last update : July 2012

Objectives:

• Support of communication and common attempts of academia and industry to increase quality of innovation, research and development in the field of medical image processing.
• Activities towards references image databases for medical image processing R&D groups in order to support validation and evaluation of medical image processing methods and systems.
• Maintain the working group website and establish a web-based information system for European image processing groups and their current activities.
• Organise meetings and workshops at EFMI conferences and other events such as CARS and Medinfo conferences.
• Build and maintain close relationship with persons, groups, organisations and standardisation bodies related to the field.

Recent activities:

• At CARS 2011 in Berlin, the working group has on 24 June 2011 successfully organized the 3rd CADdemo@CARS demonstration workshop for Computer Aided Diagnosis systems with four demonstrations, a panel discussion, and ca. thirty participants. Moderator: A. Horsch. Panellists: P. Cerello (I), H. Fujita (J), K. Mori (J), R. Nishikawa (US), T. Wittenberg (D).
• At MIE 2011 in Oslo a panel on “Patient Empowerment and High-Tech Imaging and Biosignal-Based Procedures – Contradiction or Challenge?” has been organized as a joint activity together with IMIA WG Biomedical Pattern Recognition, as well as a WG business meeting. Vytenis Punys stepped back as co-chair at that meeting, but will continue as a member.
• As an educational activity, the working group has supported the 19th CATAI Winter Course of the University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain, in March 2011 with a lecture on “Diagnostic DICOM Images in 4G Mobile Phones”.
• The WG Website www.efmi-wg-mip.net provides pertinent content such as reports, concepts, and presentations for the public. Basic information about the working group (mission, members, etc) is maintained on the EFMI website www.efmi.org.

  Future Activities:
  

• Further workshops and business meetings are envisaged for the upcoming EFMI conferences. The use of the working group’s CSCW platform shall be intensified, along with more timely exchange of information among the working group members.
• It is also planned to further support the CATAI winter courses.

Chair:
Alexander Horsch, Prof. II Dr.rer.nat Dr.med.habil.
Dept. of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology
Munich University of Technology
Ismaninger Str. 22, D-81675 Munich, Germany
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and University of Tromsø, Norway
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Co-chair:
Thomas Wittenberg, Dr.-Ing., Erlangen, Germany
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