CALL FOR PAPERS:
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Workshop on 3D Physiological Human 2008

December 8-11, 2008
Switzerland

http://3dph.miralab.unige.ch/

Aims and Scope:
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The evolution and the improvement of technological devices (scanners,
medical instruments, computer power, etc.) have encouraged further
developments for the understanding of the human body functionalities. In
the last years, research in medicine has received a very high push. In
particular, the 3D representation of human structures has provided new
opportunities for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases.

This international workshop whishes to establish a scientific forum for
exchanging and disseminating novel ideas and techniques from a wide
range of disciplines (computer graphics, biomechanics, knowledge
representation, human-machine interface, etc.) associated with medical
imaging, medical simulation, computer assisted surgery and 3D semantics.
The emphasis will be on technical novelty along with current and future
applications for modeling and simulating the anatomical structures and
functions of the human body.

Topics:
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Suggested topics for papers include, but are not limited to:

* Tissue simulation and modeling
* Physiology modeling
* Surgical simulations
* Segmentation and image processing
* Semantic-driven 3D shape segmentation
* Semantic-based 3D modeling
* Graphics hardware for medical computing
* Virtual and augmented reality in medicine
* Image-based modeling and rendering in biomedical domains
* Image-guided surgery
* Computer assisted surgery
* Interactive medical visualization
* Semantic-driven 3D visualization
* Data fusion, content-based 3D retrieval and classification
* Gait simulation
* Neuromuscular model/simulation
* Computer assisted surgical planning and navigation
* Computational anatomical atlases
* Anatomically based modeling
* Biomedical motion analysis and modeling
* Haptic feedback in medical simulation

Conference Location:
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The Workshop on 3D Physiological Human 2008 will be held in Switzerland.
The venue will be announced soon.

Important Dates:
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Paper submission: September 10, 2008
Authors notification: October 15, 2008
Camera-ready papers: October 31, 2008
Conference: December 8-11, 2008

Workshop Chairs:
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Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann (MIRALab/University of Geneva, Switzerland)

Program Co-chairs:
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Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann (MIRALab/University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Jian Jun Zhang (Bournemouth University, UK)
David Feng (Sydney University, Australia)

Local Committee Chair:
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Caecilia Charbonnier (MIRALab/University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Jérôme Schmid (MIRALab/University of Geneva, Switzerland)

International Program Committee (to be confirmed):
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Pierre Alliez (INRIA, France)
Nicholas Ayache (Sophia-Antipolis, France)
Massimiliano Baleani (IOR, Italy)
Davide Caramella (University of Pisa, Italy)
Werner Ceusters (State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life
Sciences, USA)
Jian Chang (Bournemouth University, UK)
Gary E. Christensen (University of Iowa, USA)
Albert C. S. Chung (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong
Kong)
Hervé Delingette (INRIA, France)
Scott Delp (Stanford University, USA)
Mark de Zee (SMI, Denmark)
Tor Dokken (SINTEF, Norway)
Guy A. Dumont (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Bianca Falcidieno (IMATI, Italy)
John Fisher (Institute of Medical & Biological Engineering, UK)
Andrea Giachetti (CRS4, Italy)
Enrico Gobbetti (CRS4, Italy)
Markus H. Gross (ETH, Switzerland)
Hans-Christian Hege (Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany)
Pheng-Ann Heng (The Chinese University of Hong-Kong, Hong Kong)
Pierre Hoffmeyer (HUG/University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Catherine Houstis (CERETETH, Greece)
Roger J. Hubbold (University of Manchester, UK)
Wolfgang Hürst (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
Nigel John (University of Wales, UK)
Leo Joskowicz (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Jinman Kim (The University of Sydney, Australia)
Aggelos Liapis (STARLab, Belgium)
Bill Lorensen
Robert Meersman (STARLab, Belgium)
Dimitris N. Metaxas (State University of New Jersey, USA)
Joerg Meyer (University of California, USA)
Nassir Navab (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Alison Noble (University of Oxford, UK)
Xenophon Papademetris (Yale University, USA)
Bernhard Preim (University of Magdeburg, Germany)
Hong Qin (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA)
Ewald Quak (SINTEF, Norway)
Richard A. Robb (Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, USA)
Antoine Rosset (HUG, Switzerland)
Daniel Rueckert (Imperial College, UK)
Deborah Silver (The State University of New Jersey, USA)
Michela Spagnuolo (IMATI, Italy)
Eric Stindel (University Hospital of Brest, France)
André Stork (Fraunhofer, Germany)
Russell H. Taylor (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Daniel Thalmann (EPFL, Switzerland)
Andrew Todd-Pokropek (UCL, UK)
Paul Tofts (Brighton and Sussex Medical School, UK)
Remco Velkamp (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
Michael Voigt (SMI, Denmark)
Pascal Volino (MIRALab/University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Mariette Yvinec (INRIA, France)

Publication Information:
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Accepted contributions will be presented at the workshop and the
proceedings will appear in a book published by Springer-Verlag. The best
contributions will be selected to appear in a special issue of The
Visual Computer journal published by Springer-Verlag.

Submissions should be up to 8 pages long. Authors should follow the
formatting instructions for journals at Springer:
http://www.springer.com/computer/computer+imaging/journal/371?detailsPage=co
ntentItemPage&CIPageCounter=151019

Templates for LaTex and Word are available at:
http://www.springer.com/computer/computer+imaging/journal/371?detailsPage=co
ntentItemPage&CIPageCounter=135322

Submission will open soon.

Contact Information:
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For more information, please visit http://3dph.miralab.unige.ch/
or
contact:
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann - thalmann@miralab.unige.ch

About 3D Anatomical Human
http://3dah.miralab.unige.ch/

The objective of this project is to increase, by scientific exchange,
the development of new technologies and knowledge around virtual
representations of human body for interactive medical applications. The
network has a specific goal: developing realistic functional
three-dimensional models for the human musculoskeletal system, the
methodology being demonstrated on the lower limb.

About Focus K3D
http://www.focusk3d.eu/

The aim of FOCUS K3D is to foster the comprehension, adoption and use of
knowledge intensive technologies for coding and sharing 3D media content
in consolidate and emerging application communities by:
* exploiting the scientific and technological advances in the
representation of the semantics of 3D media to increase awareness of the
new technologies for intelligent 3D content creation and management;
* building user-driven scenarios to evaluate and adapt the technologies
so far developed to the requirements of application environments;
* foster a shift of role of 3D content users, from passive consumers of
technologies to active creators.