2007 Joint Rough Set Symposium (JRS07)

  May 14-16, 2007. Toronto, Canada

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   Nowadays medical imaging provides major aid in many branches of medicine and enables and facilitates the capture, transmission and analysis of       

     medical images as well as provides assistance towards medical diagnoses. Medical imaging is still on the rise with new imaging modalities being added 

     and continuous improvements of devices' capabilities. Recently,  Soft Computing techniques involve different methodologies, e.g. fuzzy
set theory, neural networks, genetic algorithms and rough set theory.  The capability of these techniques to incorporate imprecision and
incomplete information, and to model very complex systems makes them a useful tool in many scientific areas. Needless to say, medical image

processing  is one of these areas. This special session will focus mainly on the problems and applications that deal with the medical imaging using Soft Computing  techniques as an emerging research area.  Recommended topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Noise reduction in images

• Edge detection and segmentation

• Image enhancement

• Image compression

• similarity between images

• Intelligent medical imaging systems

• Medical image capture

• Computational anatomical atlases

• Surface and volume registration

• Medical image analysis

• Medical image motion analysis

• Multi-modal image analysis

• Image segmentation

• Multidimensional data visualization

• Feature extraction and pattern recognition

• Statistical methods / population-based analysis

• Image guided surgery/therapy

• Medical image databases

• Functional/molecular/metabolic image analysis

• etc.

Important dates

Authors are invited to submit a paper   by January 1, 2007.  if you are interested in submitting a paper to this special session, please

contact the organizer directly at abo@cba.edu.kw  for more information or to submit a paper.

Contact information

Aboul-Ella Hassanien

Information Technology Department

Faculty of Computer and Information

Cairo University

Giza, Egypt

E-mail: abo@cba.edu.kw

http://www.cba.edu.kw/abo

Gerald Schaefer

School of Engineering and Applied Science

Aston University
Birmingham, U.K.

E-mail: G.Schaefer@aston.ac.uk

Jianmin Jiang

School of Informatics,

University of Bradford
Bradford, U.K.

E-mail: j.jiang1@bradford.ac.uk

Extensions of selected papers will be considered for the book" Computational Intelligence in Medical Imaging: Techniques & Applications"

To be published by CRC Press, 2008 and other  international journals.