The 7th International Workshop on Semantics-Powered Health Data Analytics (SEPDA 2023)


in Conjunction with the 21st International Conference of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 2023)

Overview

The increasing amount of health-related data pose unprecedented opportunities for mining previously unknown knowledge with semantics-powered data mining and analytical methods. However, due to the heterogeneity of different data sources ranging from electronic health records (EHRs) to environmental exposures, from social determinants of health to social media, it is challenging to exploit and integrate multiple sources to solve real-world problems. Biomedical ontologies and semantics-powered analytical methods are promising solutions. The goal of the 7th International Workshop on Semantics-Powered Data Mining and Analytics (SEPDA 2023) is to bring people in the fields of ontologies, knowledge representation, knowledge management, data mining, and data analytics to discuss a wide range of innovative methods and applications that address problems in healthcare, biomedicine, public health, and clinical research with biomedical, clinical, behavioral, and social web data.

We are inviting original research submissions as well as work-in-progress to the 7th International Workshop on Semantics-Powered Health Data Analytics (SEPDA 2023).

Topics

Topics of interest include but not limited to:

  • Semantics-based Data Mining and Analytics
    • Ontology-based text mining and natural language processing
    • Semantics-powered data mining and machine learning from biomedical, clinical, or social web data
    • Information Extraction from biomedical, clinical, or social web data
    • Semantic annotation on biomedical, clinical or social web data
  • Ontologies and Controlled Terminologies
    • Ontology development and enrichment
    • Quality assurance of ontologies and controlled terminologies
    • Semantic harmonization and ontology alignment
    • Knowledge representation and reasoning
    • Knowledge graphs
  • Data Integration
    • Linked open data
    • Novel approaches for data integration of heterogenous data sources
    • Large scale data integration
  • Application
    • Novel symbolic and semantic methods for pandemic surveillance
    • Novel tools and ontologies for data interpretation and visualization
    • Pharmacovigilance
    • Drug repurposing
    • Clinical trial generalizability assessment using ontologies
    • Algorithmic phenotyping and cohort identification using ontologies
    • Improving the literacy of health information consumers

Important Dates

  • March 15th March 29th, 2023: Due date for workshop papers submission
  • March 31st April 7th, 2023: Notification of paper acceptance to authors
  • April 10th, 2023: Early bird registration deadline (Click for more details)
  • June 12th - 15th, 2023: Conference dates

Submission Guidelines

Papers should be submitted to the SEPDA 2023 Easy Chair Website (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sepda2023).

The conference features regular papers in two categories (please note if you submit a paper as a student):

  1. Full research papers (up to 10 pages, including references)
  2. Short & Demo papers (4 - 5 pages, including references) describing either
    • a short research project,
    • a demonstration of implemented systems, or
    • late-breaking results (work-in-progress).

Papers should be formatted according to Springer's LNCS format and one of the categories must be selected during submission (Full research paper, Short paper, Demo paper). Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer’s proceedings LaTeX templates are also available in Overleaf. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers.

Publication

SEPDA 2023 proceedings will be published in CEUR Workshop Proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org/). Authors of the accepted presentations will be invited to publish an extended paper in a peer-reviewed journal in biomedical and health informatics or semantic web.

Organizing

  • Chairs

    • General Chairs
      • Jiang Bian, PhD, Professor, Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics, University of Florida, USA
      • Yi Guo, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics, University of Florida, USA
    • Program Committee Chairs
      • Zhe He, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Information, Florida State University, USA
      • Cui Tao, PhD, Professor, School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA
    • Publication Committee Chair
      • Rui Zhang, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, USA

  • Program Committee Members

    • James Geller, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
    • Guoqian Jiang, Mayo Clinic, USA
    • Licong Cui, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA
    • Xia Jing, Clemson University, USA
    • Fleur Mougin, University of Bordeaux, France
    • Yonghui Wu, University of Florida, USA
    • Zhengxing Huang, Zhejiang University, China
    • Xing He, University of Florida, USA
    • Aokun Chen, University of Florida, USA
    • Shubo Tian, National Center for Biotechnology Information, USA
    • Xiao Luo, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA

Past Workshops

  • The first SEPDA workshop (SEPDA 2016) was successfully held in conjunction with IEEE BIBM 2016 in Shenzhen, China. Dr. Hua Xu, a leading expert in the field of Biomedical Informatics, gave the keynote speech on the bioCADDIE project. Eight high quality papers were published and presented. About 20 people attended the workshop. Selected papers were invited to publish the extended version to the special issue on “Semantics-Powered Healthcare Engineering and Data Analytics” in the Journal of Healthcare Engineering.
  • The 2nd SEPDA Workshop (SEPDA 2017) was held in conjunction with IEEE BIBM 2017 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. 17 high quality papers were published and presented. About 30 people attended the workshop. Extended journal version of the papers have been published in BMC Medical Informatics & Decision Making.
  • The 3rd SEPDA Workshop (SEPDA 2018) was held in conjunction with IEEE BIBM 2018 in Madrid, Spain. 14 high quality papers were published and presented. Around 40 people attended the workshop. Extended journal version of the papers has been published in BMC Medical Informatics & Decision Making.
  • The 4th SEPDA Workshop (SEPDA 2019) was held in conjunction with International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2019) in Auckland, New Zealand. 11 high quality papers were published and presented. Around 40 people attended the workshop. Six extended journal version of the papers was published in BMC Medical Informatics & Decision Making in December 2020.
  • The 5th SEPDA Workshop (SEPDA 2020) was held in conjunction with IEEE BIBM 2020 virtually. Eight high quality papers were published and presented. Around 20 people attended the workshop. Eight extended journal version of the papers will be published in BMC Medical Informatics & Decision Making in September 2021.
  • The 6th SEPDA Workshop (SEPDA 2021) was held in conjunction with the 18th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2021). Five high quality papers were published and presented. Around 20 people attended the workshop. Two extended journal version of the papers have been accepted by BMC Medical Informatics & Decision Making.