The 7h International Seminar on Medical Information Processing and Analysis (formerly International Seminar on Medical Image Processing and Analysis) will be held December 5-7, 2011, in the city of Bucaramanga (Colombia). As in previous editions, this seminar is the appropriate space to bring together researchers (both students and professionals-mainly related to Applied Research in Medicine) to communicate their results, developments and research experience and to promote the creation of technical and scientific collaboration networks.

Previous editions of this event were focused on the field of Medical Images and associated technologies and applications. For this year, as a response to the increasing relevance of multi-modal sources in medical applications,. we have extended the Seminar scope to research areas involving Biomedical Signals, Healthcare Informatics and Telemedicine, in addition to the original topic related to Medical Image processing, Analysis and Interpretation.

This event is addressed to researchers, teachers, students and professionals in a wide range of disciplines including Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Biology and Health Sciences. The seminar will include expert lectures of issues related to acquisition, digitization, visualization, processing, analysis and Interpretation of Medical Information (biomedical signals, clinical data, diagnostic images, etc.). Contributions accepted by the seminar's Evaluation Committee will be presented in oral or poster sessions. In addition, several tutorials related to the topic of the seminar will be offered to the attendants.

Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts with a maximum of 8 pages (following the format specified in http://sis25.uis.edu.co/sipaim/articulos/plantilla_SIPAIM2011.tar.gz), containing original contributions on methodological, algorithmic, mathematical, computational and applied issues related to Medical Information. The papers accepted for presentation will be published in the proceedings of this event (with ISBN). Extended versions of the best papers will apply to be published as indexed journal articles (Revista Dyna).
Topics

Submitted papers closely related to Medical Information topics will be considered for presentation. These areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Acquisition
* Signal Generation and Reconstruction
* Multimodal Information Processing and Analysis
* Visualization and Interaction
* Classification
* Image and Video Compression and Restoration
* Computer-Aided Detection and Diagnosis
* Statistical and Computational Models
* Quantitative Analysis and Interpretation
* Healthcare Information Systems (Multimodal Information Management)
* Storage, Transmission and Access to Medical Information
* Multiscale / Multiresolution Representations
* Pattern Recognition and Perception
* Registration of Multimodal Medical Data
* Navigation Systems, Monitoring and Calibration
* Models for Detection, Discrimination, and Medical Information Retrieval
* Clinical Applications and Technology Integration

Important Dates:

Paper Submission: September 16, 2011
Notification of Acceptance: October 14, 2011
Camera-Ready Paper Submission: November 4, 2011
Author Registration Deadline: November 4, 2011
Early Registration Deadline: November 4, 2011

Further information: http://sis25.uis.edu.co/sipaim/, sipaim_fmbog@unal.edu.co

We look forward to your attendance. Thank you in advance for your help spreading this information among your colleagues.