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Keynote speakers

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Karsten Borgwardt
Head of the Machine Learning & Computational Biology Lab at ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Talk title: Predicting medical complications in intensive care: early recognition of sepsis using machine learning


Ombretta

Ombretta Melaiu
Researcher at Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Italy
Talk title: Cellular and gene signatures of tumor-infiltrating dendritic cells and natural-killer cells predict prognosis of neuroblastoma


AndreCarrington

André M. Carrington
Associate scientist at Ottawa Hospital and Region Imaging Associates, Canada
Talk title: A new concordant partial AUC and partial c statistic for imbalanced data in the evaluation of machine learning algorithms


JacquesBalayla

Jacques Balayla
Faculty lecturer and medical doctor at McGill University, Canada
Talk title: The prevalence threshold metric and its application to obstetrics and gynecology screening tests


Invited speakers

DmytroFishman

Dmytro Fishman
Lecturer at Tartu Ülikool, Estonia
Invited speaker for the special session "Towards standardizing machine learning in life sciences: the FAIR principles and the DOME recommendations"
Talk title: DOME: recommendations for supervised machine learning validation in biology


Invited lecturers

StefanoTonzani

Stefano Tonzani
Lead academic editor of the iScience scientific journal, Cell Press
Talk title: Interdisciplinary research and scientific journals: how to get the best out of both


OlafWolkenhauer

Olaf Wolkenhauer
Professor at the Universität Rostock, Germany
Talk title: Successful writing of bioinformatics grant proposals