2007 International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI)

描述(由申请人提供)： 国际生物医学成像研讨会(ISBI)是对生物医学成像的计算和建模方面特别感兴趣的研究人员的论坛。重点强调有可能适用于多种成像方式和不同尺度成像的方法。课程包括物理、生物和统计建模、图像形成和重建、计算图像分析、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规模之间的方法学交流，应用范围从纳米、分子和细胞水平到小动物成像以及宏观和全身临床系统。 虽然许多医学成像会议侧重于特定的模式，但ISBI包括应用于生物和医学成像模式以及新兴和现有模式的方法。人们感兴趣的成像应用包括基因表达图谱、药物发现和传递、分子成像、脑功能图谱、计算神经解剖学、心脏成像和癌症成像。 ISBI 2007将于4月12日至15日在华盛顿特区的水晶之门万豪酒店举行，是由两个IEEE学会共同主办的系列活动的第四个，这两个学会是信号处理学会(SPS)和医学和生物工程学会(EMBS)。ISBI第一次会议于2002年7月举行，随后的会议于2004年4月和2006年4月举行。2002年的会议有500多人参加，美国国立卫生研究院院长埃利亚斯·泽胡尼博士和美国国立卫生研究院院长罗德里克·I·佩蒂格鲁博士致开幕词。前几届ISBI会议的成功对ISBI的未来是个好兆头。然而，这一领域的成功有赖于培养年轻人 研究人员使用现代复杂的计算和建模工具，因此ISBI的一个重要组成部分是短期课程计划。 这项提案要求提供资金，为学生和博士后在会议第一天早上参加短期课程提供通行证。此外，该领域固有的跨学科性质意味着没有一个单一的专业组织拥有大多数潜在参与者作为其成员。我们还将通过提供旅行津贴来鼓励新的研究人员(博士后研究员和早期初级教员)提交贡献的论文。最后，为了促进将方法学与重要的生物医学应用联系起来的目标，我们将向有针对性的受邀者提供注册折扣，这些受邀者将组织和介绍处理当前生物医学成像重要研究问题的特别会议。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) is a forum for researchers interested particularly in the computational and modeling aspects of biomedical imaging. The focus 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, image formation and reconstruction, computational image analysis, 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 and macroscopic and whole-body clinical systems. Whereas many medical imaging meetings focus on particular modalities, ISBI includes methodologies applied to both biological and medical imaging modalities, and to both emerging and established modalities. Imaging applications of interest include gene expression mapping, drug discovery and delivery, molecular imaging, functional brain mapping, computational neuroanatomy, cardiac imaging, and cancer imaging. ISBI 2007, to be held Apr. 12-15 at the Crystal Gateway Marriot in Metro Washington, DC, is the fourth in a series cosponsored by two IEEE societies: the Signal Processing Society (SPS) and the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS). The inaugural ISBI meeting was held in July 2002 and subsequent ones in April of 2004 and 2006. With over 500 attendees, the 2002 meeting featured opening addresses from Dr. Elias Zerhouni, Director of NIH, and Dr. Roderic I. Pettigrew, Director of NIBIB. The success of the previous ISBI meetings bodes well for the future of ISBI. However, the success of this field relies on training young investigators in modern sophisticated computational and modeling tools, so an important part of ISBI is the short course program. This proposal requests funds to provide passes for students and postdocs to attend the short courses on the first morning of the meeting. In addition, the inherently interdisciplinary nature of the field means that no single professional organization has the majority of potential participants as its members. We will also encourage participation by new investigators (postdoctoral fellows and early junior faculty) by providing travel stipends to present contributed papers. Finally, to facilitate the goal of connecting methodologies with important biomedical applications, we will provide registration discounts to targeted invitees who will organize and present special sessions dealing with currently important research issues in biomedical imaging.