Imaging calls for papers / publications

Call for Papers for a Themed Issue of MedChemComm: Chemical Biology for Target Identification and Validation

Guest Editors: Nathanael Gray (Harvard University, USA) and Lyn Jones (Pfizer, Cambridge, USA)

Submission Deadline: 30th September 2013

Submissions are now open for a high-profile themed issue on Chemical Biology for Target Identification and Validation, due for publication in MedChemComm in early 2014. It will receive great exposure and significant promotion.

Scope

Part of MedChemComm’s mission is to publish high level chemistry biology research which enables drug discovery. This special issue will be broad in scope, covering advances in the discovery, development and application of chemical biology to elucidate and validate new therapeutic targets. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to):

the use of –omics and imaging technologies

immunoprecipitation and affinity chromatography to identify novel targets and therapeutic modalities

the creation and development of new techniques to assess target (and off-target) engagement

advances in areas such as chemogenomics, microarrays, yeast three hybrid, RNAi and chem/bioinformatics

New research in MedChemComm is published as Concise Articles. This article type encompasses both Communication and Full Paper styles and is generally between 3 and 7 pages in length, but there is no strict page limit.

Manuscripts can be submitted in any reasonable format using our submission system. Template is not required. Please indicate that it is for the Chemical Biology themed issue in the comments to the editor field. The level of quality of this issue will be high, and all manuscripts will undergo the journal’s normal peer review process.

The deadline for submissions to the themed issue is 30th September 2013, although submissions before this date are of course welcomed.

Call for Submissions: American College of Rheumatology/ARHP 2013 Image Competition

Monday, July 1, 2013 — Submission Deadline

The ACR/ARHP image competition showcases the finest images in rheumatology and offers an opportunity for you to contribute to one of the pre-eminent medical image collections in the world! We are looking for fascinating and unique medical images that capture the best of rheumatology.

All images submitted to the competition are peer-reviewed for inclusion to the image bank, even if they are not selected as competition winners. A submitter of a high-quality image chosen for inclusion to the image bank is acknowledged as the image contributor in the image bank details. These entries can be listed as a peer-reviewed web image submission on academic CV's and professional resumes.

The image competition is open to all—membership in the College is not required. Winning images and honorable mentions are announced at the annual meeting.

The best overall submission will win the grand prize of complimentary registration* to, and four night hotel accommodations for, the 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting. The top submission in each category (still; case study and health professional) will win complementary registration to the 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting. In addition, the best overall submission and category winning submissions will be published in a future issue of the Arthritis & Rheumatism journal and will be featured in the online Rheumatology Image Bank.

*Registration does not include pre-meeting courses or conferences, Meet the Professor/Expert sessions, or workshops. One guest registration to the 2014 annual meeting is also included (opening reception and exhibit hall access only).

The Rheumatology Image Bank is maintained at the highest level of quality. Therefore, previously published images and/or case studies should not be submitted. Submissions are reviewed and selected by the ACR's Audiovisual Aids Subcommittee. Judging is based on the quality, content and resolution of the images. All submissions are anonymized prior to judging.

Submissions must not contain images that are copyrighted by anyone other than the submitter. All submissions become the copyrighted property of the College and are considered eligible for inclusion in the online Rheumatology Image Bank and/or for use in other ACR/ARHP products, programs or services. By submitting an image to the competition, you retain rights for reproduction, provided written permission from the College is received in advance.

To enter the competition, you must:

Complete the Online Competion Submission Form

Complete the Copyright Assignment Form and, if needed, complete the Patient Release Form. NOTE: Any image that reveals the identity of a patient must be submitted with a signed patient release from that patient. The patient release form is HIPAA compliant. Your state may have more stringent rules than HIPAA regarding patient/physician confidentiality; thus, a signed patient release form may be required even if the image is unidentifiable. Make sure you are aware of your state's laws.

All required forms MUST be completed for each image submitted to the competition. Images submitted that do not meet all the competition rules may be disqualified from the competition. THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS.

Questions?

If you have any questions regarding the image competition, please contact us by email or phone:

products@rheumatology.org

(404) 633-3777

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the International Journal of Information and Communication Technology: Medical Informatics and Technology

Guest Editors:

Dr. D. Jude Hemanth, Karunya University, India

Dr. Vania Vieira Estrela, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil

Medical applications such as medical image analysis are becoming increasingly important in everyday life. But the success of these methodologies is still in doubt due to the human intervention in their systems. This indirectly highlights the necessity for automation techniques for these applications, which can improve the performance to higher extent. The major problem however is that the level of usage of automation techniques is very low in these applications.

This special issue will focus on exploring the applicability of various automation techniques for medical applications. The issue will also give emphasis to innovative methodologies for applications in medical informatics. This issue will thus serve as a platform for researchers to share their ideas and present solutions for human problems in the area of medical informatics.

Subject Coverage

Suitable topics include but are not limited to:

• Medical image processing

• Biomedical signal analysis

• Information security

• Telemedicine

• Data mining

• Medical image compression

• De-noising in medical images

• Soft computing approaches

• Animation and 3-D analysis

• Medical image understanding

• Bio-sensors

• Data transmission

• Modelling and statistical analysis

• Medical image classification and segmentation

• Hardware, medical equipment

• Any other topics related to medical informatics

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written and if appropriate written permissions have been obtained from any copyright holders of the original paper).

All papers are refereed through a peer review process.

All papers must be submitted online.

Important Dates

Full paper submission: 22 July, 2013

Notification to authors: 22 August, 2013

Final version submission: 30 September, 2013

Call for Papers for a Special Section of the Journal of Biomedical Optics: Biomedical and Biological Optical Sensing and Imaging at the Nanoscale

March 2014

Manuscripts due 1 June 2013.

Biomedical and biological optical sensing and imaging at the nanoscale

Guest Editors:

Min-Gon Kim
Gwangu Institute of Science and Technology
Department Photonics and Applied Physics
123 Cheomdan-qwagiro, Buk-gu, Gwangju 500-712
Republic of Korea
E-mail: mkim@gist.ac.kr

Woo Keun Song
Gwangu Institute of Science and Technology
School of Life Science
123 Cheomdan-qwagiro, Buk-gu, Gwangju 500-712
Republic of Korea
E-mail: wksong@gist.ac.kr

Kun Ho Lee
College of Natural Sciences, Chosun University
Department of Marine Life Science
309 Pilmun-daero, Dong-gu, Gwangju 501-759
Republic of Korea
E-mail: leekho@chosun.ac.kr

Bahman Anvari
University of California Riverside
2011 Materials Science & Engineering Building
900 University Avenue
Riverside, California 92521-0001
E-mail: bahman.anvari@ucr.edu

Call for papers: Recent advances in nanotechnology have led to improvements in numerous fields, including biomedical research and health care systems. Since nanoscale materials and devices are similar in size with common biological structures, they have much more efficient interaction with the biological targets than traditional macroscale structures do. Consequently, the successful application of nanotechnology in the areas of biosensing, imaging, and spectroscopy is expected to revolutionize medical research and diagnostics, ultimately leading to unprecedented improvement in healthcare. This special section will cover a wide range of research topics on the optical sensing of nanobiomaterials, nanomaterial-based biological imaging, and spectrum technology, based on the international conference SPIE 2013 Nano-Bio Sensing, Imaging & Spectroscopy (NBSIS). This call for papers is open to anyone who wishes to submit a relevant paper to this special section, even if you did not attend the conference.

This special section will provide detailed information on the latest research results and trends on the use of optical technology for ultrasensitive detection, imaging, and spectroscopy of nanobiomaterials, and will allow many scholars and scientists in this field to share their ideas on the current challenges and the future development directions for the enhancement in medical research, disease diagnostics, and treatment.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

Nanobio-based optical sensing materials and devices

Optical sensing of biomaterials

Biomedical applications of nanobio-optical sensing

Nanomaterials and devices for imaging

Simulation of nanobiosensing and -imaging

Optical imaging of nanobiomaterials

Biomedical applications of nanobioimaging

Nanobiophotonic materials and devices

Diagnostic applications of nanobiospectroscopy.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Neurocomputing: Advanced Computing for Image-Guided Intervention

In the past years, the rapidly growing area of image-guided intervention has dramatically changed the way how a typical surgery is carried out in an operation room. We have witnessed that traditional open surgery is gradually replaced by minimally invasive or non-invasive procedures. In comparison with conventional open surgeries, this new type of procedures has advantages of shorter patient recovery times, greater patient comfort, and lower risk of complications.

Imaging is the key to the image-guided intervention, involving pre-operative planning, intra-operative execution, post-operative assessment and verification. It becomes essential to support both diagnosis and therapy. To achieve successful interventions, usually multi-disciplinary knowledge and techniques are required such as physics, chemistry, electronics, mechatronics, software, and signal/image processing. Especially, signal/image processing and computing plays an increasingly important role, enabling the presentation of reliable and accurate information to the physician. In the past twenty years, this field has been greatly expanded from the developments of low-level processing techniques, such as signal filtering and enhancement, to the medium-level image registration and fusion, segmentation and motion tracking, further to the inventions of high-level signal/image interpretation or classification techniques. Examples include tissue classification/characterization from different imaging modalities. Such advanced techniques assist the physician to understand better the information and offers valuable inputs for the decision making.  At the same time, we have observed a trend in emerging imaging technologies in new clinical applications, such as embedded imaging sensors within in-body catheters, which offers new perspectives in the whole processing of navigation, tracking and visualization.

This special issue aims at capturing the latest advances of the research community working on image-guided intervention. We are soliciting original contributions and encouraging the work for (1) novel fundamental techniques, and (2) showcasing robust systems with emerging applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Advanced signal/image processing algorithms for navigation, tracking and visualization

New algorithm design for real-time imaging and information extraction

Image registration & fusion from multiple imaging sources and/or images from different stages during the intervention

Model-based image segmentation, 3D modeling and visualization

Signal/image processing in new clinical applications

Signal/image processing with emerging imaging modalities

Signal/image transformation or feature extraction for improved clinical understanding.

Database support for algorithm validation and/or training

Signal/image classification and interpretation, e.g. based on machine learning or pattern classification

Emerging applications using medical imaging techniques

Important Dates:

Submission of full papers 31. May, 2013
Notification to authors 15. Oct, 2013

Submission of Manuscripts

Prospective authors should visit http://www.elsevier.com/journals/neurocomputing/0925-2312/guide-for-authors for information on paper submission. Authors must submit their papers electronically by using online manuscript submission at: http://ees.elsevier.com/neucom/.

To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly included into the special issue, it is important that authors select the acronym "ACIGI" of this special issue when they reach the "Article Type" step in the submission process.

Guest Editors:

Dr. Fei Zuo
Philips Research
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
fei.zuo@philips.com

Dr. Jungong Han
Civolution Technology
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
jungonghan77@gmail.com

Prof. Pingkun Yan
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xi’an, China
pingkun@ieee.org

Dr. Hans van Assen
Eindhoven University of Technology
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
h.c.v.assen@tue.nl

Dr. Kenji Suzuki
The University of Chicago
Chicago, USA
suzuki@uchicago.edu

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Investigative Radiology: Clinical Advances With 7 Tesla

Investigative Radiology announces a special issue on 'Clinical Advances with 7 Tesla' scheduled for publication in early 2014. The focus of this special issue will be placed on substantial advances in the field of clinical studies at 7 Tesla in all organ systems and disease categories, but in principal also being open to major technological breakthroughs. Clinical advances may include both, characterisation of fundamental disease mechanisms as well as systematic patient studies.

The deadline for submission is June 30, 2013. Papers submitted after this deadline will not be considered. All papers will be subject to peer review by experts in the field and must comply with the Journal's Instructions for Authors.

Stefan O. Schoenberg, MD, Editor, Special Issue

Guest editors:

Zang-Hee Cho MD
Jutta Ellermann MD
Mark Ladd PhD
Neil Rofsky MD
Brian Rutt PhD
Mark van Buchem MD