International Workshop on "BioImage Data Mining and Informatics" Call for Papers and Participation Stanford, CA August 12, 2005 /Sponsored by IEEE Technical Committee on Bioinformatics/ Papers are solicited for a workshop on bioimage data mining and image analysis to solve bioinformatics and biomedicine problems. This workshop is in conjunction with CSB2005, the IEEE Computational Systems Bioinformatics conference, Stanford, CA, Aug. 8-12, 2005. With the development of advanced imaging techniques, the number of biological images (e.g. cellular and molecular images, as well as medical images) acquired in digital forms is growing rapidly. Large-scale bioimage databases are becoming available. Analyzing these images sheds new light for biologists to seek answers to many biological problems. For example, analysis of the spatial distribution of proteins in molecular images can differentiate cancer cell phenotypes. Comparison of in situ gene expression pattern images during embryogenesis helps to delineate the underlying gene networks. Image analysis related techniques (e.g. wavelet) have also been found useful in bioinformatics problems such as sequence analysis. The potential of mining the information in bioimages to answer biological questions is enormous and it cries for advanced techniques of bioimage data mining and informatics. As a prompt response to this call, the goal of this workshop is to bring together interdisciplinary researchers to identify problems and present answers to bioimage data mining and informatics using cutting edge image data analysis, computer vision, data mining, machine learning, and informatics methods. Papers addressing issues of data mining and informatics, related to bioimages, are welcome. Appropriate topics include but are not limited to: * Acquisition of cellular, molecular and other bioimages; novel bioimaging techniques; novel bioimage data * Bioimage feature measurement, description, extraction, and selection * Bioimage registration and comparison * Object segmentation and tracking in bioimages * Clustering/classification of bioimages or patterns derived from bioimages * Object/pattern recognition and understanding in bioimages * Bioimage ontology and related data mining * Bioimage data visualization * Other bioimaging related techniques, including transmission, compression, storage, database, etc. * Tools/software for bioimage data processing and data mining * Bioimage related biology, bioinformatics, and biomedicine applications, e.g. 3D protein structure reconstruction, protein structure analysis and prediction, gene regulatory network/pathway modeling, etc. * Microarray image analysis and data mining * Joint analysis using both bioimages and other data (e.g. sequences, microarray, protein interaction, etc.) * Other bioinformatics problems where image pattern analysis, signal processing, and computer vision methods can be applied. Extended abstracts of 4 to 6 pages in length, or full papers, should be emailed to Dr. Fuhui Long (flong@lbl.gov ) and Dr. Hanchuan Peng (hpeng@lbl.gov ) at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, no later than April 17, 2005. The abstracts and papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be included in the conference Proceedings of the IEEE CSB 2005 published by IEEE Computer Society Press. The final versions of accepted papers are limited to 10 pages in IEEE conference format (will be emailed to the respective authors). Talk proposals with a short abstract, but without full papers, are also welcome. These abstracts will be included in the workshop program as well. Important dates for paper submissions: * April 17, 2005 - extended abstract due * April 30, 2005 - notification of acceptance/rejection * May 22, 2005 - final paper/abstract due Questions should be sent to the workshop organizers at mailto:flong@lbl.gov and mailto:hpeng@lbl.gov . Show your support for an IEEE Life Sciences Society. Sign up now: http://lifesciencessociety.org/proposal_support.php