2nd Symposium on Shape and Deformable Modelling in Biomedical Image Analysis
Washington D.C., USA, 30th March - 1st April 2011 (in conjunction with CMBE)

Chairs:
Xianghua Xie (x.xie@swansea.ac.uk)
Majid Mirmehdi (majid@cs.bris.ac.uk)


This second edition of the symposium is in conjunction with the
International Conference on Mathematical and Computational Biomedical
Engineering 2011, Washington USA. It has a particular focus on shape
and deformable modelling for biomedical applications. Selected papers
with extended versions will be included in a special issue in
International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering.

Deformable modelling is a powerful tool in extracting biological form,
structure, and motion patterns. It is particularly suitable for
non-rigid objects and has been widely used to measure and model
biological shape and shape evolution in medical data. Shape extraction
and analysis show enormous promise in, for example, understanding
biological function and disease progression. This symposium is devoted
to the discussion of recent advances in shape analysis and deformable
modelling, in particular, for biomedical data processing and
understanding. Contributions presenting recent work on shape
representation, extraction, learning, classification and dynamic
modelling are particularly welcome. The technical topics include, but
are not limited to:

•    Shape Representation and Learning
•    Shape Matching, Classification, and Registration
•    Active Shape Model and Active Appearance Model
•    Active Contour and Surface Model
•    Partial Differential Equations
•    Level Set Methods
•    Variational Methods
•    Anatomical and Biological Structure Segmentation
•    Shape Based Motion Analysis
•    Functional, Molecular, Metabolic Image Analysis
•    Other Biomedical Applications

Important Dates
Submission:   30th October 2010
Notification: 1st December 2010
Camera Ready: 15th January 2011

For paper submission, please visit the conference website: 
http://www.compbiomed.net