[Insight-users] Second Call for Papers: MICCAI 2008 Workshop on Analysis of Functional Medical Images

[Rafeef Abugharbieh]

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this call for papers.

================================================================================

Second Call for Papers
MICCAI 2008 Workshop on Analysis of Functional Medical Images
New York University, September 10, 2008
http://bisicl.ece.ubc.ca/functional2008/


Scope and Objectives:
---------------------

The development of computational algorithms for the analysis of
anatomical/structural medical images depicting only a snapshot of the living
tissue has been the primary focus of past MICCAI proceedings and workshops.
Medical imaging modalities that capture changes in living tissue with time are
becoming more prevalent and provide a valuable source of knowledge about tissue
and organ processes and physiology. This workshop provides a venue for
presenting the latest advances in mathematical techniques and computational
algorithms for extracting clinically relevant information from functional and
time-varying medical image data.


Topics:
-------

Contributions are solicited in, but are not limited to, the following areas:

* Novel algorithms for processing and analysis of functional medical image
data, including denoising, enhancement, restoration, clustering, segmentation,
tracking, matching, registration, fusion, and kinetic modeling

* Methods for information extraction from functional medical image modalities
including positron emission tomography (PET), single photon emission computed
tomography (SPECT), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), dynamic
contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE MRI), tagged MRI, phase contrast MRI, flow imaging,
ultrasound, and from multi-modal data fused with other signals such as MEG or
EEG.

* Functional medical image computing algorithms (computational physiology) for
quantification and analysis of electro-physiological signals, motion patterns,
tracer uptake and tissue kinetics, perfusion, flow, activation patterns,
responses to stimuli, progress of pathology or treatments, and other processes
related to cardiac, neural, musculoskeletal, renal, blood and other organs,
tissues, and fluids at a variety of scales of molecular, cellular, tissue,
organ, and whole body imaging.


Important Dates:
----------------

Paper Submission: June 1, 2008
Notification of Acceptance: July 1, 2008
Camera-Ready Papers: July 14, 2008.
Workshop: September 10, 2008.


Organizers:
-----------

Ghassan Hamarneh
    Medical Image Analysis Lab
    Simon Fraser University, Canada
    http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~hamarneh
    http://mial.cs.sfu.ca

Rafeef Abugharbieh
    Biomedical Signal and Image Computing Lab
    University of British Columbia, Canada
    http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~rafeef/
    http://bisicl.ece.ubc.ca/


Organizing Committee:
---------------------

Keith Worsley (McGill, Canada)
Leon Axel (NYU, USA)
Herve Delingette (INRIA, France)
Polina Golland (MIT, USA)

Program and Review Committee:
------------------------------

John Ashburner (UCL, UK)
John Aston (Institute of Statistical Science, Taiwan)
Anna Celler (Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Canada)
Richard Carson (Yale University, USA)
David Dagan Feng (U Sydney, Australia)
Ola Friman (MeVis Research GmbH, Germany)
Roger Gunn (University of Oxford, UK)
Hongbin Guo (Arizona State University, USA)
Lars K. Hansen (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
Hans Knutsson (Linkoping U, Sweden)
Martin McKeown (UBC, Canada)
James J. Pekar (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Daniel Rowe (Medical College of Wisconsin, USA)
Maxime Sermesant (INRIA, France)
Arkadiusz Sitek (E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
Vesna Sossi (UBC, Canada)
Piotr Slomka (UCLA, USA)
Stephen C. Strother (VA Medical Center, Minnesota, USA)

Website:
--------

For up-to-date information please visit:
http://bisicl.ece.ubc.ca/functional2008/

PDF of call for papers:
http://bisicl.ece.ubc.ca/functional2008/art/MICCAI2008-functional-CFP2.pdf

================================================================================

--
Rafeef Abugharbieh

Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
2332 Main Mall
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4
Canada

Phone:	+1 (604) 822 6034
Fax:	+1 (604) 822 5949
http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~rafeef/