CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue of *Medical Image Analysis* on Segmentation and Registration using ITK, January 2004 Published by Elsevier Submission Deadline For Full Papers, June 1, 2003 Guest Editors: Dimitris Metaxas, Rutgers University Terry S. Yoo, National Library of Medicine, NIH A special issue of the Medical Image Analysis (MedIA) journal will be devoted to the topic of segmentation and registration algorithm development and analysis using the Insight Toolkit (ITK). This project launched by the National Library of Medicine, NIH in 1999, has fostered growing interest in the software development community, and it is beginning to affect new work in image analysis as well as medical application design. Its position as an open-source project creates a powerful vehicle for publishing and archiving working methods as well as enabling rapid development of new applications using emerging advanced algorithms. Since ITK began as a collection of existing algorithms and methods from the medical image processing community, this special issue will focus on projects and novel work that add value or derive value from the toolkit: applications and techniques that use ITK, evaluation, verification, and validation of algorithms and methods through the available open source software, and new methods, as they emerge, that are distributed through the toolkit. We are seeking papers covering all aspects of the analysis process, emphasizing techniques in segmentation and registration of 3D and higher dimensional medical data. This call includes papers on visualization, analysis, perception, and interaction issues. The special issue will be published online as well as in print, so images, source code, example data, statistical evaluation tools, and test metrics are strongly encouraged to accompany published materials. If a manuscript is accepted, the author(s) are required to submit source code, test data, and software tools for evaluating the results, repeating the work from the text. Example topics include but are not limited to: * Emerging (New) object segmentation tools * Multimodal registration methods * Level set applications and algorithms * Ground truth generation and evaluation for algorithm validation * Fuzzy and statistical methods for deformable segmentation * Rigid and deformable registration * Tools for Medical Visualization using ITK automated tools, interactive tools, mathematical tools * Evaluation metrics for segmentation and registration methods * Application Examples and Case Studies medical applications ITK validation trials using ITK The special issue will consist of peer-reviewed original contributions and peer-reviewed invited contributions of an explanatory/review type. We expect to have a fast reviewing process and publish the special issue less than one year after the deadline for submitting papers (see below). Manuscripts that are commercial in nature will not be considered. Manuscripts are reviewed and refereed. Those accepted for publication are edited for conformance to the journal's style. We encourage the use of color when required. For additional information on submissions and manuscript styles please check the web site at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/medima/ . If you have any additional questions, don't hesitate to contact either of the guest editors. To be a reviewer for this special issue please contact Dimitris Metaxas by e-mail with a list of topic areas you would be interested in reviewing. *GUEST EDITORS* *Dimitris Metaxas* Center for Computational Bioimedicine, Imaging and Modeling Division of Computer and Information Sciences and Dept of Biomedical Eng. Rutgers University, 110 Frelinghuysen Rd., Piscataway, NJ 08817 USA mailto:dnm@cs.rutgers.edu *Terry S. Yoo* Office of High Performance Computing and Communications National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894 USA mailto:yoo@nlm.nih.gov Prospective authors should follow the regular guidelines of the Medical Image Analysis (MedIA) and submit the paper to the Journal Editorial Office ( http://www.elsevier.com/locate/medima/ ). When submitting the manuscripts, authors should indicate in the cover letter and body of the paper that the submission is for this special issue. The *deadline* for submission is *June 1, 2003*. It is planned that the special issue will appear in the first quarter of the year 2004.