Invited session:
MEDICAL IMAGING AND BIOMEDICAL VISUALIZATION

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

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ABOUT

The SCI'2003 will be held in Orlando, Florida (USA), from July 27-30 2003 at the Sheraton World Resort. The purpose of the conference is to promote discussion and interaction between researchers and practitioners focused within disciplines as well as among different areas.

SCI has combined several Invited Sessions concerning on specific or general themes to create an environment where people could discuss and exchange ideas and experiences. One of this sessions will deal with MEDICAL IMAGING AND BIOMEDICAL VISUALIZATION. Its main goal is to bring together researchers and professionals from the academic, medical and industry who are working with Computer Graphics and Computer Vision techniques to create, visualize and interact with medical data. We also expect to provide a discussion with the international community about the new trends and open issues in medical imaging and the visualization of biomedical data.

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Invited Sessions with high quality papers might be selected for multiple author book publications. Two books have been published now as result of good invited sessions.

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INVITED SESSION ORGANIZER - CONTACT INFOARMATION

For information or enquiries related to the Invited Session or paper submission, please contact:

Burkhard Wuensche 

Email   burkhard@cs.auckland.ac.nz

URL     http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~burkhard
Ph.     +64 9 3737 599 x3705
Fax.    +64 9 3737 453
Office  70 Symonds Street, Rm 221
Address Computer Science Department,
        The University of Auckland,
        Private Bag 92019,
        Auckland,
        NEW ZEALAND

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SCI ORGANIZERS

Honorary Presidents: Bela Banathy, Stafford Beer and George Klir
Program Committee Chair: William Lesso
General Chair: Nagib Callaos
Chief Adviser: Michel Torres
Organizing Committee Chair: Belkis Sanchez
Organizing Committee Co-Chair: Jorge Molero

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TOPICS OF INTEREST

Authors are invited to submit original papers, on concluded and on-going work, in the reconstruction, analysis, visualization and interaction with medical data. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):

  1. Visualization of and Interaction with Medical Data
  2. Reconstruction of Medical Data
  3. Biomedical Modelling
  4. Segmentation and Classification of Medical Data
  5. AI methods for Analysing Biomedical Data Sets
  6. Multi-modal Image Registration and Fusion
  7. Medical Imaging and Augmented Reality
  8. Collaborative Visualization in Medicine
  9. Surgical Simulation
  10. GUI for Medical Data Visualization Systems
  11. Virtual Reality applications for Medical Data

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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS AND REVIEW PROCESS


Authors are encouraged to submit papers via email to burkhard@cs.auckland.ac.nz with the subject line "SCI Invited Session".
We encourage you to submit a full paper or a draft version of your paper. Extended abstracts are also wellcome (1000-1500 words) but can only be accepted if the the reviewers are able to judge the quality of the work. Where applicable please add images to the extended abstract to support your results.
Acceptable file formats are PostScript and PDF. If the file size is larger than 3 MB please do not attach the file but send instead an ftp address for paper download. The following form must be filled and sent in the mail message body:

Title of Paper:______________________________________________
Keywords:____________________________________________________
Topic(s) that characterize your submission:__________________
Corresponding author's name:_________________________________
Corresponding author's email:________________________________
Complete authors and co-authors information
(names, affiliation, addresses, phone/fax number, email address):
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________

Researchers and practitioners who share common interests in the area of Computer Graphics and Medical Sciences will review all submitted papers and extended abstracts. Accepted papers will be included in the invited session proposal that will be sent to the Program Committee for definitive approval and inclusion in the Conference Program. If the papers fulfil all the requirements (papers quality, relevance, originality, technical value, etc), the invited session will be approved, included in the SCI 2003 conference program, presented at the technical sessions and published in the Proceedings of the Conference.

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FORMATTING SPECIFICATION

Extended abstracts and paper drafts should be sent taking into account the following format:

  1. Major theme of the paper, related to the topics of interest given above
  2. Paper title
  3. Authors identification should be omitted in the paper during the submission phase
  4. Extended abstract (1000 to 1500 words) or paper draft (at least 2 pages) in English. Please add images where applicable.
  5. Text format:
           Paper size - A4 (210 x 297mm) with 1" margins, single-column
           Font characters - serif typeface such as Times, 10 pt
           Spacing between lines - Single spacing

Instructions for the final manuscript: single spacing, double column, probably a maximum of 6 pages. Exact details will be announced soon.

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IMPORTANT DATES

    Submission of extended abstracts and paper drafts: December 17, 2002
    Notification of acceptance: February 19, 2003
    Submission of camera-ready papers: April 09, 2003

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MORE INFORMATION ABOUT SCI'2003

Prof. Nagib Callaos (General Chair)
E-mails:
    nacallas@telcel.net.ve
    ncallaos@telcel.net.com
USA Fax: +1 (407) 856-6274
Venezuela Tel: +58 (212) 271-0189
Venezuela Fax: +58 (212) 962-1519

Conference Secretariat: sciconfer@cantv.net

Conference Web Page: http://www.iiisci.org/sci2003/

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