International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: from Nano to Macro 2011 (ISBI2011)

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，2011”（ISBI 2011）将于2011年3月30日至4月2日在美国伊利诺伊州芝加哥举行。该R13提案的具体目的是寻求注册/旅行资金，以增加学生和博士后研究员对ISBI 2011科学活动的参与，该活动由两个IEEE协会共同赞助：信号处理协会（SPS）和医学与生物学工程协会（EMBS）。ISBI前几次会议的成功预示着ISBI的未来。Steve Wright博士担任会议主席，Xiaochuan Pan博士和Michael Leibling博士担任项目主席和联合主席。 ISBI是一个为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提供的论坛。重点强调的方法，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。许多医学成像会议侧重于特定的模式，ISBI包括，但是，多样性的方法应用于生物成像模式，无论是新兴的或成熟的。成像应用包括基因表达绘图、药物发现/递送、分子成像、神经成像和脑绘图、心血管和癌症成像。ISBI会议的主要目标是将方法学与重要的医学和生物医学应用联系起来，从微观到宏观尺度。 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，复杂的计算或建模工具，并向研究人员社区通报医学成像的最新进展。生物医学成像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，会议教程系列，涵盖了非常多样化的主题，在以前的ISBI 2011中非常受欢迎。该提案要求资金为美国学生和博士后研究员提供通行证，以参加ISBI 2011并提交论文。 公共卫生相关性：该R13提案寻求NIH的注册和旅行资金，以增加学生，博士后研究员和初级研究人员的参与，参加2011年国际生物医学成像研讨会的科学活动：从纳米到宏观（ISBI）IEEE信号处理学会和医学与生物学工程学会。生物医学成像是目前学术和应用工程中增长最快的领域，并且强烈需要最先进的培训。该补助金的目的是扩大年轻科学家在这一领先的生物医学成像国际会议的科学活动的参与。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The "International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: from Nano to Macro, 2011" (ISBI2011) will be held in Chicago, IL, USA, between March 30 and April 2, 2011. The specific aim of this R13 proposal is to seek registration/travel funds to increase the participation of students and postdoctoral fellows to scientific activities of the ISBI2011, cosponsored by two IEEE societies: the Signal Processing Society (SPS) and the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS). The success of the previous ISBI meetings bodes well for the future of ISBI. Dr. Steve Wright serves as the Conference Chair, and Drs. Xiaochuan Pan and Michael Leibling serve as the Program Chair and Co-chair. ISBI is a forum for researchers particularly interested 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 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. Many medical imaging meetings focus on particular modalities, ISBI includes, however, a diversity of methodologies applied to biological imaging modalities, either emerging or well established. Imaging applications include gene expression mapping, drug discovery/delivery, molecular imaging, neuroimaging and brain mapping, cardiovascular and cancer imaging. A principal goal of the ISBI conference is to connect methodologies with important medical and biomedical applications, from microscopic to macroscopic scales. The success of ISBI and its impact on the field, and 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. The inherently interdisciplinary nature of biomedical imaging means that no single professional organization has the majority of potential participants as its members. In this context, the meeting tutorials series, covering very diverse topics, has been very popular in previous ISBI2011. This proposal requests funds to provide passes for US-based students and post-doc fellows to attend, and present their papers, at ISBI2011. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This R13 proposal seeks registration and travel funds from NIH for increasing the participation of students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior investigators, to the scientific activities of the 2011 International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: from Nano to Macro (ISBI) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society and Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Biomedical imaging is currently the fastest growing area in academic and applied engineering, and there is a strong need for state-of-the-art training. The intent of this grant is to broaden the participation of junior scientists in scientific activities of this leading international conference on biomedical imaging.