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              major-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Deadline
              for paper submission: March 9, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></font><font
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              Conference dates: September 8-11, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></font>
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              - Special issue of the journal Artificial Intelligence and
              Medicine with selected papers* <br
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              lang="EN-US">Every day medicine is facing new challenges:
              new diseases, cost reductions, new therapeutics, quick
              decisions and make more with less. Artificial Intelligence
              (AI) can play an important role in the decision making
              process, most concretely in the way<span
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              patients are collected, treated, processed and presented
              as well to test and simulate new treatments, scenarios and
              devices. The big question to be answered is: How
              Artificial Intelligence can help to overcome these
              challenges and provide new and efficient solutions to
              medicine? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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              lang="EN-US">Business Intelligence, Data Mining, Sensing,
              Pervasiveness, Ubiquity and Intelligent Agents in
              Medicine, can contribute with new artifacts and new
              knowledge for health professionals. The development of AI
              systems has been one of the most ambitious and, not
              surprisingly, controversial themes in medicine. Often,
              healthcare professionals are septic regarding the use of
              these technologies, because they are afraid of losing
              their jobs. However, this concern is not justified. AI no
              longer aims the substitution of professionals by computer
              artefacts. AI aims to improve the usability of programs
              for assisting physicians in figuring out what is wrong
              with the patients and provide new solutions to help making
              better decisions. AI systems are intended to support
              healthcare practitioners in the normal course of their
              duties, assisting with tasks that rely on the manipulation
              of data and knowledge. In particular, these systems have
              for example the capacity to learn, leading to the
              discovery of new phenomena and the creation of medical
              knowledge. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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              lang="EN-US">This track promotes a forum to discuss and
              present emergent themes, new projects and ideas about how
              AI can contribute to the field of Medicine and, most
              concretely, improve patient conditions. By bringing
              together researchers from two distinct areas is expected
              to produce new scientific and technical knowledge in a
              particular area as is medicine. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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              lang="EN-US">Information technology, in general, can help
              improving human health and longevity. To achieve this goal
              innovative and intelligent software can be deployed in
              order to improve medical research, disease prevention, and
              healthcare service delivery. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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              lang="EN-US">The motto of this track is "artificial
              intelligence improves medicine" and we are inviting the
              community to share this vision.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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              major-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Innovative

              and exciting works are welcome in areas including but not
              limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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              lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p>Medical methodologies,
              architectures, environments and systems.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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              Management;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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              EN-US" lang="EN-US">Wellbeing and lifestyle support;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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              EN-US" lang="EN-US">Interoperability, Security,
              Pervasiveness, Ubiquity and Cloud Computing in Medicine;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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              EN-US" lang="EN-US">Methodological, philosophical,
              ethical, and social issues of AI in Medicine;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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              EN-US" lang="EN-US">Pervasive Healthcare Environments;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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              EN-US" lang="EN-US">Software architectures.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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              mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
              lang="EN-US">Knowledge engineering and Decision Support
              Systems:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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              EN-US" lang="EN-US">AI-based clinical decision making and
              Clinical Decision Support Systems;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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              EN-US" lang="EN-US">Automated reasoning, Case-Based
              Reasoning or Reasoning with medical knowledge;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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              EN-US" lang="EN-US">Business Intelligence in Health Care;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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              EN-US" lang="EN-US">Clinical Data Mining;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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              EN-US" lang="EN-US">Data Streaming;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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              EN-US" lang="EN-US">Diagnostic assistance;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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              EN-US" lang="EN-US">Expert, agent-based or knowledge-based
              systems;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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              EN-US" lang="EN-US">Medical knowledge engineering;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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              EN-US" lang="EN-US">Pervasive or Real-Time Intelligent
              Decision Support Systems in Critical Health Care.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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              mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
              lang="EN-US">Medical Applications and Devices<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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              EN-US" lang="EN-US">Computational intelligence in bio- and
              clinical medicine;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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              EN-US" lang="EN-US">Electronic Health Records (eHealth);<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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              EN-US" lang="EN-US">Image recognition and interpretation;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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              EN-US" lang="EN-US">Intelligent devices and instruments;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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              EN-US" lang="EN-US">Sensor-based applications;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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              EN-US" lang="EN-US">Telemedicine and mHealth solutions;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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              EN-US" lang="EN-US">Ubiquitous devices in the storage,
              update, and transmission of patient data;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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              EN-US" lang="EN-US">Usability and acceptability.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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              mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
              lang="EN-US">AI in Healthcare Information Systems<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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              EN-US" lang="EN-US">Autonomous systems to support
              independent living;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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              EN-US" lang="EN-US">Healthcare System Based on Cloud
              Computing;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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              EN-US" lang="EN-US">Intelligent Healthcare information
              systems;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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              EN-US" lang="EN-US">Pervasive Information Systems;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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              EN-US" lang="EN-US">Pervasiveness and Security in Clinical
              Systems;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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              EN-US" lang="EN-US">Smart homes, hospitals and Intelligent
              Systems;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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              EN-US" lang="EN-US">Simulation Computer systems.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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                EN-US" lang="EN-US">PAPER SUBMISSION<o:p></o:p></span></b></font></p>
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              lang="EN-US">All papers should be submitted in PDF format
              through EPIA’2015 submission Website. Submissions must be
              original and can be of two types: regular (full-length)
              papers should not exceed twelve (12) pages in length,
              whereas short papers should not exceed six (6) pages. Each
              submission will be peer reviewed by at least three members
              of the Program Committee. The reviewing process is double
              blind. All the accepted papers will appear in the
              proceedings published by Springer in the LNAI series
              (previous EPIA proceedings were indexed by the Thomson ISI
              Web of Knowledge, Scopus, DBLP and ACM digital library).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:
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              lang="EN-US">*Authors of the best papers presented at the
              AIM track of EPIA will be invited to submit extended
              versions of their manuscripts for a special issue of the
              “Artificial Intelligence in Medicine”, indexed at ISI Web
              of Knowledge (ISI impact factor JCR2013 of 1.356): </span><span
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              major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin"><a
                moz-do-not-send="true"
                href="http://www.aiimjournal.com/"><span
                  style="font-size:10.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
                  lang="EN-US">http://www.aiimjournal.com/</span></a></span><span
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              major-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">.
              Artificial Intelligence and Medicine publishes original
              articles from a wide variety of interdisciplinary
              perspectives concerning the theory and practice of
              artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine and health care.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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                EN-US" lang="EN-US">ORGANIZING COMMITTEE<o:p></o:p></span></b></font></p>
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              major-latin">* Manuel Filipe Santos, University of Minho,
              Portugal (contact person) </span><span
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                  style="font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt">mfs@dsi.uminho.pt</span></a><br>
              * Carlos Filipe Portela, University of Minho, Portugal </span><span
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