The 1st International Workshop on Computer Vision for Intravascular Imaging
 October 6, 2006
 Copenhagen, Denmark
 http://www.scr.siemens.com/cvii/
  
 Technological advances in intravascular imaging offer increasingly
 useful information regarding vascular anatomy and function and are
 poised to have dramatic impact on the diagnosis, analysis, modeling, and
 treatment of vascular diseases. 
  
 Computer vision techniques designed to analyze intravascular images for
 anatomic modeling, simulation, visualization, tissue classification, and
 the assessment of interventional procedures are therefore playing a role
 of increased importance and are currently receiving significant
 interest. 
  
 The workshop aims at bringing together researchers in the field of
 intravascular imaging and present state-of-the-art techniques in
 computer vision and image processing of intravascular images. 
  
 Workshop Organizers: Stephane Carlier (Columbia University-CRF), Ioannis
 Kakadiaris (University of Houston), Greg Slabaugh (Siemens Corporate
 Research), Allen Tannenbaum (Georgia Institute of Technology), Gozde
 Unal (Siemens Corporate Research)
  
 Program Committee: Ergin Atalar (Johns Hopkins University), Guy Cloutier
 (University of Montreal), Jouke Dijkstra (Leiden University), Jon
 Klingensmith (Volcano Therapeutics), Petia Radeva (Universitat Autonoma
 de Barcelona), J.H.C. Reiber (Leiden University), Milan Sonka
 (University of Iowa)
  
 Relevant topics for the workshop include (but not limited to):
 -- Atherosclerotic plaque image analysis and characterization 
 -- Quantification of vascular morphology and function 
 -- Tissue classification of intravascular images 
 -- Computer-aided diagnosis of vascular disease 
 -- Segmentation and anatomic modeling from IVUS, OCT, IVMR, etc. 
 -- Image-based biomechanical models of vascular anatomy and function 
 -- Registration of intravascular images 
 -- Image processing methods for intravascular contrast agent applications 
 -- Hemodynamic image-based modeling 
 -- Percutaneous imaging/intervention, including IVUS, OCT and IVMR 
 
 There will be two keynote speeches by Dr. Milan Sonka, and Dr. Stephane 
Carlier.
 
 The workshop proceedings will be published in conjunction with the
 MICCAI conference. In addition, we received a positive feedback from a
 relevant journal for a special issue publication. 
 
 The submission deadline is May 15, 2006. Double submissions with the
 MICCAI conference are allowed. 
 
 See Call for Papers at
 http://www.scr.siemens.com/cvii/CVII_MICCAI_2006_CFP.pdf