Summer School on Medical Image Computing 2004
 
 Imperial College London, 19-22 September
 
 ORGANIZERS
    Dr Daniel Rueckert, Department of Computing, Imperial College London.
    Professor Jo Hajnal, Image Sciences Department, Hammersmith Hospital,
    Imperial College London.
 
 ANNOUNCEMENT
    The Imaging Sciences Center (ISC) at Imperial College London and the
    Medical Imaging and Signals (MIAS) IRC are organizing a summer school
    on medical imaging computing. The summer school is designed to
    introduce young researchers to the field of computing applied to
    medicine, an expanding area in which significant advances are
    currently being made.  The summer school will cover a wide range of
    topics from image acquisition to image analysis and visualization.
    Each topic will be presented by leading international researchers. 
 
 VENUE
    The summer school will take place at Imperial College London, South
    Kensington Campus. The summer school venue on campus will provide
    lecture facilities with computers for each participant as well as
    accommodation facilities on campus in easy walking distance. 
 
 TOPICS
    The summer school will aim to cover a wide range of topics relevant
    to PhD students and researchers working in medical image computing.
    In particular, the summer school will focus on topics such as:
      * image acquisition
      * image registration
      * image segmentation
      * geometric modelling
      * statistical modelling
      * images and signals
      * brain image analysis
      * cardiac image analysis
      * image-guided interventions
      * programming with the Insight toolkit (ITK)
 
 FACULTY
      * David Atkinson, King's College London
      * Tim Cootes, University of Manchester
      * Bill Crum, King's College London
      * Herve Delingette, INRIA Sophia Antipolis
      * Robert Eckersley, Imperial College London
      * Alejandro Frangi, University of Zaragoza
      * Luis Ibáñez, Kitware Inc.
      * David Larkman, Imperial College London
      * Boudewijn Lelieveldt, University of Leiden
      * Wiro Niessen, University of Utrecht
      * Julia Schnabel, King's College London
      * Krish Singh, Aston University
      * Colin Studholme, University of California at San Francisco
 
 FORMAT OF THE SUMMER SCHOOL
    The four-day residential summer school will consist of a single track
    of sessions on a variety of topics in medical image computing. Each
    session will include lectures and practical tutorials as well as
    special consideration and discussion of clinical relevance. Generous
    time will be allowed for practicals, questions and discussion. The
    lecture and tutorial material will be made available on a CD
    distributed at the meeting as well as on-line on the summer school
    website. 
 
 REGISTRATION AND FEES
    The registration fee for the Summer School is £325, and this includes
    attendance at the School, a copy of the course notes, meals during
    each working day and one evening meal/social event. Accommodation is
    available in a hall of residence opposite the Imperial Campus at a
    cost of £200 for the nights of 18-21 September 2004, including
    breakfast. The application form can be found on the summerschool
    website: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~dr/miua/summerschool.html
 
 CALENDAR
    Deadline for applications to attend             Monday 31 May 2004
    Notification of acceptance of applications      Monday 14 June 2004
    Summer school                                   19 to 22 September 2004
 
 Queries about Summer School may be sent to:
 Dr Daniel Rueckert, Dept of Computing, Imperial College London, London SW7 
2AZ, UK
 or posted by email to: mailto:D.Rueckert@imperial.ac.uk
 The summerschool website is at: 
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~dr/miua/summerschool.html