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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dear
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(APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE COPIES OF THIS CfP) </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> You are invited
to submit a paper to the MICCAI workshop: </SPAN><SPAN
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align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The 1st
International Workshop on Computer Vision for Intravascular and
Intracardiac Imaging</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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align=center><st1:date w:st="on" Month="10" Day="6" Year="2006"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">October 6,
2006</SPAN></st1:date><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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align=center><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Copenhagen</SPAN></st1:City><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Denmark</st1:country-region></SPAN></st1:place><SPAN
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<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The submission
deadline is <st1:date w:st="on" Month="5" Day="15" Year="2006"><STRONG>May 15,
2006</STRONG></st1:date>. Double submissions with the MICCAI
conference are allowed. </SPAN><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The workshop aims at bringing
together researchers in the field of intravascular and intracardiac imaging and
present relevant state-of-the-art techniques in computer vision and image
processing. </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><STRONG>Relevant
topics</STRONG> for the workshop include (but <STRONG>not limited
to</STRONG>):</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #00339a; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 17.85pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">-- Atherosclerotic
plaque image analysis and characterization</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black">
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 17.85pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">-- Quantification of
vascular morphology and function</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 17.85pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">-- Tissue
classification of intravascular images</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black">
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 17.85pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">-- Computer-aided
diagnosis of vascular disease</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 17.85pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">-- Segmentation and
anatomic modeling from IVUS, OCT, IVMR, etc.</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black">
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 17.85pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">-- Image-based
biomechanical models of vascular anatomy and function</SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: black"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 17.85pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">-- Registration of
intravascular/intracardiac images</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 17.85pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">-- Image processing
methods for intravascular/intracardiac contrast agent applications</SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: black"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 17.85pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">-- Hemodynamic
image-based modeling </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 17.85pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">-- Percutaneous
imaging/intervention, including IVUS, OCT, IVMR, microCT.</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p><FONT size=2></FONT></o:p></SPAN> </P>
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class=084095321-01052006>******</SPAN><SPAN
class=084095321-01052006>********</SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><STRONG>A special issue</STRONG> on selected
and extended workshop papers will be published in the<SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">IEEE
Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine<SPAN
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*************************************</SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
class=084095321-01052006>***** </SPAN>There will be <STRONG>two invited
speeches</STRONG><SPAN class=084095321-01052006>:</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
class=084095321-01052006></SPAN><SPAN
class=084095321-01052006> * </SPAN>Dr.
Milan Sonka (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Iowa</st1:PlaceName></st1:place><SPAN
class=084095321-01052006>)</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
class=084095321-01052006></SPAN><SPAN
class=084095321-01052006> * </SPAN>Dr.
Stephane Carlier (Columbia University-CRF)</SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN> </P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
class=084095321-01052006>*** </SPAN><STRONG>A special panel</STRONG> with
industry participants on current and future trends of intravascular and
intracardiac imaging, is currently being planned.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><STRONG>General Chair:</STRONG><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Gozde Unal (Siemens
Corporate Research) </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><STRONG>Program Chairs:</STRONG>
Ioannis Kakadiaris (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Houston</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Greg Slabaugh (Siemens Corporate
Research)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Allen Tannenbaum (Georgia Institute of
Technology) </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><STRONG>Program
Committee:</STRONG> Ergin Atalar (<st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Johns</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Hopkins</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>), </SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
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</SPAN>Guy Cloutier (<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Montreal</st1:PlaceName>) </SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
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</SPAN>Jouke Dijkstra (<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Leiden</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>)</SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
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</SPAN>Tomas Gustavsson (Chalmers University of Technology)</SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
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</SPAN>Petia Radeva (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)</SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
class=084095321-01052006> </SPAN>J.H.C.
Reiber (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Leiden</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>)</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The Call for Papers is
attached. Please distribute to your fellow researchers.</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Kind
Regards,</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN> </P>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Gozde Unal, Ph.D.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Siemens Corporate Research</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Phone: 609-734-3571</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Fax :
609-734-6565</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>email :
gozde.unal@siemens.com</FONT></DIV>
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