VAHC 2018: Visual Analytics in Healthcare San Francisco, CA, United States, November 3, 2018 |
Conference website | http://www.visualanalyticshealthcare.org |
Submission deadline | August 1, 2018 |
The 2018 Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC 2018) is the ninth annual workshop that provides an opportunity for participants to discuss state-of-the-art data visualization techniques and review how such techniques can be applied to healthcare data. The primary objective of the annual workshop is to bring together medical experts, leading scientists, and visionaries to discuss how visual analytics can be applied to healthcare data and discuss the areas of healthcare that need more attention from the visual analytics community. The workshop will enable participants to showcase their ongoing work on visual analytics of healthcare-related data through podium, poster, or demo presentations, as well as to learn more about emerging techniques, software applications, and datasets.
During the last eight years the Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC) has been organized and hosted annually, alternating between the IEEE VIS conference and the AMIA Annual Symposium. This year the VAHC 2018 workshop is affiliated with the AMIA Annual Symposium in San Francisco, California and will take place on Saturday, November 3. For information about all previous VAHC events and to access the open-access proceedings from each of the previous workshops, please see http://www.visualanalyticshealthcare.org.
***NEW THIS YEAR*** We will be holding a design challenge, with on-site judging by a panel of informatics professionals and visualization experts. Opportunity will be made for interested groups to sign up online and to present a sketch/wireframe of their intended visualization. Themes for the design challenge will be based around the targeted end-user, including patients (e.g., patient-generated data, patient behavior and experience, patient education); clinicians (e.g., clinical workflows, longitudinal health records, medication visualizations, patient safety); and researchers (e.g., population health, outcome forecasting, pandemic tracking, data mining, multi-omics). Several example datasets will be suggested, though if desired, participants are welcome to use their own datasets.
Submission Guidelines
We encourage a diverse range of submissions and demonstrations from academic, healthcare organizations, and industry that addresses any of the topics listed above. Submissions can be for (1) paper / podium presentations, (2) poster presentations, (3) live & interactive demonstrations, or (4) the design challenge.
- Paper: submissions are limited to eight pages and should use the standard AMIA formatting template, available here: https://www.amia.org/amia2018/presentation-types.
--Word template: https://www.amia.org/sites/default/files/AMIA2017-Submission-Template.docx
--LaTex template: https://www.amia.org/sites/default/files/amia2017-template.zip
- Poster: abstract submissions are limited to one page.
- Demonstration: abstract submissions are limited to two pages.
- Design challenge: abstract submissions are limited to two pages and will be used for preliminary judging; submissions not selected for oral presentation will be considered for a poster or demonstration.
All material should be submitted via EasyChair here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vahc2018.
Contact vahc.sig@gmail.com if you have any questions.
Publication
We have entered into an agreement with Prof. Chris Lehmann, Editor-in-Chief of Applied Clinical Informatics (ACI), to publish some or all of the presented papers (6 anticipated) and design challenge winners (3 anticipated) as part of a Special Topic in Visual Analytics, with our paper chair and ACI Associate Editor Ms. Carolyn Petersen as the special topic editor. Selected papers are not guaranteed to be accepted and will undergo peer review at ACI. Abstracts and papers not accepted for publication in the special topic series will be made available on visualanalyticshealthcare.org, at the authors’ discretion.
Important Deadlines
Deadline for submission: August 1st, 2018
Notification of acceptance: September 15th, 2018
Camera-ready papers due: October 1st, 2018
VAHC 2018 workshop: November 3rd, 2018
Topics and Scope
We welcome discussions of the use of visual approaches, interaction design, statistical methods, and machine learning for healthcare data analysis. Participants may address the needs of a variety of users, including clinical researchers, epidemiologists, public health analysts, pharmaco-vigilance experts, physicians, hospital-based quality assurance officers, insurance claim analysts, and patients.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
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Visualization of patient-generated health data
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Visualization of prescription drugs and drug-drug interactions
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Visualization of public health data
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Design of dashboards for public health surveillance programs
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Visual analysis and exploration of longitudinal clinical data
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Visual analytics as a means for knowledge discovery
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Visual data mining of EMRs
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Visual analytics for patient safety
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Visual analytics in surgery
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Visual analytics in radiology
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Visual analytics in the emergency department (ED) and operating room (OR)
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Visual analytics to explore multi-omic datasets
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Improving clinical workflow with visual analytics
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Improving understanding of patient behavior and experience
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Improving patient education and/or clinician-patient communication
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Outcome forecasting or prediction
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Pandemic forecasting and tracking
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Human computer interaction
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Evaluation of visual analytics techniques and systems
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Committees
Organizing committee
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Jeremy L. Warner, MD, MS (co-chair and chair of the AMIA Visual Analytics WG)
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Annie T. Chen, PhD, MSIS (co-chair)
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Danny T.Y. Wu, PhD, MSI (co-chair)
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John Manning, MD (design challenge chair)
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Carolyn Petersen, MBI, MS (paper chair)
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Chethan Jujjavarapu, PhD candidate (publicity chair)
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Gal Levy-Fix, PhD candidate (student committee chair)
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David Borland
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Jesus J Caban, PhD
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Bum Chul Kwon, PhD
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Harry Hochheiser, PhD
Venue
This year the VAHC 2018 workshop is affiliated with the AMIA Annual Symposium in San Francisco, California and will take place on Saturday, November 3.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Contact vahc.sig@gmail.com