MMBIA 2008: IEEE Computer Society Workshop on
Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis



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      News
              

 June 9:  Each oral paper gets 25 minutes (20+5 minutes for questions) of presentation time, including the time for the introduction and for the speaker to walk to the podium to deliver the presentation.  Instructions for the poster presentations can be found here.

June 8:  We're delighted that Prof. Jerry Prince has agreed to be our plenary speaker. His talk will be titled "A Unified Framework for Motion and Strain Imaging in MRI", please check here for the brief abstract.
   
    May 14:  For those attendees not registering for the main conference, you may get into both days of our workshop by registering for a one-day tutorial/workshop.
    
    May 5:  Papers have been selected. Please follow the author instructions here to submit the camera-ready paper. The absolute latest to submit to the Omnipress site is May 8 at 11:59 PM (Eastern Time). This is when the site will close. 

 May 2:  Decision will be announced on Sunday, May 4th. Author instructions for the camera-ready version of the paper can be found here. The final program will be posted soon.

March 15:  The deadline for the paper submission has been postponed until Friday, March 28th.

Feb. 29: MMBIA is using an online submission system. Please submit the papers through the online system.

Feb. 27: Please note that the length limit for papers submitted to MMBIA is eight pages. Please use the CVPR author kit to format the papers.


Important Dates

  Deadline for submission:      March 28th, 2008

  Notification of Acceptance:    May 4th, 2008

  Camera-ready Papers Due:     May 8th, 2008

  Workshop Dates:                   June 27th - 28th, 2008



   Introduction

Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis (MMBIA) 2008 is the ninth in a series of workshops on biomedical image analysis, to be held in conjunction with CVPR 2008 at Anchorage, Alaska. This workshop is devoted to the presentation and discussion of new developments in computational techniques for the analysis of biomedical images.


 
      Call for Papers

Biomedical image analysis is a fast evolving field driven by the advancement of imaging modalities and high content screening techniques. This poses challenges and also opportunities for the development of analysis algorithms. The workshop will provide an interdisciplinary forum for researchers involved in all aspects of the biomedical images analysis, with the focus on new developments in computational techniques for the analysis of biomedical image data. Our goal is to foster discussion of mathematical approaches to biomedical image analysis and modeling in a more focused manner than can be addressed in the main tracks of the CVPR conference.

The workshop will bring together researchers in computational vision, computational biology, graphics and robotics communities interested in problems that involve mathematical modeling or analysis in biomedical images. Unlike previous workshops, we will expand the scope of the biomedical images to include not only medical imaging data but also exciting molecular and cellular imaging data arising from confocal microscopes. It calls for original, high-quality submissions that address innovative research and development of biomedical image analysis. The final program will consist of previously unpublished and contributed papers, with substantial time allocated to discussion.

Topics of interests include but are not limited to:

  • Computational Anatomical Atlases
  • Image/Curve/Surface/Volume Registration
  • Multidimensional Segmentation
  • Snakes, Splines and Deformable Models
  • PDE-based Methods of Image Analysis
  • Biomedical Image Motion Analysis
  • Multidimensional Data Visualization
  • Molecular and Cellular Image Analysis
  • Functional and Metabolic Image Analysis
  • Image Guided Surgery/Therapy
  • Biomedical Image Databases / Biomedical Image Retrieval
  • Feature Extraction and Pattern Recognition
  • Quantative Imaging Biomarkers
  • Diffusion Tensor Image Analysis
  • Applications

The workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society. In submitting a paper to MMBIA, authors acknowledge that no paper of substantially similar content has been or will be submitted to another conference or workshop during the MMBIA review period.


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Paper Submission

Blind review: MMBIA reviewing is double blind: authors do not know the names of the reviewers of their papers, and reviewers do not know the names of the authors. Please see the author kit for detailed explanations of how to ensure this.

Formatting: Papers are limited to eight pages. Please use the CVPR author kit to format the papers. The workshop chairs reserve the right to reject papers violating the paper length and the formatting instructions outright, without review.

Submission: MMBIA is using an online submission system. Please submit the papers through the online system.

Simultaneous submissions: In submitting a paper to MMBIA, authors acknowledge that no paper of substantially similar content has been or will be submitted to another conference or workshop during the MMBIA review period.


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Registration and Hotels

MMBIA2008 will be held in conjunction with CVPR 2008. Please refer to the CVPR 2008 website for the location, registration and accommodation information.


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People

Workshop Chairs
 
  William M. Wells III, Harvard Medical Shool and MIT, USA
  Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
  Baba C. Vemuri, University of Florida, USA
  Fei Wang, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA


  Program Committee

 
  Dan Adam, Technion, Israel
  Nicholas Ayache, INRIA, France
  Gary Christensen, Univ. of Iowa, USA
  Albert Chung, Hong Kong University of Sc. and Tech., Hong Kong
  Dorin Comaniciu, SIEMENS, USA
  Christos Davatzikos, UPENN, USA
  Benoit Dawant, Vanderbilt, USA
  Alejandro F. Frangi, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
  James Gee, UPENN, USA
  Guido Gerig, UNC, USA
  Polina Golland, MIT, USA
  Hayit Greenspan, Tel Aviv University, Israel
  Ghassan Hamarneh, Simon Fraser University, Canada
  Bing Jian, SIEMENS, USA
  Sarang Joshi, Univ. of Utah, USA
  Nico Karssemeijer, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  Ron Kikinis, Harvard, USA
  Richard Leahy, USC, USA
  Frederik Maes, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
  Dimitris N. Metaxas, Rutgers, USA
  Nassir Navab, Technical University of Munich, Germany
  J. Alison Noble, Univ. of Oxford, UK
  Xenophon Papademetris, Yale, USA
  Nikos Paragios, Ecole Centrale de Paris, France
  Xavier Pennec, INRIA, France
  Kilian M. Pohl, Harvard, USA
  Jerry Prince, John Hopkins, USA
  Anand Rangarajan, Univ. of Florida, USA
  Daniel Rueckert, Imperial College London, UK
  Linda Shapiro, University of Washinton, USA
  Dinggang Shen, UPENN, USA
  Pengsheng Shi, Hong Kong University of Sc. and Tech., Hong Kong
  Milan Sonka, Univ of Iowa, USA
  Lawrence H. Staib, Yale, USA
  Hemant Tagare, Yale, USA
  Demetri Terzopoulos, NYU, USA
  Arthur Toga, UCLA, USA
  Zhuowen Tu, UCLA, USA
  Ragini Verma, UPENN, USA
  Zhizhou Wang, NeatReceipts, USA
  Chenyang Xu, SIEMENS, USA
  Pingkun Yan, Philips Research, USA


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Previous Meetings

This workshop is part of the series that has been offered at CVPR approximately every other year. Previous MMBIA meetings:

1994 Seattle, Washington
  1996 San Francisco, California
  1998 Santa Barbara, California
  2000 Hilton Head, South Carolina
  2001 Kauai, Hawaii
  2004 Prague, Czech Republic (in conjunction with ECCV)
  2006 New York City, New York
  2007 Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (in conjunction with ICCV)


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