BMVA
British Machine Vision Association and Society for Pattern Recognition
Call for Participation
Astronomical and Medical Imaging '05
www.bmva.ac.uk/meetings
One Day BMVA symposium
at the Royal Statistical Society, London, UK
on Wednesday 6th July 2005
Chairs: Lewis Griffin (UCL) & Seb Oliver (University of Sussex)
The aim of this one-day meeting will be to explore common areas in Medical
Imaging and Astronomy and foster transfer of algorithms and technologies
between the fields. The meeting follows on from the previous successful
meeting in 2001. See
http://www.bmva.ac.uk/meetings/meetings/01/18april01/index.html for
details.
Despite the extreme difference in subject matter, it is clear that there
are methodological issues common to these two disciplines. In both there is
a need to acquire, process, interpret and store images of 2, 3 or more
dimensions. In addition both are interested in temporally and spectrally
resolved data that may be of a scalar, vectorial or tensorial nature.
Possible areas of common interest are listed below, with examples from
Medical Imaging and Astronomy. Other topics will be considered.
1. Data mining - Functional Neuro-imaging Data; galaxy catalogues,
bioinformatics & Virtual Observatories; Grid technology; multi-variate
analysis
2. Image acquisition - online MR parameter refinement, motion
compensation, imaging through turbid media.
3. 3D from 2D - The Radon Transform in X-ray CT; Attenuation/Emission
estimation in PET Emission and absorption of galactic dust; Echo-
mapping of active galactic nuclei
4. Temporal Data - Periodic tasks in fMRI; cardiac induced movement
artefacts; variation of astrophysical objects; gravitational lensing /
supernovae searches
5. Image Processing - Registration of data from multiple modalities; De-
convolution/de-blurring/reconstruction; instrument signal
removal/calibration
6. Object detection - signal detection in very high noise; model fitting;
galaxies, scan anomalies
Statistics of Shape & Texture - Mammogram appearance; Statistics of
rotations and tensors Morphology of galaxies; Large scale clustering of
galaxies
Please submit an extended summary of about half A4-sized page (max one
page) in length (PDF preferred). Send contributions by email attachment to
Lewis Griffin ([log in to unmask]) by Friday May 6th .
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