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Medical Information Visualisation (MediVis)
Aims and Scope MediViz has evolved rapidly from
its original concentration purely on medical visualisation and is now
possibly the leading interdisciplinary forum for researchers and
professionals in the bio-medical domain to exchange ideas and report results
on visualisation within their disciplines to the wider world. It thus
provides important support for researchers who are faced increasingly with
the necessity of adopting a multidisciplinary approach to address the
problems faced in pushing forward the boundaries of modern medicine. The
theme for this year’s conference is “Multi-scale Bio-Medical
Structure Sensing, Modelling, Simulation and Visualisation”. Of
particular interest is the capture and early processing of natural data to be
used as input for external and internal biomedical structure definition.
Papers are encouraged which demonstrate the measurement and modelling of the
dynamics of biomedical data and structures; these may range from the
microscopic, cellular level to the macroscopic organ or whole-patient level. These
structures often undergo constrained interactions which need to be measured
and realistically simulated in order to understand the fundamental processes,
to facilitate the development of bio-medical products or to enable advances
in critical bio-medical applications such as life-saving patient treatment.
At the
microscopic level, examples are the exciting developments that now visibly
link nuclear and cytoplasmic structural changes in
cells to changes in their environment, for example induced by drugs,
radiation or other novel agents being explored in the quest for new
diagnostic or therapeutic techniques. At the macroscopic scale, examples are
the characterisation, simulation and prediction of internal and external body
movements for robot assisted (radio)surgery,
intensity modulated and image guided (radio)therapy, and the emerging
modality of ion-beam therapy.
Quality of
life, encompassing recovery patterns and rehabilitation following treatment
is an important, but often neglected theme. In this age of evidence-based
medicine, how do we objectively define and visualise recovery patterns
following treatments that impact on patient mobility, hearing, speech and
vision. Hence, papers addressing the evolution of new biomedical and clinical
tools and their likely impact are especially welcome.
Papers
are invited that address information
visualisation, from the microscopic to the macroscopic level, in biomedical, biomechanical and other related fields. These include:
International Conference on BioMedical Visualization – MediViz chairs: Gordon Clapworthy, Chris Moore, MediViz Advisory and
Programme committee: Prof Gordon Clapworthy, Prof R. T. Ritchings, Prof D Burton, The General
Engineering Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores
University, UK Dr Bogdan
Matuszewski, Applied Digital Signal and Image
Processing Laboratory, Prof C J Moore, Dr Gareth
Price and Dr Tom Marchant, Developing Technologies
Section- Radiotherapy Physics, North Western Medical Physics Department, Christie
Hospital, UK Prof D R Burton and Dr F
Lilley, General Engineering Research Institute, Prof Lik
Kwan Shark, Dr Bogdan Matuszewski,
Prof B Shariat,
LIRIS, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon-1, Authors
should submit their papers electronically, along with accompanying
visualisation materials to: |
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