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<span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal">We would like to invite paper submissions to the IEEE TCSVT special issue on “<i>Learning with M</i></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal"><i>ultimodal
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal"><b>IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology</b></span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px"><b><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal; color: black">Learning with Multimodal Data for Biomedical Informatics</span></b></span><span style="margin: 0px"><b><span style="margin: 0px; color: black"></span></b></span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black">Fast-growing biomedical and healthcare data of multiple modalities have encompassed multiple scales ranging from molecules, individuals, to populations.
Meanwhile, the heterogeneous and increasingly more diverse modalities of the data present major barriers toward their understanding, fusion, and translation into effective clinical actions. For example, electronic health records (EHRs) are representative examples
of multimodal/multisource data collections; including not only traditional medical measurements, but also images, videos, audios, and free texts. Other examples include mobile health for remote patient care with typical data modalities such as patient- or
caregiver-generated photos, self-reported symptoms of pain, and body temperature. The diversity of such information sources and the increasing amounts of medical data produced by healthcare institutes annually, pose significant challenges for data-driven biomedical
analysis. While biomedical and healthcare research traditionally focuses on the structured measurement data, the growing availability of novel data modalities has created a compelling demand for novel machine learning, image/video/audio/text processing, and
multi-modal fusion algorithms that specifically tackle the unique challenges associated with biomedical and healthcare data and allow decision-makers and stakeholders to better interpret and exploit the data.</span><span style="margin: 0px; color: black"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This
special issue aims at catalyzing synergies among image/video processing, text/speech understanding, machine learning, multi-modal learning and other related fields with the goals to (1) develop novel data-driven models to accelerate knowledge discovery in
biomedicine through the seamless integration of medical data collected from imaging systems, laboratory and wearable devices, as well as other related medical devices; (2) promote the development of new multi-modal learning systems to enhance the healthcare
quality and patient safety; and (3) promote new applications in biomedical informatics that can leverage or benefits from the integration of multi-modal data and machine learning.</span><span style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; color: black"></span></span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black">We welcome high-quality submissions </span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black">with important new theories, methods, applications,
and insights at the intersection of </span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black">image/video processing, text/speech understanding, machine learning, multi-modal learning,</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black"> and
biomedical informatics. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</span><br>
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<li><span style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; background-color: white">Developing and applying cutting-edge machine and multi-modal
learning techniques to tackle real-world medical and healthcare problems.</span><b></b></span></span></span></li><li><span style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; background-color: white">Developing new machine learning approaches to improve
the quantitative representation of high-dimensional medical images and videos for knowledge discovery in biomedicine</span><b></b></span></span></span></li><li><span style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; background-color: white">Designing novel data-fusion methods to integrate multiple
data sources and modalities for enhanced visualization, effective biomarker extraction, and optimal medical decision making.</span><b></b></span></span></span></li><li><span style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; background-color: white">Addressing challenges and roadblocks in biomedical
informatics with reference to the data-driven machine learning, such as imbalanced dataset, weakly-structured or unstructured data, noisy and ambiguous labeling, and more.</span><b></b></span></span></span></li><li><span style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; background-color: white">Other closely related technical advances in image
processing, video processing, audio processing, text understanding, and multi-modal fusion, with application potential in biomedical informatics.</span><b></b></span></span></span></li></ul>
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Biology, including the advanced interpretation of critical biological findings, using databases and cutting-edge computational infrastructure; (2) Clinical Informatics, including the scenarios of using computation and data for health care, spanning medicine,
dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, and allied health; (3) Public Health Informatics, including the studies of patients and populations to improve the public health system and to elucidate epidemiology. (4) mobile Health Applications, including the use of mobile
apps and wearable sensors for health management and wellness promotion; and (5) Cyber-Informatics Applications, including the use of social media data mining and natural language processing for clinical insight discovery and medical decision making.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<b><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(31,56,100); background-color:white">Bing Yao, Ph.D.</span></b></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(31,56,100)">Assistant Professor</span><span style="margin:0px; font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(31,56,100); background-color:white">School of Industrial Engineering & Management</span><span style="margin:0px; font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(80,0,80); background-color:white"></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(31,56,100); background-color:white">Oklahoma State University</span><span style="margin:0px; font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(80,0,80); background-color:white"></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(31,56,100)">342 Engineering North, Stillwater, OK, 74078</span><span style="margin:0px; font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(31,56,100)">Email: </span><u><span style="margin:0px; font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:bing.yao@okstate.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px; color:blue">bing.yao@okstate.edu</span></a></span></u><span style="margin:0px; font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(31,56,100)">;
Tel: 405-744-6055</span></p>
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