Description

Cancer is not a single disease; it is a complex and heterogeneous disease, which leads to the second cause of death worldwide. Although all cancers manifest themselves as an uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells, they are actually distinct neoplastic diseases that possess different genetic and epigenetic alterations, underlying molecular mechanisms, histopathologies and clinical outcomes. Despite significant advances in the understanding of the principal mechanisms leading to various cancer types, less progress has been made toward developing patient-specific treatments. Advanced mathematical and computational models could play a significant role in examining the most effective patient-specific therapies. There is a pressing need to design and develop computational strategies to harness cancer data in an accurate and efficient fashion.

The purpose of the International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Oncology (ISMCO) is to provide a common interdisciplinary forum for researchers, scientists, engineers and clinical oncologists throughout the world to present and discuss their latest research findings, ideas, developments and applications in mathematical and computational oncology. In particular, ISMCO aspires to enable the forging of stronger relationships among physical sciences, computer science, data science, engineering and oncology with the goal of developing new insights into the pathogenesis and treatment of malignancies.

The symposium will consist of invited and contributed presentations dealing with all aspects of mathematical and computational oncology. In addition, it will include keynote presentations, tutorials, special tracks, panel discussions, and a poster session. A “best paper award” will also be sponsored. The symposium’s proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.. LNCS publications are indexed by SCOPUS.

Call for paper

Important Dates

Draft paper submission deadline:2018-12-17

Topics of submission

ISMCO seeks papers describing contributions to the state of the art and practice in mathematical and computational oncology. Work-in-progress papers, demos, experimental studies, open-source developments, and visionary papers are also welcome. Topics of interest include all aspects of mathematical and computational oncology including, but not limited, to the following areas:

 

  • Precision medicine and immuno-oncology
  • Spatio-temporal tumor modeling and simulation
  • Tumor forecasting methods
  • Molecular subtyping, survival analysis and prediction
  • Novel experimental cultures
  • Cancer genomics and proteomics
  • Next-generation sequencing and single-cell analysis
  • Systems biology and networks
  • General cancer computational biology
  • Computational methods for anticancer drug development
  • Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers and prevention
  • Statistical methods and data mining for cancer research
  • Deep learning and machine learning for cancer research
  • Big data analytics for cancer research
  • High performance computing for cancer research
  • Data intensive computing for cancer research
  • Scalable and high throughput systems for large-scale cancer-data analytics
  • Text analytics and natural language processing (NLP) for cancer research
  • Automatic semantic annotation of medical content in the context of cancer disease
  • Computer-aided diagnosis (CADx) systems for research
  • Application of cloud computing, SaaS and PaaS architectures for cancer research
  • Computer-aided diagnosis (CADx) systems for cancer research
  • Computer vision, scientific visualization, and image processing for cancer research
  • Robotics for cancer research
  • Artificial Intelligence for cancer research

Committee

ISMCO Steering Committee:

  • George Bebis, University of Nevada, Reno, USA (Chair)
  • George Vasmatzis, Biomarker Discovery Program, Center for Individualized Medicine, Mayo Clinic,, USA
  • Panagiotis Anastasiadis, Department of Cancer Biology, Mayo Clinic, USA
  • Ahmad Tafti, Medical Informatics, Mayo Clinic, USA

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Important dates

  • Conference Dates

    29 Apr.

    2019

    TO

    01 May.

    2019

  • 17 Dec.

    2018

    Draft paper submission deadline

Contact information

  • Dr. George Bebis
  • bebis@cse.unr.edu

Sponsored By

  • University of Nevada Reno (UNR)