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The Second International Workshop on
Data Analytics for Targeted Healthcare (DANTH '14)
Tainan, Taiwan 13 May 2014

CALL FOR PAPERS
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The Second International Workshop on Data Analytics for Targeted
Healthcare (DANTH '14) in Conjunction with the 18th Pacific-Asia
Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Tainan, Taiwan,
13 May 2014.

Homepage: http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/danth

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# Full paper submission: 6 January 2014
# Notification of acceptance: 5 February 2014
# Camera-ready submission: 19 February 2014
# Workshop: 13 May 2014
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To succeed in transforming healthcare, many countries will need to
move to more targeted healthcare. Successful migration must encourage
innovation, provide access to more complete patient information and
incorporate advanced clinical knowledge into clinical decision-making.
Aiming at successfully transforming healthcare, some interdependent
challenges need to be overcome, such as prevalence of tightly coupled
applications and data; inadequate data and knowledge standards;
insufficient analytics capabilities; unsatisfactory security and
privacy methodologies; absence of a clinical decision-making foundation.
Knowledge discovery and data mining techniques, especially data
analytics, have been proven holding much promise for solving these
problems. Providers can use health care data analytics to learn about
patient populations, enhance preventive care and drive business
decisions by accessing key data such as demographics and chronic
conditions. Therefore, nowadays the healthcare industry requires a much
more open, robust health information technology environment than ever
existed, especially the techniques and methodologies in knowledge
discovery and data mining.

Targeting on these interesting questions, following the success of the
first edition (DANTH 2013) the second, DANTH 2013 workshop focuses on how
data analytics can improve information management in healthcare. The
workshop will bring together researchers from different countries and
regions to foster dissemination, increase the share of knowledge cross
different domains, and strengthen the research on data analytic
techniques and related applications to healthcare problems.

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Topics of Interest
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TOPICS AND AREAS INCLUDE, BUT NOT LIMITED TO

- Healthcare Management Systems
- Databases and Data Management
- Data mining, knowledge discovery, decision making support
- Pattern recognition, Sequence Analysis, and Machine Learning
- System interoperability, ontology and standardization
- Bioinformatics
- Brain informatics
- Image Analysis and Processing
- Neural Networks
- Medical Signal Acquisition, Analysis and Processing
- Telemedicine
- Semantic Interoperability
- Health information visualization
- Computational Molecular Systems
- Support tools and languages for health information-system development
- Medical Data Collection and Processing
- Human-Machine Interface / Ambient Intelligence
- Modelling of Physical and Conceptual Information
- User Profiles and Personalised Healthcare
- Social, Privacy, and Security Issues in Healthcare
- Evaluation and use of Healthcare IT
- Software Systems in Medicine
- Pervasive Health Systems and Services
- Practice-based Research Methods for Healthcare IT
- Web Services in Bioinformatics
- Fuzzy Systems and Signals
- Infodemiology, public health surveillance

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Keynote Speakers
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- Professor Yanchun Zhang
Victoria University, Australia

- Professor Geoff Webb
Monash University, Australia

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On-Line Submissions and Publication
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Each submitted paper should include an abstract up to 200 words. It
should not longer than 12 single-spaced pages with 10pt font size.
Authors are strongly encouraged to use Springer LNCS/LNAI manuscript
submission guidelines (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html)
for the initial submissions. All papers must be submitted electronically
through the paper submission system in PDF format only. Note that
submitting a paper to the workshop means that if the paper is accepted,
at least one author should attend the workshop to present the paper.

The accepted papers will be published in a LNCS/LNAI post Proceedings
of PAKDD Workshops published by Springer in the second half of 2014.
Published papers will be indexed by ISI, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, DBLP
and EBSCO, among others, and will be available in the SpringerLink
Digital Library.

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Special Issue
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To be advised.

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Organising Committee
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GENERAL CHAIRS
* Osmar Zaïane University of Alberta, Canada
* Dajun (Daniel) Zeng University of Arizona, United States

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
* Xiaohui Tao University of Southern Queensland, Australia
* Hongmin Cai South China University of Technology, China
* Ji Zhang University of Southern Queensland, Australia

PUBLICITY CHAIRS
* Guandong Xu University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
* Yidong Li Beijing Jiaotong University, China

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (Tentative)

* Ritu Chauhan Amity Institute of Biotechnology, India
* Ling Chen University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
* Peter Dolog Aalborg University, Denmark
* Kazuyuki Imamura Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
* Alípio Jorge University of Porto, Portugal
* Ritu Khare National Institutes of Health, USA
* Yan Li University of Southern Queensland, Australia
* Xue Li University of Queensland, Australia
* Zhiyong Lu National Institutes of Health, USA
* Mohd Saberi Mohamad Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
* Mohyuddin King Abdullah International Medical Research Center,
Saudi Arabia
* Chaoyi Pang CSIRO, Australia
* Jeffrey Soar University of Southern Queensland, Australia
* Weighing Su United International College, Hong Kong
* Shusaku Tsumoto Shimane University, Japan
* Guoyin Wang Chongqing Uni of Posts and Telecom, China
* Jie Wan University College Dublin, Ireland
* Xin Wang University of Calgary, Canada
* Zhiang Wu Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China
* Zongda Wu Wenzhou University, China
* Xiaoyin Xu The Brigham Women’s Hospital, USA
* Yue Xu Queensland University of Technology, Australia
* Zhenglu Yang University of Tokyo, Japan
* Neil Yen The University of Aizu, Japan
* Ji Zhang University of Southern Queensland, Australia
* Yanchang Zhao RDataMining.com, Australia
* Xiaobo Zhou The Methodist Hospital, USA

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General Enquiry
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- danth2014@gmail.com