Activities of the TF

2019

Conference Special Sessions

The 2019 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) Budapest, Hungary, July 14-19, on “Explainable Machine Learning” Organizers: Lisboa, Paulo JG; Bacciu, Davide; Martín, José D.; Vellido, Alfredo
The 27th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN), Bruges, Belgium, 24-26 April 2019, on “Societal Issues in Machine Learning: When Learning from Data is Not Enough“, Organizers: Davide Bacciu, Battista Biggio, Paulo J. G. Lisboa, José D. Martín, Luca Oneto, Alfredo Vellido (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
European Conference on Data Analysis (ECDA), Bayreuth, Germany, 18-20 March, 2019,on “Interpretable Machine Learning”. Organizer: Paulo JG Lisboa.

Conference organization

Alfredo Vellido (chairman), José D. Martín (co-chair) 13th International Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps and Learning Vector Quantization, Clustering and Data Visualization (WSOM+19) Barcelona, Spain, 26-28th June, 2019. The conference included tracks on (bio)medical applications.

Workshop organization

Alfredo Vellido (co-chair) “3rd Science for Dialysis Meeting: Artificial Intelligence” at Bellvitge University Hospital. L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain, September 2019

Invited keynote talks

Paulo J.G. Lisboa “Unsupervised Machine Learning in Sports Analytics“. 13th International Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps and Learning Vector Quantization, Clustering and Data Visualization (WSOM+19) Barcelona, Spain, 26-28th June, 2019.
Alfredo Vellido “Interpretability, explainability, and rigurous validation of AI tools for clinical decison making“. Workshop on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (HUMAINT) Barcelona, Spain, 7th May, 2019.
Alfredo Vellido “Cautionary tales about the application of AI in healthcare“. 1st Industrial Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Health (ICAIH 2019) Milano, Italy, 13-14th November, 2019.

2018

Special sessions

IWBBIO 2018 (Granada, Spain): “Interpretable models in biomedicine and bioinformatics“, organized by Alfredo Vellido (UPC, Barcelona, Spain), Iván Olier and Sandra Ortega-Martorell (LJMU, Liverpool, UK) and Alessandra Tosi (Oxford University, Oxford, UK)
CIBB 2018 (Lisbon, Portugal): “Machine explanation – Interpretation of Machine Learning Models for Medicine and Bioinformatics”, organized by Davide Bacciu (Università di Pisa, Italy), Paulo J.G. Lisboa (LJMU, Liverpool, UK) , José D. Martín (Universitat de València, Spain) and Alfredo Vellido (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
ESANN 2018 (Bruges, Belgium) : “Deep Learning in Bioinformatics and Medicine“, organized by Miguel Atencia (Universidad de Málaga, Spain), Davide Bacciu (Università di Pisa, Italy), Paulo J. G. Lisboa (Liverpool John Moores University, UK), José D. Martín, (Universitat de València, Spain), Ruxandra Stoean (University of Craiova, Romania), Alfredo Vellido (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)