ISBI 2004 summary

ISBI 2004 was held 15-18 Apr. 2004

This document summarizes the meeting.

Out of 465 submitted papers, 90 were accepted for oral presentation and 234 for poster presentation.
There were also 69 papers total in special sessions.
There were 531 attendees.

Organizing committee

Position	Name	Affiliation	email
General Co-Chair	Richard M Leahy	Dept of Electrical Engineering University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA	[email protected]
General Co-Chair	Christian Roux	Department Image et Traitement de l'Information ENST Bretagne BREST, France	[email protected]
Technical Co-Chair	Gary Christensen	Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA	[email protected]
Technical Co-Chair	David Wilson	Dept. of Biomedical Engineering Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH	[email protected]
Finance Chair	Richard M. Leahy	Dept of Electrical Engineering University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA	[email protected]
Publication Chair	Thomas Denny, Jr.	Dept of Electrical Engineering Auburn University, AL	[email protected]
Exhibits	Simon Cherry	University of California, Davis, CA	mailto:[email protected]
Local Arrangements	Murray Loew	Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science The George Washington University, Washington DC	[email protected]
Special Sessions	Erik Meijering	Biomedical Imaging Group, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands	[email protected]
Tutorials	Dana Brooks	Electrical and Computer Engineering Northeastern University, Boston, MA	[email protected]

Special sessions

Imaging of Gene Expression: From Microarrays to In Vivo Studies
Yu-Ping Wang, Advanced Digital Imaging Research, USA
Robert Murphy, Carnegie Mellon University
Image Formation and Analysis in Microscopy
Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin, Institut Pasteur, France
Optical Tomographic Imaging of Optical Properties and Fluorescent
Eva Sevick-Muraca, Texas A&M University
Advanced Methods in Ultrasound Imaging
Kathy Nightingale , Duke University
Advanced Methods in MRI
Z. P. Liang, University of Illinois Champagne Urbana
Methods for Functional Brain Mapping
Keith Worseley, McGill University
Tom Nichols, University of Michigan
PDEs in Biomedical Image Analysis
Guillermo Sapiro, University of Minnesota
Atlases and Nonrigid Registration
Paul Thompson, University of California, Los Angeles
Dynamic Image Formation and Analysis
Yoram Bresler, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Public Domain Software Packages for Biomedical Imaging
Dana Brooks, North Eastern University
Wavelets in Biomedical Imaging
Michael Unser, L'Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Plenary speakers

David Pwinica-Worms
Reporter Strategies for Imaging Gene Expression and Protein Functions In vivo
Bruce Rosen
Multi-modal Imaging of the Brain
Michel Vannier
Engineers are from Mars, Clinicians are from Venus: What we deliver vs. What they want
Stefan Hell
Fluorescence Nanoscopy

Tutorials

Biomedical Optical Imaging
Charles Bouman, Purdue University
http://www.ece.purdue.edu/~bouman
Eva Sevick-Muraca, Texas A&M University
http://www-chen.tamu.edu/CHEN/faculty/sevick
Measurement and Imaging of Gene Expression
Desmond Smith, UCLA
http://www.pharmacology.ucla.edu/smithlab
Al Hero, U. Michigan
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~hero/hero.html
Partial Differential Equations and Level-Set Methods in Biomedical Imaging: From the Basics to the Applications
Guillermo Sapiro, University of Minnesota
http://www.ece.umn.edu/users/guille
Ron Kimmel, Technion and Stanford University
http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~ron
Statistical Modeling and Inference of fMRI Data
Victor Solo, University of New South Wales
http://www.eet.unsw.edu.au/staff/solo/profile.htm
Thomas Nichols, U. Michigan
http://www.sph.umich.edu/~nichols
Daniel Rowe, Medical College of Wisconsin
http://www.biophysics.mcw.edu/BRI-people/Rowe/drowe.htm