Call for Papers

The 2014 Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC 2014) is the fifth 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 clinical data. The primary objective of the annual workshop is to bring together clinicians, leading scientists and visionaries to discuss visualization techniques that can be applied to clinical settings and discuss the areas of healthcare that need more attention from the visualization and visual data mining communities. The workshop will allow participants to showcase their ongoing work on visual analytics of healthcare-related data through podium, posters, or demo presentations as well as to learn more about emerging techniques, software applications, and datasets.

To help transition visual analytics from research concepts to practice, for the second year the VAHC 2014 will be co-located with the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium.

Topics and Scope

Topics of interests include but are not limited to:

• Visualization of Public Health data
• Visual analysis and exploration of longitudinal clinical trial data
• Visual data mining of electronic health records (EHR)
• Visualization of prescriptions drugs and interactions
• Improving operating room (OR) workflow with visual analytics
• Outcome forecasting or prediction
• Visual analytics for patient safety
• Pandemic forecasting and tracking
• Visual analytics in surgery / radiology / OR / emergency room (ER)
• Improving patients understanding with visual analytics
• Clinical dashboards
• Data summarization of clinical records
• Visual data fusion
• Position papers advocating for specific visual analytics topics in healthcare
• Visualization and analysis of biomedical ontologies
• Visualization of Big Data in healthcare

Paper Submission and Format 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, or (3) live and interactive demonstrations.

• Paper: Papers are limited to six pages. Papers should be formatted following the AMIA guidelines as described here . The file format for submissions is Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). Other formats will not be accepted. Contact vahc.sig at gmail.com if you have any questions.
• Poster: Poster submissions are limited to two pages.
• Demo: Demonstration submissions are limited two pages.

Important Dates

• Deadline for submission: August 31, 2014 September 7, 2014
• Notification of Acceptance: September 25, 2014 September 29th, 2014
• Camera-ready Papers Due: October 10, 2014
• VAHC 2014: November 15, 2014

Organizers

Jesus J. Caban, PhD (NICoE, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center / jesus.j.caban.civ at mail.mil)
David Gotz, PhD (University of North Carolina / gotz at unc.edu)
Adam Perer, PhD (IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center/ adam.perer at us.ibm.com)
Hadi Kharrazi, MD, PhD (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)