[Infovis] Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC) - Call For Papers

[Jürgen Bernard]

CALL FOR PAPERS AND DEMONSTRATIONS:

Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC)
(In conjunction with IEEE VIS 2023)
Website: www.visualanalyticshealthcare.org

The submission deadline is July 17, 2023, creating an opportunity to 
showcase late-breaking research results on Visual Analytics in Healthcare.

CALL FOR PAPERS:
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The 2023 Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC 2023) is the 
14th annual workshop that provides an opportunity for participants to 
discuss state-of-the-art interactive visual data analysis techniques and 
review how such techniques can be applied to healthcare data. The 
primary objective of the workshop is to bring together leading VIS 
designers, scientists, medical experts, and visionaries to discuss: a) 
interactive data visualization techniques that can be applied to 
healthcare data, b) areas of healthcare that need more attention from 
visualization and visual data analysis research, and c) emerging 
research trends, visualization techniques, software applications, 
benchmarks, and open datasets. The workshop will enable presenters to 
showcase their ongoing work through oral presentation and system demos, 
either as video supplemental material or live demos during the workshop 
to be arranged with the organizers for maximum visibility. In years 
past, demos of prototype and/or production visual analytics software 
have been particularly well received, and paper submitters are 
encouraged to submit a companion demo proposal.

BEST PAPERS:
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VAHC assigns Best Paper and Honorable Mention awards. The awards entail 
a certificate and recognition on the VAHC website. This year, we also 
plan to invite authors of high-quality papers to submit a revised and 
extended version to an internationally recognized scientific journal. 
The topic of this special issue will be “Interactive Visualization of 
Health Data for Digital and Personal Health”. The review process will 
seek to assign the same reviewers for previously accepted VAHC papers. 
Watch out for details in our second call for papers.

TOPICS AND SCOPE:
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We welcome discussions of the use of visual approaches, interaction 
design, statistical methods, and machine learning for healthcare data 
analysis. Participants may address the needs of various user groups, 
including (but not limited to) patients, clinical researchers, 
epidemiologists, public health analysts, physicians, hospital-based 
quality assurance officers, and insurance claim analysts.

The 2023 Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare will cover a range 
of topics on the design, implementation, deployment, evaluation, and 
abstraction of visual analytics methods, including (but not limited to):
Clinical care
     - Prescription drugs and drug-drug interactions
     - Multi-omic datasets
     - Longitudinal clinical data
     - Visual data mining of EMRs
     - Specific treatment contexts, emergency department, patient 
safety, mental health.
     - Clinical workflows
     - Outcome forecasting or prediction
     - Explainable AI and ML in healthcare
Digital health and personal health
     - Mobile health
     - Wearable devices' data control and processing
     - Telehealth and telemedicine
     - Personalized medicine
Patient-related applications:
     - Patient-generated health data
     - Understanding of patient behavior and experience
     - Patient education
     - Physician-patient communication
Public health data:
     - Pandemic forecasting and tracking
     - Learning from crises with visualization
     - Public health surveillance systems


PAPER SUBMISSION AND FORMAT GUIDELINES:
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VAHC 2023 will have a new paper format!
We will accept short papers with up to six pages plus one page of 
references (6+1).

We encourage a diverse range of submissions and demonstrations from 
academia, healthcare organizations, and industry in any of the short 
paper types listed below:
Application papers (format: “6+1”)
Research papers (format: “6+1”)
Positions and system demo papers (format “2+1”)
Posters (format: “2+1” abstract and A0 poster)

Accepted application papers and research papers will be published in the 
IEEE Xplore digital library. Accepted system demo papers and posters 
will be included in the VAHC proceedings and made available via IEEE VIS 
for digital download.
All accepted types of submissions will have the chance for an oral 
presentation.

Demo: Every system demo paper may be accompanied by a video demo submission

All material will be submitted via the Precision Conference System (PCS):
https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login?society=vgtc

For all submissions, please use the VGTC conference style template:
http://ieeevis.org/year/2021/info/call-participation/shortpapers


Contact vahc.sig at gmail.com if you have any questions.


IMPORTANT DATES:
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Deadline for submission: July 17, 2023
Notification of acceptance: August 14, 2023
Camera-ready papers due: August 28, 2023
VAHC 2023 workshop: October 22 or 23, 2023


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ORGANIZERS:
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Jürgen Bernard        University of Zurich        General Chair
Annie T. Chen        University of Washington    Co-Chair
Danny T.Y. Wu        University of Cincinnati    Co-Chair
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Jürgen Bernard
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
University of Zurich
juergen-bernard.de