-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] cfp special issue of IJMI: Mining of Clinical and Biomedical Text and Data Datum: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:06:24 +0300 Von: Eija Karsten ekarsten@abo.fi Antwort an: Eija Karsten ekarsten@abo.fi An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network isworld@lyris.isworld.org
International Journal of Medical Informatics (IJMI) Call for Papers Special Issue on Mining of Clinical and Biomedical Text and Data
The general aim of this special issue is to assess the current status and technologies, as well as to outline the major challenges and future perspectives, related to intelligent system support for clinical and biomedical text and data. It aims to provide an overview of the state of the art in this field, by including a wide range of interdisciplinary contributions. We particularly emphasize multidisciplinary aspects and the interplay between nursing and medical sciences, information systems, and computer science. For this special issue we call for papers presenting original research in, or related to, the following areas: Clinical Documentation and Biomedical Text and Data, including topics such as
* Structured and narrative documentation Integrating data from various sources (including images) Classifications Documentation and decision making practices
* Formal Approaches and Methods of Text and Data Mining, including topics such as Classification and clustering Ranking and preference learning Information retrieval and extraction Summarization Visualization
* Applications of Text and Data Mining
* Practical Cases and Evaluations
The multi-disciplinary editorial team includes representatives of nursing, medicine, bioinformatics, intelligent system application, computer science, and information systems. http://www.it.utu.fi/louhi/IJMI Notes for Prospective Authors
All papers are refereed through a double-blind peer review process. The papers should be submitted via the EES service http://ees.elsevier.com/ijmi/. A guide for authors and other relevant information are also available in EES. Please select Helena Karsten as the editor for the special issue.
Important Dates Potential contributors are strongly encouraged to submit an extended abstract for feedback as to the suitability of proposed papers by September 4, 2008. They will receive the notification of appropriateness by September 24, 2008. Manuscript submission: October 31, 2008 Publication schedule: Spring 2009
For any questions, please contact Dr Helena Karsten (ekarsten@abo.fi) Managing Editor for the Special Issue of IJMI Åbo Akademi University, Department of Information Technologies Joukahaisenkatu 3 A, 20520 Turku, Finland
International Journal of Medical Informatics is the official journal of the European Federation of Medical Informatics (EFMI) http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/506040/descript ion
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