2012 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging Travel Support Barcelona, Spain

IEEE国际生物医学成像研讨会：从纳米到宏观（ISBI）是一个传统上关注生物医学成像计算和建模方面的论坛。它强调有可能适用于多种成像方式和不同尺度成像的方法。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方式和尺度之间的方法交流，应用范围从纳米、分子和细胞水平到小动物成像，再到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包括应用于生物和解剖成像模式的多种方法，无论是新兴的还是成熟的。感兴趣的应用包括基因表达定位、药物发现和递送、分子成像、功能脑成像、计算神经解剖学、心血管成像和癌症成像。ISBI的一个主要目标是将方法与重要的生物医学应用联系起来，从微观到宏观。ISBI 2012将于2012年5月2日至5日在西班牙巴塞罗那举行，这将是由两个IEEE学会（信号处理学会（SPS）和医学与生物工程学会（EMBS））共同主办的系列会议中的第九次会议。首届ISBI会议于2002年7月举行，随后分别于2004年4月、2006年和2007年4月、2008年5月、2009年6月、2010年4月和2011年3月举行。前几届ISBI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，取决于培训年轻的研究人员使用最先进的复杂计算或建模工具，并向研究人员通报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。在这种情况下，教程系列是一个重要的组成部分，它涵盖了非常多样化的主题，并在研讨会的第一天提供，在以前的ISBI会议中非常受欢迎。本项目将支持学生和新研究者（博士后和早期初级教师）参加和出席研讨会。国际生物医学成像研讨会提供了一个论坛，让顶尖的学生与该领域的领导者互动，并与其他生物工程学科领域的顶尖学生进行智力讨论。学生可以观看与他们自己的学术研究领域相关的主题的演讲，并参与教学互动。如果没有NSF提案的支持，许多学生将不太可能参加会议，从而错过了在此类专业会议上提供的知识世界的介绍。此外，该大会还提供了一个论坛，以表彰妇女和少数民族在生物工程领域的才能。国际生物医学成像研讨会不仅促进生物工程学科的教育，而且通过为学生提供与世界领先的生物医学专业人士和科学家见面和交流的独特机会，培养下一代生物工程师。

Abstract1201919, KarlThe IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro (ISBI) is a forum that has traditionally focused on the computational and modeling aspects of biomedical imaging. 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 methodologies applied to biological and anatomical imaging modalities, either emerging or well established. Applications of interest include gene expression mapping, drug discovery and delivery, molecular imaging, functional brain mapping, computational neuroanatomy, cardiovascular imaging, and cancer imaging. A principal goal of ISBI is to connect methodologies with important biomedical applications, from microscopic to macroscopic scales.ISBI 2012, to be held May 2-5 2012 in Barcelona, Spain, will be the ninth in a series of meetings 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 2004, 2006 and 2007 and May 2008, June 2009, April 2010, and March 2011. 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 medical 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 support the participation and attendance at the symposium by students and new investigators (postdoctoral fellows and early junior faculty).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 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 bioengineering.The International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging promotes not only education within bioengineering disciplines, but fosters the next generation of bioengineers by providing a unique opportunity for students to meet and network with the leading biomedical professionals and scientists in the world.