Call For Papers

The Workshop on Case-based Reasoning in Health Sciences

will be held at the

International Conference on Case-base Reasoning (ICCBR-19)

in Otzenhausen, Germany, Spetember 9, 2019


Call for Papers


Health science domains have provided fertile ground for CBR research and development since the earliest days of case-based reasoning. New advances into health science frontiers ensure that CBR will continue to play a vital role well into the future. This eleventh Workshop on CBR in the Health Sciences aims to:

  • provide a forum for identifying important contributions and opportunities for research on the application of CBR to the health sciences,
  • promote the systematic study of how to apply CBR to the health sciences, and
  • showcase applications of CBR in the health sciences.

Some of the technical issues addressed, and potential outcomes of the workshop, are to identify challenges specific to applying CBR to the health sciences, required methodological improvements to fit this context's needs, preferred types and domains of applications, and guidelines to better develop CBR systems in this arena.

We welcome all those interested in the problems and promise of CBR in the health sciences, whether or not they have participated in past workshops.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

  • Analogical reasoning and health sciences.
  • Integration of CBR in health care environments
  • CBR in medical decision-support systems
  • CBR in medical imaging
  • CBR and bio signals
  • CBR in enabling technologies for those with physical disabilities or chronic health problems
  • CBR, knowledge discovery, and machine learning in medicine and the health sciences
  • Cognitive approaches to applying CBR to medicine
  • Theoretical frameworks for CBR in medical reasoning
  • CBR in bioinformatics
  • CBR and evidence-based medicine
  • CBR in health social networks
  • CBR in mHealth, eHealth, and wearable health
  • CBR and personalized medicine
  • CBR for health and wellness.

Paper presentations will be interspersed with discussions in which we characterize, categorize, and discuss the benefits of specific CBR applications in the health sciences. A wrap-up round table discussion will summarize the lessons learnt, issues identified, and future directions. If enough papers of good quality are submitted, a journal special issue on this topic may be organized.

Submission Requirements

Submitted papers are limited to 10 pages in length. All papers are to be submitted via the ICCBR-19 Easychair system https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccbr2019 by selecting the WS: CBR in Health Sciences track.

Papers should be in Springer LNCS format. Author's instructions, along with LaTeX and Word macro files, are available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

Submissions should be original papers that have not already been published elsewhere. However, papers may include previously published results that support a new theme, as long as all past publications are fully referenced.

Dates

  • Submission Deadline: July 3rd 2019
  • Notification Date: July 23rd, 2019
  • Camera-Ready Deadline: August 9, 2019
  • Workshop Date: September 9, 2019

Workshop Web Site

https://sites.google.com/oswego.edu/cbrhealth19

Submission Web Site

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccbr2019

Proceedings

ICCBR workshop proceedings will be published through a CEUR volume. CEUR offers open access publications operated under RWTH Aachen University. For more information, see: http://ceur-ws.org/


Organizing Committee


Co-Chairs

Isabelle Bichindaritz

State University of New York, Oswego

Oswego, NY, 13126, USA

Phone: +1 315 312 2683

Email: ibichind@oswego.edu

Stefania Montani

University of Piemonte Orientale

I-15100 Alessandria, Italy

Phone: +30 0131 360158

Email: stefania.montani@unipmn.it

Committee Members

Agnar Aamodt, NTNU, Norway

Klaus-Dieter Althoff, University of Hildesheim, Germany

Kerstin Bach, NTNU, Norway

Shahina Begum, Malardalen University, Sweden

Peter Funk, Malardalen University, Sweden

Alec Holt, University of Otago, New Zealand

Jean Lieber, Loria, University of Nancy, France

Beatriz Lopez, University of Girona, Spain

Cindy Marling, Ohio University, USA

Stefan Pantazi, Conestoga College Institute of Technology, Canada

Petra Perner, Institute of Computer Vision and Applied Computer Sciences, Germany

Luigi Portinale, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy

Rainer Schmidt, University of Rostock, Germany

Olga Vorobieva, I. M. Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Russia

We look forward to welcoming you to Otzenhausen !