The Bioimage Informatics 2010

The Bioimage Informatics 2010 will be held from September 17 to19 at the new Gates and Hillman Centers of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.

It will bring together researchers working at the intersection of bioimaging, computer science, engineering and biological sciences. Researchers will discuss applications of image analysis, computer vision, data mining, machine learning, visualization, and informatics methods to mechanistic analyses of biological systems. Discussion will also cover emerging technologies in biology that are leading to new and complex image data sets that require image informatics.

There is a current call for abstracts (Oral and Poster Presentation), deadline July 1, 2010.

Abstracts for presentations, posters or software/hardware demonstrations related to all aspects of bioimage data mining and informatics, are welcome. Appropriate topics include but are not limited to:

• Bioimage feature measurement, description, extraction, and selection
• Object segmentation and tracking in bioimages
• Object/pattern recognition and understanding in bioimages
• Bioimage ontology and related data mining
• Bioimage data visualization
• Learning models from bioimages
• Other bioimaging related techniques, including transmission, compression, registration, storage, database, etc.
• Tools/software for bioimage data processing and data mining
• Bioimage related biology, bioinformatics, and biomedicine applications, e.g. 3D protein structure reconstruction, gene regulatory network/pathway modeling, etc.
• Joint analysis using both bioimages and other data (e.g. sequences, microarray, protein interaction, etc.)

Abstract Submission: Interested participants should electronically submit an abstract via email no later than July 1, 2010 following the instructions at http://lane.compbio.cmu.edu/bii2010. The abstracts will be reviewed and the authors will be notified of abstracts selected for oral or poster presentation by July 30.

Registration Information: All participants, including invited speakers, will be expected to cover their own expenses and registration fees. A range of housing options will be available. The registration fee of $90 will include an opening mixer, coffee and tea during session breaks, lunches, and a closing cookout on Sunday evening. Optional social events, including one highlighting the history of robotics in Pittsburgh (home of the Robot Hall of Fame) are planned.

Important Dates

June 01, 2010: Opening of registration site.
July 01, 2010: Deadline for abstract submission.
July 30, 2010: Notification of acceptance.
August 17, 2010: End of early registration.
September 17, 2010: Meeting opens.

For more information, please visit http://lane.compbio.cmu.edu/bii2010.