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    2015 IEEE International Conference on

    Bioinformatics and Biomedicine

    Nov 9-12, 2015, Washington D.C. , USA

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    Sponsored by

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    IEEE BIBM 2015

    IEEE BIBM 2015 Program Schedule ..................................................................................................................................... 4

    Floor Plan ................................................................................................................................................................................ 9

    Keynote Lectures .................................................................................................................................................................. 10

    Invited Talks ......................................................................................................................................................................... 12

    Federal Agencies and Industry Panel .................................................................................................................................... 15

    Workshops ............................................................................................................................................................................ 16

    Tutorials ................................................................................................................................................................................ 26

    Conference Paper Presentations ............................................................................................................................................ 27

    Poster List ............................................................................................................................................................................. 38

    Conference WiFi Instruction ................................................................................................................................................. 40

    IEEE BIBM 2016 Call For Papers ........................................................................................................................................ 41

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    IEEE BIBM 2015 Program Schedule

    Program

    • November 09, 2015

    • November 10, 2015

    • November 11, 2015

    • November 12, 2015

    Keynote Lecture: 60 minutes((about 45 minutes for talk and 15 minutes for Q and A)

    Invited Talk: 40 minutes (about 30 minutes for talk and 10 minutes for Q and A)

    Tutorial: 115 minutes (about 100 minutes for talk and 15 minutes for Q and A)

    Main Conference Regular Paper: 20 minutes (about 15 minutes for talk and 5 minutes for Q and A)

    Main Conference Short Paper: 15 minutes (about 12 minutes for talk and 3 minutes for Q and A)

    Sunday, November 8

    4:00– 8:00 pm

    Registration Ballroom Foyer

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    Monday, Nov 9 (Workshops and Tutorials)

    7:20am – 6:30pm Registration Ballroom Foyer

    10:30-10:50am

    and 3:30-3:50pm

    Coffee Break Meeting Room Foyer

    12:00-1:30pm Lunch (On Own)

    1:30-6:00pm Poster Session (Set Up)

    Meeting Room and Concours Terrace

    8:00-12:00pm Workshops/Tutorials Session Chair Location

    Workshop: High Performance Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (HiBB) Mario Cannataro Waterford Workshop:2015 Workshop on Health Informatics and Data Science (HI-DS) Xiong Liu, Rong Liu Cabinet Suite

    Workshop: The 2015 Computational Structural Bioinformatics Workshop Jing He, Amarda Shehu, Nurit

    Haspel, Brian Chen Judiciary Suite

    Workshop: 2015 International Workshop on Biomedical and Health

    Informatics Illhoi Yoo Embassy/Patuxent

    Workshop: COMputational Methods for Analyzing Metagenomics Data Catherine Putonti, Charlie Xia

    and Erliang Zeng Diplomat/Ambassador

    Workshop: The 6th Integrative Data Analysis in Systems Biology (IDASB

    2015).

    Rui Jiang, Huiru Jane Zheng,

    Zhongming Zhao Cartier/Tiffany

    Joint Workshop Schedule Data mining in translational biomedical informatics & Second International Workshop on the Role for Quantified Self for Personal

    Healthcare

    Qian Zhu, Hongfang Liu, Frank Hopfgartner, Na Li

    Susquehanna

    Workshop: Data mining from genomic variants and its application to genome-wide analysis

    Taesung Park Baccarat

    Tutorial: Integrative Genomic Big-Data Analytics for Translational Bioinformatics and Precision Medicine Research (10am-12noon)

    Mary Yang and Kenji Yoshigoe

    Haverford

    1:30-6:00pm Workshops/Tutorials Session Chair Location

    Workshop: Inaugural International Workshop on Biological Network Driven Analysis

    Fione Brown Waterford

    Workshop:2015 Workshop on Health Informatics and Data Science (HI-DS) Xiong Liu, Rong Liu Cabinet Suite

    Workshop: The 2015 Computational Structural Bioinformatics Workshop Jing He, Amarda Shehu, Nurit

    Haspel, Brian Chen Judiciary Suite

    Workshop: 2015 International Workshop on Biomedical and Health

    Informatics Illhoi Yoo Embassy/Patuxent

    Tutorial: Introduction to computational analysis of microbiome shotgun

    sequencing data (1:30-3:30pm) Daniel H. Huson Haverford

    Tutorial: Human Microbiome Analysis: Computational Techniques and Challenges (4:00-6:00pm)

    Serghei Mangul Haverford

    Workshop: Semantic Data Analytics and Bioinformatics Haiying Wang Lalique

    Joint Workshop Schedule

    Nonnegative Matrix Factorization and Tensor Decomposition Techniques for High-Throughput Biological Data Analysis &

    Computational Regulatory Genomics and Metagenomics

    Michael Ochs, Elana Fertig,

    Alieoune Ngom, Hongyu Zhang, Guoliang Li, Anyuan

    Guo, Hongyu Ou and Xingpeng Jiang

    Baccarat

    Workshop: International Workshop on Biomolecular Interaction Network Analysis and Interactomics

    Young-Rae Cho

    Diplomat/Ambassador

    Workshop: The 6th Integrative Data Analysis in Systems Biology (IDASB 2015).

    Rui Jiang, Huiru Jane Zheng,

    Zhongming Zhao Cartier/Tiffany

    Workshop: Electronic Health Record: Implementation, Data Mining, Security and User Acceptance

    Manuel Grana, Michel

    Wozkniak, Konrad Jakowski Susquehanna

    Workshop: Biomedical Visual Search and Deep Learning

    Richard Conroy, Vinay Pai,

    Todd Horowitz, Susan

    Gregurick, Tom Radman

    Potomac

    Workshop: The 6h International Workshop on High Performance Computing in Bioinformatics

    Che-Lun Hung et al. Severn

    http://staff.icar.cnr.it/cannataro/hibb2015/mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]

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    Tuesday, November 10 8:00am-6:00pm

    Registration Ballroom Foyer

    8:45-9:00am

    Welcome and Opening Session Chairs: Luke Huan, Satoru Miyano, Amarda Shehu, Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, Xiaohua Tony Hu

    Crystal Ballroom

    9:00-10:00am

    Keynote Lecture 1 (Chair: Satoru Miyano) “Big Data in Biomedicine – an NIH Perspective”

    Philip Bourne

    Crystal Ballroom

    10:00-10:20am Coffee Break

    Meeting Room Foyer

    10:20-12:30pm Sessions Session Chair Location

    Session1: Genomics Browne, Fiona Cabinet Suite

    Session2: Biological Networks I Huang,Yufei Diplomat/Ambassador

    Session3: Medical Informatics I Boucher,Christina Judiciary Suite

    Session4: Semantics and Ontology I Zeng, Erlinagn Embassy/Patuxent

    10:20-7pm Poster Session Setup and Display

    Meeting Room and Concours Terrace

    12:30-2:00pm Lunch provided by conference

    Embassy/Patuxent

    2:00-3:40pm Sessions Session Chair Location

    (including

    Invited talks)

    Session5: Biological Networks II Przytycka, Teresa Cabinet Suite

    Session6: Translational Bioinformatics I Yang, Mary Diplomat/Ambassador

    Session7: Medical Informatics II Zheng, Huiru Judiciary Suite

    Session8: Structure, Function and Evolution I Shyu, Chi-Ren Embassy/Patuxent

    3:40-4:00pm Coffee Break

    Meeting Room Foyer

    4:00-6:40pm Sessions Session Chair Location

    Session 9: Epigenetics and Gene Regulation Ananda Modal Cabinet Suite

    Session 10: Healthcare Informatics I Cho, Young-Rae Diplomat/Ambassador

    Session 11: Cross-cutting Computational Methods I Haspel, Nurit Judiciary Suite

    Session 12: Structure, Function and Evolution II He, Jing Embassy/Patuxent

    7:00-9:00pm

    Banquet (Ticket required) 1. Introduction of BIBM 2016 Host City (Chairs: Xiaohua Tony Hu, Jianguo Lu) 2. Best Paper Award (Chairs: Luke Huan, Satoru Miyano, Amarda Shehu) 3. Best Student Paper Award (Chairs: Luke Huan, Satoru Miyano, Amarda Shehu) 4. Best Paper Runner-Up (Chairs: Luke Huan, Satoru Miyano, Amarda Shehu)

    Crystal Ballroom

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    Wednesday, Nov 11 8:00am-6:00pm

    Registration Ballroom Foyer

    9:00-10:00am

    Keynote Lecture 2 (Chair: Sanguthevar Rajasekaran) Parallel Machine Learning Approaches for Reverse Engineering Genome-Scale Networks

    Srinivas Alurur

    Crystal Ballroom

    10:00-10:20am Coffee Break

    Meeting Room Foyer

    10:20am -

    12:30pm Sessions Session Chair Location

    Session 13: Cross-cutting Computational Methods II Moll, Mark Cabinet Suite

    Session 14: Healthcare Informatics II Shehu, Amarda Diplomat/Ambassador

    Session15: Semantics and Ontology II Huang, Jingshan Judiciary Suite

    Session16: Medical Imaging Miyano, Satoru Embassy/Patuxent

    12:30-2:00pm Lunch provided by conference

    Crystal Ballroom

    1:00-2:00pm

    Keynote Lecture 3 (Chair: Luke Huan) Toward Personalized Pan-Omic Association Analysis under Complex Structure s and Big Data

    Eric Xing Crystal Ballroom

    Poster Session Meeting Room Foyer and Concours Terrace

    2:00-3:40pm Panel

    Federal Agencies and Industry

    Crystal Ballroom

    3:40-4:00pm Coffee Break

    Meeting Room Foyer

    4:00-6:20pm Sessions Session Chair Location

    Session 17: Biological Networks III Huo,Hongwei Cabinet Suite Session 18: Sequence, Structure, and Function III Chen, Brian Diplomat/Ambassador

    Session 19: Medical Informatics III Bastola, Dhundy Judiciary Suite Session 20: Translational Bioinformatics I Ghersi, Dario Embassy/Patuxent

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    Thursday, Nov 12 8:00-10:00am

    Registration Ballroom Foyer

    9:00-10:00am

    Keynote Lecture 4 (Chair: Amarda Shehu) Computational Challenges in Microbiome Research

    Mihai Pop

    Crystal Ballroom

    10:00-10:20am Coffee break

    Meeting Room Foyer

    10:00 - 10:20 am Poster Display Chesapeake Foyer

    10:20am-12:30pm Sessions Session Chair Location

    Session 21: Computational Systems Biology Ricardo de Matos Simoes Cabinet Suite Session 22: Bioinformatics Infrastructure Ryan Benton Judiciary Suite

    Session 23: Industry and Government Session Matthieu Schapranow Diplomat/Ambassador

    Workshop: High Performance Computing for Big Data Computational

    Biology Fahad Saeed Old Georgetown

    Workshop: Machine learning in decision making for biomedical

    applications Mahua Bhattacharya Embassy/Patuxent

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    Floor Plan

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    Keynote Lectures

    Keynote 1: Big Data in Biomedicine -- An NIH Perspective

    Speaker:

    Philip E. Bourne PhD, Associate Director for Data Science (ADDS) at the National Institutes of Health

    Abstract:

    Biomedical research is becoming increasingly data driven, analytical and hence digital. In recognition of this evolution NIH has established the

    Office for Data Science with trans NIH responsibility for maximizing the value of this digital enterprise. This effort brings together communities,

    policy changes and new infrastructure to be applied to existing and new areas of research such as precision medicine. We will review these changes

    from the perspective of research advances that are underway and highlight how this community can further engage in these activities.

    Short Bio:

    Philip E. Bourne PhD is the Associate Director for Data Science (ADDS) at the National Institutes of Health. Formally he was Associate Vice

    Chancellor for Innovation and Industry Alliances, a Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and

    Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California San Diego, Associate Director of the RCSB Protein Data Bank and an Adjunct Professor at

    the Sanford Burnham Institute.

    Bourne's professional interests focus on service and research. He serves the national biomedical community through contributing ways to maximize

    the value (and hence accessibility) of scientific data. His research focuses on relevant biological and educational outcomes derived from computation

    and scholarly communication. This implies algorithms, text mining, machine learning, metalanguages, biological databases, and visualization applied

    to problems in systems pharmacology, evolution, cell signaling, apoptosis, immunology and scientific dissemination. He has published over 300

    papers and 5 books, one of which sold over 150,000 copies.

    Bourne is committed to maximizing the societal benefit derived from university research. Previosuly he co-founded 4 companies: ViSoft Inc., Protein

    Vision Inc., a company distributing independent films for free and most recently SciVee.

    Bourne is committed to furthering the free dissemination of science through new models of publishing and better integration and subsequent

    dissemination of data and results which as far as possible should be freely available to all. He is the co-founder and founding Editor-in-Chief of the

    open access journal PLOS Computational Biology.

    Bourne is committed to professional development through the Ten Simple Rules series of articles and a variety of lectures and video presentations.

    Bourne is a Past President of the International Society for Computational Biology, an elected fellow of the American Association for the

    Advancement of Science (AAAS), the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) and the American Medical Informatics Association

    (AMIA).

    Awards include: the Jim Gray eScience Award (2010), the Benjamin Franklin Award (2009), the Flinders University Convocation Medal for

    Outstanding Achievement (2004), the Sun Microsystems Convergence Award (2002) and the CONNECT Award for new inventions (1996 & 97).

    Keynote 2: Parallel Machine Learning Approaches for Reverse Engineering Genome-Scale Network

    Speaker:

    Prof. Srinivas Aluru, School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

    Abstract:

    Reverse engineering whole-genome networks from large-scale gene expression measurements and analyzing them to extract biologically valid

    hypotheses are important challenges in systems biology. While simpler models easily scale to large number of genes and gene expression datasets,

    more accurate models are compute intensive limiting their scale of applicability. In this talk, I will present our research on the development of

    parallel mutual information and Bayesian network based structure learning methods to eliminate such bottlenecks and facilitate genome-scale

    network inference. As a demonstration, we reconstructed genome-scale networks of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana from 11,700 microarray

    experiments using 1.57 million cores of the Tianhe-2 Supercomputer. Such networks can be used as a guide to predicting gene function and

    extracting context-specific subnetworks.

    Short Bio:

    Srinivas Aluru is a professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. He co-directs the Georgia

    Tech Strategic Initiative in Data Engineering and Science, and co-leads the NSF South Big Data Regional Innovation Hub. Earlier, he held faculty

    positions at Iowa State University, Indian Institute of Technology, New Mexico State University, and Syracuse University. Aluru conducts research

    in high performance computing, bioinformatics and systems biology, combinatorial scientific computing, and applied algorithms. He pioneered the

    development of parallel methods in computational biology, and contributed to the assembly and analysis of complex plant genomes.

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    Aluru serves on the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Big Data, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Journal of

    Parallel and Distributed Computing, and the International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics. He is currently serving as the Chair of the

    ACM Special Interest Group on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics (SIGBIO). Aluru is a recipient of the NSF

    Career award, IBM faculty award, Swarnajayanti Fellowship from the Government of India, the mid-career and outstanding research achievement

    awards from Iowa State University, and the College of Computing Dean’s award for faculty excellence at Georgia Tech. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

    Keynote 3: Toward Personalized Pan-Omic Association Analysis under Complex Structure s and Big Data

    Speaker:

    Prof. Eric Xing, School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University

    Abstract:

    A fundamental aim of modern medical genetics is to connect variations in clinical phenotypes with variations in the genome so that one can identify

    druggable genetic artifacts, predict clinical outcomes, and practice personalized medicine. The existing approaches for genetic analysis of complex

    human diseases remain inadequate in meeting many of the challenges toward this aim, such as, incorporating complex structural information to

    improve power; scaling up to ultra-high dimensionality to capture higher-order effects; adjusting the statistical model to allow personalizable

    inference; and furthermore, providing software and cloud API for easy computing. In this talk, I will discuss our recent efforts in developing

    mathematically rigorous, computationally tractable, and user-friendly tools for medical genetic inference and clinical prediction in presence of

    multiple confounders, rich prior knowledge, and needs for capturing both shared patterns and individual signatures in complex genetic effects. Our

    preliminary results promises to offer a practical basis for personalized medicine in the Big Data era of genomic healthcare.

    Short Bio:

    Dr. Eric Xing is a Professor of Machine Learning in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, and Director of the

    CMU/UPMC Center for Machine Learning and Health. His principal research interests lie in the development of machine learning and statistical

    methodology, and large-scale computational system and architecture; especially for solving problems involving automated learning, reasoning, and

    decision-making in high-dimensional, multimodal, and dynamic possible worlds in artificial, biological, and social systems. Professor Xing received

    a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from Rutgers University, and another Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley. He servers (or served) as an

    associate editor of the Annals of Applied Statistics (AOAS), the Journal of American Statistical Association (JASA), the IEEE Transaction of Pattern

    Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), the PLoS Journal of Computational Biology, and an Action Editor of the Machine Learning Journal

    (MLJ), the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR). He was a member of the DARPA Information Science and Technology (ISAT) Advisory

    Group, a recipient of the NSF Career Award, the Sloan Fellowship, the United States Air Force Young Investigator Award, and the IBM Open

    Collaborative Research Award. He was the Program Chair of ICML 2014.

    Keynote 4: Computational challenges in microbiome research

    Speaker:

    Prof. Mihai Pop, Department of Computer Science/ Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland

    Abstract:

    Millions of bacteria make our bodies their home. They help keep us healthy, and disruptions in the normal microbiota are believed to contribute to

    a number of diseases. Cost-effective sequencing technologies have made it possible to sequence the genomes of human-associated microbial

    communities, leading to the birth of a new scientific discipline - metagenomics. Analyzing the resulting data, however, poses significant

    computational challenges, in part due to the sheer size of the data-sets, and in part due to the fact that most of the existing computational framework

    has been established for single organisms. In my talk I will outline several analytical challenges posed by metagenomic applications, and will

    describe recent results from my lab in the development of tools for analyzing metagenomic data. In particular I will discuss insights from our

    analysis of diarrheal disease in developing countries, as well as the effective use of co-abundance approaches for linking together data from two large

    metagenomic studies.

    Short Bio:

    Dr. Pop is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the

    University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP). Dr. Pop received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University where he focused on

    algorithms for computer graphics and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications. He then joined The Institute for Genomic Research

    (TIGR) as a Bioinformatics Scientist, where he was responsible for the development of genome assembly algorithms. During this time, Dr. Pop

    participated in a number of bacterial and eukaryotic genome projects including important human pathogens such as Bacillus anthracis and Entamoeba

    hystolitica. Since joining the University of Maryland, Dr. Pop has continued to develop novel approaches for genome assembly and analysis, and has

    developed extensive expertise in the analysis of metagenomic data. His lab has developed a number of widely used open-source software tools, such

    as the assembly suite AMOS, the NGS aligner Bowtie, the taxonomic classifier Metaphyler, and the metagenomic assembly package MetAMOS.

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    Most recently he co-led the data analysis working group for the Human Microbiome Project and led the sub-group responsible for the assembly of

    the data generated in this project.

    Invited Talks

    Invited Talk 1: Understanding Genotype-Phenotype effects in Cancer via Network Approaches

    Speaker:

    Dr. Teresa Przytycka, NCBI/NLM/NIH

    Abstract:

    Uncovering and interpreting phenotype--genotype relationships are among the most challenging open questions in disease studies. In cancer, these

    relationships are additionally obscured by heterogeneity of the disease. Pathway-centric approaches have emerged as methods that can empower

    studies of heterogeneous diseases. Over the years, using such network based approaches we have designed methods that allow detection of

    subnetworks dysregulated in cancer, and to establish associations gene expression and genotype. Our approaches build on variety of algorithmic

    techniques including graph-theoretical techniques (module cover) and on machine learning topic model approach (probabilistic genotype-phenotype

    model) and information flow. I will demonstrate the utility of our methods using TCGA (The Cancer Genome Atlas) data.

    Short Bio:

    Teresa Przytycka is a Senior Investigator in the Computational Biology Branch at National Center of Biotechnology Information, NIH and heads the

    Computational Methods in Molecular and Systems Biology section. Dr. Przytycka received her PhD in Computer Science Department at University

    of British Columbia Vancouver where she focused on theory of algorithms. She did her postdoctoral work in Department of Biophysics, Johns

    Hopkins University studying protein folding. She was a recipient of I.W. Killam Memorial Fellowship, Sloan Foundation and the U.S. Department of

    Energy Fellowship in Computational Biology, and Burroughs Wellcome Fellowship in Computational Biology. Dr. Przytycka serves as a Deputy

    Editor of the Bioinformatics Section of Nature Molecular Therapy Nuclide Acids and as an Associate Editor for PloS Computational Biology, BMC

    Bioinformatics, IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, and Algorithms for Molecular Biology. Research in her group

    focuses on dynamical properties of biological systems including spatial, temporal and contextual variations and exploring how such variations are

    impacting gene expression, functioning of biological pathways, and the phenotype of organisms. Her group developed several new approaches to

    study pathways dysregulated in cancer, gene regulation, and analysis of massive HT-SELEX data.

    Invited Talk 2: Developing systems genomics approaches to facilitate precision medicine research Speaker:

    Dr. Mary Yang, University of Arkansas Little Rock George Washington Donaghey College of Engineering & Information Technology

    Abstract:

    Technology developments have rapidly produced data that facilitates the emerging precision medicine research. In particular, high-throughput next-

    generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have brought unprecedented opportunities in translational genomics research. However, connection of the

    genomic and phenotypic information to cellular functions and disease mechanisms relies on the development of effective approaches at higher

    systems level. My Systems Genomics Laboratory and the MidSouth Bioinformatics Center aim to integrate different genomic data to study the

    mechanisms underlying initiation and progression of complex diseases such as cancer. In this talk, I will present our study of integrating gene

    expression profiles with protein interactions to identify cancer biomarkers and disease associated pathways. By further combing with genotype

    information, we discovered genetic mutations associated with poor survival rate in patients with ovarian cancer. Our integrative genomics research

    also incorporates the study of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs). We identified differentially expressed lncRNAs in cancer and revealed that many

    over-regulated lncRNAs were bidirectionally oriented with neighboring protein-coding genes. These protein-coding genes are enriched in biological

    processes implicated in cancer. The systems genomics approaches enable us to establish a computational framework to comprehensively identify

    biomarkers and dysregulated pathways, which will facilitate the precision medicine research

    Short Bio:

    Dr. Mary Yang is the Director of MidSouth Bioinformatics Center and Director of the Joint Bioinformatics Ph.D. Program of University of Arkansas

    Little Rock George Washington Donaghey College of Engineering & Information Technology and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

    After receiving her M.S.E.C.E, M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University, she joined the National Human Genome Research Institute at the

    National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2005 where she contributed to various large-scale projects in genomics and bioinformatics. During her tenure

    at NIH, she contributed to various large-scale genomics and systems biology research projects. She was recruited by the University of Arkansas in

    2013 to lead the joint bioinformatics program. Dr. Yang has been Founding Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Computational Biology and

    Drug Design, a NIH PubMed fully indexed journal and is on editorial broads of Journal of Supercomputing and International Journal of Pattern

    Recognition and Artificial Intelligence. She served as a Steering Committee Member of NIH funded Arkansas INBRE. She has been the recipient of

    NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence, NIH Academic Research Enhancement Award, Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship, Purdue Research

    Foundation Fellowship, IEEE and ISIBM Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Outstanding Achievement Awards, and Basic Science Research Award

    of Arkansas Science and Technology Authority (ASTA). Dr. Yang’s research is supported by NIH, FDA and ASTA. She has published over 100

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    research articles in computer science and biomedical sciences. Invited Talk 3: Empowering self-management for chronic conditions through technology and analytics: Can

    machines care for us? Speaker: Huiru (Jane) Zheng, School of Computing and Mathematics, Ulster University, UK.

    Abstract:

    Population aging is widespread across the world. The impact of an ageing population affects all countries. As people age, they are progressively more

    likely to live with complex co-morbidities, disability and frailty. People with long-term conditions are the most frequent users of health care services.

    Technologies are changing out everyday lives and transforming healthcare. In this talk I will overview state-of-the-art technologies in telecare, and

    present our research work on supporting chronic care through technology and analytics. In particular, it will focus on personalized care and self-

    management. The challenges and opportunities of healthcare informatics will be discussed.

    Short Bio:

    Dr. Huiru (Jane) Zheng is a Reader in Computer Science with the School of Computing and Mathematics, Ulster University, UK. Dr. Zheng is an

    active researcher in healthcare informatics (including bioinformatics and medical informatics). Her research interests include machine learning, data

    mining and their applications to healthcare informatics. She is particularly interested in the following research areas: data integration, predictive data

    analysis, complex network analysis (PPI networks and drug target associations); and assistive technology to personalized healthcare. She has been a

    grant holder of research projects funded by EPSRC, TSB, DEL, NHS, Invest NI and European Commission including SMART Self Management,

    NOCTURNAL, CLARCH COPD Self Management, Self Management Platform for Connected Health, CardioWorkbench, mHealth4Africa,

    SenseCare and MetaPlat. She has 170+ publications in these areas.

    Invited Talk 4: Protein Match Making at Massive Scale

    Speaker:

    Dr. Chi-Ren Shyu, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Missouri

    Abstract:

    To investigate structure–function relationships, life sciences researchers typically utilize structure characteristics to study structurally similar

    proteins. One application is classifying proteins with similar substructures into the same fold, such as SCOP, a manually constructed database which

    is considered highly accurate; however, it is labor intensive. Another application is finding geometrically similar protein binding sites for

    understanding protein functions and providing valuable information for protein–protein docking and drug discovery. As of October 2015, there are

    112,968 structures in the Protein Data Bank, with this number of structures growing at a rapid rate. A similar trend is also observed as the number of

    known protein–protein interaction structures has dramatically increased. The scale of the publicly available structure data makes the human curation

    process in comprehensive and in-depth studies challenging. It is essential to develop high-throughput and accurate protein structure analytics

    methods for structure match and binding site comparison. In this talk, I will discuss a series of system developments, including ProteinDBS, index-

    based protein substructure alignment (IPSA), PPSalign, PBSWords, and PBSalign with a suite of “non-traditional” computational methods in feature

    extraction, database indexing, information retrieval, GPU computing, and in-memory computing for massive structure match making in real-time or

    pseudo real-time efficiency.

    Short Bio:

    Dr. Chi-Ren Shyu received his Ph.D. from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA. He is

    the director of the University of Missouri Informatics Institute and the chairman of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Dr. Shyu

    holds the Paul K. and Dianne Shumaker Endowed Professorship of Biomedical Informatics. Since joining the University of Missouri in 2000, he has

    received several awards including the National Science Foundation CAREER award, Engineering Faculty Research Award, Engineering Teaching

    Excellence Award, the 2014 University of Missouri Faculty Entrepreneurial Award, and seven computer science teaching awards. He organized the

    IEEE HealthCom 2011 conference as general chair and is co-chairing the technical program committee of the Second IEEE International Conference

    on Multimedia Big Data (BigMM2016) in Taipei, Taiwan. He has published more than 130 refereed articles in biomedical informatics, mHealth and

    eHealth, visual knowledge reasoning, and search engine design. Project sponsors, in addition to the NSF, include the National Institutes of Health,

    the U.S. Department of Education, and other for-profit and nonprofit organizations.

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    Invited Talk 5: Accurate and Fast RNAseq Analysis Speaker:

    Dr. Wei Wang, Department of Computer Science at University of California at Los Angeles

    Abstract:

    High throughput sequencing technique has been demonstrated as a revolutionary means for modern biology because it provides deep coverage and

    base pair-level resolution. It produces vast amount of data which pose new computational challenges, because subsequent analyses often rely on a

    sequence alignment step that re-establishes the origin of each read, a process that is both time consuming and error prone. In this talk, we will

    present our latest accomplishment in methodology advances that dramatically accelerate the analysis by removing the necessity of sequence

    alignment. We will demonstrate through a concrete example of RNASeq quantification, in which we are able to achieve two orders of magnitude

    speedup and deliver competitive accuracy.

    Short Bio:

    Wei Wang is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at University of California at Los Angeles and the director of the Scalable Analytics

    Institute (ScAi). She also serves as a co-director of the NIH BD2K Coordination Center. She received her PhD degree in Computer Science from the

    University of California at Los Angeles in 1999. Dr. Wang's research interests include big data, data mining, bioinformatics and computational

    biology, and databases. She has filed seven patents, and has published one monograph and more than one hundred research papers in international

    journals and major peer-reviewed conference proceedings. Dr. Wang received the IBM Invention Achievement Awards in 2000 and 2001. She was

    the recipient of a UNC Junior Faculty Development Award in 2003 and an NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 2005. She

    was named a Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellow in 2005. She was honored with the 2007 Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and

    Scholarly Achievement at UNC. She was recognized with an IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award in 2012 and an Okawa Foundation Research

    Award in 2013. Dr. Wang has been an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Big

    Data, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery in Data, Journal of Knowledge and Information Systems, Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge

    Discovery, International Journal of Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics, and an editorial board member of the International Journal of Data

    Mining and Bioinformatics and the Open Artificial Intelligence Journal. She serves on the organization and program committees of international

    conferences including ACM SIGMOD, ACM SIGKDD, ACM BCB, VLDB, ICDE, EDBT, ACM CIKM, IEEE ICDM, SIAM DM, SSDBM,

    RECOMB, BIBM.

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    Federal Agencies and Industry Panel

    Panelists:

    Moderator: Luke Huan and Amarda Shehu

    1. Susan Gregurick: NIH NIGMS 2. Wendy Nilsen: NSF CISE/IIS 3. Frank Olken: NSF CISE/IIS 4. Vinay Pai: NIH NIBIB

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    Workshops

    Inaugural International Workshop on Biological Network Driven Analysis

    Session Chairs: Fiona Browne, Haiying Wang

    Time Title Presenter/Author

    13:30-14:15 Opening talk:

    Biological Network Driven Analysis for discovering novel disease genes and pathways, biomarkers and drug targets

    for disease. Fiona Browne

    14:15 – 14:45 On the Comparison of State- and Transition-based Analysis of

    Biological Relevance in Gene Co-expression Networks

    Kathryn Cooper. Prasuna Vemuri, and

    Hesham Ali

    14:45-15:15 Network signatures based on gene pair expression ratios improve

    classification and the analysis of muscle-invasive urothelial cancer

    Ricardo de Matos, Simoes, Constantine

    Mitsiades, Kate E Williamson, Frank

    Emmert-Streib

    15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

    16:00 – 16:30 Visualizing the topology and re-analyzing the causes of small-world

    property of amino acid network

    Yongpan Hua, Xiuchan Xiao, Min Zhu,

    Yangxu Wang and Menglong Liy

    16:30 – 17:00 Functional Connectivity of Chinese Characters Processing:A Meta-

    analysis

    Yaoxin Nie, Jieyao Wei, Linlin Zhu, Qian

    Zhou, Zhendong Niu

    17:00 Closing Remarks

    Joint Program Schedule

    Nonnegative Matrix Factorization and Tensor Decomposition Techniques for High-Throughput

    Biological Data Analysis &

    Computational Regulatory Genomics and Metagenomics Session Chairs: Michael Ochs, Elana Fertig, and Alioune Ngom

    Time Title Presenter/Author

    13:30-15:30

    Session 1Nonnegative Matrix Factorization and Tensor Decomposition Techniques for High-Throughput Biological

    Data Analysis

    Elana Fertig Session Co-chair: Alioune Ngom

    The Estimation of Dimensionality in Gene Expression Data using

    Nonnegative Matrix Factorization Michael Ochs

    A Hybrid Algorithm for Non-Negative Matrix Factorization Based on

    Symmetric Information Divergence Karthik Devarajan

    The Nonnegative Matrix Factorization and Atomic Deconvolution Amanda Landi

    Data Integration in Machine Learning Yifeng Li

    15:30-16:00 Coffee Break, poster session (coffee: 15:30-15:50)

    16:00-17:25 Session 2: Computational Regulatory Genomics and Metagenomics

    16:00-16:25 A New DP Algorithm for Comparing Gene Expression Data Using

    Geometric Similarity Amir Vajdi, Nurit Haspel, and Hadi Banaee

    16:25-16:50 Understanding Heterogeneity in Pregnancy Associated Breast Cancer Murlidharan Nair

    16:50-17:15 A Novel Signature For Identification Of Upstream Alternative

    Translation Initiation Sites Kritika Karri and Dhundy Bastola

    17:15-17:40 Patho-finder – a Fast and Accurate Program for Pathogen

    Identification through RNA-seq

    Chin-Ting Wu, Tzu-Hung Hsiao, Yu-Chiao

    Chiu, Yu-Ching Hsu, Eric Chuang, and

    Yidong Chen

    17:40 Closing Remarks

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    6th International Workshop on High Performance Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (HiBB-2015) Session Chair: Mario Cannataro

    Time Title Presenter/Author

    09:00 – 10:30 Session 1 (15 minutes for talk and 5 minutes for Q and A)

    Session Chair: Mario Cannataro

    Opening Remarks

    An LDA and Probability-based Classifier for the Diagnosis of

    Alzheimer's Disease from Structural MRI Alexander Spedding

    Time Series Discord Detection in Medical Data using a Parallel

    Relational Database, Diane M. Woodbridge

    Towards an Efficient Data Assimilation in Physically-Based Medical

    Simulations Igor Peterlik

    Overall Survival Analyzer: a software tool to analyze genotyping and

    clinical data enriched with temporal events Giuseppe Agapito

    10:30-11:00 Coffee Break – perhaps poster session

    11:00-12:00 Session 2(15 minutes for talk and 5 minutes for Q and A)

    Session Chair: Mario Cannataro

    Conservation in Mitochondrial DNA: Parallelized Estimation and

    Alignment Influence Jorge Álvarez-Jarreta

    Ancestral Reconstruction under Weighted Maximum Matching Jijun Tang

    High performance computing of a fusion gene detection pipeline on

    the K computer Satoshi ITO

    Concluding Remarks

    12:00-12:30 poster session

    12:30-13:30 Lunch (on your own)

    Electronic Health Record: implementation, data mining, security, and user acceptance Session Chairs: Manuel Graña, Michal Wozniak and Konrad Jakowski

    Time Title Presenter/Author

    13:30 – 15:30 Session 1 (30 minutes for each talk)

    Session Chair: Michal Wozniak

    Opening Remarks

    Interesting Things for Computer Systems to Do: Keeping and Data

    Mining Millions of Patient Records, Guiding Patients and Physicians,

    and Passing Medical Licensing Exams

    Barry Robson and Srinidhi Boray

    Selected Aspects of Electronic Health Record Analysis from the Big

    Data Perspective

    Boguslaw Cyganek, Manuel Grana, Andrzej

    Kasprzak, Krzysztof Walkowiak, and Michal

    Woznia

    Tensor Based Representation and Analysis of the Electronic

    Healthcare Record Data Boguslaw Cyganek and Michal Wozniak

    Electronic Health Record: A review Manuel Grana and Konrad Jacowsk

    Closing Remarks

    COMputational Methods for Analyzing Metagenomics Data Session Chairs:Catherine Putonti, Charlie Xia and Erliang Zeng

    Time Title Presenter/Author 08:00-8:15 Welcome

    08:15-09:00 Computational Challenges Facing Environmental Metaviromics Catherine Putonti

    09:00-09:20 Next Generation Sequence Assembler Mis-assembly of Phage

    Genomes with Terminal Redundancy Julia Sommer

    09:20-09:40 A Computational Framework for Integrative Analysis of Large

    Microbial Genomics Data

    Erliang Zeng, Wei Zhang, Scott Emrich, Dan

    Liu, Josh Livermore, and Stuart Jones

    09:40-10:00 Finding Function in the Unknown: Methods for Examining

    Transcriptomes of Non-Model Organisms

    Kelly Boyd, Emma Highland, Amanda

    Misch, Amber Hu, Sushma Reddy, and

    Catherine Putonti, Loyola

    10:00-10:20 CoCo: an application to store High Throughput Sequencing data in

    compact text and binary file formats

    Kamil Khanipov, Georgiy Golovko, Mark

    Rojas, Levent Albayrak, Otto Dobretsberger,

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    Maria Pimenova, Nels Olsen, Sergei

    Chumakov, and Yuriy Fofanov

    10:20-10:50 Coffee Break

    10:50-11:10 HAsh-MaP-ERadicator: Filtering Non-Target Sequences from Next

    Generation Sequencing Reads Jonathon Brenner and Catherine Putont

    11:00-11:30 Bipartite Graphs for Metagenomic Data Analysis and Visualization Karel Sedlar, Helena Skutkova, Petra

    Videnska, Ivan Rychlik, and Ivo Provaznik

    11:30 Closing

    2015 Workshop on Data mining from genomic rare variants and its application to genome-wide

    analysis Session Chair: Prof. Taesung Park

    Time Title Presenter/Author

    09:00 – 10:30 Session 1 (20 minutes for each talk, including Q and A)

    Session Chair: Dr. Heejong Sung

    09:00-09:10 Opening Remarks

    Developing cancer prediction model based on stepwise selection by

    AUC measure for proteomics data Yongkang Kim, Seungyeoun Lee, etc

    Competitive pathway analysis using structural equation models (CPA-

    SEM) for gene expression data Sungkyoung Choi, Sungyoung Lee, etc

    Cross-validation and cross-study validation of chronic lymphocytic

    leukemia with exome sequences and machine learning

    Nihir Patel, Abdulrhman Aljouie, Bharati

    Jhadav, and Usman Roshan

    Dynamic regulation of RNA-editing in human brain development Taeyoung Hwang, JooHeon Shin, and Daniel

    Weinberger

    10:30-10:50 Coffee Break

    10:50-12:10 Session 2(20 minutes for each talk, including Q and A)

    Session Chair: Prof. Taesung Park

    VizEpis : a visualization and mapping tool for interpreting epistasis Min-Seok Kwon, Sungyoung Lee, Yongkang

    Kim, and Taesung Park

    Multi-purpose SNP Selection by the principal variables for a genetic

    study Seunghyun Lee and Mira Park

    Tiled regression reduces type I error rates in tests of association of rare

    single nucleotide variants with non-normally distributed traits,

    compared with simple linear regression

    Heejong Sung, Alexa Sorant,etc

    Genetic association tests for aggregated count data Haewon Choi, Hye-Young Jung, and

    Taesung Park

    11:20 Closing

    Data mining in translational biomedical informatics Session Chairs: Qian Zhu, Hongfang Liu

    Time Title Presenter/Author

    09:00 – 10:30 Session 1 (15inutes for each talk, including Q and A)

    Session Chair: Qian Zhu

    Opening Remarks

    Resting State Functional Connectivity Explains Individual Scores of

    Multiple Clinical Measures for Major Depression Kosuke Yoshida, Yu Shimizu, etc

    Acquisition of diabetes-related biological associations using a motif

    based network: preliminary results

    Iyanuoluwa Odebode, Aryya Gangopadhyay,

    and Qian Zhu

    BmQGen: Biomedical Query Generator for Knowledge Discovery Feichen Shen, Hongfang Liu, Sunghwan

    Sohn, David Larson, and Yugyung Lee

    Collaborative Data Mining For Clinical Trial Analytics Jay Gholap, Vandana Janeja, etc

    Parallel Group ICA for Multimodal Biomedical Data Analyses jingyu Liu, Jiayu Chen, and Vince Calhoun

    10:30-11:00 Coffee Break – perhaps poster session

    11:00-12:00 Session 2(15 minutes for each talk, including Q and A)

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    Session Chair: Qian Zhu

    Thermal Sensor Based Multi-occupancy Motion Tracking and

    Visualisation in Smart Environments

    Jun Zhou, Huiru (Jane) Zheng, Haiying

    Wang,etc

    Usability testing of a novel automated external defibril l ator user

    interface: a pilot study

    Peter O'Hare, Rebecca Di Maio, and

    Raymond Bond

    Outlier Detection in Weight Time Series of Connected Scales Saeed Mehrang, Elina Helander, Misha

    Pavel, Angela Chieh, and Ilkka Korhonen

    The Syndromes of Lung Cancer and Compatibility of Medicine in

    Traditional Chinese Medicine Science Treatment Based on Clustering

    Algorithm

    Miao Wang, Mengying Wang, Dongyi

    Wang,etc

    2015 Workshop on Health Informatics and Data Science (HI-DS) Session Chairs: Xiong Liu, Rong Liu

    Time Title Author 08:30 – 10:20 Session 1 (25 minutes for each talk)

    8:30-8:40 Opening

    Obtaining Biomarkers in Cancer Progression from Outliers of Time-

    series Clusters

    Abed Alkhateeb, Iman Rezaeian, Siva

    Singireddy, and Luis Rueda

    CancerVis: an Interactive Exploratory Tool for Cancer Biomarker

    Analysis

    Lei Zhang, Ying Zhu, and Sergey Klimov

    ILP based screening applied to predicting carbonic anhydrase II

    ligands

    Tadasuke Ito, Masato Okada, Shotaro

    Togami, Shinya Ariyasu, Shin Aoki, and

    Hayato Ohwada

    Exploration of Topological Torsion Fingerprints Petr Škoda and David Hoksza

    10:20 – 10:45 Coffee Break

    10:45 – 12:00 Session 2(25 minutes for each talk, including Q and A)

    Imbalanced Learning to Predict Long Stay Emergency Department

    Patients

    Ali Azari, Vandana Janeja, and Scott Levin

    Clinical Processes from Various Angles - Amplifying BPMN for

    Integrated Hospital Management

    Richard Braun, Martin Burwitz, Hannes

    Schlieter, and Martin Benedict

    Predictive and Preventive Models for Diabetes Prevention using

    Clinical Information in Electronic Health Record

    Ni Cao, SiSi Zeng, Feixia Shen, Chuandi

    Pan, Chengshui Chen, Thanh Nguyen, and

    Jake Chen

    12:00-12:30 Poster Session

    Risk Prediction of Stroke: A Prospective Statewide Study on Patients

    in Maine

    Le Zheng, Yue Wang, Shiying Hao, etc.

    A GRReat Framework for Incident Response in Healthcare

    Subrata Acharya, William Glenn, and

    Matthew Carr

    Patient Portal: Anytime Anywhere

    Subrata Acharya, Gabriel Susai, and Manoj

    Pillai

    OWASP Inspired Mobile Security

    Subrata Acharya, Branden Ehrenreich, and

    James Marciniak

    12:30-13:30 Lunch (on your own)

    13:30-15:35 Session 3(25 minutes for each talk, including Q and A)

    Simple Objects Tracking System for Smart Homes

    Frederic Bergeron, Kevin Bouchard,

    Sebastien Gaboury, Sylvain Giroux, and

    Bruno Bouchard

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    Workshop IDASB Session Chairs: Rui Jiang, Huiru Zheng, and Zhongming Zhao

    Time Title Presenter/Author

    09:00 – 10:30 Session 1 (15inutes for each talk, including Q and A)

    Session Chair: Huiru Zheng Co-chair: Zhongming Zhao

    Opening Remarks

    The upregulation of Myb and Peg3 may mediate EGCG inhibition

    effect on mouse lung adenocarcinoma

    Hong Zhou, Joseph Manthey, Ekaterina

    Lioutikova, etc

    Construction of Dynamic Probabilistic Protein Interaction Networks

    for Protein Complex Identification Yijia Zhang

    Sketching the distribution of transcriptomic features on RNA

    transcripts with Travis coordinates Xiaodong Cui, Zhen Wei,

    10:30-11:00 Coffee Break – perhaps poster session

    11:00-11:30 Session 2

    Session Chair: Huiru Zheng Co-chair: Zhongming Zhao

    Integrating Prior Biological Knowledge and Graphical LASSO for

    Network Inference

    Yiming Zuo, Guoqiang Yu, and Habtom

    Ressom

    11:0\30-12:30 poster session

    12:30-13:30 Lunch (on your own)

    13:30-15:30 Session 3

    Session Chair: Zhongming Zhao Session Co-chair: Huiru Zheng

    Identification of Hot Regions in Protein-Protein Interactions Based on

    SVM and Detecting Local Community Structure Xiaoli Lin

    S-Fit: Knowledge guided Fitness Pattern Mining Framework

    Ayush Sharma, Komal Agarwal, Rahul

    Dubey, Sandip Bhaumik, and samudrala

    nagaraju

    ccKOPLS: Confounder-Correcting Kernel-based Orthogonal

    Projections to Latent Structures

    David Moore, Kellan Fluette, Heather Milne,

    Andrew Shedlock, and Paul Anderson

    Feature Selection and Classification of Speech under Long-term Stress

    Bin Hu, Zhenyu Liu, Lihua Yan, Tianyang

    Wang, Fei Liu, Xiaoyu Li, and Huanyu Kang

    Direct Higher Order Fuzzy Rule-based Classification System:

    Application in Mortality Prediction

    Abolfazl Doostparast Torshizi, Linda

    Petzold, and Mitchell Cohen

    15:35-16:00 Coffee Break

    16:00-17:50 Session 4(25 minutes for each talk, including Q and A)

    Design of a Real-time Morphology-based Anomaly Detection Method

    from ECG Streams

    DuyHoa NGO and Bharadwaj Veeravalli

    Analyzing epileptogenic brain connectivity networks using clinical

    EEG data

    Abhijit Dasgupta, Ritankar Das, Losiana

    Nayak, and Rajat K. De

    Analysis of Machine Learning Algorithms on EEG Data for Brain

    State Intelligence (short)

    Alexander Chan, Christopher Early, Sishir

    Subedi, Yuezhe Li, and Hong Lin

    Shared Genetic Architecture In Autoimmune Disease - Preliminary

    Analysis (short)

    Leqi Liu, Ziyan Yang, Jia Tao, and Fadi

    Towfic

    Risk prediction for future 6-month healthcare resource utilization in

    Maine (short)

    Shiying Hao, Zhongkai Hu, Bo Jin, etc.

    Entropy Chain Multi-Label Classifiers for Traditional Medicine

    Diagnosing Parkinson’s Disease (short)

    PENG Yue, FANG Ming, WANG Chongjun,

    and XIE Junyuan

    17:50 Closing Remark

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    Simulation of Effects of TBX18 on the Pacemaker Activity of Human

    Ventricular Cells

    Yue Zhang, Kuanquan Wang, Henggui

    Zhang, and Wei Wang

    15:30-16:00 Coffee Break, poster session (coffee: 15:30-15:50)

    16:00-17:00 Session 4

    Session Chair: Zhongming Zhao Co-chair: Huiru Zheng

    Reconstructing Transcriptional Regulatory Networks Using Data

    Integration and Text Mining

    Rafael Pereira, Hugo Costa, Sónia Carneiro,

    Miguel Rocha, and Rui Mendes

    Prioritization Through Geometric-Inspired Kernel Data Fusion POOYA ZAKERI, Sara Elshal, and Yves

    Moreau

    17:00 Closing Remarks

    2015 Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI) Session Chair: Illhoi Yoo

    Time Title Presenter/Author

    09:30 – 10:30 Session 1 (20 mins for full papers and 15 mins for short papers)

    Session Chair: Illhoi Yoo

    Opening Remarks

    Annotating Evidence-Based Argumentation in Biomedical Text Nancy Green

    Assessment of Gait Patterns of Chronic Low Back Pain Patients: A

    Smart Mobile Phone based Approach

    Herman Chan, Huiru (Jane) Zheng, Haiying

    Wang, and Dave Newell

    Foreign Object Detection in Chest X-rays Zhiyun Xue, Sema Candemir, etc

    10:50-12:00 Session 2 (20 mins for full papers and 15 mins for short papers)

    Automatic Identification of Potentially Contradictory Claims to

    Support Systematic Reviews Abdulaziz Alamri and Mark Stevenson

    SOLOMON: An Ontology for Sensory-Onset, Language-Onset and

    Motor-Onset Dementias

    Martin Skarzynski, Adam Craig, and Carl

    Taswell

    A Distributional Approach to Summarization of Radiology Reports Eamon Johnson, W Christopher Baughman,

    and Gultekin Ozsoyoglu

    Transcriptome analysis of HIV-1 virus in understanding the effect of

    antiretroviral drugs (cART) and methamphetamine on the virus

    Ishwor Thapa, Howard Fox, and Dhundy

    Bastola

    13:30-15:30 Session 3 (20 mins for full papers and 15 mins for short papers)

    A Prototype for a Hybrid System to Support Systematic Review

    Teams: A Case Study of Organ Transplantation

    Tanja Bekhuis, Eugene Tseytlin, and Kevin

    Mitchell

    A systems chemical biology approach to identify targets of

    antibacterial agents: a case study of Chelerythrine and Rhein Li-Da Zhu, Chang-Shou He, Ye-Mao Liu

    Using Aggregate Taxonomies to Summarize SNOMED CT Evolution Christopher Ochs, Yehoshua Perl, James

    Geller, and Mark Musen

    A Path Based Approach to Quantifying the Progression of Alzheimer's

    Disease Prabesh Kanel and Xiuwen Liu

    Investigating gene expression array with outliers and missing data in

    bladder cancer Stéphane Chrétien, Christophe Guyeux,etc

    A semantic approach for knowledge capture of microRNA-target gene

    interactions Jingshan Huang, Fernando,etc

    15:50-18:30 Session 4 (20 mins for full papers and 15 mins for short papers)

    A Systems Approach to Reducing Central Line Associated Blood

    Stream Infections Eva Lee, Michael Callahan

    Refining Disease Databases for Clinical Decision Support Systems -

    Post-processing disease entries after integration of OMIM and

    Orphanet

    Takashi Okumura, Demi Menez, and

    Theekshana Abayawickrama

    Dealing with incompleteness in Multidimensional Analysis of Health

    Records: an Experience on Fetal Growth Mario Bochicchio, Lucia Vaira,etc

    Activity-Driven Exploration of Chemical Space with Morphing Matin Šícho, Daniel Svozil, and David

    Hoksza

    Comparative Utility of Time and Frequency HRV Domains for

    Automated Classification of Exercise Exertion Level In cheol Jeong and Joseph Finkelstein

    A Novel Automatic Tongue Image Segmentation Algorithm: Color

    Enhancement Method Based on L*a*b* Color Space

    Li Chen, Dongyi Wang, Yiqin Liu, Xiaohang

    Gao, and Huiliang Shang

    Directed Cyclic Graph-Based Feature Selection and Modeling of The Weifei Xu, Guoping Liu, Jianjun Yan, Yiqin

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    Dampness Syndrome of Chronic Gastritis Wang, Xiong Lu, and Tao Zhong

    Finding Frequent Approximate Subgraphs in Medical Image Database Linlin Gao, Haiwei Pan,etc

    International Workshop on Biomolecular Interaction Network Analysis and Interactomics (IWBNA) Session Chairs: Young-Rae Cho, Pietro H Guzzi, and Pierangelo Veltri

    Time Title Presenter/Author

    13:30-15:30 Session 1 (25-minute presentation and 5-minute Q & A.)

    Session Chair: Young-Rae Cho

    MODULA: A Network Module Based Local Protein Interaction

    Network Alignment Method.

    Pietro Hiram Guzzi, Pierangelo Veltri,

    Swarup Roy, and Jugal K Kalita.

    Diffusion Kernel to Identify Missing PPIs in Protein Network

    Biomarker. Dominic Bett and Ananda Mondal.

    Testing whether hot regions in protein–protein interactions are

    conserved in different species Jing Hu and Xiaolong Zhang.

    Mining Maximal Subnetworks from Interaction Network with Node

    Attributes

    Aditya Goparaju, Bassam Qormosh, and

    Saeed Salem.

    15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

    16:00-17:00 Session 2

    Session Chair: Pierangelo Veltri

    SRP: A Concise Non-parametric Similarity-Rank-based Model for

    Predicting Drug-Target Interactions. Jian-Yu Shi and Siu-Ming Yiu.

    Semantic mapping to align PPI networks and predict conserved

    protein complexes. Lizhu Ma and Young-Rae Cho

    17:00 Closing Remarks

    IEEE Workshop on Biomedical Visual Search and Deep Learning Session Chairs: Richard Conroy, Vinay M. Pai,, Susan Gregurick, Tom Radman, and Todd Horowitz

    Time Title Presenter/Author

    13:30-17:15

    Session Chair: Dr. Vinay Pai, NIBIB, NIH

    13:30-13:35 Opening Remark(5mins)

    13:35-14:20 Keynote Part 1

    Visual Search in Biomedical Sciences Todd Horowitz, NCI, NIH.

    14:20-14:40 Probabilistic Visual Search for Masses Within Mammography Images

    using Deep Learning Mehmet Gunhan Ertosun and Daniel Rubin

    14:40-15:10 Keynote Part 2

    Deep Learning in Basic Biomedical Sciences Susan Gregurick, NIGMS, NIH.

    15:10-15:30 Learning structure in gene expression data using deep architectures,

    with an application to gene clustering

    Aman Gupta, Haohan Wang, and Madhavi

    Ganapathiraju

    15:30-15:50 Coffee Break

    15:50-16:10 Deep Learning of Tissue Fate in Acute Ischemic Stroke Noah Stier, Nicholas Vincent, David

    Liebeskind, and Fabien Scalzo

    16:10-16:30 A deep learning-based segmentation method for brain tumor in MR

    images

    Yi Ding, Ruohan Huang, Tian Lan, Xinjie

    Zhang, Wei Wang, and Zhiguang Qin

    16:30-16:50 Detection of Hyperperfusion on Arterial Spin Labeling using Deep

    Learning

    Nicholas Vincent, Noah Stier, Songlin Yu,

    David Liebeskind, Danny Wang, and Fabien

    Scalzo

    16:50-17:15 Open Discussion Tom, Radman, NIDA, NIH

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    Workshop on Semantic Data Analytics and Bioinformatics Session Chair: Dr. Haiying Wang

    Time Title Presenter/Author

    13:30-13:40 Opening Remarks

    13:40-14:40 Invited talk: Talk title (TBC)

    14:40-15:30 Session I (25mins for each talk)

    Integrating Multiple Sources of Genomic Data by Multiplex Network

    Reconstruction Shang Gao

    An Algorithm for Discovering Deep Order Preserving Submatrix in

    Gene Expression Data

    Qiuhua Kuang, Meizhen Zhang, Zhihao Ma, Bo

    Ma, Zhiwen Liu, and Yun Xue

    15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

    16:00-17:10 Session 2(25mins for each talk)

    A Unified Approach to the Computation and Analysis of Strings of

    Gene Expression States Jaime Seguel and Marie Lluberes

    Leveraging the k-Nearest Neighbors Classification Algorithm for

    Microbial Source Tracking Using a Bacterial DNA Fingerprint Library Jeffrey McGovern, Alexander Dekhtyar,etc

    DNA Sequences Compression Algorithms Based on the Two bits

    Codation Method Bacem SAADA and Jing Zhang,

    17:10 – 17:15 Closing Remarks

    The second International Workshop on High Performance Computing on Bioinformatics (HPCB 2015) Session Chairs: Che-Lun Hung, Huiru Zheng, Chuan Yi Tang, Chun-Yuan Lin

    Time Title Presenter/Author

    09:00-10:30 Session 1 (30mins for each talk)

    Session Chair: Che-Lun Hung

    Opening Remarks

    Innovative Approach for Porting Existing CPU Program to Its CUDA

    Program

    Yu Liu, Yang Hong, Chung-Hung Wang, Sheng-

    Ta Lee, Chun-Yuan Lin, and Che-Lun Hung

    Cloud Computing Framework for Bioinformatics Tools Guan-Jie Hua, Che-Lun Hung, Chuan Yi Tang,

    and Yaw-Ling Lin

    Biomarker Discovery, High Performance and Cloud Computing: A

    Comprehensive Review

    Jaine Blayney, Valeriia Haberland, Gaye

    Lightbody, and Fiona Browne Combining AR filter and Sparse Wavelet representation for P300

    speller Zhihua Huang and Huiru (Jane) Zheng

    A Study of Genomic Data Provenance in NoSQL Document-Oriented

    Database Systems

    Valeria Guimarães, Fernanda Hondo, Rodrigo

    Almeida, Harley Vera, Maristela Holanda,

    Aleteia Araujo, Sérgio Lifschitz, and Maria

    Emilia Walter

    10:30 Closing Remarks

    IEEE Workshop on High Performance Computing for Big Data Computational Biology (HPC-BCB

    2015) Session Chairs: Fahad Saeed, Ajay Gupta and Elise DeDoncker

    10:00 -12:30 Session Chair: Fahad Saeed

    Opening Remarks 10:00 – 10:05

    10:05 – 10:25am

    FPGA Acceleration of the Pair-HMMs Forward Algorithm for DNA Sequence Analysis,

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    Shanshan Ren, Vlad-Mihai Sima, and Zaid Al-Ars

    10:30 -11:15

    Keynote Lecture: Genomes Galore: Parallel Methods and Software for Tackling NGS Big Data Challenges

    Srinivas Aluru 11:15 – 11:35 am

    Cluster-Based Apache Spark Implementation of the GATK DNA Analysis Pipeline Hamid Mushtaq and Zaid Al-Ars

    11:35 – 11:55 am

    Hybrid Multi-threaded Simulation of Agent-Based Pandemic Modeling using Multiple GPUs Barzan Shekh, Elise de Doncker, and Diana Prieto

    11:55 – 12:15 pm

    NGS Read Data Compression using Parallel Computing Algorithm Biji C.L., Arun P.R., Jojo George, and Achuthsankar S. Nair

    12:15 – 12:35 pm

    Parallel Merging Method to Integrate Different Genome Assemblies Kirill Romanenkov

    Closing Remarks

    Merged Workshop: Data mining in translational biomedical informatics & Second International

    Workshop on the Role for Quantified Self for Personal Healthcare Session Chairs: Qian Zhu, Hongfang Liu, Frank Hopfgartner, Na Li

    Time Title Presenter/Author

    9:00-10:30 Session 1(15mins for each talk)

    Session Chair: Qian Zhu

    Opening Remarks

    Resting State Functional Connectivity Explains Individual Scores of

    Multiple Clinical Measures for Major Depression Kosuke Yoshida, Yu Shimizu, etc.

    Acquisition of diabetes-related biological associations using a motif

    based network: preliminary results

    Iyanuoluwa Odebode, Aryya Gangopadhyay,

    and Qian Zhu

    BmQGen: Biomedical Query Generator for Knowledge Discovery Feichen Shen, Hongfang Liu, Sunghwan Sohn,

    David Larson, and Yugyung Lee

    Collaborative Data Mining For Clinical Trial Analytics Jay Gholap, Vandana Janeja, etc.

    Parallel Group ICA for Multimodal Biomedical Data Analyses Jingyu Liu, Jiayu Chen, and Vince Calhoun

    10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

    11:00-12:00 Session 2 (15mins for each talk)

    Session Chair: Huiru(Jane) Zheng

    Thermal Sensor Based Multi-occupancy Motion Tracking and

    Visualisation in Smart Environments

    Jun Zhou, Huiru (Jane) Zheng, Haiying Wang,

    Jonathan Synnott, Chris Nugent, and Paul Jeffers Usability testing of a novel automated external defibril l ator user

    interface: a pilot study

    Peter O'Hare, Rebecca Di Maio, and Raymond

    Bond

    Outlier Detection in Weight Time Series of Connected Scales Saeed Mehrang, Elina Helander, Misha Pavel,

    Angela Chieh, and Ilkka Korhonen

    The Syndromes of Lung Cancer and Compatibility of Medicine in

    Traditional Chinese Medicine Science Treatment Based on Clustering

    Algorithm

    Miao Wang, Mengying Wang, Dongyi Wang,

    Shiyu Duan, Yisheng Wang, Yanjun Huang, and

    Huiliang Shang

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    IEEE Workshop on Machine Learning in Decision Making for Biomedical Applications

    Session Chair: .Mahua Bhattacharya

    Time Title Presenter/Author

    10:20-10:25 Welcome

    10:25-10:40 Multi-VBE: A New Model for the Prediction of Hot Spots

    at Protein-Protein Interaction Interface

    Hui Peng, Quan Liu, Lei Wang, and Jinyan Li

    10:40-10:55 Quantitative Clinical guidelines for Imaging Use in

    Evaluation of Pediatric Cardiomyopathy

    Yuzhe Liu, Shobhit Madan, MD, MPH, and Vanathi

    Gopalakrishnan

    10:55-11:10 Cross-validation and cross-study validation of chronic

    lymphocytic leukaemia with exome sequences and machine

    learning

    Nihir Patel, Bharati Jhadav, and Usman Roshan

    11:10-11:25 A New Compact Set of Biomarkers for Distinguishing

    among Ten Breast Cancer Subtypes

    Forough Firoozbakht, Iman Rezaeian, Alioune Ngom, and Luis

    Rueda

    11:25-11:40 A Longitudinal Support Vector Regression for Prediction of

    ALS Score

    Wei Du, Huey Cheung, Calvin Johnson, Ilya Goldberg, Madhav

    Thambisetty, and Kevin Becker

    11:40-11:55 Integration of Multimodal RNA-Seq Data for Prediction of

    Kidney Cancer Survival

    Matt Schwartz, Martin Park, John Phan, and May Wang

    11:55:-12:10 EEG-based Seizure Detection Using Discrete Wavelet

    Transform through Full-Level Decomposition

    Duo Chen, Suiren Wan, and Forrest Bao

    12:10-12:25 Effective Image Fusion Method to Study Alzheimer's

    Disease using MR, PET Images

    Arpita Das and Mahua Bhattacharya

    12:25-12:40 A Genetic Algorithm for the Selection of Structural MRI Alexander Spedding,

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    Tutorials

    1. Introduction to computational analysis of microbiome shotgun sequencing data Daniel H. Huson, University of Tübingen, Germany.

    2. Integrative Genomic Big-Data Analytics for Translational Bioinformatics and Precision Medicine Research Mary Yang and Kenji Yoshigoe, Univ. Arkansas at Little Rock

    3. Human Microbiome Analysis: Computational Techniques and Challenges by Serghei Mangul, University of California at Los Angeles

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    Conference Paper Presentations

    Session 1 Genomics

    Regular

    B461 "A novel dimensionality reduction algorithm based on Laplace matrix for microbiomie data

    analysis"

    Yetian Fan, Xingpeng Jiang, Xiaohua Hu, Bo Song, Yuan Ling, and Wei Wu

    Regular

    B503 "A New Algorithm for The LCS Problem with Application in Compressing Genome

    Resequencing Data"

    Richard Beal, Tazin Afrin, Aliya Farheen, and Don Adjeroh

    Short B453 "Fast alignment filtering of nanopore sequencing reads using locality-sensitive hashing"

    Jeremy Wang and Corbin Jones

    Regular "SNVSniffer: An Integrated Caller for Germline and Somatic SNVs Based on Bayesian Models"

    Yongchao Liu, Martin Loewer, Srinivas Aluru, and Bertil Schmidt

    Short B338 "Short Read Error Correction using an Augmented FM-Index"

    Seth Greenstein, James Holt, and Leonard McMillan

    Short B352 “HapColor: A Graph Coloring Framework for Polyploidy Phasing”

    Sepideh Mazrouee and Wei Wang

    Session 2 Biological Networks I

    Regular B293 "Constructing directed gene regulatory network solely by gene expression data"

    Lu Zhang, Yen Kaow Ng, and Shuai Cheng Li

    Regular B424 "Triple Imputation for Microarray Missing Value Estimation"

    Chong He, Hui-Hui Li, Changbo Zhao, and Guo-Zheng Li

    Short

    B218 "Principle Angle Enrichment Analysis (PAEA): Dimensionally Reduced Multivariate Gene Set

    Enrichment Analysis Tool"

    Neil Clark, Maciej Szymkiewicz, Zichen Wang, Caroline Monteiro, Matthew Jones, and Avi Ma'aya

    Short

    B311 "Hausdorff Distance and Global Silhouette Index as Novel Measures for Estimating Quality of

    Biclusters"

    Nishchal Verma, Esha Dutta, and Yan Cui

    Regular

    B227 "Integrative approach for inference of gene regulatory networks using lasso-based random

    featuring and application to Psychiatric disorders"

    Dong-Chul Kim, Mingon Kang, Ashis Biswas, Chunyu Liu, and Jean Gao

    Short B470 "Gene Selection for Cancer Classification With the Help of Bees"

    Johra Moosa, Rameen Shakur, Mohammad Kaykobad, and M Sohel Rahman

    Short

    B313 "Integrated Study to Infer Dynamic Protein-gene Interactions in human P53 Regulatory

    Networks"

    Junbai Wang, Qianqian Wu, and Tianhai Tian

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    Session 3 Medical Informatics I

    Regular

    B229 "RREV: Reconfigurable Rendering Engine for Cross-Cohort Visualization of Clinically Annotated

    Polysomnograms"

    Catherine Jayapandian, Wei Wang, Michael Morrical, Dennis Dean II, Daniel Mobley, Mathew Kim,

    Michael Rueschman, Kenneth Loparo, Susan Redline, and Guo-Qiang Zhang

    Short B230 "Feature-Level Fusion of Multimodal Physiological Signals for Emotion Recognition"

    Jing Chen, Bin Hu, Lixin Xu, Philip Moore, and Yun Su

    Regular B282 "Sparse Multidimensional Patient Modeling using Auxiliary Confidence Labels"

    Eric Heim and Milos Hauskrecht

    Short B382 "Survival Analysis via Transduction for Semi-Supervised Neural Networks in Medical Prognosis"

    Faisal Khan and Casimir Kulikowski

    Regular B263 "Context-learning Based Electroencephalogram Analysis for Epileptic Seizure Detection"

    Guangxu Xun, Xiaowei Jia, and Aidong Zhang

    Short

    B395 "On Automated Flow Cytometric Analysis for MRD Estimation of Acute Lymphoblastic

    Leukaemia: a comparison among different approaches"

    Paolo Rota, Stefanie Groeneveld-Krentz, and Michael Reiter

    Short

    B275 "On Using Compressed Sensing and Peak Detection Method for the Dynamic Instability

    Parameters Estimation for Microtubules Modeled in three States"

    Shantia Yarahmadian, Vineetha Menon, and Vahid Rezania

    Session 4 Semantics and Ontology I

    Regular B222 "Learning to Rank for Biomedical Information Retrieval"

    Bo Xu, Hongfei Lin, and Yuan Lin

    Regular

    B245 "Algorithmic Detection of Inconsistent Modeling among SNOMED CT Concepts by Combining

    Lexical and Structural indicators"

    Ankur Agrawal, Yehoshua Perl, Christopher Ochs, and Gai Elhanan

    Short B203 "Semantic Rules for Extracting Proteins Functions Information from Biomedical Abstracts"

    Kamal Taha

    Regular B262 "Supporting HIV Literature Screening with Data Sampling and Supervised Learning"

    Hayda Almeida, Marie-Jean Meurs, Leila Kosseim, and Adrian Tsang

    Regular B271 "Implicit Knowledge Discovery in Biomedical Ontologies: Computing Interesting Relatednesses"

    Tian Bai, Leiguang Gong, Casimir Kulikowski, and Lan Huang

    Short B216 "A Transition-Based Model for Jointly Extracting Drugs, Diseases and Adverse Drug Events"

    Fei Li and Donghong Ji

    Short

    B281 "A text mining application for linking functionally stressed-proteins to their post-translational

    modifications"

    Oliver Bonham-Carter and Dhundy Bastola

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    Session 5 Biological Networks II

    Invited

    Talk I

    “Understanding Genotype-Phenotype effects in Cancer via Network Approaches”

    Teresa Przytycka

    Regular

    B326 "Analyzing Differential Regulatory Networks Modulated by Continuous-State Genomic Features

    in Glioblastoma Multiforme"

    Yu-Chiao Chiu, Kai-Wen Liang, Tzu-Hung Hsiao, Yidong Chen, and Eric Chuang

    Short B220 "On Observability of Singleton Attractors in Boolean Networks"

    Yushan Qiu, Xiaoqing Cheng, Wai-Ki Ching, Hao Jiang, and Tatsuya Akutsu

    Regular B292 "Construction of signaling networks with incomplete RNAi data"

    Qiyao Wang, Yaunfang Ren, Mahmudul Hasan, Ahmet Ay, and Tamer Kahveci

    Session 6 Translational Bioinformatics I

    Invited

    Talk II

    “Developing Systems Genomics Approaches to Facilitate Precision Medicine research”

    Mary Yang

    Regular

    B205 "Feature Selection of High-dimensional Biomedical Data using Improved SFLA for Disease

    Diagnosis"

    Yongqiang Dai, Bin Hu, Yun Su, Chengsheng Mao, Jing Chen, Xiaowei Zhang, Philip Moore, Hanshu

    Cai, and Lixin Xu

    Short

    B469 "A new method for prioritizing drug repositioning candidates extracted by literature-based

    discovery"

    Majid Rastegar-Mojarad, Ravikumar Komandur Elayavilli, Dingcheng Li, Rashmi Prasad, and

    Hongfang Liu

    Short B482 "Detecting Adverse Drug Effects Using Link Classification on Twitter Data"

    Satya Katragadda, Harika Karnati, Murali Pusala, Vijay Raghavan, and Ryan Benton

    Session 7 Medical Imaging

    Invited

    Talk III

    “Empowering self-management for chronic conditions through technology and analytics: Can machines

    care for us?”

    Huiru (Jane) Zheng

    Regular B500 "Level Set Segmentation using Non-Negative Matrix Factorization of Brain MRI Images"

    Dimah Dera, Nidhal Bouaynaya, and Hassan Fathallah-Shaykh

    Regular B247 "Spatio-Temporal Diffusion-based Dynamic Cell Segmentation"

    Fatima Boukari and Sokratis Makrogiannis

    Short

    B251 "Quantitative Assessment of the Parallel MRI Reconstruction Using Background Noise

    Uniformity"

    Fu-Hsing Wu and Hsin-Chih Lo

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    Session 8 Structure, Function and Evolution I

    Invited

    Talk IV

    “Protein Match Making at Massive Scale”

    Chi-Ren Shyu

    Regular B258 "Computational Synteny Block: A framework to identify Evolutionary Events"

    Jose A. Arjona-Medina and Oswaldo Trelles

    Regular B435 "A Module tree of Wnt Signaling Pathways"

    Losiana Nayak, Nitai P. Bhattacharyya, and Rajat K. De

    Short

    B400 "Accurate Simulation of Large Collections of Phylogenetic Trees"

    Suzanne Matthews

    Session 9 Epigenetics and Gene Regulation

    Regular B393 "Predicting microRNA-disease associations by integrating multiple biological information"

    Wei Lan, Jianxin Wang, Min Li, Jin Liu, and Yi Pan

    Regular

    B458 "Model-Based and Context-Specific Background Correction and Differential Methylation

    Testing for MBDCap-seq"

    Yuanhang Liu, Desiree Wilson, Robin Leach, and Yidong Chen

    Short

    B483 "Human Absorbable Dietary microRNAs Prediction based on an Ensemble Manifold Ranking

    Model"

    Jiang Shu, Kevin Chiang, Dongyu Zhao, and Juan Cui

    Regular B506 "Interpretable Deep Neural Networks for Enhancer Prediction"

    Seong Kim, Nawanol Ampornpunt, Ananth Grama, and Somali Chaterji

    Short B521 "A test for detecting differentially methylated regions"

    Iksoo Huh, Soojin V. Yi Yi, and Taesung Park

    Regular B413 "A two-step logistic regression algorithm for identifying individual-cancer-related genes"

    Bolin Chen, Xuequn Shang, Min Li, Jianxin Wang, and Fang-Xiang Wu

    Session 10 Healthcare Informatics I

    Regular

    B495 "A Grammar-based Approach to Model the Patient’s Clinical Trajectory after a mild Traumatic

    Brain Injury"

    Filip Dabek and Jesus Caban

    Regular B310 "Facial Color Management for Mobile Health in the Wild"

    Jinling Niu, Changbo Zhao, and Guozheng Li

    Regular

    B324 "Modeling Electronic Health Records in Ensembles of Semantic Spaces for Adverse Drug Event

    Detection"

    Aron Henriksson, Jing Zhao, Henrik Boström, and Hercules Dalianis

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    Short B477 "SmartStep 2.0 – A completely wireless, versatile insole monitoring system"

    Nagaraj Hegde and Edward Sazonov

    Regular

    B265 "Automatic weighing attribute to retrieve similar lung cancer nodules"

    David Jones Ferreira de Lucena, José Raniery Ferreira Junior, Marcelo Costa Oliveira, and Aydano

    Pamponet Machado

    Session 11 Cross-cutting Computational Methods I

    Regular B447 "A novel approach to identify shared fragments in drugs and natural products"

    Akshay Balasubramanya, Ishwor Thapa, Dhundy Bastola, and Dario Ghersi

    Short B418 "A New Approach For Estimating Probability of Metastasis at Diagnosis"

    Shuhao Sun, Fima Klebaner, and Tianhai Tian

    Short B420 "TMDFM: A Data Fusion Model for Combined Detection of Tumor Markers"

    Chi Yuan, Yongli Wang, Yanchao Li, Xiaohui Jiang, and Isma Masood

    Regular

    B462 "Integrating Omics Data for Identifying Disease Subtypes: a Multiplex Network-based

    Approach"

    Haiying Wang and Huiru Zheng

    Regular

    B353 "A generative model for correlation discover of genetic polymorphism and adverse drug

    reactions"

    Zhaohui Liang, Ziping Li, Gang Zhang, and Jimmy Huang

    Short B276 "The effective diagnosis of schizophrenia by using 4-layer RBMs deep networks"

    Chen Qiao

    Short B201 "The Influence of EM Estimation of Missing Nodes in DCM on Model Ranking"

    Shaza Zaghlool and Christopher Wyatt

    Session 12 Structure, Function, and Evolution II

    Regular B494 "Extending Rule-Based Methods to Model Molecular Geometry"

    Brittany Hoard, Bruna Jacobson, Kasra Manavi, and Lydia Tapia

    Regular B348 "Structure-Guided Selection of Specificity Determining Positions in the Human Kinome"

    Mark Moll, Paul Finn, and Lydia Kavraki

    Short B241 "Protein model quality assessment by learning-to-rank"

    Xiaoyang Jing, Qiwen Dong, Xuan Liu, and Bin Liu

    Regular B509 "Superposition of Protein Structures Using Electrostatic Isopotentials"

    Ziyi Guo, Juliana Hong, Katya Scheinberg, and Brian Chen

    Short

    B463 "SphereGrinder - reference structure-based tool for quality assessment of protein structural

    models"

    Piotr Lukasiak, Maciej Antczak, Tomasz Ratajczak, and Jacek Blazewicz

    Regular

    B339 "Evolutionary Search Strategies for Efficient Sample-based Representations of Multiple basin

    Protein Energy Landscapes"

    Emmanuel Sapin, Kenneth De Jong, and Amarda Shehu

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    Session 13 Cross-cutting Computational Methods I

    Invited

    Talk V

    Accurate and Fast RNAseq Analysis

    Wei Wang

    Regular B242 "Identification of DNA-binding proteins by auto-cross covariance transformation"

    Qiwen Dong, Shanyi Wang, Kai Wang, Xuan Liu, and Bin Liu

    Short B272 "MALBACsim: a Multiple Annealing and Looping Based Amplification Cycles Simulator"

    Li Tengpeng, Zhang Changsheng, Bo Xu, Li Fuqiang, and Cai Hongmin

    Regular B414 "Reference Sequence Selection for Motif Searches"

    Qiang Yu, Hongwei Huo, Ruixing Zhao, Dazheng Feng, Jeffrey Scott Vitter, and Jun Huan

    Regular B511 "DiscMLA: AUC-Based Discriminative Motif Learning"

    Hongbo Zhang, Lin Zhu, and De-Shuang Huang

    Short B407 "Biomedical Named Entity Recognition Based on Extended Recurrent Neural Networks"

    Lishuang Li, Liuke Jin, Zhenchao Jiang, and Dengen Huang

    Session 14 Healthcare Informatics II

    Regular

    B321 "Classification with Imbalance: A Similarity based Method for Predicting Respiratory

    Failure"

    Harsh Shrivastava, Vijay Huddar, Sakyajit Bhattacharya, and Vaibhav Rajan

    Short B479 "A Method for Imputation of Semantic Class in Diagnostic Radiology Text"

    Eamon Johnson, W Christopher Baughman, and Gultekin Ozsoyoglu

    Regular B334 "Framework for Workflow-driven Clinical Decision Support in Oncology"

    Anca Bucur, Jasper van Leeuwen, and Norbert Graf

    Short

    B249 "Insight: Semantic Provenance and Analysis Platform for Multi-center Neurology

    Healthcare Research"

    Priya Ramesh, Annan Wei, Johnny Sams, Elisabeth Welter, Samden Lhatoo, Martha

    Sajatovic, and Satya Sahoo

    Regular B502 "Using Myoelectric Signals to Recognize Grips and Movements of the Hand"

    Gene Shuman, Zoran Duric, Daniel Barbara, Jessica Lin, and Lynn H. Gerber

    Regular

    B285 "Collaborative and Trajectory Prediction Models of Medical Conditions by Mining Patients’

    Social Data"

    Xiang Ji, Soon Ae Chun, James Geller, and Vincent Oria

    Short

    B366 "Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Patient Classification Methodology Through Flow

    Cytometry Analysis"

    Evdoxia Papadopoulou, Konstantia Kotta, Panagiotis Moschonas, Vassiliki Douka, Achilles

    Anagnostopoulos, Kostas Stamatopoulos, and Dimitrios Tzovaras

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    Session 15 Semantics and Ontology II

    Regular

    B314 "An integrative measure of graph- and vector-based semantic similarity using information

    content distance"

    Young-Rae Cho

    Short

    B277 "ImmPort: Shared Research Data for Bioinformatics and Immunology"

    Patrick Dunn, Elizabeth Thomson, Henry Schaefer, John Campbell, Thomas Smith, Sanchita

    Bhattacharya, Sandra Andorf, Vincent Desborough, Jeff Wiser, and Atul Butte

    Regular B231 "A novel two-stage method for identifying miRNA-gene regulatory modules in breast cancer"

    Wenwen Min, Juan Liu, Fei Luo, and Shihua Zhang

    Regular B330 "On Stabbing Queries for Generalized Longest Repeat"

    Bojian Xu

    Short

    B289 "Non-Coding RNA Ontology: A comprehensive resource for unification of non-coding RNA

    biology"

    Jingshan Huang, Karen Eilbeck, Judith Blake, Dejing Dou, Darren Natale, Alan Ruttenberg, Barry

    Smith, Michael Zimmermann, Guoqian Jiang, Yu Lin, Bin Wu, Yongqun He, Shaojie Zhang, Xiaowei

    Wang, He Zhang, David Schmitt, and Ming Tan

    Regular B336 "Integrating Association Mining into Relevance Feedback for Biomedical Literature Search"

    Yanqing Ji, Hao Ying, John Tran, Peter Dews, and Michael Massanari

    Short B297 "Training Word Embeddings for Deep Learning in Biomedical Text Mining Tasks"

    Zhenchao Jiang, Lishuang Li, Degen Huang, and Liuke Jin

    Session 16 Medical Imaging

    Regular B283 "Analysis of Oddity in Facial Physiology of Children with Autism using 3D Imaging"

    Manar Samad, Jonna Bobzien, John Harrington, and Khan Iftekharuddin

    Short B254 "An Image Reconstruction Model and Hybrid Algorithm for Limited-angle Projection Data"

    Hongxia Gao, Yinghao Luo, Kewei Chen, Ge Ma, and Lixuan Wu

    Regular

    B371 "A Seeding-Searching-Ensemble Method for Gland Segmentation and Detection"

    Yizhe Zhang, Lin Yang, John MacKenzie, Rageshree Ramachandran, and Danny

    Chen

    Short

    B268 "Segmentation of Multicolor Fluorescence In-Situ Hybridization (M-FISH) Image Using an

    Improved Fuzzy C-Means

    Clustering Algorithm While Incorporating Both Spatial and Spectral Information"

    Jingyao Li, Dongdong Lin, and Yu-Ping Wang

    Short

    B456 "Segmentation-based Multi-scale Framework for the Classification of Epithelial and Stromal

    Tissues in H&E Images"

    Filiz Bunyak, Adel Hafiane, Zahraa Al-Milagi, Ilker Ersoy, Anoop Haridas, and

    Kannappan Palaniappan

    Short B349 "Robust landmark-based image registration using l1 and l2 norm regularizations"

    Xuan Yang, Bo Wang, and Yan-Ran Li

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    Session 17 Biological Networks III

    Regular

    B419 "Protein-protein interaction network inference from multiple kernels with optimization based on

    random walk by linear programming"

    Lei Huang, Li Liao, and Cathy Wu

    Regular B465 "GREAT: GRaphlet Edge-based network AlignmenT"

    Joseph Crawford and Tijana Milenkovic

    Regular B486 "petal: A Novel Co-Expression Network Modeling System"

    Juli Petereit, Frederick C. Jr. Harris, and Karen Schlauch

    Short B430 "Joint inference of tissue-specific networks with a scale free topology"

    Somaye Hashemifar, Behnam Neyshabur, and Jinbo Xu

    Regular B337 "EpiTracer – an algorithm for identifying epicenters in condition-specific biological networks"

    Narmada Sambaturu, Madhulika Mishra, and Nagasuma Chandra

    Short

    B362 "Exhaustive analysis of dynamical properties of Biological Regulatory Networks with Answer

    Set Programming"

    Emna Ben Abdallah, Maxime Folschette, Olivier Roux, and Morgan Magnin

    Session 18 Sequence, Structure, and Function

    Regular B472 "Predicting Protein-Protein Interaction Using Co-Occurring Aligned Pattern Clusters"

    Antonio Sze-To, Sanderz Fung, En-Shiun Annie Lee, and Andrew K. C. Wong

    Regular B484 "Adaptive Local Learning in Sampling Based Motion Planning for Protein Folding"

    Chinwe Ekenna, Shawna Thomas, and Nancy Amato

    Short B515 "Imputation of ChIP-Seq Datasets via Low Rank Convex Co-Embedding"

    Lin Zhu, De-Shuang Huang, and Canyi Lu

    Regular

    B376 "Computing Transition Paths in Multiple-Basin Proteins with a Probabilistic Roadmap

    Algorithm Guided by Structure Data"

    Tatiana Maximova, Erion Plaku, and Amarda Shehu

    Short

    B497 "Guilt-by association approach to identify novel human aging-related genes using protein

    domains"

    Jasjit Banwait, Schuyler Dougherty, Ishwor Thapa, and Dhundy Bastola

    Regular

    B372 "Identifying Inorganic Material Affinity Classes for Peptide Sequences Based on

    Context Learning"

    Guangxu Xun, Xiaoyi Li, Marc R. Knecht, Paras N. Prasad, Mark T. Swihart, Tiffany R. Walsh, and

    Aidong Zhang

    Short B490 "Quantifying Feed Efficiency of Dairy Cattle for Genome-wide Association Analysis"

    Tingyang Xu, Jiangwen Sun, Erin Connor, and Jinbo Bi

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    Session 19 Medical Informatics

    Regular B346 "A Generative Bayesian Model To Identify Cancer Driver Genes"

    CHRISTOPHER MA

    Short B480 "EEG Dynamic Source Localization using Marginalized Particle Filtering"

    Bradley Ebinger, Nidhal Bouaynaya, Petia Georgieva, and Lyudmila Mihaylova

    Short

    B287 "Sparse Omics-network Regularization to Increase Interpretability and Performance of Linear

    Classification Models"

    Michael Andel, Filip Masri, Jiri Klema, Zdenek Krejcik, and Monika Belickova

    Short B278 "Improved Brain Tumor Growth Prediction and Segmentation in Longitudinal Brain MRI"

    Linmin Pei, Syed Mohammad Shamim Reza, and Khan Iftekharuddin

    Short

    B350 "Predicting Microbial Interactions by Using Network-constrained Regularization Incorporating

    Covariate Coefficients and Connection Signs"

    Hu Xiaohua and Wang yan

    Short

    B411 "Audio Signals Encoding for Cough Classification Using Convolutional Neural Networks: A

    Comparative Study"

    Hui-Hui Wang,