MDA'2017
Report of MDA 2017 in New York, USA
July 24th, 2017 The MDA2017 is over now. It was a great success. People from different countries contributed to the conference and presented their brand-new research results. The acceptance rate for the papers were 33 percent. The presentations of the work were impressive and the audience contributed a lot with very profound questions and remarks. The conference was very inspiring to the authors and participants and we hope you are coming back with your new work on the respective topics or you now start your own research on mass data analysis of signals and images. People enjoyed talking and discussing topics during the breaks with each other and a lot of new groundbreaking topics were raised during that discussions. It was a very inspiring and encouraging work atmosphere during the conference that people enjoyed very much.
The tutorials were another inspiring occasion that have been taken by a large number of people. We recognized a tremendous increase of interest in the topics. That shows us that we have made further success in bringing these topics to the attention of researchers and practicioner. The participants have got a profound introduction into the area as well as a deep understanding of the different data mining techniques. Inspiring were also the lessons learnt from the different application areas that brought to the mind of the people what is necessary when doing data mining and knowledge discovery or case-based reasoning. The tutorial Intelligent image processing gave a deep insight in the different new methods that allow built real models for image processing, analysis and understanding. The tutorial Standardization showed once more how important it is to have automatic systems to come up with a good quality of the results.
New York as well was a very inspiring place and people took the freedom to enjoyed seeing the city and its attraction as well as the surrounding cities of New York and their attractions after the conference.
The proceedings have been published by ibai publishing and can be found under Advances in Mass Data Analysis of Images and Signals in Medicine, Biotechnology, Chemistry and Food Industry, 12th International Conference, MDA 2017 Petra Perner (Eds.), ibai publishing, Leipzig 2017 ISSN 1864-9734, ISBN 978-3-942952-49-1, http://www.mda-signals.de/books/mda2017.pdf.
There will also be a special issue of selected papers after the conference in each of the International Journals Transaction of Case-Based Reasoning, and Transaction of Mass Data Analysis of Signals and Images (www.ibai-publishing.org).
The CALL FOR PAPERS is now open for 2018. The conference will be held in New York/USA again. Please watch the website for the latest news.
Thank you to all participants for taking MDA 2017 and making it to a great success.
We are looking forward to welcome you in 2018 to MDA again.
Prof. Dr. Petra Perner
Chair MDA

