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The ACM International Workshop on Medical Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval (MMAR2011)

http://web2.utc.edu/~swf134/Service/MMAR2011.htm

Held in conjunction with
The Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM Multimedia 2011)
November 27-December 1, 2011
Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
http://www.acmmm11.org/

Advances in sensor technology, processing speed, high-speed networking, and the massive digital storages are being incorporated into today??s healthcare practice. Tremendous amounts of biomedical multimedia data, such as CT images, cardiac ECHO videos and textual patient records, are captured and recorded in digital format during the daily clinical practice, medical research, and education. Medical multimedia analysis and retrieval research, with the goal of knowledge discovery and intelligent searching from medical data, contributes to address many critical issues (e.g., quality, cost, and safety of health care, high throughput of biomedical research) that our health care system and biomedical research are facing today. Furthermore, advancing the appropriate use of Health Information Technology (Health IT), which includes the wide application of medical multimedia analysis and retrieval research, holds great promise for improving quality of health care, reduce medical errors, provide safer care at lower cost,and advance biomedical research. At the same time, the unique characteristics and challenges of medical multimedia data (e.g., large volume, heterogeneous, and semantic-rich) provide a world-leading opportunity for bringing together research scientists and practitioners from diverse disciplines that seek the understanding of the fundamental principles and design strategies in multimedia systems and leverage those understandings to build real-world medical multimedia systems.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers in the area of medical multimedia analysis and retrieval, and to provide a forum for multidisciplinary research opportunities, with a focus on the state of the art in successes, the assessment of the applicability of the obtained results in real-life applications, as well as the future directions in medical multimedia analysis and retrieval. Practical issues for the design, implementation, and integration of medical multimedia analysis and retrieval systems will also be discussed. Further, to encourage a larger group of image analysis researchers to benefit from the databases and evaluations created in the context of ImageCLEF, we will provide access to the medical databases and tasks of ImageCLEF on request. This could encourage a broader public and assure that results remain comparable.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to practical areas that span a variety of aspects of medical multimedia analysis and retrieval including:
*Analysis and mining in medical multimedia data (e.g., MRI, CT, X-ray, Ultrasound, Impedance, Biomagnetic, Bioelectric Imaging, echo videos, time series data)
*Content-based indexing and retrieval for medical multimedia data
*Medical ontologies in relationship to multimedia
*Visualization techniques for medical multimedia data
*Function, and structure from medical images
*Multiscale modeling for medical multimedia data, such as the development and the evolution of complex spatiotemporal patterns, at different scales
*Machine learning of disease correlations from mining medical multimedia data
*Clinical decision support systems based on medial multimedia analysis
*Practical applications of medical multimedia data analysis and retrieval
*Algorithms for medical image retrieval or classification using the ImageCLEF collection


Paper Submission and Publication

Papers must be original and not submitted to or accepted by any other conference or journal. An electronic version (PDF format) of the full paper should be submitted by the paper submission deadline to the ACM MM workshop paper submission site (https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ACMMMWS2011/Default.aspx). All submissions will be acknowledged. Submitted manuscripts should not exceed six (6) pages in ACM format, including figures, tables, and references.

Please follow the submission link at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ACMMMWS2011/Default.aspx to submit your paper online.

The workshop paper format guidelines and other submission instructions at http://www.acmmm11.org/content-workshop-papers-formatting-guidelines.html

Each paper will be peer reviewed by at least two experts in the topical area. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and will be indexed by ACM digital library and EI.


Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: June 19, 2011
Notification of acceptance: July 30, 2011
Camera-ready: September 5, 2011


Workshop Organizers
Workshop Co-Chairs

Yu Cao, College of Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA,
Email: yu-cao@utc.edu
Tel:423-425-4351; Fax:423-425-5442
http://www.utc.edu/engrcs/
http://www.utc.edu/engrcs/ycao.php/

Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology (DMICE), Oregon Health & Science University, USA
Email: kalpathy@ohsu.edu
http://davinci.ohsu.edu/~kalpathy/

Devrim ??nay, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Dept. Bah?esehir University, Istanbul, Turkey
Email: devrim.unay@bahcesehir.edu.tr
http://staff.eng.bahcesehir.edu.tr/~unay/