IDAL participated in the prestigious IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), that was held in Barcelona from 12th to 15th December 2016. José D. Martín chaired and co-organized the 4th Workshop on Data Mining in Biomedical Informatics and Health (DMBIH); many researchers attended DMBIH that began with a keynote talk given by Prof. Paulo J. G. Lisboa, Professor and Head of Department of Applied Mathematics at Liverpool John Moores University. Besides, five IDAL members co-authored a work entitled “Machine Learning for modeling the biomechanical behavior of human soft tissue”