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September<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>is prostate cancer awareness month, and we will be holding this workshop to discuss the latest prostate cancer<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>imaging research. If CAP is detected early, men have a high five-year survival rate. Unfortunately, there is no<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>standardized image-based screening protocol for early detection of CAP (unlike for breast cancers). In the USA high<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>levels of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) warrant a trans-rectal ultrasound (TRUS) biopsy to enable histologic<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>confirmation of presence or absence of CAP. TRUS biopsy incorporates significant random and systematic error.<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>Random error occurs because the prostate is biopsied without knowledge of the cancer location; systematic error<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>because certain areas (apex, transition zone, anterior fibrostroma) are under-sampled. There have been recent rapid<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>developments in multi-parametric radiological imaging techniques (spectroscopy, dynamic contrast enhanced MR<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>imaging, diffusion-weighting, PET, and ultrasound), that allow high resolution functional and metabolic imaging of<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>benign and malignant prostate tissue. Distinct computational and technological challenges for multi-modal data<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>registration and classification still remain in leveraging these multi-parametric data for optimizing biopsy and directing therapy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:black'>We invite submissions that address specific problems related to technologies</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:black'>for early detection, diagnosis, prognosis, and image guided interventions for</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:black'>treatment and biopsy of prostate cancer. Topics of interest include, but are</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:black'>not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Courier;color:red'>- </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:black'>Image Segmentation, Registration of Multi-parametric MRI and 2D/3D</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:black'>ultrasound<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Courier;color:red'>- </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:black'>Validation of prostate segmentation and classification with registered</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:black'>3D histological images<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Courier;color:red'>- </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:black'>Shape analysis and morphology in prostate imaging<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Courier;color:red'>- </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:black'>Optimizing image-guided targeted prostate cancer diagnosis and computer-aided detection, diagnosis<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Courier;color:red'>- </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:black'>Robot assisted prostate interventions, Radiation therapy planning and guidance<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT39o00","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT39o00","serif";color:black'>PLENARY SPEAKERS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:black'>Professor Masoom A. Haider, MD, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, University of Toronto ( <a href="http://www.radonc.utoronto.ca/our-community/faculty/faculty-profiles/haider-masoom">http://www.radonc.utoronto.ca/our-community/faculty/faculty-profiles/haider-masoom</a> ) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:black'>Assoc. Professor David A. Jaffray, PhD, Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Head, Radiation Physics Department, Princess Margaret Hospital ( <a href="http://www.uhnresearch.ca/researchers/profile.php?lookup=2716">http://www.uhnresearch.ca/researchers/profile.php?lookup=2716</a> )<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:black'>SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:black'>Two types of submissions are encouraged (a) Regular papers (8-12 pages), and (b) Abstracts (up to 2 pages). The</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:black'>abstract styled submission is specifically to encourage clinicians and MD to participate in this workshop. All</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:black'>submissions (regular or abstract) may be submitted through the workshop website</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:black'>(</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:blue'><a href="http://lcib.rutgers.edu/pci2011/">http://lcib.rutgers.edu/pci2011/</a></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:black'>), which and should conform to the MICCAI formatting instructions: (i) Papers</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:black'>should be in the LNCS style and submitted in PDF format, and (ii) anonymized for double blind review</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:#1F497D'>.</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT39o00","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:black'>Proceedings from last year’s workshop (Beijing) are available at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Prostate-Cancer-Imaging-Computer-Aided-International/dp/3642159885">http://www.amazon.com/Prostate-Cancer-Imaging-Computer-Aided-International/dp/3642159885</a> .<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT39o00","serif";color:black'>IMPORTANT DATES:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:black'>Paper submission deadline: now extended to June 12, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:black'>Acceptance Notification: July 1, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:black'>Submission of the camera-ready papers: July 9, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT39o00","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT39o00","serif";color:black'>ORGANIZERS:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:black'>Anant Madabhushi (Rutgers University)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:black'>Henkjan Huisman (Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:black'>Dean Barratt (University College London)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"TT3Ao00","serif";color:black'>Jason Dowling (CSIRO Australian e-Health Research Center)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>-----------</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>