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CD-MAKE 2021: Call for papers!

Submit your best new manuscript now for CD-MAKE 2021 – the International IFIP Cross Domain (CD) Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction (MAKE)! The Deadline for submission will be extended into April. CD-MAKE 2021 takes place from 17-20 August at the Technical University (TU) in Vienna, Austria, but the organisers are prepared to convert the meeting to an all-digital event if needed (dates would remain the same). It is an important FeatureCloud event and is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability & Security, ARES 2021.

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New FeatureCloud publication on automated medical decision making

In their newest paper, Prof. Holzinger and colleagues describe a novel holistic approach to an automated medical decision pipeline that builds on the latest machine learning research, integrating the human-in-the-loop via an innovative, interactive, and exploration-based explainability technique called counterfactual graphs. The publication outlines how multi-modal representations enable joint learning of a single outcome, how embeddings can be learned in a distributed manner securely and efficiently, and how to leverage counterfactual paths for intuitive explainability and causability.

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The FeatureCloud AI Store is born!

The FeatureCloud AI Store is now ready! With this novel software platform and app store, we are trying to revolutionise privacy-aware AI for healthcare. Check it out. You can easily create projects, use analysis apps, build machine learning models without programming knowledge, and collaborate with other institutions without sharing your datasets. It’s an entirely new approach and a concept that we hope will be widely used by medical doctors, researchers, and developers.

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H2020 Synergy – ECSCI

Also in this summer, FeatureCloud joined the European Cluster for Securing Critical Infrastructures. ECSCI is a cluster of H2020 projects for securing critical infrastructures. Its main objective is to bring about synergetic, emerging disruptive solutions to security issues via cross-projects collaboration and innovation. The cluster will research how to protect critical infrastructures and services, highlighting differences (approaches, sectors of interest, etc.) between the clustered projects and establishing tight and productive connections with closely related and complementary H2020 projects.

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H2020 Synergy – SPHINX

Starting in August FeatureCloud is collaborating with the related H2020 project SPHINX in the field of cybersecurity in the healthcare sector. The main target of this synergy is to identify common problems, discuss about the practices that each project prepares, and establish a joint task force. All the projects that are members of this synergy are oriented to cybersecurity in Health sector, so it is more than useful to exchange information and observe the different methodologies and approaches and how they are implemented, so we can all develop effective practices during the lifetime of our projects.

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Reporting of 1st research period submitted to EU

Click here to read the Publishable Summary of the 1st Research Period (1st January 2019 – 30th April 2020).

Identification of drug repurposing candidates for treatment of Covid-19

In order to find out which existing drugs might be suitable for the treatment of Covid-19, numerous research groups from all over the world are working on systems medicine approaches. A research team from the Chair of Experimental Bioinformatics (ExBio) at the TUM School of Life Sciences of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now developed the first online data analysis platform (CoVex) for this purpose:

The Coronavirus Explorer (CoVex) integrates the virus-human interactome for SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV. CoVex is designed to help provide a comprehensive understanding of the infection mechanisms and focuses not only on the virus and its direct interaction partners, but in particular involves the host-protein interaction network.

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Final COST action OpenMultiMed Conference on Multiscale Systems and Network Medicine

Our main objective is to gather a critical mass of researchers and stakeholders from different disciplines and coordinate these researchers as a team to define, investigate important S&T challenges in multiscale systems medicine and to improve existing and develop novel solutions for multiscale systems medicine. ​

International Conference on Systems and Network Medicine

18 – 19 March 2020

TranslaTUM, Technischen Universität München

Einsteinstraße 25, 81675 Munich, Germany

www.baumbachlab.net/openmultimed-conference

FeatureCloud project flyer now available!

Click on the thumbnail image on the left to view the web version of the new FeatureCloud project flyer (in DIN A5 size). For distribution at scientific conferences, there are 2 different print versions available for project members via Keyways, one with scientists as the primary target group, one with patients & the public as the primary target group.

FeatureCloud Workshop for Developers

27 – 29 November 2019

A lot of thoughts and effort have already been put into the platform architecture this year. In this workshop, we would like to take a close look at all the requirements again and decide on the final technologies considering as many perspectives as possible – ranging from privacy awareness to user experience.

FeatureCloud at Convergence 2019

FeatureCloud at SRE 2019

FeatureCloud members Rudolf Mayer from SBA Research and Walter Hötzendorfer from Research Institute presented the FeatureCloud project at the “Security Research Event 2019” in Helsinki (6-7 Nov 2019). 

CD-MAKE 2019

Prof. Dr. Andreas Holzinger and colleagues again organised the “Cross-Domain Conference for Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction” (CD-MAKE 2019) that was co-located with ARES 2019 in Canterbury, UK, August 26-29, 2019.

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FeatureCloud takes off!

Today, the 5-year long, pan-European research & development project began. We are excited to roll up our sleeves and start work!