Announcement and First Call for Papers:
MEDICAL IMAGE UNDERSTANDING AND ANALYSIS
July 7-8 1997 - University of Oxford, England
This is the first in a series of annual technical meetings
sponsored by the British Machine Vision Association (BMVA),
British Institute of Radiology (BIR), Institute of Electical
Engineers (IEE), Institute of Physics and Engineering
in Medicine (IPEM) and the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE)
to provide a forum for the dissemination and discussion of UK
research in medical image understanding and analysis.
Co-Chairs and Organisers:
Chris Taylor Mike Brady and Alison Noble
University of Manchester University of Oxford
(ctaylor@man.ac.uk) ({jmb,noble}@robots.ox.ac.uk)
Steering Committee:
Berry, E., University of Leeds (IPEM).
Brady,M., University of Oxford (RAE).
Fleming, J., University of Southampton (BIR).
Hawkes, D.,Guys Hospital.
Noble, A., University of Oxford (IEE).
Taylor,C., University of Manchester (BMVA).
Programme Committee:
Arridge, S., University College London.
Astley,S., University of Manchester.
Barber, D., University of Sheffield.
Colchester,A., University of Kent.
Fox,J., Imperial Cancer Research Fund.
Friston,C., Institute of Neurology.
Hogg, D., University of Leeds.
Kitney, Imperial College London.
Mardia, K., University of Leeds.
Todd-Pokropek, A., University College London.
Undrill,P., University of Aberdeen.
Wells, P., University of Bristol.
INTRODUCTION:
A 1 1/2 day technical meeting on medical image understanding and
analysis will be held at the University of Oxford, England, on
July 7-8, 1997.
Medical image understanding spans an enormous diversity of research
communities. Significant advances are currently being made in this
area and the UK is very well represented in the leading groups
internationally. This is the first national event aimed at bringing
these communities together in order to raise the profile of UK
research as a whole and to encourage the growth of this new
multi-disciplinary field. It is being co-sponsored by the leading
organisations in the field; the British Machine Vision Association,
the British Institute of Radiology, the Institute of Electrical
Engineers, the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine and
the Royal Academy of Engineering.
The goals are:
o to present the state-of-the-art of UK research in
medical image understanding and analysis.
o to encourage dialogue and discussion between
academics, postdoctoral researchers and graduate
students from university and hospital departments of medical physics,
engineering, computer science, radiology, physics, mathematics,
statistics etc in topics related to medical imaging.
o to highlight past and current successes in the transfer of
image analysis systems to clinical practice and clinical needs
of the future.
o to encourage discussion of industrial opportunities and the
challenges they raise.
Technical contributions are sought in all relevant areas of
research involving the analysis and interpretation of medical
images and image sequences in 2-D and 3-D including
(but not restricted to) the following:
o Image registration
o Texture analysis
o Segmentation and feature detection
o Motion
o Image interpretation
o Quantitative image analysis
o Statistical methods in imaging
o Analysis of functional images
o Multi-modality/data fusion
o Computer-aided radiology/pathology
o Tomographic reconstruction
o Cardiac imaging
o Image guided intervention
o Visualisation
o Virtual reality
o Vision-based human-computer interfaces
o Artificial intelligence in imaging
o Intelligent imaging systems
o Decision support
o Systematic testing and validation
FORMAT:
The meeting will consist of a single track of oral presentation, with
each session moderated by an invited clinical rapporteur to encourage
discussion of clinical relevance Poster and break-out sessions will be
interspersed. Submitted short papers will be reviewed by the
programme committee; those accepted for oral presentation will be
included in a volume of proceedings which will be available at the
meeting. Authors may subsequently be invited to submit full papers to
appear in a special issue of the MEDIA (Medical Image Analysis)
journal.
The meeting will be held in the Taylor Institution and Balliol College,
Oxford. The fee for the meeting will be approximately 110 pounds which
will include conference registration, overnight accommodation on July 7th,
a copy of the proceedings, the conference dinner, and lunch
and refreshments on both days.
INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS:
Four copies of your submission should be received no later than March
14, 1997. You should provide a short form paper (4 A4 pages maximum
including illustrations and references, one inch margins, minimum 10pt
text) and a 1 page summary. The short paper should outline the
motivation for the work, describe the technical details, present
reasonably comprehensive results, discuss the significance of the work
and provide references. An extensive background section is not
required. The summary (1 page maximum) should give the paper title,
the name and address (including email/fax) of the corresponding author
and address the following questions:
1) What is the original contribution of the 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 has your work been tested or developed in association
with clinical practice?
5) Have you published related work; if so, how is this contribution different?
Since a prime objective of the meeting is to bridge communities
submissions that describe substantial work previously presented at
major conferences as well as original unpublished research are
encouraged.
Your submissions should be sent to:
Alison Noble
Department of Engineering Science
University of Oxford
Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PJ
UK
email: miua97@robots.ox.ac.uk
fax : 01865-273908
Meeting Calendar:
Receipt of extended abstracts : March 14 1997
Notification of acceptance : April 30 1997
Camera-ready copy : May 16 1997
Meeting : July 7-8 1997
FURTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS:
For further information please email miua97@robots.ox.ac.uk
including your name and postal address, to join the meeting
mailing list - or visit the web site at :
http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~mvl/miua97.html