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).