Miccai 2008 Prostate Workshop

Workshop title

Prostate image analysis and computer-assisted intervention

Place, Time

• MICCAI 2008, New York University, New York, NY
• Room # to be announced
• 8am-12pm, September 10, 2008

Keywords

Prostate, Image guided therapy, medical Image analysis, Focused ultrasound, novel image acquisition, robotics, device,

Sponsor

National Center for Image Guided Therapy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School

General Organizers

Clare Tempany, MD Director, Clinical Focused Ultrasound Professor of Radiology Vice Chairman of Radiology Research Brigham & Women's Hospital

Nobuhiko Hata, PhD Technical Director, Image guided Therapy Program Assistant Professor of Radiology Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Workshop secretary

Nobuhiko Hata, hata@bwh.harvard.edu 617-732-5809 Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hostapil 75 Francis St, Boston, MA www.nicgt.org

Academic objectives and justification of relevance to MICCAI

Objective: The objective of this workshop is discuss state-of-art in medical image processing and computer assisted intervention of prostate, In this half-day workshop, we will share our recent advances and identify translational technologies useful in clinical application of prostate diagnosis and threpy. We will also identify possible synergies among the participants in future strategy. The agenda will include plenary talks that will review clinical and technical aspects of prostate imaging and therapy as well as 10+ abstract presentations. One of the organizers of the workshop has been committed to MICCAI as a clinician.

Workshop/tutorial format plans

This event will take a workshop format. We will invite two plenary speakers representing medical and engineering fields in prostate image processing and intervention research. Each plenary speaker will be given 30 minutes for his or her presentations. We will widely solicit and review abstract papers for 15 minute presentations. We will encourage clinician’s participation and presentation of abstracts. The workshop will be lectures only; no panel discussion and poster presentation are planned.

Invited speaker

TBN

Call For Abstracts

• Abstracts/Papers will be peer-reviewed by a scientific program committee.

• The abstracts should comprise at least one page up to a maximum of two pages. The abstracts will be published as part of the conference proceedings.

• Authors should submit a PDF file that will print on a PostScript printer. Electronic submission is required.

• The abstracts should be submitted online via this website before July 1st, 2008.

• Important Dates

   * Abstracts due July 1, 2008
   * Paper acceptance July 15, 2008
   * Conference September 10, 2008