International Workshop on
 "BioImage Data Mining and Informatics"
 Call for Papers and Participation
 
 Stanford, CA August 12, 2005
 
 /Sponsored by IEEE Technical Committee on Bioinformatics/

 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.
 
 With the development of advanced imaging techniques, the number of 
 biological images (e.g. cellular and molecular images, as well as 
 medical images) acquired in digital forms is growing rapidly. 
 Large-scale bioimage databases are becoming available. Analyzing these 
 images sheds new light for biologists to seek answers to many biological 
 problems. For example, analysis of the spatial distribution of proteins 
 in molecular images can differentiate cancer cell phenotypes. Comparison 
 of in situ gene expression pattern images during embryogenesis helps to 
 delineate the underlying gene networks. Image analysis related 
 techniques (e.g. wavelet) have also been found useful in bioinformatics 
 problems such as sequence analysis. The potential of mining the 
 information in bioimages to answer biological questions is enormous and 
 it cries for advanced techniques of bioimage data mining and informatics.
 
 As a prompt response to this call, the goal of this workshop is to bring 
 together interdisciplinary researchers to identify problems and present 
 answers to bioimage data mining and informatics using cutting edge image 
 data analysis, computer vision, data mining, machine learning, and 
 informatics methods. Papers addressing issues of data mining and 
 informatics, related to bioimages, are welcome.
 
 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@lbl.gov ) and Dr. 
 Hanchuan Peng (hpeng@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.
 
 Important dates for paper submissions:
     * April 17, 2005 - extended abstract due
     * April 30, 2005 - notification of acceptance/rejection
     * May 22, 2005 - final paper/abstract due
 
 Questions should be sent to the workshop organizers at 
 mailto:flong@lbl.gov and mailto:hpeng@lbl.gov .
 
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