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CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION
2010 MICCAI Workshop on
Computational Diffusion MRI (CDMRI'10)
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Saturday, September 24th, 2010, 8am to 5pm
The China National Convention Center, Beijing, China

Website: http://cmic.cs.ucl.ac.uk/cdmri10
Printable flyer: http://cmic.cs.ucl.ac.uk/cdmri10/flyer.pdf

Paper submission deadline (EXTENDED): June 10th, 2010


CALL FOR PAPERS

Over the last decade interest in diffusion MRI has exploded. The technique provides a unique insight into the microstructure of living tissue and enables in-vivo connectivity mapping of the brain. Microstructural changes are often the earliest signs of disease or tissue regeneration, as well as being manifestation of physiological processes in normal tissue functioning. Tractography and connectivity mapping give fundamental new insights in neuroscience and neuroanatomy. The variety of clinical applications is expanding rapidly and includes detection of lesions and damaged tissue, prognosis of functional impairment and neurosurgical planning.

Computational techniques are key to the continued success and development of diffusion MRI and to its widespread transfer into the clinic. New processing methods are essential for addressing issues at each stage of the diffusion MRI pipeline: acquisition, reconstruction, modeling and model fitting, image processing, fiber tracking, connectivity mapping, visualization, group studies and inference. The workshop will give a snapshot of the current state of the art.



WORKSHOP TOPICS

Full-length papers are invited in (but not limited to) the following areas:

• Acquisition protocol design
• High angular resolution and general q-space sampling techniques
• Biophysical models
• Numerical simulation of diffusion process
• Tissue microstructure imaging
• Tractography and connectivity mapping
• Network analysis
• Registration, segmentation, and classification
• Visualization
• Validation
• Post-processing
• Group studies and statistical analysis
• Clinical applications

Papers accepted at the main conference may not be double-submitted to CDMRI’10.



ORGANIZERS

Gary Hui Zhang, University College London
Irina Kezele, LNAO/NeuroSpin/CEA
Kiran K Seunarine, University College London ICH
Chun-Hung Yeh, National Yang-Ming University



PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Andrew Alexander (University of Wisconsin, USA)
Daniel Alexander (University College London, UK)
Alfred Anwander (Max Planck Institute, Germany)
Yaniv Assaf (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
David Atkinson (University College London, UK)
Philip Batchelor (King's College London, UK)
Sylvain Bouix (Harvard Medical School, USA)
Kuan-Hung Cho (National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan)
Jon Clayden (University College London ICH, UK)
Philip Cook (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Olivier Coulon (CNRS, France)
Kathleen Curran (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Rachid Deriche (INRIA, France)
Maxime Descoteaux (Sherbrooke University, Canada)
Tim Dyrby (Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark)
Pierre Fillard (INRIA, France)
Hubert Fonteijn (University College London, UK)
Lawrence Frank (UCSD, USA)
James Gee (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Guido Gerig (University of Utah, USA)
Matt Hall (University College London, UK)
Andrew Janke (College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Australia)
Saad Jbabdi (Oxford University, UK)
Gordon Kindlmann (University of Chicago, USA)
Thomas Knöesche (Max Planck Institute, Germany)
Ching-Po Lin (National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan)
Jean-François Mangin (NeuroSpin, France)
Xavier Pennec (INRIA, France)
Cyril Poupon (NeuroSpin, France)
Peter Savadjiev (Harvard Medical School, USA)
Stamatios Sotiropoulos (Oxford University, UK)
Kaleem Siddiqi (McGill University, Canada)
Paul Thompson (UCLA School of Medicine, USA)
Jacques-Donald Tournier (Brain Research Institute, Australia)
Rong Xu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Ed X. Wu (Hong Kong University, Hong Kong)
Paul Yushkevich (University of Pennsylvania, USA)


IMPORTANT DATES

Jun 10, 2010: Paper Submission (EXTENDED)
Aug 1, 2010: Notification of Acceptance
Aug 18, 2010: Camera-Ready Papers
Sep 24, 2010: Workshop (8am to 5pm)


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Papers submitted to the workshop should conform to the MICCAI
formatting instructions, with few minor modifications explained below:

   * Papers should be in the LNCS style
   * Suggested length is 8 pages, maximum length is 12 pages
   * Anonymized for double blind review
   * Submitted in PDF format
   * Color illustrations in the PDF are not subject to fees

The online submission system is open:

http://cmic.cs.ucl.ac.uk/cdmri10/submit

We look forward to seeing you in Beijing!

CDMRI'10 organizers