CSATR 2014 - 1st International Symposium on Computational and Statistical Approaches to Tomographic Reconstruction

Organizer: Dr. Eman Khorsheed, Department of Mathematics, University of Bahrain, P. O. Box 32038, Kingdom of Bahrain, Tel: +973 17437574.
E-mail: ekhorsheed-AT-uob.edu.bh
Computational and statistical approaches have been widely used for image formation and reconstruction. The statistical methods can make use of the accurate physical models with real-life data taking into account the stochastic nature of noise; also they can enforce object constraints such as spatial continuity, temporal correlation and non-negativity. Tomography is a powerful reconstruction technique for producing cross-sectional images of the internal structure of an object, or more precisely, for estimating the distribution of a physical quantity of interest from a set of projection data using an appropriate computational technique such as Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). Some areas to which tomography has been applied are medical imaging, geophysics, oceanography, quantum states, and relatively recently to the ionosphere where estimates of the electron density are used in mapping the ionosphere.
This symposium aims to bring together statisticians, physicists, engineers, mathematicians and scientists working on new research ideas in the related fields.
Topics to be covered by the symposium include (but not limited to):
Computational statistics and software development
Statistical modeling
Statistical approaches to tomographic reconstruction
Bayesian Statistics including spatial, spatio temporal and hierarchical models
Image analysis and tomography: ionospheric tomography, quantum tomography, oceanography, geophysics, medical tomography, etc.
Solar-terrestrial remote sensing and imaging