EFMI
European Federation for Medical Informatics

Working Group on Medical Image Processing

News Work Meetings Activities Cooperation Reports Documents Internal

Alexander Horsch, Munich, Germany (chair)
Thomas Wittenberg, Erlangen, Germany (co-chair)
Vytenis Punys, Kaunas, Lithuania (co-chair)

The EFMI Working Group on Medical Image Processing (EFMI WG MIP) supports the mission of EFMI by fostering the discussion and the activities in the member countries about theory and practice of medical image processing. This comprises, in particular, the discussion of how to integrate decision support by means of medical image processing into clinical practice, including the important topics of clinical evaluation, standardization and technology transfer.

News

In 2009, there are two main conferences addressed by the WG: CARS and MIE. A workshop
proposal has been sent to CARS. As to MIE in Sarajevo, suggestions are welcome.

Currently options for an electronic platform to support collaboration within the
working group are checked. A good solution is in sight.

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Work

The current WG work comprises the following objectives:

The working group will, step by step, establish a reference image database for medical image processing R&D groups (RID-MIP) within the EFMI member countries. The images shall be used in order to make the capabilities of different methods comparable.

In order to foster co-operation between R&D groups, and also in order to avoid redundant development work, the working group will establish a Web-based information system about European image processing groups and their current activities. The working group will provide the technical infrastructure. The R&D groups enter and maintain their own data record by themselves.

The working group will create and maintain a Working Group Website which will provide all information about the work and upcoming events relevant for interested colleagues and the public.

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Meetings

9^th WG Meeting 22 August 2007, Brisbane, Australia [Meeting ]

8^th WG Meeting 28 June 2007, Berlin, Germany [Agenda ] [Minutes ]

7^th WG Meeting 28 August 2006, Maastricht, Netherlands [Agenda ] [Minutes ]

6^th WG Meeting 28 August 2005, Geneva, Switzerland [Agenda ] [Minutes ]

5^th WG Meeting 16 June 2004, Munich, Germany [Agenda ] [Minutes ]

4^th WG Meeting 27 June 2003, London, UK [Agenda ] [Minutes ]

3^rd WG Meeting 5 May 2003, Saint Malo, France [Agenda ] [Minutes ]

2^nd WG Meeting 26 August 2002, Budapest, Hungary [Agenda ] [Minutes ]

1^st WG Meeting 6-7 June 2002, Munich, Germany

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Activities

7^th WG Workshop, with IMIA, 22 August 2007, Brisbane, Australia (Medinfo) Collaboration
EFMI WG MIP and IMIA WG Pattern Recognition [Slides Horsch ] [Slides Dickhaus ]

6^th WG Workshop, 12 June 2006, Tromsø, Norway (TTeC) Validation of Image Processing
Systems [Program ] [Slides Horsch ] [Slides Wismüller ] [Slides Schmitt ]
[Slides Castro Martinez ] [Slides Clarke ]

5^th WG Workshop, 30 August 2005, Geneva, Switzerland (MIE) Managing Medical Image Data
[Program ] [Slides Horsch ] [Slides Lehmann ] [Slides Müller ] [Slides Schmidt ]
4^th WG Workshop: CARS/EFMI Joint Workshop, 25 June 2005, Berlin, Germany Medical
Reference Image Databases and Correlated Software Tools and Technologies for Validation
[Program ] [Overview ] [Slides Clarke ] [Slides Jerebko ] [Slides Schmidt ]
[Slides Horsch ] [Slides Wittenberg ] [Slides Athelogou ] [Slides Todd-Pokropek]

Participation in the NIH BECON / BISTIC 2004 Symposium Biomedical Informatics for Clinical
Decision Support: A Vision for the 21st Century. Breakout Session 2: Databases as Required
for Assessment and Application of Software Tools. Moderator: Maryellen Giger
WG representative: Thomas Wittenberg [Symposium Agenda ] [Session Summary ]

3^rd WG Workshop, 16 June 2004, Munich, Germany (EFMI STC) Medical Image Processing
for Health – State of the Art, Challenges and Obstacles [Program ] [Slides Horsch ]
[Slides Punys ] [Slides Clarke ] [Slides Wittenberg ] [Slides Mohr ]

2^nd WG Workshop, 5 May 2003, Saint Malo, France (MIE) Integration of Medical Image
Processing into Clinical Workflow and the Electronic Patient Record [Proposal ]
[Program ] [Deliverable ] [Slides Horsch ] [Slides Müller ] [Slides Prinz ]

1^st WG Workshop, 27 August 2002, Budapest, Hungary (MIE) Reference Image Datasets for
Medical Image Processing Research and Development [Proposal ] [Agenda ] [Protocol ]
[Slides Horsch ] [Slides Lovis ]

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Cooperation

CEN TC251 EHRcom (integration of medical imaging in the electronic health record)

CARS Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (conference with emphasis on MIP)

National Institute of Health / National Cancer Institute, USA

Insight Software Consortium and Kitware Inc., USA

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Reports

2008-09 Final 8^th Report to Council []

2008-05 Final 7^th Report to Council []

2007-05 Final 6^th Report to Council []

2006-08 Final 5^th Report to Council []

2006-04 Preliminary 5^th Report to Council []

2005-03 Preliminary 4^th Report to Council []

2004-10 Final 3^rd Report for IMIA Yearbook []

2004-09 Supplementary Report to Council []

2004-06 Preliminary 3^rd Report to Council []

2003-09 Final 2^nd Annual Report to Council and for IMIA Yearbook []

2003-04 Preliminary 2^nd Report to Council []

2002-07 Final 1^st Report to Council and for IMIA Yearbook []

2002-03 Preliminary 1^stReport to Council []

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Documents

2006-06-12 Tromsø Memorandum []

2005 Paper on RID in CARS Proceedings, International Congress Series 1281: 447-452 []

2004 Paper on RID in Methods Inf Med 2004; 43:409-412 []

2003-05-13 Workshop deliverable draft MIE2003, Saint Malo, France []

2003-05-05 Horsch / Thurmayr, MIP Tasks paper & long oral at MIE2003 [ ]

2003-04-06 Workshop deliverable ICT2002, Regensburg, Germany []

2003-03-11 Horsch et al., RID-MIP paper BVM2003, Erlangen, Germany []

2002-05-03 Horsch et al., RID-MIP paper for a Germany-Korea workshop []

2001-09-13 Call for active participation []

2001-09-02 Proposal for the new WG to the EFMI Council at London meeting []

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Webmaster 2007-07-19

EFMI European Federation for Medical Informatics

Alexander Horsch, Munich, Germany (chair) Thomas Wittenberg, Erlangen, Germany (co-chair) Vytenis Punys, Kaunas, Lithuania (co-chair)

EFMI
European Federation for Medical Informatics

Alexander Horsch, Munich, Germany (chair)
Thomas Wittenberg, Erlangen, Germany (co-chair)
Vytenis Punys, Kaunas, Lithuania (co-chair)