CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Transanctions on Medical Imaging Special Issue on New Trends in Three-Dimensional Cardiac Image Analysis Alejandro Frangi and Daniel Rueckert, Guest Editors The rapid developments in image acquisition technology have made it possi= ble to routinely acquire high-quality three-dimensional images of the heart depicting both anatomy and function. Moreover, several imaging modalities enable high-resolution multi-phase imaging of the cardiac chambers by time-averaging several cardiac cycles while other modalities can acquire real-time images of the beating heart. These advances enhance clinical an= d research studies when efficient and reliable post-processing methods are available. We invite submission of papers describing new techniques for the analysis of three-dimensional (3D) and four-dimensional (3D+time) cardiac images. Suggested topics include but are not restricted to: * Cardiac imaging modalities, contrast agents and real-time techniques * Model-based image analysis of cardiac images: Application to anatomy and function * Spatio-temporal image analysis of cardiac images: Application to motion, perfusion and flow * Multimodality registration and fusion of cardiac images * Image-guided cardiac surgery * Image-based biomechanical and FEM models * Image-based modeling of the cardiac electrical excitation and mechanical contraction * Cardiac simulators and image databases for benchmarking cardiac image analysis techniques * Evaluation and validation of cardiac image analysis techniques * Clinical application of cardiac image analysis techniques The scope of the special issue will encompass true 3D and 3D+time image analysis techniques and relevant aspects of image post-processing. Contributions describing image acquisition techniques will be considered only if they describe a novel methodology where image acquisition and post-processing are synergistically integrated into a common framework. The special issue will give particular attention to contributions describing methods with a thorough clinical evaluation. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI) seeks high quality research papers for this special issue. This special issue will welcome both full-paper and short-communication submissions. A current problem in cardiac image analysis is the lack of public-domain cardiac image databases for algorithms' benchmarking. Therefore, short papers documenting cardiac image databases are particularly welcome. All authors should submit five copies of their manuscript and figures and indicate the type of submission (full-paper or short communication). Authors intending to submit articles are encouraged to discuss their submissions with the Guest Editors. Instructions for the electronic submission of papers will be available at http://www.gtc.cps.unizar.es/~ieee-tmi . SCHEDULE: Submission of manuscripts: December 1, 2001 Acceptance/rejection notification: March 1, 2002 Revised manuscripts due: June 1, 2002 Publication: September 2002 GUEST Editors: Alejandro Frangi, PhD, Grupo de Tec. las Comunicaciones. Dep. de Ingeniera Electr. y Com., Universidad de Zarago Mara de Luna, 3, Zaragoza 50015 SPAIN Phone: +34 976 761000 (ext 5288), Fax: +34 976 762111 mailto:afrangi@posta.unizar.es Daniel Rueckert, PhD, Visual Information Processing Lab Department of Computing, Imperial College of Sci, Tech., & Medicine 180 Queens Gate, London SW7 2BZ UNITED KINGDOM Phone: +44 20 7594 8333, Fax: +44 20 7581 8024 mailto:dr@doc.ic.ac.uk