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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=ES link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>[apologies for multiple postings]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>*******************************************************************************************************<span style='color:navy'>*************************************************************</span></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>International Summer Course on Medical Imaging using Bio-inspired and Soft Computing</span></b><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>*******************************************************************************************************<span style='color:navy'>*************************************************************</span></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The European Centre for Soft Computing (ECSC) (<a href="http://www.softcomputing.es/">www.softcomputing.es</a>) is a research centre on Artificial Intelligence located in Asturias (Spain). The ECSC coordinates the 7FP Marie Curie Initial Training Network "Medical Imaging using Bio-inspired and Soft Computing" (<a href="http://www.mibisoc-itn.eu/" title="blocked::http://www.mibisoc-itn.eu/">www.mibisoc-itn.eu</a>) . This network aims to create a multidisciplinary training programme where 16 enrolled early-stage researchers (ESRs) are exposed to a wide variety of Bio-Inspired (BC) and Soft Computing (SC) techniques, and to the challenge of applying them in the development of flexible application-oriented solutions to current Medical Imaging (MI) problems. The MIBISOC partnership consists of world-wide recognized researchers from 8 scientific institutions (ECSC, Ghent University, Université Libre de Bruxelles, University of Nottingham, Universitŕ degli Studi di Parma, University of Granada, Henesis, Universitätsklinikum Freiburg), and 4 high quality technical partners (General Electrics Healthcare, CNRS, Hospital Central de Asturias, Treelogic).</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='vertical-align:baseline'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Within this training programme a first technical course is organized in July (</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.softcomputing.es/mibisoc-summer2011"><span lang=EN-US>http://www.softcomputing.es/mibisoc-summer2011</span></a></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>). </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>It is focused on SC and BC-based intelligent system design to solve real-world MI problems. A detailed summary of real-world applications will be taught by outstanding experts, including topics such as image reconstruction in MI modalities, filtering and processing of medical images, segmentation and feature extraction in MI, range and multimodal image registration.</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='vertical-align:baseline'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>It will be held in the facilities of the European Centre for Soft Computing in</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'> </span><strong><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>Mieres</span></strong><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'>, Spain, in </span><strong><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>July 4-8th, 2011</span></strong><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>.</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='vertical-align:baseline'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Syllabus</span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> for this first technical course:</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p><ol style='margin-top:0cm' start=1 type=1><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Introduction: SC-BC capabilities in MI.</span></b><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span lang=FR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>BC-SC techniques for MI classification.</span></b><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span lang=FR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>BC-SC techniques for MI restoration.</span></b><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>BC-SC approaches to MI segmentation.</span></b><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>BC-SC in MI registration.</span></b><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></li></ol><p style='vertical-align:baseline'><span lang=IT style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> </span><strong><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Lectures and lecturers:</span></strong><span lang=EN-US style='color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='vertical-align:baseline'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>High quality lecturers will be in charge of each corresponding two-hour block.</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='vertical-align:baseline'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Confirmed lecturers:</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'><a href="http://www.softcomputing.es/metaspace/file/566.pdf" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-GB>Dr. Gerald Schaefer</span></a></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'>: "Intelligent classification methods and their application to biomedicine".</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'><a href="http://www.softcomputing.es/metaspace/file/562.pdf" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-GB>Dr. Humberto N. Bustince</span></a></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'>: "Image enhancement and segmentation using fuzzy sets".</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'><a href="http://www.softcomputing.es/metaspace/file/560.pdf" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-GB>Dr. Li Bai</span></a></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'>: "Soft Computing and Image Segmentation".</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'><a href="http://www.softcomputing.es/metaspace/file/564.pdf" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-GB>Dr. Sergio Damas</span></a></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'>: "Evolutionary Image Registration".</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'><a href="http://www.softcomputing.es/metaspace/file/565.pdf" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-GB>Dr. Mike Nachtegael</span></a></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'>: "Fuzzy Logic for Image Denoising and Enhancement".</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'><a href="http://www.softcomputing.es/metaspace/file/563.pdf" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-GB>Dr. Óscar Cordón</span></a></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'>: "3D-2D Craniofacial Superimposition using Soft Computing".</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'><a href="http://www.softcomputing.es/metaspace/file/561.pdf" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-GB>Dr. Vitoantonio Bevilacqua</span></a></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'>: "Medical Image Segmentation using Neural Networks".</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'><a href="http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/%7Ewpenny/" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-GB>Dr. Will Penny</span></a></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'>: "Bayesian methods in Brain Imaging".</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'><a href="http://www.softcomputing.es/metaspace/file/573.pdf" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-GB>Dr. Christian Barillot</span></a></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'>: "Deformable Medical Image Sementation and Registration".</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'><a href="http://www.softcomputing.es/metaspace/file/572.pdf" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-GB>Dr. George Matsopoulos</span></a></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'>: "Medical Image Registration combining Global and Local Optimization techniques".</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'><a href="http://cogimage.dsi.cnrs.fr/perso/colliot/" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-GB>Dr. Olivier Colliot</span></a></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'>: "Fuzzy spatial relations for MI segmentation".</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'><a href="http://pages.bangor.ac.uk/%7Emas00a/" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-US>Dr. Ludmila Kuncheva</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'>: "Classifier ensembles and their application in medical image classification".</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='vertical-align:baseline'><strong><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'>Application:</span></strong><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='vertical-align:baseline'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>M</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>aster Students, Ph. D. students, Post-Docs, both senior and young researchers, and academic/industrial professionals are encouraged to register. We also particularly encourage women to attend to the course. There are 16 vacancies available, and the selected applicants will receive a grant to support the travel and accommodation expenses. Should you be interested in some of these 16 vacancies, send your CV to</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:registration@mibisoc-itn.eu">registration@mibisoc-itn.eu</a> before May the 31<sup>st</sup>. The selected applicants will be notificied in June. </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='vertical-align:baseline'><strong><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Accommodation</span></strong><strong><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>:</span></strong><span lang=EN-US style='color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The course will take place in Mieres (Asturias), a small town located in the North of Spain, in a former mining area. It will be held at the facilities of the European Centre for Soft Computing, sited in the Pozo Barredo Research Building of the University of Oviedo. 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