13th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Conference

Original contributions are sought regarding the development of theory, techniques, and applications of AI in BioMedicine, including the exploitation of AI approaches to medical informatics, healthcare organizational aspects, and to molecular medicine.
Contributions to theory may include presentation or analysis of the properties of novel AI methodologies potentially useful to solve medical problems.
Papers on techniques and methodologies should describe the development or the extension of AI methods and their implementation, and discuss the assumptions and limitations of the proposed methods and their novelty with respect to the state of the art.
Papers addressing systems should describe the requirements, design and implementation of new AI-inspired tools and systems, and discuss their applicability in the medical field.
Application papers should describe the implementation of AI systems to solve significant medical problems, and should present sufficient information to allow evaluation of the practical benefits of the system.

The scope of the conference includes the following areas:

• Knowledge Acquisition and Management
• Machine Learning, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
• Biomedical Ontologies and Terminologies
• Decision Support Systems
• Neural Networks and Belief Networks
• Reasoning under Uncertainty
• Temporal and Spatial Representation and Reasoning
• Case-Based Reasoning
• Planning and Scheduling
• Protocols and Guidelines
• Information Retrieval
• Natural Language Generation and Understanding
• Biomedical Computer Vision, Imaging, and Signal Interpretation
• Intelligent Agents
• Telemedicine and Cooperative Systems
• Cognitive Modeling
• Healthcare Process Management

Program committee

• Raza Abidi, Canada
• Ameen Abu-Hanna, The Netherlands (Applications Session Co-chair)
• Klaus-Peter Adlassnig, Austria
• Steen Andreassen, Denmark (Applications Session Co-chair)
• Pedro Barahona, Portugal
• Riccardo Bellazzi, Italy
• Petr Berka, Czech Republic
• Isabelle Bichindaritz, USA
• Elizabeth Borycki, Canada
• Aziz Boxwala, USA
• Paul de Clercq, The Netherlands
• Carlo Combi, Italy (Doctoral Consortium Chair)
• Michel Dojat, France
• Henrik Eriksson, Sweden
• Catherine Garbay, France
• Adela Grando, UK
• Femida Gwadry-Sridhar, Canada
• Peter Haddawy, Macau
• Arie Hasman, The Netherlands
• Reinhold Haux, Germany
• John Holmes, USA
• Werner Horn, Austria
• Jim Hunter, UK
• Hidde de Jong, France
• Elpida Keravnou, Cyprus
• Pedro Larranaga, Spain
• Nada Lavrac, Slovenia (Local Chair)
• Johan van der Lei, The Netherlands
• Xiaohui Liu, UK
• Peter Lucas, The Netherlands
• Roque Marin, Spain
• Michael Marschollek, Germany
• Carolyn McGregor, Canada
• Paola Mello, Italy
• Gloria Menegaz, Italy
• Silvia Miksch, Austria
• Stefania Montani, Italy
• Mark Musen, USA
• Barbara Oliboni, Italy
• Niels Peek, The Netherlands
• Mor Peleg, Israel (Scientific Chair)
• Christian Popow, Austria
• Silvana Quaglini, Italy
• Marco Ramoni, USA
• Alan Rector, UK
• Stephen Rees, Denmark
• Daniel Rubin, USA
• Lucia Sacchi, Italy
• Rainer Schmidt, Germany
• Brigitte Seroussi, France
• Yuval Shahar, Israel
• Basilio Sierra, Spain
• Costas Spyropoulos, Greece
• Mario Stefanelli, Italy
• Paolo Terenziani, Italy
• Samson Tu, USA
• Allan Tucker, UK
• Frans Voorbraak, The Netherlands
• Dongwen Wang, USA
• Blaz Zupan, Slovenia
• Pierre Zweigenbaum, France

Local Chair

• Nada Lavrac Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia

Local Organization Committee

• Tina Anzic
• Damjan Demsar
• Miha Grcar
• Matjaz Jursic
• Petra Kralj Novak
• Dragana Miljkovic
• Vid Podpecan
• Borut Sluban