Program and Organization

 

About AIME

The Society for Artificial Intelligence in MEdicine (AIME) was established in 1986 with two main goals: 

  1. to foster fundamental and applied research in the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to medical care and medical research, and
  2. to provide a forum for reporting significant results achieved at biennial conferences

A major activity of this society has been a series of international conferences, from Marseille, France, in 1987 to Pavia, Italy, in 2015, held biennially over the last 26 years. The AIME17 conference will be held in Vienna, Austria from June 21st-24th, 2017.

 

Program

 The AIME17 conference is a unique opportunity to present and improve the international state of the art of AI in Medicine from perspectives of theory, methodology, and application. For this purpose, AIME 2017 will include invited lectures, full and short papers, tutorials, workshops, and a doctoral consortium. We kindly ask you to communicate about the AIME17 conference in order to invite interested scientists with AI, CS, medical informatics or medical background to join the AIME community.

Last version of the AIME17 Program

The Proceedings of the AIME17 Conference may now be accessed by the participants of the congress.

 

Keynote speakers:

Stefan Schulz 

Stefan SCHULZ, Medical University of Graz, Austria: Annotating clinical narratives with SNOMED CT:
The thorny way towards interoperability of clinical routine data.
[Sponsored by ECCAI]

The EU project, ASSESS CT, investigated the fitness for use of clinical terminologies to enable EHR interoperability. Information extraction from clinical narratives using NLP as well as terminology binding to clinical information models was identified as two major use cases.
To this end, terminology experts built gold standard annotations using SNOMED CT and investigated the reason for poor inter-annotator agreement values that had resulted from manual annotations. This talk will elucidate typical issues that affect inter-annotator agreement and therefore semantic interoperability of clinical routine data. It will show strategies to improvement and dicuss how well the axiomatic basis of the SNOMED CT terminology can be exploited for a more formalised and interoperable content of clinical records.

BIO: Stefan Schulz is a professor of Medical Informatics at the Medical University of Graz, Austria. Trained as a physician, his research encompasses electronic health records, medical language processing, biomedical terminologies, and the application of formal ontologies for biomedical knowledge representation. He has contributed to the development of clinical terminology standards such as WHO classifications and SNOMED CT. He is currently leading a project on semantic clinical data enhancement for biomarker research and improved usability for electronic patient records.

Kenneth J. (Ken) Barker RSM - Knowledge -Based Systems, T. J. Watson Research Center, NY, USA: A review on Watson question answering. [Sponsored by ECCAI]

Ken's keynote will focus on adaptations of WatsonQA for medical text, reasons for failing or inappropriate interpretations, and attempts to rebuild WatsonQA for medical tasks.
Ken heads the Natural Language Analytics Department in the Health Care and Life Sciences Organization at IBM Research. His current research examines the weaknesses of existing information gathering tools and explores contextual, collaborative, transparent and adaptable question answering technology applied in Health Care and Medicine.

BIO: Prior to joining IBM, Ken was a research scientist at the UTA, and involved in the DARPA Rapid Knowledge Formation and Machine Reading Projects and in Vulcan's Digital Aristotle Project to build intelligent scientific textbooks. Before he was Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Ottawa, and involved in research on Natural Language Semantics and Semi-Automated Interpretation of Text

 

 The program at a glance:

June 21st, 2017

Doctoral Consortium
 
Tutorials (1/2 day):

1. Natural Language Processing for Clinical Information Extraction,
Stéphane Meystre, Meliha Yetisgen, Scott DuVall, Hua Xu

2. Latest speech & signal processing for affective and behavioral computing in mHealth,
Bjorn Schuller, Bodgan Vlasenko, Hesam Sagha

3. Evaluation of Prediction models in Medicine,
Ameen Abu-Hanna

4. Medical Decision Analysis with Probabilistic Graphical Models,
Francisco Javier Diez, Manuel Luque

5. Clinical fuzzy control systems and fuzzy automata with HL7's clinical decision support standard: The Fuzzy Arden Syntax, Jeroen de Bruin, Klaus-Peter Adlassnig

June 22nd-23rd, 2017 Main Conference
June 24th, 2017

Workshops (1/1 day):

1. Joint International Workshop KR4HC 2017 - ProHealth 2017 ,
David Riano, Richard Lenz, Manfred Reichert, Mor Peleg

2. Second Workshop on Extracting and Processing of Rich Semantics from Medical Texts,
Kerstin Denecke, Yihan Deng, Thierry Declerck, Frank van Harmelen
 
Beatriz López, Clare Martin, Pau Herrero Vinas
 
Niels Peek, Gregor Štiglic, Nophar Geifman, Petra Povalej Brzan, Matthew Sperrin

 

The good news:

Congress fees for AIME17 remain unchanged as for AIME15:

 

  Early Registration
before April 27, 2017
 Full Registration
after April 27, 2017
On Site Registration
AIME regular € 450 € 550 € 600
AIME student € 300 € 400 € 500
Workshop
Tutorial
Doct. Consortium
€ 80
€ 80
€ 80
€ 90
€ 90
€ 90
€ 100
€ 100
€ 100

 

Bank account: Erste Bank, IBAN: AT88 2011 1282 4135 7102, BIC: GIBAATWWXXX

 

Official letters of invitation can be requested from the local organization and will be issued after the registration to the congress is completed. Such letters do not imply any financial support, nor offer the guarantee of a visa but are designed to help overcoming administrative difficulties in certain countries.

 

Organization

The AIME17 conference will be organized by:

Annette ten Teije, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, NL program chair
John H. Holmes, University of Pennsylvania, USA program and Doctoral Consortium chair
Lucia Sacchi, Università di Pavia, IT program co-chair
Christian Popow, Medical University of Vienna, A local organization

Program Committee Members:

Annette ten Teije John Holmes Lucia Sacchi Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
Henriques Abreu Klaus-Peter Adlassnig Ameen Abu-Hanna Laura Barnes
Riccardo Bellazzi Henrik Boström Carlo Combi Ariana Dagliati
Stefan Darmoni Amar Das Kerstin Denecke Barbara Di Camillo
Michel Dojat Georg Dorffner Paulo Felix Jesualdo Fernandez
Catherine Garbay Natalia Grabar Adela Grando Frank van Harmelen
Milos Hausknecht Zen He Arjen Hommersom José M. Juarez
Charles Kahn Eleni Kaldoudi Elpida Keravnu-Papailliou John Kinsella
Haridimos Kondylakis Pedro Larranaga Nada Lavrač Michael Liebman
Helena Lindgren Beatriz Lopez Peter Lucas Mar Marcos
Roque Marin Michael Marschollek Paola Mello Silvia Miksch
Diego Molla Stefania Montani Robert Moskovitch Laura Moss
Fleur Mougin Anthony Nguyen Øystein Nytrø Barbara Oliboni
Enea Parimbelli Soojin Park Niels Peek Mor Peleg
Christian Popow Cedric Pruski Silvana Quaglini David Riano
Pedro Pereira Rodrigues Alexander Sadikov Erez Shalom Stefan Schulz
Brigitte Seroussi Yuval Shahar Constantine Spyropoulos Gregor Stiglic
Paolo Terenziani Allan Third Allan Tucker Ryan Urbanowicz
Alfredo Vellido Szymon Wilk Samson Tu Blaz Zupan
Pierre Zweigenbaum      

 

Useful Information about Vienna 

Here you will find useful information about Vienna's and Austria's history, where to go and where to stay, and how to access the location of AIME17.