[visionlist] Call for Papers: AIME2007 workshop "AI in fMRI"

[Sennay Ghebreab]

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AIME 2007 workshop: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN FUNCTIONAL NEURO-IMAGING
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July 8th, 2007, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
In conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Artificial 
Intelligence in Medicine
http://www.science.uva.nl/~ghebreab/AIFMRI

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GENERAL
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The past few years have witnessed an explosive growth in application and 
sophistication of fMRI studies in medicine and psychology. The increase 
in resolution and speed of fMRI scanners in combination with the 
emerging use of complex sensory stimuli such as natural images and 
video, is creating both an opportunity and a challenge. The opportunity 
lies in the ability to infer ever-finer details of how the brain reacts 
to its bearer's senses. The challenge is the urgent demand for advanced 
data analysis methods capable of confirming, predicting and uncovering 
relations between complex sensory stimuli and brain activity.

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OBJECTIVE
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This one-day AIME 2007 workshop intends to bring together scientists in 
different areas of computer science, cognitive science and clinical 
science who  have an interest in exploring and exploiting the content of 
large heterogeneous data sets used and produced in functional 
neuroimaging. The goal of this workshop is to aid the coalescence of 
understanding natural and building artificial intelligent sensory 
information processing systems by identifying challenges, presenting new 
methods, discussing promising applications and analyzing current trends 
of AI in fMRI.

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TOPICS
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The workshop stimulates theoretical, technical and experimental 
contributions at the cross-road of natural and artificial sensory 
information processing in clinical and cognitive neuroscience. Topics 
include but are not limited to:

- Large scale anatomical and functional neuro-image databases
- Multimodal information fusion for brain image interpretation
- Automatic information extraction from textual, auditory, visual stimuli
- Natural  signal statistics and natural language processing
- Statistical analysis and pattern recognition in  neuro-imaging
- Content-based retrieval and  similarity searching in neuroimage bases
- Knowledge representation and discovery in neuroimaging
- Computational modeling of cognitive processing
- Biologically motivated intelligent algorithms and systems
- Applications: vision and cognition, speech and language, memory etc

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INVITED SPEAKERS
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Rainer Goebel, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Michel Dojat, Grenoble Institut des Neurosciences, France

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SUBMISSION
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We invite short papers (2 pages) or full papers (6 pages). Accepted 
manuscripts will be included in the workshop notes, made available 
online prior to the workshop. Submission guidelines can be found at the 
workshop website: http://www.science.uva.nl/~ghebreab/AIFMRI.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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April 9, 2007         Deadline for submission
May 15, 2007          Notification of acceptance
June 8, 2007         Final version of manuscript
July 8, 2007          Workshop data

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VENUE & REGISTRATION
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The workshop will be held in de “Rode hoed” in Amsterdam, The 
Netherlands on July 8th 2007. Registration will be handled by the AIME 
2007 registration process. More information can be found at the 
conference website: http://www.aimedicine.eu/AIME07

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CHAIRS
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S. Ghebreab, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
A. Smeulders, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
P. Adriaans, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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P. Adriaans, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
C. Beckman, Oxford University, England
F. Cornelissen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
M. Dojat, Grenoble Institut des Neurosciences, France
E. Formisano, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
j. Geusbroek, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
S. Ghebreab, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
U. Hasson, New York University, The Netherlands
J. Korczak, Louis Pasteur University, France
F. Arup Nielsen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
V. Megalooikonomou, Temple University, USA
N. Petkov, University of Groningen, USA
J. Poline, Service Hospitalier Frédéric Joliot
K. Petersson, FC Donders Centre, The Netherlands
M. van Someren, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
S. Veeramachaneni, Thomson R&D,USA
G. Rees, University College London, England
S. Scholte, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
A. Smeulders, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
S. Strother, University of Minesota, USA

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CONTACT INFORMATION
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S. Ghebreab
University of Amsterdam
Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ph +31645274782 Fax +31205257490
email: ghebreab at science.uva.nl

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