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