Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 08:25:03 +0200 (METDST) From: Blaz Zupan Blaz.Zupan@ijs.si Subject: Call for Papers: Methods of Information in Medicine Special Issue Special Issue on Applications of Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine http://aim.unipv.it/~ric/aidam Guest editors: Riccardo Bellazzi and Blaz Zupan BACKGROUND In all human activities, automatic data collection pushes towards the development of tools able to handle and analyze data in a computer-supported fashion. In the majority of the application areas, this task cannot be accomplished without using the additionally available knowledge on the domain. This need becomes essential in biomedical applications, since medical decision making needs to be supported by arguments based on basic medical and pharmacological knowledge. Intelligent data analysis methods support information extraction from data by potentially exploiting domain knowledge. Most common techniques include machine learning, temporal data abstraction, visualization, Bayesian analysis and data mining. To increase the chances of utilizing these methods within clinical practice, the intelligent data analysis process typically gains from interaction by medical experts in all its phases starting from data gathering and cleaning to evaluation and exploitation of results. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES please see http://aim.unipv.it/~ric/aidam. IMPORTANT DATES October 15, 1999 Full papers received by guest editors GUEST EDITORS Riccardo Bellazzi Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica Universita di Pavia Via Ferrata 1, 27100 Pavia, Italy e-mail: ric@aim.unipv.it Blaz Zupan Faculty of Computer Science University of Ljubljana Trzaska 25, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia e-mail: blaz.zupan@fri.uni-lj.si
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