The 6th international workshop on 

WORKSHOP PROGRAM (FINAL)

9:15 - 9:30 Introduction and Welcome

9:30 - 10:30 Invited Talk I, Dr Neil Hurley, University College Dublin, Ireland (Health Informatics

 at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics) 

10:30 - 11:00     Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30     Paper Presentations I

11:00 - 11:30: Sarwan Ali, Prakash Chourasia and Murray Patterson. Anderson

Acceleration for Bioinformatics-Based Machine Learning

11:30 - 12:00: Vincenzo Moscato, Marco Postiglione, Guido Maria Secondulfo, Giancarlo 

Sperlì and Andrea Vignali. Learning how to augment data: an application to biomedical NER

12:00 - 12:30: Linglong Qian, Zina Ibrahim, Ao Zhang and Richard Dobson. Addressing

Class Imbalance in Electronic Health Records Data Imputation

12:30 - 13:00 Leo Xinyue Zhang and Angus Roberts. Joint Entity and Relation Extraction in 

Medical Text

12:30 - 14:30     Lunch Break

14:30 - 15:30     Invited Talk II: Dr Asif Ekbal, Indian Institute of Technology, Patna (Harnessing 

the power of NLP for improved clinical decision-making and patient care  )

15:30 - 16:00     Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:00 Paper Presentations II

16:00 - 16:30: Thomas Kok et al. Comparator model for detecting changes in the ease of 

breathing of COPD patients

16:30 - 17:00: Yingying Wu, Shusheng Xu, Shing-Tung Yau and Yi Wu. PhyloTransformer:A 

Self-supervised Discriminative Model for SARS-CoV-2 Viral Mutation Prediction Based on a 

Multi-head Self-attention Mechanism

17:00 - 17:30 Vithya Yogarajan, Gillian Dobbie, Sharon Leitch and David Reith. Developing 

a Fair AI-based Healthcare Framework with Feedback Loop

17:30 - 18:30 Invited Talk III: Dr Atsushi Suziki, King's College London (Hyperbolic-space-based

    approach for hierarchical data: its potential applications for healthcare)

18:30 - 18:35 Closing remarks and end