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<font face='Arial' size='1'>Dear Colleague,<br><br>We are pleased to inform you that the submission of abstracts for the International Conference <b>VipIMAGE 2013 - IV ECCOMAS THEMATIC CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL VISION AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING</b> (www.fe.up.pt/~vipimage) to be held October 14-16, 2013, in Melia Madeira Mare Hotel, Madeira Island, Funchal, Portugal, is going very well.<br>Attending several requests, the organizing committee has <b>extended the submission period to May 6th</b>.<br>Once again, we would like to invite you to participate and share your expertise in VipIMAGE 2013.<br><br><br>Possible Topics (not limited to)<br><br>• Signal and Image Processing <br>• Computational Vision <br>• Medical Imaging <br>• Physics of Medical Imaging <br>• Tracking and Analysis of Movement <br>• Simulation and Modeling<br>• Image Acquisition <br>• Industrial Applications <br>• Shape Reconstruction <br>• Objects Segmentation, Matching, Simulation <br>• Data Interpolation, Registration, Acquisition and Compression <br>• 3D Vision <br>• Virtual Reality <br>• Visual Inspection <br>• Software Development for Image Processing and Analysis <br>• Computer Aided Diagnosis, Surgery, Therapy, and Treatment <br>• Computational Bioimaging and Visualization <br>• Telemedicine Systems and their Applications<br><br>Invited Lecturers<br><br>• Daniel Rueckert - Imperial College London, UK<br>• Dimitris N. Metaxas - Rutgers University, USA<br>• Durval C. Costa - Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal<br>• James S Duncan - Yale School of Medicine, USA<br>• Milan Sonka - The University of Iowa, USA<br>• Richard Bowden - University of Surrey, UK<br><br>Thematic Sessions<br><br>Proposals to organize Thematic Session under the auspicious of VipIMAGE 2013 are welcome.<br>The proposals should be submitted by email to the conference co-chairs (tavares@fe.up.pt, rnatal@fe.up.pt).<br><br>Confirmed Thematic Sessions<br><br>• Imaging of Biological Flows: trends and challenges<br>• Trabecular Bone Characterization: New trends and challenges<br>• Computational Vision and Image Processing applied to Dental Medicine<br><br>Publications<br><br>• Proceedings: The proceedings book will be published by the Taylor & Francis Group (www.balkema.nl/instructions.asp) and indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index, IET Inspect and Elsevier Scopus.<br>• Springer Book: A book with 20 invited works from the ones presented in the conference will be published by Springer under the book series “Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics” (www.springer.com/series/8910).<br>• Journal Publication: A dedicated special issue of the Taylor & Francis International Journal “Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization” (www.tandfonline.com/tciv) will be published with extended versions of the best works presented in the conference.<br><br>Important dates<br><br>• Deadline for (2-4 pages) Abstracts: May 6, 2013 (<b>POSTPONED</b>)<br>• Authors Notification: June 10, 2013 (POSTPONED)<br>• Deadline to upload Lectures and Papers: July 1, 2013<br><br><br>We are looking forward to see you in Funchal next October.<br><br>Kind regards,<br><br>Joćo Manuel R. S. Tavares<br>Renato Natal Jorge<br>(conference co-chairs)<br><br>PS. For further details, please, have a look in the conference website at: www.fe.up.pt/~vipimage, or in the conference Facebook page at: www.facebook.com/pages/Vipimage/237980719665456, or join the LinkedIn conference group at: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4752820&trk=hb_side_g">http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4752820&trk=hb_side_g</a><br><br>---------------------------<br>TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM OUR LIST AND STOP RECEIVING EMAILS FROM US, please send an email to tavares@fe.up.pt with REMOVE.<br>Thank you.<br></font>
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