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<DIV>*** Second Call for Papers: deadline extension for submissions to JULY 24th
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<DIV>== USAB 2014 >>> Enriching Health Data for Research & Practice
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<DIV>8th International Conference - Vienna University and Medical University of
Vienna - AUSTRIA</DIV>
<DIV>December 4-6, 2014 | Van Swieten Hall</DIV>
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<DIV>Proceedings in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) - indexed
in SCI-Expanded, DBLP, PubMed</DIV>
<DIV>It is planned to select candidates of best papers to invite for submission
to a special issue in an SCI and Pubmed ranked Journal.</DIV>
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<DIV>Papers due: July 24th, 2014 (Camera Ready: September 15th, 2014)</DIV>
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<DIV>Organization: Andreas HOLZINGER, Stefanie RINDERLE-MA, Karl A. FROESCHL |
Austrian Computer Society</DIV>
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<DIV>Health costs worldwide are rapidly increasing. Demographic structures are
dramatically changing. Technological advances are tremendously increasing. The
invariable need for quality remains. Advances in Biomedical Informatics provide
the foundations for modern patient-centered healthcare solutions, health care
systems, technologies and techniques. Future technologies shall provide a
trade-off between standardization and personalized medicine.</DIV>
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<DIV>Particular emphasis will be given on the analysis of clinical processes
(patient-oriented medical interventions), including and highlighting methods of
process mining to investigate the structural dynamics of disease and treatment
processes based on evidence from event logs originating in clinical contexts.
Both data-driven modeling and assessment of medical intervention regimes are of
high interest in order to further theoretical understanding of
patho-/saluto-dynamics as well as to scrutinize, improve and assess medical
practice, Methodological (models, data analytics), medical (logic/theory of
clinical pathways and standard operating procedures), and infrastructure aspects
(data organization, management of evidence, institutional considerations) are
solicited alike. Another challenging aspect is process mining: In health
institutions big data is captured concerning the diagnosis and treatments of
patients. Such systems also record business processes in form of event logs. Log
data can be used as input for process mining, so that process related knowledge
can be discovered. For health care this can be used to provide insight into the
complex health processes. There is an enormous potential of process mining
in health-care as it allows hospitals to analyze, hence optimize their
processes.</DIV>
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<DIV>A cross-domain integration and appraisal of different fields will provide
an atmosphere to foster different perspectives and opinions; it will offer a
platform for novel ideas and a fresh look on the methodologies to put these
ideas into Business.</DIV>
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<DIV>USAB 2014 focuses on issues of data, information and knowledge with
application in medicine, health and the life sciences.</DIV>
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<DIV>Keynote lectures by R.G. Goebel (University of Alberta, Edmonton) and I.
Jurisica (Ontario Cancer Institute, UHN, Toronto).</DIV>
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<DIV>Special tracks will particularly focus on:</DIV>
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<DIV>1) DATA FUSION FOR STANDARDIZATION (Michael GIRETZLEHNER, RISC Linz)</DIV>
<DIV>2) INTEGRATION OF ROUTINE CLINICAL DATA (Werner HACKL, UMIT Tirol)</DIV>
<DIV>3) CLINICAL PROCESS ANALYSIS (Stefanie RINDERLE-MA, Uni Wien)</DIV>
<DIV>4) KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY & INTERACTIVE DATA MINING (Andreas HOLZINGER,
Med Uni Graz)</DIV>
<DIV>5) PRIVACY, SECURITY, SAFETY & DATA PROTECTION (Edgar WEIPPL, TU
Wien)</DIV>
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<DIV>Additionally, the conference will host a D-A-CH forum for contributions,
exchange and discussions about clinical process analysis in the context of
biomedical research, development, and applications (general forum language will
be German, with scientific papers presented in either English or German):</DIV>
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<DIV>6) VIENNESE TRACK: MODELS, USES, AND PERSPECTIVES OF CLINICAL PROCESS
ANALYSIS (Karl Anton FROESCHL, Uni Wien)</DIV>
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<DIV>Accepted papers – including contributions of the “Viennese track” if in
English – will be published in the conference proceedings by Springer as a
volume of the series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). The papers
from the "Viennese track" (in English or German) will be published in a
Books@OCG Volume.</DIV>
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<DIV>For more details please refer to: www.ocg.at/usab14</DIV>
<DIV>Paper submission via EasyChair <A
href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=usab2014">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=usab2014</A></DIV>
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<DIV>Best regards</DIV>
<DIV>Andreas Holzinger, Stefanie Rinderle-Ma and Karl A. Fröschl</DIV>
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