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