<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br class=""><div><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">VI ECCOMAS Thematic Conference VipIMAGE 2017<br class=""><a href="http://www.fe.up.pt/vipimage" class="">www.fe.up.pt/vipimage</a><br class="">October 18-20, 2017, Porto, Portugal<br class="">Chairs: João Manuel R. S. Tavares & Renato Natal Jorge, Universidade do Porto<br class=""><br class="">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">Dear Colleague,<br class=""><br class="">We are pleased to announce the International Conference VipIMAGE 2017 - VI ECCOMAS THEMATIC CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL VISION AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING (www.fe.up.pt/vipimage) to be held in October 18-20, 2017, in Axis Vermar Conference & Beach Hotel, Porto, Portugal.<br class=""><br class="">Possible Topics (not limited to)<br class=""><br class="">- Signal and Image Processing<br class="">- Computational Vision<br class="">- Medical Imaging<br class="">- Physics of Medical Imaging<br class="">- Tracking and Analysis of Movement<br class="">- Simulation and Modeling<br class="">- Image Acquisition<br class="">- Industrial Applications<br class="">- Shape Reconstruction<br class="">- Segmentation, Matching, Simulation<br class="">- Data Interpolation, Registration, Acquisition and Compression<br class="">- 3D Vision<br class="">- Virtual Reality<br class="">- Visual Inspection<br class="">- Software Development for Image Processing and Analysis<br class="">- Computer Aided Diagnosis, Surgery, Therapy, and Treatment<br class="">- Computational Bioimaging and Visualization<br class="">- Telemedicine Systems and Applications<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Invited Lecturers<br class=""><br class="">- Mário Figueiredo, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal<br class="">- Khan Iftekharuddin, Old Dominion University, USA<br class="">- Leo Joskowicz, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel<br class="">- Gerald Schaefer, Loughborough University, UK<br class="">- Dinggang Shen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA<br class="">- Zeyun Yu, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, USA<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Thematic Sessions<br class=""><br class="">Proposals to organize Thematic Sessions under the auspicious of VipIMAGE 2017 are welcome.<br class="">Proposals for Thematic Sessions should be submitted by email to the conference co-chairs (tavares@fe.up.pt, rnatal@fe.up.pt).<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Publications<br class=""><br class="">Proceedings: The proceedings book will be published by Springer under the book series "Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics" indexed by Elsevier Scopus.<br class="">Journal Publication: A dedicated special issue of the Taylor & Francis international journal "Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization" indexed in Scopus, DBLP and Thomson Reuters Emerging Sources Index will be published with extended versions of the best works presented in the conference.<br class="">Springer Book: A book with invited works from the ones presented in the conference will be organized for publishing by Springer.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Important Dates<br class=""><br class="">- Deadline for Thematic Session Proposals: February 28, 2017<br class="">- Deadline for Extended Abstracts: March 15, 2017<br class="">- Authors Notification: April 15, 2017<br class="">- Deadline for Papers: June 15, 2017<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">We are looking forward to see you in Porto in October, 2017,<br class=""><br class="">João Manuel R. S. Tavares<br class="">Renato Natal Jorge<br class="">(VipIMAGE 2017 co-chairs)<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">For further details, please, have a look in the conference website at: www.fe.up.pt/vipimage, the Facebook page at: www.facebook.com/VipIMAGE2017, or join the LinkedIn group at: www.linkedin.com/groups/4752820.<br class=""></div></div></div><div class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>