[Imageworld] CFP MICCAI Workshop on Statistical Atlases and Computational Models of the Heart, October 5, 2012, Nice, France

[Oscar Camara]

Dear Colleague,

could you please forward this call for papers to the potentially interested
people?

Apologies for multiple cross-posting.

Thank you.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

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MICCAI Workshop on Statistical Atlases and Computational Models of the
Heart: Imaging and Modelling Challenges

http://www.physense.org/stacom2012/

October 5, 2012, Nice, France


Overview:
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This workshop will follow on from the successful STACOM’10 and STACOM'11
workshops, which attracted over 50 participants each and were published in
the Springer LNCS series (STACOM-CESC-10, LNCS
6364<http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/book/978-3-642-15834-6>;
STACOM'11, LNCS
7085<http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/book/978-3-642-28325-3>).
In addition, in the last two editions, collaborative research work between
the participants led to some journal submissions  (eg. see Camara et al.,
PBMB'11 <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079610711000708>).
This year the workshop will be focused again on both cardiac image analysis
and simulation tools in order to advance towards their application in
clinical environments. Challenges using data from human, phantom and animal
studies will be organized on segmentation, landmarking, motion tracking and
simulations.

Challenges utilizing data from human, phantom and animal studies will be
organized: a segmentation challenge on atria and ventricular structures
from MRI involving patient and animal data from King's College London, the
University of Utah and the KUL Leuven; a motion/deformation challenge based
on synthetic temporal 3D-US coordinated by Philips Research Medysis; and a
landmarking challenge on cardiac relevant anatomical features using the
Cardiac Atlas Project (CAP) database, led by the University of Auckland; a
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) challenge organized by Siemens
Corporation, Corporate Research and Technology and King's College London to
evalute the performance of fluid simulations on patient-specific
geometries.

This forum will provide a forum for the discussion of the latest
developments in the areas of heart mapping, including atlas construction,
statistical modeling of cardiac function across patient groups, cardiac
computational physiology, model personalization, ontological schemata for
data and results, atlas based functional analysis, and integrated
functional/structural analyses, as well as the clinical applicability of
these methods. The workshop will be of interest to computer scientists
working in imaging and computational modeling, but also to experts in
cardiology, radiology, biology and physiology. Through this workshop we
would also particularly like to engage a new generation of early career
researchers in working at these interfaces.

Topics:
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  1. Efficient and robust statistical representations of cardiac morphology
and morphodynamics
  2. Quantitative analysis of cardiac images through segmentation and
motion/deformation estimation techniques
  3. Atlas construction methods.
  4. Sharing and reuse of computational cardiac anatomical, mechanical and
electrophysiological models
  5. Strategies for the personalization of cardiac computational models
  6. Parameter sensitivity quantification and identification of relevant
parameters in complex computational models
  7. Integration of multimodal data in a common reference space
  8. Clinical translation of imaging and modelling techniques
  9. Statistical analysis of regional heart shape and wall motion
characteristics across population groups.
 10. Atlas-based physiological analysis of subject-specific characteristics.


Challenges:
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- Segmentation Challenge: Delayed-enhancement magnetic resonance imaging is
a powerful tool for detecting myocardial fibrosis and scarring in both the
ventricles and atria. Recently there has been much interest in the
quantification of DE-MRI for a variety of applications, in particular for
atrial fibrillation, where scarring is recognized after a segmentation of
atrial geometry. This challenge will make available 60 DE-MRI clinical data
sets (from KCL and Utah) to challengers for segmentation of atrial
geometry. 30 data sets will be from patients with atrial fibrillation that
have been treated with radiofrequency ablation and imaged at least 3-months
post-ablation. 30 data sets will be from patients that have been imaged
post-myocardial infarction for assessment of ICD/pacemaker implants. In
addition, DE-MRI on experimental models of chronic infarct (pigs) acquired
in Leuven will be available (10 controls and 10 infarcted cases) together
with manual delineations of endocardial/epicardial LV surfaces and scar. *

*- Motion Tracking Challenge: STACOM will propose this year a new cardiac
Motion Analysis Challenge (cMAC) centered on 3D ultrasound. The challenge
will be coordinated by Philips Research Medisys (Paris) and organized in
collaboration with Inria Asclepios (Nice), KUL Imaging Cardiovascular
Dynamics (Leuven) and the CHU of Caen. Synthetic data with known ground
truth will be provided to the challengers for simulated healthy and patient
data (ischemic and LBBB).  Strain accuracy will be quantified to study the
localizability of electro-mechanical defects in myocardial deformation.
Multimodal acquisitions on a physical phantom with heterogeneous mechanical
properties will also be provided for comparing the different tracking
algorithms.

- Landmarking Challenge: Anatomical landmark annotation of the heart plays
a significant role in cardiac MR analysis. It enables more robust and
accurate functional and structural analysis of the heart. Yet, this
pre-requisite step for an automated cardiac MRI segmentation method is
usually determined by tedious and subjective manual positioning.  In this
challenge, the Cardiac Atlas Project will provide 100 test and 100 training
sets, containing short-axis and long-axis views of cardiac cine MRIs. The
training set will be accompanied by mitral valve points in long-axis views,
and right ventricular insert points as well as left ventricle center points
in short-axis views; all of them were determined manually by expert
observers. The challenge will ask participant to detect mitral valve, RV
inserts and LV centers from the test set. Only one condition must be met:
the landmark detection should be fully automatic. Participants will be
expected to present their methods and results at the workshop. A summary
paper will be submitted to an appropriate journal, with authors from all
participants.

- CFD Simulation: a Computational Fluid Dynamics challenge is being
organized for this workshop by Siemens Corporation, Corporate Research and
Technology and King's College London. The goal of this challenge will be to
evaluate the performance of fluid dynamics simulations on patient-specific
geometries. More details to follow.

Dates:
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End of March --- Challenge data available

TBD by MICCAI organization --- Paper submission deadline

TBD by MICCAI organization  --- Notification of acceptance

TBD by MICCAI organization--- Camera-ready submission deadline

TBD by MICCAI organization--- Final acceptance notification



Organizers:
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Oscar Camara (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, ES)

Tommaso Mansi (Siemens Corporation, Corporate Research and Technology, US)

Mihaela Pop (University of Toronto, CA)

Kawal Rhode (King’s College London, UK)

Maxime Sermesant (INRIA, FR)

Alistair Young (University of Auckland, NZ)


Contact:
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pc-stacom2012 at inria.fr


Submissions:
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Authors are invited to submit articles with a limit of 8 pages. The format
should follow the LNCS style following the MICCAI main conference
guidelines. A double-blind review process will be applied judging
submissions for originality, relevancy and significance.
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