[vtkusers] Workshop "Medical Imaging Systems" within EUROMEDIA 2010 - Announce & Call for Papers

[João Manuel R. S. Tavares]

Dear Colleague,

Efficient and powerful medical imaging systems have been assuming a growing
and crucial importance in medicine, allowing a deep examination and
understanding on the human body and, therefore, playing an essential role
for adequate diagnosis, treatment and follow-up.
The main goal of the Workshop “Medical Imaging Systems” is to bring together
researchers involved in the related domains, in order to set the major lines
of development for the near future.
Due to your research activities, we would like to invite you to submit a
contributed paper for the Workshop “Medical Imaging Systems” within EUROSIS
EUROMEDIA 2010 (http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=node/1103), April 14-16, 2010,
UPV Gandia, Gandia, Spain.


WORKSHOP TOPICS (not exhaustive): 

- Image acquisition;
- Signal processing;
- Image processing and analysis;
- Modelling and simulation;
- Computer aided diagnosis;
- Surgery, therapy, and treatment;
- Computational bioimaging and visualization;
- Software development;
- Virtual reality;
- Telemedicine systems and their applications;
- Assistive technology;
- Computational anatomy;
- Medical robots;
- Imaging devices;
- Hardware systems.


IMPORTANT DATES:

- Submission Deadline (extended abstract or full paper): February 5, 2010;
- Notification of Acceptance or Rejection: February 15, 2010;
- Authors provide camera-ready manuscript: March 20, 2010;
- Conference Events: April 14-16, 2010.


SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:

Adélia Sequeira, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Alberto De Santis, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
Aledir Silveira Pereira, São Paulo State University, Brazil
Ana Mafalda Reis, University of Porto, Portugal
Anton Vernet, University Rovira i Virgili, Spain
Arrate Muñoz Barrutia, University of Navarra, Spain
Begoña Calvo Calzada, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Bernard Gosselin, Faculte Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium
Christos E. Constantinou, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Dinggang Shen, UNC-CH School of Medicine, USA
Emmanuel A. Audenaert, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium
Enrique Alegre Gutiérrez, University of León, Spain
Fiorella Sgallari, University of Bologna, Italy
Jorge M. G. Barbosa, University of Porto, Portugal
Lyuba Alboul, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Mahmoud El-Sakka, The University of Western Ontario London, Canada
Manuel González Hidalgo- Balearic Islands University, Spain
Maria Elizete Kunkel, Universität Ulm, Germany
Maria Petrou, Imperial College London, UK
Miguel Velhote Correia, University of Porto, Portugal
Paola Lecca, The Microsoft Research, University of Trento, Italy
Petia Radeva, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Renato Natal Jorge, University of Porto, Portugal
Sabina Tangaro, National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Italy
Teresa Mascarenhas, University of Porto, Portugal
Vassili Kovalev, University of Surrey, UK
Yongjie Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Zeyun Yu, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, USA


For further details please see the conference website at:
http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=node/1103

We are looking forward to see you in Gandia next April.

Yours sincerely,

João Manuel R. S. Tavares, University of Porto, Portugal
Daniela Iacoviello, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
(Workshop organizers)