Starting in 2010, EMBS is launching a new series of forums addressing grand challenges in biomedical engineering. The forum series will review the significant progress we have made in the past decade, and identify grand challenges facing the scientific community in a specific discipline within the biomedical engineering field in the next 10 years.
The first IEEE-EMBS Grand Challenge Forum addressed grand challenges in Neuroengineering. This meeting, the second IEEE-EMBS Grand Challenge Forum will focus on Biomedical Imaging. Given the wide scope and importance of imaging science in the fields of medicine, biology and engineering, we have selected six topics of foci, including (1) Molecular and Optical Imaging, (2) Medical Image Analysis, (3) Biological Imaging, (4) Cardiac and Vascular Imaging, (5) Neuro Imaging and (6) Informatics data mining and PACS. Looking into the future, we also include a special session on education, entitled “Training the next generation of imaging scientists.”
The IEEE-EMBS Forum on Grand Challenges in Biomedical Imaging will further EMBS’ efforts in promoting this important field. The outcome of the Forum shall be a white paper that answer questions including where are we, what are the major obstacles and challenges, and where should the field invest resources in the next decade. The Forum will be held from February 29 –March 2, 2012 in Bethesda, next to NIH campus. We welcome your suggestions for the next grand challenge meeting or your interest to participate in the Forum. Please email to the EMBS Executive Office at emb-conferences@ieee.org.
For more information, please see: http://gcbme2011.embs.org/. There are a limited number of sleeping rooms blocked for the group; reservations are on a first come, first served basis.
