[Insight-developers] [Miccai-2006] Computational Biomechanics for Medicine: a MICCAI 2006 satellite workshop.

[Luis Ibanez]

Computational Biomechanics for Medicine:
a MICCAI 2006 satellite workshop.

          Call for papers

Computational Biomechanics for Medicine

  http://cbm2006.mech.uwa.edu.au/index.html

will be held in Copenhagen on 1 October 2006,
in conjunction with MICCAI 2006

       http://www.miccai2006.dk/.



Rationale:

A novel partnership between surgeons and machines, made possible
by advances in computing and engineering technology, could
overcome many of the limitations of traditional surgery.
By extending the surgeons' ability to plan and carry out surgical
interventions more accurately and with less trauma, Computer-Integrated
Surgery (CIS) systems could help to improve clinical outcomes and the
efficiency of health care delivery. CIS systems could have a similar
impact on surgery to that long since realized in Computer-Integrated
Manufacturing (CIM). Mathematical modelling and computer simulation
have proved tremendously successful in engineering. Computational
mechanics has enabled technological developments in virtually every
area of our lives. One of the greatest challenges for mechanists is
to extend the success of computational mechanics to fields outside
traditional engineering, in particular to biology, biomedical sciences,
and medicine.

The proposed workshop will provide an opportunity for computational
biomechanics specialists to present and exchange opinions on the
opportunities of applying their techniques to computer-integrated
medicine.


Scope:

Two streams are planned:

1. Computational solid mechanics,
    lead by Karol Miller
    kmiller at mech.uwa.edu.au

2. Computational fluid mechanics,
    lead by Dimos Poulikakos
    poulikakos at ltnt.iet.mavt.ethz.ch


We solicit papers that use methods of computational
biomechanics in the following application areas:

* Medical image analysis
* Image-guided surgery
* Surgical simulation
* Surgical intervention planning
* Surgical technique development
* Disease prognosis and diagnosis
* Injury mechanism analysis
* Surgical aid design
* Artificial organs
* Implant and prostheses design
* Medical robotics
* Tissue engineering
* Understanding of embryonic development
* Understanding of aging


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Key dates

* Deadline for paper submission: 30 of April 2006
* Notification of acceptance: 30 June 2006
* Workshop: 1 October 2006


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Submission

Papers should be emailed (in .pdf format)
to Karol Miller
kmiller at mech.uwa.edu.au



The length of papers including figures and references is
between six (6) and ten (10) pages. The same submission
format as for MICCAI Conference is required.

Please, use templates defined on the MICCAI pages.

Papers will be refereed by at least two experts and
published in Workshop Proceedings that will be
distributed to participants.



Double submissions for the MICCAI Conference and for the
workshop are allowed. Authors should indicate this in both
their MICCAI submission and Workshop submission. If a paper
is accepted both by the MICCAI 2006 conference and by the
Workshop, the paper will be published in the MICCAI proceedings,
and the extended abstract will be published in Workshop Proceedings.


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Chairs

* Karol Miller,
   Intelligent Systems for Medicine Laboratory,
   The University of Western Australia

* Dimos Poulikakos,
   Laboratory of Thermodynamics in Emerging Technologies,
   Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich





Karol Miller, Assoc. Prof. Dr habil.
Director, Intelligent Systems for Medicine Lab.
Deputy Chair of Mechatronics
School of Mechanical Engineering
The University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway
Crawley WA 6009, AUSTRALIA
Phone: + (61) 8 6488 7323
Fax:   + (61) 8 6488 1024
Email: kmiller at mech.uwa.edu.au
http://www.mech.uwa.edu.au/~kmiller/
http://www.mech.uwa.edu.au/ISML/
The University of Western Australia: CRICOS Provider No. 00126G


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