Upcoming Deadlines

Paper submission deadline for PhyCS 2014

Carla Mota — Thu, 30 May 2013 13:07:31 +0200

Physiological data in its different dimensions, either bioelectrical, biomechanical, biochemical or biophysical, and collected through specialized biomedical devices, video and image capture or other sources, is opening new boundaries in the field of human-computer interaction into what can be defined as Physiological Computing. PhyCS is the annual meeting of the physiological interaction and computing community, and serves as the main international forum for engineers, computer scientists and health professionals, interested in outstanding research and development that bridges the gap between physiological data handling and human-computer interaction.

Conference Areas:

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

1. DEVICES
2. METHODOLOGIES AND METHODS
3. HUMAN FACTORS
4. APPLICATIONS

AREA 1: DEVICES

Biomedical Devices for Computer Interaction
Haptic Devices
Brain-Computer Interfaces
Health Monitoring Devices
Physiology-driven Robotics
Wearable Sensors and Systems
Cybernetics and User Interface Technologies

AREA 2: METHODOLOGIES AND METHODS

Biosignal Acquisition, Analysis and Processing
Pattern Recognition
Neural Networks
Processing of Multimodal Input
Observation, Modeling and Prediction of User Behavior
Computer Graphics and Visualization of Physiological Data
Video and Image Analysis for Physiological Computing
Motion and Tracking

AREA 3: HUMAN FACTORS

User Experience
Usability
Adaptive Interfaces
Human Factors in Physiological Computing
Learning and Adaptive Control of Action Patterns
Speech and Voice Data Processing

AREA 4: APPLICATIONS

Physiology-driven Computer Interaction
Biofeedback Technologies
Affective Computing
Pervasive Technologies
Augmentative Communication
Assistive Technologies
Interactive Physiological Systems
Physiological Computing in Mobile Devices

Conference Chairs:

Hugo Plácido da Silva, IT- Institute of Telecommunications, Portugal

Program Co-Chairs:

Andreas Holzinger, Medical University Graz, Austria
Stephen Fairclough, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom
Dennis Majoe, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Keynote Speakers

António Câmara, YDreams, Portugal
Gernot Müller-Putz, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Sandro Carrara, EPFL, Switzerland
Thomas Falck, Philips Research, Netherland

Paper submission deadline for TPNC 2013

Beatriz Martin Villalba — Mon, 27 May 2013 09:47:53 +0200

Organized by
Computer Architecture and Logic Design Group (ARCO) from University of Extremadura
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) from Rovira i Virgili University

Aims
TPNC is a conference series intending to cover the wide spectrum of computational principles, models and techniques inspired by information processing in nature. TPNC 2013 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It aims at attracting contributions to nature-inspired models of computation, synthesizing nature by means of computation, nature-inspired materials, and information processing in nature.

Venue
TPNC 2013 will take place in Cáceres, in Western Spain, 300 kms. to the southwest of Madrid and 100 kms. to the Portuguese border. The old city is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Scope
Topics of either theoretical, experimental, or applied interest include, but are not limited to:

Nature-inspired models of computation
amorphous computing
cellular automata
chaos and dynamical systems based computing
evolutionary computing
membrane computing
neural computing
optical computing
swarm intelligence
Synthesizing nature by means of computation
artificial chemistry
artificial immune systems
artificial life
Nature-inspired materials
computing with DNA
nanocomputing
physarum computing
quantum computing and quantum information
reaction-diffusion computing
Information processing in nature
developmental systems
fractal geometry
gene assembly in unicellular organisms
rough/fuzzy computing in nature
synthetic biology
systems biology

Applications of natural computing to: algorithms, bioinformatics, control, cryptography, design, economy, graphics, hardware, learning, logistics, optimization, pattern recognition, programming, robotics, telecommunications etc.
A flexible "theory to/from practice" approach would be the perfect focus for the expected contributions.

Structure of the Conference
TPNC 2013 will consist of

invited talks
invited tutorials
peer-reviewed contributions

Early registration deadline for MBIA 2013

Li Shen — Wed, 22 May 2013 22:53:41 +0200

The Third International Workshop on Multimodal Brain Image Analysis (MBIA 2013) will be held in conjunction with MICCAI 2013 on September 22, 2013, Nagoya, Japan. The objective of MBIA 2013 is to move forward the state of the art in multimodal brain image analysis, in terms of analysis methodologies, algorithms, software systems, validation approaches, benchmark datasets, neuroscience, and clinical applications. We hope that MBIA will become a forum for researchers to exchange ideas, data, and software, in order to speed up the development of innovative technologies for hypothesis testing and data-driven discovery in brain science.

Topics include but are not limited to:
* Multimodal brain data fusion methodologies
* Methods for modeling temporal brain dynamics
* Structural and functional brain network construction methods
* Brain connectivity analysis methods
* Multimodal brain image pattern classification and prediction methods
* Multimodal brain image visualization and data management methods
* Registration, segmentation, shape analysis, and signal processing methods
* Validation approaches and benchmark data generation
* Clinical applications

Important dates are:
* 05/27/2013: Title and abstract registration deadline
* 06/02/2013: Full Paper submission deadline
* 06/25/2013: Paper acceptance notification
* 07/05/2013: Camera-ready paper submission
* 09/22/2013: MBIA workshop

The MBIA 2013 proceedings will be published as a volume in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Proceedings of previous MBIA workshops have also been published in the LNCS series, including LNCS Vol 7509 (MBIA 2012) and LNCS Vol 7012 (MBIA 2011).

Detailed workshop information is available at http://www.iu.edu/~mbia/.

Abstract submission deadline for ISMRM Workshop on Diffusion as a Probe of Neural Tissue Microstructure

Beatriz Martin Villalba — Tue, 14 May 2013 08:09:45 +0200

OVERVIEW

Diffusion imaging is one of the most common research MRI tools and is a standard part of many clinical Radiology protocols for brain investigation. This four-day workshop follows from two previous ISMRM workshops on diffusion:
• Saint-Malo, France in 2002 focused on biophysical mechanisms; and
• Lake Louise, Canada in 2005 focused on quantitative aspects for clinical applications.
The proposed workshop aims to highlight the numerous key advances in diffusion imaging, primarily of brain, over the last eight years. Since then, diffusion MRI has accumulated a number of new acquisition and analysis methods aimed at getting information about tissue microstructure at the cellular level, such as:

Measurement with extremely short diffusion time or high spatial resolution at high fields;
Evaluating axonal diameter and their density;
Evaluation of neurite density in gray matter; and
Fiber tracking.
Another important aspect is the increased use of biophysical modelling to understand and quantify the microstructure. There is a developing need to discuss potential interpretations of alterations in diffusion parameters that are measured in various clinical disorders. The latest tractography methods and their use for evaluating brain connectivity in large scale studies will be covered. There will be invited talks by world experts in diffusion imaging as well as poster sessions for the latest research.

TARGET AUDIENCE

Expert technical diffusion researchers, clinicians with interest in neurological imaging (e.g. radiologists, neurologists, psychiatrists, pediatricians, etc.), trainees (M.Sc., Ph.D., postdoctoral fellows & clinical fellows) and other MRI experts.

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
Integrate state-of-the-art diffusion imaging acquisition methods;
Employ knowledge of the links between diffusion parameters and neural tissue micro-structure;
Assess the strengths and limitations of various diffusion analysis schemes such as tractography, graph theory, kurtosis, axon diameter mapping and etc.; and
Recognize the utility of modeling for diffusion MRI.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Chair: Valerij G. Kiselev, Ph.D., University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Christian Beaulieu, Ph.D., University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Mark D. Does, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

Abstract submission deadline for ISMRM Workshop on Dynamic MR Imaging & Spectroscopy of Psychiatric Illness

Beatriz Martin Villalba — Tue, 14 May 2013 07:58:07 +0200

OVERVIEW

The Dynamic MR Imaging & Spectroscopy of Psychiatric Illness workshop will focus on both the underlying dynamic nature of psychiatric disease as it evolves throughout the lifetime of the patient, as well as the use of MRI and MRS techniques to study that evolution. A kickoff session, on the first night, will outline the developmental trajectories of several psychiatric diseases throughout the life of the patient. The next three days will include sessions discussing our MR tools (MRI and MRS) in the context of fluctuating psychiatric disease, evaluating two different timeframes: “semi-dynamic” where MRI/MRS is performed within subjects measuring changes occurring in weeks-to-years’ timeframe, and “dynamic” where MRI/MRS is performed in subjects measuring changes occurring in a minute-by-minute timeframe.

TARGET AUDIENCE

This workshop is designed for: Members of the Psychiatric MR Spectroscopy & Imaging Study Group, basic scientists and physicians using neuroimaging in psychiatry research and psychiatrists interested in the possibilities of various imaging methods in psychiatry.

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
Describe the temporal evolution of several different psychiatric disorders over the course of a patient’s lifetime;
Evaluate the currently available, established or emerging MRI and MRS techniques in the context of evolving psychiatric disorders;
Choose the MRI/MRS techniques that best assess the known neurochemical, structural and functional differences between patients with psychiatric disorders and normals;
Describe the potential appropriate use of these neuroimaging methods in the individualized diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders; and
Develop high quality single or multimodal MRI/MRS imaging studies in psychiatric disorders.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Chair: John D. Port, M.D., Ph.D., Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
Jeffry R. Alger, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Alena Horska, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Rex E. Jung, Ph.D., University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, MN, USA
Kejal Kantarci, M.D., Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
Graeme F. Mason, Ph.D., Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
Napapon Sailasuta, Ph.D., Huntington Medical Research Institutes, Pasadena, CA, USA

Registration deadline for 2013 FedCSIS

Beatriz Martin Villalba — Tue, 07 May 2013 08:00:44 +0200

FedCSIS 2013 – a flagship international multi-conference of the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI), organized in cooperation with the IEEE Region 8 (Europe, Middle East and Africa); ACM SIGAPP, SERSC: Science & Engineering Research Support soCiety, Informatics Europe and the Asociacion de Tecnicos de Informatica, as well as the IEEE Computer Society Chapter, and the IEEE Gdansk Computer Society Chapter, Poland, Polish Chapter of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), Comitee of the Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Association for Information Systems, Lodz ACM Chapter, Polish Society for Business Informatics and Polish Chamber of Commerce for High Technology. Please also forward this announcement to your colleagues and associates who could be interested in it.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Proceedings will be published in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library (additional post-publications as determined by the individual FedCSIS events). Since 2012, Proceedings of the FedCSIS conference are indexed in the Thomson Reuters Web of Science.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

* Wil van der Aalst, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands

- Process Mining: Making Sense of Processes Hidden in Big Event Data

* Barrett R. Bryant, University of North Texas, USA

- Grammarware, Semantics and Modelware

* Pedro Jose Marron, University of Duisburg-Essen and Fraunhofer FKIE,
Germany

- Are we Ready to Go Large-Scale? Embedded Technologies for Smart
Cities

* Marta Nagy Rothengass, European Commission, DG Communications
Networks, Content and Technology, Unit G3 - Data Value Chain

- Data Value Chain in Europe

* Jacek M. Zurada, University of Louisville, USA

2014 IEEE VP-Technical Activities (2013-Elect)

- Nonnegative Matrix Factorization and Its Application to Pattern
Analysis and Text Mining

Application deadline for BCF/NWG-Course: Analysis and Models in Neurophysiology

Beatriz Martin Villalba — Mon, 06 May 2013 09:18:38 +0200

Aim of the course
The course is intended to provide advanced Diploma/Masters and PhD students, as well as young researchers from the neurosciences with approaches for the analysis of electrophysiological data and the theoretical concepts behind them.

The course includes various topics such as

Neuron models and spike train statistics
Point processes and correlation measures
Systems and signals
Local field potentials

The course will consist of lectures in the morning and and matching exercises using Matlab and Mathematica.
Experience with these software packages will be helpful but is not required for registration. The participants should have a basic understanding of scientific programming.
This course is designated especially for advanced diploma/master-students and PhD-students (preferentially in their first year).

Organisation and teaching
Prof. Dr. Stefan Rotter, Bernstein Center Freiburg, University of Freiburg
Prof. Dr. Sonja Gruen, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6), Computational and Systems Neuroscience, Research Center Juelich,
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Egert, Biomicrotechnology, Department of Microsystems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Freiburg
Prof. Dr. Ad Aertsen, Neurobiology & Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg

Application
Please apply by sending an email containing your CV and a meaningful letter of motivation to nwg-course@bcf.uni-freiburg.de.

The letter of motivation should refer to the following points:

Reasons for wanting to take this course
Background in mathematics
Experience using Matlab / Python/ Mathematica
Background in neuroscience

The course is limited to 20 participants.

Course fees:

NWG members: 50 Euro

others: 125 Euro

Application deadline for INCF Short course 2013

Mathew Abrams — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:38:47 +0200

AIM
INCF is offering a two-day course that provides an introduction to and overview of a wide range of topics within Neuroinformatics by leading experts in the field.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
The course is suitable for neuroscience researchers wishing to develop their interests in neuroinformatics as well as informatics researchers with a strong interest in neuroscience. A prerequisite for attending the course is a basic knowledge of neuroscience. The course is open to advanced students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty members

APPLICATION

Live Webcast of this course is offered! Please apply below for both on-site and online participation.

The deadline is 15 July 2013. Early application is advised for on-site participation as early applications will have priority. The course is limited to 50 on-site participants.

Download program

Download poster

TOPICS COVERED

data analysis and neuronal coding
databases and ontologies
multi-scale modeling
neuroengineering
simulation/computation/workflows
clinical applications
visualization

SPEAKERS

David Willshaw (Edinburgh, UK)
Maryann Martone (San Diego, USA)
Tobi Delbrück (Zürich, Switzerland)
Marc-Oliver Gewaltig (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Jonathan Victor (New York, USA)
Marcello Massimini (Milan, Italy)
JB Poline (Paris, France)
Gaute Einevoll (Ås, Norway)
Ignacio Arganda-Carreras (Boston, USA)
Marja-Leena Linne (Tampere, Finland)

GENERAL

The course will last for two days with course materials and refreshments provided. There will be a course dinner for all participants and lecturers at the end of the first day.

VENUE

Karolinska Institute, Department of Neuroscience
Hillarpsalen, Retzius väg 8
Stockholm, Sweden

Application deadline for Achieving Excellence in Neuroinformatics in Latin America

Mathew Abrams — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:00:26 +0100

About

We are pleased to announce the fourth INCF Workshop "Latin American Summer School on Neuroinformatics", to be held in Havana, Cuba from September 16th to September 21st 2013. Latin America is an area where the use of Neuroimaging is currently expanding. There are already several groups in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Cuba carrying out normative and clinical trials using neuroimaging techniques. These groups, together with others, are organized in the Latin American Brain Mapping Network (LABMAN) which has identified that the area is poised to contribute with data and methods to the international effort in Neuroinformatics. Though we have been able to train specific individuals in topics such as image statistical processing and in the use of certain processing pipelines, it is still lacking an integrative course that provides a general field overview and that makes emphasis on creating the infrastructure and personnel for Neuroinformatics nodes in a near future. The purpose of the course to be held in Havana is to fill this gap bringing together recognized leaders in the field in a program with hands-on learning and working targeted towards potential scientific leaders from the region. PhD students or Postdocs from others regions are also invited to apply and to participate under equal eligibility conditions.

This course will be an excellent opportunity to further stimulate new joint research initiatives and for fruitful and interesting discussions on ongoing projects based on students-faculty interactions.

Following the general concept of Neuroinformatics, which tethers three fundamental parts, i.e. Neural modeling, Data Analysis and Databases, the basics topics that the course will cover are:

An overview of Neuroinformatics

Neural system modeling, from the cell level to large scale models of observable data
Neuroimaging techniques, preprocessing, image fusion
Neuroimaging Statistical Analysis
Connectomics
Human Brain Mapping databases: infrastructure, organization; normative studies and clinical trials
Neuroimaging data sharing
Issues in developing Neuroinformatics in our region

Course material will be made available to the public and will include presentations, publications, electronic books, software and toolboxes, data analysis pipelines related the course topics, data from different Neuroimaging modalities (EEG/MEG, fMRI, DTI etc.) used in the lectures for didactic purposes, international databases information and general guidelines, as well as student's presentations. Other materials proposed by the INCF to disseminate the importance of Neuroinformatics will be also available.

Target Audience

The course is aimed to Ph.D students, postdocs and faculty related to Neuroscience and Neuroinformatics with backgrounds like psychology, mathematics, computer sciences, physics, bioengineering, medicine and others.

The number of accepted participants will be limited to 26 students.

Speakers

Pedro Valdés Sosa (Cuban Neuroscience Center, Cuba)-Confirmed

Kamil Uludag (University of Maastricht, Netherlands)-Confirmed

Peter Robinson (Brain Dynamic Center, Sidney University, Australia)-Confirmed

Andrew Janke (Centre for Advance Imaging, University of Queensland, Australia)-Confirmed

Nelson Trujillo Barreto (Cuban Neuroscience Center, Cuba)-Confirmed

Lester Melie Garcia (Cuban Neuroscience Center, Cuba)-Confirmed

Jean-Baptiste Poline (Neurospin-I2BM-CEA, France)- Confirmed

Matthew Brett (Brain Imaging Center, University of California, Berkeley, USA)- Confirmed

Edson Amaro (São Paulo University, USP, Brazil)- Confirmed

Demian Wassermann (Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA)- Confirmed

Anderson Winkler (Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain (FMRIB Centre), UK)- Confirmed

Jack Van Horn (UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA)- Confirmed

Organizers

Pedro A. Valdés-Sosa (Cuban Neuroscience Center, Cuba)
Mitchell J. Valdes-Sosa (Cuban Neuroscience Center, Cuba)
Maria Luisa Bringas Vegas (International Center for Neurological Restoration, Cuba)
Kamil Uludag (University of Maastricht, Netherlands)
Janet Rua Ortiz (Cuban Neuroscience Center, Cuba)
Adianez Obrador Fragoso (Cuban Neuroscience Center, Cuba)
Elisa Martinez (Cuban Neuroscience Center, Cuba)
Lester Melie Garcia (Cuban Neuroscience Center, Cuba)

The course is partially hosted by the Cuban Neuroscience Center.

Registration deadline for SLSP 2013

Beatriz Martin Villalba — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 09:49:30 +0100

AIMS:

SLSP is the first event in a series to host and promote research on the wide spectrum of statistical methods that are currently in use in computational language or speech processing. It aims at attracting contributions from both fields. Though there exist large, well-known conferences including papers in any of these fields, SLSP is a more focused meeting where synergies between areas and people will hopefully happen. SLSP will reserve significant space for young scholars at the beginning of their careers.

VENUE:

SLSP 2013 will take place in Tarragona, 100 km. to the south of Barcelona.

SCOPE:

The conference invites submissions discussing the employment of statistical methods (including machine learning) within language and speech processing. The list below is indicative and not exhaustive:

- phonology, morphology

- syntax, semantics

- discourse, dialogue, pragmatics

- statistical models for natural language processing

- supervised, unsupervised and semi-supervised machine learning methods applied to natural language, including speech

- statistical methods, including biologically-inspired methods

- similarity

- alignment

- language resources

- part-of-speech tagging

- parsing

- semantic role labelling

- natural language generation

- anaphora and coreference resolution

- speech recognition

- speaker identification/verification

- speech transcription

- text-to-speech synthesis

- machine translation

- translation technology

- text summarisation

- information retrieval

- text categorisation

- information extraction

- term extraction

- spelling correction

- text and web mining

- opinion mining and sentiment analysis

- spoken dialogue systems

- author identification, plagiarism and spam filtering

STRUCTURE:

SLSP 2013 will consist of:

‐ invited talks

‐ invited tutorials

‐ peer-reviewed contributions

INVITED SPEAKERS:

Yoshua Bengio (Montréal), tutorial Learning Deep Representations

Christof Monz (Amsterdam), Challenges and Opportunities of Multilingual Information Access

Tanja Schultz (Karlsruhe Tech), Multilingual Speech Processing with a special emphasis on Rapid Language Adaptation

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, Co-Chair)

Ruslan Mitkov (Wolverhampton, Co-Chair)

Jerome Bellegarda (Apple Inc., Cupertino)

Robert C. Berwick (MIT)

Laurent Besacier (LIG, Grenoble)

Bill Byrne (Cambridge)

Jen-Tzung Chien (National Chiao Tung U, Hsinchu)

Kenneth Church (IBM Research)

Koby Crammer (Technion)

Renato De Mori (McGill & Avignon)

Thierry Dutoit (U Mons)

Marcello Federico (Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento)

Katherine Forbes-Riley (Pittsburgh)

Sadaoki Furui (Tokyo Tech)

Yuqing Gao (IBM Thomas J. Watson)

Ralp Grishman (New York U)

Dilek Hakkani-Tür (Microsoft Research, Mountain View)

Adam Kilgarriff (Lexical Computing Ltd., Brighton)

Dietrich Klakow (Saarbrücken)

Philipp Koehn (Edinburgh)

Mikko Kurimo (Aalto)

Lori Lamel (CNRS-LIMSI, Orsay)

Philippe Langlais (Montréal)

Haizhou Li (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)

Qun Liu (Dublin City)

Daniel Marcu (SDL)

Manuel Montes-y-Gómez (INAOEP, Puebla)

Masaaki Nagata (NTT, Kyoto)

Joakim Nivre (Uppsala)

Kemal Oflazer (Carnegie Mellon Qatar, Doha)

Miles Osborne (Edinburgh)

Manny Rayner (Geneva)

Giuseppe Riccardi (U Trento)

José A. Rodríguez Fonollosa (Technical U Catalonia, Barcelona)

Paolo Rosso (Technical U Valencia)

Mark Steedman (Edinburgh)

Tomek Strzalkowski (Albany)

Gökhan Tür (Microsoft Research, Redmond)

Stephan Vogel (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Doha)

Kuansan Wang (Microsoft Research, Redmond)

Dekai Wu (HKUST, Hong Kong)

Min Zhang (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)

Yunxin Zhao (U Missouri, Columbia)

ORGANISING COMMITTEE:

Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)

Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, Co-Chair)

Ruslan Mitkov (Wolverhampton, Co-Chair)

Bianca Truthe (Magdeburg)

Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)

POSTAL ADDRESS:

SLSP 2013

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)

Rovira i Virgili University

Av. Catalunya, 35

43002 Tarragona, Spain

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Diputació de Tarragona

Universitat Rovira i Virgili

University of Wolverhampton