Organizers:

Syoji Kobashi, University of Hyogo, JAPAN

kobashi@eng.u-hyogo.ac.jp

Hiroharu Kawanaka, Mie University, JAPAN

kawanaka@elec.mie-u.ac.jp

Naomi Yagi, Kyoto University, JAPAN

naomi.y@kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Aim:

There are many studies in the field of medical image studies. However, there are still many problems should be solved. This session aims to gather engineers studying medical imaging and also medical doctors who are using such kind of computer-assisted medical image understanding systems. This session will give good opportunities to discuss the new trend of medical image processing, and emerging problems in the clinical fields. New researchers and young researchers are sincerely invited to this session.

Topics of interest (but are not limited to):

· Physics of Medical Imaging

· Image Processing

· Computer-Aided Diagnosis

· Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling

· Image Perception, Observer Performance, and Technology Assessment

· Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging

· PACS and Imaging Informatics: Next Generation and Innovations

· Ultrasonic Imaging and Tomography

· Digital Pathology

Submission instructions:

Manuscripts submitted to the special session through the paper submission website of
https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ICIEV2015
as regular submissions. It is the responsibility of the authors to make sure that papers submitted to the special session clearly indicate the name of the special session the paper belongs to. All papers submitted to the special session will be subject to the same peer-review review procedure as the regular papers. Please note that this special session is specifically & exclusively related to the ICIEV2015. Please email the organizer for any query and before/after submitting a paper.

Important Dates:

Date for paper submissions: January 31, 2015

Paper decision notification: February 28, 2015

Final paper submission deadline: March 31, 2015

Early-registration deadline: March 31, 2015

Short biographies of organizers:

Syoji Kobashi is an associate Professor of University of Hyogo, JAPAN. He was a visiting scholar at Medical Image Processing Group (Prof. Udupa, IEEE Fellow), Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania in 2011. He received 14 international awards including Franklin V. Taylor Memorial Award (IEEE-SMCS, 2009), IEEE-EMBS Japan Young Investigators Competition (EMBS Japan Chapter, 2003). He has been serving on the chair of International Forum on Multimedia and Image Processing, and an associate editor of 4 journals including International Journal of Intelligent Com zputing in Medical Sciences and Image Processing, and many othrers. He is a committee member of Japan society of fuzzy theory and intelligent informatics (2009-2014), and the chair of IEEE CIS Task Force of "Fuzzy Logic in Medical Sciences" (2013-). He is a senior member of IEEE.

Hiroharu Kawanaka is an Assistant Professor at Mie University, Japan. He received his Dr. of Engineering from Mie University in 2004. After graduation, he established a company "Medical Engineering Institute, Inc." to develop Clinical Data Ware House systems. In 2009 he received his Ph.D. in Medical Science (D.M.Sc.) from Mie University Graduate School of Medicine. He visited Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center as a visiting researcher in 2012. His current research topics are Medical/Welfare Informatics, Medical Image Processing, Pattern Recognition and Document Retrieval in Clinical fields, Ergonomics and Evolutionary Computations. He is a member of IEEE, HIMSS and some Japanese academic societies.

Naomi Yagi is a Program-Specific Researcher at Kyoto University. She received the B.E. Degree in Computer Engineering from Himeji Institute of Technology, Japan in 1998. During 1998–2001, she worked as a system engineer in Mitsubishi Electric Engineering Corporation. During 2009–2012, she was a research associate with Ishikawa Functional Brain Imaging Laboratory, Ishikawa Hospital, Japan. She received Ph.D. from University of Hyogo, Japan in 2014. She received Google Anita Borg Scholars Award in 2011, Best Student Paper Award at World Automation Congress 2012, and Best Presentation Award at 14th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems in 2013. She is a member of IEEE and the Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics.