International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging

描述(由申请人提供)： “生物医学成像国际研讨会：从纳米到宏观”是涉及生物医学成像的下列方面的研究人员的论坛：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之间的相互促进，以及跨尺度生物医学成像的综合方法。我们鼓励参与纳米、分子和细胞层面应用的研究人员通过宏观和全身临床系统提交申请。感兴趣的方式包括基因表达微阵列、电子、共聚焦和多光子显微镜、光学和荧光成像和光谱系统、放射自显影和原位杂交、X射线和核断层成像、解剖和功能磁共振成像、超声、磁学和脑电成像，以及小动物成像系统。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。这次会议是由两个IEEE学会共同主办的系列会议的第二次：信号处理学会(SPS)和医学和生物工程学会(EMBS)。ISBI首届会议于2002年7月举行。有500多人参加了这次非常成功的会议，NIH主任Elias Zerhouni博士和NIBIB主任Roderic I.Pettigrew致了开幕词。2002年第一届ISBI会议的成功对其未来是个好兆头。然而，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。作为一种新的会议，ISBI比非社会成员更有可能吸引IEEE成员。我们预计，在最初的几次会议之后，ISBI将充分确立，由于会议的质量，非IEEE成员将计划参加。然而，对于计划于2004年举行的会议，我们认为必须与其他社区接触，不仅通过宣传，而且通过有针对性的邀请，组织和介绍处理当前生物医学成像中重要研究问题的特别会议。提交本提案的目的是提供资金，以推迟选定的受邀发言者出席这些会议的费用。我们还将通过向合格的参与者(博士后研究员和初级教员)提供旅行津贴来鼓励新的研究人员参与，以提交贡献的论文。最后，我们计划在会议的第一天早上为学生和博士后提供一些通行证，让他们参加短期课程。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The "International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: from Nano to Macro" is a forum for researchers involved in the following aspects of biomedical imaging: 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 between different imaging modalities and an integrated approach to biomedical imaging across scales. We encourage submission from researchers involved in applications at the nano, molecular and cellular levels through macroscopic and whole-body clinical systems. Modalities of interest include gene expression microarrays, electron, confocal and multiphoton microscopy, optical and fluorescent imaging and spectroscopy systems, autoradiography and in situ hybridiziation, x-ray and nuclear tomography, anatomical and functional MRI, ultrasound, magneto and electroencephalography, and small animal imaging systems. Imaging applications of interest include gene expression mapping, drug discovery and delivery, molecular imaging, functional brain mapping, computational neuroanatomy, cardiac imaging, and cancer imaging. The meeting is the second in a series co-sponsored 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. With over 500 attendees, this very successful meeting featured opening addresses from Dr. Elias Zerhouni, Director of NIH, and Roderic I. Pettigrew, Director of NIBIB. The success of the first ISBI meeting in 2002 bodes well for its future. However, the inherently interdisciplinary nature of the field means that no single professional organization has the majority of potential participants as its members. As a new meeting ISBI is more likely to attract members of IEEE than non-society members. We anticipate that after the first few meetings, ISBI will be sufficiently established that non-IEEE members will plan to attend because of the quality of the meeting. However, for the meeting planned for 2004 we believe it is essential to reach out to other communities, not only through publicity, but also through targeted invitations to organize and present special sessions dealing with currently important research issues in biomedical imaging. This proposal is submitted for the purpose of providing funds to defer the costs of attendance of selected invited speakers in these sessions. We will also encourage participation by new investigators by providing travel stipends to qualified participants (postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty) to present contributed papers. Finally we will plan to provide a number of passes for students and postdocs to attend the short courses on the first morning of the meeting.