Knowledge Discovery in Healthcare Data

The Knowledge Discovery in Healthcare Data (KDH) workshop series was established in 2016 to present AI research efforts to solve pressing problems in healthcare. The workshop series aims to bring together clinical and AI researchers to foster collaboration. This year, the workshop will be held virtually, in conjunction with Digital ECAI 2020.

The focus of the workshop is on learning healthcare systems. The notion of the learning healthcare system has been put forward to denote the translation of routinely collected data into knowledge that drives the continual improvement of medical care. This notion has been described in many forms, but each follows a similar cycle of assembling, analyzing and interpreting data from multiple sources (clinical records, guidelines, patient-provided data, sensor data, omics data), followed by feeding the acquired knowledge back into clinical practice. This framework aims to provide personalised recommendations and decision support tools to aid both patients and care providers, to improve outcomes and personalise care. Learning healthcare systems also help to extend the range of actions possible in response to patient monitoring data, for example, alerting patients or automatically adjusting insulin doses when blood glucose levels are predicted to go out of range.

A highlight of KDH 2020 will be the second Blood Glucose Level Prediction (BGLP) Challenge. The first BGLP Challenge was held as part of KDH 2018 at IJCAI-ECAI in Stockholm, Sweden. Blood glucose level prediction is a challenging task for AI researchers with the potential to improve the health and wellbeing of people with diabetes. In the BGLP Challenge, researchers will come together to compare the efficacy of different prediction approaches on a standard set of real patient data.

Previous KDH Workshops

• KDH 2019

• KDH 2018

• KDH 2017

• KDH 2016

Registration

Registration is open for Digital ECAI 2020 at https://digital.ecai2020.eu/sign-up/. Registration is free, but you must sign up in order to participate in the KDH 2020 workshop. No separate workshop registration is necessary.

Proceedings

Proceedings have been submitted for publication by CEUR. In the meantime, you can get a PDF file containing the full workshop proceedings at https://folk.idi.ntnu.no/kerstinb/kdh/KDH_ECAI_2020_Proceedings.pdf.

News

• September 18th: The 2020 proceedings are online: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2675/

• August 25th: Digital ECAI 2020 has published "How to" information for attendees at https://digital.ecai2020.eu/for-attendants/ and for presenting authors at https://digital.ecai2020.eu/for-presenting-authors/. Our workshop will follow the same procedures for presenting papers as the main conference.

• August 25th: Keynote address is announced: The Potential for AI in Public Health: Lessons Learned from Developing and Testing a Patient-Centered Mobile App, by Kerstin Bach.

• July 16th: Registration is open for Digital ECAI 2020 at https://digital.ecai2020.eu/sign-up/.

• June 19th: ECAI is now a virtual conference, Digital ECAI 2020. Therefore, the workshop will be held online.

• March 13th: ECAI has been rescheduled to Aug 29 - Sep 2, 2020 - the workshop submission will therefore stay open

• March 6th: Paper submission deadline has been extended to March 13th (submission link)

• January 8: Call for Papers and web page launched (workshop flyer)