Manuscript Due: 21 February 2014
First Round of Reviews: 16 May 2014
Publication Date: 11 July 2014
Biomedical imaging is a rapidly development field to provide a state-of-the-art tool for preclinical biomedical research and clinical applications, in view of its ability to noninvasively reveal subtle structural variations of biological tissues and visualize in vivo physiological and pathological processes at the cellular and molecular levels. The main focus of this special issue will be on the interface between mathematical methods and biomedical imaging especially novel imaging theories, models, and reconstruction algorithms raised in biomedical imaging. It is also interesting to have quantitative comparison and analysis of new image processing methods for a specific clinical problem. Computational methods used to predict photon propagation in the optical imaging are welcome. In addition, innovative imaging system development and applications would be of great interest. This special issue will construct an international platform and serve as a forum for researchers to summarize and discuss recent advances in the biomedical imaging.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
Computational methods in biomedical imaging
Reconstruction methods of CT, MRI, SPECT, and optical tomography
Novel reconstruction methods in optical molecular imaging
Phase-contrast imaging
Photon propagation in biological tissues
Multimodality fusion imaging
Optimization techniques in inverse problems
GPU computing in biomedical imaging
Cloud computing in biomedical imaging
Lead Guest Editor
Peng Feng, School of Optoelectronic Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China
Guest Editors
Kumar Durai, Electronics and Communication Engineering Department, Periyar Maniammai University, Chennai 613403, India
Fenglin Liu, Biomedical Imaging Center, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy 12180, NY, USA
Xiaobo Qu, Research Center of Magnetic Resonance and Medical Imaging, Department of Electronic Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China