Biomedical Informatics
A special issue of Data (ISSN 2306-5729). This special issue belongs to the section "Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Data Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2016) | Viewed by 34459
Special Issue Editor
Interests: hybrid machine learning; multimodal intelligence; biomedical data science; biomarker discovery; rule learning; educational technologies; early detection; precision medicine; pattern recognition from multimodal signals; risk assessment for management
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Dear Colleagues,
The volume of biomedical data, both structured and unstructured, has been unprecedently increasing for the past several years. There is an enormous need for methods to store, process, and interpret these data, to yield new knowledge and insights. The lack of well-defined standards requires novel modes to sort out useful information, and thereby to change the conventional thinking from data acquisition to data analysis and interpretation. In this Special Issue, we aim to present the documentation and reuse of biomedical data, and seek to provide scientists and clinicians with approaches available to specific applications.
We are looking to put together a comprehensive set of papers that highlight the availability of public datasets in bioinformatics, public health informatics, clinical and translational research, including applications that use electronic health records, imaging data, biomedical literature or ontologies. We also welcome new research papers that involve currently unavailable biomedical data that the authors are willing to make publicly available along with their article. We are hoping by way of this Special Issue to bring awareness to the scientific and informatics communities of the challenges in the acquisition, processing, storage, and analyses of biomedical data sets. Novel methods for data cleaning, privacy, structuring, semantics extraction, and analyses will also be considered and highlighted in this Special Issue.
Dr. Vanathi Gopalakrishnan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Biomedical Data
- Genomic, Proteomic, Metabolomic, Lipidomic
- Clinical Research Informatics
- Electronic health record processing
- Quantitative and Qualitative Biomarkers
- Imaging Data
- Biosurveillance
- Knowledge Base and Ontologies
- Semantic Tagging
- Machine Learning
- Data Standardization
- Biomedical Database
- Drug Discovery
- Health Informatics
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