Dear Colleague,
As you may know we are organising the
Special Session SS5 on “The Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) project and
Imaging in Biomechanics” as part of the 9th International Symposium on
Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering (http://www.cmbbe2010.cf.ac.uk), to be
held in Valencia on the 24th-27th February 2010.
This session will focus on patient-specific
modeling and simulation of various body systems functioning in the framework of
the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) calls of EU FP7 (http://vphop.eu/) and on image processing and
analysis in biomechanics. Nowadays, multistage investigations aim at tackling
time and length scales involved in the behaviour of biological and
biomechanical systems (e.g., blood circulation, ventilation, digestion, renal
purification, musculoskeletal apparatus, tumour growth, etc.) that sense,
react, and adapt to environmental loadings, and in the study of that behavior
from images.
Topics include (but not limited to)
enhanced bio mathematical and biomechanical models, data mining and
visualization, image segmentation, motion tracking, image alignment and registration,
3D reconstruction, medical imaging, applications of imaging processing and experiments
for validation.
We are now looking for novel research
papers addressing these topics.
Given your track record in this area, we
would like to invite you to submit an abstract to this special session. There
is not much time remaining as the deadline for abstract submission is October
16th 2009, however we hope that you or one of your colleagues may consider
submitting an abstract on this topic.
You will need to submit your abstract via
the conference website (http://www.cmbbe2010.cf.ac.uk),
and select the special session SS5.
We look forward to seeing you in Valencia.
Yours sincerely,
João Manuel R. S. Tavares (University of
Porto, Portugal)
Marc Thiriet (INRIA, France)