The 5th  AI&BDvsPandemics

AI&BDvsPandemics is a BIBM 2024 Workshop

2024 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (IEEE BIBM 2024)

https://ieeebibm.org/BIBM2024/

December 3-6, 2024 -  Lisbon, Portugal

Organizer: Ester Zumpano (DIMES - Università della Calabria), Eugenio Vocaturo (CNR-NANOTEC, Italy ), Elio Masciari (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II), Andrea Tagarelli (DIMES - Università della Calabria)

Covid-19  is the most significant global crisis since the Second World War, but its repercussions are exceeding  those of a war.  All countries worldwide are living this crisis and all has changed around us: habits, social relationships, work, sport, school, research, economic relations, political organizations.  The actual situation shows that no country was fully prepared to manage such a massive disease outbreak: health care systems are in overload operation status, governments are mostly unprepared and social policies are not sufficient.

Scientific community has to work hand-in-hand to provide a full comprehension of the Covid-19 pandemic to mitigate its repercussions on the different domains of our society and to forecast effective strategies, solutions, tools and methods  to tackle Covid-19 and (hopely none)  future pandemics.

Research topics

The workshop “Artificial Intelligence & Big Data vs Pandemics”  aims at bringing together researchers from academia, industry, government, and medical centers in order to present effective strategies, solutions, tools and methods to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic and possible future pandemics. AI&BDvsPandemics is expected to cover both theoretical and practical aspects, as well as technologies and tools of AI in biomedicine, healthcare and wellbeing. The workshop will cover a wide spectrum of topics, from those aimed at easing and supporting healthcare professionals' work to those devoted to improving patients’ lives. The workshop also aims at discussing computational models, social computing, lessons learned,  practical solutions that address topics related to pandemics. 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Health Care Information Systems for pandemics

• AI in Medical Imaging for pandemics

• Propagation models in pandemics disease

• Epidemiology models to predict pandemics

• AI-based modeling and management of healthcare pathways and clinical guidelines in pandemics

• Image informatics for diagnosis in pandemics

• Tools for monitoring patients in pandemics

• Wearable Tools for monitoring patients in pandemics

• Applications of AI in Wellbeing Systems in pandemics

• Advanced tools for learning in pandemics

• Machine and Deep learning approaches for treatment and prediction in pandemics

Important Dates:

Oct 30,  2024: Due date for full workshop papers submission

Nov  5,  2024 : Notification of paper acceptance to authors

Nov  21, 2024: Camera-ready of accepted papers

Dec 5-8, 2024: Workshop

Paper Submission:

Length of paper

• Full-paper: 8 pages

• Short-paper: 2 pages

Please submit a paper (up to 8 page IEEE 2-column format) through the  online submission system (you can download the format instruction  here (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html).  All accepted papers will be included in the main conference proceedings which are included  in the IEEE digital library indexed by Google Scholar and Scopus.  Special Issues on important Journals are also planned.

Online Submission Web Site:

https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2024/bibm24/scripts/submit.php?subarea=S26&undisplay_detail=1&wh=/cyberchair/2024/bibm24/scripts/ws_submit.php

(or from 

https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2024/bibm24/scripts/ws_submit.php

select workshop #26)

Program Chairs

• Ester Zumpano - DIMES University of Calabria, e.zumpano@dimes,.unical.it

• Eugenio Vocaturo -  CNR-NANOTEC National Research Council, Rende, Italy, eugenio.vocaturo@cnr.it

• Tommaso Ruga - DIMES University of Calabria, tommaso.ruga@dimes.unical.it

• Elio Masciari, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, elio.masciari@unina.it

• Andrea Tagarelli - DIMES University of Calabria, tagarelli@dimes.unical.it

Program Committee Members (tentative)

• Ester Zumpano - DIMES University of Calabria

• Domenico Ursino, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy

• Luca Virgili, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy 

• Vijaypal Singh Dhaka, Manipal University Jaipur, India 

• Roberto Interdonato, CIRAD, UMR Tetis, Montpellier, France

• Shahab Shamshirband, Ton DucThang University, Viet Nam

• Carmela Comito, ICAR-CNR, Italy 

• Geeta Rani, Department of Computer and Communication Engineering, Manipal University Jaipur, India 

• Luciano Caroprese, ICNR-NANOTEC National Research Council, Rende, Italy

• Sanghoon Lee, College of Computing and Software Engineering, Kennesaw State University

• Eugenio Vocaturo,   CNR-NANOTEC National Research Council, Rende, Italy

• Tommaso Ruga, DIMES Univesity of Calabria