IV ECCOMAS Thematic Conference VipIMAGE 2013: LAST CALL

[tav...@fe.up.pt]

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,

João 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