147th ICB SEMINAR

Tenth International Seminar

on

STATISTICS AND CLINICAL PRACTICE

May 15 - 18, 2016, Warsaw, Poland

Organised by
INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF BIOCYBERNETICS

Seminar goals

The ICB Seminars "Statistics and Clinical Practice" held in Warsaw since 1994, have become a tradition as a meeting space for statisticians from various countries, dealing with problems related to medicine. Both scientific and didactic goals form a part of the Conference framework. The Seminar provides an opportunity for professional discussions among biostatisticians, while medical doctors are offered an opportunity to discuss statistical problems with leading experts in the field.

The following topics will be addressed during the Seminar:

• prognostic models selection
• exploratory analysis of big biomedical data sets
• data mining methods in bioinformatics
• inclusion of genomic data in biostatistical modeling
• new models in survival analysis
• clinical epidemiology
• study designs for individualized medicine

Program and Organising Committee

Leon Bobrowski
Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering PAS, Warsaw, Poland
Cornelia Enachescu
Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Applied Mathematics, Bucharest, Romania
Zdenek Valenta
Institute of Computer Science, Czech Academy of Science, Prague, Czech Republic

PROGRAMME OF THE SEMINAR

Sunday, May 15

16:30 – 18:00 GET TOGETHER PARTY FOR LECTURERS AND ACCOMPANYING PERSONS

Monday, May 16

11:00 – 11:15 OPENING OF THE SEMINAR

WELCOME ADDRESS by Piotr Ładyżyński (Poland)
Director of the International Center of Biocybernetics

Chair: Cornelia Enăchescu

11:15 - 11:50 Michael Genin, Cristian Preda, Allain Duhamel, Corinne Gower-Rousseau (France)
“Isotonic spatial scan statistics: application to the epidemiology of Crohn’s disease in northern France”

11:50 - 12:25 Cristian Preda, Vincent Vandewalle (France, Romania)
“Clustering categorical functional data”

12:25 - 13:00 Bogdan Alexe (Romania)
“Using a bivariate scan statistics for detecting disease clusters”

13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH BREAK

Chair: Cristian Preda

14:00 - 14:30 Cornelia Enachescu, Denis Enachescu (Romania)
“IRIS biometrics: adaptive resonance networks for indexing and retrieving data”

14:30 - 15:00 Zdenek Valenta, P. Ošťádal, D. Vondráková, M. Průcha, A. Kruger, M. Janotka (Czech Republic)
“Survival and 30 – days cerebral performance in patients with successful cardiopulmonary resuscitation following cardiac arrest: statistical inference in the presence of incomplete data”

15:00 - 15:30 Łukasz Mierzejewski, Wojciech Niemiro, Wojciech Rejchel,
Marta Zalewska (Poland)
“Infections caused by CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE: feature selection via ORDINAL REGRESSION”

Tuesday, May 17

Chair: Zdenek Valenta

10:00 - 10:30 Małgorzata Ćwiklińska-Jurkowska, Anna Wolińska-Welcz (Poland)
“Dimensionality reduction and visualization of genomic data”

10:30 - 11:00 Oniśko Agnieszka (Poland)
“Modeling uncertain medical knowledge with Bayesian networks: engineering and applications”

11:00 - 11:30 Leon Bobrowski (Poland)
“Biclustering through collinear patterns extraction”

11:30 - 12:00 Paul Munro (USA)
“A framework for combining unsupervised and supervised learning procedures”

12:00 - 13:00 Jose Carlos Ferreira (Portugal)
“Brace yourself. Big data, really big, is coming!! An appraisal of genomic data studies and a summary of newly launched genomic initiatives”

13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH BREAK

14:30 – 16:00 POSTER SESSION

Chair: Oniśko Agnieszka

I. Chmiel, M. Górkiewicz, Faculty of Health Science, Jagiellonian University of Krakow, (Poland)
“Combining two correlated variables into one factor: an application to obesity measurements”

M. Ćwiklińska-Jurkowska, Collegium Medicum, Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, (Poland)
“Ensembles of variables selection and combined classifiers for medical discrimination based on genes expression data sets”

M. Górkiewicz1, J.N. Peña-Sánchez2, I. Chmiel1, 1Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University of Krakow, Krakow, (Poland), 2Dept. of Community Health and Epidemiology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, (Canada)
“Item response theory methods can support validity of 4cornersat scale for career satisfaction of physicians”

A. Korzyńska, L. Roszkowiak, J. Zak, D. Pijanowska, Nałęcz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering PAS, Warsaw, (Poland)
“Software framework for validation of segmentation results (VoS)”

M. Krętowska, Faculty of Computer Science, Bialystok University of Technology, (Poland)
“Oblique survival trees and competing risks”

T. Łukaszuk1, L. Bobrowski1,2, 1Faculty of Computer Science, Bialystok University of Technology, 2Nałęcz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering PAS, Warsaw, (Poland)
“Application of the Relaxed Linear Separability method for the analysis
of genomic data”

P. Malinowski1; W. Dąbrowski2; B. Karolinczak2, 1Medical University of Bialystok, Białystok, (Poland), 2Bialystok Technical University, Białystok, (Poland)
“Comparison of support vector regression and classical transformed linear model in constructed wetland treatment context”

K. Sałapa1, T. Darocha2,3,4, J. Majkowski3, T. Sanak3,5,6, P. Podsiadło4,7, S. Kosiński2,3,8, R. Drwiła2,3, 1Depeartment of Bioinformatics and Telemedicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, (Poland), 2Severe Accidental Hypothermia Center, Dept. of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, the John Paul II Hospital, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, (Poland), 3Foundation Heat for Life, Krakow, (Poland), 4Polish Medical Air Rescue, Warsaw, (Poland), 5Dept. of Disaster Medicine and Emergency Care, Medical College of Jagiellonian University, Krakow, (Poland), 6Dept. of Combat Medicine, Military Institute in Warsaw, (Poland), 7Polish Society for Mountain Medicine and Rescue, Szczyrk, (Poland), 8Dept. of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Pulmonary Hospital, Zakopane, (Poland)
“Assessing agreement between two measurement methods of core body temperature”

Wednesday, May 18

STATISTICAL STANDARDS IN MEDICAL RESEARCH PROJECTS AND PUBLICATIONS

The special session addressed to medical doctors
organized by the Polish National Group
of the International society for Clinical Biostatistics (ISCB)

Chair: Ewa Kawalec

10:00 - 10:30 Juan Nicolas Peña-Sánchez1, Maciej Górkiewicz2,
1Dept. of Community Health and Epidemiology, University of Saskatchewan, (Canada), 2Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University of Krakow, (Poland)
“Scale of career satisfaction in medicine”

10:30 - 11:00 Maciej Polak, Institute of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College (Poland)
“Meta-analysis in biomedical research”

11:00 - 11:30 Urszula Cwalina, Dorota Jankowska, Anna Justyna Milewska, Dorota Citko, Robert Milewski, Dept. of Statistics and Medical Informatics, Medical University of Bialystok, (Poland)
„The selection of a representative sample in medical research”

11:30 - 12:00 COFFEE BREAK

12:00 - 13:15 Krystyna Szafraniec, Institute of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, (Poland)
“Multivariable analysis. The essentials”

13:15 - 13:30 Anna Wolińska-Welcz, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, (Poland)
„Statistical inference in multivariate analysis of medical data”

13:30 - 13:45 Discussion and questions from medical doctors

13.45 - 14:00 Current ISCB information and close of the session

To download programme in PDF format click here!

GENERAL INFORMATION

Seminar format

The Seminar will include lectures by distinguished biostatisticians and information technology specialists from various countries. Beside these lecturers there will be also a poster session. There is a possibility of contributing to the session in a different way, agreed by an applicant researcher with the organizers. Part of the sessions will be didactic in character and will be addressed particularly to medical researchers.

Time and location

The Seminar will take place in Poland, Warsaw, at 4 Trojdena Str., on May 15 - 18, 2016. The seminar venue will be in the buildings of the Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering (IBIB) of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the International Centre of Biocybernetics. The Institute is located in the new research centre comprising several institutes and hospitals (Ochota Campus). It can be reached conveniently by a 10-minute car drive from the airport and it is close to the central railway station.

Contributions

An extended abstract in English of the length up to 6 pages, clearly stating the purpose of the poster presentation, results and conclusions should be submitted to the Seminar Secretariat (see the full address details at the end of the announcement). The title and name(s) of the author(s), affiliations, postal and e-mail addresses and fax number should be included.
Received abstracts will be reviewed. The accepted abstracts will be published in the seminar proceedings and research results will be presented at the conference during the poster session. Instructions for authors can be found on the web page:template.

A special issue of our journal Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering will be devoted to selected papers from the Seminar.

To download ANNOUNCEMENT in Word format please click here!

To download LECTURE NOTES please click here!

THE EVENT IS CO-FINANCED FROM FINANCIAL SOURCES OF THE POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES