Medical Image Understanding and Analysis 2004
 
 Imperial College London, 23-24 September
 
 Announcement
 
 This is the eighth annual technical meeting which follows the successful
 series begun in Oxford in 1997. The meetings are designed to provide a UK
 forum for the dissemination and discussion of research in medical image
 understanding and analysis, an expanding area in which significant
 advances are currently being made. It is an area notable for the range of
 research communities involved, and the meeting aims to encourage the
 growth and raise the profile of this multi-disciplinary field by bringing
 together the various communities. Technical contributions are sought in all
 relevant areas including, but not limited to, the following:
 
 analysis of time series                 quantitative image analysis 	
 analysis of functional images           artificial intelligence in imaging 	
 segmentation/classification             cardiac imaging
 decision support                        shape analysis 	
 computer-aided pathology                image interpretation 	
 statistical methods in imaging          computer-aided radiology
 image perception                        systematic testing & validation 	
 computer assisted surgery               image registration	
 texture analysis                        human computer interaction
 intelligent imaging systems             virtual reality 	
 image guided intervention               motion analysis
 visualisation                           tissue perfusion
 multi modality data fusion              novel imaging methods
 
 Conference Calendar
 Deadline for receipt of submissions     Friday 28 May 2004
 Notification of acceptance              Friday 23 July 2004
 Meeting                                 23 and 24 September 2004
 
 Format of Meeting
 
 The two day meeting will consist of a single track of oral
 presentations, with each session moderated by an invited clinical
 chairperson to encourage consideration and discussion of clinical
 relevance. Generous time will be allowed for poster sessions. All
 submissions conforming with the instructions for authors will be
 reviewed by the Programme Committee. Those accepted for oral or poster
 presentation will be included, following revision by the author, in a
 volume of proceedings available at the meeting and on-line at the
 meeting website. 
 
 Invited Speakers
 
 Prof. Guido Gerig, University of North Carolina
 Prof. Ara Darzi, Imperial College London
 Prof. Klaas Prüssmann, ETH Zürich
 Dr. Andrew Fitzgibbon, University of Oxford
 
 Organization
 
 The Medical Image Understanding and Analysis conference (MIUA 2004) is
 organised and hosted by Image Sciences Centre (ISC) Imperial College
 London and the Medical Imaging and Signals (MIAS) IRC. 
 
 Co-chairs
 
 Dr Daniel Rueckert, Imperial College London.
 Professor Jo Hajnal, Imperial College London.
 Professor Guang-Zhong Yang, Imperial College London.
 
 Steering Committee
 
 E Berry, University of Leeds, IPEM
 D Hawkes, Kings College London
 JM Brady, University of Oxford, RAE
 CJ Taylor, University of Manchester, BMVA
 JS Fleming, University of Southampton, BIR
 
 Programme Committee
 
 SR Arridge (University College London)
 A Colchester (University of Kent)
 S Astley (University of Manchester)
 D Hill (Kings College London)
 J Bamber (Royal Marsden Hospital)
 A Houston (Royal Hospital Haslar)
 A Bhalerao (University of Warwick)
 A Todd-Pokropek (University College London)
 A Bulpitt (University of Leeds)
 P Undrill (University of Aberdeen)
 J Byrne (Radcliffe Infirmary)
 R Zwiggelaar (University of East Anglia)
 E Claridge (University of Birmingham)
 plus Chair and Steering Committee.
 
 Queries about MIUA 2004 may be sent to:
 Dr Daniel Rueckert, Dept of Computing, Imperial College London, London SW7 
2AZ, UK
 
 or posted by email to:                  D.Rueckert@imperial.ac.uk
 The conference website is at:           http://www.miua.org.uk