[agents] Soft Computing for Medical Imaging - Call for Papers - Special Session in CISP'13

[Ali Ismail Awad]

[Apologies for cross-posting]
=============================================================================================================

Call for Papers

A Special
Session on
Soft Computing
for Medical Imaging
In conjunction
with
2013 6th International Congress on Image and Signal Processing
(CISP 2013)
2013 6th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and
Informatics (BMEI 2013)
Hangzhou, China, December 16--18, 2013
http://cispbmei2013.hznu.edu.cn/index.php 
Aim and Scope:
Recently, medical imaging provides
major aid in many branches of medicine and enables and facilitates the capture,
transmission and analysis of medical images as well as provides assistance
towards medical diagnoses. Medical imaging is still on the rise with new
imaging modalities being added and continuous improvements of devices'
capabilities. Soft Computing techniques involve different methodologies such as
Fuzzy Set Theory, Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms, Support Vector Machine,
and Rough Set Theory. The capability of these techniques to incorporate
imprecision and incomplete information and to model very complex systems makes
them a useful tool in many scientific research areas. Needless to say, medical
image processing is one of these areas. This special session will focus mainly
on the problems and applications that deal with the medical imaging using Soft Computing
techniques as an emerging research area.
The aim of this special session is to attract researchers and
practitioners from academia and industry, and provide, in a friendly
atmosphere, a discussion forum in order to share their experiences in soft computing
techniques for addressing the challenges in diverse researches in medical
applications. The especial session will be organized and technically sponsored
by the Scientific Research Group in Egypt (SRGE).  Topics of interest include, but are not limited
to: 
            Soft Computing Techniques:
­                         Support vector machine and kernel
substitution
­                         Data sampling and reduction
techniques
­                         Neural networks and fuzzy logic
­                        Rough set techniques
­                        Genetic algorithms
         Application Domains:
­                      Feature extraction and pattern
recognition
­                      Multidimensional data visualization
­                      Intelligent medical imaging systems
­                      Computational anatomical atlases
­                      Noise reduction and enhancement
­                     Edge detection and segmentation
­                     Image compression and matching
­                     Surface and volume registration
­                     Medical image motion analysis
­                     Multi-modal image analysis
­                     Biometrics image processing

Paper
Submission:
The session seeks for original, unpublished, and high-quality
research papers. The authors are invited to submit their contributions
formatted as IEEE double columns. Submitted papers will be refereed by at least
two independent reviewers for quality, correctness, originality, and relevance.
All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceeding, and will be
submitted for indexing in IEEE Xplore digital library, EI Compendex, and ISTP.
The authors are kindly requested to submit their manuscripts electronically to
the following email addresses: (aawad at ieee.org), with cc-ing to
(aboitcairo at gmail.com), with the subject title as: "Soft Computing for
Medical Imaging – Special Session".  Latex is the preferred editing tool. 


Important
Dates:
* The special session deadlines are aligned with the schedule of
the main conference.
­                Deadline for paper submission:
September 30, 2013
­                Notification of acceptance/rejection:
October  30, 2013
­               Deadline for camera-ready submission: November
15, 2013
­               Special session date: December 16-18,
2013
 
Session
Organizers:
Dr.:
Ali Ismail Awad
Faculty
of Engineering
Al
Azhar University, Egypt
Member
of SRGE Research Group
aawad at ieee.org
 
Professor:
Aboul Ella Hassanien
Faculty
of Computers & Information
Cairo
University, Egypt
Chairman
of SRGE Research Group
aboitcairo at gmail.com  
======================================================================================================================