IMPORTANT DATES

Extended abstract due: April 17, 2005
Notification of acceptance/rejection: April 30, 2005
Final paper/abstract due: May 22, 2005

Papers are solicited for a workshop on bioimage data mining and image analysis to solve bioinformatics and biomedicine problems. This workshop is in conjunction with CSB2005, the IEEE Computational Systems Bioinformatics conference, Stanford, CA, Aug. 8?12, 2005.

Appropriate topics include but are not limited to:

Acquisition of cellular, molecular and other bioimages; novel bioimaging techniques; novel bioimage data
Bioimage feature measurement, description, extraction, and selection
Bioimage registration and comparison
Object segmentation and tracking in bioimages
Clustering/classification of bioimages or patterns derived from bioimages
Object/pattern recognition and understanding in bioimages
Bioimage ontology and related data mining
Bioimage data visualization
Other bioimaging related techniques, including transmission, compression, storage, database, etc.
Tools/software for bioimage data processing and data mining
Bioimage related biology, bioinformatics, and biomedicine applications, e.g. 3D protein structure reconstruction, protein structure analysis and prediction, gene regulatory network/pathway modeling, etc.
Microarray image analysis and data mining
Joint analysis using both bioimages and other data (e.g. sequences, microarray, protein interaction, etc.)
Other bioinformatics problems where image pattern analysis, signal processing, and computer vision methods can be applied.

Extended abstracts of 4 to 6 pages in length, or full papers, should be emailed to Dr. Fuhui Long (flong[at]lbl.gov) and Dr. Hanchuan Peng (hpeng[at]lbl.gov) at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, no later than April 17, 2005. The abstracts and papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be included in the conference Proceedings of the IEEE CSB 2005 published by IEEE Computer Society Press. The final versions of accepted papers are limited to 10 pages in IEEE conference format (will be emailed to the respective authors).

Talk proposals with a short abstract, but without full papers, are also welcome. These abstracts will be included in the workshop program as well.

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