Microscopic Image Analysis with Applications in Biology (MIAAB), September 3-4 at NIH Bethesda

[Stephen Lockett-2]

Please consider attending the following very interesting two day workshop on Microscopic Image Analysis.  It is to be held at the end of next week in Bethesda.  There is no registration charge, but please let me or one of the other organizers know that you are attending.

The website is: www.miaab.org

Microscopic Image Analysis with Applications in Biology  (MIAAB)
Lister Hill Center Auditorium,  NIH Campus,  Bethesda, MD
September 3-4, 2009

General Chairs:
Dimitris M. Metaxas (Rutgers U)
Terry Yoo (NIH, NLM)
Program Chairs:
Jens Rittscher (GE Global Research)
Tolga Tasdizien (Utah)
Session Chairs:
Stephen Lockett (NIH, NCI Frederic )
Raghu Machiraju (The Ohio State University)
Karl Rohr (German Cancer Research Center, Univ. of Heidelberg)
Pavel Tomancek (MPI Cell Biology, Dresden, Germany)

Goals and Objectives -
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers that work on the emerging interface of engineering and biological research.  The convergence of technical developments that enable automated microscopy imaging at higher resolution and throughput and life sciences applications that require the analysis of a very large number of samples radically changes the traditional role of  microscopy. As opposed to analyzing a very limited number of samples manually, it is now possible to automatically analyze a large number of biological samples at the cellular and sub-cellular scale and monitor their dynamics over time. Not only will this approach provide biologists with an unprecedented amount of quantitative information, it will also allow the investigation of the inherent variation of biological systems of interest. 

Algorithms that allow the automatic analysis of such data sets are becoming a crucial component of microscopy workflow. These datasets pose a number of challenges that are very distinct from conventional clinical imagery in their size and abundance, the detail of relevant features, and their statistics. Sophisticated algorithms are necessary to process such imagery and extract biologically relevant features and information.

While certain applications of high-throughput microscopy of very simple biological model systems are already established, biologists are still exploring the potential of this automated approach. The study of complex model systems, the analysis of whole organisms of small critters, and in-vivo models will pose novel challenges that need to be addressed. The challenges increase  many-fold when animal systems for disease and cancer are considered.

The proposed workshop will be the third workshop in this series. The first workshop was held as a MICCAI workshop in Copenhagen in 2006. In 2007 the workshop was held as an independent one-day event in Piscataway, NJ.  Lastly, a one-day workshop was held in conjunction with MICCAI 2008 in New York City last year.

Topics:
To facilitate this exchange the workshop will focus on a set of biological applications and image analysis challenges. In particular we are seeking contributions in the following areas:
Segmentation and feature extraction at cellular and sub-cellular scales
Automatic analysis of dynamic processes in in vivo  and model systems
Analysis of tissue structure and their representation (micro-vasculature, tracking of neurons, identification of cell populations, etc.)
Reconstruction of cell morphologies and lineage studies
Whole critter imaging (zebrafish, c. elegans, drosophila)

Focus areas for biological applications will include but are not limited to
Understanding the heterogeneity of cancer and its environment
Understanding neuro-anatomy at the cellular level
Biomarker discovery
 
For further information, please go to the website: www.miaab.org

Stephen Lockett, Ph.D.,
Principal Scientist,
Head, Optical Microscopy and Analysis Laboratory,
Rm 104A, Building 538,
P.O. Box B
(For Fedex, use Building 1050, Boyles Street)
National Cancer Institute - Frederick / SAIC - Frederick,
Fort Detrick,
Frederick,
MD 21702, USA
Office: 301 846 5515
Mobile: [phone]

[Sally_Dowling]

Hi Stephen,

Good to hear from you.
I can't make it on Thursday but will try to attend on Friday,
Thanks,
Sally

Sally D. Dowling, Ph.D.
Technical Sales
 
BD Biosciences - Bioimaging Systems
t. 301.351.0524
e-mail address: [hidden email]
www.bdbiosciences.com/bioimaging
 
 
 

From:	Stephen Lockett <[hidden email]>
To:	[hidden email]
Date:	08/26/2009 09:36 AM
Subject:	Microscopic Image Analysis with Applications in Biology (MIAAB), September 3-4 at NIH Bethesda

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Please consider attending the following very interesting two day workshop on Microscopic Image Analysis.  It is to be held at the end of next week in Bethesda.  There is no registration charge, but please let me or one of the other organizers know that you are attending.

The website is: www.miaab.org

Microscopic Image Analysis with Applications in Biology  (MIAAB)
Lister Hill Center Auditorium,  NIH Campus,  Bethesda, MD
September 3-4, 2009

General Chairs:
Dimitris M. Metaxas (Rutgers U)
Terry Yoo (NIH, NLM)
Program Chairs:
Jens Rittscher (GE Global Research)
Tolga Tasdizien (Utah)
Session Chairs:
Stephen Lockett (NIH, NCI Frederic )
Raghu Machiraju (The Ohio State University)
Karl Rohr (German Cancer Research Center, Univ. of Heidelberg)
Pavel Tomancek (MPI Cell Biology, Dresden, Germany)

Goals and Objectives -
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers that work on the emerging interface of engineering and biological research.  The convergence of technical developments that enable automated microscopy imaging at higher resolution and throughput and life sciences applications that require the analysis of a very large number of samples radically changes the traditional role of  microscopy. As opposed to analyzing a very limited number of samples manually, it is now possible to automatically analyze a large number of biological samples at the cellular and sub-cellular scale and monitor their dynamics over time. Not only will this approach provide biologists with an unprecedented amount of quantitative information, it will also allow the investigation of the inherent variation of biological systems of interest.  

Algorithms that allow the automatic analysis of such data sets are becoming a crucial component of microscopy workflow. These datasets pose a number of challenges that are very distinct from conventional clinical imagery in their size and abundance, the detail of relevant features, and their statistics. Sophisticated algorithms are necessary to process such imagery and extract biologically relevant features and information.

While certain applications of high-throughput microscopy of very simple biological model systems are already established, biologists are still exploring the potential of this automated approach. The study of complex model systems, the analysis of whole organisms of small critters, and in-vivo models will pose novel challenges that need to be addressed. The challenges increase  many-fold when animal systems for disease and cancer are considered.

The proposed workshop will be the third workshop in this series. The first workshop was held as a MICCAI workshop in Copenhagen in 2006. In 2007 the workshop was held as an independent one-day event in Piscataway, NJ.  Lastly, a one-day workshop was held in conjunction with MICCAI 2008 in New York City last year.

Topics:
To facilitate this exchange the workshop will focus on a set of biological applications and image analysis challenges. In particular we are seeking contributions in the following areas:
Segmentation and feature extraction at cellular and sub-cellular scales
Automatic analysis of dynamic processes in in vivo  and model systems
Analysis of tissue structure and their representation (micro-vasculature, tracking of neurons, identification of cell populations, etc.)
Reconstruction of cell morphologies and lineage studies
Whole critter imaging (zebrafish, c. elegans, drosophila)

Focus areas for biological applications will include but are not limited to
Understanding the heterogeneity of cancer and its environment
Understanding neuro-anatomy at the cellular level
Biomarker discovery
 
For further information, please go to the website: www.miaab.org

Stephen Lockett, Ph.D.,
Principal Scientist,
Head, Optical Microscopy and Analysis Laboratory,
Rm 104A, Building 538,
P.O. Box B
(For Fedex, use Building 1050, Boyles Street)
National Cancer Institute - Frederick / SAIC - Frederick,
Fort Detrick,
Frederick,
MD 21702, USA
Office: 301 846 5515
Mobile: [phone]

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