[Insight-users] MICCAI 2007 - Second Call for Workshop Papers

[Luis Ibanez]

Dear Colleagues,


The scientific program of MICCAI 2007 will be complemented this year 
with 7 workshops (http://www.miccai2007.org/workshops), and 5 tutorials 
(http://www.miccai2007.org/tutorials).You are now invited to submit your 
workshop papers. The following timeline applies to all workshops, unless 
advertised otherwise on the respective website:



15 June            Deadline for submission of full length workshop papers

31 July             Notification of acceptance of workshop papers

15 August         Submission of camera ready papers



Please note that papers accepted to the MICCAI conference will not be 
accepted to any workshop.



Below is a list of workshops for your information.



Imaging and computing biomarkers: the challenges in clinical oncology

Organisers: Kensaku Mori, H.O. Peitgen, Wiro Niessen, Jifke Veenland

http://www.bigr.nl/miccai2007



Imaging has evolved from visualizing the anatomy to a multitude of 
techniques that can provide visual information on tissue morphology, 
physiology and metabolic processes. In clinical oncology, a variety of 
MRI sequences, Ultrasound and PET/CT provide important visual 
information. An important challenge for the medical image processing 
domain is to offer techniques to process and analyze the different type 
of clinical images for cancer detection, diagnosis, grading, and 
treatment response monitoring.



Relevant image processing techniques include the analysis of time 
sequences, motion compensation, image registration, image segmentation, 
pattern recognition and novel local quantification techniques. Combining 
new image acquisition methods with advanced image processing techniques 
can provide researchers and clinicians with meaningful endpoints to 
further patient care and guide clinical research.



Computational Biomechanics for Medicine II

Organisers: Karol Miller, Keith D. Paulsen, Alistair A. Young, Poul M. 
F. Nielsen

http://cbm2007.mech.uwa.edu.au

Mathematical modelling and computer simulation have proved tremendously 
successful in engineering. One of the greatest challenges for mechanists 
is to extend the success of computational mechanics to fields outside 
traditional engineering, in particular to biology, biomedical sciences, 
and medicine. The proposed workshop will provide an opportunity for 
computational biomechanics specialists to present and exchange opinions 
on the opportunities of applying their techniques to computer-integrated 
medicine. For example, continuum mechanics models provide a rational 
basis for analysing biomedical images by constraining the solution to 
biologically reasonable motions and processes. Biomechanical modelling 
can also provide clinically important information about the physical 
status of the underlying biology, integrating information across 
molecular, tissue, organ, and organism scales. The main goal of this 
workshop is to showcase the clinical and scientific utility of 
computational biomechanics in computer-integrated medicine.



Interaction in medical image analysis and visualization

Organisers: Anders Persson, Ewert Bengtsson

http://www.cmiv.liu.se/output/meetings/miccai-workshop-2007/

Although a general ambition is to make medical image analysis and 
visualization systems as automated as possible, the complexity of the 
human anatomy in the images frequently makes it impossible to achieve 
full automation with sufficient quality of the results. In particular, 
image segmentation often requires some human interaction, and in volume 
rendering interactive adjustment of transfer functions is common. Since 
modern medical image data tend to have three or more dimensions, and 
image display and interaction devices are predominantly 2D, the required 
interaction poses challenging problems.

Topics include:

•          System design for interaction

•          Software toolkits for visualization and interaction with 
medical image data

•          Interactive 3D segmentation

•          Fuzzy methods for segmentation, visualization and interaction

•          Hardware-based visualization methods enabling interaction

•          New methods for interaction in volume rendering

•          Interactive and automated definition of transfer functions

•          Haptic interaction for medical image analysis and visualization

•          Clinical and research applications of interactive 
segmentation and visualization

•          The clinical value of stereoscopic hardware vs. standard displays



There will be a half-day workshop with invited presentations and 
contributed posters, with a possibility for demonstrations of actual 
systems on the presenter’s own computer.



Open Source and Open Data for MICCAI

Organisers: Stephen Aylward, Tina Kapur, Luis Ibanez, Kevin Cleary

http://www.insightsoftwareconsortium.org/wiki/index.php/2007_MICCAI_Open_Workshop

Want to share, replicate, extend, or compare software and data presented 
at the main conference? Want to publish or learn about the full set of 
parameters and processes that were needed to achieve results presented 
at the main conference? This workshop features peer-reviewed submissions 
that describe the available data and software of MICCAI.  We encourage 
submissions that are complimentary to papers being presented at the main 
conference, as well as submissions on novel topics.

The receipt, review, and publication of submissions to this workshop 
will use the open-access Insight Journal. Authors are encouraged to 
include other files with their submission, particularly videos, code, 
and data. Also, submissions are immediately available to any registered 
member of the Insight Journal (registration is free); and any member may 
contribute a public, peer-review of any submission. Authors may also 
post responses to reviews and upload revisions to their submissions.

Important dates for the workshop:

July 1: Deadline for submissions

September 1: Deadline for reviews

September 5: Notification of acceptance

On September 1, the workshop committee will consider the posted reviews, 
as well as the intent of the workshop, to select papers for oral and 
poster presentation. Those decisions will be announced on or about 
September 5.

When appropriate, authors will be offered the opportunity to have their 
code distributed with the Insight Toolkit (ITK). However, the use of ITK 
is not a requisite for submitting to the workshop; featuring other 
toolkits is strongly encouraged.



3D Segmentation in the Clinic: A Grand Challenge

Organisers: Tobias Heimann, Martin Styner, Bram van Ginneken

http://mbi.dkfz-heidelberg.de/grand-challenge2007/

This workshop presents a contest for automatic segmentation methods in 
two ambitious and relevant applications of medical image analysis: The 
3D segmentation of the caudate nucleus in brain MRI images and of the 
liver in abdominal CT images. After signing a letter of intent, 
participants can download training datasets (with manual reference 
segmentations) from a designated website in order to train and tune 
their algorithms. To qualify for the challenge, authors have to run 
their algorithms on a first set of supplied test data and upload the 
resulting segmentations. The results (numbers, tables and figures) will 
be mailed back and must be included in the paper. The main competition 
will take place on an additional set of unseen test datasets, either 
live at the workshop (if participants run the segmentation on their own 
laptops) or in advance by the organizers (if participants send in 
executables of their algorithms on supported platforms). Results will be 
compared with manual reference segmentations using a number of 
evaluation metrics; they will be ranked and presented for the first time 
at the workshop. The winners of each category will be awarded with small 
prizes, and endless fame and glory.



Statistical Registration: Pair-wise and Group-wise Alignment and Atlas 
Formation

Organisers: Lilla Zollei, William Wells, Mark Jenkinson

http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/martinos/training/nonlocal/miccai07-workshop/index.shtml

In the past decade, registration methods based on joint statistics and 
entropy measures have been broadly used in medical imaging applications. 
More recently, given proper computational resources and a rapidly 
increasing volume of available data sets, group-wise registration has 
emerged as a valuable mechanism for atlas formation and population studies.

This workshop intends to clarify the taxonomy of statistical and 
information theoretic registration methods, including

•          explicit and implicit modeling assumptions and their apparent 
strengths and weaknesses

•          image transformation models

•          various optimizers that are used in estimating transformations

•          various ways of aligning large sets of image acquisitions and 
of creating probabilistic

•          anatomy atlases

•          a survey of the wide range of application problems that have 
been addressed

We invite previously unpublished papers that address related topics. All 
the accepted papers will be published in a separate workshop proceedings 
and the organizers will recommend the appearance of a few selected ones 
in a related journal special edition.

This workshop is aimed at researchers who are already familiar with the 
basic medical image registration problem and who develop registration 
methods themselves.



Content-based Image Retrieval for Biomedical Image Archives: 
Achievements, Problems, and Prospects

Organisers: Hayit Greenspan, Thomas Lehmann

http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~hayit/MICCAI_CBIR_workshop

In most biomedical disciplines, digital image data is rapidly expanding 
in quantity and heterogeneity, and there is an increasing trend towards 
the formation of archives adequate to support diagnostics and preventive 
medicine. Exploration, exploitation, and consolidation of the immense 
image collections, from nano to macro, require tools to access 
structurally different data for research, diagnostics and teaching. 
Currently, image data is linked to textual descriptions, and data access 
is provided only via these textual additives. There are virtually no 
tools available to access medical images directly by their content or to 
cope with their structural differences. Visual-based (i.e. 
content-based) indexing and retrieval based on information contained in 
the pixel data of medical images is expected to have a great impact on 
biomedical image databases. However, existing systems are not applicable 
to medical imagery’s special needs, and novel methodologies are urgently 
needed.

The goal of this workshop is to introduce the topic of content-based 
image retrieval (CBIR), in particular CBIR in medical image archives 
(medical image retrieval), and to brainstorm on the key issues that are 
critical to short- and long-term advances in the field. Also, we will 
assess the prospects of advancing biomedical CBIR with new, 
publicly-available Web-based systems, new collaborative efforts among 
existing research groups, or new CBIR deployments in biomedical 
environments where high impact is likely. Intended audience includes 
both the engineers and computer scientists who develop image processing 
algorithms, as well as medical experts who we believe can utilize the 
CBIR technology to augment diagnostics, research and training.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

•          Medical image categorization

•          Statistical models for medical image representation and indexing

•          Feature extraction – from global to local to relational

•          Patch-based (“bag-of-features”) representation/retrieval

•          SIFT – scale invariant features

•          Region-based retrieval

•          Region-of-interest retrieval

•          Shape indexing in medical image databases

•          Combining image with text for automated annotation

•          Content-based compression

•          Retrieval application domains: Mammography; Radiology; other

•          Web interfaces for medical CBIR



Apologies for any multiple copies of this email.



Best wishes



MICCAI 2007 Secretariat

PO Box 10842, Adelaide Street

Brisbane Australia 4000



www.miccai2007.org