[AISWorld] [Call for Papers] AIM at EPIA 2022 - Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

[Filipe Portela]

(apologies for cross-posting)

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CFP: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM at EPIA-2022)
Thematic track of the 21st Portuguese Conference on Artificial 
Intelligence (EPIA 2022)
August 31-September 2, 2022, Lisbon, Portugal.
Webpage: https://epia2022.inesc-id.pt/
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IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission: April 15, 2022
Notification of paper acceptance: May 31, 2022
Camera-ready papers deadline: June 15, 2022
Conference dates: August 31-September 2, 2022

IMPORTANT NEWS
- LNCS/LNAI Proceedings (springer)
- Special issue at the Journal of Medical Systems with selected papers*

INTRODUCTION
Everyday medicine is facing new challenges: new diseases, cost 
reductions, new therapeutics, rapid and accurate decisions, new 
techniques and technologies. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is playing an 
important role in the decision making process, in the way the data of 
the patients are collected, treated, processed, anticipating and 
avoiding critical situations, as well to test and simulate new 
treatments and devices. The big question to be answered is: How 
Artificial Intelligence can help to overcome these challenges and 
improve the efficiency of medicine?
Data Science, Sensing, Pervasiveness, Ubiquity and Intelligent Agents in 
Medicine, can contribute with new artifacts and new knowledge for health 
professionals. 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 improving human health and longevity.
This track promotes a forum to discuss and present emergent topics, new 
projects and ideas about how AI can contribute to the field of Medicine 
and, 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. Special attention will be 
given to the social impact/gain of the AI contributions in medicine.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
Innovative and exciting works are welcome in areas including but not 
limited to:

Medical methodologies, architectures, environments and systems.
• Agents for information retrieval;
• AI in Medical Education and Clinical Management;
• Wellbeing and lifestyle support;
• Interoperability, Security, Pervasiveness, Ubiquity and Cloud 
Computing in Medicine;
• Methodological, philosophical, ethical, and social issues of AI in 
Medicine;
• Pervasive Healthcare Environments;
• Software architectures.
Knowledge Engineering and Decision Support Systems:
• AI-based clinical decision making and Clinical Decision Support Systems;
• Automated reasoning, Case-Based Reasoning or Reasoning with medical 
knowledge;
• Business Intelligence in Health Care;
• Clinical Data Mining;
• Data Streaming;
• Diagnostic assistance;
• Expert, agent-based or knowledge-based systems;
• Medical knowledge engineering;
• Intelligent Decision Support Systems in Medicine.
Medical Applications and Devices
• Computational intelligence in bio- and clinical medicine;
• Electronic Health Records (eHealth);
• Image recognition and interpretation;
• Intelligent devices and instruments;
• Sensor-based applications;
• Telemedicine and mHealth solutions;
• mIOT;
• Ubiquitous devices in the storage, update, and transmission of patient 
data;
• Usability and acceptability.
AI in Healthcare Information Systems
• COVID-19 data solutions;
• Public Health Intelligent Systems
• Autonomous systems to support independent living;
• Healthcare System Based on Cloud Computing;
• Intelligent Healthcare information systems;
• Pervasive Information Systems;
• Pervasiveness and Security in Clinical Systems;
• Smart homes, hospitals and Intelligent Systems;
• Simulation Computer systems.

PAPER SUBMISSION
All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the EPIA’2022 
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. The 
best-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). 
The remaining accepted papers will be published in the local proceedings 
with ISBN.

*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 in Journal of Medical Systems (Springer) or in Journal of AI in 
Medicine (Elsevier)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
* Manuel Filipe Santos, University of Minho, PT (contact person) 
mfs at dsi.uminho.pt
* Carlos Filipe Portela, University of Minho, PT cfp at dsi.uminho.pt
* Allan Tucker, Brunel University London, UK, allan.tucker at brunel.ac.uk
* Manuel Fernandez Delgado, SP, manuel.fernandez.delgado at usc.es