Barcelona, Spain, November 18-19, 2004

With the organization of the SEIS, the Spanish Health Informatics Society

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The V International Symposium on Biological and Medical Data Analysis (ISBMDA-2004) aims to integrate interdisciplinary research from scientific fields such as statistics, signal processing, biomedical informatics, data mining and biometrics for biomedical data analysis.

Symposium Chair:
Dr. Fernando Martín Sánchez 

 

Instituto de Salud "Carlos III"
Ctra. Majadahonda a Pozuelo, Km. 2
28220 Majadahonda – Madrid. Spain
Email:
fmartin@isciii.es

 

*      Programme: oral communications and posters (vertical, length = 120 cm, width = 90 cm). Posters will be displayed during all the conference.

Thursday 18

9:00

9:30

Welcome and opening

9:30

11:30


Special session:

Challenges for Bio/Medical Informatics in future Healthcare.
Chair: Ferran Sanz

  • Jan Van Bemmel: Erasmus MC, The Netherlands.
    Hard and Soft Science in Biomedical Informatics
  • Casimir Kulikowski: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
    Challenges of Representing Biomedical Information: Texts, Images, Models, and Ontologies
  • James W. Fickett: Schering AG .
    The Big Challenge is Connection
  • Roderic Guigó: IMIM-UPF, CRG
    Closing on in the Human Gene Set
  • Anna Tramontano: University of Rome "La Sapienza”.
    From sequence to structure to function: future or fantasy?

11:30

12:00

Coffee and Poster Session I

12:00

14:00


ISBMDA04 Scientific Session I:
Statistical methods and times series analysis.

  • Predicting Missing Parts in Time Series using Uncertainty Theory.
    Konias Sokratis, Maglaveras Nicos, Vlahavas Ioannis
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  • PCA representation as a useful tool for detection of premature ventricular beats in 3-channel Holter recordings by neural networks and support vector machine classifiers.
    Stanisaw Jankowski, Jacek Dusza, Mariusz Wierzbowski, Artur Orziak.
  • Application of Quantitative Methods of Signal Processing to Automatic Classification of Long-Term EEG Records.
    Josef Rieger, Lenka Lhotska, Vladimir Krajca, Milos Matousek.
  • Analysis of Cornea Transplant Tissue Rejection Delay in Mice Subjects.
    Zdenek Valenta, Petra Svozilkova, Martin Filipec, Jana Zvarova, Hassan Farghali.
  • Finding relations in medical diagnoses and procedures.
    David Riaño, Ioannis Aslanidis.
  • Toward a Model of Clinical Trials.
    L. Collada Ali, P. Fazi , D. Luzi, F.L. Ricci, L.D. Serbanati, M. Vignetti .
  • Control of Artificial Hand via Recognition of EMG Signals.
    Andrzej Wolczowski, Marek Kurzynski.
  • A Structural Hierarchical Approach to Longitudinal Modeling of Effects of Air Pollution on Health Outcomes.
    Michael Friger, Arkadi Bolotin; Ulrich Ranft

14:00

15:30

Lunch

15:30

17:00


Relevant internacional initiatives in Biomedical Informatics.
Chair: Víctor Maojo

  • NoE INFOBIOMED: Ferran Sanz, IMIM-UPF.
  • ERCIM WG: Giorgos Potamias, FORTH.
  • IMIA WG "Informatics in Genomic Medicine": Fernando Martín, Institute of Health "Carlos III".
  • Graham Cameron, European Bioinformatics Institute.
    European Biomolecular Data from the EBI.

17:00

17:30

Break and Poster Session II

17:30

19:00


ISBMDA04 Scientific Session II:
Bioinformatics

  • Quantitative Evaluation of Established Clustering Methods for Gene Expression Data.
    Dörte Radke, Ulrich Möller.
  • Visualization of biological information with circular drawings.
    Alkiviadis Symeonidis, Ioannis G. Tollis.
  • Gene Selection Using Genetic Algorithms.
    Bruno Feres de Souza, André C. P. L. F. de Carvalho.
  • Network Analysis of the Kinetics of Amino Acid Metabolism in a Liver Cell Bioreactor.
    Wolfgang Schmidt-Heck, Katrin Zeilinger, Michael Pfaff, Susanne Toepfer, Dominik Driesch, Gesine Pless, Peter Neuhaus, Joerg Gerlach, Reinhard Guthke.
  • Model selection and adaptation for biochemical pathways.
    R. Brause.

Friday 19

9:00

10:30


ISBMDA04 Scientific Session III:
Knowledge discovery and Decision support systems:

  • Bayesian prediction of Down Syndrome based on maternal age and four serum markers.
    Raquel Montes Díez, Juan Miguel Marín, David Ríos Insua.
  • Employing Maximum Mutual Information for Bayesian Classification.
    Marcel van Gerven, Peter Lucas.
  • Decision Support Server Architecture for Mobile Medical Applications.
    Marek Kurzynski, Jerzy Sas.
  • Model Selection for Support Vector Classifiers via Genetic Algorithms. An Application to Medical Decision Support.
    Gilles Cohen.
  • On the Robustness of Feature Selection With Absent and Non-observed features.
    Petra Geenen, Linda C. van der Gaag, Armin Elbers, Willie Loeffen.
  • Learning the Dose Adjustment for the Oral Anticoagulation Treatment.
    Giacomo Gamberoni, Evelina Lamma, Sergio Storari.

10:30

11:30


Biomedical Informatics in Spain.
Chair: Fernando Martín

  • José Heredia: University (Jaume I).
  • Alejandro Pazos: Universidade da Coruña.
  • Gloria Bueno: University of Castilla-La Mancha.
  • Montserrat Robles: Polytechnic University of Valencia.
  • Xavier Pastor: Hospital "Clinic" Barcelona.

11:30

12:00

Coffee and Poster Session III

12:00

13:30


ISBMDA04 Scientific Session IV:
Image data retrieval, analysis and visualization.

  • Fully 3D Wavelets MRI Compression.
    E. Schiavi, C. Hernandez, J.A. Hernández.
  • A New Approach to Automatic Segmentation of Bone in Medical Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
    Juan Antonio Hernández, Raquel Montes Diez, José San Martín, Gabriela Pérez, Mª Gabriela Pérez.
  • An accurate and parallelizable geometric projector / backprojector for 3D PET image reconstruction.
    Roberto de la Prieta.
  • Reliable Space Leaping Using Distance Template.
    Sukhyun Lim, Byeong-Seok Shin.
  • Thermal medical image retrieval by moment invariants.
    Shao Ying Zhu, Gerald Schaefer.

13:30

14:00

Close

 

 

Thursday 18

11:30

12:00

Poster Session I


Statistical methods, times series analysis, d
ata visualization and data analysis for image processing.

  • Replacing indicator variables by fuzzy membership functions in statistical regression models: Examples of epidemiological studies.
    Arkady Bolotin.
  • Classification of Long-Term EEG Recordings.
    Karel Kosar, Lenka Lhotska, Vladimir Krajca.
  • EEG Data and Data Analysis Visualization.
    Josef Rieger, Karel Kosar, Lenka Lhotska, Vladimir Krajca.
  • Semantic Reference Model in Medical Time Series.
    Fernando Alonso, Loïc Martínez, César Montes, Aurora Pérez, Agustín Santamaría, Juan Pedro Valente.
  • RF Inhomogeneity Correction Algorithm in Magnetic Resonance Imaging..
    Juan Antonio Hernández, Martha Liliana Mora, Emanuele Schiavi, Pablo Toharia.
  • A Web Information System for Medical Images Management.
    César J. Acuña, Esperanza Marcos, Valeria de Castro, J. A. Hernández.
  • An Automatic Filtering Procedure for Processing Biomechanical Kinematic Signals.
    Francisco Javier Alonso, José María Del Castillo, Publio Pintado.

Oral communications

17:00

17:30

Poster Session II


Bioinformatics.

  • SEQPACKER: A Biologist-Friendly User Interface to Manipulate Nucleotide Sequences in Genomic Epidemiology.
    Oscar Coltell, Miguel Arregui, Larry Parnell, Dolores Corella, Ricardo Chalmeta, José M. Ordovas.
  • Technological platform to Aid the Exchange of Information and Applications using Web Services.
    Antonio Estruch, José Antonio Heredia.
  • Protein folding in 2-Dimensional Lattices with Estimation of Distribution Algorithms.
    Roberto Santana, Pedro Larrañaga, José Antonio Lozano.
  • Knowledgeable Clustering of Microarray Data.
    George Potamias.
  • Performing Ontology-driven Gene Prediction Queries in a Multi-Agent Environment.
    Vassilis Koutkias, Andigoni Malousi, Nicos Maglaveras.
  • NeoScreen: A software application for MS/MS newborn screening analysis.
    Miguel Pinheiro, José Luís Oliveira, Manuel A.S. Santos, Hugo Rocha, M. Luis Cardoso, Laura Vilarinho
  • Correlation of expression between different IMAGE clones from the same UniGene cluster.
    Giacomo Gamberoni, Evelina Lamma, Sergio Storari.
  • DiseaseCard: a web-based tool for the collaborative integration of genetic and medical information.
    José Luís Oliveira, Gaspar Dias, Ilídio Oliveira, Patrícia Rocha, Isabel Hermosilla, Javier Vicente, Inmaculada Spiteri, Fernando Martin-Sanchez, António Sousa Pereira.
  • Biomedical Informatics: from past experiences to the INFOBIOMED network of excellence.
    V. Maojo, F. Martin-Sánchez, J.M. Barreiro, F. Sanz, C. Díaz.

Oral communications

Friday 19

11:30

12:00

Poster Session III


Knowledge discovery and Decision support systems
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  • Case-based Diagnosis of Dysmorphic Syndromes.
    Tina Waligora, Rainer Schmidt.
  • SOC: A distributed decision support architecture for clinical diagnosis.
    Javier Vicente, Juan Miguel García-Gómez, César Vidal, Luís Martí-Bonmatí, Aurora del Arco, Montserrat Robles
  • Ordered Time-Independent CIG Learning.
    David Riaño.
  • SINCO: Intelligent System in Disease Prevention and Control. An Architectural Approach.
    Carolina González, Juan C. Burguillo, Juan C. Vidal, Martín Llamas.
  • Could a computer based system for evaluating patients with suspected myocardial infarction improve ambulance allocation?
    Martin Gellerstedt; Johan Herlitz, Angelika Bång.
  • Design of a neural network model as a decision making aid in renal transplant.
    Rafael Magdalena, A.J. Serrano, A. Serrano, J. Muñoz, J. Vila, E. Soria.
  • Selective Classifiers Can Be Too Restrictive: a Case-study in Oesophageal Cancer.
    Rosa Blanco, Linda van der Gaag, Iñaki Inza, Pedro Larrañaga.
  • A Performance Comparative Analysis between Rule-Induction Algorithms and Clustering-Based Constructive Rule-Induction Algorithms.
    J.A. Sanandrés-Ledesma, V.M. Maojo, J. Crespo, M. García-Remesal, A. Gómez de la Cámara.
  • Domain-Specific Particularities of Data Mining: Lessons Learned.
    Víctor Maojo.

Oral communications