----------------------------------- Segmentation and Registration for Biomedical Applications CMBE2013 mini-symposium, 16-18 September 2013, Hongkong http://www.compbiomed.net Xianghua Xie? and Majid Mirmehdi?? ?Department of Computer Science, Swansea University, UK, x.xie@swansea.ac.uk ??Department of Computer Science, Bristol University, UK, majid@cs.bris.ac.uk Key Words: Biomedical image analysis, image segmentation, image registration Image segmentation and registration often are critical components in computational biomedical applications in order to obtain necessary structural and functional information for computational purposes. They are long standing problems in image processing and computer vision communities. Subsequent interpretation and computation are generally depended on the quality of segmentation and registration. Robust and efficient segmentation and registration for real world clinical and biological applications still remains a big challenge. For instance, the rapid development in image acquisition techniques and its ever increasing accessibility to advanced imaging produce large quantity of data that requires quantified analysis. Image processing methods that are efficient and adaptable are particularly desirable in many biomedical computational tasks. Segmentation and registration becomes more and more interlinked problems, and advances in these areas are increasingly important, for example, in subject specific medicine. This mini-symposium focuses on major trends and recent advances in segmentation and registration techniques applied to biomedical problems. Contributions in both theoretical advances and applied research in segmentation and registration are welcomed. The technical topics include, but are not limited to: - Graph cuts - Variational techniques - Energy minimisation - Texture analysis - Rigid and non-rigid registration - Group-wise registration - Non-linear transformation function - Multi-modal fusion - Shape representation - Shape learning - Deformable models - Real-time methods - Interactive techniques - Domain adaptable techniques. Important Dates: Submission deadline: 31 July 2013 (submission details: http://www.compbiomed.net) Author notification: 31 August 2013 Author registration: 30 September 2013 CMBE 2013 Conference: 16 - 18 December 2013 ------------------------------------