Call for Paper
                  International Symposium on
             Surgery Simulation and Soft Tissue Modeling
 
                        June 12-13, 2003
                      Juan-Les-Pins, France,
                       Palais des Congres
 
            Website:  http://www.inria.fr/epidaure/IS4TM
 
 SUBMISSION DEADLINE : DECEMBER 15th
 
 This symposium will be organized by INRIA Sophia-Antipolis in order to
 provide an international forum for researchers interested in the
 advances and applications of Surgery Simulation and Soft Tissue Modeling
 that are at the confluence between medical image processing and
 biomechanics. 
 
 It will be held at the occasion of the celebration of INRIA's 20th
 anniversary, and in the spirit and continuation of the workshop
 organized by Gabor Szekely and Jim Duncan in Boston in 1998, and the 3rd
 Caesarium workshop organized by E. Keeve in Bonn in 2001. 
 
 The symposium includes but is not limited to the following topics:
 - Anatomical Modeling from histological and medical images.
 - Biomechanical Modeling of soft and hard tissues.
 - Validation of biomechanical models
 - Physiological Modeling : vascular, respiratory and digestive systems, 
   electro-physiology, etc.
 - Segmentation, tracking, non-rigid registration based on 
   biomechanical/physiological modeling.
 - Simulators for training and rehearsal
 - Coupling between pre-operative and intra-operative medical images
 - Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality tools for simulation and surgery
 - Real-time visual, auditory and haptic interactions
 - Simulators in the operating room.
 
 IMPORTANT  DATES:
 -Paper Submission:           December 15, 2002
 -Notification of Acceptance: January 31, 2003
 -Camera-Ready Papers:        March 15, 2003
 
 PAPER SUBMISSIONS:
 
 Due December 15, 2002. Detailed and up-to-date instructions for paper
 submissions are available in our conference web site :
 http://www.inria.fr/epidaure/IS4TM .  Authors are encouraged to submit
 their papers electronically in PDF (portable document format).  Final
 papers will be published in the Springer Verlag Lectures Notes in
 Computer Science (LNCS) series.  A paper should have maximum 8 pages in
 either Letter or A4 paper size (appendices can be provided in 2
 additional pages). The guideline for preparing the manuscript is
 available at Information for Authors page
 ( http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html ) in our publisher's
 website. 
 
 CONFERENCE CHAIRS: Nicholas Ayache (Inria) Herve Delingette (Inria)
 SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:
 M. Brady (Oxford), M-P. Cani (Inria), C. Chaillou (Inria), E.
 Coste-Maniere (Inria), S. Cotin (Cimit), C. Davatzikos (Johns Hopkins),
 S. Dawson (Cimit), T. Dohi (Tokyo), J. Duncan (Yale), H. Fuchs (UNC), D.
 Hawkes (King's College), D. Hill (King's College), K-H. Hoehne
 (Hamburg), R. Howe (Harvard), E. Keeve (Caesar), R. Kikinis (Harvard
 Medical School), F. Kruggel (Max Planck Leipzig), U. Ku"hnapfel
 (Karlsruhe), J-C. Latombe (Stanford), C. Laugier (Inria), D. Metaxas
 (Rutgers), M. Miga (Vanderbilt), K. Montgomery (Stanford), W. Niessen
 (Utrecht), D. Pai (UBC and Rutgers), J. Prince (Johns Hopkins), R. Robb
 (Mayo Clinic), F. Sachse (Karlsruhe), L. Soler (Ircad), P. Suetens
 (Lueven), N. Suzuki (Jikei), G. Szekely (ETHZ), R. Taylor (Johns
 Hopkins), D. Terzopoulos (NYU), D. Thalman (EPFL), M. Thiriet (INRIA),
 J. Troccaz (TIMC), M. Viergever (Utrecht), and S. Warfield (Harvard
 Medical School).