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International Journal of Medical Informatics (IJMI) Call for Papers
Special Issue on Mining of Clinical and Biomedical Text and Data

The general aim of this special issue is to assess the current status and
technologies, as well as to outline the major challenges and future
perspectives, related to intelligent system support for clinical and
biomedical text and data. It aims to provide an overview of the state of the
art in this field, by including a wide range of interdisciplinary
contributions. We particularly emphasize multidisciplinary aspects and the
interplay between nursing and medical sciences, information systems, and
computer science. For this special issue we call for papers presenting
original research in, or related to, the following areas:

Clinical Documentation and Biomedical Text and Data, including topics such
as
• Structured and narrative documentation
• Integrating data from various sources (including images)
• Classifications
• Documentation and decision making practices

Formal Approaches and Methods of Text and Data Mining, including topics such
as
• Classification and clustering
• Ranking and preference learning
• Information retrieval and extraction
• Summarization
• Visualization

Applications of Text and Data Mining

Practical Cases and Evaluations

Notes for Prospective Authors
Please send an 1-4 page abstract of your paper for editorial consideration
as soon as possible to ekarsten@abo.fi

All papers are refereed through a double-blind peer review process. The
multi-disciplinary editorial team includes representatives of nursing,
medicine, bioinformatics, intelligent system application, computer science,
and information systems.

The papers should be submitted via the EES service
http://ees.elsevier.com/ijmi/. The special issue is called Mining of Clin
And Bio S.I. Please select Helena Karsten as the editor for the special
issue. A guide for authors and other relevant information are also available
in EES.

Important Dates
• Manuscript submission: October 31, 2008
• Publication schedule: Spring 2009

For any questions, please contact
Dr Helena Karsten (ekarsten@abo.fi)
Managing Editor for the Special Issue of IJMI
Åbo Akademi University, Department of Information Technologies
Joukahaisenkatu 3 A, 20520 Turku, Finland

International Journal of Medical Informatics is the official journal of the
European Federation of Medical Informatics (EFMI)
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