The following topics as used by the IEEE CS are covered by DAS2018 Main topics I 3 3 c Digitizing and scanning I 4 Image Processing and Computer Vision I 5 Pattern Recognition Additional topics F 2 2 d Pattern matching F 4 2 a Decision problems G 1 6 Optimization G 2 2 Graph Theory G 3 Probability and Statistics H 2 8 b Clustering, classification, and association rules H 2 8 c Data and knowledge visualization H 2 8 d Data mining H 2 8 e Feature extraction or construction H 2 8 f Knowledge management applications H 2 8 g Image databases H 2 8 h Interactive data exploration and discovery H 2 8 i Mining methods and algorithms H 2 8 j Modeling structured, textual and multimedia data H 3 7 Digital Libraries H 5 1 f Image video retrieval I 2 1 b Computer vision I 2 6 g Machine learning.