Download Special Issue on Intelligent Healthcare Informatics

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ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST)
Special Issue on
Intelligent Healthcare Informatics
Healthcare Informatics is a research area dealing with the study and application of computer science
and information and communication technology to face both theoretical/methodological and practical
issues in healthcare, public health, and everyday wellness. Intelligent Healthcare Informatics may be
defined as the specific area focusing on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) theories and techniques to
offer important services (such as a component of complex systems) to allow integrated systems to
perceive, reason, learn, and act intelligently in the healthcare arena. One of the many peculiarities of
healthcare is that decision support systems need to be integrated with several heterogeneous systems
supporting both collaborative work and process coordination and the management and analysis of huge
amount of clinical and health data, to compose intelligent, process-aware health information systems.
This ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST) special issue seeks articles
discussing fundamental principles, algorithms or applications for process-aware health information
systems. This special issue will respond to the research challenges by encouraging researchers in the
computing world to bring to bear novel techniques, combinations of tools, and so forth, to
effectivelymanage and deal in an integrated way with healthcare processes and data.
Topics of interest include but not limited to:
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Assistive and adaptive ubiquitous computing technologies for healthcare
Biomarker discovery and biomedical data mining
Biomedical modeling and simulation
Collaboration technologies for healthcare
Computational intelligence methodologies for healthcare
Computer support for surgical intervention
Computer-aided diagnosis
Continuous monitoring and streaming technologies for healthcare
Data analytics for clinical care
Data integration for healthcare
Disease profiling and personalized treatment
E-communities, social networks, and social media for patients and caregivers
Effective information retrieval for healthcare applications
Healthcare knowledge abstraction, classification, and summarization
Healthcare workflow management
Intelligent medical data management
Intelligent medical devices and sensors
Intelligent systems for electronic health records
Intelligent user-interfaces for medical devices and software
Medical recommender systems
Medical signal analysis and processing
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Optimization models for planning and recommending therapies
Pharmacy informatics systems
Predictive modeling for personalized treatment
Semantic Web, linked data, ontology, and healthcare
Systems for telemedicine
Text mining for biomedical literature and clinical notes
Visual analytics for healthcare
Submissions
On‐Line Submission (will be available around May 13, 2013 to accept submissions for the second issue):
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tist (please select “Special Issue: Intelligent Healthcare Informatics”
as the manuscript type).Details of the journal and manuscript preparation are available on the website:
http://tist.acm.org/
Important Dates
Submission Deadline: November 20, 2013 October 20, 2013 September 30, 2013
Notification of First Review: January 13, 2014
Submission of Revised Manuscript: February 28, 2014
Notification of Final Acceptance: April 14, 2014
Final Manuscript Due: May 19, 2014
Guest Editors
Carlo Combi (carlo.combi at univr.it)
Universita' degliStudi di Verona, Italy
Jiming Liu (jimingat comp.hkbu.edu.hk)
Hong Kong Baptist University