Preface
Welcome to MIUA and to Kingston! This is the 13th in this series of annual meetings designed to provide a UK forum for discussion and dissemination of research progress in image analysis applied to medicine and the biological sciences. MIUA aims to encourage the growth and raise the profile of this multi-disciplinary field by bringing together the various communities involved. The scope of the meeting extends from analysis of medical and biological images to imaging physics and clinical studies.
MIUA is a single-track conference with oral and poster presentations. All accepted contributions appear in these proceedings. Authors were asked to submit 5-page papers for review by the programme committee. This year we received 63 submitted papers. Each paper was reviewed by three members of the programme committee. Based on these reviews, 20 papers were accepted for oral presentation and 31 for poster presentation.
This year we continued with the tradition of Challenge Abstracts. Authors were asked to submit one-page abstracts outlining challenges to the image analysis community from a clinical or end-user perspective. We have selected 4 abstracts as short podium presentations and hope that these will stimulate discussion and point to future research directions.
We are very fortunate to have three excellent invited speakers in Prof. Andrew Todd-Pokropek from University College, London, Prof. A.C.F. Colchester from the University of Kent and Dr. Hiro Yoshida from the Harvard Medical School, USA. We are grateful to them for agreeing to talk at the conference.
This is the first time MIUA has been held at Kingston University. As usual, it has attracted overseas participation, this year from Germany, France, Singapore and the United States. Many thanks to all who helped in organising the event! In particular we are grateful to Bee Tang for handling registrations, Simon Jackson for help with the CAWS system and Jim Graham for words of advice. As in previous years, the meeting is supported by the British Machine Vision Association (BMVA) who also supported 10 student bursaries for first year PhD students in medical imaging. Finally, we are very grateful to the Programme Committee and, in particular, to all those who supported MIUA 2009 by submitting papers and attending the meeting. We hope that you all enjoy the conference.
Jamshid Dehmeshki, Andreas Hoppe and Darrel Greenhill
Kingston University, UK