IDAL member José D. Martín to organize the special session entitled “Machine explanation – interpretation of machine learning models for medicine and bioinformatics”, at the 15th International Conference on Computational Intelligence methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics (CIBB 2018). The conference will be held next 6th-8th September, at Caparica (Portugal) The aim of the session is to report original research and case studies where models are explained and verified using clinical or bioinformatics knowledge. This may involve machine learning methods that are interpretable by design, links made between databased methods and knowledge-based systems, or integration of structure finding algorithms into medical decision making for instance in the form of Bayesian Belief Networks.