[vtkusers] MICCAI : Workshop on Mesh Processing in Medical Image Analysis (MeshMed 2011)

[Luis Ibanez]

1st Call for Papers:

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Workshop on Mesh Processing in Medical Image Analysis (MeshMed 2011)
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September 18, 2011
Westin Harbour Castle, Toronto, Canada

In conjunction with MICCAI 2011

Website: http://www.imm.dtu.dk/MeshMed

Flyer: http://www.imm.dtu.dk/MeshMed/MeshMedFlyer2011.pdf

Scope:

Many strategies for medical image analysis have been built on an image
analysis pipeline that starts with acquired image data, performs
filtering and processing, constructs geometric models of important
surfaces and structures, performs simulation, and finally provides
quantitative and visual analysis of the data. The topic of the workshop
is broadly based on three overlapping topics: Mesh processing, the
image-to-mesh (I2M) pipeline, and surface analysis and extraction.

While numerous I2M technologies have been developed, rarely do they get
sufficient exposure for out-of-field researchers to have the necessary
expertise to know the nuances between them. Similarly, researchers in
geometry, meshing, and surfacing often consider their problems in
independent settings, external to their use in a specific imaging
pipeline. In particular, there is a need for designing novel
technologies that strictly focus on medical image domains. This workshop
proposes to improve the cross-pollination of the imaging and meshing
efforts by considering how meshing fits into the end-to-end pipeline
from image acquisition to clinical analysis. A non-exhaustive list of
topics of interest includes:

  * Mesh representations, generation, extraction, visualisation and
    processing.

  * Image-to-mesh pre-processing, conversion, and post-processing.

  * Surface representation, extraction, matching, and analysis.

Paper submission:

We invite submissions of papers of original research on these topics.
Submissions will be handled through an online submission system
(available shortly on the workshop home page), and are due June 1, 2011.
Papers will be subject to a single blind review and should not be
anonymized. Authors will be notified of acceptance by July 14, 2011, and
final versions will be due July 25, 2011. Papers will be published as a
proceedings of the workshop and selected works will be invited to a
book. The papers should be from 8 to 12 pages (8 pages recommended) and
formatted in the LNCS format.

The submission deadline for this workshop is set so it is possible to
submit papers that are not accepted at the main MICCAI conference.
However, simultaneous submission to several MICCAI workshops is not
accepted.

Program committee
  * Pierre Alliez, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France
  * Jakob Andreas Bærentzen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
  * Andrey Chernikov, Old Dominion University, USA
  * Gary Christensen, University of Iowa, USA
  * Tim Cootes, University of Manchester, UK
  * Tron Darvann, Copenhagen University, Denmark
  * Tobias Heimann, German Cancer Research Center, Germany
  * Luis Ibanez, Kitware, USA
  * Michael Kazhdan, Johns Hopkins University, USA
  * Steen Markvorsen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
  * Mads Nielsen, Copenhagen University, Denmark
  * Sebastien Ourselin, University College London, UK
  * Sylvain Prima, IRISA / INRIA Rennes, France
  * Mauricio Reyes, University of Bern, Switzerland
  * Daniel Rueckert, Imperial College London, UK
  * Anuj Srivastava, Florida State University , USA
  * Martin Styner, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
  * Guoliang Xu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
  * Lilla Zöllei, Harvard Medical School, USA
  * Lasse Riis Østergaard, Aalborg University, Denmark

  * Chairs:
    * Rasmus R. Paulsen (Technical University of Denmark)
    * Joshua A. Levine (SCI Institute, University of Utah)

Organizing Committee

  * Rasmus R. Paulsen (Technical University of Denmark)
  * Joshua A. Levine (SCI Institute, University of Utah)
  * Christian Barillot (IRISA/CNRS/INRIA Rennes, France)
  * Nikos P. Chrisochoides (Old Dominion University)
  * Hervé Delingette (Asclepios, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France)
  * Ross T. Whitaker (SCI Institute, University of Utah)
  * Yongjie Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University)

Important Dates

Call for Papers: April 2011
Paper submission deadline: June 1, 2011
Notification of acceptance: July 14, 2011
Final version due: July 25, 2011
Symposium: September 18, 2011

Participation
Registration for the workshop is handled through the main MICCAI
registration system.
http://www.miccai2011.org/

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       Luis Ibanez will provide a prize
       for the most Reproducible Paper.

http://reproducibleresearch.net/index.php/RR_material
http://www.ijclp.net/files/ijclp_web-doc_1-13-2009.pdf


For more motivation on why scientific publications
MUST BE REPRODUCIBLE, please see what
happens when papers failed to be reproduced:


http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/105
http://videolectures.net/cancerbioinformatics2010_baggerly_irrh/


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