IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE
         Special Issue on Molecular and Cellular Bioimaging
	
With the advent of a range of new fluorescent probes and other
approaches used to tag proteins or other molecules of interest,
biologists are now capable of answering previously uncontemplated
questions addressing the function of biological systems at all
levels, down to molecular and cellular ones. The answers to these
questions will come from acquiring and analyzing enormous numbers of
digital images using state-of-the-art microscopy techniques in
combination with automated, sophisticated and computationally
efficient analysis methods.

The objective of the special issue is to review and survey research
and development in molecular and cellular bioimaging, bringing the
vast scope of applications closer to the signal processing
community. Tutorial papers are solicited from the following
non-exhaustive list of topics. Other related work is also welcome
for publication. 

Suggested Topics:

  * Modalities: Fluorescence microscopy, electron microscopy, NMR,
    atomic force microscopy and others.

  * Labeling approaches, including engineered biosensors for
    intracellular monitoring.

  * Acquisition schemes, including multi-probe and time series.

  * Analysis methods: classification, clustering, tracking, motion
    analysis, model-based methods and others.

  * Algorithmic methods: reconstruction, inverse problems, registration,
    segmentation, restoration and others.

Submission Procedure:

Prospective authors should submit their responses to the web
submission system at, http://www.cspl.umd.edu/spm/, according to the
following timetable.
			
  White paper due:          March 1, 2005
  Invitation notification:  April 1, 2005
  Manuscript due:           August 1, 2005 
  Acceptance Notification:  December 1, 2005
  Final Manuscript due:     January 15, 2006
  Publication date:         May 2006

Guest Editors:

Jelena Kovacevic
Center for Bioimage Informatics
Depts. of Biomed. Engineering & Electr. and Comp. Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
jelenak@cmu.edu

Robert F. Murphy
Center for Bioimage Informatics
Depts. of Biological Sciences & Biomed. Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
murphy@cmu.edu