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WORKSHOP 

Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology (IDAMAP-2000)

Tuesday, August 22, 2000

A Workshop at the 14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2000), Berlin, Germany, August 20-25, 2000 
Nada Lavrac (contact); Sarabjot Anand; Steen Andreassen; Lars Asker; Riccardo Bellazzi; Werner Horn; Elpida Keravnou; Cristiana Larizza; Nada Lavrac; Xiaohui Liu; Silvia Miksch; Christian Popow; Yuval Shahar; Blaz Zupan 
  
Submission: April 20, 2000  Notification: May 18, 2000  Camera-ready: June 1, 2000 
 
  
This is the fifth workshop on Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology (IDAMAP). The former IDAMAP Workshops were held in Budapest in 1996,  in Nagoya in 1997, in Brighton in 1998, and in Washington in 1999.

General information

IDAMAP-2000 is an one day ECAI-2000 workshop, will be held in Berlin, Germany, on Tuesday, August 22, 2000 prior to the start of the main ECAI conference.

Gathering in an informal setting, workshop participants will have the opportunity to meet and discuss selected technical topics in an atmosphere which fosters
the active exchange of ideas among researchers and practitioners. To encourage interaction and a broad exchange of ideas, the workshop will be kept small,
preferably under 30 participants and certainly under 40. Attendance will be limited to active participants only. The workshop is intended to be a genuinely
interactive event and not a mini-conference, thus ample time will be allotted for general discussion. The workshop will last one full day. Attendees at the
workshop will have to register for the main ECAI conference.


Topics

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 available knowledge on the domain or on the data analysis process. This need becomes essential in biomedical applications, since medical decision-making needs to be supported by arguments based on basic medical and pharmacological knowledge.

The topics of the workshop are computational methods for data analysis able to exploit the available knowledge to narrow the gap between data gathering and data comprehension, as well as their applications in medicine and pharmacology. Expert physicians should be included in the preparation of data for IDA process (e.g., data representation, modeling, cleaning, selection, and transformation), as well as in the interpretation and exploitation of results and their (potential) impact on medical practice.
 

Topics include, but are not limited to:

Emphasis will also be given to solving of problems, which result from automated data collection in modern hospitals, such as analysis of computer-based patient records (CPR), data warehousing tools, intelligent alarming, effective and efficient monitoring, etc.

In particular, we will ask the participants to address the following points:
        - what kind of knowledge they have used and/or extracted;
        - why they need to exploit the available prior knowledge in their problem;
        - how they have represented the available knowledge;
        - how they plan to use / have used the derived knowledge.


Submission of Papers

The workshop invites submission of long and short papers written in English to the workshop chair, Nada Lavrac (email: Nada.Lavrac@ijs.si, cc: silvia@ifs.tuwien.ac.at, cc: Branko.Kavsek@ijs.si), preferably in electronic format (pdf or postscript) no later than April 20, 2000. The length of long papers is of about 5000 words (10 pages) and length of short papers is about 1500 words (3 pages).

Authors will be notified of acceptance by May 18, 2000.
Papers will appear as separate workshop notes.

SUBMISSION ADDRESS:


Scientific Program

The scientific program of the workshop will consist of presentations of accepted papers and panel discussions. Papers are invited both on methodological issues of intelligent data analysis as well as on specific applications in medicine and pharmacology. Presentations of scientific papers will be followed by the general discussion on two issues: what has been achieved so far, and where should we head.
 


Program Committee


List of Accepted Papers (ordered by first author)

  1. R. Bellazzi, R. Guglielmann and L. Ironi:
    Qualitative and Fuzzy Reasoning for Identifying Non-Linear Physiological Systems: an Application to Intracellular Thiamine Kinetics
  2. S. Byrne, P. Cunningham, A. Barry, I. Graham, T. Delaney and O.I. Corrigan:
    Using Neural Nets for Decision Support in Prescription and Outcome Prediction in Anticoagulation Drug Therapy
  3. D. Gamberger, N. Lavrac, G. Krstacic and T. Smuc:
    Inconsistency Tests for Patient Records in a Coronary Heart Disease Database
  4. E. Lamma, M. Manservigi, P. Mello, F. Riguzzi, R. Serra and S. Storari:
    A System for Monitoring Nosocomial Infections
  5. J. Laurikkala, M. Juhola and E. Kentala:
    Informal Identification of Outliers in Medical Data
  6. P. Lucas:
    Enhancement of Learning by Declarative Expert-based Models
  7. S. Miksch, A. Seyfang and C. Popow:
    Abstraction and Representation of Repeated Patterns in High-Frequency Data
  8. Y.L. O:
    Analysis of Primary Care Data
  9. K.M. de Oliveira, A.A. Ximenes, S. Matwin, G. Travassos and A.R. Rocha:
    A Generic Architecture for Knowledge Acquisition Tools in Cardiology
  10. P. Perner:
    Mining Knowledge in X-Ray Images for Lung Cancer
  11. A. Smith and S.S. Anand:
    Patient Survival Estimation with Multiple Attributes: Adaptation of Cox's Regression to Give an Individual's Point Prediction
  12. W. Stühlinger, O. Hogl, H. Stoyan and M. Muller:
    Intelligent Data Mining for Medical Quality Management
  13. K. Viikki, E. Kentala, M. Juhola and I. Pyykko:
    Confounding Values in Decision Trees Constructed for Six Otoneurological Diseases
  14. C. Wroe, W.D. Solomon, A.L. Rector and J.E. Rogers:
    DOPAMINE - A Tool for Visualizing Clinical Properties of Generic Drugs
  15. H. Zheng, S.S. Anand, J.G. Hughes and N.D. Black:
    Methods for Clustering Mass Spectrometry Data in Drug Development
  16. R. Zimmer and A. Barraclough:
    Mining a database of Fungi for Pharmacological Use via Minimum Message Length Encoding



The papers are in PDF format, readable by Acrobat Reader (click to download if needed).


Workshop Schedule and Organization Details

Each long presentation is allocated 30 mins, of which 20 mins are allocated for presentation and 10 mins for discussion, while short presentation is allocated 15 mins, 10 mins for presentation and 5 mins for discussion.

The room will be provided with

The following technical equipment is NOT available:
9:00 - 9:10  Welcome by Workshop Chairs: 
               Introduction to IDAMAP: Past History and Current State
9:10 - 10:40  Session 1: From Neural Networks to Knowledge Acquisition (Chair: N.N) 
9:10 - 9:25  S. Byrne, P. Cunningham, A. Barry, I. Graham, T. Delaney and O.I. Corrigan: 
Using Neural Nets for Decision Support in Prescription and Outcome Prediction in Anticoagulation Drug Therapy 
9:25 - 9:55 R. Bellazzi, R. Guglielmann and L. Ironi: 
Qualitative and Fuzzy Reasoning for Identifying Non-Linear Physiological Systems: an Application to Intracellular Thiamine Kinetics 
9:55 - 10:25 R. Zimmer and A. Barraclough: 
Mining a database of Fungi for Pharmacological Use via Minimum Message Length Encoding
10:25 - 10:40 K.M. de Oliveira, A.A. Ximenes, S. Matwin, G. Travassos and A.R. Rocha: 
A Generic Architecture for Knowledge Acquisition Tools in Cardiology 
 
10:40 - 11:00  Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:50  Session 2: From Data to Quality Management (Chair: N.N) 
11:00 - 11:15  Y.L. O: 
Analysis of Primary Care Data 
11:15 - 11:45  S. Miksch, A. Seyfang and C. Popow: 
Abstraction and Representation of Repeated Patterns in High-Frequency Data
11:45 - 12:00  J. Laurikkala, M. Juhola and E. Kentala: 
Informal Identification of Outliers in Medical Data 
12:00 - 12:15 E. Lamma, M. Manservigi, P. Mello, F. Riguzzi, R. Serra and S. Storari: 
A System for Monitoring Nosocomial Infections 
12:15 - 12:30  C. Wroe, W.D. Solomon, A.L. Rector and J.E. Rogers: 
DOPAMINE - A Tool for Visualizing Clinical Properties of Generic Drugs 
12:30 - 12:45 W. Stühlinger, O. Hogl, H. Stoyan and M. Muller: 
Intelligent Data Mining for Medical Quality Management
 
12:50 - 13:50  Luch Break
13:50 - 15:10 
 
Session 3: Machine Learning  I (Chair: N.N) 
13:50 - 14:05  K. Viikki, E. Kentala, M. Juhola and I. Pyykko: 
Confounding Values in Decision Trees Constructed for Six Otoneurological Diseases 
14:05 - 14:20 D. Gamberger, N. Lavrac, G. Krstacic and T. Smuc: 
Inconsistency Tests for Patient Records in a Coronary Heart Disease Database 
14:20 - 14:35 H. Zheng, S.S. Anand, J.G. Hughes and N.D. Black: 
Methods for Clustering Mass Spectrometry Data in Drug Development 
14:35 - 15:05  P. Lucas: 
Enhancement of Learning by Declarative Expert-based Models 
 
15:10 - 15:30  Coffee Break
15:30 - 18:00 Session 4: Machine Learning II  (Chair: N.N) 
15:30 - 15:45  A. Smith and S.S. Anand: 
Patient Survival Estimation with Multiple Attributes: Adaptation of Cox's Regression to Give an Individual's Point Prediction 
15:45 - 16:00 P. Perner: 
Mining Knowledge in X-Ray Images for Lung Cancer 
16:00 - 17:00 
General discussion:  
  • What has been achieved so far? 
  • Where should we head? 

17:00 - 17:15  Final Remarks - The End
 

Publication of Papers / Guidelines - Style Guide for Papers

Accepted papers will be published in the IDAMAP-2000 Workshop Notes. Your paper has to be formatted according to the ECAI-2000 guidelines published at http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de/style.html

The style of the final paper is identical to the submission style of ECAI-2000, except the final paper has NO PAGE NUMBERS. Please remove the \ecaisubmission command if you are using LaTeX.

We will not include your paper in the Workshop Notes if it is longer.

Please revise your paper based on the modifications requested by the reviewers. Honoring the reviewers' requests is essential to
maintaining the high quality of the IDAMAP proceedings series. Further, it is essential to carefully proofread your paper
(spelling check, proofreading by native English speaker if possible). Please note that the printed proceedings will not contain pages in
color.
 

In summary the format is:
- length of paper: long papers (up to 10 pages)
- 2 columns in a text field of 178 x 237 mm
- use Times Modern Roman font, text size is 9 point
- no running headers, no running footers, no page numbers

We should receive by June 1, 2000:

in electronic form:
- LaTeX source file
- EPS files of figures
- any special style files and fonts (please avoid them)
- the final DVI file
- the final PS file (not in reverse order)
- the final PDF file if possible
or
- the Word file of your contribution
- the final PDF file if possible
or
- the RTF file of your contribution (if using other word processing systems)

The electronic documents should be submitted as an email including attachment(s) to

 nada.lavrac@ijs.si, silvia@ifs.tuwien.ac.at, branko.kavsek@ijs.si

(attach files as IDAMAP-2000-<Papernr>.tar.gz or
IDAMAP-2000-<Papernr>.zip (e.g. IDAMAP-2000-01.tar.gz))
 


Workshop Registration

Workshop delegates must also register to the main conference.
 

Workshop registration entitles you to attend one workshop of the specified length and receive the workshop notes. Please note that spaces on each individual
workshop are limited and so it may not be possible to register in all cases.


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