[Insight-users] Call For Papers: Prostate Cancer Imaging Workshop (in conjunction with MICCAI 2010)

[Jason.Dowling at csiro.au]

PROSTATE CANCER IMAGING WORKSHOP (in conjunction with MICCAI 2010)
When: September 24, 2010
Where: Beijing, China

CALL FOR PAPERS:
Prostatic adenocarcinoma (CAP) is the second most common malignancy with
an estimated 190,000 new cases in the USA in 2010 (Source: American
Cancer Society), and is the most frequently diagnosed cancer among men.
If CAP is caught early, men have a high, five-year survival rate.
Unfortunately there is no standardized image-based screening protocol
for early detection of CAP (unlike for breast cancers). In the USA high
levels of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) warrant a trans-rectal
ultrasound (TRUS) biopsy to enable histologic confirmation of presence
or absence of CAP.
With recent rapid developments in multi-parametric radiological imaging
techniques (spectroscopy, dynamic contrast enhanced MR imaging, PET, RF
ultrasound), some of these functional and metabolic imaging modalities
are allowing for definition of high resolution, multi-modal signatures
for prostate cancer in vivo. Distinct computational and technological
challenges for multi-modal data registration and classification still
remain in leveraging this multi-parametric data for directing therapy
and optimizing biopsy. Additionally, with the recent advent of whole
slide digital scanners, digitized histopathology has become amenable to
computerized image analysis. While it is known that outcome of prostate
cancer (prognosis) is highly correlated with Gleason grade, pathologists
often have difficulty in distinguishing between intermediate Gleason
grades from histopathology. Development of computerized image analysis
methods for automated Gleason grading and predicting outcome on
histopathology have to confront the significant computational challenges
associated with working these very large digitized images.

TOPICS:
We invite submissions that address specific problems related to
technologies for early detection, diagnosis, prognosis, and image guided
interventions for treatment and biopsy of prostate cancer. Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to:
o Image Segmentation of Multi-parametric MRI and 2D/3D ultrasound
o Registration of multi-modality prostate imagery
o Validation of prostate segmentation and classification with registered
3D histological images
o Grading and Classification of prostate histology images
o Shape analysis and morphology in prostate imaging
o Content based image Retrieval, visualization of histological and
radiological image databases
o Optimizing image-guided targeted prostate cancer diagnosis and therapy
o Robot assisted prostate interventions
o Radiation therapy planning and guidance
o Computer-aided diagnosis, prognosis, theragnosis of prostate cancer

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:
Papers submitted to the workshop may be uploaded through the workshop
website (http://lcib.rutgers.edu/miccai2010/) and should conform to the
MICCAI formatting instructions:
* Papers should be in the LNCS style and submitted in PDF format
* Suggested length is 8 pages, maximum length is 12 pages
* Anonymized for double blind review

IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper submission deadline: June 8, 2010
Acceptance Notification: July 13, 2010
Submission of the camera-ready papers: July 27, 2010
Final program: July 31, 2010

INVITED SPEAKERS (Confirmed):
Jurgen J. Fütterer, MD, Dept of Radiology, Radboud University Nijmegen
Medical Centre, The Netherlands.
John E. Tomaszeweski, MD, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory
Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, USA

ORGANIZERS:
Anant Madabhushi (Rutgers University)
Pingkun Yan (Phillips Research North America)
Aaron Fenster (Robarts Research Institute)
Purang Abolmaesumi (University of British Columbia)
Nobuhiko Hata (Brigham and Womens Hospital)
Jason Dowling (CSIRO Australia e-Health Research Center)



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