NEWS & EVENTS

Also during the summer term 2012 we offer - as an optional seminar - a methodic seminar for biostatistics. This seminar is scheduled for students who need assistance concerning statistical aspects of their diploma thesis. Within the seminar the students have to present their projects. A registration, including the usual personal data, is necessary.

3^rd International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2012) and 7^th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2012)

• Betge, J; Schneider, NI; Pollheimer, MJ; Lindtner, RA; Kornprat, P; Schlemmer, A; Rehak, P; Langner, C: Is there a rationale to record lymphatic invasion in node-positive colorectal cancer?
  J Clin Pathol. 2012; [published online ahead of print May 8, 2012].
• Koestenberger, M; Nagel, B; Avian, A; Ravekes, W; Sorantin, E; Cvirn, G; Beran, E; Halb, V; Gamillscheg, A: Systolic Right Ventricular Function in Children and Young Adults with Pulmonary Artery Hypertension Secondary to Congenital Heart Disease and Tetralogy of Fallot: Tricuspid Annular Plane Systolic Excursion (TAPSE) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data.
  Congenit Heart Dis. 2012; [published online ahead of print Aril 12, 2012].
• Lax, S; Schauer, G; Prein, K; Kapitan, M; Silbert, D; Berghold, A; Berger, A; Trauner, M: Expression of the nuclear bile acid receptor/farnesoid X receptor is reduced in human colon carcinoma compared to nonneoplastic mucosa independent from site and may be associated with adverse prognosis.
  Int J Cancer. 2012; 130(10): 2232-2239.
• Robier, C; Quehenberger, F; Neubauer, M; Stettin, M; Rainer, F: Pseudoeosinophilia of synovial fluid is caused by crystals mimicking the distinct light scattering fractions of eosinophilic granules.
  Clin Chem Lab Med. 2012; 50(2): 371-373.
• Trbusic, M; Riederer, M; Vucic, M; Lovricevic, I; Kruslin, B; Gauster, M; Mohrenz, S; Berghold, A; Tiran, B; Degoricija, V; Frank, S: Increased expression of endothelial lipase in symptomatic and unstable carotid plaques.
  J Neurol. 2012; 259(3): 448-456.

Theme: Population based studies and surveys

7^th Conference of the Austrian Computer Society
Workgroup: Human-Computer Interaction

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Andreas Holzinger visited the eHealth-group at HumTec. HumTec is an interdisciplinary project house at RWTH Aachen University.

At the IEEE ICE-B 2010 Conference, which took place at the University of Piraeus, Athens (410 contributions, 11 % acceptance rate), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Andreas Holzinger, Head of the Research Unit HCI4MED of the Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation of the Medical University of Graz, won the Best Paper Award with the paper "Preferences of Handwriting Recognition on Mobile Information Systems in Medicine - Improving Handwriting Algorithm on the Basis of Real-life Usability Research" (by Andreas Holzinger, Martin Schlögl, Bernhard Peischl and Matjaz Debevc).

Dr. Ruth Pfeiffer, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, USA

Dr. Marino Menozzi, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich

Prof. Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Vienna University of Technology

At the conference of the GMA (Association for Medical Education), which took place in Freiburg from October 8th until October 10th, 2009, one of the three Poster Awards for exceptional research activities was awarded to Johannes Bernhardt. He presented his Poster entitled "Simulation of a mycological KOH-preparation - two e-learning studies and their results".

Prof. Michele La Rocca, PhD,
Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Salerno, Italy

At the 26th ROeS-Seminar (Austrian-Swiss Region of the International Biometric Society), which took place at the Johannes-Kepler-University in Linz from September 14th to September 17th, 2009, Thomas Mendlik presented the Poster entitled "Different Computational Methods for the Analysis of Generalized Linear Models for Binary Longitudinal Data". This excellent contribution was rewarded with a Poster-Award!

On June 24th, 2009, this year’s Award for Applied Statistics of the Austrian Statistical Society (OSG) was awarded to Regina Riedl for her diploma thesis "Linear Mixed Models for Longitudinal Data".

Hans Ulrich Burger,
F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Basel

Dr. Brandon R. Grossardt,
Mayo Clinic, Division of Biostatistics, Rochester, MN (USA)

Prof. Dr. Ray Adams,
School of Computing Science, Middlesex University, London

Muhammad Shuaib Karim,
Institute for Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology

Prof. Dr. Franz Wotawa,
Institute for Software Technology, Graz University of Technology

Prof. Dr. Peter Martus,
Department of Medical Informatics, Biometry, and Epidemiology (Charité Berlin)

Dr. Deane Arganbright,
Department of Scientific Computing, University of Vienna

Lisa Ehrenstrasser,
Institute of Design and Assessment of Technology, Vienna University of Technology