AIIM 2013 - Special Issue on Intelligent Biomedical Data, Signal and Image Analysis

Special Issue on Intelligent Biomedical Data, Signal and Image Analysis
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
(http://www.aiimjournal.com/)
About the Special Issue:
The continually expanding volume of electronically-stored biomedical data in conjunction with the recent advances in data mining and machine learning techniques and the high processing power available today resulted in intelligent data analysis becoming increasingly important in healthcare. Data mining and machine learning techniques have been used for identifying meaningful patterns in large repositories of high-dimensional data and deriving important medical knowledge from them. Some examples are the intelligent analysis of high-dimensional proteomic data for the early detection of cancer, the analysis of gene expression data for discovering subtypes of tumors and the analysis of carotid plaque images for assessing the risk of stroke. The list of applications is large and continually growing and so does the impact of mining biomedical data in the delivery of health care services. Despite this encouraging progress in the development and application of data mining and machine learning techniques to biomedical tasks there are still many challenging issues of this field that have not yet been adequately addressed and many important biomedical problems that have not yet been studied and would greatly benefit from the exploitation of such techniques.
The main focus of this special issue is on recent advances of biomedical data mining techniques and on novel applications of such techniques to biomedical data, signals and images. We welcome authors to submit their original research articles, as well as comprehensive reviews. This special issue is expected to be useful and informative to data mining and medical researchers as well as medical practitioners. Besides the dissemination of the latest results and findings on the intelligent analysis of biomedical data it is expected that this special issue will deliver new ideas and identify directions for future studies.
The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to:
* Biomedical data mining
* Clinical decision support systems
* Mining large unstructured data sources
* Combination of structured and unstructured data
* Intelligent data analysis in bio- and clinical medicine
* Intelligent analysis of genomic and proteomic data
* Intelligent medical image analysis
* Intelligent medical signal processing
* Differential diagnosis
* Disease detection
* Disease progression / management
* Medical text analysis
* Drug discovery
* Data and knowledge representation / aquisition
* Patient care
* Personalised medicine
Paper submission and review:
Manuscripts must follow the AIIM guidelines. Details regarding the submission format and the on-line submission site can be found at: http://ees.elsevier.com/aiim/. All manuscripts should indicate in the comments page of the submission process that they are being submitted for the Special Issue on Intelligent Biomedical Data, Signal and Image Analysis.
All submitted manuscripts must be of high quality and will be evaluated based on their originality, presentation, relevance and contribution to the field, as well as their suitability to the special issue, and their overall quality. The refereeing will be at the same level as in any of the major journal publications in the area. The submitted manuscripts must be written in excellent English and describe original research which has not been published nor currently under review by other journals or conferences. Previously published conference/workshop papers should be clearly identified by the authors (at the submission stage) and an explanation should be provided how such papers have been extended to be considered for this special issue. Guest editors will make an initial determination of the suitability and scope of all submissions. Manuscripts that either lack originality, clarity in presentation or fall outside the scope of the special issue will not be sent for review and the authors will be promptly informed in such cases. The final decisions for all manuscripts will be taken by the Editor-in-Chief of the journal at the end of the review process.
Important dates:
Manuscript submission deadline: February 15, 2013
Notification of initial decisions: May 15, 2013
Revised submission deadline: July 31, 2013
Notification of final decisions: September 30, 2013
Final manuscripts: October 31, 2013
Guest editors:
Harris Papadopoulos
Frederick University, Cyprus
harris.papadopoulos-AT-gmail.com
Efthyvoulos Kyriacou
Frederick University, Cyprus
e.kyriacou-AT-frederick.ac.cy
Ilias Maglogiannis
University of Central Greece, Greece
imaglo-AT-ucg.gr
George Anastassopoulos
Democritus University of Thrase, Greece
anasta-AT-med.duth.gr