================================================================== ******* DEADLINE EXTENSION: NEW deadline October 23, 2022 ******* ******** AI and HEALTHCARE Working Group Kick-off Meeting ******** ================================================================== ================================================================== First AIxIA Workshop on Artificial Intelligence For Healthcare HC@AIxIA 2022 ================================================================== November 28 - December 2, 2022, University of Udine, Udine, Italy https://sites.google.com/unical.it/hcaixia2022 CO-LOCATED with the 21st International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2022) ================================================================== *** - apologize for multiple postings - *** = Background = In the latest years we have been witnessing the ubiquitous application of Artificial Intelligence in real-world domains; in particular, AI-based solutions significantly changed the game in the field of medicine and healthcare in several respects (research, management, clinical practice). Indeed, applications of AI in the healthcare domain became a major research topics, that attracts cross-disciplinary research groups. Medicine and health care require highly complex decision making to ensure that the trajectory a patient with a disease needs to take for diagnosis, treatment, recovery, and finally outcome is optimal in some sense. As a consequence, researchers have to draw methods from the entire field of AI. On the other hand, healthcare and medicine are built upon a rich and evolving body of knowledge, e.g., concerning the pathophysiology of diseases, molecular, genetic, cytological, and histological characterization of stages of a disease, described by temporal and spatial patterns. Such knowledge can also act as background knowledge to guide machine learning. In order to move towards effective and long-lasting applications of AI in healthcare, it is crucial to elucidate the relationship between what can be expected from AI methods when applied to healthcare problems and the role knowledge of healthcare and clinical medicine can play in developing AI solutions to health-care and clinical problems. = The Workshop = The HX@AIxIA workshop aims at gathering researchers from academia, industry and medical centers for presenting and discussing the latest research results and ongoing works related to the application and impact of AI in the healthcare domain, to the larger extent, thus aiming at covering a wide spectrum of topics, including theoretical and practical aspects, methodologies, technologies, and systems. Topics include, but are not limited to: - Machine learning methods, data mining and statistical methods for clinical decision support - Probabilistic graphical models for clinical decision-making and causal networks - Learning, representation and reasoning with time - Knowledge representation, reasoning and formal argumentation in healthcare: - Machine learning methods, data mining and statistical methods for clinical decision support) - Probabilistic graphical models for clinical decision-making and causal networks - Learning, representation and reasoning with time - Knowledge representation, reasoning and formal argumentation in healthcare - Methods for diagnosis, treatment selection, treatment planning, and prognosis - Monitoring patients in healthcare - Ontologies and medical vocabularies - Personalized medicine - Computer-interpretable clinical guidelines - Support for natural language generation/understanding in connection electronic patient records - Tools for supporting authoring, execution and maintenance of clinical protocols and guidelines - Tools for building and deployment of clinical decision-support systems = Contributions = The workshop will feature presentations of refereed contributions; two types of submissions are invited: - full papers, possibly already submitted to other conferences or journals - short papers, which are particularly suitable for presenting work in progress, software prototypes, extended abstracts of doctoral theses, or general overviews of research projects. In particular, we also invite submissions of systems or prototype software descriptions; systems of both research and industrial character are welcome. Submissions must include a brief description, prepared according to the guidelines given for short papers, and a specification of the required hardware and software equipment. Besides demos, some contributions might be invited to be presented as posters. = Submission Instructions = Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts in PDF via the EasyChair system at the link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hcaixia2022 Articles must not exceed 15 pages for full papers and 8 pages for short papers, respectively. Manuscripts should be formatted using the Springer LNCS style. To ease the reviewing process, the authors of regular papers may add an appendix (although reviewers are not required to consider it in their evaluation). All contributions must be written in English. For each accepted contribution, at least one of the authors is required to attend the conference and present the paper. The event is organized by AIxIA. = Proceedings and Journal Special Issue = All accepted original contributions (both full and short) will be published on CEUR-WS.org. Non-original communications will be given visibility on the workshop web site, including a link to the original publication, if already published. The organizers are considering the possibility of having workshop post-proceedings appearing in a special issue of an international journal, provided that a sufficient amount of quality papers is collected. In such a case, authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended and revised versions of their papers. Extensions of accepted non-original contributions, if not published in a journal yet, might be included in the issue. A second review formal process will be run in order to meet the expected quality of a journal. = NOTE: WORKING GROUP KICK-OFF MEETING = All authors of accepted papers are invited to participate in the Kick-Off meeting of the AI and Healthcare Working Group of AIxIA ( https://aixia.it/en/gruppi/hc/), that will be held on November 30rd, 2022 right after the workshop. = IMPORTANT DATES (updated) = Paper submission: October 23, 2022 Notification to authors: November 18, 2022 Camera-ready copy due: November 21, 2022 Main Workshop starts: November 30, 2022 WG Kick-Off Meeting: November 30, 2022 = PORGRAM COMMITTEE = == Program Chairs == Francesco Calimeri, University of Calabria, Italy Mauro Dragoni, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - FBK-IRST, Italy Fabio Stella, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy == Program Committee Members == Alessandro Dal Palù, University of Parma, Italy Alessio Zanga, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Alice Bernasconi, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Italy Antonella Guzzo, University of Calabria, Italy Arjen Hommersom, Open University of the Netherlands, Netherlands Carmine Dodaro, University of Calabria, Italy Claudio Eccher, FBK-IRST, Italy Elena De Momi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Emanuele Frontoni, University of Macerata, Italy Federico Cabitza, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Francesca Zerbato, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland Francesco Bellocchio, Fresenius Medical Care, Italy Giorgio Terracina, University of Calabria, Italy Giuseppe Carbone, University of Calabria, Italy Giuseppe Rizzo, LINKS Foundation, Italy Ivan Donadello, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Luca Anselma, University of Torino, Italy Luigi Portinale, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy Marco Maratea, University of Genova, Italy Marco Scutari, IDSIA, Switzerland Paola Berchialla, University of Torino, Italy Paolo Zaffino, Magna Graecia University, Italy Pedro Pereira Rodrigues, University of Porto, Portugal Peter Lucas, University of Twente, Netherlands Pierangela Bruno, University of Calabria, Italy Riccardo Bellazzi, University of Pavia, Italy Salvatore Iiritano, Revelis Srl, Italy Sara Moccia, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy