[Imageworld] Special Issue IEEE TBME Letters

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Special Issue

IEEE TBME Letters

Emerging Technologies in Multi-Parameter Biomedical Optical Imaging
and Image Analysis

The past two decades have witnessed revolutionary advances in
biomedical imaging modalities capable of providing physiological and
biological information from the cellular scale to the organ level.
Recent advances have also been focused on cost-effective,
non-invasive, portable, and molecular imaging technologies for imaging
at microscopic, mesoscopic and macroscopic levels. These technologies
have significant potential to advance biomedical research and clinical
practice. They can also provide a better understanding and monitoring
of physiological and functional disorders that could lead to
mainstream diagnostic technologies of the future.



TBME LETTERS is aimed at expedited review and publication of
breakthrough research at the leading edge of rapidly emerging
technologies and scientific research work with high impact and
novelty. TBME Letters publishes short papers (up to 4 printed pages)
that are focused on highly novel and time sensitive scientific and
technological advances with high potential impact in biomedical
applications and healthcare. Our intent is to highlight promising
early-stage advances and new ideas that demonstrate feasibility but
for which  lengthier validation studies have not yet been performed.



The Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
(TBME) LETTERS on Emerging Technologies in Multiparameter Biomedical
Optical Imaging and Image Analysis will be published in July 2010. The
aim of this Special Issue is to publish highly innovative, novel and
exciting research activities in biophotonic technologies at
microscopic, mesoscopic and microscopic levels for molecular and
functional imaging and analysis with potential biomedical and clinical
applications.  All TBME Special Issues have open general calls for
contributed papers.



Authors are encouraged to write LETTERS for publication in the TBME
Letters Special Issue in the wide-spectrum of research areas as
following but not limited to:



1.     Multi-parameter, Multi-dimensional and Optical Microscopy

2.     Confocal Microscopy

3.     Optical Endoscopy and Spectroscopy

4.     Fluorescence Imaging and Tomography

5.     Diffuse Reflectance and Transmillumination Imaging

6.     Optical Coherence Tomography

7.     Multiphoton Imaging and Microscopy

8.     Photoacoustic Imaging and Tomography

9.     Biophotonic Image and Tomography Reconstruction

10.  Image Analysis (Segmentation, Registration, Classification, etc.)





Proposers and Guest Editors



Lihong V. Wang, Ph.D.

Washington University in St Louis

Email: hwang at biomed.wustl.edu



Atam P. Dhawan, PhD

New Jersey Institute of Technology

Email: dhawan at adm.njit.edu



Metin N. Gurcan, PhD

The Ohio State University

Email: metin.gurcan at osumc.edu



Badri Roysam, Ph.D.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Email: roysam at ecse.rpi.edu





Timetable



Paper submission deadline: April 1, 2010

- Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2010

- Final manuscript due: June 1, 2010

- Publication date: July 1, 2010

- Review turnaround: three weeks