Support for US Young Investigators to attend IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Beijing, China, April 28-May 2, 2014

IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging：Innovative，Integrative，Informative（ISBI）是一个传统上专注于生物医学成像的计算和建模方面的论坛。网站是http://www.biomedicalimaging.org/2014/。它强调的方法，有可能适用于多种成像方式和成像在不同的尺度。主题包括生物和解剖结构的物理，生物和统计建模，图像形成和重建，计算和统计图像分析，可视化和图像质量评估。会议旨在促进不同成像模式和尺度之间的方法学交叉，应用范围从纳米，分子和细胞水平，通过小动物成像到宏观和全身临床系统。尽管许多医学成像会议专注于特定的模式，但ISBI包括应用于生物和解剖成像模式的各种新工程和计算方法，无论是新兴的还是成熟的。感兴趣的应用包括分子病理学、药物发现和递送、分子成像、功能性脑映射、计算神经解剖学、心血管成像和癌症成像。ISBI的主要目标是将先进的方法与重要的生物医学应用相结合，从微观到宏观尺度。ISBI 2014将于2014年4月28日至5月2日在中国北京举行，这将是由两个IEEE学会共同主办的一系列会议中的第11次会议：医学和生物学工程学会（EMBS）和信号处理学会（SPS）。2002年7月举行了首次ISBI会议。ISBI前几次会议的成功预示着ISBI的未来。ISBI的成功及其对该领域的影响，以及该领域本身的未来，都依赖于培训年轻的研究人员使用最先进的计算或建模工具，并向研究人员通报生物医学成像协议和模式的最新进展。此外，生物医学成像领域固有的跨学科性质意味着没有一个专业组织拥有大多数潜在参与者作为其成员。在这方面，专题讨论会第一天提供的教程系列是一个重要的组成部分，涵盖了各种各样的主题，在以前的ISBI会议上非常受欢迎。学术价值：生物医学成像国际研讨会提供了一个论坛，顶尖的学生与该领域的领导者进行互动，并与生物工程和相关学科的其他最优秀的学生进行智力讨论。学生能够查看与自己的学术研究领域相关的主题的演示文稿，并参与教学互动。如果没有这个NSF提案的支持，许多学生将不太可能参加会议，从而错过了在这样的专业会议上提供的知识世界的介绍。更广泛的影响：生物医学成像国际研讨会不仅促进计算机科学和工程学科的教育，而且通过为学生提供一个独特的机会，以满足和网络与领先的计算生物学家，生物信息学家和科学家在世界上培养下一代工程师和计算机科学家。它还为美国学生提供了一个参与重大挑战的机会，并了解解决图像分析和大数据假设生成中复杂问题的最先进计算方法。ISBI-14第一次在大挑战和数据论文方面取得了快速增长，这一过程将成为美国学生的非凡体验。

1348097WangThe IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: Innovative, Integrative, Informative (ISBI) is a forum that has traditionally focused on the computational and modeling aspects of biomedical imaging. The website is at http://www.biomedicalimaging.org/2014/. It emphasizes methodologies that have the potential to be applicable to multiple imaging modalities and to imaging at different scales. Topics include physical, biological and statistical modeling of biological and anatomical structures, image formation and reconstruction, computational and statistical image analysis, visualization, and image quality assessment. The meeting aims to facilitate cross-fertilization of methodologies between different imaging modalities and scales, with applications ranging from the nano, molecular and cellular levels through small-animal imaging to macroscopic and whole-body clinical systems. Whereas many medical imaging meetings focus on particular modalities, ISBI includes a diversity of novel engineering and computational methodologies applied to biological and anatomical imaging modalities, either emerging or well established. Applications of interest include molecular pathology, drug discovery and delivery, molecular imaging, functional brain mapping, computational neuroanatomy, cardiovascular imaging, and cancer imaging. A principal goal of ISBI is to connect advanced methodologies with important biomedical applications, from microscopic to macroscopic scales. ISBI 2014, to be held April 28-May 2 2014, in Beijing, China, will be the 11th in a series of meetings cosponsored by two IEEE societies: the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) and the Signal Processing Society (SPS). The inaugural ISBI meeting was held in July 2002. The success of the previous ISBI meetings bodes well for the future of ISBI. The success of ISBI and its impact on the field, and indeed the future of the field itself, relies on training young investigators to work with state-of-the-art sophisticated computational or modeling tools and on informing the researcher community of the latest progress in biomedical imaging protocols and modalities. In addition, the inherently interdisciplinary nature of the biomedical imaging field means that no single professional organization has the majority of potential participants as its members. In this context, the tutorials series, covering very diverse topics and offered on the first day of the symposium, is an important component, which has been very popular in previous ISBI meetings. This project will fund to support the participation and attendance at the symposium by US-based students.Intellectual Merit :The International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging provides a forum where top-notch students interact with leaders in the field and engage in intellectual discussions with other superlative students in a wide array of bioengineering and related disciplines. Students are able to view presentations on topics related to their own fields of academic study and participate in didactic interaction. Without the support of this NSF proposal, many students would be less likely to attend the conference, thus missing an introduction to the world of knowledge available at such professional meetings. In addition, this assembly provides a forum for recognizing the talents of women and minorities in the field of computer science and bioengineering.Broader Impacts :The International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging promotes not only education within the computer science and engineering disciplines, but also fosters the next generation engineers and computer scientists by providing a unique opportunity for students to meet and network with the leading computational biologists, bioinformaticians, and scientists in the world. It also provides US students an opportunity to participate in grand challenges and learn about the state of art computational methods for solving complex problems present challenges in image analysis, and hypothesis generation from big data. For the first time, ISBI-14 is enjoying a rapid growth in grand challenges and data papers, and this process will be an extraordinary exposure for US students.