CALL FOR PAPER (papers due March 5 1997)
International Journal of Digital Libraries Special Issue on "Digital Libraries in Medicine"
Editor: Stephen Wong, University of California, San Francisco
Rapid advances in computing and imaging technologies have revolutionized the practice of medicine and remarkably enhanced the physicians' capacity for accurate diagnosis and management of diseases. Besides the traditional textual information of medical literature and patient reports, medical records today include a broad spectrum of multidimensional images, video streams, and signals. Ironically, however, the field of computerized medical information is threatened by its own success in that the sheer mass of information available is becoming unmanageable. For example, the United States alone spends over $200 billion in 1995 in processing and managing healthcare information. Twelve billions transactions of claims and bills are exchanged between 6500 hospitals and 300,000 health care providers in USA each year. Average information package, if digitized, would contain about 100 megabytes of data.
On the other hand, the era of industrialized medicine is shifting medical imaging research focus from the generation and acquisition of images to the post-processing and management of images and textual data in order to realize the greatest possible benefit from the data that already exist. Incorporating digital library technologies into healthcare will contribute to unprecedented diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities as well as innovative means of providing continued health education to the public. The integration of these new technologies will have the significant potential to break down traditional barriers of medical information sharing, provide more efficient and cost-effective access and management of health data, and open up new approaches towards achieving better quality of care and services.
The objective of the special issue is to provide a timely and in-depth review of outstanding DL research projects that have potential to make significant contributions to both on current challenges and future practice of medical information processing and management. Papers describing new and original research results of DL systems in medicine and novel interdisciplinary approaches of applying DL technologies to healthcare industry are welcome. Appropriate topics include, but are not limited to:
- Automatic report generation; - Biomedical imaging infrastructure; - Business models/cost benefit analysis; - Content based retrieval of image and video databases; - CORBA/DCOM/Distributed object management; - Data mining/Outcome analysis; - Data visualization in medicine; - Database security and access control; - Electronic medical record; - Federated and distributed databases; - Medical data/vocabulary standards; - Multimedia medical databases; - Multimodal user interface for information retrieval; - Multiagent technologies; - Mobile computing in hospitals; - Speech and object recognition techniques in medicine; - Storage and I/O for multimedia medical communication; - Telemedicine, tele-imaging, and televideoconferencing; - User model of digital medical libraries; - Web and Java based health systems; and - Web based medical image/video servers.
Important Dates: Papers due: March 10, 1997. Acceptance Notice: May 10, 1997 Final version due: June 24, 1997
Five copies of papers should be sent to the guest editor at the address below no later than March 5, 1997:
Stephen Wong Radiology & Neurology, Box 0628 University of California, San Francisco 505 Parnassus Avenue S.F., CA 94143-0628 email: swong@lri.ucsf.edu
Papers may also be submitted in electronic form as Springer Verlag Latex style files. Abstracts must be submitted electronically. Abstracts of accepted papers will be posted on the Journal Web site together with the expected publication date of the special issue. Web site for journal and editorial information: http://cimic.rutgers.edu/jodl.
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