Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning in the Health Sciences
The Eighth International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR-09)
Seattle, Washington, USA
July 21, 2009
Call for Papers
There has been an explosion of interest in health sciences applications
of Case-Based Reasoning (CBR), not only in the traditional CBR in Medicine
domain, but also in bioinformatics, enabling home health care technologies,
CBR integration, and synergies between CBR and knowledge discovery. This
is the seventh in a series of exciting workshops, which have been held at
every ICCBR and ECCBR since 2003. This workshop will be held at ICCBR-09,
in Seattle, Washington, USA, on July 21, 2009.
The goals of this workshop are to:
* provide a forum for identifying important contributions and
opportunities for research on the application of CBR to the health
sciences,
* promote the systematic study of how to apply CBR to the health
sciences, and
* showcase applications of CBR in the health sciences.
Some of the technical issues addressed, and potential outcomes of the
workshop, are to identify challenges specific to applying CBR to the health
sciences, required methodological improvements to fit this context needs,
preferred types and domains of applications, and guidelines to better
develop CBR systems in this domain.
We welcome all those interested in the problems and promise of CBR in the
health sciences, whether or not they have participated in past workshops.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
* Integration of CBR in health care environments
* CBR in medical decision-support systems
* CBR in medical imaging
* CBR in enabling technologies for those with physical disabilities or
chronic health problems
* CBR and knowledge discovery in medicine and the health sciences
* Cognitive approaches to applying CBR to medicine
* Theoretical framework for CBR in medical reasoning
* CBR in bioinformatics
* CBR and evidence-based medicine
Paper presentations will be interspersed with discussions in which we
characterize, categorize, and discuss the benefits of specific CBR
applications in the health sciences. A wrap-up round table discussion
will summarize the lessons learnt, issues identified, and future directions.
Submission Requirements
PDF paper submissions should be formatted according to Springer LNCS
format, with a maximum of ten pages. Author's instructions along with
LaTeX and Word macro files are available at the Information for LNCS
Authors page, http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0
We will not accept papers that are exact duplicates of others, but we
welcome papers that are modifications of them that focus on CBR in
the Health Sciences. For example, submissions summarizing previously
published material relating to this workshop's topic are welcomed. In
your submissions and finalized papers, please cite the other publication
and indicate clearly its relationship to this workshop's paper.
Please upload submissions via the ICCBR-09 EasyChair Conference Site,
https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=iccbr09
Important Dates
* Submission Deadline: April 15, 2009
* Notification Date: May 18, 2009
* Camera-Ready Deadline: May 29, 2009
* Workshop date: July 21, 2009
Workshop Web Site
http://oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu/~marling/iccbr09/workshop.html
Organizing Committee
Co-Chairs
Cindy Marling
Ohio University, USA
marling from ohio.edu
Stefania Montani
University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy
stefania.montani from unipmn.it
Committee Members
Klaus-Dieter Althoff, University of Hildesheim, Germany
Isabelle Bichindaritz, University of Washington, USA
Peter Funk, Malardalen University, Sweden
Alec Holt, University of Otago, New Zealand
Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
Jean Lieber, Loria, France
Stefan V. Pantazi, Conestoga College Institute of Technology, Canada
Petra Perner, Institute of Computer Vision and Applied Computer
Sciences, Germany
Luigi Portinale, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy
Olga Vorobieva, Pavlov State Medical University, Russia
