I've been asked to forward this on, and I figured that there may a few people
on the SPM mailing list who may be interested.
Best regards,
-John

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Dear Colleague,

You are hereby invited to contribute to the MICCAI 2006 workshop:

             From Statistical Atlases to Personalized Models:
             Understanding Complex Diseases in Populations and Individuals
             October 6th 2006, http://www.imm.dtu.dk/sa2pm/
             [See the attached PDF file or the text below for details]

This workshop will feature a discussion of recent advances in statistical
atlases for biomedical research as well as in image-based physiological
modeling and simulation for diagnosis and treatment design. These areas are
already playing and will continue to play an increasing role in biomedical
research, diagnosis and treatment delivery. The workshop will stimulate
contributions at the cross-road of physics, biology, physiology,
biomedicine, applied mathematics, computer science and engineering, all of
which with clear connections to computational imaging.

Contributions are invited in – but not limited to – the following areas:

COMPUTATIONAL ATLASES OF ANATOMY AND FUNCTION

- Atlas strategies:
   probabilistic, deformable, deformation- and density-based atlases
- Methodological underpinnings:
   data normalization, registration, fusion, and visualization aspects
- Statistical underpinnings:
   hypothesis testing and inference from population atlases, information
fusion
- Mathematical underpinnings:
   shape and deformation theory and analysis and pattern extraction
- Exploitation of computational atlases in specific diseases

PERSONALIZED PHYSICAL MODELS AND SIMULATION

- Virtual imaging techniques: imaging through personalized simulation
- Methods for image-based, non-invasive and in-vivo
   physiological measurements
- Methods for signal- and image-based parameter estimation of
   biophysical models
- Multi-scale modeling/simulation integrating molecular,
   structural and functional imaging
- Success stories in exploitation of simulation tools for
   diagnosis and therapy design
- Methods for gaining understanding of complex diseases
   through simulation of biophysical phenomena
- Tools for optimizing treatment design and delivery
   through subject-specific modeling and simulation
- Evaluation of simulation techniques with
   experimental and outcome data

Contributed papers should be 2 - 4 pages. Please refer to
http://www.imm.dtu.dk/sa2pm/ for further details.


IMPORTANT DATES

- Deadline for paper submission: May 1st 2006
- Workshop: October 6th 2006


WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Alejandro Frangi, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
Hervé Delingette, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France
Mikkel B. Stegmann, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Amir Amini, University of Louisville, USA
John Ashburner, University College London, UK
Nicholas Ayache, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
Dana Brooks, Northeastern University, USA
Juan Cebral, George Mason University, USA
Patrick Clarysse, CREATIS, France
Jean-Louis Coatrieux, University of Rennes, France
Louis Collins, McGill University, Canada
Stephane Cotin, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Sune Darkner, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Hervé Delingette, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
James Duncan, Yale University, USA
Alejandro Frangi, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
James Gee, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Guido Gerig, University of North Carolina, USA
Miguel Gonzalez, University of Bern, Switzerland
Arun Holden, University of Leeds, UK
David Hose, University of Sheffield, UK
Ilias Iacovidis, DG Information Society and Media, European
Chris Johnson, University of Utah, USA
Ron Kikinis, Harvard University, USA
Peter Kohl, University of Oxford, UK
Andrew Laine, Columbia University, USA
Boudewijn Lelieveldt, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands
Christian Lorenz, Philips Research Labs, Hamburg, Germany
Jyrki Lötjönen, VTT Information Technology, Finland
Isabelle Magnin, CREATIS, France
Jean-Francois Mangin, Service Hospitalier Frederic Joliet, France
Rob McLeod, University of Utah, USA
Michael Miga, Vanderbilt University, USA
Wiro Niessen, Erasmus MC, Netherlands
Xavier Pennec, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
Stephen Pizer, University of North Carolina, USA
Christian Roux, ESNT Bretagne, France
Daniel Rueckert, Imperial College of Science and Technology, UK
Frank Sachse, University of Utah, USA
Rod Smallwood, University of Sheffield, UK
David Steinman, University of Toronto, Canada
Gabor Szekely, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Charles Taylor, Stanford University, USA
Marc Thiriet, INRIA Rocquencourt, France
Max Viergever, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
Simon Warfield, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA
Carl-Fredrik Westin, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital,
USA

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