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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>We are very pleased to announce you that
the special track “Computational Bioimaging” will be held within the ISVC09 -
5th International Symposium on Visual Computing, November 30 - December 2,
2009, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (<a href="http://www.isvc.net/">http://www.isvc.net/</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Due to your research activities in related fields, we
would like to invite you to submit a contributed paper. Your contribution is
mostly welcomed and we would be honoured if you could participate in ISVC09.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-GB>Description<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>In recent years extensive research has been
performed in the visualization and modeling of objects present in digital
images. These images originate in various areas of science and engineering, including
medicine, biology, astronomy, and physics. In medicine, for example,
computational procedures allow us to clearly visualize and model human organs
captured in magnetic resonance images. These procedures may have different
purposes, such as 3D shape reconstruction, segmentation, motion and deformation
analysis, registration, simulation, and enhanced visualization.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>The main goal of the proposed Special Track
is to bring together researchers working in the related fields of Image
Acquisition, Segmentation, Registration, Tracking, Matching, Shape
Reconstruction, Motion and Deformation Analysis, Medical Imaging, Software
Development, Grid, Parallel and High Performing Computing, to discuss and share
ideas that will lead us to set the major lines of development for the near
future.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Therefore, the proposed Special Track will
gather researchers representing the various fields of Computational Vision,
Computational Mechanics, Mathematics, Statistics, and Biomedical Imaging. This
track intends to contribute more realistic computational models extracted from
images of living organisms and attempts to establish a bridge between
practitioners and researchers from these diverse fields.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-GB>Main Topics<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>We will consider the following topics in
the Special Track (not limited to):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- Image Processing and Analysis for
Computational Bioimaging;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- Segmentation, Reconstruction, Tracking
and Motion Analyse in Biomedical Images;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- Biomedical Signal and Image Acquisition
and Processing;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- Computer Aided Diagnosis, Surgery, Therapy,
Treatment and Telemedicine Systems;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- Software Development for Computational
Bioimaging;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>- Grid and High Performance Computing for
Computational Bioimaging.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=Default><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext'>Important Dates:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=Default><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext'>Paper submissions:
July 10, 2009 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=Default><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext'>Notification of acceptance:
August 31, 2009 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=Default><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext'>Final camera ready
paper: September 14, 2009
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=Default><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext'>Advance
Registration:
September 14, 2009 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>ISVC09
Symposium:
November 30 - December 2, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"'>For more details regarding ISVC09, please visit the
conference webpage at: <a href="http://www.isvc.net/">http://www.isvc.net/</a>
and look at the files in attachment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"'>With my best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#262626'>Susana Branco Silva<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#E36C0A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#595959'>Faculdade de
Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#595959'>Campo Grande,
1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal<br>
Phone: (+351) 21 750 01 77 ext.: 20515<br>
Fax: (+351) 21 750 00 30<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:susana.silva@fc.ul.pt"><span lang=FR
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