Dear colleagues,

You are invited to submit a paper to DECIDE 2025 Special Session hosted by the BIOSIGNALS 2025 conference to be held on 20-22 February 2025 in Porto, Portugal

Title: Data- and Theory-Driven Approaches in Personalized Brain Medicine: from Diagnosis to Treatment (DECIDE)

Scope: Deciding the right diagnosis, the best treatment and predicting the evolution of the disease is of paramount importance in personalized medicine. Diseases are dynamic and very heterogeneous. Etiologies are complex and often several hypotheses are needed to explain their pathogenesis. This is because studies carried out isolate the effects of a single mechanism and not the interaction of many mechanisms. This leads to a set of conflicting results difficult to interpret. Data-driven (ML/DL) and theory driven (Dynamical models) approaches dealing with diverse data are increasingly used in medicine. Bridging the gap between data- and theory-driven approaches is the central theme of the special session. Real progress in personalized medicine can only be made via such cross-disciplinary interactions.

Topics of interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Computational/mathematical models of drug and stimulation treatments and therapies
Data processing, image and signal reconstruction and enhancement and cross-modality synthesis
Development of a culture of mathematical and computational modelling of brain diseases that will benefit those in clinical practice
Extraction of biomarkers from ‘omics’, signal and imaging data
Machine learning algorithms for prediction of disease evolution
Machine learning algorithms in disease detection and diagnosis
Multi-scale, multi-level models of disease understanding
Translation research on the dynamics of diseases into treatments for age related illnesses

Important Dates

Paper Submission: December 18, 2024
Authors Notification: January 14, 2025
Camera Ready and Registration: January 22, 2025

Publications

Extensions of selected papers will be hosted in a Cognitive Computation journal (Springer-Nature) special issue organized by the event organizers.

Kind regards,

Vassilis

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Dr Vassilis Cutsuridis

Associate Professor in Computer Science

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth, UK, PL4 8AA

Email: vassilis.cutsuridis@plymouth.ac.uk

Web: https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/vassilis-cutsuridis

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