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Last updated: March 25, 2009

CBMS 2009 Special Track

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SPECIAL TRACK

Biomedical Image Applications in Research and Clinical Medicine

CALL FOR PAPERS  (PDF)

Images play a significant role in biomedical research and clinical medicine. Over the decades, contributions by engineers, computer scientists, physical scientists, and mathematicians in collaboration with clinicians and biomedical researchers have made a significant impact on the practice of healthcare. This impact would not have been possible without the significant steps necessary to make images and imaging a routine component of computer-based medical systems. Research into all of the topics of image acquisition, imaging device to computer/archive communication, image enhancement, object segmentation, image registration, databases, rendering, compression, transmission, image informatics, image retrieval, and systems and tools development, has been necessary. Even with the advances that have been made the present role of imaging is insignificant in comparison to the envisaged capabilities and potential benefit.

The 22^nd IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems invites original previously unpublished contributions that are not submitted concurrently to other venues for consideration (journals, conferences, meetings, etc.) for this Special Track. Authors of high-quality articles that describe novel contributions in the topics listed below, in the form of methods or tools that have the potential to make a significant impact in clinical medicine or biomedical research, are strongly encouraged to submit their work for peer review and consideration for publication in the conference proceedings. Note that position papers and reports on initial and intended work that may be suitable for workshop presentation are considered inappropriate for the Special Track.

TOPICS

The topics for the special track include, but are not limited to, the following:

Image acquisition, DICOM	Image processing (enhancement, content-analysis)	Object segmentation
Image feature indexing	Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR)	Biomedical multimedia databases
Image compression	Image transmission and Web-based delivery	Software tools
GPU or game system-based high performance image processing	Game-based methods for biomedical applications	Clinical Decision Support Systems (with images)

IMPORTANT DATES

April 1, 2009	Paper submission due
April 8, 2009	Paper submission due
May 25, 2009	Notification of acceptance
June 21, 2009	Final camera-ready paper due
June 21, 2009	Pre-registration deadline

SUBMISSION PROCEDURES

Each contribution must be prepared following the IEEE Computer Society 2-column format, should not exceed the length of 6 (six) U.S. letter-size (8½" x 11") pages, and must be submitted electronically before the paper submission deadline. All submissions including special track papers should be made via the CBMS Web site that will be open approximately one month before the deadline. Prospective authors should choose the track: Biomedical Image Applications in Research and Clinical Medicine when submitting the article. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers of the Special Track Program Committee. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society. At least one author must register for the conference for each accepted paper before June 21, 2009. Please consult the conference Web site for further information.

TRACK CHAIRS

Sameer Antani	National Library of Medicine, NIH
L. Rodney Long	National Library of Medicine, NIH

TRACK PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Information will be available soon.