The 4th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (iCBBE 2010)

The 4th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (iCBBE 2010) will be held from June 18th to 20th, 2010 in Chengdu, China. iCBBE 2010 will bring together top researchers from Asian Pacific areas, North America, Europe and around the world to exchange research results and address open issues in all aspects of bioinformatics and biomedical engineering.

The 4th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (iCBBE 2010) will be held from June 18th to 20th, 2010 in Chengdu, China. iCBBE 2010 will bring together top researchers from Asian Pacific areas, North America, Europe and around the world to exchange research results and address open issues in all aspects of bioinformatics and biomedical engineering. All accepted papers in iCBBE 2010 will be published by IEEE and indexed by Ei Compendex and ISTP.

Topics: The conference is soliciting state-of-the-art research papers in the following areas of interest:

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Protein structure, function and sequence analysis
Protein interactions, docking and function.
Computational proteomics
DNA and RNA structure, function and sequence analysis
Gene regulation, expression, identification and network
Structural, functional and comparative genomics
Computational evolutionary biology
Data acquisition, normalization, analysis and visualization
Algorithms, models, software, and tools in Bioinformatics
Any novel approaches to bioinformatics problems

Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical imaging, image processing & visualization
Bioelectrical and neural engineering
Biomaterials and biomedical optics
Methods and biology effects of NMR/CT/ECG technology
Biomedical devices, sensors, and artificial organs
Biochemical, cellular, molecular and tissue engineering
Biomedical robotics and mechanics
Rehabilitation engineering and clinical engineering
Health monitoring systems and wearable system
Bio-signal processing and analysis
Biometric and bio-measurement
Biomaterial and biomedical optics
Other topics related to biomedical engineering

http://www.icbbe.org/2010/CallForPapers.aspx

5th International Conference on Mass Data Analysis of Images and Signals in Medicine, Biotechnology, Chemistry and Food Industry

July 12 - 13, 2010, Berlin/Germany

The International Conference on Mass Data Analysis of Images and Signals in Medicine, Biotechnology, Chemistry and Food Industry MDA is held on yearly basis.
The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers from all over the world who deal with the automatic analysis of images and signals in medicine, biotechnology, and chemistry in order to discuss the recent status of the research and to direct further developments. Basic research papers as well as application papers are welcome

MDA Topics

The Scope of the Conference
The Goals of the Conference
Topics of the conference

The Scope of the Conference

The automatic analysis of images and signals in medicine, biotechnology, and chemistry is a challenging and demanding field. Signal-producing procedures by microscopes, spectrometers and other sensors have found their way into wide fields of medicine, biotechnology, economy and environmental analysis. With this arises the problem of the automatic mass analysis of signal information. Signal-interpreting systems which generate automatically the desired target statements from the signals are therefore of compelling necessity. The continuation of mass analyses on the basis of the classical procedures leads to investments of proportions that are not feasible. New procedures and system architectures are therefore required. The scope of conference is to bring together researcher, praticioners and industry people who are dealing with mass analysis of images and signals to present and discuss recent research in these fields.

Semantic Classification of Byzantine Icons

The painters of the Byzantine and post Byzantine artworks use specific rules and iconographic patterns for the creation of sacred figures. Based on these rules, the sacred figure depicted in the artwork is recognizable. In this work, we propose an automatic knowledge-based image analysis system used for Byzantine icons classification on the basis of the sacred figure recognition.

Figure 1. The Byzantine icon classification system’s architecture. The analysis module extracts information about the icon, and the knowledge representation and reasoning module uses this information to infer implicit knowledge that categorizes the icon.

Firstly, the system detects and analyzes the most important facial characteristics providing rich, still imprecise information about the Byzantine icon. Then, the information extracted is expressed in terms of an expressive terminology formalized using Description Logics (DLs) which form the basis of Semantic Web ontology languages.

Figure 2. Image analysis. First, the algorithm detects the sacred figure’s face region, eyes, and nose. Then, it extracts the hair, forehead, cheek, mustache, and beard parts together with the face’s base color layers. Further analysis of the extracted parts provides information about characteristic features. Finally, the algorithm produces a semantic interpretation for each of these features, together with formal assertions.

In order to effectively handle the imprecision involved, fuzzy extensions of DLs are used for the assertional part of the ontology. In this way, the extracted by image analysis information comprises the assertional component while the expressive terminology, formalizing the rules and the iconographic patterns, permits categorization of Byzantine artworks.

Figure 3. A reasoning example. The extracted information from image analysis constitutes the assertional component (ABox) of the knowledge base; the terminological component (TBox) is defined on the basis of Fourna’s specification. These components form the input to the fuzzy reasoning engine, which infers information about the icon.

P. Tzouveli, N. Simou, G. Stamou, S. Kollias. Semantic Classification of Byzantine Icons. In IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol 24, no. 2, pp. 35-43, March, April 2009. [ Abstract ] [ Bibtex ]

New CCD descriptor

Fuzzy rule based scalable composite descriptor (BTDH) is a new descriptor that can be used for the indexing and retrieval of radiology medical images. This descriptor uses brightness and texture characteristics as well as the spatial distribution of these characteristics in one compact 1D vector. The most important characteristic of the proposed descriptor is that its size adapts according to the storage capabilities of the application that is using it. This characteristic renders the descriptor appropriate for use in large medical (or gray scale) image databases.
To extract the proposed descriptor, a two unit fuzzy system is used. To extract the brightness information, a fuzzy unit classifies the brightness values of the image's pixels into L_{Bright}  clusters. The cluster centers are calculated using the Gustafson Kessel Fuzzy Classifier.
The texture information embodied in the proposed descriptor comes from the Directionality histogram. This feature is part of the well known Tamura texture features. 
Fractal Scanning method through the Hilbert Curve or the Z-Grid method is used to capture the spatial distribution of brightness and texture information.

Seven approaches used in our experiments in order to evaluate the performance of this descriptor:

The approach displaying the best correlation between size and result is approach E5. Download the dll file and use the following source code to get the descriptor.

Bitmap ImageData = new Bitmap("c:/1.jpg"); double[] BTDHTable = new double[2048]; BTDH GetBTDH = new BTDH(16,8,true); GetBTDH.extract(ImageData); BTDHTable = GetBTDH.SFBTDD ;

1.S. A. Chatzichristofis and Y. S. Boutalis, “CONTENT BASED RADIOLOGY IMAGE RETRIEVAL USING A FUZZY RULE BASED SCALABLE COMPOSITE DESCRIPTOR”, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Special Issue on Data Semantics for Multimedia Systems, Springer, to Appear, 2009, DOI 10.1007/s11042-009-0349-x. [Download]

2.S. Α. Chatzichristofis and Y. S. Boutalis, “CONTENT BASED MEDICAL IMAGE INDEXING AND RETRIEVAL USING A FUZZY COMPACT COMPOSITE DESCRIPTOR”, «The Sixth IASTED International Conference on Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and Applications SPPRA 2009» Proceedings: ACTA PRESS pp.1-6, February 17 to February 19, 2009, Innsbruck, Austria.[Download]

MAP results on IRMA 2005 medical image database

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2010 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI)

2010 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI)

14-17 April 2010, Rotterdam,

The Netherlands Four-page paper submission deadline: 2 November 2009 !!!

See http://www.biomedicalimaging.org/ for details

The IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI)is the premier forum for the presentation of technological advances in theoretical and applied biomedical imaging. ISBI 2010 will be the seventh meeting in this series. The previous meetings have played a leading role in facilitating interaction between researchers in medical and biological imaging. The 2010 meeting will continue this tradition of fostering crossfertilization among different imaging communities and contributing to an integrative approach to biomedical imaging across all scales of observation. ISBI is a joint initiative of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) and the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS). The 2010 meeting will feature an opening morning of tutorials, followed by a scientific program of plenary talks, special sessions, and oral and poster presentations of peer-reviewed contributed papers.

Confirmed Plenary Talks: * Richard Ehman (Mayo Clinic, USA) Topic: New clinical imaging technologies * Jason Swedlow (University of Dundee, UK) Topic: Challenges in bioimage informatics * Clemens Lowik (Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands) Topic: Molecular imaging and applications * Milan Sonka (University of Iowa, USA) Topic: Challenges in biomedical image analysis

Confirmed Special Sessions: * Functional magnetic resonance and diffusion tensor imaging Organizer: Carl-Fredrik Westin (Harvard Medical School, USA) * High-field clinical magnetic resonance imaging Organizer: Andrew Webb (Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands) * Fluorescence guided surgery Organizer: Vasilis Ntziachristos (Technical University of Munich, Germany) * Whole-body image acquisition and analysis Organizer: Faiza Admiraal-Behloul (Toshiba Medical Systems Europe) * Histological and intravital microscopy Organizer: Tom Vercauteren (Mauna Kea Technologies, France) * Ultrasound imaging and analysis Organizer: Hans Bosch (Erasmus Medical Center, Netherlands) * Multi-parameter biomedical optical imaging and analysis Organizer: Atam Dhawan (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA) * Computer aided diagnosis Organizer: Nico Karssemeijer (University Medical Centre Nijmegen, Netherlands)

Contributed Program: High-quality papers are solicited describing original contributions to the mathematical, algorithmic, and computational aspects of biomedical imaging, from nano- to macro-scale. Topics of interest include image formation and reconstruction, computational and statistical image processing and analysis, dynamic imaging, visualization, image quality assessment, and physical, biological, and statistical modeling. Papers on molecular, cellular, anatomical, and functional imaging modalities and applications are welcomed. All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the symposium and will be available online through the IEEE Xplore database.

Important Dates: Deadline for submission of 4-page paper: November 2, 2009

Notification of acceptance/rejection: January 15, 2010

Submission of final accepted 4-page paper: February 15, 2010

Deadline for author registration: February 15, 2010

Deadline for early registration: March 1, 2010

IJCSIS Research Series

(IJCSIS) International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security
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