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=                            Program of the First                            =
=        International Conference on Computer Vision, Virtual Reality,       = 
=                          and Robotics in Medicine                          =
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                               April 3-6, 1995
                                Nice, France

If your machine supports FTP, some files can be retrieved from
zenon.inria.fr (138.96.32.21). The directory epidaure/CVRMed
contains the files:

* Prog-Engl.ascii (this file)
* Form-Engl.ps    (registration form in english (postscript))
* Form-French.ps  (bulletin d'inscription en francais (postscript))

Also:

CVRMed Home page
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=                            Program of the First                            =
=        International Conference on Computer Vision, Virtual Reality,       = 
=                          and Robotics in Medicine                          =
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Welcome in Nice

It is our pleasure to welcome you in Nice to the First International 
Conference on Computer Vision, Virtual Reality, and Robotics in Medicine 
(CVRMed'95).

The program covers the three major topics of the field, which are Medical 
Image Understanding, Registration Problems in Medicine, and Therapy Planning, 
Simulation and Control.

The objective is not only to present the most innovative and promising 
research work but also to highlight research trends and to foster dialogues 
and debates among participants.

This event was decided after a preliminary successful symposium organized in 
Stanford in March 1994 by E. Grimson (MIT), T. Kanade (CMU), R. Kikinis 
and W. Wells (Chair) (both at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's 
Hospital), and myself (INRIA). 

We received 92 submitted full papers, and each one was evaluated by at least 
three members of the Program Committee, with the help of auxilliary reviewers.
Based on these evaluations, a representative subset of the Program Committee 
met to select 19 long papers, 29 regular papers, and 27 posters.

The geographical repartition of the contributions is the following: 24 from 
European countries (other than France), 23 contributions from France, 20 from 
Northern America (USA and Canada), and 8 from Asia (Japan and Singapore).

All of the selected contributions are printed in a book published by Springer 
Verlag, available at the conference.
The 48 oral presentations are organized in a number of thematic sessions, 
presented in a single track, and leaving time for two Posters sessions, a 
Panel discussion, and a technical tour at Sophia-Antipolis. A number of 
stands are reserved for industrial exhibitions and research demonstrations.

We look forward to meeting you in Nice for what promises to be an exciting 
event in such a promising and fascinating new research field!

Nicholas Ayache

CVRMed'95, a special acronym: the letters of this acronym share a double 
meaning: C for Conference and Computer, V  for Vision and Virtual, R for 
Reality and Robotics, and Med for Medicine and ... Mediterranean. It might 
be hard to preserve this Nice property in the future!

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                                INRIA
     Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique
                       Sophia Antipolis - France

WITH FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION FROM

        INRIA
        INSERM
        ECVnet
        
AND SUPPORTED BY 

        DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION
        FOCUS MEDICAL
        GENERAL ELECTRIC MEDICAL SYSTEMS EUROPE
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Chairman
  Nicholas AYACHE (INRIA, France)

Scientific coordination
  Gregoire MALANDAIN (INRIA, France)

Members/Membres
  Fred BOOSTEIN (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)