(http://miams09.inria.fr)

Sunday - 20th September (9.00 – 6.30 pm), Imperial College London, UK

MIAMS'09 Proceedings AVAILABLE

Multiple Sclerosis is an inflammatory and demyelinating disease that exhibits regions with high demyelinating activity shown as focal lesions on MRI that usually affects young adults. Even in normal appearing brain tissues (NABT) there are alterations often not visible on conventional MRI sequences. While MRI has a low specificity for differentiating between possible pathological changes which could aid in discriminating between the different lesion types, it has a high sensitivity to detect focal and also widespread, diffuse pathology of the normal appearing white and grey matter. The objective of medical image analysis procedures is to define new neuroimaging biomarkers to track the evolution of the pathology from high dimensional data. This workshop will give an overview of new advances of medical image acquisition and analysis in Multiple Sclerosis.

Following this very successful 2008 edition, the main objective of the MIAMS workshop is to bring together researchers from the medical image analysis domain with radiologists and neurologists working in the field of in MS with the goal of developing neuroimaging biomarkers. These methods are key for a better understanding of the different stages of the disease, for a better modeling of the natural history of the pathology, and for efficacy studies in clinical trials.

We solicit papers that use methods of medical image analysis methods in the following domains:

• Focal and diffuse lesion segmentation in MS
• Longitudinal data analysis in MS
• New MRI sequences, molecular imaging, contrast agents in MS
• Quantitative Imaging in MS (e.g. T2, T2*, MT, MRS, MRSI, Gado…)
• Atrophy quantification in MS
• DTI analysis in MS
• Functional imaging in MS
• New imaging modalities in MS (e.g., PET)
• Myelin imaging
• Spinal cord Imaging
• Grey matter lesion imaging and detection
• Tissue segmentation
• Imaging and histological correlation
• Animal models and imaging

• Submission Deadline : June 8th, 2009
• Notification for acceptation: June 30th, 2009
• Early bird registration: August 1st, 2009
• Final version of papers: August 15th, 2009

Christian BARILLOT Unit/Project VisAGeS - U746 INSERM/INRIA, IRISA, CNRS 6074, Univ. of Rennes1, Rennes, France

D. Louis COLLINS McConnell Brain Imaging Center, Montreal Neurological Institute, QC, CANADA

• Dr. Ponnada A. Narayana, “Quantitative MRI for imaging biomarkers detection in MS”, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
• Dr. Thomas John (Jock) Murray, “A history of multiple sclerosis in medicine”, Dept. Neurology, Dalhousie University.

• 9:00 - Welcome and registration
• 9:15 - Invited Tutorial I
  • Ponnada A. Narayana, "Quantitative MRI for imaging biomarkers detection in MS", The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
  • 10:15 - Discussion and questions
• 10:30 - Coffee Break
• 11:00 - Session I: “Lesion Segmentation in MS“
  • 11:00 - Jeremy LECOEUR, "Optimized supervised segmentation of MS lesions from multispectral MRIs", Visages U746 INRIA/INSERM, IRISA, Rennes, France
  • 11:30 - Nagesh SUBBANNA, "MS Lesion Segmentation using Markov Random Fields", Centre for Intelligent Machines, McGill University, Canada
  • 12:00 - Florian WEILER, "Increasing volumetric accuracy in manual segmentations of MS inflammatory lesions", Fraunhofer MEVIS, Bremen, Germany
• 12:30 - Lunch
• 14:00 - Session II: “ Image Processing in MS“
  • 14:00 - Mohak SHAH, «Effectiveness of Intensity Normalization on MRIs of Human Brains with Multiple Sclerosis», Centre for Intelligent Machines, McGill University, Canada
  • 14:30 - Xavier TOMAS-FERNADEZ, "Fully-Automatic Generation of Training Points for Automatic Multiple Sclerosis Segmentation", Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
  • 15:00 - Nicolas GUIZARD, “Symmetric Optimization Scheme versus Constrained Symmetrization for Non-Linear Registrations”, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill Univ. Montreal, QC, Canada
• 15:30 - Coffee Break
• 16:00 - Invited Tutorial II
  • Dr. Thomas John (Jock) Murray, ”A history of multiple sclerosis in medicine”, Dept. Neurology, Dalhousie University.
  • 16:45 - Discussion and questions
• 17:00 - Session III: “Grey matter analysis in MS“
  • 17:00 - Mishkin DERAKHSHAN, "An Evaluation of Automated Techniques for the Quantification of Grey Matter Atrophy in Multiple Sclerosis", Montreal Neurological Institute, Mc Gill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada
  • 17:30 - Christine TARDIF, “Quantitative Postmortem MR Imaging of cortical Multiple Sclerosis Lesions”, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill Univ. Montreal, QC, Canada
  • 18:00 - Li SHEN, "Shape Analysis of Thalamic Atrophy in Multiple Sclerosis", Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
• 18:30 - Conclusion and Workshop Ends

• Registration must be conducted through the official Miccai 2009 web site (see the http://www.miccai2009.org/sex toys for details). Early bird registration has been extended to August 15th

• The final manuscript must be a 8 to 12 pages pdf file in the LNCS format, complying with the instructions available in the Miccai 2009 web site (see the Miccai-2009 submission web site for details)
• Send submission of your manuscript to ”miams09@irisa.fr” before May 30th, 2009 (miams09@irisa.fr?subject=submission_to_Miams09)

• Jean-Paul Armspach, University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
• Isabelle Berry, INSERM, Toulouse, France
• James Gee, U. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
• Hayit Greenspan, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
• Charles Guttmann, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
• Ron Kikinis, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
• Grégoire Malandain, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France
• Ponada Narayana, U. Houston, TX
• Sridar Narayanan, U. Mc Gill, Montreal, Canada
• Elisabetta Pagani, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
• Marcel Prastawa, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
• Sylvain Prima, INRIA, Rennes, France
• Jean-Philippe Ranjeva, CNRS, Marseille, France
• François Rousseau, LSIIT-CNRS, Strasbourg, France
• Koen Van Leemput, MIT, Cambridge, MA
• Simon K. Warfield, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

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