22-25 September 1996
Following Georgia Tech, the University of North Carolina and the Mayo Institutions, the University of Hamburg will host the 4th conference on Visualization in Biomedical Computing (VBC’96). Its goal is to enhance and promote the science of computer based visualization of biomedical information, especially about the various aspects of the human body. An interdisciplinary, international group of scientists, engineers, and clinicians will present and discuss the state of the art concerning algorithms, the rapidly increasing number of applications, and the practical problems of system design.
We expect VBC’96 to be of especially high quality because the best 73 papers (39 oral, 34 poster presentations) were selected from the large number of 232 submissions.
Conference Committee
Chairman
- Karl Heinz Höhne, University of Hamburg
Program Committee
- Ron Kikinis (Program Chair), Harvard Medical School
- Nicholas Ayache, INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis
- Jean Louis Coatrieux, University of Rennes
- Takeyoshi Dohi, University of Tokyo
- James Duncan, Yale University
- Alan C. Evans, Montreal Neurological Institute
- Norberto Ezquerra, Georgia Tech
- Henry Fuchs, UNC, Chapel Hill
- Guido Gerig, ETH Zürich
- Eric Grimson, MIT
- David Hawkes, Guy’s Hospital London
- Arie Kaufman, State University of New York
- Andres Kriete, University of Gießen
- Hal Kundel, University of Pennsylvania
- Heinz Lemke, Technical University of Berlin
- David Levin, University of Chicago
- Heinrich Müller, University of Dortmund
- Chuck Pelizzari, University of Chicago
- Stephen Pizer, UNC, Chapel Hill
- Richard Robb, Mayo Foundation / Clinic
- H. Siegfried Stiehl, University of Hamburg
- Paul Suetens, KU Leuven
- Andrew Todd-Pokropek, University College London
- Jun-Ichiro Toriwaki, Nagoya University
- Michael Vannier, Washington University, St. Louis
- Max Viergever, Utrecht University
Coordinators
- Bernhard Pflesser, University of Hamburg
- Thomas Schiemann, University of Hamburg
- Rainer Schubert, University of Hamburg
Venue
University of Hamburg, Main Building (ESA1)
Hamburg
Germany
The venue is within walking distance of the city, which surrounds the beautiful Alster lake. The weather is typically Indian summer, but showers may occur. Daytime temperatures range from 15 to 20 degrees Celsius (60-70 degrees Fahrenheit).
Industry Exhibition
- Advanced Visual Systems (AVS)
- CNSoftware Ltd.
- CREASO
- Silicon Graphics
- Oxford University Press
Art Exhibition
Thorsten Kirsch, a young artist from Hamburg, will show some of his color etchings inspired by 3D medical imaging.
Visits
Visits to laboratories in Hamburg will be arranged for the day after the conference (IMDM, Philips Research Lab, KOGS).
Proceedings
Karl Heinz Höhne, Ron Kikinis (eds.): Visualization in Biomedical Computing, Proc. VBC ’96. Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. 1131, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1996.
Supporting Organizations
- University of Hamburg
- German Research Foundation (DFG)
- The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- German Society of Computer Science (GI)
- German Society of Medical Informatics, Biometrics and Epidemiology (GMDS)
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