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Proposal to a new TC on Computational Life Sciences

Proposal to a new TC on Computational Life Sciences. Prepared by Prof. Xue-wen Chen. Outlines. Background Missions and Objectives Past and the Proposed Activities Potential Committee Members Other Similar TCs. Background (I).

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Proposal to a new TC on Computational Life Sciences

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  1. Proposal to a new TC on Computational Life Sciences Prepared by Prof. Xue-wen Chen

  2. Outlines • Background • Missions and Objectives • Past and the Proposed Activities • Potential Committee Members • Other Similar TCs

  3. Background (I) • Computational life sciences (CLS) is an emerging field and one of the most exciting areas in science and technology. • It is a truly interdisciplinary area with significant impact on other technologies • It focuses on computational methods for mathematical modeling and analysis of all aspects of life sciences such as the study of biology, behavioral, and health systems.

  4. Background (II) • CLS is attracting increasing interests from many computer scientists, engineers, information science, biologists, and health care researchers. • Many researchers from traditional computer areas, such as machine learning, data mining, and image processing and pattern recognition, are now working on CLS related problems.

  5. Missions and Objectives (I) • The proposed technical committee will • Provide a platform for researchers to exchange information and resources related to the fields of computational systems biology and health informatics. • Promote research activities and foster close collaborations among members in different fields and different countries in cutting-edge emerging areas related to computational life science • Attract more members to join IEEE computer science society and to work in the emerging field of CLS.

  6. Missions and Objectives (II) • Of prime research interest for this TC will be the general areas in computational systems biology and computational health informatics including but not limited to • Text mining and image processing in healthcare • Electronic Medical Records • Information management in health care professional • Integration of heterogeneous information sources in systems biology • Biological networks • Data mining, genetic and learning algorithms with life science applications • Computer-aided medical diagnosis and drug design • Computational neuroscience • Decision support systems in healthcare • Methods supporting the use of clinical applications • Artificial Intelligence systems in clinical practice

  7. Past Activities (I) • Events I have organized • As a guest editor • IEEE Trans on Information Technology in Biomedicine, special issue, 2009 • Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology. Special issue on Computational Data Mining in Cancer Bioinformatics and Cancer Epidemiology, 2008. • EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing. Special issue in Advanced Signal/Image Processing Techniques for Bioinformatics, 2005.

  8. Past Activities (II) • Selected events I have organized • As a conference/program/workshop chair • Conference Chair: The IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, Washington, DC Nov. 1-4, 2009 • Conference Chair: The Seventh International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, San Diego, 2008. • Program Chair: The IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, Philadelphia Nov. 7-9, 2008 • Workshop Chair: DIMACS Workshop on Computational Methods for Predicting Outcomes in Cancer. NJ, May 2007. • Workshop Chair: IEEE Workshop on Computer Vision Methods for Bioinformatics, Dan Diego, 2005.

  9. Expected Active Participants • From the activities we organized, we realized that there is a large number of scientists conducting research in computational systems biology and health informatics; they are very supportive and interested in forming the proposed TC in computer science society • Our committee members will consist of active researchers from different countries (see next slides)

  10. Anticipated Activities • Organize the TC sponsored conference “IEEE Conference on Computational Systems Biology and Health Informatics” • Organize invited sessions in conferences like ICML, KDD etc • Organize workshops • Create and maintain the TC website for contact, information, and resource exchange etc • Organize special journal sessions

  11. Potential Committee Members • Although not formally confirmed, most of them expressed strong interest in joining the proposed TC • Members in USA • Xue-wen Chen, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Univ. of Kansas, USA • Tony Hu, Associate Professor of Information Science and Technology, Drexel Univ., USA • Lucila Ohno-Machado, Associate Professor of Radiology and Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard Medical School, USA • Sun Kim, Associate Professor of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University – Bloomington, USA • Romer Rosales, PhD, Sr. Staff Scientist, Siemens Healthcare, USA • Hua Xu, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University • Bernd Wachmann, PhD, Project Manager, Siemens Research, USA • Steve Jiang, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology, UC San Diego, USA • Dong Xu, Professor and Chair of Computer Science, Univ. of Missouri, USA • Raja Jothi, PhD, Head, Computational Biology Group, NIH, USA • Li Cheng, Assistant Professor, Harvard School of Public Health, USA

  12. Potential Committee Members • Members outside USA • Luonan Chen, Professor of Computer Science, Osaka Sangyo University, Japan • Katsuhisa Horimoto, Professor of Computational Biology, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan • Jinyan Li, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore • Doheon Lee, Professor, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea • Xuegong Zhang, Professor of Computer Science, Tsinghua University, China • Yixue Li, Professor, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University, China • Jingchu Luo, Professor, Life Science College, Peking University, China • Stephen Tsui, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. • David Corne, Professor of Computer Science, Heriot Watt University, Scotland • Jennifer Hallinan, PhD, Newcastle University, United Kingdom • Elena Marchiori, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Redboud University, The Netherlands

  13. Other Similar TCs • The scope of this TC does not overlap with those of other TCs in CS Society • All other TCs except Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics do not deal with systems biology and health care, and hence the difference is clear • Computational Medicine: • “The TC encourages innovation and emphasizes developments on computer applications in medicine.” • TC on Bioinformatics • “Provide a forum for open discussion in bioinformatics” • The proposed TC • focuses on computational systems biology and health informatics

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