Dear Colleague,
Attending several requests, the organizing committee has extended the submission of abstracts for the International Conference VipIMAGE 2013 - IV ECCOMAS THEMATIC CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL VISION AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING (
www.fe.up.pt/~vipimage) to be held October 14-16, 2013, in Melia Madeira Mare Hotel, Madeira Island, Funchal, Portugal, to May 20th.
Possible Topics (not limited to)
� Signal and Image Processing
� Computational Vision
� Medical Imaging
� Physics of Medical Imaging
� Tracking and Analysis of Movement
� Simulation and Modeling
� Image Acquisition
� Industrial Applications
� Shape Reconstruction
� Objects Segmentation, Matching, Simulation
� Data Interpolation, Registration, Acquisition and Compression
� 3D Vision
� Virtual Reality
� Visual Inspection
� Software Development for Image Processing and Analysis
� Computer Aided Diagnosis, Surgery, Therapy, and Treatment
� Computational Bioimaging and Visualization
� Telemedicine Systems and their Applications
Invited Lecturers
� Daniel Rueckert - Imperial College London, UK
� Dimitris N. Metaxas - Rutgers University, USA
� Durval C. Costa - Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal
� James S Duncan - Yale School of Medicine, USA
� Milan Sonka - The University of Iowa, USA
� Richard Bowden - University of Surrey, UK
Thematic Sessions
Proposals to organize Thematic Session under the auspicious of VipIMAGE 2013 are welcome.
The proposals should be submitted by email to the conference co-chairs (
tav...@fe.up.pt,
rna...@fe.up.pt).
Confirmed Thematic Sessions
� Imaging of Biological Flows: trends and challenges
� Trabecular Bone Characterization: New trends and challenges
� Computational Vision and Image Processing applied to Dental Medicine
Publications
� Proceedings: The proceedings book will be published by the Taylor & Francis Group (
www.balkema.nl/instructions.asp) and indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index, IET Inspect and Elsevier Scopus.
� Springer Book: A book with 20 invited works from the ones presented in the conference will be published by Springer under the book series �Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics� (
www.springer.com/series/8910).
� Journal Publication: A dedicated special issue of the Taylor & Francis International Journal �Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization� (
www.tandfonline.com/tciv) will be published with extended versions of the best works presented in the conference.
Important dates
� Deadline for (2-4 pages) Abstracts: May 20, 2013 (LAST POSTPONED)
� Authors Notification: June 10, 2013
� Deadline to upload Lectures and Papers: July 1, 2013
We are looking forward to see you in Funchal next October.
Kind regards,
Jo�o Manuel R. S. Tavares
Renato Natal Jorge
(conference co-chairs)
PS. For further details, please, have a look in the conference website at:
www.fe.up.pt/~vipimage, or in the conference Facebook page at:
www.facebook.com/pages/Vipimage/237980719665456, or join the LinkedIn conference group at:
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4752820&trk=hb_side_g