Bioimage analysis software: is there a future beyond ImageJ?

The workshop will bring together developers and users of imaging software for the analysis of biomedical images. Its purpose is to review the state of the art and to establish requirements for future developments. The focus will be on JAVA-based open-source solutions---in particular, ImageJ---and other open architectures that facilitate the development of plugins and community-driven projects.

Bioimage Analysis Workshop
The program will feature a series of invited talks by software developers and researchers who have significantly contributed to the field. In addition to the presentations, there will be special slots for posters and demos as well as roundtable discussions for drafting a roadmap for future resource developments in the context of Euro Bioimaging. The workshop includes the following topics:

Description of novel open-source image-analysis software
Solutions for the analysis of biological and biomedical images
Issues in parallel implementations, multidimensional data, scripting, large data sets, distributed computating
Standardization mechanisms and accreditation of software
Benchmarking and testing
Web-based resources

Invited Speakers

Ignacio Arganda-Carreras	Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA Seung Lab
Kevin Eliceiri	University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA LOCI
Pasi Kankaanpää	University of Turku, Turku, Finland Turku Centre for Biotechnology
Michael Liebling	University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA System Bioimaging Lab
Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin	Institut Pasteur, Paris, France Quantitative Image Analysis Group
Erik Meijering	Erasmus MC - University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands Biomedical Imaging Group Rotterdam
Wayne Rasband	National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA Research Services Branch
Curtis Rueden	University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA LOCI
Stephan Saafeld	Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany Tomancak Lab
Carlos Óscar Sánchez Sorzano	Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain Biocomputing unit
Johannes Schindelin	University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA LOCI
Nico Stuurman	University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA Vale Lab
Jason Swedlow	University of Dundee, Dundee, UK Swedlow Lab
Philippe Thévenaz	École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Biomedical Imaging Group
Pavel Tomancak	Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany Tomancak Lab

Satelitte workshops of ISBI 2012
This workshop is a satellite event of the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI'2012) which will take place in Centre Convencions International Barcelona CCIB at Barcelona. It is organized 2 days before the ISBI conference. Another workshop focused on Medical Image Analysis will run in parallel.

Organizers

Michael Unser, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Arrate Muñoz-Barrutia, Center for Applied Medical Research, Pamplona, Spain
Andreas Jahnen, CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
Daniel Sage, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland