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 (tavares from fe.up.pt, rnatal from 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
