Conference name: IMAGAPP Special Session on Medical Image Repositories Assisting Diagnoses - MIRAD 2011

Venue: Algarve, Portugal


Event Date: 5-7 March, 2011


Co-chairs

Henning Müller
University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO)
Switzerland


Gabriela Csurka
Xerox Research Centre Europe
France


Mario Jarmasz
Xerox Research Centre Europe
France



Scope
The Special Session on Medical Image Repositories Assisting Diagnoses (MIRAD) aims to address major challenges in assisting physicians to make diagnostic decision using medical image repositories. Traditionally, decision-making involves evidence provided by the patient data coupled with a physician's a priori experience of a limited number of similar cases. Advances in electronic health record systems facilitate the creation of large numbers of pre-diagnosed patient data sets. These repositories become a key component for the diagnosis of many pathologies, follow-up and treatment. However, it is not straightforward how to efficiently and effectively exploit these repositories. There is a clear need for advanced techniques in medical image analysis and database indexing, multimodal data mining tools to efficiently discover associations between image and non-image (structured or free text) data and enhanced visualization techniques to assist physicians.
The aim of this special session is on the one hand to bring together researchers to discuss new techniques in these fields and their use in clinical decision support. On the other hand, we invite practitioners and healthcare professionals to submit papers clearly describing the major problems and the limitations of existing technologies and raising open issues for which they would need clear solutions.



Important Dates

Regular Paper Submission: January 10, 2011

Authors Notification: January 25, 2011

Final Paper Submission and Registration: February 3, 2011


Paper Submission

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above.
Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at: Paper Templates
Please also check the Submission Guidelines.
Papers should be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system at: http://www.insticc.org/Primoris

Publications

All accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings book, under an ISBN reference and on CD-ROM support.
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/).

Secretariat Contacts

e-mail: imagapp.secretariat@insticc.org

Website: http://www.imagapp.visigrapp.org/MIRAD.asp