[Insight-developers] Special Issue of Medical Image Analysis

[Lorensen, William E (Research)]

CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue of Medical Image Analysis on
Segmentation and Registration using ITK, January 2004 
Published by Elsevier 

Submission Deadline For Full Papers, June 1, 2003

Guest Editors:

Dimitris Metaxas
Rutgers University

Terry S. Yoo
National Library of Medicine
NIH

A special issue of the Medical Image Analysis (MedIA) journal will be
devoted to the topic of segmentation and registration algorithm
development and analysis using the Insight Toolkit (ITK). This project
launched by the National Library of Medicine, NIH in 1999, has
fostered growing interest in the software development community, and
it is beginning to affect new work in image analysis as well as
medical application design. Its position as an open-source project
creates a powerful vehicle for publishing and archiving working
methods as well as enabling rapid development of new applications
using emerging advanced algorithms.  Since ITK began as a collection
of existing algorithms and methods from the medical image processing
community, this special issue will focus on projects and novel work
that add value or derive value from the toolkit: applications and
techniques that use ITK, evaluation, verification, and validation of
algorithms and methods through the available open source software, and
new methods, as they emerge, that are distributed through the
toolkit. We are seeking papers covering all aspects of the analysis
process, emphasizing techniques in segmentation and registration of 3D
and higher dimensional medical data. This call includes papers on
visualization, analysis, perception, and interaction issues.

The special issue will be published online as well as in print, so
images, source code, example data, statistical evaluation tools, and
test metrics are strongly encouraged to accompany published
materials. If a manuscript is accepted, the author(s) are required to
submit source code, test data, and software tools for evaluating the
results, repeating the work from the text.

Example topics include but are not limited to:
O    Emerging (New) object segmentation tools
O    Multimodal registration methods
O    Level set applications and algorithms
O    Ground truth generation and evaluation for algorithm validation
O    Fuzzy and statistical methods for deformable segmentation 
O    Rigid and deformable registration
O    Tools for Medical Visualization using ITK
     automated tools, interactive tools, mathematical tools
O    Evaluation metrics for segmentation and registration methods
O    Application Examples and Case Studies
     medical applications ITK
     validation trials using ITK

The special issue will consist of peer-reviewed original contributions
and peer-reviewed invited contributions of an explanatory/review type.
We expect to have a fast reviewing process and publish the special
issue less than one year after the deadline for submitting papers (see
below).
Manuscripts that are commercial in nature will not be considered.
Manuscripts are reviewed and refereed. Those accepted for publication
are edited for conformance to the journal's style.
We encourage the use of color when required.
For additional information on submissions and manuscript styles please
check the web site at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/medima/
If you have any additional questions, don't hesitate to contact either
of the guest editors.
To be a reviewer for this special issue please contact Dimitris
Metaxas by e-mail with a list of topic areas you would be interested
in reviewing.

GUEST EDITORS

Dimitris Metaxas
Center for Computational Bioimedicine, Imaging and Modeling
Division of Computer and Information Sciences and Dept of Biomedical Eng.
Rutgers University 
110 Frelinghuysen Rd.
Piscataway, NJ 08817 USA
e-mail: dnm@cs.rutgers.edu

Terry S. Yoo
Office of High Performance Computing and Communications
National Library of Medicine
National Institutes of Health
8600 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20894 USA
email - yoo@nlm.nih.gov 

Prospective authors should follow the regular guidelines of the
Medical Image Analysis (MedIA) and submit the paper to the Journal
Editorial Office (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/medima/)

When submitting the manuscripts, authors should indicate in the cover
letter and body of the paper that the submission is for this special
issue.

The deadline for submission is June 1, 2003. It is planned that the
special issue will appear in the first quarter of the year 2004.