Call for Poster Presentations

Data science is an emerging discipline that will be instrumental in accelerating healthcare innovation and transforming the healthcare industry to improve the quality and cost of services provided to patients. Data science, broadly defined, includes the tools, techniques, and theoretical underpinnings for enabling machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to be applied to large, diverse, complex, longitudinal, and distributed data sets in order to extract useful information and knowledge. Machine learning and AI have already led to significant successes in many health-related fields including medical image classification, segmentation, prediction, and decision making. The field of data science promises to accelerate the applications and successes, specifically by enabling the scaling to “big” and heterogenous data. To address the research and translational advances and challenges in healthcare focused data science, the IEEE EMBS-NUS iHealthtech Forum on Data Science and Engineering in Healthcare, Biology and Medicine will be held on May 30-31, 2023, in Singapore, Singapore. The forum aims to highlight and discuss the challenges and opportunities of Data Science innovations in healthcare, medicine and biology, and how these innovations can be translated into cutting-edge healthcare and biomedical engineering curricula.

The forum will mainly focus on several challenges including, the semantic integration and harmonization of complex and heterogeneous biomedical data the development of scalable Data Science and Engineering infrastructure the development of smart AI algorithms that integrate biological/physiological models the need to build a more cohesive approach to deliver personalized medicine by integrating data science and management with a biological understanding of the related disease.

We believe that the IEEE EMBS-NUS Forum will provide a unique platform for scientists, engineers, and students to focus on translational data science and engineering research and healthcare innovations, as well as the need for a paradigm shift in engineering and science education and their impact on healthcare and economic growth.

The forum is open for poster presentations.  Each poster presentation must submit a 2-page abstract which will be reviewed by the organizing committee.  Accepted abstracts will be invited to present a poster and the 2-page abstract will be made available to conference attendees, though it will not be considered a peer-reviewed archived publication.  Previous work presented at other venues, and which address the forums focus areas and themes, are welcome. Poster submission should use the following  abstract template.  All submissions are due on May 11, 2023.