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The following papers have been accepted for publication at the MICCAI 2018 workshops, Granada, Spain, 2018:

A. Depeursinge et al., Rotation Invariance and Directional Sensitivity: Spherical  Harmonics versus Radiomics Features, at MLMI

M. Graziani et al., Regression Concept Vectors for Bidirectional Explanations in Histopathology, at iMIMIC

S. Otalora et. al, Image Magnification Regression Using DenseNet for Exploiting Histopathology Open Access, at COMPAY

O. Perdomo et al., Glaucoma Diagnosis from Eye Fundus Images Based on Deep Morphometric Feature Estimation, at OMIA

A. Reinke et al., How can we do better? Pitfalls in biomedical challenge design  and how to address them, at LABELS

Mara Graziani will present her work on Regression Concept Vectors for Bidirectional Explanations in Histopathology at the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Chicago, on Thursday, August 23.

link: https://www.anl.gov/event/regression-concept-vectors-for-bidirectional-explanations-in-histopathology

Paper to appear at iMIMIC, MICCAI 2018

Four papers have been accepted for presentation at the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum Information Access Evaluation meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Visualization (CLEF), to be held in Avignon, France, 10-14 Sept. 2018.

Link to CLEF 2018: http://clef2018.clef-initiative.eu/

The paper “Hand Gesture Classification in Transradial Amputees Using the Myo Armband Classifier” by Matteo Cognolato, Manfredo Atzori, Diego Faccio, Cesare Tiengo, Franco Bassetto, Roger Gassert and Henning Müller has been accepted for presentation at the 7th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob) to be held in Enschede, The Netherlands the 26-29 August 2018.

More information here: https://www.biorob2018.org/

The paper “From Local to Global: A Holistic Lung Graph Model” by Yashin Dicente Cid, Oscar Jiménez–del–Toro, Alexandra Platon, Henning Müller and Pierre–Alexandre Poletti has been accepted for presentation at the 21^st International Conference on Medical Image Computing & Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) to be held in Granada, Spain 16-20 Sept. 2018.

Link to website: https://www.miccai2018.org/en/

Congratulations to Yashin Dicente on the successful defence of his PhD thesis – “Lung Tissue Analysis: From Local Visual Descriptors To Global Modeling”.

Thesis supervisors: Stephane Marchand-Maillet and Henning Müller

Jury members: Pierre-Alexandre Poletti and Kayhan Batmanghelich

The symposium  “The elephant in the (class)room: Learning occurs in multisensory environments” has been accepted and will be presented by Dr. Paul Matusz at the 2018 IMBES Conference in Los Angeles, California from September 27-29th.

Additional speakers: Anna Fisher (Carnegie Melon University), Natasha Kirkham (Babylab, Birkbeck College London), Silvia Brem (Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Zürich & ETH), and Dima Amso (Brown University).

More information here: https://www.imbes.org/conference-symposia

The website for the Horizon2020 European project PROviding Computing solutions for ExaScale challengeS will be officially launched on April 16, 2018, at this link:  http://www.process-project.eu/.

The project will deliver a user-friendly access to extreme scale data processing for scientific research, facilitating the access to high-performance computing resources. Our involvement in the project consists in the development of improved algorithms for automated cancer diagnosis.

The paper “Distributed container-based evaluation platform for private/large datasets” by Ivan Eggel, Roger Schaer and Henning Müller has been accepted for presentation at the 17th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC)  to be held in Geneva, Switzerland 25-28 June 2018.

http://lsds.hesge.ch/ISPDC2018/

The following papers:

“Automated Diabetic Macular Edema (DME) Analysis Using FineTuning with Inception-Resnet-v2 on OCT Images” by Ravi Kamble, Genevieve C Y Chan, Oscar Julian Perdomo Charry, manesh kokare, Henning Müller, fabrice meriaudeau

and

“Fusion of Results of Several Deep Learning Architecturesfor Automatic Classification of Normal and Diabetic MacularEdema in Optical Coherence Tomography” by Genevieve C Y Chan, Ravi Kamble, Henning Müller, Syed Shah, Tong Boon Tang, fabrice Meriaudeau

have been accepted for presentation at the 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC’ 18) to be held at the Honolulu, HI, USA, July 17-21, 2018.

The journal paper “Head-mounted Eye Gaze Tracking Devices: an Overview of Modern Devices and Recent Advances.” by Matteo Cognolato, Manfredo Atzori and Henning Müller was accepted for publication at SAGE Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering (RATE).

LifeCLEF was chosen as the challenge of the month by Computer Vision News.

Link to the article here.

Dr Paul Matusz is giving an invited talk in Geneva at the Centre Imagerie Biomedicale on using EEG and electrical neuroimaging analysis techniques to better understand brain, sensory and cognitive development. It will take place at HUG at 10AM on Friday, March 2nd.

More information available here.

The Tuberculosis and Caption ImageCLEF research tasks are now available  online: https://www.crowdai.org/challenges.

More information on the tasks and schedule are available here.

Roger Schaer and Henning Müller presented the experience report about mondossiermedical.ch

Presentations available here.

The journal paper “Rotation-Covariant Tissue Analysis for Interstitial Lung Diseases Using Learned Steerable Filters: Performance Evaluation and Relevance for Diagnostic Aid” by Ranveer Joyseeree, Henning Müller and Adrien Depeursinge was accepted for publication at Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics (CMIG).

 Available here

More information on the website: http://fst.ch/

The paper “OCT-NET: A convolutional network for automatic classification of normal and diabetic macular edema using SD-OCT volumes” by Oscar Julian Perdomo, Sebastian Otálora, Fabio González, fabrice Meriaudeau and Henning Müller was accepted at the 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: ISBI 2018