[vslist] SPIE Medical Imaging 2003 Symposium

[Dev Chakraborty]

Dear Colleagues,

It is already time to prepare for SPIE's 2003 International Symposium on 
Medical Imaging!

The Image Perception, Observer Performance and Technology Assessment (MI06) 
Conference will be held February 15-20, 2003 in San Diego, California, USA.

I would like to personally invite you to submit a paper and/or poster to 
the Image Perception, Observer Performance and Technology Assessment 
Conference. The deadline for Summary submissions is August 5, 2002 and the 
Final Summary that will be distributed in a booklet at the meeting is due 
on December 16, 2002. Manuscripts will be due on January 17, 2003.

All papers must be submitted electronically on the web.  The abstract 
submission form may be found at the following web address: 
http://butler2.spie.org/abstracts/absin.lasso?-token=MI06
Should this not be possible for you, please send an e-mail to Sandy K. 
Hoelterhoff at sandyh@spie.org, and she will deal with it on a case-by-case 
basis.

As past participants are aware, this is an exciting conference that brings 
together scientists and engineers working in Medical Imaging. The Medical 
Imaging meeting is the internationally recognized forum for reporting 
state-of-the-art research and development in medical imaging. The Image 
Perception, Observer Performance and Technology Assessment Conference, in 
particular, is the premier annual meeting for reporting ROC, FROC, 
perception, ideal observer models and image quality assessment research.  I 
encourage you and your colleagues to participate in the conference and to 
send your submissions ASAP. I am very excited about this year's conference. 
San Diego is a wonderful place to be in February!

Besides the formal presentations, there will be plenty of opportunities to 
meet informally with the speakers. I would especially like to see new 
investigators at this meeting.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have regarding 
the meeting.

Sincerely,

Dev Chakraborty, PhD
Chair, MI06 Meeting.
University of Pennsylvania
Associate Professor of Radiological Physics
215-662-3660

PS: I will stick out my neck and promise some new developments on the FROC 
front in the Image Perception, Observer Performance and Technology 
Assessment Conference. So be there!


Dev Chakraborty, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Radiological Physics
Chief, Physics Section
3600 Market Street,
Science Center,
Suite 370, Room 115,
Philadelphia, PA 19104

215-662-3660 (phone)
215-349-5639 (fax)