CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare: Understanding the Physician Perspective
(In conjunction with VisWeek 2011, Oct 23-28)


Website:
http://www.visualanalyticshealthcare.org



** Paper Submissions Due August 31st, 2011 **


------------------------
Call for Papers
------------------------
This workshop will provide a unique and valuable opportunity in which participants will be able to meet, talk, and showcase their visualization techniques to leading physicians and receive feedback about how their tools can be adapted for use in clinical practice. In addition, physicians will provide detailed information about areas in healthcare where additional visualization techniques are needed.

Visualization and visual analytics show great potential as methods to analyze, filter, and illustrate many of the diverse data used in clinical practice. Today, (a) physicians and clinical practitioners are faced with the challenging task of analyzing large amount of unstructured, multi-modal, and longitudinal data to effectively diagnose and monitor the progression of a particular disease; (b) patients are confronted with the difficult task of understanding the correlations between many clinical values relevant to their health; and (c) healthcare organizations are faced with the problem of improving the overall operational efficiency and performance of the institution while maintaining the quality of patient care and safety.

Visualization and visual analytics can potentially provide great benefits to each of these three core areas of healthcare. However, to be successful, the resulting visualization must be able to meet the physician's requirements and be useful for both patients and physicians.


------------------------------
Topics and Scope
------------------------------

Topics of interests include but are not limited to:
* Visual analysis and exploration of longitudinal clinical test
* Visual data mining of EHR
* Visualization of prescriptions drugs and interactions
* Improving OR workflow with visual analytics
* Outcome forecasting or prediction
* Visual analytics for patient safety
* Pandemic forecasting and tracking
* Visual analytics in surgery / radiology / OR / ER
* Improving patients understanding with visual analytics
* Clinical dashboards
* Data summarization
* Visual data fusion


------------------------------
Paper submission
------------------------------
Paper Formatting: Papers are limited to four pages. Shorter submissions are strongly encouraged to be considered for poster presentations. Papers should be formatted in the IEEE VisWeek format style.

Publication: The proceedings of the workshop will be made available online and selected papers will be invited to submit a extended versions to relevant journals in the area. Selected journals will be announced before August 31st.


----------------------------
Important Dates
----------------------------
Deadline for submission: August 31, 2011
Notification of Acceptance: September 15, 2011
Camera-ready Papers Due: October 1, 2011
Workshop Dates: October 23 or 24, 2011


------------------------
Organizers
------------------------
Jesus J. Caban (National Institutes of Health)
David Gotz (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)