Abdominal 2014 - International Workshop on Abdominal Imaging: Computational and Clinical Applications

In the abdomen, organs and disease appearances are complex and subtle, and thus the development of computational models that are useful in clinical practice is highly challenging. Nevertheless, diagnosis often relies on the quantitative measures of organs and lesions because their volumes and shapes are strong indicators of disorders. Given the complexity and high variability of abdominal organs, the identification of distinct computational challenges for integrative models of organs and abnormalities is essential for understanding anatomy and disease, evaluating treatment, and planning intervention.
Leveraging the success of the previous workshops, the 6th MICCAI Workshop on Abdominal Imaging: Computational and Clinical Applications will provide a comprehensive forum for reviewing clinical opportunities in computational abdominal imaging, and for sharing state-of-the-art as well as emerging techniques for solving computationally challenging image analysis and visualization problems, by bringing together leading researchers and clinician-scientists around the world. The workshop will provide participants in-depth and interactive discussions on the emerging techniques introduced by the current clinical challenges that have not been fully explored in the MICCAI main conference.
We thus solicit original and work-in-progress papers that address innovative research and development in all fields concerning abdominal imaging, a sample topics of which are shown below.