Workshop Proceedings:
The first international
workshop on Microscopic Image Analysis with Applications in Biology,
MIAAB 2006, was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 5th of October
2006 as an associated workshop of MICCAI 2006, the 9th Conference
held by the international society of Medical Image Computing and
Computer-Assisted Intervention.
The motivation for organizing this workshop is the fact that
the automatic analysis of microscope imagery plays an increasingly
important role in biosciences research. Novel imaging devices such as
the confocal and two photon (or multi-photon) electron microscope,
automated stages for electron microscopy, and higher resolution
electron tomography enable researchers to image biological systems at
the cellular and sub-cellular scale. These datasets pose a number of
challenges that are very distinct from conventional clinical imagery
in their size and abundance, the detail of relevant features and their
statistics. Sophisticated algorithms are necessary to process such
imagery and extract biologically relevant features and information.
The one-day scientific workshop program focussed
on the design, development and application of such algorithms which
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address specific challenges related to applications
such as high-throughput screening for drug
discovery, high content analysis of neurobiological
data, and disease-specific analysis of tissue
arrays. The program was comprised of two invited
talks, eight oral, and eleven poster presentations.
The two invited talks were given by Dr. Eileen White
(Rutgers University and theCancer Institute of New
Jersey ) and Dr. Nicholas Ayache (INRIA
Sophia-Antipolis).
We wish to thank the authors of all submitted papers for their interest in
the workshop. We also wish to thank the members of our program
committee and the additional reviewers for their commitment of time
and effort in providing valuable recommendations for each submission.
In particular we would like to thank Mads Nielsen, General Chair
of MICCAI 2006, Rasmus Larsen, Program Chair of MICCAI, and
Jon Sporring, Workshop and Tutorial Chair, for the local organization
and the registration management.
We hope you will find these proceedings both inspiring and of
high scientific quality.
Dimitris N. Metaxas
Ross T. Whitaker
Jens Rittscher
Thomas B. Sebastian
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