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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB>Dear Colleague,<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB>Within the 10th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM 2012) (<A href="http://www.wccm2012.com/"><FONT color=#0000ff>www.wccm2012.com</FONT></A>), to be held in São Paulo, Brazil, on July 8-13, 2012, we are organizing the Mini-Symposium "MS-026 - Computational Bioimaging and Visualization".<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB>Due to your research activities in the related fields, we would like to invite you to submit an invited abstract to our mini-symposium. Your contribution is mostly welcomed, and we would be honoured if you could accept this invitation.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB>TOPICS OF INTEREST (not restricted to):<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB>- Image Processing and Analysis;<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB>- Image Restoration, Compression, Segmentation and Description;<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB>- Object Modelling, Tracking, Matching, Recognition and Reconstruction;<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB>- Visual Inspection;<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB>- 3D Vision;<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB>- Medical Imaging;<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB>- Scientific Visualization;<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB>- Simulation and Animation;<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB>- Software Development for Bioimaging and Visualization;<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB>- High Performance Computing in Bioimaging and Visualization;<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB>- Applications of Bioimaging and Visualization.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB>IMPORTANT DATES:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB>Deadline for one page abstracts: November 20, 2011;<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB>Acceptance of abstracts: until January 31, 2012;<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB>Deadline for full papers (optional): March 31, 2012.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB>ABSTRACT SUBMISSION:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB>Please go to the abstract submission page (<A href="http://www.wccm2012.com/"><FONT color=#0000ff>www.wccm2012.com</FONT></A>) and select the Mini-Symposium "MS-026 - Computational Bioimaging and Visualization".<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US>With kind regards,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB>João Manuel R. S. Tavares, University of Porto, Portugal, </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><A href="mailto:tavares@fe.up.pt"><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB><FONT color=#0000ff>tavares@fe.up.pt</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB>Renato Natal Jorge, University of Porto, Portugal, </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><A href="mailto:rnatal@fe.up.pt"><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB><FONT color=#0000ff>rnatal@fe.up.pt</FONT></SPAN></A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB>Yongjie Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, <A href="mailto:jessicaz@andrew.cmu.edu"><FONT color=#0000ff>jessicaz@andrew.cmu.edu</FONT></A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB>João Paulo Papa, State University of São Paulo - UNESP/Bauru, Brazil, <A href="mailto:papa@fc.unesp.br"><FONT color=#0000ff>papa@fc.unesp.br</FONT></A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB>(Organizers of the Mini-Symposium "MS-026 - Computational Bioimaging and Visualization")<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB>TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM OUR LIST AND STOP RECEIVING EMAILS FROM US PERMANENTLY, please send an email to <A href="mailto:tavares@fe.up.pt?subject=UNSUBSCRIBE"><FONT color=#0000ff>tavares@fe.up.pt</FONT></A> with REMOVE.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB>Thank you very much.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></BODY></HTML>