Image Analysis in Cellular Bioscience
                   http://www.bmva.ac.uk/meetings/

                 One-day BMVA Symposium to be held at
                    The Royal Statistical Society
                       12 Errol Street, London

                                  on

                                30th April 2003

Chairs:
         Patrick Courtney (PerkinElmer Life Science)
         Jim Graham (University of Manchester)

Studying the function and dysfunction of the cell is at the centre of
modern
medicine, life science research, the pharmaceutical/biotechnology
industry
and, more recently, agriculture. The interactions of cells, cellular
components, genes, proteins, and other related molecules is an immensely

data-rich undertaking, especially with the availability of genetic
information.

Since the invention of the microscope, images have had a central role in
the
study of the cell. Current analytical methods, such as microarray
systems
and 2D gel electrophoresis are also essentially image-based techniques.
However tools to analyse this body of data
have often lagged other application domains such as bioinformatics or
computer vision more generally.

Scientists and biologists working to understand the functioning of cells

have access to a range of imaging tools to examine the cell in its
various
states. These may be used in conjunction with various dyes and
fluorescent
proteins which highlight active structure or events and offer new
opportunities as well as new problems.

The meeting will highlight recent work in the area of automated
cytology,
cell image analysis, analysis of 2D electrophoresis gels and related
fields.
We are seeking papers that report on recent work in the area from the
perspective of technology and/or application.

Relevant topics include:

  cell and subcellular tracking
  multispectral and 3D cell image analysis
  deformable models of cells
  cell segmentation and classification
  machine learning techniques applied to cell images
  artifact detection and rejection
  control of focus and automation
  cell assay screening systems
  cell sorting
  use of fluorescent proteins, GFP, FISH in image analysis
  2D gel analysis
  gene and protein screening systems/microarrays
  human user interfaces
  higher dimensional data visualisation and exploration
  integration with external datasets
  software architectures
  performance evaluation

This list is illustrative, and is not intended to be exhaustive.
However
please note the day is about image analysis, so we would exclude papers
on
optics or the physics of image formation. We would also exclude image
analysis of "macroscopic" medical images (radiology etc.) as there are
established forums where such work can be presented.

Submission date: 28th February.
Please submit an extended summary of about one A4-sized page (no longer
than
two pages) in length (PDF preferred) and which includes links or
pointers to
web-based illustrations, demonstration material or papers giving more
details.

Please submit papers by email attachment (1Mb max plaease!) to Patrick
Courtney
([log in to unmask]) by 17:00 on Friday 28th February
2003.