------------------------------------------------------------------------ AIME 2007 workshop: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN FUNCTIONAL NEURO-IMAGING ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------- GENERAL ------- 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. --------- OBJECTIVE --------- 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. ------- TOPICS ------- 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 ---------------- INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------- Rainer Goebel, Maastricht University, The Netherlands Michel Dojat, Grenoble Institut des Neurosciences, France ---------- SUBMISSION ---------- 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. --------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------- April 9, 2007 Deadline for submission May 15, 2007 Notification of acceptance June 8, 2007 Final version of manuscript July 8, 2007 Workshop data -------------------- VENUE & REGISTRATION -------------------- 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 ------ CHAIRS ------ S. Ghebreab, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands A. Smeulders, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands P. Adriaans, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands ----------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- 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 ------------------- CONTACT INFORMATION ------------------- S. Ghebreab University of Amsterdam Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ph +31645274782 Fax +31205257490 email: ghebreab@science.uva.nl PLEASE VISIT THE WORKSHOP WEB-SITE FOR UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION