medical image collections for testing various algorithms for medical image retrieval. This has made comparisons of several techniques for visual, textual, and mixed medical information retrieval as well as for visual classification of medical data possible based on the same data and tasks.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers in medical imaging, medical image retrieval, data mining, text retrieval, and machine learning/AI communities to discuss new techniques of multimodal mining/retrieval and their use in clinical decision support. We are looking for original, high-quality submissions that address innovative research and development in the analysis, search and retrieval of multimodal medical data for use in clinical decision support. Further, to encourage a larger group of image analysis researchers to profit from the databases and evaluations created in the context of ImageCLEF, we will provide access to the medical databases and tasks of ImageCLEF 2009 which has obtained rights from RSNA to use over 70,000 images of the journals Radiology and Radiographics.

Topics for the workshop include but are not limited to:
–Mining of multimodal medical data (X-ray, MRI, CT, echo videos, time series data)
–Machine learning of disease correlations from mining multimodal data
–Algorithms for indexing and retrieval of data from multimodal medical databases
–Disease model-building and clinical decision support systems based on multimodal analysis
–Practical applications of clinical decision support using multimodal data retrieval or analysis
–Algorithms for medical image retrieval

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Paper Submission
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Prospective authors are invited to submit papers of not more than
eight(8) pages including results, figures and references. Please use
the MICCAI author kit to format the papers.

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Important Dates
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Paper submission deadline: May 22nd, 2009

Notification of acceptance: June 28th, 2009

Camera ready copy : July 20th, 2009

Workshop date: September 20th 2009