Special issue on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine
Computers and Graphics, March/April 2011.
Guest editors: Bernhard Preim, Charl Botha
Submissions due: October 6, 2010.
Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine addresses the integration of state-of-the-art visualization and image analysis for application to research in biology and medicine. Integrating visualization and image analysis brings with it particular challenges, but also yields new possibilities, especially when extended for application to the wide gamut of research topics in biology and medicine, such as molecular imaging, quantitative longitudinal studies, pre- and intra-operative surgical guidance, and the diverse field of system biology.
For the special VCBM issue of Computers and Graphics, we hereby solicit the submission of original application-oriented research papers that advance the fusion of visualization and image analysis with imaging-based medicine and biological science. All papers should focus on a well-defined biological or medical context, and should demonstrate a significant innovation or improvement in visual computing that addresses ongoing problems in that context.
Important: Besides the small number of best VCBM conference submissions that will form part of this special issue, we are hereby in fact soliciting additional new journal paper submissions on this theme. Invited VCBM submissions should be extended with at least 30% extra content and revised figures.
Suggested topics for papers include, but are not limited to:
- Applications in cardiovascular medicine, neurosurgery, radiology, and other medical disciplines
- Applications on Gene Expression Data and other system biology topics
- Visualization methods for neurobiology, plant biology and developmental biology
- Interactive segmentation and registration
- Computer-aided diagnosis and detection
- Intervention and therapy planning (e.g. pre-operative surgical planning and radiation therapy planning)
- Intra-operative guidance for surgery
- Visualization and Simulation for Surgical Training
- Coupled simulation and visualization
- Multi-field medical visualization and processing (multi-modality, structural + functional)
- Perception-based studies for medical visual computing
- Reconstruction from image data data such as microscopic or radiological data
- Creation and visualization of biological/medical atlases
This special issue will also serve to commemorate our fellow VCBM 2010 chair, good friend and colleague, Dirk Bartz, who unexpectedly passed away in March, 2010.
For details about how to submit visit the C&G style and length guidelines for authors. The paper should be submitted through the Elsevier journal submission system. Please select Special Section:VCBM 2010 when you reach the Article Type step. Papers can be up to 12 pages in length in the final two-column submission style (this will be significantly more in the preprint review style). However, do contact the guest editors if you can convincingly motivate the necessity for more pages. In case of further questions with respect to the submission procedure, please contact authorsupport@elsevier.com.
Additional multimedia (for example videos) are welcomed. Upload each of these files as a ‘Supplementary Material for on-line publication only’ item in the attach file step during submission. Note that no attachment can be larger than 10 MBytes.
Important deadlines:
Submission deadline: October 6
First decision: November 17 (was November 6)
Revised Versions: November 30 (was November 20)
Final decisions: December 13 (was December 6)
Revised Versions due: January 7, 2011 (unchanged)
For further inquiries, please contact the guest editors:
Bernhard Preim, preim@isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
Charl Botha, c.p.botha@tudelft.nl