The 18th International Conference on Data and Text Mining in Biomedical Informatics (DTMBio) December 16-19, 2024

http://dtmbio.net/

The DTMBIO 2024 organizers are pleased to announce that the 18th DTMBIO will be held. The main focus of DTMBIO is on biomedical informatics, genomics, and bioinformatics. DTMBIO delegates will bring forth interesting applications of up-to-date informatics in the context of biomedical research.

Biological researchers face the current challenge of making effective use of the enormous amount of electronic biomedical data in order to better understand and explain complex biological systems. The biomedical data repositories include data in a wide variety of forms, including bibliographic information from electronic medical journals, gene expression data from sequencing experiments, protein identification and quantification data from proteomics experiments, genomic sequences gathered by massively parallel sequencing, and patient healthcare records. The ability to automatically and effectively extract, integrate, understand and make use of information embedded in such heterogeneous – structured and unstructured – data remains a challenging task.

We invite the submission of papers that propose ways to address the variety of aspects involved in meeting this challenge. All accepted full papers will be invited for a special issue of BMC Bioinformatics or sister journals (e.g. BMC Genomics, BMC Medical Imaging, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making). 

Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered for publication in any other forum. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically, in PDF format and formatted using the BMC Bioinformatics templates (available in https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/submission-guidelines/preparing-your-manuscript).

• Full papers     Submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Full papers may consist of up to eight pages. Full papers will be presented at the conference.
• Short papers     The DTMBIO 2024 solicits short papers as well. Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. Short papers will be presented at the conference and will be given four pages in the proceedings.
• Posters    We welcome submissions of posters that describe either previously published or unpublished work. Posters will be presented at the conference, and an abstract should be submitted for consideration. 

List of Topics

The relevant topics include the following (but not limited to):

• Big bio- or clinical-data analytics
• Biomedical and clinical text mining applications
• Integration of structured and unstructured resources for biomedical applications
• Information extraction from biomedical and clinical corpora (published literature, grey literature, EHRs, clinical trials, etc.)
• Information retrieval from large biomedical data collections
• Genomic/transcriptomic sequence data analysis
• Protein/RNA structure prediction
• Human microbiome analysis
• Medical ontologies and text mining
• Entity or concept recognition in text with ontologies
• Sequence and structural motifs
• Modeling of biochemical pathways and biological networks
• Image mining in medical and healthcare informatics
• Data and text mining solutions in biomedical informatics, for applications such as drug development, system biology, biomedical working processes
• Information integration for data and text mining
• Mining multi-relational data
• Proposal and assessment of novel text mining evaluation strategies
• Evaluation methods of biomedical applications, shared tasks

Important Dates

• Call for Paper (start): July 15, 2024
• Paper Submission Due: September 23, 2024 October 6, 2024 (extended)
• Notification of Acceptance: October 20, 2024
• Conference: December 16-19, 2024
• Invitation to BMC journals: February 2025

Committees

Steering Committee

• Doheon Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea, dhlee@kaist.ac.kr
• Song Min, Yonsei University, Korea, min.song@yonsei.ac.kr
• Hua Xu, The University of Texas, USA, hua.xu@uth.tmc.edu
• Karin Verspoor, University of Melbourne, Australia, karin.verspoor@rmit.edu.au

Organizing Committee

• General chair
  • Sunjae Lee, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology Korea, leesunjae@gist.ac.kr
  • Thidathip Wongsurawat, Mahidol University, Thailand, thidathip.won@mahidol.edu
• Program chair
  • Junho Kim, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea, junho.kim@skku.edu
  • Sejoon Lee, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Korea, sejoonlee@snubh.org
  • Sakda Khoomrung, Mahidol University, Thailand, sakda.kho@mahidol.edu
• Publication chair
  • Meeyoung Park, Kyungnam University, Korea, mpark@kyungnam.ac.kr
• Publicity chair
  • Sunyong Yoo, Chonnam National University, Korea, syyoo@jnu.ac.kr

Publication

All accepted full papers will be invited for a special issue of BMC Bioinformatics or sister journals (e.g. BMC Genomics, BMC Medical Imaging, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making). All papers (in PDF format) should be submitted to:

    https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dtmbio2024

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to junho.kim@skku.edu