2nd International Symposium on Medical Data Analysis

With the organization of the SEIS, the Spanish Health Informatics Society

The 2nd International Symposium on Medical Data Analysis (ISMDA-2001) aims to integrate interdisciplinary research from scientific fields such as statistics, signal processing, medical informatics, data mining and biometrics for biomedical data analysis. It will provide an international forum for sharing and exchanging of original research results, ideas and practical development experiences among researchers and application developers from different medical application related areas dealing with the analysis of biomedical data and its impact.

ISMDA 2001 will be held in Madrid, the capital of Spain, a city with an exciting cultural and social life, with some of the most important museums of the world, such as the Prado, the Thyssen or the Centro Reina Sofía. Famous painting such as Velazquez´s Las Meninas or Picasso´s Guernica can be seen here. Many monuments, classical buildings, royal palaces, and theaters offering operas and zarzuelas can be visited most part of the year. Madrid has a amazing night life with many restaurants and shows, ranging from the opera or zarzuela to flamenco. Spain is the second most visited country in the world, with 60 million visitors in the year 2000.

Madrid can be reached by airplane, train or highways. The airport is located at Barajas, near Madrid, and it is directly connected to the city by taxi, bus or train. For further details, look at How To Come.

The symposium will take place in the conference rooms of the hotel Monterreal, a first rate accommodation and convention site, which is also the usual concentration place for the famous Real Madrid football team. There is a limited number of rooms already available for conference attendees. Once these rooms are booked, attendants can select a hotel from the wide offer of Madrid. It advisable to book some weeks in advance. See "hotels" for details.

The official language of the conference is English. It will be used for all printed material, presentations and discussions.

All questions concerning ISMDA 2001 may be sent by e-mail (preferred) to ISMDA@fi.upm.es (for author information) or cefic@cefic.com (for all conference topics)

Prof. Victor Maojo, Chair
Facultad de Informatica
Polytechnical University of Madrid
Boadilla del Monte. 28660 Madrid. Spain.
Email: vmaojo@fi.upm.es

Dr. Fernando Martin Sánchez,
Scientific Committee Coordinator
Instituto de Salud "Carlos III"
Ctra. Majadahonda a Pozuelo, Km. 2
28220 Majadahonda – Madrid. Spain
Email: fmartin@isciii.es

CEFIC, Technical secretary ISMDA 2001
C/ Olimpo, 33 - 1º C
28043 - MADRID
Phone: 34 91 388 9478
Fax: 34 91 388 9479

2^nd International Symposium on Medical Data Analysis

ISMDA 2001

October 8-9, 2001. Madrid, Spain.

Conference location: Hotel Monterreal