Subject: ISBI Call for Papers


                   FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS: ISBI'04
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                  2004 IEEE International Symposium
                                on
                 BIOMEDICAL IMAGING FROM NANO TO MACRO

          CONFERENCE WEBSITE: http://www.biomedicalimaging.org/


We invite you to participate in the Second IEEE International Symposium
on Biomedical Imaging, April 15-18 2004, at the Marriott Crystal Gateway,
Arlington, Virginia.

Sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing and Engineering in Medicine and
Biology Societies in cooperation with the new NIH National Institute for
Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering.

The inaugural ISBI meeting was held in July 2002. With over 500
attendees, this highly successful meeting featured opening addresses from Dr. Elias
Zerhouni, Director of National Institutes of Health, and Roderic I.
Pettigrew, Director of the new National Institute for Biomedical Imaging
and Bioengineering (NIBIB). The 2nd ISBI meeting will again be held in
the Washington D.C. area in spring of 2004.

ISBI is a forum for researchers involved in the mathematical,
algorithmic and computational aspects of biomedical imaging from the nano,
molecular, and cellular levels through macroscopic and whole-body clinical systems.
We welcome contributions dealing with physical, biological and
statistical modeling, image formation and reconstruction, computational image
analysis, statistical image analysis, visualization, and image quality
assessment. Modalities of interest include electron, confocal and
multiphoton microscopy, optical and flourescent imaging and spectroscopy
systems, autoradiography and in situ hybridization, 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 aims to facilitate cross-fertilization between different
imaging modalities and an integrative approach to biomedical imaging
across scales. The meeting will feature plenary talks and special
sessions, as well as contributed oral and poster sessions. We will also
have a strong pedagogical component with an opening morning of tutorials
and short courses.

Please bookmark and check the website
(http://www.biomedicalimaging.org/)
for updated information on topics, shortcourses, travel awards and
registration.

We look forward to seeing you in the spring of 2004!

Richard M. Leahy and Christian Roux, Symposium Chairs

IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission of 4 page papers:                            November 15, 2003
Notification of acceptance/rejectioN:                    January 15, 2004
Submission of final accepted 4 page paper:              February 15, 2004
Deadline for Pre-registration:                          February 15, 2004