http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=1253 To: The medical imaging, simulation and computer-assisted intervention community. We are writing to announce a journal special issue on physical modelling of soft tissue motion. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology is a leading international review journal with an impact factor of over 6.3. At the invitation of Professor Denis Noble, leading pioneer of systems biology, the special issue will focus on aspects of soft tissue motion modelling with particular emphasis on methods that approach realistic and real-time biomechanical modelling of tissue deformation. This contrasts with many systems biology simulations, which often take significant time to solve. Applications cover many areas, from simulation, registration and motion analysis to surgical guidance. Topics include, but are not limited to: • Progress towards real-time modelling of soft tissue • Fast non-linear finite element modelling • Accuracy vs. speed issues • Efficient and/or parallel/GPU implementation • Mass spring and finite difference methods • Meshless and novel modelling techniques • Fast collision detection and multiple organ models • Inverse modelling and model parameter estimation from strain imaging • Model validation by comparison with real tissue motion High quality manuscripts are invited for this special issue. There will be a thorough peer review process overseen by the sub-editorial committee. Papers may include subject matter submitted to relevant conferences, such as ISBMS or MICCAI, but the journal article must cite this work and be a new publication providing greater depth in discussion of methodology in addition to any updated or more detailed results. The timeline for submissions is as follows: • Deadline for submission: 29th January 2010 • Notification of acceptance: 29th March 2010 • Deadline for final revised version: 28th May 2010 • Expected publication: September 2010 PBMB has a wide readership and, with this in mind, authors should define terms that may not be familiar to those outside their field. To demonstrate real-time modelling we encourage authors to submit video demonstrations of their work as supplementary material. Instructions for authors can be found on the submission site: http://ees.elsevier.com/pbmb Authors should register for this site at an early stage. When submitting a paper, in the field “Choose Article Type” ensure you select “Special Issue: Soft Tissue Modelling”. There is no official page limit for PBMB, but we expect submissions to be no more than 12 pages to help expedite the reviewing process. Informal enquiries may be made to eddie.edwards@imperial.ac.uk Please forward this to any colleagues who may be interested. Apologies for any cross postings, Eddie Edwards and Fernando Bello. Guest Editors: Philip “Eddie” Edwards and Fernando Bello, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College, London, UK Sub-editorial Committee: George Biros, Radiology, Georgia Institue of Technology, USA Stephane Cotin, ALCOVE, INRIA/LIFL, France Herve Delingette, Projet ASCLEPIOS, INRIA, France Alex Frangi, CISTIB/Department of Information & Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Matthias Harders, Computer Vision, ETH-Zürich, Switzerland Dimitris Metaxas, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, USA Michael Miga, Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, USA Karol Miller, Mechanical Engineering, The University of Western Australia Stephane Nicolau, AR & Medical Imaging, IRCAD Taiwan Mark Ottensmeyer, Simulation Group, CIMIT / Massachusetts General Hospital,USA Sebastien Ourselin, Department of Computer Science, University College, London, UK Jinah Park, Department of Computer Science, KAIST, South Korea Thomas Sørensen, Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University, Denmark en-us Copyright 2000-2026 NITRC OSI Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:36:43 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss NITRC RSS generator