First International Conference on Computer Vision, Virtual Reality and Robotics in Medicine CVRMed'95 April 3-5, 1995 Nice, FRANCE OBJECTIVES ------------ The purpose of this first international conference is to present and publish the most innovative and promising research work in computer vision, virtual reality and robotics applied to medical problems: 1) to help diagnosis from multidimensional and multimodal images and 2) to assist therapy, especially in video surgery, interventional radiology, and radiotherapy. This domain has undergone a tremendous increase over the past few years and will be a revolution for medicine in the coming decade. This event follows a successful preliminary AAAI symposium organized in March 1994 at Stanford by N. Ayache (INRIA), E. Grimson (MIT), T. Kanade (CMU), R. Kikinis and S. Wells (chair) (both at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital). The topics addressed by this conference will include: THERAPY PLANNING, SIMULATION AND CONTROL: .virtual and augmented reality applied to therapy control .virtual patients for surgical training .telepresence in medicine, telesurgery .image guided medical robotics .image guided therapy .using electronic anatomical atlases .virtual reality for rehabilitation REGISTRATION PROBLEMS IN MEDICINE: .3D localization of patients or surgical tools .on line tracking of patient or organ motion .nonrigid matching in medical images .registration of mono or multimodal medical images .registration with electronic anatomical atlases MEDICAL IMAGE UNDERSTANDING: .differential geometry and multidimensional images .motion, shape and texture analysis in medical images .building and using physical deformable models .segmentation of multidimensional medical images .spectral analysis in medical images .detecting measuring pathological evolution .building electronic anatomical atlases .statistical analysis of anatomical features .representation of pictorial anatomical knowledge PAPER SUBMISSION Four copies of complete manuscript should be received by Friday September 23, 1994, at the address: Dr. Nicholas AYACHE CVRMed'95 - INRIA 2004 Route des Lucioles - B.P.93 06902 Sophia-Antipolis Cedex - France PAPERS SHOULD INCLUDE: a) A title page including the names and addresses of the authors (with e-mail), an abstract of up to 200 words, and one or more categories as listed above or other keywords. b) A single page clearly answering the following questions: 1. What is the original contribution of this work? 2. Why should this contribution be considered important? 3. What is the most closely related work by others and how does this work differ? 4. How can other researchers make use of the results of this work? 5. If this work extends or relates closely to some other work you have published, please state precisely how it differs from that work? 6. If any part of this work has been submitted to other conferences or workshops, please state where and how it is different? c) a paper, limited to 18 double space pages (12 points) including figures. LANGUAGE POLICY: Papers will be written in English. The organization will provide a French translation of the abstracts. Oral communications will be done in English. However, follow-up questions and discussions may be held in both languages. CALENDAR ---------- September 23, 1994: Submission deadline for receiving papers at INRIA November 1994: Notification to authors January 2, 1995: Camera ready received at INRIA April 2, 1995: Pre-registration in Nice April 3-5, 1995: Conference in Nice April 6, 1995: Technical tour in Sophia Antipolis PROGRAM COMMITTEE ------------------- Full length papers will be reviewed and selected by the program committee of the conference: CHAIRMAN: Nicholas AYACHE (INRIA, France) MEMBERS: Fred BOOKSTEIN (University of Michigan, USA) Mike BRADY (Oxford University, UK) Grigore BURDEA (Rutgers University, USA) Philippe CINQUIN (Grenoble Hospital, France) Jean-Louis COATRIEUX (INSERM, Rennes, France) Alan COLCHESTER (Guy's Hospital, London, UK) James DUNCAN (Yale University, USA) Henry FUCHS (University of North Carolina, USA) Guido GERIG (ETH-Z, Zurich, Switzerland) Erik GRANUM (Aalborg University, Denmark) Eric GRIMSON (MIT, USA) Karl-Heinz HOEHNE (University Hospital Eppendorf, Germany) Thomas HUANG (University of Illinois, USA) Takeo KANADE (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Ron KIKINIS (Harvard Medical School, USA) Jean-Claude LATOMBE (Stanford University, USA) Tomas LOZANO-PEREZ (MIT, USA) Charles PELIZZARI (University of Chicago, USA) Richard ROBB (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA) Paul SUETENS (KULeuven, Belgium) Richard SZELISKI (DEC, Cambridge, USA) Russ TAYLOR (IBM, Yorktown Heights, USA) Demetri TERZOPOULOS (University of Toronto, Canada) Jean-Philippe THIRION (INRIA, France) Jun-ichiro TORIWAKI (Nagoya University, Japan) Alessandro VERRI (University of Genoa, Italy) Max VIERGEVER (University Hospital Utrecht, The Netherlands) William WELLS (Harvard Medical School, USA) SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATION ------------------------- G. MALANDAIN and Epidaure Group (INRIA, France) PRACTICAL ORGANIZATION ------------------------ The conference will take place at Hotel Meridien in Nice, France, at a prestigious address: 1, Promenade des Anglais (the heart of the French Riviera, right in front of the mediterranean sea!) from April 3 to 5, 1995. The conference will be followed, on April 6, by a technical tour in Sophia-Antipolis, to visit the computer vision, graphics and robotics laboratories of INRIA (120 scientists). The meeting will be composed of a single track of oral presentations (long and short) with a number of poster sessions. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer- Verlag in the series "Lecture Notes in Computer Science". We plan to have a selection of the best papers to appear in a dedicated book or a special issue of a journal. LOCAL ORGANIZATION -------------------- The organizing body for the conference will be INRIA (National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control) in Sophia Antipolis, France. INFORMATION INRIA Unite de Recherche de Sophia Antipolis Relations Exterieures Bureau des colloques 2004, route des lucioles - BP 93 06902 SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS CEDEX FRANCE Tel: + 33 - 93 65 78 64 Fax: + 33 - 93 65 79 55 E-mail: Monique.Simonetti@sophia.inria.fr