Owing to some confusion over the deadlines, the final submission date
for contributions to MIUA2000 has been put back to :

        Monday March 27th

You are invited to submit by this date, according to the criteria given
below. Please encourage your colleagues and/or students to do likewise.

            Medical Image Understanding and Analysis 2000
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            10-11 July 2000, University College London.

                             Call for Papers

Thank you for subscribing to the miua email list. This is the
first mail shot using this list and mainly contains information
in our flier which many of you will already have received. In
the next few weeks we will be sending you more information.
We will also be updating our web pages with this information:

http://www.miua.org.uk

The deadline for receipt of submissions is Monday 27 March 2000

Background:

Following the successful meetings, in Oxford in 1997, Leeds in
1998, and Oxford in 1998 this will be the fourth in a series of annual
meetings designed to provide a forum in the UK for the
dissemination and discussion of research in medical image
understanding and analysis.

Medical image understanding and analysis is an expanding
area in which significant advances are currently being made.
It is an area notable for the range of research communities
involved, and the meeting aims to encourage the growth
and raise the profile of this multi-disciplinary field by bringing
together the various communities.

Objectives:

The objectives of the Medical Image Understanding and
Analysis (MIUA) meetings are:

* to present the state-of-the-art of UK research in medical
image understanding and analysis (submissions from
outside the UK are also welcome)

* to raise awareness of technical advances among potential
users

* to encourage dialogue and discussion between workers from
across the field:
   from young researcher to established clinician or scientist
   from blue-sky research to practical application
   from university, hospital and commercial R&D

* to involve those from the range of technical and clinical
disciplines involved in medical imaging, including:
            computer science
            engineering oncology
            mathematics
            medical physics
            statistics
            cardiology
            neurology
            radiology
            surgery
* to highlight past and current successes in the transfer of image
analysis systems to clinical practice and identify clinical needs
of the future

* to encourage discussion of industrial opportunities and
the challenges they raise.

What is meant by the term MIUA?:

The analysis and interpretation of medical images and image
sequences in 2D and 3D, including:

analysis of time series
quantitative image analysis
analysis of functional images
artificial intelligence in imaging
segmentation/classification
cardiac imaging
decision support
shape analysis
computer-aided pathology
image interpretation
statistical methods in imaging
computer-aided radiology
image perception
systematic testing & validation
computer assisted surgery
image registration
texture analysis
human computer interaction
intelligent imaging systems
virtual reality
image guided intervention
motion analysis
visualisation
tissue perfusion
multi modality/data fusion

Instructions to Authors:

The deadline for receipt of submissions is Monday 27 March 2000

Submissions describing original unpublished research are solicited.
We will also be pleased to consider submissions that include work
already presented or about to be presented at major international
conferences, because one of the objectives of MIUA is to
encourage communication across discipline boundaries within the
UK community.

Submissions must consist of two parts (minimum 10 point text,
2.5 cm margins):

1. Single side A4 summary, headed by paper title and clearly
answering the following questions which are designed to
bring your contribution into context for a multidisciplinary readership:

What is the key intellectual contribution of the work presented?
Have you published related work?  If so, does this work differ?
and how?
What is the most closely related work by others?
How does this work differ?
Has your work been tested or developed in association with clinical
practice? If so, how?

2. Four side short-form paper, written for a multidisciplinary
readership with:
Title, Authors and Affiliations, Abstract, Method, Results, Discussion
and References.
May include illustrations (colour will be available for the web version
but not in the book).
An extensive background section is not required.
Further formatting and style details, including a Latex style sheet and
Word 6.0 template will be available on our web site
http://www.miua.org.uk

Send FOUR COPIES of your submission to:
Dr. S. Arridge. Department of Computer Science
University College London, Gower Street, London WCiE 6BT

MIUA on the WWW:

Further details about MIUA2000 and how to apply can be found on
our web site:

http://www.miua.org.uk

MIUA Steering Committee:

E Berry IPEM University of Leeds, M Brady RAE University of Oxford,
J Fleming BIR University of Southampton, D Hawkes   KCL Guy's Hospital,
A Noble IEE University of Oxford, C Taylor BMVA Univ of Manchester

MIUA Co-organisers and Chairs:


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Simon Arridge(*), Andrew Todd-Pokropek(+),  University College London
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(*) Department of Computer Science,     (+) Department of Medical
Physics
Tel. +44-(0)171-4193714 (direct)            Gower Street
Fax  +44-(0)171-3871397                     London WC1E 6BT
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