BMVA
British Machine Vision Association and Society for Pattern Recognition

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Microscopy Image Analysis for Biomedical Applications
One Day BMVA symposium at the British Computer Society,
5 Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7HA, UK on April 21st 2010.

Chairs: Prof. Stephen McKenna (University of Dundee), Dr. Derek Magee (University of Leeds) and Dr. Nasir Rajpoot (University of Warwick).

10.00 Registration and coffee
10.25 Welcome and Introduction
10.30 Invited Talk: Image analysis - a pathologist's perspective
Darren Treanor (Leeds Teaching Hospitals, NHS Trust, UK)
11.10 Automatic nucleus segmentation of adherent cells from
brightfield microscopy images
Rehan Ali, Tunde Szilágyi, Kamila Hussien, Martin Christlieb, Borivoj Vojnovic, Michael Brady (Stanford University, University of Oxford)
11.30 Classification and scoring of breast tissue microarray spots
Telmo Amaral, Stephen McKenna, Katherine Robertson, and Alastair Thompson (University of Dundee)
11.50 Automatic neuropathy quantification using corneal confocal microscopy image analysis
M. A. Dabbah, J. Graham, I. Petropoulos, M. Tavakoli, R.A. Malik (University of Manchester)
12.10 Lunch and Poster Session
14.00 Invited Talk: Image analysis applications for whole slide imaging: Examples from diabetes, neuroscience and oncology research
Kate Lillard-Wetherell (Aperio Technologies Inc., USA)
14.40 The application of support vector machines to detect cell nuclei for Automated microscopy
Ji Wan Han, Toby Breckon, David A. Randell, Gabriel Landini
(Cranfield University, University of Birmingham)
15.00 Segmentation of cell clumps for quantitative high throughput analysis
Simon Li, Claudia Buehnemann, Bass Hassan, J Alison Noble
(University of Oxford)
15.20 Tea and Coffee
15.40 Tracing curvilinear structures in live microscopy images
Boguslaw Obara, David Gavaghan, Vicente Grau (University of Oxford)
16.00 Segmentation and tracking of networks of Arabidopsis thaliana cells through Confocal laser microscope images
V. Sethuraman, A French, D Wells, T Pridmore (University of Nottingham)
16.20 Three-dimensional model construction from confocal microscopy images for accurate diffusion MRI data synthesis
Eleftheria Panagiotaki, Matt G. Hall, Bernard Siow, Daniel C. Alexander (University College London)
16.40 Closing remarks and finish


Posters

Multilevel feature extraction for oesophagus epithelial architecture
Afzan Adam, Andy Bulpitt (University of Leeds)

Analysis of images for automatic targeting and data extraction in
transmission electron microscopy N. Coudray, A. Karathanou,
J.L. Buessler, G. Hermann, J.P. Urban (MIPS Laboratory, France)

Real time processing issues in segmentation of time lapse fluorescence
imagery D Crookes, A McArdle, C Gillan, P Miller, H Gribben
(Queen’s University Belfast; Andor Bio-Imaging Division, Belfast)

The automatic identification of non-growing follicles in human ovaries
T W Kelsey (University of St. Andrews)

Raman spectral mapping: improving our understanding of colon
carcinogenesis C. A. Kendall, J. Wood, D. Carey, J. Hutchings,
T. Cook, N. Shepherd, N. Stone (Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Trust)

Automating yeast cell image analysis
Yihui Liu, Ross D. King
(Shandong Institute of Light Industry, China; Aberystwyth University)

A new design tool for feature extraction in noisy images based on greyscale
hit-or-miss transforms
Stephen Marshall, Paul Murray (University of Strathclyde)

Characterisation of morphological patterns in pulmonary neuroendocrine carcinoma histology images
Poorna Chandra Suraj B. N., Nasir M. Rajpoot, Muhammad F. Bari, David Snead (University of Warwick)

The Open Microscopy Environment: informatics and quantitative analysis for biological microscopy, HCAs, and image data repositories
Jason R. Swedlow (University of Dundee) and the OME Consortium

Detecting epithelial nuclei in virtual slides
P Chomphuwiset, R D Boyle, D R Magee, D E Treanor (University of Leeds)


REGISTRATION FORM: 21st April 2010 Meeting

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