About the symposium 

We are delighted to announce the upcoming Artificial Intelligence, Causality, and Personalised Medicine Symposium, taking place from September 14th to September 15th. This two-day symposium aims to bring together a diverse community of researchers and medical practitioners who are passionate about exploring and advancing the applications of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in the field of medicine. This symposium will provide a catalyst for interdisciplinary collaboration and dialog with the aim of knowledge sharing, research presentation, and agenda setting.

Registration

Registration for the symposium is now open. The registration fee 119 Euros incl. VAT. However, please note that members of the Leibniz University of Hannover or the L3S are not required to pay VAT. This fee includes access to all sessions, conference materials, networking opportunities, and refreshments throughout the event.

Call for Abstract Submission

Benefiting from a huge amount of data with multiple modalities in the big data era, the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) is contributing to advances in medical applications. Such applications include genetic data are analysed for predicting risks of cancer or treatment outcome in oncology; clinical data from electronic health records are useful for predicting specific diseases, such as sepsis in intensive care units; and bio-signals can be processed by AI for many applications, such as electrocardiography. In particular, personalised medicine will benefit from intelligent, reliable, and responsible AI systems, therefore improving care and the quality of life.

Current machine learning systems often lack understanding of the relationship between causes and effects in their domain. Causal reasoning is, therefore, being recognized as a missing piece in AI methods. Integrating causality into machine learning methods will be integral for designing next generation intelligent systems. The causality framework allows researchers to represent medical background knowledge in an explainable manner. Thus, causal AI promises to improve further personalised medical applications with trustworthy and fair decision-making.

In this context, the AICPM Symposium is calling for high-quality abstract submissions in the research field of AI and medicine, with the goal of promoting research development and agenda setting in this interdisciplinary domain.

We invite discussions at the intersection of AI and outlined topics in medicine. The research topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Specific uses and use cases of AI and ML in medical contexts, lessons learned and best practices 
  • Reporting of specific data-intensive medical experiments  
  • Prototypes of AI systems in medical applications, decision support systems 
  • Machine learning approaches in medical applications 

The selected abstracts will be invited to be presented either in poster or oral format. There will also be an opportunity to submit full papers for publication in the Proceedings of the symposium. For submission we will follow the LNCS format. The overleaf link can be found  here. The latex and word templates can be downloaded  here.

Each submission is limited to a maximum of two pages. The abstracts can be submitted through EasyChair  here.

Important dates:

Abstract submission  –  31 May 2023
Abstract acceptance  –   1 July 2023

L3S poster template

Speakers:

Microsoft Research India

© Karin Kaiser / MHH

Hannover Medical School

University of Manchester

Panel: Causality in Medicine – How much do we need?

Indian Institute of Technology

University of Manchester

Microsoft Research India

Lewis College of Science and Letters

Edith Cowan university Australia

Hannover Medical School

Speakers:

Prof. Jonas Peters

University of Copenhagen

Amit Sharma

Microsoft Research India

Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Sabine Salloch

Medizinische Hochschule Hannover

Prof. Dr. Niels Peek

University of Manchester

Schedule

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08:00 – 08:30

Registration

08:30 – 09:00

Welcome Address by the General Chairs

09:00 – 10:00

Causal methods in medicine 

10:00 – 10:25

Estimating causal effects from patient trajectories 

10:25 – 10:50

Morning Break

10:50 – 12:35

Medical Use Cases 

Predictive Modeling of Postoperative Performance in Cochlear Implantation:
A Machine Learning Approach 

Alexey Demyanchuk,
Eugen Kludt, Thomas Lenarz, 
and Andreas Büchner 

Long-term kidney graft survival: reliable prognostication and patient stratification with factors from the first transplant year 

Wilfried Gwinner, Matthias Gietzelt, Jan-Hinrich Bräsen, Abedalrazag Ahmad Khalifa, Michael Hallensleben, Rosemarie Hanna, Michael Marschollek and Irina Scheffner  

Personalized prediction of mortality risks in chronic kidney disease patients 

Bence Oláh, Michael Altenbuchinger, Jürgen Dönitz, Ulla T. Schultheiss, Fruzsina Kotsis, Jürgen Floege, Kai-Uwe Eckhardt, Wolfram Gronwald, Peter J. Oefner, Helena U. Zacharias 

Rules as an Interface Between Computer Science and Medicine for Building an Artificial Intelligence-Based Support App in Genetic Counseling  

Nils Ammon, Chiara Reichert, Beate Vajen,
Steffen Oeltze-Jafra, Anke Katharina Bergmann, Dominik Wolff and Thomas Kupka 

An Association Analysis between EQ-5D-3L Items for Post-Stroke Patients 

Thi Nguyet Que Nguyen and John D. Kelleher 

12:30 – 12:40

Poster spotlight talks (2 min. each), 1 slide 

12:40 – 14:00

Lunch & Poster session in basement 

14:00 – 15:00

Causal Inference and Large Language Models: A New Frontier

15:00 – 16:00

Causal Modelling 

Completing Causal Models by Estimating Average Treatment Effects 

Johanna Schrader and Prasenjit Mitra 

IVP-VAE: Modeling EHR Time Series with Initial Value Problem Solvers 

Jingge Xiao, Leonie Basso, Wolfgang Nejdl,
Niloy Ganguly and Sandipan Sikdar 

Development and Evaluation of a Personalized Ensemble Model for Infection Risk Prediction in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia Patients Using Heterogeneous Data Sources 

Mohammad Al-Agil, Piers Patten,
Anwar Alhaq and Samora Hunter 

16:00 – 16:30

Afternoon Break  

16:30 – 17:30

Assessing Human Factors 

An Ethics Perspective on the Role of Explainability in the Context of AI Applications in Medicine 

Elisabeth Hildt 

AI Based Suicide Risk Assessment  

Grigoris Antoniou 

Some ideas towards building
libraries of (human) mistakes 

Lars Quakulinski,
Adamantios Koumpis and Oya Beyan 

17:30 – 18:30

Poster Presentations & Mixer 

08:30 – 08:50

Registration

08:50 – 09:15

Backtracking Counterfactuals 

09:15 – 10:15

Competition or collaboration CDSS 

10:15 – 10:30

Morning Break

10:30 – 10:50

On the Relationship Between Explanation
and Prediction: A Causal View 

10:50 – 11:15

Identifying Selection Bias

11:20 – 12:00

Medical and Clinical Use Cases 

BACON: Bacterial Clone Recognition from Metagenomic Sequencing Data 

Fabian Müntefering,
Jörn Ostermann and Jan Voge 

Training Experts on Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Management: a Needs Assessment for Europe 

Valentina Beretta, Maria Chiara Demartini,Hatim Abdulhussein, Franziska Schoger, Marco Fisichella, Dennis Vetter, Blaz Zupan and Ajda Pretnar 

12:00 – 13:15

Lunch Break  

13:15 – 14:15

Predictability is not everything 

14:15 – 15:15

Panel: Causality in medicine – how much do we need

Niels Peek, Amit Sharma, Elisabeth Hildt, David Suter, Wilfried Gwinner, Niloy Ganguly (moderator)

15:15

Announce Best Presentation
Close 

Programme Committee: 

University of Heidelberg

NIH Bethesda

University of Manchester, Alan Turing Institute

TU Munich

IDSIA and Artificialy

Israel Institute of Technology

University Medical Center Göttingen

IIT Kharagpur
& L3S

TU Munich

Hannover Medical School

TU Braunschweig

Hannover Medical School

University Medical Center Göttingen

Hannover Medical School

The University of Chicago

Radboud University

Organizing Committee: 

General Chair

General Chair,
Awards Committee

PC Chair

PC Chair,
Awards Committee

Invited Speaker Chair

Local Organising Chair

Local Organising Chair

Awards Committee

AC Chair

Publication Chair

FAQ:

What is the language of the symposium?

All presentations will be held in English.

Will the symposium be in person, virtual or hybrid?

The symposium is planned to be exclusively in person .

How high is the registration fee and what exactly does it cover?

The registration fee is 100€ excl. VAT and 119 Euro incl. VAT.

Please note, that members of the Leibniz University Hannover or the L3S do not have to pay VAT. These invoices will be processed internally.

The registration fee does cover:

All organizational costs

Refreshments during the event

The registration fee does not cover:

Travel costs (trains, flights, trams, busses)

Accommodation (hotel rooms)

Where should I book my room?

Hotels and Hostels in Hannover:

Schlafgut – Schaufelder Str. 11, 30167 Hannover

Bed’nBudget City-Hostel – Osterstraße 37, 30159 Hannover • 0511 3606107

Hostel Hannover – Lenaustraße 12, 30169 Hannover • 0511 1319919

DJH Hostel Hannover International – Ferdinand-Wilhelm-Fricke-Weg 1, 30169 Hannover • 0511 12359080 

Hotel Boutique 030 Hannover City by INA – Goethestraße 30, 30169 Hannover • 0511 54304560 

B&B Hotel Hannover-City – Philipsbornstraße 2, 30165 Hannover • 0511 21388320

Programme Committee:

Prof. Dr. Martin Dugas

University of Heidelberg

Dr. Olivier Bodenreider

NIH Bethesda

Dr. Niels Peek

Univ. of Manchester,
Alan Turing Institute

Dr. Gjergji Kasneci

TU Munich

Marco Zaffalon

IDSIA and Artificialy

Roi Reichart

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Prof. Dr. Tim Friede

Universitätsmedizin Göttingen

Gourab Patro

IIT Kharagpur & L3S

Prof. Jalal Etesami

TU Munich

Frank Wacker

Hannover Medical School, Radiologist

Prof. Tim Kacprowski

TU Braunschweig

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Steffen Oeltze-Jafra

Hannover Medical School

Prof. Anne-Christin Hauschild

University Medicine Göttingen

Prof. Dr. med. Friedrich Feuerhake

Hannover Medical School

Sainyam Galhotra

The University of Chicago

Tom Claassen

Radboud University

Organizing Committee:

Prof. Wolfgang Nejdl

General Chair

PD Dr. Anke Bergmann

General Chair, Awards Committee

Prof. Niloy Ganguly

General Chair, Awards Committee

Prof. Michael Marschollek

PC Chair, Awards Committee

Prof. Bodo Rosenhahn

Invited Speaker Chair

Dr. Cameron Pierson

Local Organising Chair

Sophie Boneß 

Local Organising Chair

Dr. rer. nat. Claudia Davenport

Awards Committee

Dr. Zhao Ren

AC Chair

Dr. Sandipan Sikdar

Publication Chair

FAQ: (frequently asked questions)

What is the language of the symposium?

All presentations will be held in English.

Will the symposium be in person, virtual or hybrid?

The symposium is planned to be exclusively in person .

Where should I book my room?

Hotels and Hostels in Hannover:

Schlafgut – Schaufelder Str. 11, 30167 Hannover

Bed’nBudget City-Hostel – Osterstraße 37, 30159 Hannover • 0511 3606107

Hostel Hannover – Lenaustraße 12, 30169 Hannover • 0511 1319919

DJH Hostel Hannover International – Ferdinand-Wilhelm-Fricke-Weg 1, 30169 Hannover • 0511 12359080 

Hotel Boutique 030 Hannover City by INA – Goethestraße 30, 30169 Hannover • 0511 54304560 

B&B Hotel Hannover-City – Philipsbornstraße 2, 30165 Hannover • 0511 21388320

Don’t forget:

Abstract submission: 31.05.2023
Abstract acceptance:
 01.07.2023

Symposium: 14.09.2023 – 15.09.2023
Venue:
Leibnizhaus, Hannover