Call for clinical abstracts for the 21st Medical Image Understanding & Analysis 2017 conference - deadline 24 Feb 2017. Conference dates 11-13 Jul 2017. Conference location: Edinburgh. The conference is organised for communicating research progress within the community interested in biomedical image analysis. Its goals are the dissemination and discussion of research in medical image analysis and aims to encourage the growth and raise the profile of this multi-disciplinary field which has an ever-increasing real-world applicability. The conference constitutes an excellent opportunity to network, generate new ideas, establish new collaborations, learn and discuss on different topics, listen to proffered speakers of international reputation, present and show medical image analysis tools and even experience the delights of a genuine Scottish ceilidh. CLINICAL ABSTRACTS SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit clinical abstracts that fit on one A4 page. Calibri font with minimum font size of 11 is preferred. The page margins should be no less than 1 cm on left and right hand sides and no less than 2 cm on top and bottom. Abstracts could be uploaded via the Conference website. However, if the abstract contains figure(s) and/or table(s), it needs to be sent via e-mail to miua2017@ed.ac.uk in MS Word 2013 format. Abstract format: The abstract page should contain: Title, Authors and Affiliations, Introduction (i.e. Background and Purpose), Methods, Results, Discussion (or Conclusion), References and Acknowledgements if any. Tables and Figures are optional, and can be included as long as they fit within the page. CONFERENCE TOPICS Big data processing Clinical & scientific evaluation of imaging studies Computer-aided pathology Computer-aided radiology Computer-assisted surgery Data fusion Data sompression & anonimisation Decision support Discovery of imaging biomarkers Human computer interaction Image enchancement Image interpretation Image-guided intervention Image formation & reconstruction Image perception Image registration Image segmentation Intelligent imaging systems Machine learning in imaging Modelling & simulation Motion analysis Multi-modality image analysis Pattern & feature recognition Protocol development & standardisation Quantitative image analysis Shape analysis Software development Super-resolution algorithms Statistical methods in imaging Systematic testing & validation Texture analysis Time series analyses Virtual reality visualisation IMPORTANT DATES 01 Oct 2016 - paper submission opens P24 Feb 2017 - paper submission deadline 31 Mar 2017 - author notification 24 Apr 2017 - camera-ready papers due 12 May 2017 - early-bird registration due 11-13 Jul 2017 - conference Please find the call for papers and more information at the conference website: https://miua2017.wordpress.com Publication date 14 Dec, 2016
