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.