[Vxl-users] IV ECCOMAS Thematic Conference VipIMAGE 2013: FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

[João M. R. S. T. <ta...@fe...>]

Dear Colleague,

We are pleased to announce 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.


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 organizers of the selected thematic sessions will be included in the
conference scientific committee and will have a reduced registration fee.
Additionally, they will be responsible for the dissemination of their
thematic session, may invite expertise researchers to have invited keynotes
during their session and will participate in the review process of the
submitted contributions.
Proposal for Thematic Sessions should be submitted by email to the
conference co-chairs (ta...@fe..., rn...@fe...) until March 1,
2013.

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 Thematic Session Proposals: March 1, 2013 • Deadline for
Extended Abstracts: April 15, 2013 • Authors Notification: May 1, 2013 •
Deadline for 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 the Facebook page at:
www.facebook.com/pages/Vipimage/237980719665456