[agents] ON-GOING SPECIAL SESSION COMPUTERS - DEADLINE 15 March

Blink Yu blink.yu at mdpi.com
Fri Jan 17 02:01:07 EST 2020


On 2020/1/12 14:18, casiraghi wrote:
> Dear,
> 
> We are running a special issue on "Methods and Applications for Imaging, 
> Simulation, and Modelling in Biology and Medicine: Artificial 
> Intelligence, Current Research, New Trends" in
> journal Computers (ISSN 2073-431X, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/computers)
> As an editor of this session, toghether with Dr. Barbara Barricelli from 
> Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy), we are writing to invite you 
> to contribute a feature paper to be published in *open access* form and 
> for this Special Issue.
> 
> Below you can find the description of our session.
> 
> In the hope that this invitation receives your favorable consideration,
> we look forward to our future collaboration.
> 
> 
> ---------- DESCRIPTION --------------------------------------------
> 
> Over the past decades, a continuous increase in computational power,
> together with substantial advances in the digital image processing and
> pattern recognition fields, has motivated the development of
> computer-aided diagnostic (CAD) systems, augmented and virtual reality
> applications for surgical planning and simulation, and digital-twin
> applications for healthcare. Thanks to their effective, precise, and
> repeatable results, validated CAD systems are nowadays exploited as a
> valid aid during diagnostic procedures. Surgical simulation applications
> have become an essential part of surgical procedures as well as
> training, while research on the development of digital-twin applications
> in healthcare is continuously increasing, to deliver significant
> societal and health benefits.
> 
> Similar important advances in the field of microscopy image analysis
> have been motivated by the advent of digital microscopes producing
> high-resolution digital images. Due to their huge size, the long time
> required for the manual analysis of such images has spun the development
> of computerized systems aimed at, for example, marker (and nuclei)
> segmentation, quantification (nuclei counting), at marker co-occurrence
> analysis from images obtained by fluorescence, histochemical, and
> immunohistochemical.
> 
> Both medical, as well as biomedical processing applications are much
> appreciated in the field for their potential to minimize the inherent
> subjectivity of manual analysis and to largely reduce the workload of
> clinicians via high-throughput analysis. Moreover, they are devoted to
> the final aim of developing the so called Virtual Physiological Human, a
> human digital twin aimed at replicating its physical twin for allowing
> fast and prompt medical analysis and prediction.
> 
> This Special Issue intends to provide a comprehensive overview of
> recent, theoretical, computational, and/or practical advances in the
> medical/biomedical/microscopy image enhancement, analysis, and
> visualization fields. Applications and recent research interests in the
> biological and medical fields will be also considered and analyzed with
> the aim of highlighting new trends. Particularly, applications
> exploiting (deep) learning methods are encouraged.
> For more details please visit the special issue website:
> https://www.mdpi.com/journal/computers/special_issues/SIM_BS
> 
> The manuscript submission deadline is *15 March 2019*. You could send
> your manuscript earlier or up until the deadline.Papers will be reviewed
> upon receipt and published on an ongoing basis.
> 
> Extended conference papers are also welcome. They should contain at
> least 50% of new material, e.g., in the form of technical extensions,
> more in-depth evaluations, or additional use cases.
> 
> Computers (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/computers) is a fully open access
> journal of computer science, published quarterly online by MDPI,
> Switzerland. It is covered by the Scopus (Elsevier), ESCI (Web of
> Science), INSPEC and DBLP.Manuscripts are peer-reviewed and a first
> decision provided to authors approximately *16.5* days after submission;
> acceptance to publication is undertaken in *3.8* days.
> 
> For further details on the submission process, please see the
> instructions for authors at the journal website
> https://www.mdpi.com/journal/computers/instructions.
> 
> 
> 
> Guest Editors:
> Dr. Elena Casiraghi
> Affiliation: Department of Computer Science; Università degli Studi di
> Milano
> Homepage link: casiraghi.di.unimi.it
> Email: elena.casiraghi at unimi.it
> Interests: artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, microscopy and
> histological image analysis, physiology models, biomedical image
> analysis, computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems, color sensation and
> perception, image enhancement and visualization
> 
> Dr. Barbara Barricelli
> Affiliation: Department of Computer Science; Università degli Studi di
> Milano
> Homepage link: barricelli.di.unimi.it
> Email: barbara.barricelli at unimi.it
> Interests: human–computer interactions (HCI), user-centered design
> (UCD), end-user development (EUD), user-centered computing (UCC), user
> eXperience (UX), internationalization and localization of interactive
> systems, computer semiotics and semiotic engineering, creative and
> participatory design, color sensation and perception
> 



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