Apologies for cross-posting ESANN 2011 Special Session: "Seeing is believing: The importance of visualization in real-world machine learning applications" European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning 27-29 April 2011, Bruges, Belgium http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/esann Sponsors: IEEE CIS Task Forces on Data Visualization and Data Analysis, and on Medical Data Analysis; INNS SIG on Biopattern. ======================= AIMS & SCOPE ============ Data visualization is crucial in many real-world problems dealing with knowledge extraction. Adequate and intuitive data visualization techniques may provide much insight about the information underlying a given data set. Visualization processes are usually unproblematic when data sets consist of only a reduced number of attributes, but the scenario may become much more difficult when dealing with high-dimensional data. These are becoming increasingly common in real-world applications. Straightforward visualization can also be non-trivial for structured data such as large trees, graphs or time series. Lately, much research in the machine learning and computational intelligence fields has been devoted to the development of high-dimensional and structured data visualization techniques. Dynamic and/or interactive visualization methods are also becoming more readily available. This session aims to respond to the need for such techniques in real-world application areas for which visualization is paramount. A particular emphasis will be put on medical applications, but the submission of results from other fields is encouraged, especially if research addresses the challenges outlined above, concerning data dimensionality or complexity issues. The theme should appeal both to scientists interested in the development of novel data visualization methods and to those mainly interested in the application of such techniques to specific real problems. Session organizers: Dr. Alfredo Vellido (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain), Dr. José D. Martín (University of Valencia, Spain), Prof. Paulo J. G. Lisboa (Liverpool John Moores University, U.K.) Prof. Fabrice Rossi (Télécom ParisTech, France). ================================================ Important dates: deadline for submission: November, 24th