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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Workshop Announcement </FONT>
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<P><B><FONT SIZE=5 FACE="Arial">Microscopic Image Analysis with Applications in Biology </FONT></B>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=5 FACE="Arial">Sep 21 2007</FONT></B>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=5 FACE="Arial">Piscataway, NJ</FONT></B>
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<P><FONT FACE="Arial">The automatic analysis of microscope imagery plays an increasingly important role in biosciences research. Novel imaging devices such as the confocal and two photon (or multi-photon) electron microscope, automated stages for electron microscopy, and higher resolution electron tomography enable researchers to image biological systems at the cellular and sub-cellular scale. These datasets pose a number of challenges that are very distinct from conventional clinical imagery in their size and abundance, the detail of relevant features and their statistics. Sophisticated algorithms are necessary to process such imagery and extract biologically relevant features and information. The design, development and application of such algorithms are the focus of </FONT><A HREF="http://www.miaab.org/miaab-2007-call-for-papers.html"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial">this workshop</FONT></U></A><FONT FACE="Arial">. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Arial">The first international workshop on </FONT><A HREF="http://www.miaab.org/miaab-2007-call-for-papers.html"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial">Microscopic Image Analysis with Applications in Biology</FONT></U></A><FONT FACE="Arial">, MIAAB 2006 was held in conjunction with MICCAI 2006. Based on the strong interest and high quality of the submissions we decided to hold this workshop as an independent one day event in 2007. Biological datasets pose a number of challenges that are very distinct from conventional clinical imagery in their size and abundance, the detail of relevant features and their statistics. Sophisticated algorithms are necessary to process such imagery and extract biologically relevant features and information.</FONT></P>
<P><B><FONT FACE="Arial">Please visit </FONT></B><A HREF="file://www.miaab.org"><B><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial">www.miaab.org</FONT></U></B></A><B><FONT FACE="Arial"> for the full call of for papers. </FONT></B>
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<P><B><FONT COLOR="#000080" FACE="Comic Sans MS">Jim Miller</FONT></B><FONT FACE="Arial Unicode MS"><BR>
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<I></I><I></I><I><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">Visualization & Computer Vision<BR>
GE Research<BR>
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<BR><I><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">(518) 387-4005, Dial Comm: 8*833-4005</FONT></I>
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