Special Session on “Artificial Intelligence and Statistical Methods for Neurodegenerative Diseases” @ CIBB 2021

It is our pleasure to announce the special session Artificial Intelligence and Statistical Methods for Neurodegenerative Diseases at the 17th International Conference on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics (CIBB 2021).
Conference dates: 15-17 November 2021
Location: virtual
Submission format: short paper (4-6 pages)
Deadline: 15 September 2021
The authors of all the accepted short papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their manuscript for the conference proceedings book in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) or for a journal supplement in BMC Bioinformatics or BMC Medical Informatics.
Topics of interest span machine learning, medical statistics, artificial intelligence, and all advanced computational methods applied to clinical, lifestyle, and -omics data in the field of neurodegenerative diseases.
The session will host, as an invited speaker, Prof. Sara Madeira (Universidade de Lisboa), a leading expert in machine learning applied to neurodegenerative diseases.
Please find the call for papers and all the submission details on the conference website http://www.isa.cnr.it/cibb2021/.
We look forward to seeing you at the conference!

The special session organizers
Erica Tavazzi, Martina Vettoretti, Enrico Longato

Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, Italy