MICCAI workshop on Bio- Imaging and Visualization for Patient-Customized Simulations 2013 September 26, 2013 Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan http://sites.google.com/site/mwbivpcs

Description
Imaging and Visualization are among the most dynamic and innovative areas of research of the past few decades. Justification of this activity arises from the requirements of important practical applications such as the visualization of computational data, the processing of medical images for assisting medical diagnosis and intervention, and the 3D geometry reconstruction and processing for computer simulations.
Currently, due to the development of more powerful hardware resources, mathematical and physical methods, investigators have been incorporating advanced computational techniques to derive sophisticated methodologies that can better enable the solution of the problems encountered. Consequent to these efforts any effective methodologies have been proposed, validated and some of them have already been integrated into commercial software for computer simulations.
The main goal of this MICCAI workshop on Bio- Imaging and Visualization for Patient-Customized Simulations 2013 (http://sites.google.com/site/mwbivpcs) is to provide a platform for communications among specialists from complementary fields such as signal and image processing, mechanics, computational vision, mathematics, physics, informatics, computer graphics, bio-medical-practice, psychology and industry. Participants in this workshop are going to present and discuss their proposed techniques and methods in the corresponding fields that are related to the workshop topics and explore the translational potentials of these emerging technological fields. This workshop will be an excellent opportunity to refine ideas for future work and to establish constructive cooperation for new and improved solutions of imaging and visualization techniques and modelling methods towards more realistic and efficient computer simulations.
Another important objective of the  MICCAI workshop on Bio- Imaging and Visualization for Patient-Customized Simulations 2013 is to establish a viable connection between software developers, specialist researchers and applied end-users from diverse fields related to Signal Processing, Imaging, Visualization, Biomechanics and Simulation.

Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to):
- Image processing and Analysis for Patient-Customized Simulations;
- Image Enhancement, Segmentation and Description in Patient-Customized Simulations;
- Image based Tracking, Matching and Registration in Patient-Customized Simulations;
- Computer Modelling for Patient-Customized Simulations
- 3D Shape Reconstruction and Processing in Patient-Customized Simulations;
- Medical Imaging for Patient-Customized Simulations;
- Data Processing, Modelling and Analysis in Patient-Customized Simulations;
- Scientific Visualization for Patient-Customized Simulations;
- Enhanced Visualization in Patient-Customized Simulations;
- Human-Computer Interaction in Patient-Customized Simulations;
- Enhanced and Virtual Reality in Patient-Customized Simulations;
- Software Development for Patient-Customized Simulations;
- Grid Computing in Patient-Customized Simulations;
- Applications of Patient-Customized Simulations.

Publications
- The best 6 papers presented in the workshop will be invited to be included as extended versions in a special issue of the Taylor and Francis group “Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization” journal (http://www.tandfonline.com/tciv).
- 15 papers presented in the workshop will be select to be include as extended versions in a book dedicated to “Imaging and Visualization for Patient-Customized Simulations” to be published by SPRINGER under the “Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics” book series (http://www.springer.com/series/8910).

Award:
A best paper prize will be given by the workshop organizers to the best paper presented in the workshop.

Important Dates:
Deadline for Submission: June 21, 2013
Notification of Acceptance: July 8, 2013 Camera-Ready Submission: July 12, 2013 Workshop Final Program: July 31, 2013
Workshop: September 26, 2013

Deadline for Submission to Journal Special Issue: Nov. 1, 2013 Deadline for Submission to Chapter Book: April 1, 2014

Program Committee:
Alberto Santamaria-Pang, GE Global Research Center, USA Alexandre X. Falcão, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil Aly Farag, Louisville University, USA Bernard Gosselin, University of Mons, Belgium Begoña Calvo, University of Zaragoza, Spain Bin Gu, University of Western Ontario, Canada Christos E. Constantinou, Stanford University, USA Daniela Iacoviello, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy Eduardo Soudah, International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Spain F. Xavier Roca, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain Francisco P.M. Oliveira, Universidade do Porto, Portugal João Paulo Papa, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil Jorge Barbosa, Universidade do Porto, Portugal Jorge S. Marques, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal Josef Šlapal, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic Jack Yao, NIH, USA Jun Zhao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Khan M Iftekharuddin, Old Dominion University, USA Linte, Cristian A., Mayo Clinic, USA M. Emre Celebi, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, USA Manuel González Hidalgo, Balearic Islands University, Spain Marc Thiriet, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), France Paolo Di Giamberardino, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Renato Natal Jorge, Universidade do Porto, Portugal Reneta Barneva, State University of New York Fredonia, USA Sanderson L. Gonzaga de Oliveira, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Brazil Sandra Rua Ventura, Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal Victor Hugo C. de Albuquerque, Universidade de Fortaleza, Brazil Xiangrong Zhou, Gifu University, Japan Xinjian Chen, Soochow University, China Xiongbiao Luo, Nagoya University, Japan Yan Nei Law, Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore Yongjie Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Yubo Fan, Beihang University, China Zeyun Yu, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, USA Zhen Ma, Universidade do Porto, Portugal Zhijie Wang, University of Western Ontario, Canada Zhou Jiayin, Astar, Singapore

Organizers
João Manuel R. S. Tavares
Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Email: [log in to unmask], url: www.fe.up.pt/~tavares
Phone: +351-22-508-1487

Shuo Li
University of Western Ontario, Canada
Email: [log in to unmask], url: http://dig.lhsc.on.ca/members/shuo.php
Phone: 519-646-6000 (ext. 64624)