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Four papers were accepted for presentation at the S73 Panel -- "Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining of AHRQ/HCUP Administrative Data"
to be held 3:30 to 5:00 Tuesday November 13, at the Annual Meeting in Chicago. Our business meeting will follow immediately.
We are thankful to Claudia Steiner, MD and the Agency for Healthcare Researchand Quality (AHRQ) for their co-sponsorship of this competition. Dr. Steiner will be attending the panel presentation and business meeting, with the international panel of judges, to meet interested AMIA members.
See the Papers (pdf)
Data Mining Competition Announced
The Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Working Group of the American Medical Information Association (AMIA) is announcing a data mining competition in collaboration with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) for the purpose of studying best practices in data mining of administrative health care data. The AHRQ has agreed to supply a complimentary copy of their data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, to each qualified contestant. Four winning individuals or teams will be invited to present their results at the AMIA 2007 Annual Symposium. More Information.
John Holmes Elected to the American College of Medical Informatics
John H. Holmes, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Medical Informatics in Epidemiology at HUP, has been elected as Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, which honors individuals from the United States and abroad who have made significant and sustained contributions to the field of medical informatics. Dr. Holmes' election to the College recognizes his interdisciplinary work, spanning over 20 years, that joins informatics and epidemiology. A Penn graduate in sociology, he holds a MS in Information Systems and PhD in Information Science from Drexel University. His research interests focus on developing new algorithms for data analysis and signal detection in epidemiologic surveillance and computerized patient behavioral interventions. Dr. Holmes will be inducted into the College at a formal ceremony during the Fall Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association in November, 2006.
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AHRQ Webinar Wednesday, October 25, 2006
The KDDM-WG will host a second web-based seminar with staff from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) about data and tools available through their Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). The webinar is entitled "HCUP Tools and Software to Ease and Enhance Your Use of Powerful Administrative Healthcare Data" and will be conducted by Claudia Steiner, MD, MPH and Carol Stocks, RN, MHSA. Interested persons can find more details and register at http://www.amia.org/e-learning/ .
AHRQ Webinar Thursday, May 25, 2006
The KDDM-WG collaborated with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), to conduct the first in a series of web-based seminars, entitled "Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP): Powerful Data, Meaningful Answers". Topics included an overview of HCUP, description of state and national -level HCUP databases, discussion of HCUP tools & products, and a demonstration of HCUPnet. Powerpoint slides and a script from the presentation are available at: http://www.amia.org/e-learning/webinars/AMIAHCUPPresentation_6_18_06V2.ppt
First Call for Papers
IDAMAP 2005: INTELLIGENT DATA ANALYSIS IN MEDICINE AND PHARMACOLOGY
Sunday, July 24, 2005
A one-day workshop during the 10th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 2005 (AIME 05) in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
John Holmes and Niels Peek (chairs)
Organized in collaboration with Intelligent Data Analysis and Data Mining
Workgroup of International Medical Informatics Association, and Knowledge
Discovery & Data Mining SIG of American Medical Informatics Association
http://idamap.org/idamap2005
Submission Deadline has been extended to May 1, 2005
Submission: April 24, 2005
Notification: May 23, 2005
Camera-ready: June 17, 2005
GENERAL INFORMATION
IDAMAP-2005, a one day Workshop on intelligent data analysis in medicine and
pharmacology, will be held at King's College Conference
Centre in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, during the AIME 2005 Conference. This is
the tenth IDAMAP Workshop: the former ones were held in
Budapest
in 1996, Nagoya in 1997, Brighton in 1998, Washington DC in 1999,
Berlin
in 2000, London in 2001, Lyon in 2002, Cyprus in 2003, and Stanford in
2004.
The IDAMAP workshop series is devoted to computational methods for data
analysis in medicine, biology and pharmacology that present results of
analysis in the form communicable to domain experts and that somehow exploit
expert knowledge of the problem domain. Such knowledge may be available at
different stages of the data-analysis and model-building process. Typical
methods include data mining, temporal abstraction, machine learning, and
data visualization.
Gathering in an informal setting, workshop participants will have the
opportunity to meet and discuss selected technical topics in an atmosphere
which fosters the active exchange of ideas among researchers and
practitioners. The workshop is intended to be a genuinely interactive event
and not a mini-conference, thus ample time will be allotted for general
discussion.
TOPIC
In the workshop the attention will be given to methodological issues of
intelligent data analysis and on specific applications in medicine,
biomedicine and pharmacology. In terms of methodology, topics include, but
are not limited to,
- data mining techniques, including machine learning, clustering, neural networks, etc.,
- other techniques for construction of predictive models,
- data visualization,
- analysis of large data sets,
- relational data mining,
- interpretation of time-ordered data (derivation and revision of temporal trends and other forms of temporal data abstraction),
- knowledge representation,
- knowledge management and its integration with intelligent data analysis techniques,
- utility of background knowledge in data analysis,
- integration of intelligent data analysis techniques within biomedical information systems.
A paper submitted to the workshop is expected to show a selected methodology
can help to solve relevant problems in medicine, and would typically address
the following issues:
- What is the medical or clinical problem addressed?
- Which knowledge representation was used?
- Was any prior knowledge available? How was this used in the data analysis or interpretation of results?
- How is/can the newly discovered knowledge put into use?
Contributions that discuss particular applications of intelligent data
analysis techniques are invited, and can for example cover analysis of
medical and health-care data, data coming from clinical bioinformatics data
bases (like microarray data and DNA sequence analysis), analysis of
pharmacological data, drug design, drug testing, and outcomes analysis.
We also invite papers on data analysis tools. Such papers can overview a
particular tool and describe why and how this could be suitable for
intelligent data analysis in medicine and other application areas that are a
subject of the IDAMAP workshop. Preferably, the papers on data analysis
tools would also describe a case study where the tool was used.
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
The scientific program of the workshop will consist of presentations of
invited and accepted papers and panel discussion.
SUBMISSION & PUBLICATION OF ACCEPTED PAPERS
IDAMAP invites submissions of either short papers (2 pages, up to 1500
words, leading to a poster/short presentation at the meeting) or full papers
(up to 6 pages/4500 words, leading to a panel presentation at the meeting).
Papers should be written in English. Authors should send an electronic
submission in PDF format to both chairs (jholmes@cceb.med.upenn.edu,
n.b.peek@amc.uva.nl); please use "IDAMAP SUBMISSION YOUR_NAME" as a subject,
where YOUR_NAME is the surname of the first author. Alternatively to
preferred PDF, submissions using Post Script or MS Word format are also
welcome.
The submissions should be received no later than April 24, 2005. Additional
formatting instructions and instructions for authors are available on
Workshop's home page at http://idamap.org/idamap2005.
Authors will be notified of acceptance by May 23, 2005. Papers will appear
in workshop notes that will be distributed to registered participants. A
subsequent publication of selected and revised papers in peer-reviewed
journal is planned.
REGISTRATION
Participants of the workshop are not obliged to register for the AIME
conference. However, non-AIME participants will be charged a higher fee than
AIME-participants. Details on payment and registration will be
announced later this spring and will be posted on the workshop's web
page, (http://idamap.org/idamap2005) and the AIME 05 website
( http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/aime05/).
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
- John H. Holmes, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA (chair)
- Niels Peek, Academic Medical Center, Univ. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (chair)
- Ameen Abu-Hanna, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Lars Asker, Stockholm University, Sweden
- Riccardo Belazzi, University of Pavia, Italy
- Janez Demsar, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Michel Dojat, Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
- Dragan Gamberger, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Croatia
- Werner Horn, Austrian Research Institute for AI, Austria
- Jim Hunter, University of Aberdeen, UK
- Nicolette de Keizer, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Elpida Keravnou-Papaeliou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
- Matjaz Kukar, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Pedro Larranaga, University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian, Spain
- Xiaohui Liu, Brunel University, UK
- Peter Lucas, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Silvia Miksch, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- Lucila Ohno-Machado, Harvard Medical School and M.I.T., Boston, USA
- Marco Ramoni, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
- Yuval Shahar, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
- Stephen Swift, Brunel University, UK
- Allan Tucker, Brunel University, UK
- Frans Voorbraak Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Adam B Wilcox, University of Utah, USA
- Blaz Zupan, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
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