Pattern Recognition in Biomedical Data: Challenges in Putting Big Data to Work

Motivation

Analyses of big biomedical datasets must not only account for the heterogeneity, multidimensionality, noisiness and incompleteness of the data itself, but must also simultaneously consider the substantial computational resources required for data processing. Indeed, the data-intensive nature of problems in the biomedical informatics field warrants the development and use of novel, well-designed algorithms as well as massive computer infrastructure and advanced software tools, including those deployed in the cloud. In this session, we will address issues related to the optimization of tool development for large-scale datasets, such as compute time, storage, and the need for parallelization, with a focus on computational pattern recognition methods in particular. We are especially interested in innovative approaches to identify and overcome challenges associated with utilizing various types of biomedical data, including but not limited to electronic health records, medical images, genetic sequences, various 'omics data, and others. Finally, our session will also focus on the difficulties arising from integrating diverse biomedical data — such as unprocessed textual data, multi-omics data, cross-species data, cross-institutional data or summary-level statistics for instance — in order to accurately identify patterns across biomedical datasets.

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Session Topics

Topics within the scope of this session include:

Development and use of novel deep learning and machine learning approaches to facilitate pattern recognition across data sources such as
  • Electronic Health Records (EHRs)
  • Medical imaging data
  • Natural language text
  • and others
Computational analyses that address challenges associated with dataset imperfections such as
  • Sparse data
  • Noisy data
  • Multidimensional data
  • Integrated data of various types and from diverse sources
Tools and approaches to optimize computational resource requirements for large-scale, high-dimensional data analysis
  • GPU
  • Hadoop
  • Cloud computing
  • Databases
Data mining approaches that promote the use of metadata in order to integrate data from various sources and predict disease outcomes.
Visualization of patterns in big biomedical data and novel approaches to enhance their reproducibility.
Other related topics.

Session Organizers

Dokyoon Kim

University of Pennsylvania
dokyoon.kim@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Shilpa Kobren

Harvard Medical School
shilpa_kobren@hms.harvard.edu

Submission Information

Paper Submission Deadline: August 5, 2019 (THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE DEADLINE)
Notification of Acceptance: September 6, 2019
Poster/Abstract Submission Deadline: November 15, 2019
Conference Date: January 3 - 7, 2020

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