BigBrain 2015 - International Workshop on Big Data for Brain Science

BigBrain: International Workshop on Big Data for Brain Science
in conjunction with
SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM'15)
April 30 - May 2, 2015
https://sites.google.com/site/bigbrainsdm2015
Understanding brain function is one of the greatest challenges facing
science. Today, brain science is experiencing rapid changes and is expected
to achieve major advances in the near future. In April 2013, U.S. President
Barack Obama formally announced the Brain Research Through Advancing
Innovative Neurotechnologies Initiative, the BRAIN Initiative. In Europe,
the European Commission has recently launched the European Human Brain
Project (HBP). In the private sector, the Allen Institute for Brain Science
is embarking on a new 10-year plan to generate comprehensive, large-scale
data in the mammalian cerebral cortex under the MindScope project. These
ongoing and emerging projects are expected to generate a deluge of data that
capture the brain activities at different levels of organization. There is
thus a compelling need to develop the next generation of data mining and
knowledge discovery tools that allow one to make sense of this raw data and
to understand how neurological activity encodes information.
This workshop will focus on exploring the forefront between computer science
and brain science and inspiring fundamentally new ways of mining and
knowledge discovery from a variety of brain data. We encourage submissions
in, but not limited to, the following areas:
. Mining of in situ hybridization and microarray gene expression
data
. Mining of brain connectivity and circuitry data
. Mining of structural and functional MRI data
. Mining of EEG and related data
. Mining of temporal developing brain data
. Mining of spatial neuroimaging data