[CfP] - DEADLINE EXTENSION - First AIxIA Workshop on Artificial Intelligence For Healthcare HC@AIxIA 2022

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******* DEADLINE EXTENSION:  NEW deadline October 23, 2022 *******
******** AI and HEALTHCARE Working Group Kick-off Meeting ********
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First AIxIA Workshop on Artificial Intelligence For Healthcare
                         HC@AIxIA 2022
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November 28 - December 2, 2022, University of Udine, Udine, Italy
https://sites.google.com/unical.it/hcaixia2022
CO-LOCATED with the 21st International Conference of the
Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2022)
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= Background =
In the latest years we have been witnessing the ubiquitous application of
Artificial Intelligence in real-world domains; in particular, AI-based
solutions significantly changed the game in the field of medicine and
healthcare in several respects (research, management, clinical practice).
Indeed, applications of AI in the healthcare domain became a major research
topics, that attracts cross-disciplinary research groups.
Medicine and health care require highly complex decision making to ensure
that the trajectory a patient with a disease needs to take for diagnosis,
treatment, recovery, and finally outcome is optimal in some sense. As a
consequence, researchers have to draw methods from the entire field of AI.
On the other hand, healthcare and medicine are built upon a rich and
evolving body of knowledge, e.g., concerning the pathophysiology of
diseases, molecular, genetic, cytological, and histological
characterization of stages of a disease, described by temporal and spatial
patterns. Such knowledge can also act as background knowledge to guide
machine learning. In order to move towards effective and long-lasting
applications of AI in healthcare, it is crucial to elucidate the
relationship between what can be expected from AI methods when applied to
healthcare problems and the role knowledge of healthcare and clinical
medicine can play in developing AI solutions to health-care and clinical
problems.


= The Workshop =
The HX@AIxIA workshop aims at gathering researchers from academia, industry
and medical centers for presenting and discussing the latest research
results and ongoing works related to the application and impact of AI in
the healthcare domain, to the larger extent, thus aiming at covering a wide
spectrum of topics, including theoretical and practical aspects,
methodologies, technologies, and systems.

Topics include, but are not limited to:
 - Machine learning methods, data mining and statistical methods for
clinical decision support
 - Probabilistic graphical models for clinical decision-making and causal
networks
 - Learning, representation and reasoning with time
 - Knowledge representation, reasoning and formal argumentation in
healthcare:
 - Machine learning methods, data mining and statistical methods for
clinical decision support)
 - Probabilistic graphical models for clinical decision-making and causal
networks
 - Learning, representation and reasoning with time
 - Knowledge representation, reasoning and formal argumentation in
healthcare
 - Methods for diagnosis, treatment selection, treatment planning, and
prognosis
 - Monitoring patients in healthcare
 - Ontologies and medical vocabularies
 - Personalized medicine
 - Computer-interpretable clinical guidelines
 - Support for natural language generation/understanding in connection
electronic patient records
 - Tools for supporting authoring, execution and maintenance of clinical
protocols and guidelines
 - Tools for building and deployment of clinical decision-support systems


= Contributions =
The workshop will feature presentations of refereed contributions; two
types of submissions are invited:
 - full papers, possibly already submitted to other conferences or journals
 - short papers, which are particularly suitable for presenting work in
progress, software prototypes, extended abstracts of doctoral theses, or
general overviews of research projects.

In particular, we also invite submissions of systems or prototype software
descriptions; systems of both research and industrial character are
welcome. Submissions must include a brief description, prepared according
to the guidelines given for short papers, and a specification of the
required hardware and software equipment.
Besides demos, some contributions might be invited to be presented as
posters.


= Submission Instructions =
Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts in PDF via the EasyChair
system at the link:
    https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hcaixia2022

Articles must not exceed 15 pages for full papers and 8 pages for short
papers, respectively.
Manuscripts should be formatted using the Springer LNCS style.
To ease the reviewing process, the authors of regular papers may add an
appendix (although reviewers are not required to consider it in their
evaluation).

All contributions must be written in English.

For each accepted contribution, at least one of the authors is required to
attend the conference and present the paper. The event is organized by
AIxIA.


= Proceedings and Journal Special Issue =
All accepted original contributions (both full and short) will be published
on CEUR-WS.org. Non-original communications will be given visibility on the
workshop web site, including a link to the original publication, if already
published.

The organizers are considering the possibility of having workshop
post-proceedings appearing in a special issue of an international journal,
provided that a sufficient amount of quality papers is collected. In such a
case, authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended and
revised versions of their papers. Extensions of accepted non-original
contributions, if not published in a journal yet, might be included in the
issue. A second review formal process will be run in order to meet the
expected quality of a journal.


= NOTE: WORKING GROUP KICK-OFF MEETING =
All authors of accepted papers are invited to participate in the Kick-Off
meeting of the AI and Healthcare Working Group of AIxIA (
https://aixia.it/en/gruppi/hc/), that will be held on November 30rd, 2022
right after the workshop.


= IMPORTANT DATES (updated) =
Paper submission:          October  23, 2022
Notification to authors:   November 18, 2022
Camera-ready copy due:     November 21, 2022
Main Workshop starts:      November 30, 2022
WG Kick-Off Meeting:       November 30, 2022


= PORGRAM COMMITTEE =
== Program Chairs ==
Francesco Calimeri, University of Calabria, Italy
Mauro Dragoni, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - FBK-IRST, Italy
Fabio Stella, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy

== Program Committee Members ==
Alessandro Dal Palù, University of Parma, Italy
Alessio Zanga, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Alice Bernasconi, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Italy
Antonella Guzzo, University of Calabria, Italy
Arjen Hommersom, Open University of the Netherlands, Netherlands
Carmine Dodaro, University of Calabria, Italy
Claudio Eccher, FBK-IRST, Italy
Elena De Momi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Emanuele Frontoni, University of Macerata, Italy
Federico Cabitza, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Francesca Zerbato, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Francesco Bellocchio, Fresenius Medical Care, Italy
Giorgio Terracina, University of Calabria, Italy
Giuseppe Carbone, University of Calabria, Italy
Giuseppe Rizzo, LINKS Foundation, Italy
Ivan Donadello, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Luca Anselma, University of Torino, Italy
Luigi Portinale, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy
Marco Maratea, University of Genova, Italy
Marco Scutari, IDSIA, Switzerland
Paola Berchialla, University of Torino, Italy
Paolo Zaffino, Magna Graecia University, Italy
Pedro Pereira Rodrigues, University of Porto, Portugal
Peter Lucas, University of Twente, Netherlands
Pierangela Bruno, University of Calabria, Italy
Riccardo Bellazzi, University of Pavia, Italy
Salvatore Iiritano, Revelis Srl, Italy
Sara Moccia, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy