Copyright 1999-2000 VA Linux Systems, Inc. http://www.nitrc.org NITRC Community Latest News http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=406 NITRC version 1.1.1.-1 has been released, implementing a number of new features. Among other changes, Google search functionality was added, which addressed a number of search issues. Release notes may be found on the community wiki at http://www.nitrc.org/plugins/wiki/index.php?NITRC%20Release%20Notes&id=6&type=g NITRC Community Christian Haselgrove Wed, 07 May 2008 10:26:54 GMT http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=393 NITRC will have an electronic poster at ISMRM in Toronto. It will be presented Tuesday, May 6th at 1:30, computer 22 in Hall D. NITRC Community Liaison, David Kennedy, will be present at the meeting from Monday morning until Thursday evening. Stop by and check it out. NITRC Community David Kennedy Tue, 29 Apr 2008 3:02:49 GMT http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=387 This group is an attempt to build forum where people can learn and discuss a topic in a community that's larger than users of a particular modality or software package. We will focus on the methodology and applications of task independent fluctuation measures including: connectivity maps of fMRI resting state scans, research using EEG/MEG/PET etc, methods to remove non-neural fluctuations, and applications to clinical populations. The goal will be to make this a very good resource for new users who want to start studying this topic and for people who want to be able to directly compare the methods used by different groups. The wiki contains some information including a list of references and a data analysis stream and the forum will hopefully be a place for discussion. Scripts and small programs can also be shared through this group. Task Independent Fluctuations Discussion Daniel Handwerker Fri, 25 Apr 2008 3:22:04 GMT http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=380 Come visit us! We have a booth at the 2008 Cognitive Neurosciences Society meeting in San Francisco, CA. NITRC Community Nina Preuss Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:24:22 GMT http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=379 First Call for Papers MICCAI 2008 Workshop on Analysis of Functional Medical Images New York University, September 10, 2008 Scope and Objectives: --------------------- The development of computational algorithms for the analysis of anatomical/structural medical images depicting only a snapshot of the living tissue has been the primary focus of past MICCAI proceedings and workshops. Medical imaging modalities that capture changes in living tissue with time are becoming more prevalent and provide a valuable source of knowledge about tissue and organ processes and physiology. This workshop provides a venue for presenting the latest advances in mathematical techniques and computational algorithms for extracting clinically relevant information from functional and time-varying medical image data. Topics: ------- Contributions are solicited in, but are not limited to, the following areas: * Novel algorithms for processing and analysis of functional medical image data, including denoising, enhancement, restoration, clustering, segmentation, tracking, matching, registration, fusion, and kinetic modeling * Methods for information extraction from functional medical image modalities including positron emission tomography (PET), single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE MRI), tagged MRI, phase contrast MRI, flow imaging, ultrasound, and from multi-modal data fused with other signals such as MEG or EEG. * Functional medical image computing algorithms (computational physiology) for quantification and analysis of electro-physiological signals, motion patterns, tracer uptake and tissue kinetics, perfusion, flow, activation patterns, responses to stimuli, progress of pathology or treatments, and other processes related to cardiac, neural, musculoskeletal, renal, blood and other organs, tissues, and fluids at a variety of scales of molecular, cellular, tissue, organ, and whole body imaging. Important Dates: ---------------- Paper Submission: June 1, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: July 1, 2008 Camera-Ready Papers: July 14, 2008. Workshop: September 10, 2008. Organizers: ----------- Ghassan Hamarneh Medical Image Analysis Lab Simon Fraser University, Canada http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~hamarneh http://mial.cs.sfu.ca Rafeef Abugharbieh Biomedical Signal and Image Computing Lab University of British Columbia, Canada http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~rafeef/ http://bisicl.ece.ubc.ca/ Organizing Committee: --------------------- Keith Worsley (McGill, Canada) Leon Axel (NYU, USA) Herve Delingette (INRIA, France) Program and Review Committee: ------------------------------ John Ashburner (UCL, UK) John Aston (Institute of Statistical Science, Taiwan) Anna Celler (Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Canada) David Dagan Feng (U Sydney, Australia) Ola Friman (MeVis Research GmbH, Germany) Hongbin Guo (Arizona State University, USA) Lars K. Hansen (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) Hans Knutsson (Linkoping U, Sweden) Martin McKeown (UBC, Canada) James J. Pekar (Johns Hopkins University, USA) Maxime Sermesant (INRIA, France) Arkadiusz Sitek (E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA) Vesna Sossi (UBC, Canada) Piotr Slomka (UCLA, USA) Stephen C. Strother (VA Medical Center, Minnesota, USA) Website: -------- For up-to-date information visit http://bisicl.ece.ubc.ca/functional2008/ NITRC Community David Kennedy Tue, 08 Apr 2008 6:39:12 GMT http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=367 The NITRC Team is pleased to announce today's release of NITRC Version 1.1-1. Together with four pre-releases in Versions 1.0.4 and 1.0.5, April 1 marks the on time deployment of the first major upgrade since our initial public release in October 2007. Release notes can be found at http://www.nitrc.org/plugins/wiki/index.php?NITRC%20Release%20Notes&id=6&type=g NITRC schedules two major releases each year, with pre-releases addressing bugs and new features periodically in between. For more information about our development schedule or practices, or to report a bug or suggest an enhancement, please contact moderator@nitrc.org. NITRC Community Christian Haselgrove Wed, 02 Apr 2008 2:21:35 GMT http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=358 MFCA-2008 is a satellite workshop of MICCAI 2008 which is devoted to statistical and geometrical aspects of the modeling of the variability of biological shapes. It will be held in New York on September 6, in conjunction with MICCAI 2008. The goal is to foster the interactions between the mathematical community around shapes and the MICCAI community around computational anatomy applications. The workshop aims at being a forum for the exchange of the theoretical ideas and a source of inspiration for new methodological developments in computational anatomy. Scope of the workshop The goal of computational anatomy is to analyze and to statistically model the anatomy of organs in different subjects. Computational anatomic methods are generally based on the extraction of anatomical features or manifolds which are then statistically analyzed, often through a non-linear registration. There are nowadays a growing number of methods that can faithfully deal with the underlying biomechanical behavior of intra-subject deformations. However, it is more difficult to relate the anatomies of different subjects. In the absence of any justified physical model, diffeomorphisms provide the most general mathematical framework that enforce topological consistency. However, working with this infinite dimensional space raises some deep computational and mathematical problems, in particular for doing statistics. Likewise, modeling the variability of surfaces leads to rely on shape spaces that are much more complex than for curves. To cope with these, different methodological and computational frameworks have been proposed (e.g. smooth left-invariant metrics, focus on well-behaved subspaces of diffeomorphisms, modeling surfaces using courants, etc.) The goal of the workshop is to foster interactions between researchers investigating the combination of geometry and statistics in non-linear image and surface registration in the context of computational anatomy from different points of view. A special emphasis will be put on theoretical developments, applications and results being welcomed as illustrations. Examples are provided in the program and proceedings of the previous workshop MFCA'06: http://www-sop.inria.fr/asclepios/events/MFCA06/. Topics Contributions are solicited in (but not limited to) the following areas: · Riemannian and group theoretical methods · Geometric measurements of the anatomy · Advanced statistics on deformations and shapes · Metrics for computational anatomy · Statistics of surfaces The program will be composed of oral presentations selected by the peer-reviewed contributions of the participants. To foster interactions as much as possible, a large amount of time will be reserved for discussions after each presentation or at least at the end of each session. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key dates · Deadline for paper submission: April 28, 2006. · Notification of acceptance: June 20, 2006 · Camera ready papers: July 4, 2006. · Workshop: September 6, 2006 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Instructions for submissions Authors are asked to prepare papers up to 10 pages in the LNCS format (see main MICCAI submissions guidelines). Papers will have to be submitted though the MFCA-2006 submission web-page (not opened yet). Double submissions are allowed for this workshop and for the MICCAI Conference, but the authors have to declare it at the submission time. Furthermore, if a paper is accepted both at the MICCAI 2008 conference, the paper will be withdrawn from the workshop. Proceedings Electronic proceedings will be publicly posted on the web-site of the workshop. Best papers will be selected for publication in a special issue of Journal of Mathematical Imaging and vision. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chairs · Xavier Pennec (INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France) · Sarang Joshi (SCI, University of Utah, USA) Program committee · Rachid Deriche (INRIA, France) · Ian L. Dryden (University of Nottingham, UK) · Tom Fletcher (University of Utah, USA) · James Gee (Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA) · Guido Gerig (University of Utah, USA) · Polina Golland (CSAIL, MIT, USA) · Stephen Marsland (Massey University, New-Zeeland) · Michael I. Miller (John Hopkins University, USA) · Mads Nielsen (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) · Salvador Olmos (University of Saragossa, Spain) · Bruno Pelletier (University Montpellier, France) · Jerry Prince (Johns Hopkins University, USA) · Anand Rangarajan (University of Florida, USA) · Daniel Rueckert (Imperial College London, UK) · Guillermo Sapiro (University of Minnesota, USA) · Martin Styner (UNC Chapel Hill, USA) · Anuj Srivastava (Florida State University, USA) · Paul Thompson (University of California Los-Angeles, USA) · Alain Trouvé (ENS-Cachan, France) · Carole Twinning (University of Manchester, UK) · William M. Wells III (CSAIL, MIT, and B&W Hospital, Boston, USA) NITRC Community David Kennedy Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:09:02 GMT http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=357 CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION 2008 MICCAI Workshop on Computational Diffusion MRI Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 8am to 5pm The Kimmel Center at New York University, New York, NY, USA Website: http://picsl.upenn.edu/cdmri08 Printable flyer: http://picsl.upenn.edu/cdmri08/flyer.pdf Paper submission deadline: May 12, 2008 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. 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. The organizers encourage submissions of papers in areas including, but not limited to, the following topics: - Acquisition design - High angular resolution techniques - Biophysical models - The microstructure of diffusion in tissue - Tractography and connectivity mapping - Network analysis - Registration and segmentation - Visualization - Validation - Post-processing - Group studies and statistical analysis - Clinical applications ORGANIZERS Daniel Alexander, University College London James Gee, University of Pennsylvania Ross Whitaker, University of Utah IMPORTANT DATES May 12, 2008: Paper Submission Jul 1, 2008: Notification of Acceptance Aug 18, 2008: Camera-Ready Papers Sep 10, 2008: 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 * Papers may be double-submitted to main conference and other workshops Papers can be submitted at any time using the online submission system at http://alliance.seas.upenn.edu/~pauly2/dynamic/cdmri08/. If you experience difficulties with the online system, please email the PDF and author/affiliation information to gee@mail.med.upenn.edu NITRC Community David Kennedy Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:43:01 GMT http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=346 The 4th International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC'08) The 5th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'08) 25-27 August 2008, Jinan, China *** Submission Deadline: 25 March 2008 *** http://www.icnc-fskd2008.sdu.edu.cn Call for Papers, Invited Sessions & Sponsorship The joint ICNC'08-FSKD'08 will be held in Jinan, China. Jinan is the capital of Shandong Province, which is known for the home of Confucius, the Taishan Mountain, and the Baotu Spring. ICNC'08-FSKD'08 aims to provide an international forum for scientists and researchers to present the state of the art of intelligent methods inspired from nature, including biological, ecological, and physical systems, with applications to data mining, manufacturing, design, and more. It is an exciting and emerging interdisciplinary area in which a wide range of techniques and methods are being studied for dealing with large, complex, and dynamic problems. Previously, the joint conferences in 2005, 2006 and 2007 each attracted over 3000 submissions from more than 30 countries. All accepted papers will appear in conference proceedings published by the IEEE and will be indexed by both EI and ISTP. Furthermore, extended versions of selected papers will be published in a special issue of Soft Computing: An International Journal (SCI indexed). To promote international participation of researchers from outside the country/region where the conference is held (i.e., China), foreign experts are encouraged to propose invited sessions. Each invited session should have at least 4 papers. Invited session organizers will solicit submissions, conduct reviews and recommend accept/reject decisions on the submitted papers. All invited session organizers will be acknowledged in the conference proceedings. Each invited session proposal should include the following information: (1) the name(s) and contact information of invited session organizer(s); (2) the title and a short synopsis of the invited session. Please send your proposal to nc2008@sdu.edu.cn For more information, visit the conference web page. If you have any questions after visiting the conference web page, please email the secretariat at nc2008@sdu.edu.cn Join us at this major event in historic Jinan !!! NITRC Community David Kennedy Fri, 14 Mar 2008 4:32:37 GMT http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=345 NITRC version 1.0.5-2 was released today, featuring over two dozen bug fixes. Release notes may be found on the community wiki at http://www.nitrc.org/plugins/wiki/index.php?NITRC%20Release%20Notes&id=6&type=g NITRC Community Christian Haselgrove Thu, 13 Mar 2008 8:13:32 GMT