Paper
submission deadline: June 20, 2014
Description:
Understanding the brain structure and some of its alterations
caused by disease, is key to accompany research on the treatment
of epilepsy and Alzheimer’s disease and other neuropathologies, as
well as gaining understanding of the general functioning of the
brain and its learning capabilities. At the neural level,
recovering the exact wiring of the brain (connectome) including
nearly 100 billion neurons, having on average 7000 synaptic
connections to other neurons, is a daunting task.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers in
machine learning and neuroscience to discuss progress and
remaining challenges in this exciting and rapidly evolving field.
We aim to attract machine learning and computer vision specialists
interested in learning about a new problem, as well as
computational neuroscientists who may be interested in modeling
connectivity data. We will discuss also the results of the First
ChaLearn Neural Connectomics Challenge.
Topics of interest to the workshop include, but are not limited
to:
•
building
connectomes from EM data
•
building
connectomes from fMRI data
•
building
connectomes from neurophysiology data
•
bridging
neuroanatomy and neurophysiology
•
connectomics
and learning
•
neuroimaging
technology advances
•
network
reconstruction algorithms
•
causality
in time series
•
feature
selection vs. causal discovery
•
generative
vs. discriminative modeling
•
sharing
data
•
sharing
code
•
organizing
new challenges
•
establishing
ground truth, benchmarking
•
quantitative
metrics of evaluation
•
theoretical
understanding
Important dates:
o
Paper
submission:
June 20, 2014
o
Notification
of acceptance:
July 05, 2014
o
Camera-ready:
July 25, 2014
o
ECML
Workshop:
September 15, 2014
Important - Submission Guidelines:
We encourage contributions in any of these areas. We welcome
2-page short-form submissions and 6-page long-form submissions.
Submissions should be formatted using JMLR Workshop and
Proceedings format, style files for which are available at:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/jmlr.html.
We also encourage submissions of previously-published material
that is closely related to the workshop topic (for presentation
only).
Everybody can attend the workshop even if he does not participate
in the challenge (
http://connectomics.chalearn.org/).
Challenge participants are encouraged to contribute a paper on
their results and also submit papers for presentation on the
topics of the workshop.
The papers have to be submitted via Easy Chair:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ncw2014