Program for ICMB 2008

4 January 2008

8:00-      

 

Registration

9:00-9:20

 

Welcome Address

9:20-10:20

 

Invited Talk – Prof. Max Viergever

10:20-11:00

 

Refreshment

11:00-12:00

 

Invited Talk – Prof. Heinz-Otto Peitgen

12:00-12:30

 

Oral Presentations

12:30-14:00

 

LUNCH

 

 

 

14:00-15:20

 

Oral Presentations

15:20-15:40

 

Refreshment

15:40-16:40

 

Oral Presentations

16:40-17:40

 

Poster Presentations (All the Posters)

18:00-19:00

 

Banquet

　

　

5 January 2008

9:00-10:00

 

Invited Talk – Prof. Tadashi Watsuji

10:00-10:30

 

Oral Presentations

10:30-10:50

 

Refreshment

10:50-12:10

 

Oral Presentations

12:20-14:00

 

LUNCH

13:30-17:00

 

Workshop on Computerized Traditional Chinese Medicine (C-TCM)

 

Detailed Conference Schedule

Friday, January 4

　

08:00 - ;      Registration (Venue: Reception Area M1607)  

  

9:00 - 10:20; Opening Session S1 (Venue: M1603)

　

                        Opening Address: Prof. Poon Chung-Kwong, President, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

                                                         Dr. Cheung Wai Lun, Director (Cluster Services), Hospital Authority, Hong Kong

                                                   Dr. Zhaotian Zhang, Deputy Director General, Department of Information Science, NSFC

                        Session Chair: David Zhang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.

·      9:00 - 9:20; Opening Remarks, Welcome, Introduction (Session Chair)

·     9:20 - 10:20; Invited Talk – Prof. Max Viergever

10:20 - 11:00; Refreshments (Venue: Reception Area M1607)

11:00 - 12:30; Session A (Venue: M1603)

                    Session Chair: Prof. Max Viergever, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands

·         11:00 - 12:00; Invited Talk – Prof. Heinz-Otto Peitgen

·         12:00 - 12:30; Oral Presentations

                    

l           Research on Gesture Definition and Electrode Placement in Pattern Recognition of Hand Gesture Action SEMG

Xu Zhang, Xiang Chen, Zhangyan Zhao, Jihai Yang, Youqiang Tu, University of Science & Technology of China;

 Vuokko Lantz, Nokia Research Center, Finland; Kongqiao Wang, Nokia Research Center, Beijing.   

l           New feature selection and classification scheme for screening of oral cancer using Laser Induced Fluorescence

Lalit Gupta, Sarif Kumar Naik and Srinivasan Balakrishnan, Philips Research Asia, Bangalore.

12:30 - 14: 00 LUNCH (Venue: PolyU Staff Restaurant, 4/F, Communal Building)

 

14:00 - 15:20; Session B (Venue:M1603)

·         14:00 - 15:20; Oral Presentations

Session Chair: Prof Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Center for Medical Diagnostic Systems and Visualization at the University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

l           Pinhole SPECT vs. Cone-Beam SPECT

Gengsheng L. Zeng, University of Utah.

l           A Multi-Resolution Optical Flow Based Approach to Respiratory Motion Correction in 3D PET/CT Images

M Dawood, University of Munster, University Hospital Munster; M Fieseler, University of Munster;

F Buther, University Hospital Munster; X Jiang, University of Munster and KP Schafers, University Hospital Munster.

l           Noninvasive Ultrasound Imaging for Bone Quality Assessment using Scanning Confocal Acoustic Diagnosis, CT, DXA Measurements, and Mechanical Testing

Yi-Xian Qin, Yi Xia, Wei Lin, Erik Mittra, Clint Rubin, State University of New York at Stony Brook;

 Barry Gruber, Stony Brook University.

l           Using Modified Contour Deformable Model to Quantitatively Estimate Ultrasound Parameters for Osteoporosis Assessment

Yung-Fu Chen, China Medical University, Taichung; Yi-Chin Du, Tainsong Chen, Yi-Ting Tsai, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.

l           Texture Feature Extraction and Classification for Iris Diagnosis

Lin Ma, Harbin Institute of Technology.      

 

15:20 - 15:40; Refreshments (Venue: Reception Area M1607)

15:40 - 16:40; Session C (Venue: M1603)

·         15:40 - 16:40; Oral Presentations

Session Chair: Xiaoyi Jiang, University of Munster, Germany

l           A Multimodal database for a home remote medical care application

H.Medjahed, ESIGETEL, INT; D.Istrate , ESIGETEL; J.Boudy, INT; F.Steenkeste, INSERM; J.L.Baldinger , INT;

 B.dorizzi, INT,France.

l           Hepatitis Diagnosis using Facial Color Image

Mingjia Liu, Zhenhua Guo, Harbin Institute of Technology.

l           RISC: A new filter approach for feature selection from proteomic data

Trung-Nghia Vu, Syng-Yup Ohn, Ha-Nam Nguyen, Korea Aerospace University, Seoul.

l            Screening Diabetic Retinopathy through Color Retinal Images

Qin Li, Xue-Min Jin, Quan-xue Gao, Jane You, Prabir Bhattachary, Concordia University

 

16:40 - 17:40; Poster Presentations (Venue: Reception Area M1607) – All the posters in ICMB 2008

 

18:00 - 19:00; Conference Banquet (Venue: Four Seas Restaurant, 14/F, Li Ka Shing Building)

 

Saturday, January 5

9:00 - 10:30; Session D (Venue: M1603)

Session Chair: Y-X. Qin, SUNY Stony Brook, USA

·         9:00 - 10:00; Invited Talk – Prof. Tadashi Watsuji  

·         10:00 - 10:30; Oral Presentations (M1603)

l           A Segmentation Method Based on Dynamic Programming for Breast Mass in MRI Images

Jihong Liu, Northeastern University, Shenyang, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology;

Weina Ma, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.

l           Adaptive Segmentation and Feature Quantization of Sublingual Veins of Healthy Humans

Zifei Yan , Naimin Li; Harbin Institute of Technology.

 

10:30 - 10:50; Refreshments (Venue: Reception Area M1607)

10:50 - 12:10; Session E (Venue: M1603)

·         10:50 - 12:10; Oral Presentations

Session Chair: Larry Zeng, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA

l           Interactive Deformable Registration Analysis of 4D Computed Tomography

Burak Erem, Northeastern University Boston; Gregory C. Sharp, Massachusetts General Hospital; Ziji Wu, Massachusetts General Hospital; David Kaeli, Northeastern University Boston.

l           Three dimensional Reconstruction and Dynamic Analysis of Mitral Annular Based on Connected Equi-length Curve Angle Chain

Zhu Lei, Yang Xin, Yao Liping, Sun Kun, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

l           VWPS: A Ventilator Weaning Prediction System with Artificial Intelligence

Austin H Chen, Guan Ting Chen, Tzu-Chi University, Taiwan.

l           Constructing the histogram representation for automatic gridding of cDNA microarray images

Hong-QiangWang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Hau-San Wong, City University of Hong Kong;

Hailong Zhu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

l            Hierarchical Matching of Anatomical Trees for Medical Image Registration

Tobias Lohe, Tim Kröger, Stephan Zidowitz, Heinz-Otto Peitgen, and Xiaoyi Jiang

 

12:10 - 14:00 LUNCH (Venue: PolyU Staff Restaurant, 4/F, Communal Building)

 

14:00 - 17:00 Workshop on Computerized Traditional Chinese Medicine (C-TCM) - Venue M1603              

 

Poster Presentations

    

l           An Effective Feature Set for ECG Pattern Classification

Rajesh Ghongade, Ashok Ghatol

l           Semantic Feature Extraction for Brain CT Image Clustering using Nonnegative Matrix Factorization

Weixiang Liu, Fei Peng, Jiangsheng You, Ziqiang Chen, Jian Wu, Kehong Yuan,

and Datian Ye

l            Extracting Tongue Cracks using the Wide Line Detector

Laura Liu, David Zhang

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