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FORTHCOMING MEETINGS
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THE 9TH EUROPEAN CONGRESS ON STEREOLOGY AND IMAGE ANALYSISZAKOPANE, POLAND, MAY 10-13, 2005
Organizing CommitteeJacek Chraponski, Jan Cwajna, co-chairman, Aneta Gadek, Zbigniew Latala, Marian Malinski, KrzysztofRozniatowski, scientific secretary, Kazimierz Satora, treasurer, Janusz Szala, Maciej Tesiorowski, LeszekWojnar, co-chairman
International Advisory BoardLucie Kubínová, Ivan Saxl (Czech Republic), Karsten Nielsen, Jens R. Nyengaard, Ryszard Pyrz (Denmark),Yannick Anguy, Jean-Louis Chermant, Dominique Jeulin (France), Werner Nagel (Germany), MarekHetmanczyk, Krzysztof J. Kurzydlowski, Mariusz Mlynarczuk (Poland), Boštjan Likar (Slovenia), JacekKomenda (Sweden), Piet Stroeven (The Netherlands), Terry M Mayhew, Brian Ralph (United Kingdom), ChrisBagnal, George Vander Voort (USA)
Contact:Professor Leszek WojnarInstitute of Computing Science, Cracow University of Technology,Al. Jana Pawla II 37, 31-864 Cracow, PolandPhone: +48 603 582 292Fax: +48 12 413 96 57e-mail: [email protected]
Jacek Chraponski, Ph.D.Chair of Materials Science, Silesian University of Technology,Al. Krasinskiego 8, 40-019 Katowice, PolandPhone: +48 32 603 44 00Fax: +48 32 603 44 00e-mail: [email protected]
Conference scope:
The 9th European Congress on Stereology and Image Analysis will be coupled with the 7th InternationalConference on Stereology and Image Analysis in Materials Science STERMAT.
The main topics of the meeting will be:
• Applications of image analysis and stereology• Recent advances in stereology• New image analysis tools• Young stereologists competition
Special emhasize will be devoted to:
• 3D data acquisition, sampling and processing• image analysis of 3D objects• medical applications of image analysis• image analysis and stereology in materials science• application of image analysis in motion control, security, automation, etc.• trainig in stereology and image analysis
Special courses on stereology principles and basic as well as advanced skills in image analysis will accompanythe meeting.
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Important dates:
December 31, 2003 – First Circular and call for papersMarch 30, 2004 - preliminary registrationJune 30, 2004 – Second CircularSeptember 30, 2004 – submission of papersDecember 31, 2004 – submission of revised papers and final registrationFebruary 28, 2005 –conference fee, Third Circular with the Conference ProgramMay 10, 2005 – opening of the conference
Preliminary registration form:
THE 9TH EUROPEAN CONGRESS ON STEREOLOGY AND IMAGE ANALYSISZAKOPANE, POLAND, MAY 10-13, 2005
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Preferred presentation: oral, poster
Preliminary registration form should be sent to:
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NEWS FROM ISS
The 12th International Workshop on Stochastic Geometry, Stereology and Image Analysis was held in Prague,Czech Republic, in August 25-29, 2003. There were 51 participants from 14 countries who delivered 36lectures and presented 10 posters. The discussed topics were random tessellations, point processes and randomsets, spatial statistics and asymptotics, etc. In fact, the number of stereological contributions decreased incomparison with previous meetings (held in two years period). The venue of the next Workshop is not yetdecided about.
Viktor BenešDepartment of Probability and StatisticsCharles University, Faculty of Mathematics and PhysicsSokolovska 83,18675 Praha 8
A BRIEF REVIEW ON THE 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS FORSTEREOLOGY – BEIJING CONFERENCE 2003
GUOQUAN LIU∗University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, Chinae-mail: [email protected]
The 11th International Congress for Stereology - Beijing Conference (XI ICS-Beijing) was a satelliteconference of the XI ICS. It was organized and sponsored by the Chinese Society for Stereology (CSS),authorized by both the International Society for Stereology (ISS) and the program committee of the XI ICS, inconjunction with the 10th Chinese National Symposium of Stereology and Image Analysis. It was the firstmajor ICS meeting held in China. The conference was planned to take place in August, but due to the impact ofSARS, it was postponed to November 4-8, 2003.
In spite of the SARS outbreak, the Beijing Conference still received 79 English and 68 Chinese papers orabstracts submitted from various countries and various parts of China, which were compiled in a single volumeof conference proceedings on 348 pages edited by Guoquan Liu and Dewen Wang. Authors were fromGermany, France, the United States, Denmark, Australia, Slovenia, India, the Netherlands, and China. In total,more than 100 scientists and experts attended the Conference.
We had 5 keynotes and 11 invited papers among those presented at the Beijing Conference. The 5 keynotesincluded: Stereology and 3D microscopy: Useful alternatives or competitors in the quantitative analysis ofmicrostructures? by Hans Eckart Exner; Stereology of neuronal connections (myelinated fibers of white matterand synapses of neocortex) in human brain by Yong Tang, Jens R. Nyengaard, Bente Pakkenberg, Hans JørgenG. Gundersen; Models of random microstructures by Dominique Jeulin; Contribution of stereology tounderstanding the function of the testis and ovary by Nigel Wreford; Stereology in skeletal muscle research byIda Eržen. The Conference Academic Committee also selected 5 papers as excellent papers of the conferenceby voting to honour and encourage more people to contribute to the field of stereology. The contents and topicsof the presentations demonstrate that stereology and related methods have been used much more widely thanever, and that research in stereology in China and in the world has made great achievements in recent years. ∗ Guoquan LIU, Professor of University of Science and Technology Beijing, is Vice-President of the Chinese Society forStereology, the Editor-in-chief of Chinese Journal of Stereology and Image Analysis. He has also been appointed as ISSVice-President for China on the ISS Board for 2004-2007.
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The main organizer of the Beijing Conference, the Chinese Society for Stereology, was founded in 1987 asfirst proposed by Wenqi Zhang, Zhensheng Zhang, Yongning Yu and Guoquan Liu, who received his Ph.D.degree from University of Florida in 1984 (supervised by Drs. Rhines, DeHoff, Reed-Hill, et al.). Now the CSShas 6 branches including Materials Science, Biomedicine, Image Analysis, Computer Tomography, Simulationand Virtual Reality, Metallography and Microanalysis. The Society also publishes its own journals, includingChinese Journal of Stereology and Image Analysis, which has become a national key journal and provides animportant forum in the stereology and image technology field.
Stereology is a multidisciplinary field, studying higher dimensional structures from its lower dimensionalsectional or projected images. According to Hans Elias, the first president (1961-1967) of the ISS, “Stereologyis a three-dimensional interpretation of flat images, such as sections and projections, by criteria of geometricprobability.” “Stereology deals with shapes, sizes, numbers, orientation in space and densities.” However,“stereology” literally means “the knowledge of three-dimensional space”, a meaning which is much moregeneral and broader than what Hans Elias had in mind when he introduced the term in 1961. According to theWebster’s Dictionary, stereology is “… a branch of science concerned with the development and testing ofinferences about the three-dimensional properties … from a two-dimensional point-of-view …” According toThe New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (Vol. 2, 1993) or The Oxford English Dictionary (2nd edition,1989), stereology is “the science of the reconstruction of three-dimensional structures from two-dimensionalsections of them.” Among these different definitions of stereology, I prefer its general and broader definition toits narrower one. This is also why the CSS has branch societies of Computer Tomography, Simulation andVirtual Reality, etc., which are closely related to the knowledge of three-dimensional space, but not necessarilyto the narrow definition of stereology. The advantages of such an approach were also clearly reflected by thesuccessful practice of the Beijing Conference: besides more than half of papers coming from classicalstereology, dozens of high quality papers were from new emerging fields such as 3D imaging, 3D simulation,3D modeling, computer tomography, and digital materials or virtual metallography. This indicates that newdevelopments in science and technology and new demands on the Society further promoted the developmentand application of stereology, including re-consideration of its own definition. We cannot be satisfied with, norlimit ourselves within the old, we should learn or at least accept the new, which is a necessity for developmentof the CSS and the ISS, and more importantly, for the stereology discipline.
The last, but not the least, presentation at the Beijing Conference was STANDARD PRACTICE FORDETERMINING THE METALLOGRAPHICAL CONSTITUENT AND INCLUSION CONTENT OFSTEELS AND OTHER METALS BY AUTOMATIC IMAGE ANALYSIS, which is the first officiallyapproved Chinese National Standard mainly concerned with stereology and image analysis, GB/T 18876.1-2002. It well demonstrates that the standardization of stereological applications was also the considerations ofthe Conference organizers.
According to the arrangement made by the CSS, the ISS and the journal Image Analysis and Stereology,selected peer-reviewed and edited English papers from the Beijing Conference are published in this issue orwill be published in the following issues of this journal. Those written in Chinese will be published in ChineseJournal of Stereology and Image Analysis (ISSN 1007-1482) after peer-review and editing.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThe CSS, the Organizing Committee and the Academic Committee of the Beijing Conference, including the
author (G. Liu), wish to thank the ISS for authorizing them to organize the Conference in China; to thank Dr.Ida Eržen for publishing Conference papers in her journal; to thank the National Natural Science Foundation ofChina, the NUCTEC Company Limited (China), Leica Microsystem Ltd., and Jiangsu JEDA Science-Technology Development Company, and the ISS for partially financial support; and to thank the CCCST ofChina Association for Science and Technology for co-operation in the conference organization and to thank allwho made contributions in various ways to the Beijing Conference.
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OPENING ADDRESS OF THE 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS FORSTEREOLOGY – BEIJING SATTELITE MEETING AND THE 10TH
CHINESE SYMPOSIUM ON STEREOLOGY AND IMAGE ANALYSIS
Professor Exner, Professor Jeulin, Dr. Wreford and Dr. Eržen, delegates, ladies and gentlemen:
In the wonderful autumn season in Beijing, it is my honor to announce the opening of both the 11th ICS-BeijingConference and the 10th Chinese Symposium on Stereology and Image Analysis. On behalf of the ChineseSociety for Stereology and the Conference Organizing Committee, I would like to express warm greetings to alldelegates and colleagues from various countries. Welcome to the Conference and to Beijing, the historical andcurrent capital of China!
This conference was planned in August, but due to the impact of SARS, it was postponed to November 4-8,2003. However, even despite SARS, the Conference received more than 100 English and Chinese papers fromvarious countries and various parts of China. More than 100 scientists and experts will present. From thecontents and topics, it is apparent that stereology and related technology have been used widely. The paperquality has improved, and research using stereology in China and the world has made great advances in recentyears. It is anticipated that stereology will be further developed and will find much wider applications.Stereology has multidisciplinary applications in the higher dimensional structure from its lower dimensionalsectional or projected images. The new developments in science and technology in 20th century, especiallycomputer technology have further enhanced the development and application of stereology. The ChineseSociety for Stereology was founded in 1987. Now it has 6 divisions including, Materials Sciences,Biomedicine, Image Analysis, Computer Tomography, Simulation and Virtual Reality, Metallography andmicroanalysis. The Society also has its own journal, including the Chinese Journal of Stereology and ImageAnalysis, which has become a National Key Journal and povides an important forum in the stereology field.
The Chinese Society for Stereology is non-profit academic organization concerned with scientific research andinstrumentation. Stereology, image analysis , computer tomography, simulation and virtual reality, togetherwith related sciences and technology. Using stereological theories and technology, many research projects havemade breakthroughs and great achievements. More that 3000 personnal have been trained so far.
Academic activities of the Society are the key to development of the discipline and are also the characteristicsof the vigor and life. The Chinese Society for Stereology has organized 10 national symposia for stereology andimage analysis. In the one year (1999) the Society and its branch societies organized 11 different conferences ormeetings, and 4 trainig seminars.
The Chinese Society for Stereology places great emphasis on international academic changes, and sendsdelegates to meetings of International Society for Stereology. Since 1987, more that 10 scientists from the CSShave attended the ICSs and ECSs, and organized several training seminars in cooperation with American andJapanese experts. In 1999, three Chinese experts attended the 10th ICS in Australia. In 2000, the CSS organizedthe First International Symposium on CT Theory and Applications. Prof. Bertram and Dr. Wreford presented atthe meeting. Professor Guoquan Liu was invited to be an Editorial Board member of »Image Analysis andStereology« in 2000 and to be an Editorial Board member of »Practical Metallography« in 2001. Also in 2001,Professor Zhengwei Yang was invited to attend the 8th ECS held in France. Now in 2003, we have the 11th ICS-Beijing Conference. We welcome Professor Exner, one of the former presidents; Professor Jeulin, thePresident-elected; and Dr. Wreford, the Secretary-General of the ISS to Beijing. Also, from next year, the ISSBoard will include one Vice-President from the CSS. All of this shows that the Chinese Society for Stereologyis very active and becoming more known. This has resulted from not only the efforts made by all the membersof the CSS, but also with the support of the ISS and many foreign friends.
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Dear delegates, ladies and gentlemen:
Science has no borders. Technology changes with each passing day in the new century and provides both newopportunities for the further development of stereology. People from all over the world working with stereologyand related disciplines should march with the age and bring their enthusiasm, and creativity into full play.Despite difficulties they should push the enterprise of stereology to higher level and new goals.The holding of this conference received supports from the ISS, the Chinese Science and TechnologyAssociations, and financial aid from various companies. On behalf of the CSS and all the delegates, I wouldlike to thank all of them.
Hope the Conference a great success!
Hope all our friends are happy in China and will leave with wonderful impressions!
Thank you!
Binglin GuProfessor, CAS AcademicianOn behalf of the Chinese Society for Stereologyand the Conference Organizing Committee
November 5, 2003
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AUTHOR INDEX
ANGELLA F, 35, 42ANGULO J, 81ARMIENTI P, 27, 34BAYLOU P, 35, 42BLACHER S, 43BRONNIKOV S, 105COLLAN Y, 73DEJNOŽKOVÁ E, 121DELARUE A, 153, 161DEVY K, 43DOKLÁDAL P, 121DRÜEKE T, 81FOIDART JM, 43FRIEß M, 63, 71GĄDEK A, 183GALLEGO MÁ, 133GARDEL A, 20, 24GERMAIN C, 35GHORBANI H, 147GUNDERSEN HJG, 55, 61, 78, 79, 171, 182HOWARD CV, 55, 57, 61, 78HU J, 97JASIEWICZ B, 183JEULIN D, 153, 161LAVEST JM, 20, 24LAVIALLE O, 35, 42LAZARO JL, 20
LEZORAY O, 113LIU G, 163, 169LONGO FM, 73MA SY, 73MASSY ZA, 81MAYHEW TM, 49, 55, 56, 79NAGEL W, 11NGUYEN-KHOA T, 81NOEL A, 43NYENGAARD YR, 171OHSER J, 11PAKKENBERG B, 79, 171, 182REED MG, 55, 57, 61RETTENMAYR M, 163, 169RYTT M, 73SCHLADITZ K, 11SERRA J, 81SIMÓ A, 133SONG X, 163, 169STOYAN D, 147STROEVEN M, 1, 91STROEVEN P, 1, 91, 97SUKHANOVA T, 105TANG Y, 79, 80, 171, 182TARQUINI S, 27, 34TĘSIOROWSKI M, 183WOJNAR L, 183
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SUBJECT INDEX
3D computer visualization, 163, 168adjacency, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 114aging, 73, 74, 75, 77, 78, 79, 80, 171, 181, 182angiogenesis, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 53,
54, 55aortic calcification, 81artificial vision, 20automation in bioimaging, 81binary image, 11, 19, 27, 30, 31, 44, 83, 84, 85,
86, 97, 98, 133, 144bone, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190Boolean model, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 133, 135,
136, 137, 138, 139, 141, 142, 143, 144, 147, 148calibration, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 34capillary remodelling, 49, 50, 52clustering, 1, 2, 113, 114, 119, 147color, 27, 28, 29, 30, 34, 83, 89, 113, 114, 116,
117, 118, 119, 120complexity, 27, 43, 44, 46, 121, 122, 126, 138,
183computer simulation, 1, 2, 10, 79, 92Computer simulation, 1, 91, 169concrete, 1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 18, 91, 93, 94,
95, 102covariance, 65, 153, 155, 156, 157, 160cranial shape, 63, 64, 67, 68, 69, 71crystal size distribution, 27, 34deficient landmarks, 63, 65, 69, 70, 71deformable models, 35discretisation, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18dislocations, 147, 150, 151, 152distance function, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 127,
132, 153, 155, 157, 158, 159, 160Euler-Poincaré characteristic, 11fetal capillaries, 49, 50, 53, 55fibroblast-like cells, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47film scanner, 27general effective media theory, 97geodesic distance, 153, 157, 159, 160geometric morphometrics, 63, 64, 65, 66germ-grain model, 133, 138, 139, 140, 144, 147,
150, 151, 152hardware for image processing, 121histogram, 48, 83, 84, 87, 98, 108, 109, 113, 114,
116, 119, 153, 157, 158, 160, 183human brain, 76, 79, 80, 171, 172, 174, 175, 177,
178, 181, 182image analysis, 1, 11, 13, 14, 27, 28, 34, 81, 82,
83, 88, 89, 91, 97, 100, 101, 102, 103, 120, 136,169, 183, 190
image centre, 20, 23, 24image processing, 34, 44, 45, 81, 83, 98, 120, 121,
183inhomogeneous microstructure, 163, 166, 167, 168intensity, 44, 119, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 142,
143, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151local number, 153local volume fraction, 153, 157, 158, 160low magnification histology, 81material model, 1, 91mathematical morphology, 36, 40, 42, 44, 48, 81, 82,
83, 89, 93, 97, 98, 102, 120, 145, 153, 161micro-domains, 105, 106, 107, 108, 110, 111microvessels, 43, 44, 45, 46, 48, 49model of reversible aggregation, 105, 106, 107, 108,
109, 111Monte Carlo technique, 163myelinated nerve fibers, 171, 172, 173, 177, 181neighbourhood, 6, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18neocortex, 78, 80, 171, 174, 175, 176, 177, 179, 180,
181, 182nephrology, 81osteogenesis, 183, 184, 189, 190, 191paleoanthropology, 63, 64, 66, 71parallel computing, 121parameter estimation, 133, 137, 139, 141, 142, 144partial differential equations, 121particle packing, 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 10, 91, 93, 94, 95particle system, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 42permeability, 97, 98, 100, 101, 102petrology, 27photographic distortion, 63placenta, 49, 50, 55, 56Poisson cluster process, 147, 148Poisson line process, 143, 147, 149pole figures, 153polyimide films, 105, 111pore size distribution, 97, 99, 101quantification, 43, 45, 46, 48, 64, 81, 82, 84, 85, 88,
183, 186, 190quantitation, 73, 182quantitative image analysis, 81, 102ray tracing, 20, 22, 23recrystallization, 30, 31, 34, 163, 166, 167, 168, 169regenerate, 183, 184, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190rock texture, 27, 29rotator, 57, 59, 60, 61second-order statistics, 153segmentation, 27, 42, 48, 81, 82, 84, 85, 88, 113,
114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 132
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silicon wafer, 147, 150simulation, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 10, 23, 79, 91, 92, 95,
103, 127, 133, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141,142, 143, 144, 145, 148, 149, 163, 166, 167,168, 169, 188
snakes, 35spherical contact distribution function, 134, 136,
143, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152statistical analysis, 64, 105, 106, 110, 147stereology, 1, 55, 57, 73, 76, 77, 78, 79, 91, 93,
103, 163, 171, 182structure extraction, 35, 36, 39substantia nigra, 73, 78, 79synapse, 171, 174, 175, 176, 180, 181systematic error, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18
TEM-images, 105, 106, 109, 110, 111tortuosity, 95, 153, 155, 156, 157, 160, 180villi, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56villous capillarization, 49, 50, 51, 52, 54, 55volume, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 15, 17, 18, 34, 43, 44, 49, 50,
51, 52, 53, 54, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 66, 73, 75, 77,83, 93, 95, 99, 100, 101, 150, 153, 155, 157, 158,159, 160, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 171, 172,173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 179, 180, 181, 182, 186
watershed, 50, 113, 114, 116, 117, 118, 119, 121,122, 123, 125, 131, 132
white matter, 80, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177,179, 180, 181, 182
X-ray, 153, 160, 183, 184, 185, 186, 188, 189, 190zoom camera, 20, 22, 24
