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<P>Announcement and Call for Contributions</P>
<P>New International Journal: Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization</P>
<P>Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group, ISSN: 2168-1163 (print) - 2168-1171 (online)</P>
<P>Editor-in-Chief: Prof. João Manuel R. S. Tavares - University of Porto, Portugal</P>
<P>Journal webpage: <A href="http://www.tandfonline.com/tciv">http://www.tandfonline.com/tciv</A></P>
<P>Journal in Facebook: <A href="http://www.facebook.com/Cmbbe.Image.Visualization">http://www.facebook.com/Cmbbe.Image.Visualization</A></P>
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<P>Dear Colleague,</P>
<P>I would like to introduce you the new international journal "Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization" (CMBBE: Imaging & Visualization) to be published by Taylor & Francis Group (T&F).<BR>Your contribution will be welcome.</P>
<P>My best regards,</P>
<P>João Manuel R. S. Tavares<BR>(Editor-in-chief of CMBBE: Imaging & Visualization)</P>
<P><BR>AIMS & SCOPE</P>
<P>Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization is an international journal whose main goals are to promote solutions of excellence for both imaging and visualization of biomedical data, and establish links among researchers, clinicians, the medical technology sector and end-users.<BR>The journal provides a comprehensive forum for discussion of the current state-of-the-art in the scientific fields related to imaging and visualization, including, but not limited to:</P>
<P>- Applications of Imaging and Visualization<BR>- Computational Bio- imaging and Visualization<BR>- Computer Aided Diagnosis, Surgery, Therapy and Treatment<BR>- Data Processing and Analysis<BR>- Devices for Imaging and Visualization<BR>- Grid and High Performance Computing for Imaging and Visualization<BR>- Human Perception in Imaging and Visualization<BR>- Image Processing and Analysis<BR>- Image-based Geometric Modelling<BR>- Imaging and Visualization in Biomechanics<BR>- Imaging and Visualization in Biomedical Engineering<BR>- Medical Clinics<BR>- Medical Imaging and Visualization<BR>- Multi-modal Imaging and Visualization<BR>- Multiscale Imaging and Visualization<BR>- Scientific Visualization<BR>- Software Development for Imaging and Visualization<BR>- Telemedicine Systems and Applications<BR>- Virtual Reality<BR>- Visual Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery</P>
<P>The journal welcomes contributions covering theories, methodologies, devices and applications of imaging and visualization and assures a fast publishing process of original research manuscripts, position manuscripts expressing stimulating viewpoints and philosophies, survey manuscripts, technical notes and short communications, in regular and special issues.</P>
<P><BR>BOARDS</P>
<P>Advisory Board<BR>- Chandrajit Bajaj, University of Texas at Austin, USA <BR>- Chris Johnson, University of Utah, USA<BR>- Demetri Terzopoulos, University of California, Los Angeles, USA<BR>- John Middleton, Cardiff University, UK<BR>- Jos Vander Sloten, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium <BR>- Shuo Li, University of Western Ontario, Canada<BR>- Thomas J. R. Hughes, University of Texas at Austin, USA</P>
<P>Associated Editors<BR>- USA and Canada: Yongjie Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA<BR>- Asia: Jun Zhao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China<BR>- Europe: Daniela Iacoviello, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy<BR>- Rest of the world: Zeyun Yu, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, USA</P>
<P>Editorial Board<BR>- Alejandro Frangi, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK<BR>- Alexandre Cunha, California Institute of Technology, USA <BR>- Alexandre X. Falcão, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil<BR>- Bernard Gosselin, University of Mons, Belgium<BR>- Christos E. Constantinou, Stanford University, USA<BR>- Constantine Kotropoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece <BR>- Daniel Cremers, Technische Universität München, Germany <BR>- David Steinman, University of Toronto, Canada<BR>- Durval C. Costa, Fundação Champalimaud, Portugal<BR>- Eduardo Soudah, International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Spain<BR>- Fatima L. S. Nunes, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil<BR>- Fiorella Sgallari, University of Bologna, Italy<BR>- George Bebis, University of Nevada, USA<BR>- Joachim Hornegger, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany<BR>- João Paulo Papa, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil<BR>- Jorge S. Marques, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal<BR>- Khan M Iftekharuddin, Old Dominion University, USA<BR>- Laurent Cohen, Universite Paris Dauphine, France<BR>- Lionel Moisan, Université Paris Descartes, France<BR>- Lorenzo Mannelli, University of Washington, USA<BR>- M. Emre Celebi, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, USA<BR>- Manuel González Hidalgo, Balearic Islands University, Spain<BR>- Marc Thiriet, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), France<BR>- Mário Forjaz Secca, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal <BR>- Nicolai Petkov, University of Groningen, The Netherlands <BR>- Paola Lecca, University of Trento, Italy<BR>- Paolo Di Giamberardino, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy <BR>- Valentin Brimkov, State University of New York, USA<BR>- Reneta Barneva, State University of New York Fredonia, USA <BR>- Xue-Cheng Tai, University of Bergen, Norway<BR>- Yan Nei Law, Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore</P>
<P><BR>INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSION (while the T&F electronic submission system is not ready):</P>
<P>- Manuscripts should be sent by email directly to the Editor-in-Chief (<A href="mailto:tavares@fe.up.pt">tavares@fe.up.pt</A>) in Adobe Acrobat Format (pdf); <BR>- 15 to 30 A4 pages in one column double spaced should be assumed;<BR>- The manuscript must provide authors' names, affiliation and emails, and should include title, abstract and keywords;<BR>- Authors are invited to suggest three names of the Editorial Board for the review process.</P>
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<P>For more details, you are invited to visit: <A href="http://www.tandfonline.com/tciv">http://www.tandfonline.com/tciv</A> and <A href="http://www.facebook.com/Cmbbe.Image.Visualization">http://www.facebook.com/Cmbbe.Image.Visualization</A></P>
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