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VAHC 2012 - Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare

Date2012-10-14 - 2012-10-19

Deadline2012-09-03

VenueWashington, USA - United States USA - United States

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Topics/Call fo Papers

2012 Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare: Open Health Data
(In conjunction with VisWeek 2012, Oct 14-19, Seattle, WA)

http://visualanalyticshealthcare.org/

** Paper Submissions Due Sept 3rd, 2012 **

Call for Papers:
The 2012 Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare will provide an opportunity for participants to discuss visual analysis applications in the healthcare domain. The focus of this year’s workshop will be on Open Health Data initiatives. In addition to sharing and discussing use cases, techniques, and applications in this area, participants will be able to meet with program officers involved in major open health data initiatives and learn about funding opportunities. The workshop will allow participants to showcase their ongoing work on visualization and data mining techniques and to learn more about emerging sources of open health data.


Topics and Scope:
Topics of interests include but are not limited to:
Visual analysis and exploration of longitudinal clinical trial data
Visual data mining of electronic health records
Visualization of prescriptions drugs and interactions
Improving operating room (OR) workflow with visual analytics
Outcome forecasting or prediction
Visual analytics for patient safety
Pandemic forecasting and tracking
Visual analytics in surgery / radiology / OR / emergency room (ER)
Improving patients understanding with visual analytics
Clinical dashboards
Data summarization
Visual data fusion
Position papers advocating for specific visual analytics topics in healthcare

Paper Submission and Format Guidelines:
We invite 2-4 page paper submissions that address any of the topics listed above. Shorter submissions are strongly encouraged, and papers selected for inclusion in the workshop will be given an opportunity to share their work with the workshop audience. In addition, an electronic copy of the workshop proceedings will be made available online.

Papers should be formatted in the IEEE VisWeek format style.


Important Dates:
Deadline for submission: September 3, 2012
Notification of Acceptance: September 15, 2012
Camera-ready Papers Due: October 1, 2012


Organizers:
Jesus J. Caban (NICoE, Naval Medical Center / jesus.caban-AT-nih.gov)
David Gotz (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center / dgotz-AT-us.ibm.com)

Last modified: 2012-08-13 13:45:39