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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=PT link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><a name="OLE_LINK22"></a><a name="OLE_LINK7"></a><a name="OLE_LINK6"></a><a name="OLE_LINK24"></a><a name="OLE_LINK23"></a><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>International ECCOMAS Thematic Conference VipIMAGE 2011 - III ECCOMAS THEMATIC<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL VISION AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>12-14th October 2011, Olhão, Algarve, Portugal<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.fe.up.pt/~vipimage"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>www.fe.up.pt/~vipimage</span></a><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>LAST POSTPONEMENT<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>We would appreciate if you could distribute this information by your colleagues and co-workers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Dear Colleague,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Due to several requests, we have postponed the submission deadline to May 15, 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>We would like to invite you to share your work in the International Conference VipIMAGE 2011 - I<b>II ECCOMAS THEMATIC CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL VISION AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING</b> that </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>will be held in Real Marina Hotel & Spa, Olhão, Algarve, Portugal, on October 12-14, 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Possible Topics </span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>(not limited to)<b><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- Signal and Image Processing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- Computational Vision<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- Medical Imaging<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- Physics of Medical Imaging <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- Tracking and Analysis of Movement<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- Simulation and Modeling<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- Image Acquisition<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- Shape Reconstruction<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- Objects Segmentation, Matching, Simulation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- Data Interpolation, Registration, Acquisition and Compression<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- 3D Vision<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- Virtual Reality<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- Software Development for Image Processing and Analysis<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- Computer Aided Diagnosis, Surgery, Therapy, and Treatment<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- Computational Bioimaging and Visualization<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- Telemedicine Systems and their Applications<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Invited Lecturers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Armando J. Pinho - University of Aveiro, Portugal</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Irene M. Gamba - The University of Texas at Austin, USA</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- <span style='color:black'>Marc Pollefeys - ETH Zurich, Switzerland<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- <span style='color:black'>Marc Thiriet - Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), France<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Xavier Roca Marvà - Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Stan Sclaroff - Boston University, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Thematic Sessions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>- Simultaneous MR-PET imaging<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>- Satellite image analysis for environmental risk assessment<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>- Dental Imaging and Processing Techniques<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>- Digital Mammography<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>- Imaging of Biological Flows: trends and challenges<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>- Imaging techniques applied to soft tissue Biomechanics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Publications</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The proceedings book will be published by the Taylor & Francis Group and indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index, IET Inspect and Elsevier Scopus.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>A book with 20 invited works from the best ones presented in VipIMAGE2011 (extended versions) will be published by Springer.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>A special issue of “The International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering” dedicated to VipIMAGE 2011 (with extended versions of 12 selected works), will be published by John Wiley & Sons.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Important dates</span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- Deadline for Extended Abstracts: 15th May 2011 (postponed)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- Authors Notification: 31st May 2011 (postponed)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- Deadline for Full Papers: 30th June 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Awards<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"best paper award" and "best student paper award" are going to be given to the author(s) of two papers presented at the conference, selected by the Organizing Committee based on the best combined marks from the Scientific Committee and Session Chairpersons.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>We are looking forward to see you in Algarve next October.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>João Manuel R. S. Tavares<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Renato Natal Jorge<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>(conference co-chairs)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>PS. For further details please see the conference website at: </span><a href="http://www.fe.up.pt/~vipimage"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>www.fe.up.pt/~vipimage</span></a><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>