Special Session
Advances in Medical Decision Support
Systems
The special session at The Sixth IASTED International Conference on Biomedical Engineering ~BioMED 2008~ is organised by Dr. Elif Derya Ubeyli (TOBB Economics and Technology University)
CALL FOR PAPERS
The foundation for any medical decision
support is the medical knowledge base which contains the necessary rules and
facts. This knowledge needs to be acquired from information and data in the
fields of interest, such as medicine. Three general methodologies to acquire
this knowledge can be distinguished: traditional expert systems, evidence-based
methods, statistical and artificial intelligence methods. The medical decision
support system consists of differential diagnosis, computer-assisted
instruction, consultation components and their subsystems. The differential
diagnosis component contains three subsystems: artificial neural network (ANN)
model, time series analysis and medical image analysis. Time series analysis is
based on the extraction of information from medical signal data. Medical image
analysis can be used for medical decision making. Important tools in modern
decision-making, in any field, include those that allow the decision-maker to
assign an object to an appropriate group, or classification. Clinical
decision-making is a challenging, multifaceted process. Its goals are precision
in diagnosis and institution of efficacious treatment. Achieving these
objectives involves access to pertinent data and application of previous
knowledge to the analysis of new data in order to recognize patterns and
relations. As the volume and complexity of data have increased, use of digital
computers to support data analysis has become a necessity. In addition to
computerization of standard statistical analysis, several other techniques for
computer-aided data classification and reduction, generally referred to as ANN,
have evolved. This special
session will focus on illustrative and detailed information about medical
decision support systems and feature extraction/selection for automated
diagnostic systems.
The
focus of this special session is on advances in medical decision support
systems including determination of optimum classification schemes for the
problem under study and also to infer clues about the extracted features.
Topics include:
Decision Support Systems and Computer Aided Diagnosis
Biomedical Signal Processing Modelling, Simulation, Systems, and Control
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September 15, 2007 |
Paper submission |
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November 1, 2007 |
Notification of acceptance |
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November 15, 2007 |
Camera-ready submissions |
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February 13-15, 2008 |
Conference and special sessions |
Authors are requested to submit full papers (6 pages, single column) by emailing them to the session's organizer (edubeyli@etu.edu.tr). Do not use the electronic submission system at the conference website. Submission deadline is September 15, 2007. Formatting instructions are available here.
All information concerning the conference details can be found on the BIOMED conference website.
Please contact the organizer at edubeyli@etu.edu.tr