[vtkusers] Open Source Workshop at the 2005 MICCAI Conference

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Jim,


MICCAI will be held in Palm Spring, California, Oct 26-29.
The Workshop will take place on Oct 30.

              http://www.miccai2005.org/

The hotel is:

http://www.ia.unc.edu/MICCAI2005/MICCAI2005riviera.html

Information about Plam Springs is available at:

http://www.ia.unc.edu/MICCAI2005/MICCAI2005palmsprings.html




Please note the this Open Source Workshop is a brand new experience
in the approach to technical publications. We are pushing Open Access
to a new level of higher standards, and we look forward to received
the feedback from the image processing community in order to find ways
to bring this process further.




Please let us know if you have any further questions,



    Thanks


      Luis



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Jim Harsh wrote:

> 
> The announcement has the hotel name but where is the Riviera Resort 
> located?
> 
> At 09:41 PM 7/14/2005, you wrote:
> 
>> Open-Source Workshop with peer-reviewed papers at the 2005 MICCAI
>> =================================================================
>>     Sunday, October 30th
>>     8:30am - 6:00pm
>>     MICCAI Conference Hotel (Riviera Resort)
>>
>> Paper due date: July 31, 2005
>>
>> Notification of decision: On or about September 15, 2005
>>
>>
>> The Insight Software Consortium (ISC) and the National Alliance for
>> Medical Image Computing (NA-MIC) are hosting a one-day MICCAI workshop
>> that will feature oral and poster presentations of peer-reviewed papers
>> that discuss freely available data, open-source toolkits, and
>> open-source applications for medical image analysis.
>>
>> There are several unique, open-science concepts being applied to this
>> conference.  Please read the following carefully.
>>
>> There are three ways for you to participate in and benefit from this
>> workshop:
>>
>>     1) Submit papers
>>     2) Review papers
>>     3) Attend the workshop
>>
>>
>> Paper Submission
>> ================
>>
>> We strongly encourage researchers with papers accepted at MICCAI to
>> submit companion papers on the role of open-source software in their
>> MICCAI research.   Papers related to medical image analysis research not
>> presented at MICCAI are also welcome!
>>
>> Papers should be submitted online via the Insight Journal:
>>
>>     http://www.InsightSoftwareConsortium.org/InsightJournal
>>
>>
>> Key points regarding submission:
>>
>> 1) Paper format:  Please use the MICCAI paper template for your
>> submission.  We recommend that papers be approximately four to five
>> pages.  Please submit papers with "camera-ready" quality.  There is no
>> need to anonymize your paper - the review process is not blinded - see
>> below.
>>
>> 2) Submissions are registered with a digital library (implemented using
>> DSpace, www.dspace.org).  Therefore, your submission is automatically
>> assigned a unique open-archive "handle" that (unlike URLs) persists on
>> the web and that (unlike other web-based database keys) allows your
>> submission to be indexed by Google and other search engines.  Handles
>> also serve as a mechanism whereby submissions can be permanently
>> referenced in publications.
>>
>> 3) Authors are encouraged to include other files with their submission,
>> particularly videos, code, and data.
>>
>> 4) Every submission immediately appears on the Insight Journal site in
>> the Special Issue on the MICCAI Workshop.  Therefore, every submission
>> is available to any registered member of the Insight Journal (and
>> registration is free).  See information on reviews given below.
>>
>> 5) Submission requires licensing to the Insight Journal the right to
>> distribute your submission under the Creative Commons' "by-attribution"
>> license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5).  Copyright
>> transfer is not required.
>>
>> Additional details are available on the Insight Software Consortium's
>> website:
>>
>>     http://www.InsightSoftwareConsortium.org
>>
>>
>> Paper Review
>> ============
>>
>> Every submission is available for true peer-review.  That is, any
>> registered member of the Insight Journal (and registration is free) is
>> able to download, score, and comment on any submission to this workshop.
>>  In turn, reviews are also public.
>>
>> On September 10th (deadline for the review process), the editorial
>> committee will consider the posted reviews as well as the intent of the
>> workshop to select papers for oral and poster presentation.  Those
>> decisions will be announced on or about September 15th.
>>
>>
>> Attend the Workshop
>> ===================
>>
>> Our goal is to make this conference "nearly free."   We expect the fee
>> to be under $50, but the final price has not been set.   We can assure
>> that one author from each accepted paper will have attendance fees 
>> waived.
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> ======
>>
>> This workshop is being co-chaired by
>>     Dr. Stephen Aylward (aylward at unc.edu)
>>     Dr. Tina Kapur (tkapur at epiphanymedical.com)
>>     Dr. Luis Ibanez (luis.ibanez at kitware.com)
>>
>> This workshop is being sponsored by
>>     The Insight Software Consortium
>>     The Insight Journal
>>     The National Library of Medicine
>>     The NA-MIC / NIH Roadmap
>>     The MICCAI Society
>>
>>
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