Posted By: David Kennedy - Apr 8, 2008
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First Call for Papers
MICCAI 2008 Workshop on Analysis of Functional Medical Images
New York University, September 10, 2008

Scope and Objectives:
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The development of computational algorithms for the analysis of anatomical/structural medical images depicting only a snapshot of the living tissue has been the primary focus of past MICCAI proceedings and workshops. Medical imaging modalities that capture changes in living tissue with time are becoming more prevalent and provide a valuable source of knowledge about tissue and organ processes and physiology. This workshop provides a venue for presenting the latest advances in mathematical techniques and computational algorithms for extracting clinically relevant information from functional and time-varying medical image data.

Topics:
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Contributions are solicited in, but are not limited to, the following areas:

* Novel algorithms for processing and analysis of functional medical image data, including denoising, enhancement, restoration, clustering, segmentation, tracking, matching, registration, fusion, and kinetic modeling

* Methods for information extraction from functional medical image modalities including positron emission tomography (PET), single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE MRI), tagged MRI, phase contrast MRI, flow imaging, ultrasound, and from multi-modal data fused with other signals such as MEG or EEG.

* Functional medical image computing algorithms (computational physiology) for quantification and analysis of electro-physiological signals, motion patterns, tracer uptake and tissue kinetics, perfusion, flow, activation patterns, responses to stimuli, progress of pathology or treatments, and other processes related to cardiac, neural, musculoskeletal, renal, blood and other organs, tissues, and fluids at a variety of scales of molecular, cellular, tissue, organ, and whole body imaging.

Important Dates:
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Paper Submission: June 1, 2008
Notification of Acceptance: July 1, 2008
Camera-Ready Papers: July 14, 2008.
Workshop: September 10, 2008.

Organizers:
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Ghassan Hamarneh
Medical Image Analysis Lab
Simon Fraser University, Canada
http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~hamarneh
http://mial.cs.sfu.ca

Rafeef Abugharbieh
Biomedical Signal and Image Computing Lab
University of British Columbia, Canada
http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~rafeef/
http://bisicl.ece.ubc.ca/

Organizing Committee:
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Keith Worsley (McGill, Canada)
Leon Axel (NYU, USA)
Herve Delingette (INRIA, France)

Program and Review Committee:
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John Ashburner (UCL, UK)
John Aston (Institute of Statistical Science, Taiwan)
Anna Celler (Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Canada)
David Dagan Feng (U Sydney, Australia)
Ola Friman (MeVis Research GmbH, Germany)
Hongbin Guo (Arizona State University, USA)
Lars K. Hansen (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
Hans Knutsson (Linkoping U, Sweden)
Martin McKeown (UBC, Canada)
James J. Pekar (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Maxime Sermesant (INRIA, France)
Arkadiusz Sitek (E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
Vesna Sossi (UBC, Canada)
Piotr Slomka (UCLA, USA)
Stephen C. Strother (VA Medical Center, Minnesota, USA)

Website:
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For up-to-date information visit
http://bisicl.ece.ubc.ca/functional2008/
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