What it is: General Description

CBMS 2006 is intended to provide an international forum for discussing the latest results in the field of computational medicine. The symposium is dedicated to a broad array of issues which relate computing to medicine. It consists of both regular and special track sessions with technical contributions reviewed and selected by an international program committee, as well as invited talks given by leading scientists.

See below for a list of relevant topics. For a brief history of the conference (including links to available web resources), see "Where it's Been Before" on the "Where" page.

What Topics are Relevant: Topics and Special Tracks

CBMS 2006 will accept papers on a number of different general topics; paper authors may also submit their work to one of a number of different special tracks, reviewed by various Special Track Chairs. A special track consists of the presentation of several papers in a medical informatics sub discipline or a special field, refereed by researchers and practitioners in the field.

General Topics

• Software Systems in Medicine
• Computer-Aided Diagnosis
• Knowledge-based Systems
• Decision Support Systems
• Medical Devices with Embedded Computers
• Signal and Image Processing in Medicine
• Medical Image Segmentation
• Medical Image Compression
• Medical Intelligence and Data Warehousing
• Network and Telemedicine Systems
• Medical Databases & Information Systems
• Web-based Delivery of Medical Information
• Multimedia Biomedical Databases
• Hand-held Computing Applications in Medicine
• Intelligent Biomedical Knowledge Discovery

Special Tracks

• Bioinformatics and its Medical Applications
  Nadia Bolshakova — Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
• Data Mining
  Mykola Pechenizkiy & Seppo Puuronen — University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
  Alexey Tsymbal — Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
• Grids for Biomedicine and Bioinformatics
  Giovanni Aloisio & Maria Mirto — University of Lecce
  Almerico Murli — University of Naples, Italy
  Alfredo Tirado-Ramos — University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Intelligent Patient Management
  Adele Marshall — Queen's University of Belfast
  Sally McClean — University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
• Analysis and Retrieval of Biomarkers from Large Image Databases
  Sunanda Mitra — Texas Tech University, USA
• Security, Privacy and Confidentiality - Threats and Challenges to Health Systems
  Benjamin Jung — University of Victoria, Canada
• The Use of Open Source Software and Open Document Formats in Health and Medical Systems
  Benjamin Jung — University of Victoria, Canada
  Jens Jahnke — University of Victoria, Canada
  Morgan Price — University of British Columbia, Canada
• Intelligent Analysis of Text and Multimedia Data
  Hyoil Han & Ari D. Brooks — Drexel University, USA
  Jungwhan Oh — University of Texas at Arlington, USA
• Computational Proteomics: Management and Analysis of Proteomics Data
  Mario Cannataro, Giovanni Cuda & Pierangelo Veltri — University "Magna Græcia" of Catanzaro, Italy
• Temporal Pattern Discovery in Biomedicine
  Amar K. Das — Stanford University, USA
  Huseyin Seker — De Montfort University, UK
• Ontologies for Biomedical Systems
  Tharam S. Dillon & Amandeep S. Sidhu — University of Technology Sydney, Australia
  Elizabeth Chang — Curtin University of Technology, Australia
• Advances in Medical Simulation
  Alan Liu — Uniformed Services University, USA
• Bioinformatics Visualization in 3D
  Andrei Turinsky — Sun Center of Excellence for Visual Genomics, Canada

What Submission Involves: Process & Requirements

A step by step guide to the paper submission process can be found under "How to Submit a Paper: Process & Requirements" on the "How" page.

What Presenting is Like: If Your Paper is Accepted…

Each accepted paper will be given 20 minutes for presentation, including questions and discussion. An LCD projector, screen, and pointer will be provided. Presenters can bring their own computer to attach to the projector for the presentation or can pre-load their presentations on a computer which will be provided.

If you would like to pre-load your presentation on the provided computer or if you have other questions about your presentation, send us an email at cbms2006@ee.byu.edu and we'd be glad to help. To pre-load a presentation, please contact us no later than Wednesday, June 21, 2006 at 5:00pm Mountain Time.