[Imageworld] 1st CFP: Medical Image Understanding and Analysis

16th Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis

9 - 11 July 2012, Swansea, United Kingdom

miua2012.swansea.ac.uk

SCOPE

This 16th annual technical meeting will be hosted in Swansea in 2012. MIUA is the principal UK forum for communicating research progress within the community interested in image analysis applied to medicine and related biological science. It has been a successful series begun in Oxford in 1997. The meetings are designed for the dissemination and discussion of research in medical image understanding and analysis, an expanding area in which significant advances are currently being made. It is an area notable for the range of research communities involved, and the meeting aims to encourage the growth and raise the profile of this multi-disciplinary field by bringing together the various communities.

MIUA 2012 is a single-track conference with oral and poster presentations. All accepted contributions will be published and the full proceedings will be available to delegates at the conference. Selected papers are also likely to be published in the on-line journal Annals of the BMVA.

This 2012 edition adopts a new format: we are organising a half day conference tutorial, which is particularly beneficial to research students and early career researchers working in the field. More details will be available shortly on conference website.

TOPIC OF INTEREST

The meetings are designed for the dissemination and discussion of research in medical image understanding and analysis, and aims to encourage the growth and raise the profile of this multi-disciplinary field by bringing together the various communities, including

• Cardiac Imaging 

• Novel Imaging Methods 

• Computer-Aided Pathology 

• Oncology 

• Computer-Aided Radiology 

• Ophthalmology 

• Computer Assisted Surgery 

• Positron Emission Imaging 

• Dermatology 

• Radiology 

• Image Guided Intervention 

• Surgery 

• Magnetic Resonance Imaging 

• Tissue Perfusion 

• Neurology 

• Ultrasound

Technical contributions are sought in all relevant areas including, but not limited to, the following:

• Analysis of Cellular Images 

• Analysis of Time Series 

• Analysis of Functional Images 

• Artificial Intelligence in Imaging 

• Cardiac Imaging 

• Computer-Aided Pathology 

• Computer-Aided Radiology 

• Computer Assisted Surgery 

• Data Fusion 

• Decision Support 

• Human Computer Interaction 

• Image Interpretation 

• Image Guided Intervention 

• Image Perception 

• Image Registration 

• Intelligent Imaging Systems 

• Motion Analysis 

• Multi Modality 

• Novel Imaging Methods 

• Quantitative Image Analysis 

• Segmentation/Classification 

• Shape Analysis 

• Statistical Methods in Imaging 

• Systematic Testing & Validation 

• Texture Analysis 

• Tissue Perfusion 

• Virtual Reality 

• Visualisation 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

MIUA invites two to three prominent researchers in this field to present their work at the conference. We are grateful to the following two speakers who have already agreed to give keynote lectures at the MIUA 2012 conference.

Prof. Alison Noble

Oxford University, United Kingdom

Professor Alison Noble FREng is a Statutory Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Oxford University Department of Engineering Science and a Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford. She is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Fellow of the IET, and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. She is a Director of the Biomedical Image Analysis (BioMedIA)Laboratory, a multi-disciplinary research group working in the area of biomedical imaging and image analysis, a subarea of biomedical engineering. The laboratory is based in the Oxford Institute for Biomedical Engineering (IBME), part of the Department of Engineering Science, which opened in January 2008 and is the hub for biomedical engineering at Oxford.

(more detailed speaker biography available on conference website)

Prof. Ge Wang

Virginia Tech, USA

Prof. Ge Wang has been working in two imaging areas - x-ray computed tomography (CT) and optical molecular tomography. He is the founding editor-in-chief and associate editors for specialty journals as well as the leading guest editor for three IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging special issues on x-ray CT, molecular imaging, and compressive sensing respectively. He received awards and recognitions such as Fellow of IEEE, SPIE, AIMBE and OSA. To date, he has attracted >$15M of funding as PI/Contact PI, and >$20M as Co-PI/Co-investigator. Prof. Wang and his co-authors published >280 journal papers. He is the Director of the SBES Biomedical Imaging Division since 2006, which is also the ICTAS Center for Biomedical Imaging.

(more detailed speaker biography available on conference website)

CONFERENCE TUTORIAL

MIUA 2012 is going to organise a half day tutorial on the 9th July 2012. The tutorial is particularly beneficial to research students and early career researchers who are working in this field. More details will be available shortly on conference website.

IMPORTANT DATES

Technical paper submission: 12 March 2012

Challenge abstract submission: 12 March 2012

Notification of acceptance: 7 May 2012

Camera ready paper submission: 21 May 2012

Conference tutorial: 9 July 2012

Main conference: 10 - 11 July 2012

PAPER SUBMISSION

Technical Papers (6 pages) are solicited on any topic within the scope of the conference. Each paper will be evaluated by three reviewers. Challenge Abstracts (1 page) are also solicited. These should outline a challenge to the image analysis community from a clinical or end-user perspective.

MIUA operates a double-blind review process. Your review submission must not identify you as the author. MIUA does allow for dual submission of manuscript contents, typically with conferences such as IPMI, MICCAI and ISBI. The authors should indicate in their summary statements where else the work has been submitted for publication and to what extent the MIUA paper overlaps the dual submission.

Paper submission instructions and submission website are available at the conference website: http://miua2012.swansea.ac.uk

CONFERENCE CHAIR

Xianghua Xie

Swansea University, United Kingdom

CONTACT

miua2012@swansea.ac.uk

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