Histopathology Image Analysis (HIMA)

 

Full-day workshop to be held in conjunction with MICCAI’2012

October 5, 2012

Nice, France

 

Workshop webpage: http://go.warwick.ac.uk/hima2012


Paper submission deadline: May 30, 2012

 

Analysis of histopathology images is growing in importance with the recent advent of whole slide imaging scanners. Automated analysis of patterns obtained with microscopic imaging is improving diagnosis and grading of cancer and other diseases, for instance in histopathology using multi-staining and multi-spectral techniques. This workshop aims to bring together computer scientists, clinicians, and industrial vendors of digital pathology equipments to discuss (1) the clinical challenges and open problems, (2) present the state-of-the-art research in quantitative image analysis and visualization methods for digital pathology, diagnosis, and prognosis from H&E and IHC stained, multi-parametric imaging, (3) advances in data fusion methods between pathology and other disciplines (including radiology, genomics, and proteomics), and (4) advances in whole slide tissue and multi-spectral imaging technology.

 

We invite submissions that address specific problems related to imaging and image analysis of tissue specimens.  We particularly welcome contributions that identify or address challenges for the mainstream approval of automated histology imaging and in situ in vivo image analysis, or provide solutions to the related problems such as mosaicking, and multispectral analysis.

 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:


    Acquisition, storage, and processing of microscopy, histology, and endoscopy images
    Registration of multiple-stained tissue microscopy images
    Registration histopathology and radiological imaging modalities
    Shape analysis and morphology in tissue imaging
    Multi-spectral and volume segmentation
    Grading and Classification of histology images
    Content based image Retrieval, semantic annotation, and visualization of histology image databases
    Image mosaicking of microscopic endoscope images (OCT, microconfocal)
    Optical based probe tracking and visualization tools
    Multispectral optical endoscope dimensionality reduction, manifold learning and image analysis
    Computer-aided diagnosis and prognosis
    Segmentation and modeling of structures in histology images

 

Important Dates

 

Paper submission deadline: May 30, 2012

Acceptance Notification: July 6, 2012

Submission of the camera-ready papers: August 3, 2012

Final program: August 20, 2012


Proceedings & Special Issue

 

It is anticipated that selected, high quality papers presented at the workshop will be published in a high impact, peer-reviewed biomedical engineering journal.

 

Organizers

 

Anant Madabhushi (Rutgers University, USA)

Metin Gurcan (The Ohio State University, USA)

Nasir Rajpoot (University of Warwick, UK)

Michael D. Feldman (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

 

Program Committee (TBC)

 

Philippe Belhomme (Caen, France)

Laura Boucheron (NMSU, USA)

Eric Cosatto (NEC Labs)

Scott Doyle (Ibris Inc., USA)

Murat Dundar (IUPUI, USA)

Leo Grady (Siemens Corporate Research, USA)

Jason Hipp (University of Michigan, USA)

Richard Levinson (UCDavis, USA)

Olivier Lezorav (Caen, France)

Anne Martel (U Toronto, Canada)

Stepehen McKenna (Dundee University, UK)

James Monaco (Rutgers, USA)

Tim Nattkemper (Bielefeld University, Germany)

Eduardo Romero (National University, Columbia)

Shishir Shah (University of Houston, USA)

John Tomaszewski (University of Buffalo, USA)

Darren Treanor (Leeds University, UK)

Jun Xu (Nanjing University, China)