[Insight-developers] CFP: MICCAI 2006 Workshop on Microscopic Image Analysis with Applications in Biology

[Lorensen, William E (GE, Research)]

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MICCAI 2006 Workshop on 
Microscopic Image Analysis with Applications in Biology 

Call forPapers

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 this workshop.

We welcome original, previously unpublished papers on image analysis
of microscopic data that focus on biomedical applications. Papers on
all microscopic data including widefield, fluorescence, confocal,
multiphoton, multi-spectral, phase contrast, differential interference
contrast, quadrature tomographic are welcome. Selected papers of the
workshop will be considered for publication in a special issue of the
Medical Image Analysis Journal. In addition selected authors will be
asked to contributed chapters to a book on "Bioinformatics and
Biomedical Image Computing".
		

The suggested list of topics are

    * Image formation and reconstruction
    * Multi-spectral and volume segmentation
    * Shape analysis and morphology
    * Visual tracking and motion analysis
    * Analysis of timelapse microscopy data
    * Inter- and intra-modality image registration
    * Computer-aided detection and counting
    * Feature extraction and pattern recognition
    * Statistical methods and population based analysis
    * Image analysis for high-throughput screening
    * High-content analysis of neuro- biological data
    * Spatiotemporal dynamics of signaling pathways
    * Disease-specific analysis of tissue arrays for pathology 

Dates

Submission of full papers: 1 May 2006
Notification of authors: 20 June 2006
Final paper submission: 1 July 2006
Workshop: 5 October 2006 


Organizers

    * Dimitris N. Metaxas (Rutgers, USA)
    * Ross T. Whitaker (University of Utah, USA)
    * Jens Rittscher (GE Global Research, USA)
    * Thomas B. Sebastian (GE Global Research, USA) 

Program Committee

    * Anders Heyden (Lund University, Sweden)
    * Scott T. Acton (University of Virginia, USA)
    * Jean-Christophe Olivio-Marin (Institut Pasteur, France)
    * Benjamin B. Kimia (Brown, USA)
    * Michael Unser (EPFL, Switzerland)
    * Stephen Wong (Harvard, USA)
    * Jim Duncan (Yale, USA)
    * Gabor Szekely (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
    * Ravikanth Malladi (GE Global Research, India)
    * Tolga Tasdizen (University of Utah, USA)
    * Robert F. Murphy (CMU, USA)
    * Badri Roysam (RPI, USA) 
    * Raghu Machiraju (Ohio State, USA)
    * Dmitri Chklovskii (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA)
    * Ioannis A. Kakadiaris (University of Houston, USA)
    * Hans-Peter Meinzer (German Cancer Research Center, Germany)
    * Tomas Gustavsson (Gotheborg, Sweden)