<div dir="ltr"><b style="font-size:12.727272033691406px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Call for Papers:</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Optical Society of America (OSA) has added a </span><a href="http://www.osa.org/ja-jp/meetings/optics_and_photonics_congresses/imaging_and_applied_optics/quantitative_medical_imaging/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Quantitative Medical Imaging</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (QMI) meeting to the 2013 </span><a href="http://www.osa.org/en-us/meetings/optics_and_photonics_congresses/imaging_and_applied_optics/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Imaging and Applied Optics Congress</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (June 23-27, 2013). The focus of the QMI meeting is to advance the science of medical imaging algorithms and systems designed to calculate objective, effective, and reproducible quantitative imaging biomarkers. The meeting will cover both basic and applied research on image-based detection and measurement methods for all medical imaging modalities including current image acquisition methods, such as CT, X-Ray, MRI, PET, Ultrasound, Nuclear, as well as emerging biomedical image acquisition methods, such as OCT and thermography.  An emphasis will be placed on automated methods and the optimization of imaging systems and image analysis algorithms. The meeting will cover research topics relevant to optimizing imaging biomarker performance including medical imaging algorithms, such as segmentation and registration algorithms, and medical imaging physics, such as image reconstruction, quality assurance phantoms, image quality metrics, and image correction methods. Optimization of algorithm performance with respect to image modality parameters, such as fundamental imaging characteristics and radiation dose, is highly relevant to this meeting. The integration of these methodologies in Computer-Aided Detection and Diagnostic systems will also be covered. The meeting program will mainly consist of scientific paper presentations with sufficient time allotted for Q&A and comments. Research on quantitative metrics for all imaging methods involved in patient care is sought, including but not limited to diffusion tensor imaging, CT perfusion, cardiac calcification, and the analysis of histology and pathology images. The meeting will emphasize demonstrating scientific reproducibility, thus algorithm performance challenges and open science practices will be encouraged.</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We encourage the submission of short (up to 3 page) papers by </span><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">March 6, 2013</span><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Authors of accepted papers will present at the QMI meeting and the accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of the Congress </span><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">as part of</span><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> OSA’s </span><a href="http://www.opticsinfobase.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Optics Infobase</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> digital library. A selection of meeting papers, expanded to full length papers, will also be published in a special issue of OSA’s Optics Infobase library utilizing </span><a href="http://www.opticsinfobase.org/isp.cfm" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Interactive Science Publishing</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> technology to support open science practices.</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">More information on the QMI meeting, including paper submission instructions, can be found here: <a href="http://www.osa.org/en-us/meetings/optics_and_photonics_congresses/imaging_and_applied_optics/quantitative_medical_imaging/" target="_blank">QMI Meeting</a>.</span></b><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<b style="font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Important Dates:</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Paper Submission Deadline: March 6, 2013</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Imaging and Applied Optics Congress: June 23-27, 2013: </span><br>
<span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Chairs:</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Rick Avila - Kitware</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Raul San Jose Estopar - Brigham & Women’s Hospital</span></b></div>
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