Radiological Technology calls for papers / meetings & conferences

Call for Abstracts: Markers in Cancer 2012

October 11-13, 2012 Holywood, Florida

Deadline for submission: June 19, 2012, by 11:59 PM (EDT)

Abstracts must be submitted online using the official Markers in Cancer 2012 Abstract Submitter. E-mails and word processing files submitted outside this program will not be accepted. Each First Author will receive an e-mail to verify the abstract has been received.

Markers in Cancer 2012 (formerly known as the ASCO-NCI-EORTC Annual Meeting on Molecular Markers in Cancer) will stimulate discussion on the use of biomarkers as a tool for optimizing detection and treatment in oncology.

Designed for clinicians, pathologists, clinical and translational researchers, statisticians, radiologists, and others who specialize in molecular diagnostics, the meeting will present the latest advances in cancer markers to assess drug efficacy, improve prognostic and predictive evaluations and imaging, and enhance clinical trial development.

This year's Meeting will focus on practice-oriented translational research. Join us in Florida to review and explore the latest innovations in cancer markers.

Authors must select one topic category that best fits the subject of their abstract. The Markers in Cancer Scientific Committee reserves the right to recategorize an abstract.

Clinical Evaluation of Biomarkers, including:
- Biomarker Readiness for Clinical Application
- Assay Validation
- Clinical Qualification
Imaging Biomarkers
Immune System and Immunotherapeutic Markers
Mechanism-based Markers of Resistance and Toxicity
Blood-based Markers, including:
- Circulating Tumor Cells/Cancer Stem Cells
- Plasma DNA
- Proteomics
Cell Signaling Pathways
Genetics, Genomics, Epigenetics, and Gene Expression, including:
- Bioinformatics in Biomarker Research
- Early Translation of Multi-Dimensional Markers
Regulatory Science, Policy, and Knowledge Transfer, including:
- Implementation Science
- Ethics
- IDE and Companion In Vitro Diagnostics
- Regulatory and Policy Considerations, Especially Cross-National
Other

Call for Abstracts: Current and Future Applications of Focused Ultrasound 2012

October 14-17, 2012 Washington DC

Submission Deadline 2 July 2012

Organized by the Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation, the symposium will spotlight leading edge preclinical, translational and clinical research related to one of today’s most promising and innovative therapeutic technologies.

Targeted to scientists, clinicians and others interested in current and future applications of focused ultrasound, the conference will offer a multifaceted exploration of this emerging field and feature plenary sessions, panel discussions, poster presentations and technical exhibits.

Symposium topics include:

Brain

Breast tumors

Cardiovascular

Head and neck

Liver

Bone

Pancreas

Prostate

Uterine Fibroids

Call for Papers: MICCAI Workshop on Clinical Image-Based Procedures: From Planning to Intervention

CLIP 2012 October 5th, 2012, Nice, France

Submissions due June 8th

Scope

There has been considerable interest over the last years in the development and evaluation of new translational techniques for clinical image-based planning and interventions at the cutting edge of modern procedures in the hospital. This workshop aims to fill the gap between basic science and clinical applications by focusing on the clinical translations of state-of-the-art methods with a special emphasis on image-based planning and interventions.

Workshop Topics

--Challenges and emerging techniques in image-based procedures
--Clinical translation of image-based techniques for planning and intervention
--Error analysis in image-based procedures
--Navigation and tracking: tool tracking, organ tracking, and tumor tracking
--Computational anatomy and image analysis: modeling, segmentation, simulation
--Personalization of patient models to support interventions
--Inter- and intra-modality registration
--Visualization for operation planning
--Multimodal image-based planning and guidance
--Clinical applications in open and minimally invasive surgery
--Clinical validation of image-guided systems
 

Call for Papers: 3rd International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (MLMI 2012)

In conjunction with MICCAI 2012, October 1, 2012, Nice, France

Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (MLMI) 2012 is the third in a series of workshops on this topic, being held with MICCAI 2012 in Nice, France. This workshop focuses on major trends and challenges in this area, and it presents work aimed to identify
new cutting-edge techniques and their use in medical imaging. Our goal is to help advance the scientific research within the broad field of machine learning in medical imaging. The technical program will consist of previously unpublished, contributed papers, with substantial time allocated to discussion. We are looking for original, high-quality submissions on innovative research and development in the analysis of medical image data using machine learning techniques.

Topics of interests

Machine learning methods with their applications to

• Medical image analysis of anatomical structures and lesions
• Computer-aided detection/diagnosis
• Multi-modality fusion for diagnosis, image analysis and image guided interventions
• Image reconstruction
• Image retrieval
• Cellular image analysis
• Molecular/pathologic image analysis
• Dynamic, functional, physiologic, and anatomic imaging

Key Dates
• Paper Submission: June 1, 2012
• Notification of Acceptance: July 10, 2012
• Camera-ready Version: July 24, 2012
• Workshop: October 1, 2012